skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a large ClojureScript app (https://partsbox.io/) and I really, really wanted to use WebWorkers. I wanted to run larger tasks like indexing for search, or pricing calculations in WebWorkers.

But it seems to me that Webworkers were designed with an extremely narrow use case in mind. The restrictions placed on them make them essentially useless for me. To do anything ever remotely useful, I would need to duplicate my entire database in web workers, and then communicate with them through a thin straw. Database updates would need to be performed both in the main app database and in web worker threads.

The way they are restricted, I just can't figure out how to make any meaningful use of them.
Oberlin College case shows how universities are losing their way
You didn't mention that this was in the 1960s, that he acknowledged it was a terrible mistake, and that his subsequent work has been based on trying to correct it.

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

I'd never heard of Allan Savory, but this took less than a minute to look up.
It's also part of the EMV Specification and can be read with any nfc or smart-card capable reader. You don't need a special payment terminal.

https://www.emvlab.org/emvtags/show/t5F20/

There is one store in my neigbourhod where the payment terminals show this field (my full name) on the screen during checkout. I was very surprised when I noticed this the first time.

But apparrently not all card issuers fill the field with correct data. One card, a prepaid Visa from a big fintech, has "N/A" programmed in the field.
>Few may mourn the fur industry when and if it does disappear. But what will come instead? What will happen when all the Greek diners and Yemeni convenience stores and Middle Eastern pet shops can no longer sustain themselves? Who will be inspired to come here and take their place?

Hopefully no one will come. We should embrace a contraction, our lands cannot sustain an ever increasing population and it seems like a sin to say we should look after ourselves and perhaps downsize to a more sustainable model of society and living.
I wonder if that says more about their focal attention. If I really fixate on a ball, it becomes the same brown or tan color. I can scan from one ball to the next and mentally confirm that they all have the same color. While doing this, I actually feel my mind's "white balance" compensate as I shift my focus from one ball to another.

But, by default, I do not fixate on any ball. I take in the gestalt composition, and in this mode I perceive a field with three classes of balls with different tints. This happens as soon as I reframe my attention, even right after I have just sequentially confirmed their color as above.

There was also one interesting comment in the Twitter thread, posting a version that desaturated only the color stripe that overlaps the ball (at a bounding box rather than right at the circular edge of the ball). In this version, the gestalt composition shows me the same tint on all balls, and instead I see three classes of tinted tile in the background behind the balls.
the usual definition of "legacy system" is a system that uses tools, technologies, and techniques that an organization would not use for new development.
so, in SF, things change on a time scale of weeks. your 'go microservice' might be considered a legacy system.
here in fly over country, COBOL on the 360 might be considered apropro for use today.
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Is that the reason why it is advised against washing down pills with grapefruit juice? I know that it can cause overdose of the drug, but I'm not sure if it works by affecting those gut microbes or by blocking some digestive enzyme that normally destroys like 90% of drug's active substance before it can be absorbed.
Unless your camera is a 3CCD camera, then CCD cameras usually have lower color resolution than luminance resolution, too!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-CCD_camera
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayer_filter
> Our atmosphere is polluted with CO2

"Polluted" isn't the best word to describe it when CO2 levels are 2x historical (for a very long definition of history) levels. They're likely high enough to cause significant climate change, but "polluted" is a funny way of putting it.

> recycling

If you look at where oil goes, most of it is energy and transportation, not plastics. We're also talking about recycling and not incinerating.

But I vote for incinerating for energy. Plastics are too incredible of a technology to not use, but at least now, too hard to feasibly recycle, so I'd rather we burn them and offset the emissions.
It was a generally accepted practice based on talking to the folks who interviewed with Amazon during my wife's time at Kellogg that one interview would be conducted by someone (an interviewer who had done 100+ interviews) who would be unpleasant in some way.

I'm guessing the way Amazon interview for business roles is somehow different than how they interview for specific team positions. As I understand it, MBA hires aren't filling specific gaps on teams, since the hiring process is so long and involves an internship. There wouldn't be a "team" to lower the bar for, in other words.
Not to worry, there's only about 7m of sea level rise locked up in Greenland. Someone will be along in a moment to tell us this will be beneficial as we'll have somewhere new to holiday or explore for oil...
Can you explain what you mean by intellectual free content? That describes basically every random thing on the internet.
That high power 900 MHz broadcast will travel half an inch, then get absorbed by the metal housing. Military electronics are shielded, both to protect them from EMP and to avoid detection by passive radar.
Pardon my ignorance. Computers appear to be able to perform basic arithmetic. For example, you can open up the console in your browser and find that the sum of two and two is indeed four. So it is not entirely obvious to me how basic arithmetic is non-computable.
Like false as in I made it up or false as in it's not your experience?
Toward AI that learns to write code
I'm not super familiar with what the right metrics would be here for 2M followers, but at my quick glance the numbers @arii has are about on par with with numbers that @MKBHD has for likes and comments per post: Hundreds of thousands of likes and hundreds to a thousand comments on each post.

What kind of engagement metrics are you seeing that are drastically different between them?
The total energy buried and density of it isn't interesting compared to oil, coal, and probably even timber.
"People won't pay for privacy" is it, and it's really a subset of the larger truth that it's hard to get people or businesses to pay for security. (Privacy is a part of security.)

I worked with a serial entrepreneur once who refused to tell his tech people to spend any time on security. He said "no company ever failed because of bad security... nobody cares about anything except UX and price." I dont think he was 100% right but I do think he was like 98% right.

Privacy is like legroom on flights. Everyone complains about it being taken away but nobody will pay even a little bit for it. Price signals say nobody really cares.

Meanwhile advertisers, governments, and political propagandists will pay handsomely for user data. If anything the price signals say to minimize privacy and maximize surveillance surface area.
1. It doesn't sound realistic
2. It is an article trying to push the narrative that everything is racist
3. CNN
My favorite strategy for code reuse is, make API configurable. That means instead of coding, you configure the system as much as possible.

Only the core , which is the implementation details could be changed without affect the rest of system.

One benefit/downside is that, whenever you change the core, or everything else works at the same time, or all thing breaks.
Am I the only one who will do an initial "proof of concept" implementation of something that I intend to rewrite in another language? E.g. I will write the "first draft" in Python or Racket because I know the language won't get in my way, and then if it needs to be redone in a lower level language or something that I'm less familiar with, then I have a reference implementation to compare it with.

The same concept can even apply without switching languages if you just want a "naive" version that you know is correct.
I have several experiences with both bad and good rewrites.

A common pattern among the bad rewrites is that they were too late. Rewrites should be early in a project. Expect to do perhaps 2-3 rewrites at the beginning.

Another pattern is that the team was too large. To many chefs and we ended up with an incoherent mess.

The good rewrites I’ve done were gradual. We agreed on the target state of the code and on the intermediate stages. Perhaps you could call these “big, slow, refactoring”, but they were in fact rewrites.

A couple of rewrites were so successful they changed the rules of the game entirely.

People who say rewrites are either all good or all bad are wrong every time.
I think that the strategy of focusing on multiplayer is failing. There are multiple recent examples of AAA games that created backlash, eg. Anthem, Destiny, Fallout 76.
But that's not what you're accomplishing by asking that question, you're taking a moral position beyond your role on a topic you're not an expert in. What you're demonstrating is your lack of perspective and a hubris that can poison a team, turning it into a snake put where people "neutrally" question every decision.

The mere fact that you think you can neutrally ask a question like that is a red flag.
Would you rather buy $100K of software from a "Senior Sales Representative" or a "VP of Sales, Western US region". Titles mean a lot to certain people, even if they are all puffery.
Dozens. Database front ends. Small utility apps. Graphical interfaces to manage workflows where the actual work was done with scripting languages.

Almost every app I did was for either the Mac or Windows, but perhaps the main value prop of REALbasic/Xojo was how easy it was to write one app and have it run on both Mac & Windows. For small applications, it really did Just Work, which seemed kind of magical.
I think you missed the point of my comment. BQP (i.e. "stuff that is efficiently solvable by a quantum computer") is almost certainly bigger than P (i.e. "stuff that is efficiently solvable by classical computers"). There was not even remotely anything in my argument that was claiming "only humans can be human" or "only humans can be intelligent" or anything like that (that would have been a silly claim). And nothing remotely related to claiming quantum effects have anything to do with human brains.
IndexedDB is shared between workers and main thread, in case that helps.
It is repeated in all these super-pedantic threads. All models are wrong. Some models are useful.
Such an encouragement is, again, a terrible idea: not only does it promote racism through implausible fictional story, but it also opens the author to legal risk if someone then implements the implausible story in reality.

“Almost certainly fictional” is a Rule 34 problem: If you can conceive of a belief or outcome, then someone on the Internet will agree so strongly that they will act upon that belief or deliver that outcome.
I'm imaging failure cases under high Gs when the thing tries to do some high speed data transfer?

let the traces move enough to introduce cross talk if its vibrated and accelerated in just the right way.

There is a short term gain, even if they never get used against china: the US and it's allies have to spend more in testing to account for the Chinese built PCBs.
I wonder if there will be a resurgence of "dumb" cars once people get tired of and become more aware of the disadvantages of these overly-complex systems, like has happened with phones; IMHO one of the very few things a touchscreen is useful for in a car is a GPS, because that's a relatively complex system which can't really be simplified to physical controls. Everything else should really be knobs and switches. How much of a market would there be for a "dumb EV", basically the exact opposite of a Tesla but still electric, with only the bare minimum of electronics and software? Imagine a car whose interior looks like one from the late 70s/early 80s, with all analogue controls and indicators, except that it's actually an EV.

The other big disadvantage is the failure mode: if the screen fails, a whole set of functionality becomes inaccessible, whereas a single switch failure won't affect any others.
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By the very niche nature anything I choose will likely not be of interest to most but many may find something else interesting with similar age and points.
You will be looking for jobs forever if you read that much into every interaction, and possibly for good reason.
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I feel we're arguing a very minor point here. You seem to be hung up on this "models can be correct when stated with appropriate caveats". Sure. The "all models are wrong" saying has an implicit "at representing the observable reality in full fidelity".
How big tech companies like Google and Facebook set salaries for sw engineers
I wonder if Tesla's silly games will be banned anytime soon.
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https://web.archive.org/web/20190614113223/https://www.econo...
Does it matter to the marketing agencies that the influences can't make money in the short term, their products still get the exposure they're looking for.
And for God's sakes, dump those resistive touch screens in the trash.

They are used not because of cost, but so that drivers with gloved hands can still operate them.
Just logged on to comment that this article has a different take on the matter than most of the other stoicism-related pieces that have been floating around HN over the last months. Very refreshing

Thanks for sharing
Here's an explanation of the weights used in NURBS:
https://pages.mtu.edu/~shene/COURSES/cs3621/NOTES/spline/NUR...
Well, it should be possible to hide components inside the PCB, see:

(1) https://hackaday.com/2017/09/11/the-components-are-inside-th...

(2) https://hackaday.com/2019/01/18/oreo-construction-hiding-you...

Analysis should be quite difficult; if you hide them between copper layers, or worse behind components and behind copper layers, I believe it'd require vert inspection with x-rays to detect.

The main question is that of utility. Data exfiltration is highly unlikely. It's possible to trigger malfunctions, but it's not clear this would be useful (when triggered at a certain date, randomly, etc) -- it would be easy to detect and cause the companies to switch to suppliers. I think the main possibility/atractivity would be some kind of radio activation of malfunction. But then you need a significantly sized antenna [1] and a very strong signal to penetrate the circuit shielding (which is probably emp-resistant).

But the main impediment I think is the total erosion of trust in Chinese manufacturing this could bring. Most of the world manufactures in China and they don't want to change this. They wouldn't sacrifice this trust except at a very good opportunity. The same goes from a strategic spying perspective: don't use bugs frivolously or you'll risk raising the awareness level compromising important opportunities.

[1] Which cannot be hidden between layers, although it might be possible to use some of the traces themselves as antennas. If the pcb has an obvious external antenna I/O then of course this would make things easy.

All that said, it does make sense to keep an eye on this possibility, but probably not in this particular case.
Difficulties in valuing outcomes can lead to procrastination (2018)
Imagine that suddenly, plastics can rust.
Thanks - I was confusing the stories of Copernicus and Galileo. Galileo’s works, based on Copernicus’s ideas, were declared heretical. While not excommunicated he was persecuted by the church.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_affair
Can anyone comment on how this compares to pymc3?
What you just described is the car i'd ideally like to own. I don't know much about teslas but aren't the motors and.much of the internals themselves computer driven? Without such a display is it possible to operate them? How much of the computer systems are tied into operation of the vehicle itself?

Sorry if i'm not understanding correctly, i don't know much about them other than what i've read, but from what i understand, the electric motors themselves are a smart system the way they're currently used in electric vehicles. Is it possible to make a completely dumb electric car?
All I want is a button easily available from my steering wheel to talk to the mobile assistant I'm connected to over Bluetooth. I know it's far too much to ask of any company to support both Android and Apple, so this is my compromise.

Tesla's infotainment isn't horrible, but I should be able to use voice to do all the things they have shifted into a non-tactile interface.
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True.

Fortunately, there's a workaround - "request desktop site" in Firefox (and Chrome) menu.
But you do. That gut bacteria doesn't grow in a vacuum; it has to be introduced. Refusing to eat with shit-hands doesn't save you from possibly requiring a fecal transplant later to compensate for our social constructs.

That said, for the sake of invitation to any future dinner parties I do wash my hands, but while also understanding that if we were meant to be chemically "pure" then antibiotics would not destroy our guts just the same as that gastric infection.
Seconded! We're implementing it at GitLab and while the documentation could use some work, it's been pretty great. Coupled with some off the shelf modeling packages[0] you can get good analytics pretty quick. We even started on CloudSQL (Postgres flavor) before migrating to Snowflake.

[0] https://github.com/fishtown-analytics/snowplow/
> Consider refactoring before taking a step to code rewriting

There's got to be a Ship of Theseus argument here, where over the course of time you refactor the whole thing until none of the original code remains. I guess the difference between that and a rewrite is that after each refactor you should still be able to ship it.
Yes, and all of those things mean other compromises.
> Personally, I never felt I learned much from TLC games as a kid (although I enjoyed some games), and what I did learn I could've learned as well or better reading books or doing regular exercises.

But would you have read those books or done those exercises as willingly as you played the games? That's valuable enough on its own.
But their mass is orders of magnitude less than PET. We just don't use that much teflon relatively speaking.
Of course it is going to lose more and more independence. The one country two system was designed to integrate, not dividing China and HK. The independence movement concentrate too much on 'two systems', bringing 'HK is not China' banner in parliament, trying to make China disappear in text books, do you think the central government is going to extend two systems after 50 years expires?
Symbolism is just another form of communication. And like language I imagine one has to evolve with it or be left out of touch or misunderstood.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Conet_Project is a great compliation of numbers station samples
Does that change the fact that he killed 40,000 elephants for the wrong reasons?
Have to agree with this. Ever since I got promoted, the way people( outside the company) tend to talk to me has changed a lot.Even though good part of my daily activities are the same, people tend to take me more seriously.It does help to chase people to make sure they do things or even for the customers,who want to talk to 'the manager', even though I'd help as much as any other colleague of mine...
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It affects complexity. Sure, it is fascinating to learn there is a separation between computable and not computable tasks, but there is an important separation among the computable tasks as well. There are "practically computable" tasks (computable with a reasonable complexity) and "computable tasks that are still infeasible in the real universe" (e.g. tasks with exponential complexity). Amusingly, it seems that there are also tasks on the border between between practical and infeasible, that can be practically solved on a quantum computer, but can not be solved in a reasonable time on a classical computer (even one as big as the whole universe).

P.S. There was some abuse of naming conventions and nomenclature above.

P.P.S. While computability is a well proven concept, claims about complexity (i.e. practical vs infeasible "computable" tasks) are frequently only conjectures (although they have some supporting empirical observations).

P.P.P.S. The proper terms to google for as a starting point would be (really, this barely scratches the surface):

- complexity class P: computable tasks that can be efficiently solved by a classical computer

- complexity class BQP: computable tasks that can be efficiently solved by a quantum computer (and includes tasks that are conjectured to not be efficiently solvable by a classical computer)

- complexity class NP-hard: computable tasks that are conjectured to not be solvable by a classical or a quantum computer efficiently (i.e. a medium sized problem would take a computer bigger than the universe to solve)
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One of mine died just from the moisture of a cleaning cloth after a wipe down. Pretty sad.
I would say it is pretty risky to run a nuclear power plant you cannot cool because the river is dry or too warm... happenend in France last Year.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/france-nucle...
That 50k is an arbitrary number and can be lowered at any moment. Rich people's problems may one day be everyone's problems. This is a scary law on my limited understanding.
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To your point, do they also turn on in broad daylight when passing roadwork on the interstate, as is required by law in some states?
> The risk to the supply chain is zero -- anyone can make printed circuit boards. The intelligence risk is limited to the ability to see how chips are wired together, with some ability to guess what ICs are in use by clues in the pinouts.

Raytheon once ran into a "small" problem with it. They actually did whole PCBA in China for AIM 9L.

There is a blogger guy who actually found a whole image processing board with top tier FPGAs that somehow got to an electronics scrap trader around here few years ago.
> we're asking people to choose, for all appearances, a slower browser

Is this still true with modern Firefox?

Personally I don't see a noticeable performance difference between Firefox and Chrome.

Netflix on (pre-Chromium) Edge, really is insufferably slow. General browsing in Firefox though seems perfectly fine; it's not purely an ideological charity-case.
I agree that it's hard to read on mobile. I disagree that the problem is with the author. Some content is just not well suited for reading on a mobile device. I have a tendency to open links on my phone, then let them stay there for a week until I have a chance to open them on my laptop, where 95% of the things I want to do on a computer are easier and faster.

Here, my main issue is the code sections overflowing, the table of contents doesn't bother me. What would you suggest the author do about that?