skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We gave up years ago.

We've travelled to Europe via train. Some places have been a lengthy journey, but the views and transitions on the way more than make up for it. It's as much a part of the trip as the destination. We've been able to stop for lunch or dinner in places we'd otherwise have simply flown over, and we've discovered countless places we'd otherwise not have known existed.

A lot of those discoveries have been here in the UK too - all those little gems off the tourist map. Like deserted beaches and forests, niche museums and other attractions. Or making an itinerary through the minor towns and villages free of overdevelopment and sprawl rather than the major hubs that flying tends to push you to. There's a hell of a lot to discover at home, so overseas every year simply isn't necessary.

Even if carbon neutral flying came about I don't think we'd resume, except perhaps a couple of long haul trips that aren't really doable otherwise. Rail and ferries are less fraught and far more relaxing. A bit like contemplating McDonalds against your favourite fine but slow restaurant - best kept mainly for emergencies.
The article seems light on details about how QuickBooks is involved. Does iNSYNQ host QB Cloud data for them, or does iNSYNQ white-label QB software?
Impressive. I know Firefox uses NSS (its own TLS library) and not OpenSSL, but this article makes me wonder if Mozilla would consider using rustls in FF as Rust handles more and more of the FF code. Maybe it says something that NSS has few users apart from FF despite the obvious advantage of being maintained by a major organization.

Interestingly, the crypto code in rustls is by ring, a Rust crypto library. According to the ring github page, "Most of the C and assembly language code in ring comes from BoringSSL, and BoringSSL is derived from OpenSSL."
XLA is a compiler for array code. It doesn't come with AD -- you need a wrapper like TF or JAX (or Swift, I guess) for that.
http://www.paulgraham.com/antispam.html

http://www.paulgraham.com/sofar.html

> More Good Tokens
Yep, I'm on retina. But the vector shapes and the text on the star demo look better than the text shape demo.
Not sure what "using GitLab" means in context, but I use GitLab CI via their GitHub mirroring support.
Why You Should be Taking Hot and Cold Showers (2017)
I think their point was more general than your interpretation of it. Allowing the government to impose conflicting laws and penalties is not good for anybody and saying it's fine here because they're rich reeks of envy and spite, not reason.
Are people still using Sphinx Search (http://sphinxsearch.com) at all? It doesn't seem like it gets many releases anymore...since they unpublished the source code, it's hard to see how much activity there is.
> having your photos on the Internet only hurts you because we choose to have it hurt people. That’s completely changeable.

I think you are much too casually regarding human nature and millennia of human interactions.
USA, just cherry-picking the non-hispanic whites, isn't even in the top 25 of average height, height is hereditary, meanwhile USA is known for catastrophic eating habits that I find hard to spin in a positive way.

Are you sure that was the evidence you wanted?
Honestly when I look to rewriting a python thing to be 'faster' either try using PyPy first, or rewrite it in OCaml instead. OCaml is extremely simple, similar to python in a lot of ways (GIL and all), but runs at native code speeds, near C the majority of the work, and super easy to bind to C libraries if you need.

Or try Rust. ^.^
AFAIK, there are legacy versions of a "networked" quickbooks that can be hosted by third parties. Not really sure though. Some are doing app streaming of desktop quickbooks
It's what I'd expect from an experienced entrepreneur to do: sense an opportunity, investigate market deeply, and make an impassioned decision about starting a venture or not, if the business model makes sense & they'd be ideally positioned to make a run for it.

(edit) gender neutral
I haven't upgraded to the latest version lately, and mostly just use it for more or less casual blogging so far. But, my experience has been positive. The editing experience is pretty good.

I think for bigger, more complicated sites, it is probably still lagging behind the old guard in raw features. But, on the other hand, it is a breath of fresh air for what it does do. So, if it supports the features you need, it seems like a solid choice to me.
The article makes it pretty clear that the soldier flies aren't fussy at all:

“They’re generalists,” Tomberlin says, and eat just about anything. Pig manure? Check. Human waste? Check. Food scraps? Check. The only organic materials they haven’t had luck with are bones, hair and pineapple rinds, he says.
Looks like it can be used to discover new form of investments
>It's not easy to convert waste to a commodity. Recycling has a big problem with this - if the waste isn't provided in the right way, then it's totally useless (ie. plastics need to be completely clean, all food waste has to be washed out, otherwise it just goes to the landfill).

We need to acknowledge that the requirements of 'almost-perfection' required in our recycling stream is something we built into it. We had reusable systems that operated without issue for decades that we discarded in favor of modern co-mingled recycling (which is obviously failing us). There's no rule of recycling or reusing that says the parent material needs to be pristine in its condition to be recycled, thats a rule we introduced because of how 'we' thought to do recycling. We could build re-usability back into our systems, we are choosing not to do so.
In this case it might be the exact opposite. Regardless of the structure (as long as it has at least one hidden layer and enough parameters), neural networks are universal approximators, which is why they are effectively black boxes that can learn any model. So using more custom structure does not increase the theoretical capability of the network to find more complex models, but instead you're effectively adding more a priori information (by embedding information of the problem within it's structure), which can heavily restrict the search space and therefore making it somewhat less of a magic black box.

An example might be attention models, which while being more complex than the previous models it gives you more information about what the model does (by allowing you to visualize what inputs the following layer is using).
Just used this to send a set of D&D DM notes to a friend. No pesky players will be seeing those secrets!
china measured emission are about half of usa measured emission. china non measured emissions are another story. soot is yet another story, because not all co2 is created equally efficiently.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-climatechange-insig...

oh, and there's all the other shit china does of course https://nationalpost.com/news/world/scientists-discover-chin...

but somehow people dodge the issue every time with 'but the usa per capita' as if these measurement are really comparable.

e: wow, struck a nerve there? sourced with articles, even. now let's wait for dang to come and say this is 'unsubstantive'
With titles and dates:

Lamdu - towards the next generation IDE (peaker.github.io) Dec 25, 2013 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6964369

Programmer Tooling Beyond Plain Text (joelburget.com) May 5, 2015 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9495836

Prune: A Tree-Based, Home-Row-Oriented Code Editor (facebook.com) Aug 21, 2015 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10099611

Why Don't We Have a General-Purpose Tree Editor? (2014) (pcmonk.me) Feb 6, 2017 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13578256

Cirru – An editor for AST (cirru.org) Mar 2, 2017 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13773813

Code as text is a problem (dohgramming.com) May 6, 2017 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14278605

Frame-Based Editing [pdf] (kcl.ac.uk) June 22, 2017 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14609215

Searching a Million Lines of Lisp (wilfred.me.uk) Sept 3, 2017 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15160030
How to Squeeze Rocket Fuel from Moon Rocks
I'd love to see a comparison of the sizes of cuts across the UA system - if STEM is being cut disproportionately that's really messed up. But as far as I can tell, it's the UA administration choosing what to cut, and I wouldn't put it past people choosing the worst places to cut in order to score political points.
> Could someone have done this particular good thing in another language? Absolutely

While this is true for many other tasks, I don't think there exists any other programming language that fits so well for safe and efficient protocol implementation (where experimentation speed is not that important)
Brilliant stuff. Fascinating to see how seasonal some of the searches are – "rosé" and "Aperol" spikes in July and December (southern/northern hemisphere summers?), "carbs" and "low-carbohydrate diet" peaks in January (when people want to change their habits?).
It is worse than that, customers run their own workload on these testers using one of two methods:

1. In person.

2. Using VNC/telnet over a SSH gateway that dumps them onto the single broadcast network with all these testers.

Did I mention that changing the IP address on many of the testers is not possible without triggering a $10k+ licensing event because a change in the IP address invalidates the license file?
Exactly!!!! I have been thinking similarly and wish to see the thought expressed more often. Just because an actor or actress does a naked scene doesn’t diminish their ability to act.

Everybody is naked under their clothes. Get over it society.
My "sexual behavior" is pretty "unrestrained" (in the sense that I don't believe in exclusivity) and yet I have deep and fulfilling relationships with people I love. Society can be better.
If in any circumstance, companies would rather opt for an H1-B candidate, it doesn't matter whether the number of jobs is fixed or not. For many tech jobs, an H1-B worker will always get the job over an American with the same skill-level. This may not be true for extremely specialized jobs but lets be honest, 75% of software engineering jobs are just plumbing/glue busy work.
Rovers Could Unroll a Telescope on the Moon's Far Side
Restaurants that are needed because you have a tiny little galley kitchen and no garden, making it impossible to cook meals for yourselves?
> Apple is a luxury computing hardware provider

So… their business is tech?

I feel like you could make an even bigger argument in favor of Apple here. Not only do they build an entire competing software stack, but they manufacture their own hardware as well.
I’m generally positive on rewriting openssl in rust, but agree the comparisons aren’t completely scientific or necessarily more important than correctness. First you should compare performance using the same implementations of cryptographic primitives as these are relatively easily fungible. We also don’t know if for example OpenSSL optimised primitives were used. Secondly the rust language only excludes memory bugs, it doesn’t exclude errors in the implementation of the tls protocol or incorrect usage of cryptographic primitives which can be just as catastrophic for security. These have been prevalent in OpenSSL and are somewhat harder to prevent a priori. For all we know these issues are worse for rustls than OpenSSL. This is where formally verified implementations would be useful.
The entire world got together and signed a treaty to coordinate. You might not think it's perfect, but it exists.
I am both bemused and somewhat concerned that you seems to hold the belief that "business discussions" are conducted outside of the realm of "emotional expression".
> I did formal (policy) debate and my goal was always to win

I find this POV difficult to understand. Maybe I'm misunderstanding (and what is "policy" debate vs plain old debate?)

. Did you want to win for a reason other than winning?

. Did you ever feel you were wrong but won anyway?

. Did anybody make you doubt your position? If so what was your response?

. My position is to find the 'truth' so if I'm shown wrong I'll accept it quickly. Do you think this is a flawed approach compared to yours?

Not hostile, but curious, thanks.
> Now...the company has its corner, but that's it.

Microsoft is the most diversified tech company of the top tech companies. They have cloud, software, hardware, game consoles, search engine, development tools.

> if you're a Linux or Mac developer who never touches a single Microsoft product, and pays no heed to whatever Microsoft is talking about or doing, you're probably perfectly fine doing that.

The interesting thing now is that you can be a Linux or Mac developer and actually be able to use many Microsoft products. VS code is my favorite editor or any platform (actually I use it more on Linux than on Windows). I'm working on a project right now in .NET that will run as well on a Raspberry Pi as it does on Windows.

I think that the market grown so significantly that no company is ever going to have the tech leadership that Microsoft had in the 90's and early 2000's. But I think Microsoft is positioning themselves to great things after fumbling though the last 5-10 years.
Hasura's Guide to GraphQL
Can you elaborate on what you meant by "funds transfer" or "wealth transfer"? I'm genuinely curious.
Xilinx Bets Big on Cloud Video with NGCodec Acquisition
Back in the early 2000s, our company phased out the huge 21" Sun boat anchor monitors for another smaller unit also with a 21" screen. They were put on the loading dock and we were told they were up for grabs. A colleague and I took several and the following weekend we took them to his private land where we proceeded to ascertain which handgun and rifle calibers were best at destroying them up close and at a distance. Up close .45 ACP was the winner. At a distance .308 was the winner. We also learned that a 6.5x55 Swedish will completely pass through one and lodge itself into a tree so deep we could not retrieve the projectile. Contrary to popular belief, monitors (at least these) did not explode when struck. Interestingly enough, the 6.5x55 will also handily pass through a HDD with no worries. All standard FMJ rounds.
GCP's kubernetes solution is light-years ahead of azure's and AWS'.
I'm not sure about Alaska, but if you look at voter turn out demographics in California - it's very skewed by senior citizens.

Who, unsurprisingly, aren't that excited about education or higher taxes.
Those characteristics aren’t arbitrary; they equate to an entirely different life experience. That means a more diverse set of viewpoints.

“People who are different from one another in race, gender and other dimensions bring unique information and experiences [...]”

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-diversity-mak...
Maybe it has something peripherally to do with having chosen a governor who does things like cutting funding to the Alaska Supreme Court when they issue a pro-choice abortion ruling.
There are probably a lot of reasons why it's faster, and at least some of those are about rust, and some definitely aren't.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHMRFZkXq4Y

Here's a good talk about the project. Some of the patterns the author uses are sort of hard to do in other languages (such as pattern matching on composite states).
Two separate S3 buckets with different credentials. The server pushes its own backups to the "quarantine" bucket and later a process moves the backup to the long term storage bucket.
Good thing we have a long, long, long way to go to get anywhere near to 100% renewables.
GC works even in WASM? That's great! What size wasm targets does TinyGo generate compared to the regular Go compiler?
> A Headless CMS is a GUI that simply lets nontechnical people manage content in a database.

This is exactly what a headless CMS is not.

A headless CMS is a content management system served through an API.

Thus, legacy render-based CMS like Wordpress / Joomla where the database is completely tied to framework will decrease because of how heavy, poorly flexible and competitive they are from every point of view.

It’s also important to note that your CMS isn’t bound to any render-full GUI like WordPress but instead can be managed from anywhere as long as you have the APIs for it.

With serverless database having exploded in popularity over the past 5 years it makes 0 sense to use any of the solutions like those.

Takes Firestore/DynamoDB /Cosmos, add one collection named « Article » and you have a rudimentary CMS to store articles with a fully operational CRUD served over HTTP.
Works anywhere and will cost you 0$ once it’s cached with your favorite CDN.

Did you really read the article or did you just commented assuming what was in it ?
Math isn't to blame. But neither is it the solution.
Crypto libraries is a domain where the advantages of Rust are very important. You need really good performance, and you need really good safety guarantees. Rust is relatively unique in being able to deliver both of those as well as it does.
Introduction to Pharmaceutical Modeling and Simulation
Every company is different, and to be fair if you look at corporate America a lot of mid sized private businesses don't use separate employment agreements for anything less than a C level exec, and even some of those are just standard employment.

IMO & experience, but with no hard data to back them up, I'd say this really isn't something to be concerned with before you have a true need for that level of leadership and for any smaller company (I can think of exceptions of course). Lots of startups give people the VP title or Director title, and there are only like 5 people in the entire company. I understand the reasons it is done, but at that level they don't require special employment agreements, they could have them but they aren't required. Overall these types of employment agreements are usually done for publicly traded or larger organizations where they need the extra details in writing and those positions are really a VP of something not of 10 people. Personally, I've been in companies where there was 1,000 people and over a billion dollars in revenue and none of the execs had separate employment agreements (which to me was odd). I've also been at a small startup where a specific engineer (nothing special) was given a special employment agreement.

As far as what is in them. There is a lot of boiler plate, including moral turpitude clauses, specific pay agreements, stock options, and any special disclosure or other arrangements. I've had these a few times, and in general they are nothing that special but they do lay things out clearly for both parties, and they are nice to have in a lot of ways because it makes things very clear and relatively enforceable compared to a standard employment relationship. You will find terms in these that a lot of times would not be allowed under traditional employment laws in the U.S., but because the person is technically a contract employee the rules are slightly different (and can vary state to state). In my case, all of them had morality clauses, public disclosure, publicity, association restrictions and very detailed pay, tax & bonus details.
> All your work on a fascinating topic wasted.

That's unfairly harsh. If I enjoyed it, I'm sure others did too, so it could not have been, by definition, "wasted".
Slack's Julia Grace on emojis, fun and focused teams
> AWS's hosted solution is poor

What has been poor about it in your experience?
Awesome! I wish I could give you a real industry one (even bigger), but a synthetic model should adequately reflect the problem domain and they have been the primary models used by researchers in my field for the past twenty years or so.

Edit: which Julia group should I get into contact with over this?
No, their business is consumer electronics. Those consumer devices contain (and are built with) tech, but the tech is not the product itself. This is in comparison with MS, which for the most part sells tech.
There weren't tax increases, we don't have taxes to increase. We use oil tax and PF revenue to fund our government almost exclusively. Some municipalities and cities have sales/property taxes, but most don't.

I agree that we need a balanced package, but we also need to stop paying billions a year in tax credits and incentive to oil companies.
In all seriousness yes but only for stuff society approved of and encouraged anyway like working in unsafe factories or serving in wars.
This is a bit of a controversial comment, but I'll try to keep it objective.

I think part of this might be cultural? Maybe there's something about the "gay subculture" that encourages this? I'm no expert; some one more involved might be able to comment, but that's the external perception, any way.

I think the other part might be that the type of youth who "experiment" might have more promiscuous tendencies, leading to a higher incidence.
Wee-veal?
Would You Like to Grab Coffee?
Ray Kroc, who controlled McDonald’s, set up a scheme where one part of McDonald’s bought real estate and leased it to another part of McDonald’s (which in turn leased it to franchisees). That’s my understanding at least, it seems you don’t dispute it. The intent was for the company to benefit.

Adam Neumann, who controls WeWork, set up a scheme where Adam Neumann and relatives bought real estate and leased it to WeWork (no franchise model in this case, by the way). The intent was for Adam Neumann to benefit. The analogy is flawed and misleading, the conflict of interests is evident and this anomalous situation is being corrected.

A much better analogy to what McDonald’s did in the beginning is what WeWork intends to do now: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-05-15/wework-wa...

“WeWork is creating an investment fund that aims to raise billions of dollars to buy stakes in buildings where it will be a major tenant”

(Still, it’s not exactly the same, I think, as it will be a fund partially owned by WeWork and partially by external investors; I don’t fully understand what was the structure for Franchise Realty but as far as I understand external investors provided loans to that corporation.)
I've suspected for a long time that Rust would prove to be a faster language than C++ once it was done, but only as the code scales up. On a line-by-line basis, the two languages are comparable, so microbenchmarks will never show it, but Rust will tend to very, very strongly encourage better architectures that require you to do less copying just to be safe. It's really hard to measure "architectural affordances", though... heck, it's hard to even define them, let alone benchmark them.

OpenSSL has been optimized extensively, so I consider the fact that any hobbyist project with a fraction of the resources able to beat it by that much to be significant in a way that, say, beating "some guy's github json parser" isn't. If I were going to temper my excitement, though, what I'd want is to make sure the Rust implementation isn't unknowingly trading away important security considerations to get that speed, such as whatever constant-time operations may be necessary or guarantees about when the key will be destroyed or whatever. I have no concrete knowledge about that in this specific case, but in a security context it is something I'd want to check in general. OpenSSL has had its stumbles, and the architecture is... debateable, especially when binding to it in a non-C language... but it has also been reviewed a lot, and battle-tested, and a lot of other things this little library just hasn't been yet. (Not because of any deficiency of the library, author, or language, but just, something things can only come from time and scale.)
The last line in the article I found intriguing: 16 billion spent on R&D?

That's a lot... What are they so actively researching?