skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree we should put more effort into the front page (including a good amount of soul searching to figure out what we even want to be there).

Most of our users are in HPC doing simulations of PDEs (e.g. [1]), but we've also got a deep learning framework [2] and a graph processing engine [3].

[1]: https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1410202-s3d-legion-exascale-soft...

[2]: http://theory.stanford.edu/~aiken/publications/papers/sysml1... (github: https://github.com/flexflow/FlexFlow)

[3]: https://legion.stanford.edu/pdfs/vldb2018.pdf (github: https://github.com/LuxGraph/Lux)
You're missing the most obvious reason that's far more important: Anyone smart and Chinese knows that there's a very decent chance that the system collapses and/or the government steals all your money and possibly your life. In the US and Canada, it's extremely uncommon for the government to steal a rich person's money and even life, and it virtually never happens without a public trial.

Anyone smart, Chinese, and with resources is looking for a way to not be subject to Chinese legal/government jurisdiction, and if you were in China, you'd be doing the same.
Those people can freely lose all of their money through a lack of self-control with any other brokers as well. Just because Robinhood has a good UI/UX that makes it easy to navigate doesn’t really qualify it as “predatory” or puts it at fault more than any other brokerage service.
Context-Aware Intent Identification in Email Conversations [pdf]
Low-latency UIs that respect user input are amazing. They're just quite rare these days. I guarantee the difference is noticeable and makes a difference—look at how everyone liked (and still likes) the UI smoothness and low UI latency of iOS, for example, and iOS, though probably the current front runner on this front for popular operating systems, is just so-so at it.

I guess if my principle is that I like my computer to respond quickly and accurately to my input then yeah, I dislike webtech junk on principle.

[EDIT] as far as it not mattering, everyone I know, including plenty of non-techies, who has used Google Docs hates it, due to the UI lag. Typing with that large a delay between keypress and the letter appearing sucks. They may use it anyway because they have to, but they all complain about how laggy the UI is, responding to clicks and keypresses.
> Consider that society does not function as and is not based upon systems of rational deliberation

The court system? The medical industry? Science? Technology? The financial system?

> if open and fair scrutiny is a way to defeat a bad argument, what's the way to defeat the rhetoric used to prop up that bad argument?

Well, that's a good question. Charisma and persuasiveness can be used by both good and not-so-good (if well-intending) actors. I think intellectuals might spot and discount the appeals to emotion, but non-intellectuals and those of weak critical thinking skill would not, and the latter do make up the majority of the population.

The thing is, public sentiment eventually does seem to drift closer to the truths the rationalists determined already; see for example marijuana acceptance, gayness acceptance, and (hopefully, maybe) human-caused climate change. Is it because of a slowly-encroaching realization that the rationalists were right? Or is it all down to the lucky benevolence of the "persuaders"? And if most people aren't swayed by logical reasoning, then how does ANY progress actually get made (where "progress" is measured as "closer to rational truths and goods"), except as an accidental beneficence of Those Who Persuade Us?
Why Building a Device-Aware Website Is Problematic
Huawei's U.S. research arm sends workers packing
Plus given that drivers could be trying to drive when there's no demand, its very possible for people to earn below minimum wage.

If you count every hour that people want to work regardless of whether their employer wants them to, there aren't many employers who pay minimum wage.
Assuming that's true, how would that make RobinHood a predatory lending scheme?
Totally, so we feel we follow the spirit of the PECR law, but until there's a case against it, we don't have precedent. But we feel like if analytics was under fire we'd be at the bottom of the list because we've gone out of our way to follow the spirit of it.

We don't consider ourselves to be building any sort of 'server side cookie', especially since an anonymous hash is only ever tied to one piece of data and is actually set to null as soon as another request comes in. Unlike cookies, data doesn't follow the user around as they browse the site. A cookie would stick with you as you browse a website.

We've spoken with a few lawyers about this and there's too much grey area at the moment. Time will tell and we're hoping that the UK (my home country) sort PECR out.
> but hiring young certainly doesn’t seem to have helped them much.

A proper team has a mix of old and young, because they bring different skills to the table. Young people tend to be more energetic and enthusiastic, while older people have already learned that you don't store customer passwords unencrypted and check that backups are being done.
I dropped Dropbox for the combination of OneDrive and Syncthing just yesterday. Doubt I'll go back. Dropbox can't be trusted anymore.
price alerts are high on my list of basic features i'm hoping they'll add; another is trailing stop loss %. currently i feel like i have to watch my positions like a hawk if i want to execute any type of exit strategy.
Push-button gearshift is different than what the article mentions: no gearbox. There's no shifting which means everything is way smoother.

Also, engine noise is only a feedback mechanism because we rely on it. If it was eliminated overnight, then we'd have to rely on other mechanisms (probably tire noise). Tire noise is actually dependent on vehicle speed, unlike engine noises. All engine noise really tells you is that something is there, or that something is trying to look like/seem like it's accelerating fast (from high revs). Not really a lot of information you get over tire noise.

I'd love to be in a place where all engine noise is eliminated. That being said, just as another poster mentioned, the bigger challenge is tackling heavy vehicle noise concerns. For the most part, cars today are quiet in comparison. I just want semi trucks/dump trucks/delivery vehicles to be quiet since they tend to be many orders of magnitude louder than regular cars.
It could be that they're not factoring in the cost and maintenance of their vehicles because they foresee this as being a temporary period of their life. They're borrowing from the future cost of their cars.

From my experiences with Gig workers, I used to work in the engineering part of an early one, there will be definitely a bi-modal distribution between full time and part time workers. There will be those that will only want to 'pay a bill' with the proceeds. There will also be those that buckle down and organize their lives/finances around it. For the former, it wouldn't surprise me that they're earning less than service jobs, all in. However, the freedom of choosing one's hours really is powerful for those looking for just a few extra hundred dollars, plus the emphermeral cost against one's vehicles is easy to overlook.
I'm using the word pejoratively, but I was specifically referring to the handwavey discussion of skull measurement as a synecdoche for the whole article.

Quillette is a very thinly disguised far right publication, and mainstreaming BS theories of 'race science' is an incremental project that has historically turned out badly. Here's a more detailed treatment of the article's flaws, including the commentary of someone whose scientific work is cited in the article. https://uncommongroundmedia.com/quillettes-attempt-legitimis...
Who says you have to be the one to do it? What conferences exist? What books? Online courses? You don't have to be the professor, but you do need to be their advisor and point them in the right direction to learn, grow, and thrive.
I don't think the point was about half decent vs. a quarter decent.

As evil/bad as the situation was; non-violence only helps if someone loses more than they gain by just killing you. In this case it was by losing the moral high-ground that was valued by some British people at least. Sure it probably wasn't decent people among the perpetrators, but the pearl clutchers back home.
Tipping $0 on the site with the intention of handing cash to the driver means the delivery payout (which includes the site tip) displayed to drivers will be lower. Drivers are more likely take your delivery job if it has a higher payout. I don't know if the system breaks out the site tip in the delivery payout. If it did, people could enter a magic number to signal to drivers that they intend to tip in cash on delivery.
I agree; I cheated by purposefully using both meanings of "good". The reasons you mention I consider bad in ethical sense, and I believe the world would be better off if sites didn't do it.
The npm registry itself does not depend on GitHub.

It's true that most developers rely on GitHub for pushing to the registry, but there are a handful that use GitLab or self host that would be totally unaffected.
You raise a really, really good point, and I agree with you: just because a flawed argument has been demonstrated as such doesn't mean it won't sway people's minds. I don't have the answer to such a dilemma. I would love to hear some ideas on the point.

The paper talks a lot about what should and should not be allowed in an academic environment, and I think I agree with the bulk of it. Freedom of speech must be protected in such circles. But what you're talking about with public opinion—that is a hard problem that needs solving.
What kind of data source exactly do you need? We should be able to add Microsoft datasource such as MSSQL if you request it.
Open Source Logos as a Discovery Documentary
This year, I bought a lot of cosmetics and hair products from Amazon Canada. Most of what I received was fakes and knockoffs. Now I know that every time I buy a product, I have to look first at the 0-star reviews.

It seems that sellers first build a reputation and then move on to counterfeiting. As a result, product listings have excellent reviews, even when they are clearly false. I'm talking things like a cream shampoo, brown water instead, etc.

I have practically given up buying these products on Amazon. Instead, I pay the manufacturer's small additional shipping and handling fees.
Amazon has been feeling downmarket for a long time.

* You can't trust them for entire categories of products.

* You can't trust them, period, about pricing. The amount of effort they've spent ensuring comparison between very similar items is as hard as possible is kind of amazing; discriminatory pricing: this doesn't require explanation; Their relentless efforts to shove certain products at me just started to annoy me at some point.

It all combines to erode any trust I once had in them; they're apparently no more concerned with ensuring I don't feel ripped off than someone selling junk off the back of a truck.

* Their recommendation engine is occasionally funny, but otherwise utter crap, and just takes up space.

I finally cancelled Prime at the beginning of this year, and after a couple minor adjustments, it was no big loss. I still buy books from them when I can't find them elsewhere.

Otherwise, eh. I just don't like them and don't need them.
Kate LSP Status – July 22 – What is it? Why is it cool? Just watch the video;=)
Teams is so inferior I'm not sure they compete for the same market, when team chat become really important Teams is just not an acceptable option in my experience (we had to switch away from Teams last year because there was too many bugs/frustrating issues and basic features missing, like a actually usable search feature).
> The atomic bomb was based on science theory.

Our study of (automated) intelligence is based on science too.

> A computer ... will never be able to think by itself.

Turing wrote an entire paper about this (Computing Machinery and Intelligence), where he rephrases your statement (because he finds it to be meaningless) and devises a test to answer it. He also directly attacks your phrasing of "but it will never":

> I believe they are mostly founded on the principle of scientific induction. A man has seen thousands of machines in his lifetime. From what he sees of them he draws a number of general conclusions. They are ugly, each is designed for a very limited purpose, when required for a minutely different purpose they are useless, the variety of behaviour of any one of them is very small, etc., etc. Naturally he concludes that these are necessary properties of machines in general.

> A better variant of the objection says that a machine can never "take us by surprise." This statement is a more direct challenge and can be met directly. Machines take me by surprise with great frequency. This is largely because I do not do sufficient calculation to decide what to expect them to do, or rather because, although I do a calculation, I do it in a hurried, slipshod fashion, taking risks.
PEG Parsers
In many cases people will be more interested in your boat rather than a bunch of startups nobody's ever heard of.
In Seattle we had HomeGrocer and it was awesome. Absolutely seemed like the future of groceries, they had great selection and especially great produce. The delivery people drove company vans (with a distinctive peach logo on the side) and wore a uniform (like UPS) and AFAIK were all full-time employees. Sadly they were acquired by Webvan and it all fell apart.
This is just what tips are.

People (in the US) are used to tipping in restaurants but many don't realize that in almost every case the restaurant is using those tips to top up the wages they should be paying the servers anyway.

So the restaurant can pay the server much less than the minimum wage - your tips just make up the difference until the server makes some minimum. What DoorDash is doing here isn't any different except that servers usually manage to make more in tips.

In conclusion, tipping culture sucks and the sooner employees start paying decent base wages the better.
I should have mentioned that this was currently only for the 3.

Hopefully that will get fixed soon.
That's a terrible solution. I chose my monitor specifically because it's HIDPI, not high resolution. It's easier on my eyes to read smoothly rendered text in HIDPI than jaggedly rendered text all day long. Changing the resolution subverts that.
Have you seen EXWM? What do you mean by "control center" anyway?
Sounds like it's a good thing that we're seeing more reporting on it then.
Well, I feel a little embarrassed now - since you're right, my post was inaccurate. The problem with muscle memory is it's hard to put into text. All I was trying to say is, last time I used blender, I felt a bit like I had three less fingers. Obviously, the functionality is all still there. I even think that a lot of the stuff should change - it's just not the case that only a few of the keybindings changed. It seems to me that a lot of the most-used ones have changed.
It was more a list of expectations I have from a desktop-OS.

Those expectations arose because since I was a kid on DOS or Amiga, this
is what I learned what an OS is: You turn on your computer, the OS lets
you run an program. You exit the program and turn off the computer.

Windows 10 broke this simple contract.
Charlie Roberts live at Algorithmic Art Assembly - super good stuff! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnqS8hQVhXA&t=7s
The vast majority of people drive because they need to go some place. You're in the minority here if you want a car that's doing that sort of thing during their morning commute. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy a good manual transmission car, but if I'm just putting around, I'd rather not deal with that.
Don't freeload without it.

His first project seems to have merit, but this one is a commerce-killer. I'd be embarrassed to have it in my wallet.
> A computer can run many programs and do a great many things, but it will never be able to think by itself.

A computer being able to simulate a brain that thinks for itself is the logical extrapolation of current brain-simulation efforts. Many people think there are far less computationally intensive ways to make an AI, but "physics sim of a human brain" is a good thought experiment.

Unless you think there's something magic about human brains? Using "magic" here to mean incomprehensible, unobservable, and incomputable.
I guess they need to invest some time to experiment with QuickJS[1] so they can produce a binary executable and check how well it performs and how much memory it consumes on any system. I'm really curious about it!

[1] https://bellard.org/quickjs/

P.S.: Yes, Fabrice Bellard did his thing again!
This is great.

Things to keep on your radar:

Meltano spun out of Gitlab is working in this domain, I think they are making progress.
https://meltano.com/

dbt are building the transformation engine that Meltano is using (I think), and are worth keeping an eye on
https://www.getdbt.com/

In my experience the issue with this domain isn't the "one-off" analysis, but rather orchestrating the BI function across the business, maintaining the single source of truth, testing and deploying across the ETL/ELT layers. I can't speak to how well Ananas is managing these but Meltano and dbt are giving this area a lot of thought.
Java went with Smalltalk/Objective-C/Modula-3 defaults, because it was heavily inspired by them in language sematics.

However you can still terminate a virtual chain, or not offer it at all with the final modifier.
Redux adds more complexity and is simply unnecessarily. You just don't need it. If your back-end is something like a wire protocol over ws where you've already structured everything as "actions" or "messages" it's a decent fit, but even then React hooks are a better choice (e.g. reducer hook). For everything else there's just no reason to use it. I would go so far as to say that use of redux is an anti-pattern.

Of course, if your app is already built on redux, that doesn't mean refactoring away from it should be a business priority, but new projects should avoid it.
Curious if anyone has used Metabase for serious work and can comment on it. I tried setting it up and got frustrated pretty quickly with the UX. It looks slick, but the mental model was confusing...
To keep my reply short: You depend on your own ability to understand all subjects to form a belief. When a person accepts their ability to understand how something works,they can rely on a cause vs effect observation.

To many, their faith based actions resulted in effects that are significant enough to them that it meets and exceeds any and all criteria of acceptance of that belief as valid.

I personally think it is fine to be curious and ask questions but it is absolutely foolish for a person to expect they can understand any and all things.

For most of your curiosity, it seems you are attempting to group people and say "these people believe for this reason",I think it's better to try and understand individuals instead of groups if you're curious about motives.

> ...significant portion of thoughtful religious aren't more or less of that variety and do believe they've joined a mostly or entirely correct religion, miracles and supernatural occurrences and all being actually true.

I can't speak for others but I am 100% sure of not only miracles of the past but also miracles that happen in this day and age.

As some say: "There is no argument that can overcome experience". That is to say, if I literally saw legs grow right before my eyes for an amputee as an example,you can't convince me it didn't happen without asking me to stop believing my own five senses which I rely on to percieve reality itself.
Not offensive in the least, it's a compliment to what our species has done to date. We are all standing on shoulders and the shoulders have never been higher. Think of the things you can build in a day that were impossible to build 30 years ago. To think that there isn't at least some chance someone will build AGI in the next 30 years is foolish. Again, I'm just saying there is a reasonable chance, like hitting a homerun. It's not likely for any given plate appearance, but given the number of games and players it happens every summer day.
That's not “do-nothing” scripting, it's orchestration scripting for a process where the steps are executed by a human.

It's basically the minimal version of a standalone workflow automation; it's got crappy state storage and is really only good for a single human execution unit per script (or perhaps multiple swapped sequentially rather than in parallel), but it's an instance of a fairly well-known class of do-something software.
I understand this. Think more along the lines of "If a tree falls down in a forest, does it make any sound if there is nobody there to hear it?". If there is a defect on Linux, but nobody is running it on Linux, is there really a defect?
Prison companies are the biggest scammers of all time. I guess in the US after OIL / Banks / Pharma companies Prison industry would be one of the biggest scams. Not only a lot of taxpayers money goes into their pocket. Inmate and their families also pay them regularly.

It includes: 1> Food providers (1st biggest scam)
2> Telephone providers (2nd Biggest of all)
3> Other services healthcare / groceries etc.
Tesla offers an 'off-menu' option where they can not install a SIM card for you. The only network connectivity left at that point would be the wifi, which you can just choose to not connect to.
Wasn't the original point to be able to push to the second copy when the first is down .. what's the point (other than backup) of a second "working" copy that you can't use.
I have read some of it. Very cool stuff :). There certainly seems to be parallels to this process in genomics.
If you want this story to be discussed on HN, the way to do it is to find the highest-quality article on the topic and submit that. It isn't the convention here to use text posts as advocacy for a political cause, so users tend to flag such submissions.
Is there any published research-level evidence that FAANG interviews are high-signal?

I'm no expert, but the only published research I've read on this is "Thinking, Fast and Slow", and the original researcher has recently cast doubt on his own results on that study. Regardless, the evidence there was that all that mattered was "any objectively measurable metric" -- which would mean that FAANGs are wasting a lot of time and money on useless interviews. (Of course they have money to throw away, but still...)
If you have a Hyperthreading CPU, the order of operations on a given code block can change from sequential to parallel depending on the availability of specific ALUs. Many times the code can be correct until something external either causes more or less hyperthreading to occur which exposes dormant bugs.
The Manhattan Project is a very apt analogy. Even if you believe that AGI is impossible, it should be possible to appreciate that many billions would quickly be invested in its development if somehow a viable pathway to it became clear. Even if just to a few well-connected experts.

This is what happened when it became known nuclear weapons were a viable concept. The technology shifted power to such an extreme degree that it was impossible not to invest in it, and the delay from «likely impossible» to «done» happened too fast for most observers to notice.
Servers generally tip out a percentage to the guys behind closed doors. That means cooks, dishwashers, etc.
Here's a couple I'd recommend from AAAssembly -

Kindohm - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiEq_h5UQJM
Renick Bell - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pks_BSqHB0
Algobabez - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GTN8ELL75g
Sebastian Camens - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zu4dHW04W9Y
This is a direct link to some of the recall notice from Volvo:

https://www.volvocars.com/uk/own/maintenance/volvo-warranty/...

It seems that there is more information in the letters sent to consumers.