skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Technically, the gov doesn't really build all that much. It's the private contractors and private firms they hire to do it.

But theres a fun thing about some hundred or so Marines got greenlit to buy 3d printers and start building a wide range of stuff for themselves. After making new crayon flavors, they went on and built extremely cheap gear delivery drones of some 700lbs capacity and a whole slew of other stuff without red tape. It's actually impressive.
Thanks; I'll give it a try!
SOTA = ?
Recession Warning in Bond Market Sharpens, Adding Pressure on Fed
This seems to have been either a complete, sensationalistic fabrication, or at best, a totally negligent misread.

See for yourself:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19632086

The thread began, "If Katie was a man do you think people would be going through git histories and their published papers trying to determine if she is being over-credited for her achievements?"

And it's not referring to others on HN; as the replies make clear, it's about people elsewhere.
A company that cares about eroding trust in third-party repairs shops getting blamed for ripping off their customers when the battery still reports as broken.
>Not the "oh no, look their old world is gone" nonsense.

Taking for granted that that is nonsense, is the same error, a blind belief that any novelty is better than what it replaces.

There were political motivations behind the change (and impact on the population at the time) not just some noble march towards better.

To give a simple example, bulldozing down Venice to build some Mall-ridden monstrosity that looks like 20000 other places in the world, would not be better in any way, and people would be right to lament about that "old world" being gone.

(Of course many moderns, especially Americans having no history, live in a perpetual now, and can't put things into perspective. They judge all things like mobile phone models, the newer the better).
They hired Jim Keller to design the Zen architecture around 2012, and he left in 2015. Many people point to him for their current success. He joined Intel in 2018.
If actual erlang then VSCode. There is a nice language server plugin (pgourlain.erlang) for it.

cowboy if you need a web server.

rebar3 for package management and build.
Sperm storage startups are raising millions
I have to agree, all this "artificial brain" talk when the reality is that ML is just really fancy "y = ax + b find the best values for a and b given this data "
The difference is that your average ML marketer can't plausibly say their stuff is just too cool to even tell you what it does.

C.f. the GPT2 announcement which got some pushback, and that was with plenty of concrete examples.
The poor minority folks leading organized crime.
The limiting factor on competitive deck building is Rare / Mythic Rare availability. Lower rarity cards simply aren’t as powerful, and the availability is high enough for them that they’re almost never an issue.

As you open random card packs, you are guaranteed to open one Rare or Mythic Rare per pack. Arena offers duplicate protection - you will never receive a Rare / Mythic Rare that you already have 4 copies of in a pack. Thus if you already have a complete-but-for-one-card collection, you’re guaranteed to receive that one in your next pack. It also means that there is a maximum number of packs you could need to open to have a complete set of Rare / Mythic Rare cards.

In addition, sometimes your Rare (or Mythic Rare) is replaced with a Wildcard of the same rarity. These wildcards can be crafted 1:1 into any card of the same rarity. This does not increase the rate at which you grow your collection, but does increase the speed at which you can grow it in a particular direction. The drop rate of these is tuned with the intent of allowing a typical free-to-play user to obtain one competitive level deck per card set.
Predator-induced fear causes PTSD-like changes in the brains of wild animals
Preserves: An Expressive Data Language
Yes. It's an odd phenomenon. Some messages of this form seem to live and recirculate for years, perpetuated without much analytical thought.

I often get preached at about how bad social media is. The irony is that I don't have any, and the people preaching at me do.

My best theory: I suspect both online and offline, people "parrot" ideas 90% of the time. They hear an idea, repeat it without much thought, if it resonates well they repeat it more.

I think the reason people do this in-person is the same as they do it online. They say things not because they have deeply reflected on all the ramifications and sincerely believe and live by those ideas. They say things "to get likes."
"...even better is long term competition in this space."

I hope that's the biggest outcome from this. My inside sources tell me that Intel has their briefs in a bind over AMDs latest technology, and are certainly kerfuffling over it, but I'm not sure how quickly they can respond. It seems like the disparity in this cycle has grown wider than in the past. But that is just my subjective take - I'm not really conversant on the manufacturing part. I'm just historically reviewing the power consumption and benchmarks.
Care to offer a more substantive dismissal, Mr. Betteridge?
You may hate Make and it is certainly far from ideal (tab-based syntax was a mistake) but the thing is, Make has very simple rules that haven't changed for decades and Makefiles generally keep working (and when they break it isn't the fault of Make itself but of something else that isn't as stable/backwards compatible as Make).
Abstract

>Predator-induced fear is both, one of the most common stressors employed in animal model studies of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and a major focus of research in ecology. There has been a growing discourse between these disciplines but no direct empirical linkage. We endeavoured to provide this empirical linkage by conducting experiments drawing upon the strengths of both disciplines. Exposure to a natural cue of predator danger (predator vocalizations), had enduring effects of at least 7 days duration involving both, a heightened sensitivity to predator danger (indicative of an enduring memory of fear), and elevated neuronal activation in both the amygdala and hippocampus – in wild birds (black-capped chickadees, Poecile atricapillus), exposed to natural environmental and social experiences in the 7 days following predator exposure. Our results demonstrate enduring effects on the brain and behaviour, meeting the criteria to be considered an animal model of PTSD – in a wild animal, which are of a nature and degree which can be anticipated could affect fecundity and survival in free-living wildlife. We suggest our findings support both the proposition that PTSD is not unnatural, and that long-lasting effects of predator-induced fear, with likely effects on fecundity and survival, are the norm in nature.
TL;DR: Use Numpy! Numpy rocks!
The last time we drove through Poundbury on a summer weekend, the town (it's not a city) was a ghost town. We tried to find somewhere pleasant to have lunch - i.e. open and not fast food - and utterly failed. It has a central town square with nothing going on. I'm sure the rest of Dorchester is interesting and full of life, but Poundbury wasn't.
Samsung Note 10 and Note 10 launched
You can see the same patterns in the society, in the erosion of workers' rights that our ancestors bought literally with their blood and suffering. It's the same force acting on all fronts.
AtR is a really good podcast, I agree. Lewis is great at writing/ presenting in an engaging manner. Listening to the podcasts felt to me like listening to short audio books of his. Who knows if moderation in the way he analyses it will rebound again in the future, one can only hope...
I've seen both opinions, and many more nuanced variants thereof, argued in a well-reasoned, persuasive manner here on HN.

Adding my voice to the "good riddance" side of the aisle: thanks to what freedom of speech, association, etc. actually mean in the legal / constitutional context, said twats are guaranteed a space for communication - the real world! They can stand on a corner or picket their local City Hall and spout all the hateful nonsense they want.

(They can't, however, verbally assault bus drivers / police officers, or yell "Fire!" in a crowded theater, or directly incite violence, or disturb the peace at all hours of the night, or needlessly interrupt judicial / civil proceedings, or...point being: even in the US, the exercise of free speech comes with limits and responsibilities.)

Like publicans of yore banning rowdy drunks from the premises (which itself came with political / legal overtones; see https://www.amazon.ca/America-Walks-into-Bar-Speakeasies/dp/...), many owners of online spaces are deciding - as is well within their rights as owners of a private space - to ban users and groups who disproportionately degrade the experience for all others.

(This is my general surface-level opinion, without getting into discussions like https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/rnhzlo around the amplification of extreme voices by short-sighted metrics optimization, or debates on whether providing space for hateful voices effectively denies free speech to the targets of their hate, or explorations of the tradeoffs different open, democratic societies have made around hate speech.)
Question: who does a policy of "no political discussion" most favour?

The empowered, or the disempowered?
Billions of dollars are spent prosecuting and jailing cannabis users, growers and merchants. The money comes from the taxpayers and goes to the companies and government agencies that do it. If you draw a surface that envelops the prison and policing industry but excludes taxpayers, it will look like billions are flowing in from weed enforcement.
Also in London, Kapten and Bolt are currently undercutting Uber. Ola launches in Sept. You often get almost free rides at the launch to promote take up.
How does that make a difference? It's just something to jazz up the clickbait. Did you think these would be grass huts? Nothing said anything about being cheap.
Automation Improves Multi-Cloud Security and Compliance
> my G which has annoying buttons

One thing I've always liked about those calculators is the fact they actually injection molded the keys with two colors of plastic... one for the body of the key and another for the marking. There's essentially no way to wear off the label, since it is intrinsically built into the key itself. They stopped doing that with the 49 and follow-ons, and I don't think the new HP11 does it either. Arguably, the original was overengineering, but there's a reason these things are still worth as much as they are today.
You can't guarantee that, and keep reasonable performance, if humans are generating the PSK
The idea isn't that political discussions are unwelcome, or worthless... Rather, it's that people (and comments) are much more emotional, knee-jerk, irrational, etc. - there is barely any actual discussion going on, it's mostly name-calling, strawman arguments or moral/value discussion that basically amount to "I'm good; you're evil" (e.g. both sides of pro-life vs pro-choice debate).

AFAIK noone has figured out how to have a substantial political discussion, at scale. Until that problem is solved, it makes sense to just tune it out a bit.
Google Maps AR Walking Directions Arrive on iOS and Android
APRR: Of Apple Hardware Secrets
Or like a "Check Gas" indicator light which only goes away if you buy fuel from a Ford gas station.
Well, as I said, it shouldn't be ALWAYS allowed, otherwise you have that sect of people who bring up the politics inherent in anything, and while it's true and important, it's not what HN is about or should be about.

BUT, and this is a big but here, there are a small number of discussions on HN where it can be argued that the politics involved in an issue are more important than the technology. Or, that the technology involved is actively shaping the politics related to it. Or, that the politics of those building the technology are informing the technology. And so on.

And I feel like the attitude here is one mirrored strongly in the tech industry at large, that somehow by not discussing it openly, we avoid the stains and the ugly realities of the situations we're involved in, and I'm sorry but that's just not true. Simply refusing to discuss the political angles of what we all do doesn't mean we're above it or beyond it, we're simply ignoring it, and ignoring politics can have catastrophic consequences.
Agreed. And I'm a rubyist!

I think ruby has actually gotten a LOT better at minimizing the churn (both core/stdlib, and the ecosystem, specifically including Rails itself), as a result of people learning from the experience. The ecosystem still doesn't prioritize it as much as I'd like.

I also think this points out the benefit of sticking with a platform/ecosystem for a while. Many people didn't realize the danger of backwards-incompat churn until they saw it through experience over years.

You notice it when you work with the same code for a while -- if you are always abandoning a codebase and coming to a new one, you abandon before it gets painful, and either have a new one that isn't yet painful or a legacy one where you can blame the pain on your predecessors making bad decisions.

If you are always abandoning a platform for a new one -- the dangers of 'churn' aren't apparently in a less mature platform, you never pay the price at version 1.0, only after it's been around a while. But they will be if it lasts long enough and you stick with it long enough -- if when it starts hurting you abandon it for some other new thing thinking the other new thing will be better and not realizing it's better in that respect only cause it's newer... you never learn.
> view ourselves in the best possible light, and to view other people as not as good

Remembered me of this cognitive bias: "Overestimating Our Own Importance" [1]

[1] "Psychology of Intelligence Analysis", Chapter 11. Available at:

- https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intellig...
I'd put JavaScript in the "Examples" section as, like HTML, any change it gets is fully backwards compatible so you do not have to play catch-up with the latest stuff just to keep your existing code working.

I do not know about Ruby nor about React-Preact-Vue-Angular to judge, though based on what i've heard the latter pile does sound made up of things that expect you do waste your time ensuring your software keeps working.
Yes! Kids are great. I always make faces at them or stick my tongue out and put my hands over my head and they always giggle. It's especially fun when the parents don't get it and think you're a weirdo.
I'm having trouble finding it too. I wonder if the same article was published by a different source?
Of course, old Paris is no more ! I live near Paris, and I go in this town only when I am forced to. Residential intensification, insecurity (pickpockets in the metro), migrants, Paris nowadays has nothing to do with the romantic vision of American people. Real Parisians now live in the suburb, there is some very nice towns in the suburbs. (Others not so nice, it depends where you go).
they are priced based on the market, but rated by an agency. bond pricing is easily understood math.

People just trust the agencies when they rate bonds highly, even if they shouldnt be
The Mitch McConnell campaign account got frozen after it was reported for posting a video that contained threats (towards the candidate), which is against the Twitter TOS.

I don't agree with this action, but it's consistent with their TOS. I don't believe I've seen other campaigns that have posted videos of people threatening the candidate so I can't make a judgement call about enforcement consistency.
I think they still use gels on white LEDs for many of them. I've had a look at a few that at least did that. It's possible they've switched to dedicated colour phosphors, or that the majority of them have been that way for a while.

I think many of the lights here are also retrofits from incandescent traffic lights.
I tried that once, I had a procedure that insurance wouldn't cover if done at the hospital, but the hospital was the only place with the equipment to do it. I had experience with paying cash for procedures being dramatically less expensive, like half, so I called the hospital to find out the cash price.

"So you want the price you would pay if you didn't have insurance and directly paid for it?" "Yes." "But you do have insurance, so you have to contact your insurance company to find out what their contracted rate for that procedure is." We went back and forth a few times, but she absolutely refused to give me a number for how much someone without insurance would pay for that procedure.
I can't tell whether this has much substance. It doesn't seem to ease calculations in a classical simulation of a quantum system. Also not sure whether it adds any substantial understanding beyond the Bloch sphere view of a qubit, especially when you start extending to multi-qubit systems. Given the normalisation condition for a qubit amplitude, it is natural to define a qubit using three angles for which a quaternion is well suited ... And which is already captured by the Bloch sphere picture.

Another thing is that Pauli matrices which are unitary transforms of qubits represented in the conventional column vector form are themselves quaternion bases. So in essence what this is saying is that you can cover the space of qubits using exponents of Pauli matrices applied to eigenstates.

Don't think so? Happy to hear alternative views.
I think it's especially odd that they only take the time for the actual addition of the arrays into account.

Initializing the arrays already takes way longer than adding them in a list comprehension. So if you're doing one-off additions of lists, converting them to np arrays is most likely not worth it.

Here are a couple of quick results I got with the same data setup as in the article:

List comprehension with zip: 4.748612998810131e-05s
Just building the np.arrays: 0.00013617933000205086s
Building and adding np.arrays: 0.00013746836000791518s
Mobo compatibility and resource heavy enterprise applications that have been built around Intel's chips are not things that you can change overnight.
Whats better? Experts that can be purchased? Elected or appointed judges who owe favors to those who elected or appointed them?
Which suburbs are nice?
I wish you wouldn't do that, as I think it's destructive to the community. Certainly things aren't perfect here, but certainly they could become worse. Violating the (difficult to enforce) rule that one maintain an "identity that others can relate to" contributes to making things worse.
In Germany, there's a huge difference between Bavaria/Munich and Berlin. In Berlin, cannabis might get confiscated while in Bavaria/Munich you end up with jail time. To aid further with irony, in Bavaria/Munich they drink a lot of beer (= drugs) during Oktoberfest.
Western societies rise to prominence is due to acceptance of scientific temperament with a balanced moral view looking beyond religion and tribal mentality. They challenged the established religious groups and tribal rules. Traveled across oceans and built global trade. Property rights and all you described are just means which are just subservient not the main reason.

China is moving forward due to the same scientific temperament, may be need to supplement more moral education to build a balance. But that's a normal process given it took out 1.4 billion people out of poverty and making them one of the largest middle income economy and slowly moving towards developed.

You can see an example in India where all values you described are part of its constitution (probably the only nation where there is a chapter on human rights in its Constitution) and government proclaim to protect it. Still has one of the highest poverty levels in the world. India needs more scientific temperament to come out of its religious tribal mentality and need more science education.

The problem you described of Hong Kong is its own making where people accepted living in prison cell size house and rely on get rich quick scheme when China was closed which doesn't work anymore. So it's just paying the price of its own choice.
Germany somehow is indeed seen as efficient. There's some truth there, in comparison to Southern Europe at least -- everything works and corruption isn't an issue -- but it's by no means a gold standard. I've started to call it "German thoroughness" instead.
It's always interesting to see a light-grey thread at the bottom of a page that's full of lucid, not-overly-aggressive political discussion.

In one sense it's a shame when thoughtful, evidence-based discussion is discouraged for being off-topic. But I suspect that's ultimately what makes those discussions possible; they're happening between relatively small numbers of discussants, in a space that doesn't draw in people looking for political debates.
Trump's executive order combating alleged social-media bias reportedly drafted
So what's the motivation of Google? Are they are charity now?

I phrase it a bit unnuanced, but it does leave me a bit puzzled. I suppose companies can be nice and not nice at the same time, but I'd rather look at the level of incentives first before looking at the level of being nice.
I thought all drugs were legal in Amsterdam and Portugal?
> But how do you want to avoid that? Staying with old libraries forever?

Well, one way would be those libraries to have backwards compatible APIs so that your code keeps working yet still using the same APIs. Some actually do try that (or at least they claim so), e.g. curl.
The article is about the 18th and 19th centuries.
Carmack is a huge fan of Racket. He was going to use it as the scripting language for VR until the Oculus execs made him use JavaScript instead (boooooo)

https://twitter.com/id_aa_carmack/status/807797812700348416
Yes, almost any routing library will expose a Link component wrapper that properly sets those attributes.
Decriminalization. If you have too much on you, you still end up with a record. Source: ex of my partner got busted with too much cannabis in Portugal (whilst living there, and being a regular smoker).

In The Netherlands, its 5 gram per person max, and IIRC also 4 or 5 XTC pills (I can't quite remember). Though that information is from '00s. It might've changed, I don't know.
If your timing is bad, the returns from an index fund are terrible. The best advice is not just to hold for a long period (25+ years) but also not to go all in or all out.
First "bug" raised this morning about naked domain not redirecting to www...

SEO departments in my experience still insists that the www subdomain is necessary (e.g. they have no idea so better not touch it), yet Google instead of publicly coming out saying that it's pointless goes as far as hiding it. I don't get the point.
Is AMD getting ahead of Intel with a superior architecture, or due to the fact that its running on 7nm instead of Intel's 14nm?
We are, depending on how you define "serious". The Rust usage is for our products as a company which largely target somewhat niche type of US companies. I can't speak much on it, but I do consider it "serious" because of the amount of money that flows through our product. However the corporate users are far far less than 100k.

I chose Rust because 1. I enjoy the hell out of it; I feel productive and safe in the language. 2. Some services within our infra have tight memory requirements and I was having difficulty feeling confident on handling these requirements in Go.

So if you're asking merely for concurrent traffic requests our uses are definitely not serious haha. If you're asking based on "professional" usage, our Rust usage is vital to tens of millions of USD. Not astronomical, but far more "real business" than a startup with 20 users haha :)
> who's been involved in many discussion forums,

in many discussion forums... that are not HN.
There is only one HN, so you can't make comparison with other communities out there.