skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Zen in many ways is still moving towards that model, The concept of an IO die that all cores hook into, along with all of PCI-E lanes, no need for complicated cross core linking. It would be relatively "easy" to introduce specialized accelerator cores or beefy GPU chips into this mix on a separate chip, and not massively complicate the CPU design, or massively bloat its cost as a specialist die.
I thought they cancelled your patent grants for a project if you came into a patent dispute with the project.

Also React was relicenced.
Yeah... That is a reason I could imagine. Also the lack of hype in pipelines.
Not to heap it on...but ok who am I kidding I am heaping it on: I had a terrible interview experience with them.

Basically there was a period on HN where every other post was about stupid hiring practices and how absurd some code interviews were. Well Gitlab embodied all of them.

They phone interview quizzed me on several "gotcha" questions, and finally I was asked to describe Prototypical inheritance (JS), in which I was knowledgeable about and gave a very detailed and technical answer, in my own words (so not some memorized wikipedia answer), and basically what I got back from the recruiter was in essence, "Nope that's not what this piece of paper I have in front of me says the answer is" that is that although I had answered the question technically correctly, it wasn't the type of answer they were looking for.

Anyways, not salty about it anymore because it seems like I dodged a real bullet.
If I recall they removed that restriction from the react license.
Not currently true, at least for React. https://github.com/facebook/react/blob/master/LICENSE
> Looks like early stage research

No it doesn't. The link there is not a scientific article but points to a set of models benchmarked against data for the IPCC report.

Trying to check there's no artifact is just good science, no need to reproach them for that.
It's bad all the way, including the $3.9 billion, which is a massive sum. As Warren Buffett says, "if stock-based compensation isn't an expense, what is it?".
“Automata Theory. Building a RegExp machine” full course is available
Uber laying off 400 two weeks ago felt like a leading indicator that they were going to deliver a weak quarter, I'm surprised this wasn't priced into the stock (which is now down ~10% after hours after finishing today's session at +8%). What was the market expecting?

(1) https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/29/technology/uber-job-cuts....
Iskcon of Silicon Valley
What about unlocking my front door with a facial recognition lock. Are you telling me that's not ethical?
Or I was reading this just the other day from Mozilla:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/common-myths-about-priv...

In the right context--where there is widespread misunderstanding (or ignorance) around a number of points--it seems a reasonable format.

Lists and FAQs are arguably somewhat lazy writing but it imposes a structure that's easy to follow for both the writer and the reader and that's not a bad thing. And talking to editors I work with, it does seem to be a format that readers like based on the data.
To be fair this is true about a lot of software. IMO most nontrivial CLI tools and libraries benefit from a "data model" doc.
Why do you get stressed out from programming? Where are your team members? They should be there to give you support. And maybe you are trying to hard. You don't have to program at breakneck speed every day. I have a feeling you are being too hard on yourself and you are trying to write perfect code. Don't do that. Don't have an ego. Work with your team. Allow yourself to learn and get better, and learn how to take criticism. You are one of the luckiest people in the world to have the occupation that you have. Everyone else has so much more of a tedious, stressful and tiring work life. Appreciate your gifts and what you have.
No, all of that has to wait until we have resolved The Great Brexit, a true example of a gunless country shooting itself in the foot.
Heres why you should use gRPC for everything
That’s not shadow banning. That’s regular banning.
To shadow ban, the suspect has to not know they are being affected. Automoderator is not subtle.
Facebook Offers News Outlets Millions of Dollars a Year to License Content
They had that in the mainland too. It was something which was forced on poor people and resulted in electricity prices considerably higher than they otherwise would have been.

My grandparents were forced to have one. My late grandfather had PTSD from fighting in WWII and could basically never hold down a job or make a good financial decision.
Biased headline, biased article.

1. 3.9 Bil was a one time cost

2. 1.3 Bil is not almost double 880 Mil. I mean that's just egregious.
S-expressions do not have typed standards for serializing dates and booleans like JSON. They also can't distinguish numbers from text.

S-expressions also have no standard for comments, and can't distinguish maps from lists.

A S-expression based serialization standard would be a bit cleaner than JSON, but it's enough of a change that it's worth redoing anything.
I really wonder where Uber, Lyft etc. go in the future. Uber in particular seemed to betting hard on the fact that self-driving cars would make them wildly profitable but it seems like that is a long way away yet. And they're still subsiding rides in a lot of markets to make them look a lot more affordable than they really are.

I still think there's a market out there, but Uber in particular feels like it's grown too big for the actual market it can hope to occupy.
Uber and lyft are both on the way down. The price at which they need to operate to be profitable is not a price that most americans are ready to pay. As simple as that.

For now they delay this reality by subsidizing rides in order to generate business. In some cities like San Francisco, most incentives were removed and among my friends we all stopped using Uber (unless we really have to). It simply became way too expensive.

(Comment that I already issued yesterday on a similar thread)
If you think (centrist) Swedish public broadcasting is all-consuming leftist, I have really bad news about the current (centrist, but notionally centre-left) Swedish government!
Don't suppose you saved a link to that comment?
Maybe, it would be easier to detect the presence though than to read the actual contents being displayed in theory though.
I don't know how the headline could be anymore objective than this. And the loss numbers not withstanding, a company bleeding money like a unicorn growing only 14% in revenue is pretty bad no matter how you slice it.
I am confused at how that 3.9B could be said not to matter - I'm not familiar with what precisely "recognition of stock comp" means, but I'm going to assume it was either squaring a previously deferred liability - or directly needing to pay out some sort of stock based compensation.

Assuming the compensation was for a business need (like hiring labour or purchasing something necessary) then I don't see how that should be isolated or differentiated from regular costs of running the business - assuming it wasn't a business need (and was more of a way to game the stock price) then I'd assume whoever made the decision to take such an action when Uber is already losing money hand-over-fist is just trying to get out some loot while they can... which is potentially an even more extremely bad scenario to accept.
I gotta say, I appreciate the moderation on Hacker News. I've appreciated several messages back and forth with dang and sctb, about moderation, my behavior, even UI. From my experience, it's the best moderated sites on the internet. Kudos moderating team!
It's a reasonable thing to worry about. Bad actors exist. IP is valuable. Computers are insecure. People are lazy. You have to be careful out there.

> I don't trust new developers to make that determination.

Ignoring this issue is a sign of professional immaturity. Recommend you view it as an opportunity to educate the younger members of your team. Show them the power of a solid CLI toolbox that respects your privacy while delivering solid performance.

Still, you shouldn't be dogmatic about it. Webapp tools can be useful for understanding a new programming language or API. Just be judicious.
I remember a .NET developer using it in place of json. That was the slowest system I've ever seen.
You realize user replaceable batteries with removable back covers are still a thing right?
You're not out of touch. People like to trade security for convenience and while it doesn't always present an issue, it's a bad habit to get into. It's also one thing to take personal risks, it's another to put risks onto the company.
The BBC also claims to be able to detect when anyone uses their online streaming service, IPlayer, though I suspect this may be a ruse to scare people away from watching without a licence.

Curiously, the TV licence is a third of the price if you have a black and white television set.
Slightly off topic. I've often wondered why so much effort is put into "sea-steading" when you can simply get enough money to buy island territories away from countries that may not want them and setup something akin to a prototype country. Sure the islands of the far north may pose some technological challenges, but probably less so then setting up something floating on the ocean.
Are those performance cliffs about AVX or about very branchy code?

Ryzen < 2(!) has a much narrower AVX unit which could easily cause a 50% slowdown.

Branchy code like that of compilers tends to run somewhat slower on Ryzen, though closer to 15% than 50% (comparing AMD and Intel CPUs with otherwise same performance in mixed benchmarks). The latter really depends. Core and Ryzen have different branch predictors, both so complicated that they can't be fully described in documentation anymore. Ryzen 2's first level cache configuration also moved closer to Core's, presumably for software that has been fine-tuned for Core.
> 3.9 Bil was a one time cost

That doesn't mean it isn't a loss?
I believe I asked you a while ago to provide citations for your claims.

As far as Antifa assault involving ethnic intimidation goes: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/alleged-antifa-membe...

It's hard to know the context. The last time I remember I was asked for a citation, I found the Washington Post article I was going to refer to was paywalled. It's now available to me again.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/in-the-united-states...

Most likely the specific observation you're referencing was that in the last 2 years of the chart (2016, 2017), if you go down to the bar charts for left wing and right wing violence, you'll see that there are 11 incidents of right wing violence for that period and 17 incidents for left wing violence.

More generally, in terms of incidents like vandalism, threats, and assault, there are lists going into several 100's of incidents for the past several years for the far left. If you want to find them and analyze them, that sounds worthwhile. There were tons and tons of such incidents on YouTube, seemingly endless. However YouTube seems to engage in suppression of videos that go against certain political agendas.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUbsnXk0srU
Could you elaborate how much were fares before they removed subsidies and after?
that's exactly how it works, apparently:

"the optical detector in the detector van uses a large lens to collect that light and focus it on to an especially sensitive device, which converts fluctuating light signals into electrical signals, which can be electronically analysed"
An "effective shadowban" using AM to remove comments is not the same thing as a global shadowban issued by site-wide admins, by any stretch.
around my parts, it would be tampering with evidence even if there is no proof or indicator that evidence of a crime existed, before "tampering" the brushing teeth and mouthwash is simply part of a power commuters hygene routine.
in NY for example people use the time spent at traffic lights to do all sorts of things.
Uber was up for the day by 8%, too. Down 10% after hours:
https://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/uber/after-hours
I'd be curious what investors of Uber (of which I am not) expected here. I don't think anyone expected a gain, but this article is light on analyst expectations. I would expect several years of this from a company trying to grow the way Uber is.
>Regular moderators can effectively shadowban inside their subreddits by using AutoModerator and telling it to remove all posts made by certain users.

While your comment makes it sound like AutoMod just removes comments, what I think you're meaning to point out is that AutoMod can selectively hide all of a user's comments to everyone except for the comment author, which is the exact same as shadowbanning, and isn't just a simple comment removal.

A lot of subreddits use this feature now, too. Some automatically shadowban any user that doesn't have above a certain amount of karma, while others auto shadowban everyone and then only maintain a whitelist of authorized posters. If you've ever posted on a subreddit and gotten zero replies/votes, it's worth going into incognito mode and trying to view your comment from there. Chances are, your account is shadowbanned in that subreddit.
one thing I do after getting a 101 or 102 "not patentable" rejection is to fire up the PR engine and get articles posted about the innovation and similar patents or products released by companies with more clout

make sure to mention inventors names (link to them if you can)

sometimes the patent examiner magically does a 180, hope the PR is helping

another use of the PR is to find potential suitors and licensees of the patent

its always written as a "not advertisement". kind of like how a buzzfeed listicle isn't an advertisement, but little do you know that the 3rd thing in the list is the one that got the whole listicle written to begin with.
This is also what the 'numexpr' library does.
Interesting stock chart: https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/UBER?p=UBER - set it to 5 days.

Apparently Lyft upped its guidance, and Uber stock took off today; it was up 8.25% percent from yesterday. As of right now, it's now down 10% off closing to 38.66, a value it hasn't had since... last Wednesday morning.

Disappointing if you're a holder, sure, but not as catastrophic as you'd think if you only read this news.

(To the extent I have bias here, it is bias against trying to judge stock performance only by reading about its massive jumps up or down. Uber I'm not a particular fan of but I can't say I'm all that personally passionately against it either. I don't mean this as attack or defense, only a perspective on the news that I think is closer to a truth.)
Looks like Intel's 10nm is still failing spectacularly, so I can totally see the 7nm Marvell ThunderX3 being EPYC Rome's real competition :P

Ampere has a chance too, if they get big gains from 7nm and/or massively improve their microarchitecture while keeping the current prices, they'll be unbeatable in price/performance.

> I don't think any HyperScaler really want ARM on server per se

There definitely seems to be a concern with the AMD/Intel duopoly, and Amazon clearly just wants absolute control, since they've already deployed in-house chips that mix ARM cores with 
Bezos Backdoors
 fancy cloudy networking and verified boot stuff.
Living Off the Land in Linux
Sort of? I browse with "showdead" on, so I can see these shadow-banned comments. But maybe there is a second level?
Thanks for this suggestion. I too also have problems dealing with jq syntax. jp looks a lot more intuitive.
This is an inflammatory comment.

"Naturally occurring plants" are illegal in all of the EU as well. Also it's a logical fallacy[2]. Lots of naturally occurring things can have very bad effects on society. Caster beans are natural (and legal). Should we allow people to grow and process them and sell ricin by the vial - after all, it's a naturally occurring protein, right? Should we allow people to grow, process, and sell naturally occurring anthrax bacteria?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20643883

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_nature
How I miss Douglas Adams
Giving away your core product for free is hardly a “selling” point. As open source is all about scratching your own itch, their itch isn’t lean software because that isn’t what they run in their company.
Thanks for the official statement ;-)

Interestingly, I originally believed HN is pure-upvote based, then I learned it from other HN comments that says karma affects ranking and I believed it.

So I'd say it's just an unsubstantiated rumor/misinformation getting circulated in the comment section from time to time, combined with the impression of HN having a "magic algorithm", so many believed it without any fact-checking. Also, the quick-moving nature of HN comments somehow created a confirmation bias that makes the idea appeared to be true.
+8 - 10% = only a 2% drop from yesterday's price! :)
Investors should be wary of stock-based compensation
Does the app store any data in their servers? I'm hardly obsessed with data privacy but I would never, ever, ever want my mental health data out there for some data scientist to play around with and manipulate.

Facebook knowing all the dumb crap I do on their platform really pales in comparison to the data privacy issues of an app. If I get a whiff of anything negative, I'm not using it. I'm suspicious already.
I 100% agree and am building https://boxci.dev to solve this problem for myself and I hope others too.

It's a CI service that lets you run your builds however you want, on any machine you want (cloud vm; in house server; your laptop) using an open source cli that just wraps any shell script/command and streams the logs to a service to give you all the useful stuff like build history, team account management, etc.

In other words, how you configure and run your builds will be up to you - scripts in the same repo, in another repo, in no repo - whatever you want, since you could just git clone or otherwise copy the source from wherever it is - there's no 1-1 relationship between the source repo and the CI, unless you want that. It'll be launching very soon :-)
> I'm finding people using ngrok... and all manner of questionable tools.

At least ngrok supports end-to-end TLS tunnels[0], where you use your own TLS key/certs and the ngrok server never sees plaintext (the ngrok client is also open source, so for the truly paranoid you can examine it to ensure it isn't doing anything nefarious).

But I agree... I've seen people at a company where I used to work pasting sensitive data into a public pastebin. It still hurts my brain to think about it.

[0] https://ngrok.com/docs#tls
The same thing it was expecting from Beyond: world domination.

(kidding)
? I’m sure there are easy Java jobs too. Microsoft is getting less sucky by the way. I haven’t heard Microsoft sucks for a long time now. Makes me nostalgic.
> so why would we try to apply the same policy?

To make the country as nice a place to live as possible.

Here is a concrete example. Look at the outmigration of California -- if there had been way less immigration, more people (that aren't descended from recent immigrants) would get to enjoy living in California, but instead it's too expensive and polluted, houses are really packed in together. Imagine how much nicer a place to live California would be if we had only admitted immigrants that can solve basic math problems.
I moved to NZ. Glad to get out of UK's weather and rat race.

Went to Hawaii for couple weeks one year ago. Experienced culture shock.

NZ is probably best place in the world.
I can't speak to SF, but here in Chicago, they have been gradually getting higher each year. I have consistently taken an Uber to work every morning for about 5 years now, and I used to pay $5-7 for the ride, but now it is $9-12.

I will say though, the huge benefit now is their rewards have a "price protection" [1] for some tiers that allow for a cap on that ride price, so I think it can no longer go above $10.99 or something. That has helped a ton from it getting higher. But that's only available for some of the higher tiers in their rewards program, I believe.

[1] https://help.uber.com/riders/article/price-protection-on-a-r...
I'm sorry, is that number supposed to be in any way impressive?

You can cut that number by a factor of 3, just by building apartment blocks instead of individual houses. It cuts down the heat loss area, and lets you install larger pumps that benefit from efficiencies of scale.

AFAIK, an average flat around the latitude of St. Petersburg uses ~300-500 kWh per month, or 3600-6000 kWh per year. And that's considering that most housing stock there was built in the 70s and 80s.

If we're talking top of the line insulation and a geothermal heat pump, the numbers should be way lower than that even. Not to mention that generally speaking living inside the Arctic circle is a giant waste anyway. You can't do agriculture there and it costs a lot to heat things. It should be reserved for research stations and temporary work establishments.
Where there's economic activity and opportunity that immigrants are drawn to, like you said, then that means there's an unmet demand for labor in the host country. A business that could expand, but isn't able to because it can't find workers.

Immigrants then spend the money they've earned which further stimulates the local economy and increases tax revenue for governments.

This basic reasoning is why economists are pretty united in the idea that immigration is good for citizens of host countries experiencing immigration, and real-world data has shown this over and over again.

The idea that immigration to the United States disadvantages citizens just isn't supported by evidence.
I think the price is great and you should keep it. It's the perfect solution for a teenager who really needs help but doesn't want to talk to anyone about it, and doesn't want to tell their parents.

I feel if something like this could ever be demonstrated to be as good as/almost as good as therapy, it should be run by a foundation with draconian data privacy rules and offered for free to everyone. This "make some programmers a lot of money and suddenly introduce us to a new future where we don't understand any of the implications of our new incentives" model is really getting tiring and often scary.
Don’t take VC money? They are a YC company. That ship already sailed.
I'm having a very hard time following your logic: Apple charges lots of money on commodity parts because they don't want users getting, as you say, "f'ed over"

There is a healthy after market ecosystem primarily because apple charges so much. Not the other way around.

Furthermore, in the video on the ifixit site, the blogger replaced the battery with a genuine secondhand apple battery and it would not recognize it.

This is predatory behaviour from Apple on its consumers.
Apple expands its bug bounty, increases maximum payout to $1M
I used to take Uber pools at around 4-5$ in San Francisco. Now it rarely is below 10$, which is too expensive for a service that is essentially very slow. Most of the time I go faster by walking or taking one of those electrical scooters.