skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I tried to watch it, but it just felt like a 'Bill Gates' public profile PR piece. Basically just espousing how great Bill and his family are and were at all points in history.
iOS 13 adoption at 10%
That probably closer to a best case scenario. A property predicted branch is still an extra instruction and a couple of entries in the branch target buffer and a global(?) history (I'm not really up to date on the newer perceptron predictors yet.

These are going to be limited resources so you'd rather not pollute them and make other branches predict wrong because they are aliases (shared) by many different instruction address.

Also, the fetcher can only get instructions in blocks and if there are multiple branches it will have to predict based on the first branch.

There is a lot of machinery in branch and branch the prediction because keeping the pipeline full of instructions is critically important for performance.

And while throuhput may not suffer much, the chances of increasing mispredictions in the hot path increase adversely harming latency.

These really need to be compiled out for release because you can't assume others can afford the cycles.
I have a greyhound. If she is not exercised enough she will find a way, but so far it’s cost me about $4500 in breakage. For instance she discovered making a kick turn at the end of the hall could lead to crashing through drywall, so then she tried to see how high on the wall she could crash through. Also she ran around the bedroom 56 times in a row, only stopping when the bed frame broke. But yeah, sleeps all the rest of the time.
> why the limit for 50000 filter rules in use at one time?

Eventually more rules will cause a performance impact.
How can you be so sure that every progressive at Google opposes this? Speaking only for myself, I support their unionization bid.
The whole movement started with the proposal of an extradition bill by the government which allows anyone in Hong Kong deemed guilty by the Chinese government (note: HK is not China yet) to be extradited to China for trial, even foreigners. Needless to say, people protested because the Chinese judicial system is a total joke (if you don't agree with this, I'm not going to argue with you, but the whole comment would be meaningless).

People protested peacefully at first, but the government didn't give in and sent the police and triads to beat up citizens instead. Many things happened since then, mainly involving police brutality, misconduct, and collusion with triads and the Communist regime (like allegedly deploying Chinese police and the People's Liberation Army disguised as HK police). Therefore, now it has become a protest for 5 demands, namely:

1. Complete withdrawal of the said bill (now it has been "promised" by the Chief Executive Carrie Lam, but given the track record of her people will only believe it when they see it)

2. Revoke the riot definition of the protests

3. Release and cancel all the charges on people arrested for this movement

4. An independent commission to investigate police brutality and misconduct

5. True universal suffrage on both the CE and the legislative council
Hardly. You betray an inability to focus on the more narrow issue in this comment thread. See my other comments if you want a defense of some of his work; I won't rehash mine and others' comments on the matter here if you can't be bothered to read the wider discussion. If you disagree with those, fine, that's okay, we can both reasonably have different opinions. But your claim that such are not presented, either by me or others, shows your own faults, not anyone elses.

The issue in this particular thread that I am addressing is much more narrow: that of content density and value. And on that front, it is you who have failed to present a cogent reply.
Thank you for the feedback. No, it does not evaluate its argument twice - see this test: https://github.com/sharkdp/dbg-macro/blob/f30cdda9fc5332e062...
lol. Good point. I would like to see everyone's list on what a 'skill' really means. It would make a good basis for a discussion.

a quick edit: It's a question that really began gnawing at my mind over the last few minutes. What is a skill?

To tell you the (highly likely) truth, I could probably take on the jobs the authors hold and do a perfectly acceptable professional job given a desk, a library, a phone, a web browser, and a five minute head start. Are they 'skilled'?
Nice answer and your response pretty much summarizes my theory:

"Eastern beliefs can escape these two points by saying the universe creates itself in a loop. Which still sounds tautalogical"

The universe in my opinion is a self-causal mathematical loop. If you believe in God - he escapes causality, which to me ... doesn't really meet the truth and beauty equations I'm trying to complete. The other scientific hypothesis is in the same boat: they formulate a theory based on an accidental beginning which forms according to a wave function which 'tries out all possible laws' - and the same theory comes to a stop when trying to answer the question: what is it that created the wave function?

I want to see other viewpoints to try to see if anyone else is as curious about this as I am - so I hope I'm shedding a light on what it is I'm asking for.
Nearly a year behind Google

https://cloudblog.withgoogle.com/products/compute/google-clo...
It amazes me how much consensus there is now about ORMs being an anti-pattern. I had figured this out over a decade ago; back then ORMs were so common and popular that even the most senior developers thought I was a fool.

There was literally no choice; I had to work for several companies which were using ORMs. I dealt with the reality of the industry by specializing on the front end.

Those were the dark ages for back end development.

Nowadays front end development has taken the lead when it comes to insanity; React, Babel, GraphQL, Webpack, CoffeeScript and TypeScript... All tools/frameworks which add negative long term value.

I switched back again to back end development a few years ago to escape the front end madness... But now back end development is also starting to degrade; pure functional programming and languages which transpile-to-JavaScript (to run on Node.js) are the latest diseases. Thankfully back end development is more fragmented and there is more room for different tools.

If this continues, I will have to give up on software development and switch to consulting; I will be forced to sell complex (but popular) tools which create problems for businesses and then offer to sell them a solution to solve some of the problems which I created. It's not a joke though, business people really are becoming THAT retarded.
I do too when using Android, but ideally doing that should be an option, not a requirement. Content blocking is base level browser functionality these days. Unfortunately Google’s position as an ad company will likely ensure that Chrome for Android will never see any form of content blocking, let alone full fledged extensions.
Google shouldn't wash their hands of this and claim ignorance. They are the ones contracting a service and should have a share of the moral responsibility. The same goes for Apple and Foxconn, or Facebook and their contractors, etc.

Knowing your partners are breaking the rules should put at least some moral pressure on them, if not legal. This is expected from you even as an individual (in situations like buying stolen items). It makes even more sense for companies since they have the actual power to shift this in any direction.
It’s worth noting that after the 1960s protests, Britain made laissez-faire policy official and economic growth skyrocketed, creating lasting social changes that were beneficial for boosting living standards.

To win the hearts and minds of Hong Kongers, Beijing needs to either give people the power to dismantle an economy strangled by property tycoons (e.g. electing a chief executive with actual power) or do it itself, and neither is permissible. China will never let a territory it controls have unfettered universal suffrage, and the mainland itself is turning into the conglomerate/tycoon economy that now restricts Hong Kong. Which is a great deal of irony for a party that started riots over working conditions in the 1960s.
"I also did not join in the Chrome bashing as I personally prefer the "security" of content blockers vs. extensions. (Tho, I trust my goto extension uBlock Origin just fine."

Interesting, as the uBlock Origin author is pretty clear that uBlock Origin for chrome will cease to exist if/when Chrome implements the manifest v3 changes that make it "Safari like".
Not just "just use 1Blocker", but isn't the mechanism 1Blocker uses functionally equivalent to the "old" mechanism? Whereas Chrome just turned it off without offering a different route to the same functionality?
And that's why we should have an aggressive tax scheme that covers income, capital gains, and estates and a process that is able to rapidly respond to loopholes.
Cool idea.

The filters could be better, ai also filters strings with "air"

Date filters would be cool. This year/month/week, last year/month/week etc.
"Once I've been a citizen long enough (i.e. paid enough taxes) I get to invoke my free year, which is a year where the government pays me enough to cover my bills and maybe a bit extra for projects and stuff."

I really wish people would stop saying "the government" in these scenarios. It's the taxpayers. Actual humans whose money is taken by force. Not saying it's a bad idea, just saying that we need to be thinking a lot more responsibly about the fact that this is money being taken from people who themselves would rather spend it on their own needs/dreams/business ideas etc.
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Grant agencies are able to enforce it (to some extent) when giving grants to R&D businesses. Through auditing and reporting.

If you're just blowing it all on holidays and fun, you're going to find it difficult to pass an audit for long. Maybe you'll have some fun for a while, but the grant tap will slow and eventually stop if you do that. Fraud charges maybe, if you push it.
Good, if unions can make it less appealing for Google to hire less temp, vendors, and contractors, they might hire more full time employees. There's already a chasm forming between TVCs and FTEs. It's only going to grow bigger.
Seems like you would just instantiate separate caches per customer if that's what you're looking for.
The cost was likely not enough to justify the product. Same basic reason anyone wouldn’t pay for something.
> obviously talented

The only "obvious" proof of talent that will convince anyone is having impressive accomplishments in a given field. Do you have any?
I can't help but find this article incredibly cringy.

Firstly, while I can understand some background info, I don't feel like her entire digital biography is needed to tackle this subject. Second, I can't help but think that her kids are acting the way they do as a response to their mother's behavior.

> They’d create formidable, indomitable avatars with vast powers and an absolute immunity to scams, trolls, and disinformation. Their avatars, one day, would heroically match wits with J.K. Rowling and Soledad O’Brien, or whatever luminaries would dominate Twitter in the future.

Am I the only one who thinks this is strange? What parent wants their kids to be some ... internet celebrity on the worst platform in the world? Seems kind of sad to me.

I have a feeling this woman is incessant and obsessed when it comes to technology and that her kids don't want to become their mother.
Appears to be implemented here.

https://github.com/denisidoro/navi/blob/master/cheats/networ...

I'd nitpick on the implementation, but the point is you can change it. :)
There has recently been a similar thread to spread research funds much more uniformly, rather than concentrated among “successful” researchers and “hot topics.” It was pretty convincing to me, and I wish I had the references.
It’s crazy to me how much weight the intelligence agencies seem to put on polygraph tests. Some enterprising huckster should sell them on some high-dollar phrenology gear.
I'm not the GP, but yes, absolutely. There are plenty of things that make this less than awful:

- The existence of tools that allow structured access to multiple APIs (GraphQL is a nice middle ground between "YOLO any queries you want" and "you only get row-by-row access exposed by the web APIs").

- The existence of data on multiple internal data stores. Analytics folks usually are not prepared to engage with the complexity of data being stored across handfuls or more of different stores with different schemas. The owner of the application knows how to join that stuff better than they do.

- Building intermediate/denormalized stores isn't frowned upon just because analytics shouldn't run ad hoc queries on the main production DBs. Expose change streams or bulk ("too much" data) endpoints and make it easy to load their results into a reporting system, which can be raw SQL. It's not redundant; if you don't do this, the following conversation starts to happen often: Q: "I'm running raw analytics queries on production and it's not quite working, can we just make $substantial_schema_change so my report works/is fast?" A: "No, we explicitly chose not to structure the DB/index/whatever like that because it seriously fucks up a real user access pattern."
The color associations are useless, they're not only varying with cultures, they're varying with individuals, but most importantly they vary in relation to other colors.

What's true is that that certain colors "harmonize" better with others, but little of value can be said about any one color in isolation.
That's why The Register headlines about Yahoo turned out how they did, with every single word gaining a "!". Which is now a trope in itself.
I love that video. It was a great little example video about dark patterns .. and then we get to the end and it’s got a freaking NordVPN ad (not ad network, but actually spoken). Hahahahahahahahahaha.
I don't think there's any kind of research that could possibly back up claims about the influence of color on something as brand perception. There is only "29 UCLA psych undergrads reacted 18ms faster to small red squares in comparison to small blue triangles on a monitor at 40cm distance in 2003".
Yes, HCL is one of the oldest Indian IT companies, the name stands for Hindustan Computers Limited. It would be very unlikely that they were contracting for janitorial services.
Why not just move to a content blocker?
On Linux, you can do something more robust that also supports IPv6 based on

ip -o a sh up primary scope global
The painfully obvious answer is that the work is low skill

No, that isn’t obvious at all. Well it probably is relatively low skill for programming - because it’s HCL - but the reason it’s that low because this is indentured labour. Wipro, Tata even IBM are all in the same game.
Discussed 35 days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20721736
I wouldn't rely too much on the attributes ascribed to each color, they really are dependent on the individual. This is obliquely admitted to when talking about cultural differences.

But I will say that color is hugely important to branding. If I see an ad I can instantly tell who it's from if the company uses consistent color choices.
An economist explains what happens if there’s another financial crisis
And on the contrary, it was rumored that Microsoft named Xbox One so that people would start calling it "the One." To my knowledge, this never worked, but instead "xbone" stuck better.
To counter your arguments, I'm going to use a couple of typical examples of when an in-house versus open-source / external debate comes up. I'm not counting the infamous "leftpad" cases, those are usually trivial, and really don't matter in the grand scheme of things. If it's a one-liner, just implement it yourself.

1. A high level database or queue lib, or a custom / powerful serialization lib or, relevant to this topic) an ORM or other foundational/low-level part of your tech stack.

What you can expect to happen is a bunch of very good programmers early on build powerful abstractions using macros, metaprogramming, advanced type system concepts and build up a codebase adding up to a few thousands of lines. It just works, it's a good system - a few bugs are patched by the team every month, but that's fine. Fast forward a few years, the programmers have moved on, "onboarded" the rest of the team to the codebase during their respective last week, but given how complicated the codebase is no one is really capable of debugging it and fixing issues. And given that it's not open-source, it never got an opportunity to build a community of contributors. Your team is now SOL, and it's going to take _months_ to replace it with a more well-maintained open-source solution.

2. Building a A/B testing implementation in-house - again a couple of good programmers build a working, scalable, basic system in a weekend. It actually works and the code is good, simple, readable and well-tested. But then, your PM team or your Marketing team wants you do add graphs. Then export the data to RedShift. And then tweak the algorithms powering the backend. Then multi-arm bandit. And so on. Now, what was now a weekend project, turns into months of work - whereas there exist paid services that do this for you.

Sometimes, it's unavoidable, external alternatives are genuinely not good*. But I strongly think, you have to be very, very careful about building systems in-house when they are not your business.

> I don’t mean to sound crass but how on earth could you think this is an example of Poe’s law.

Sorry for this. I do feel quite strongly against your original comment (at least the way it was written without context), and I think it's the _opposite_ of being a "responsible developer" in all but edge cases, and think you are wrong. But calling it an example of Poe's law was not right on my part, and was harsh.

> But if you’re going to be working with that application for years and years to come then I highly recommend trying to write your own code instead of relying on libraries.

I've done this, and have done both in-house and oss code, but in-house, very reluctantly - for example - when there's just one or two maintainers committing code, and there's no alternative. But even then, I have usually forked the code and used that or parts of that as the base, rather than starting from scratch
YMMV, but for me it feels like magic every time I use it. I can get things done in declarative way that would take a while in any programming language I know (and I'm a Clojure guy, so I value simplicity and conciseness).
One thing I learnt from playing walking dead - the game is that citizen will remember your decision.

New york time has the 1967 riot covered by interviewing a old lady in her 90s. And I think she mentioned a good point, is that power leads to corruption. So in general, how democracy work, how tools like tech like Telegram may lead to a leader-less way of governence, is quite interesting.

https://cn.nytimes.com/china/20190920/hongkong-north-point-1... (not sure if english version is available)
The cost of your unpaid time is often the most expensive thing.

Your time in Starbucks costs, at least, the sum of your home's rent or mortgage, food, and the laptop and phone you are using (and their occasional replacements when they break).

That can easily reach $10k by the time you've made a convincing prototype.
The self-taught guy probably has a lot more experience writing bigger things than the guy who only learned in school.
Money is just a useful abstraction to get economic exchange to happen more easily. So long as the money supply is vaguely in line with the demand for real goods and services the details don’t matter too much.
Thor Halvorssen Mendoza
Thor Halvossen Mendoza is a terrorist who have set up a fake "human rights" organization in Washington D.C. in the year of 2005. He is the cousin of Leopoldo Lopez Mendoza and relative to the billionaire Venezuelan Lorenzo Mendoza.

Thor Halvorssen Mendoza (children of an ex-CIA/DEA agent) is an Islamophobe, Russophobe, Sinophobe, neo-Nazi. In 2008 HRF hrf.org is declared by the United Nations Social and Economic council as a terrorist organization according to WikiLeaks cable "https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/08USUNNEWYORK516_a.html" where it is clear that Condoleezza Rice and the Bush administration lobbied the UN to give consultative status these terrorists.

Thor Halvorssen Mendoza's fake NGO received over $100 Million funding from Right-Wing neocons and recently they also started scamming people with Bitcoin in the name "of sending AID to Venezuela". Mendoza today advocating for regime change in countries which are enemies of the United States. Some call HRF a CIA front which is exactly what they are.

Video: "Garry Kasparov Unhinged! - His Human Rights Scam Exposed w/Thor Halvorssen" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhhyNm5rhHc

"Freedom Forum Caught White Washing U.S. Human Rights Violations" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nk8VEUHNn6k

Article: "Oslo Freedom Forum founder’s ties to Islamophobes who inspired mass killer Anders Breivik" https://electronicintifada.net/content/oslo-freedom-forum-founders-ties-islamophobes-who-inspired-mass-killer-anders-breivik/12451

"Meet Thor Halvorssen, Neocon Scam Artist Who Heads Bogus Human Rights Foundation" https://shadowproof.com/2015/09/28/meet-thor-halvorssen-neocon-scam-artist-who-heads-bogus-human-rights-foundation/

"The Making of Juan Guaidó: How the US Regime Change Laboratory Created Venezuela’s Coup Leader" https://thegrayzone.com/2019/01/29/the-making-of-juan-guaido-how-the-us-regime-change-laboratory-created-venezuelas-coup-leader/
I use other browsers for general browsing. I only use safari for specific tasks like shopping at sites I’m already familiar with
I have Pihole on my network doing DNS/ad-blocking.
I didn't advocate violence once. I did advocate democracy. I did advocate solidarity. I did advocate protest.

Revolution is not always violent and in fact is often not violent. Your reading of my comment as advocating violence is just your own projection.
This is not true. There are a large number of contractors working at Google, Facebook and other companies in engineering and other skilled roles. Their contracts are from 3 to 6 months long.

If you're in a bind and need a job, you get placed quickly by one of the firms supplying contractors to the large companies. Since you're in a bind, you accept making a lower salary, which ends up being around 60-75% of the base salary of a full-time employee without any of the other benefits of being full-time.
I'm not the parent you replied to, but I do trust uBlock Origin as well.

While I occasionally switch my browser I never ever browse without uBlock Origin. As far as I am able to evaluate, its author and sole administrator (goes by "gorhill") is very transparent and continuously demonstrates an aligned interest with myself as a normal web user.

...which is a quality I not always see with Mozilla and never ever assumed with Google Chrome product management.
The simple words that save lives
That car would have been more popular if you could tell, by looking at it, which end was the front.
I regularly get downvoted for pointing out that Saint Bill the Philanthropist refuses to acknowledge all the shitty behavior and the damage he left behind to earn him that fortune in the first place.
I had a recent request for a HIGH-level position at Google that was not an FTE... they're really pushing it now.
As a taxpayer I'm not interested in paying people to take a year off. If they want to do that they can save up their own money.
I do think it’s Google’s responsibility to ensure their suppliers are adhering to basic standards of decency, whatever Google thinks decency is. The government has nothing to do with that.

I don’t think the government should be adjudicating virtue, nor do I think companies can say “I outsourced that part of my product, so it’s not my concern how it gets made!”