skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Technically that's not wrong, but Cyprus is an EU and Eurozone country.

Why not just say "Cyprus" rather than using the "Middle East" appellative?
You say "For one year" but you don't say what that means. I don't know if it's avilable for download for a year, that it keeps syncing for a year, or if you retain license to the design and I can use it without paying you for one year even if I say make a PDF of it and edit that going forward. So some terms and conditions, as annoying as they are, would be helpful, since I don't actually know what I'm buying here. I think you do know.
This project has similar goals to the MLIR project:

https://github.com/tensorflow/mlir

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzljG6DKgic

Exciting times for the future of parallel computing!
Emu craze gone, but stories remain
I saw a performance comparision with XLA, and it's interesting that Weld is faster, because XLA is supposed to optimize the code using the known tensor sizes during compile time.

Weld and XLA seem to have similar optimization steps though.
I'm worried about advertising itself.

I believe pervasive, omnipresent advertising is bad for society, even if it's native, and even if it respects people's privacy. Even in the real world, if there was some way of blocking billboards or posters on the subway, I'd be all for it. I really don't like companies inserting themselves into my life without my permission.

I don't know how typical that is -- almost certainly people like me are a minority, but I suspect that there's a non-trivial number of people who feel the same.
I think ads provide a business model without which many online services won't survive.

And indeed there's the privacy angle, however... (1) laws like the GDPR are far more effective at fighting that and (2) ads don't have to actually do personalisation to work and indeed, now that GDPR is in, in the EU many publishers are turning to less intrusive advertising.

I also think many users block ads for reasons unrelated to privacy.

As proof, whenever a new restriction happens for a free service without ads, you only need to witness the outrage, like for example when Dropbox limited its free service to sync with only 3 devices, or when OneDrive lowered the storage provided on its free tier, etc. Also witness, for all the bitching and moaning about privacy issues, how many people here are still using a @gmail.com address.

Truth of the matter is many people want to eat their cake and have it too. Most people just wants free stuff without any inconvenience. and it's hard to take them seriously.

Don't get me wrong, I'm using an ad-blocker myself. However I'm also paying for the content I'm consuming whenever I can, if it has any value to me. I happily pay for YouTube Premium for example, also for Fastmail, Dropbox, Newsblur and others.

So how do I feel? I'm feeling fine to be honest.
In German, speaking in different registers actually changes the verb grammatically. Kanst du vs Können Sie vs Könnten Sie.

Could you (low register to someone of equal or lower status) vs Could you (medium register to someone of higher status) vs Might you (highest register to someone of higher status). In English I had to change to a different verb, non grammatically. In German these are all the same verb with a different rule applied.
Pension, more then two weeks holiday, and 9am-5pm workdays sounds like a normal working conditions for an employee?
Isn't any blanket (and negative) statement about any race racist?
If you use the word energy in the sense of I don't feel that energetic today, ie as a mental state then that's not so bad. Obviously it doesn't make sense for energy in the joules sense.
> Setting economic policy based on fighting 1970's inflation battles instead of accepting the evidence that the US economy is finally near or at full employment by sustaining a low interest rate environment contrary to evidence and experience. Full employment is good for workers and less-good for asset owners.

You can always point to numbers that are supposedly good (such as questionable government-issued employment statistics) and I can always point to numbers that are bad (the PMI, the Russell 2000, the unprecedented levels of sovereign and individual debt).

If the economy really was that great now for people on main street, why is Trump losing approval among the people that voted for him to fix this exact issue?

> Governments can borrow money to build infrastructure that make people's lives better, I don't know how you can dispute that this policy option exists or say that it "doesn't work that way" when you know, governments do that stuff all the time. When in doubt, and you have low interest rates, build a sewage treatment plant!

I'm not against emergency measures by any means, but the tendency with governments is to make the emergency measure of today the status quo of tomorrow. This idea that you can spend yourself wealthy at the national level is just as flawed as the idea of trickle-down-economics.

Sure, in the short term, debt-financed government programs can stimulate the economy, but that debt has to be paid off. You have moved demand from the future into the present. It will be missing from the future, because money spent on debt service cannot be spent on anything else. That is unless you don't pay off the debt, or you erase it through inflation, in which case that is still money missing from someone's pocket, and it's not just foreign pockets - most US debt is internal. It's also not going to be the rich guys' pockets, because they saw it all coming and bought up all the hard assets already.
Ask HN: What Are the Big Problems?
I'm leaving this open-ended, there's no specific criteria for responses.

I'm interested in both your list and the reasons why. Submitting your list before reading other's contributions would be preferred.

Optionally: who is (or isn't) successfully addressing them. Individuals, organizations, companies, governments, other. How and/or why not?

I've submitted this question previously to HN (most recently over three years ago), and ask it periodically on several forums for seven years now.

I've written fairly extensively on my own views, reasonably findable if you wish, but my interest here is in gaining fresh input, resetting my own biases, and not colouring the discussion overly myself.
> bypass the 50k limit

> when Apple rolled out the new Content Blocker API, it enforced a maximum limit of 50,000 rules for each new extension that wanted to block content inside Safari.

Check again? You're probably thinking of how classic extensions used to work.
No, this is an anti-pattern that appears like a smart idea. The government is where the enforcement of workers' rights needs to happen. The problem with the "pay with your wallet" thing is that there are lots of unscrupulous companies without the public visibility that Google has and all you'll do is push this into the shadows.

Maintaining minimum worker rights is government responsibility because there is no incentive in any direction. It's just the job of government to maintain law.
maybe this is an ignorant question, but why do people always cite GC latencies in seconds? is there an implied reference machine where the latency is 300ms? I would expect it to vary a lot in the wild based on cpu frequency and cache/memory latency. is there some reason why this doesn't matter as much as I think it does?
I wonder if mattermost has the APIs to support this. Good suggestion, I'll take a look at this!
not sure about holography, i think one can imagine how an electron beam modulated surface (or may be volume) can say change laser direction thus providing kind of non-mechanical scanning in a lidar for example. Though it sounds like a last century approach. These days i'd bet on something like nanotube channeling the beam and say flexing in response to the field.
Many of the things that he is doing also have huge political implications.

From the U.S. that isn't obvious. Some wealthy guy can dole out cash but the system is stable, so that is fine. Outside of the U.S. the opposite is true. Wealthy guy comes in and starts handing out cash, and that occurs within a political context (which is often the issue: these places often don't lack money or tech, what they lack is stable politics). Even something as simple as building hospital or a library is huge politically (i.e. what contractors and suppliers you choose).

Given Gates' record for disregarding law, there should definitely be far greater oversight from home governments. One cautionary tale is Soros in Russia: he believed, even after he worked out that Yeltsin was horribly corrupt, that he could keep donating to "neutral" causes...this turned out to be quite wrong (as Soros has admitted). And Soros is many times smarter than Gates about these issues, and at that time was choosing donations personally (I have not heard great things about the "disciples" that Gates has on the ground).

Again, this is really something that Gates should not be in a position to do. You can't just outsource foreign policy to wealthy people.
More[1]:

> In Grayson County, near Sherman on the Oklahoma-Texas border, authorities finally had to hire an official emu wrangler last summer. ¶ "We sent out our cowboys after the first emu, and that emu whipped our cowboys pretty bad," Chief Deputy Waldrip said. "The cowboys said, 'We quit.' We realized right quick we weren't set up to deal with this."

1. "Texans unnerved by roaming emus". https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1998-02-15-19980460...
would be nice if we had something similar for C...
What do you mean 'rationalize their weaknesses'? I ask because it sounds like you're propounding a 'lose-lose' strategy.
Use almost no govt resources....this is the problem. They use a ton they just don't realize it.
The FAA to keep the planes in the air, FDA to keep food and medicine safe, Law enforcement to keep the streets safe, Roads, etc and on and on.....

Americans are spoiled and don't realize how much the government does for them.

For a truly low govt society they can move to various third world countries.
I think you may have taken my comment out of context. I was replying to the OP when they said:

"One can be pro-organizing but not pro-union."

My understanding is the OP Was looking at it through the lens of a worker.

My comparison was meant to say I support someone's initiative to have something put up for a vote, but that doesn't mean I will vote for it. I could have been plainer in the explanation.
People who dont hate freedom /s
I’m not critiquing Bill Gates’s decision to influence the public’s perception of his legacy. I’m commenting on how absurd it is to consume what can be considered propaganda and seem to come out the other side with more “respect” for the subject without the awareness that the whole point of the “documentary” was to do exactly that.
Then why enforce the same limit for the iPhone 6s and a top of the line (i)Mac Pro?

The elegant solution would be to start with a sensible preset for your device, allow you to change it if you want, and then warn you if some noticeable delays are detected. IE used to do this with addon loading.
Your statement right there is racist as it assumes a general trait across all white men, not just the ones guilty of it. It's the same as saying all black men are bad fathers (because stereotype). Both are hideously racist statements.
$10B seems cheap. Hinkley Point C is currently estimated at $25B.
Fitbit reportedly looking for buyer after slashing 2019 revenue forecast
Lawyers and accountants become partners in their firms and are incentivized to work towards the long term health of the firm so younger lawyers will buy in and they can retire and continue to enjoy the profits of the firm.

What do Civil, mechanical, electrical, non-software Engineers have as a career path? None are in upper management. Maybe you get some stock options? You certainly don’t get to be in charge unless you start your own small, fledgling engineering company and then the chances are you only work on small projects since you aren’t big enough to sue if anything goes wrong you can’t get big contracts.

Hoping someone can shed some light on another path for career professional engineers.
> Investors were pleased by the news of a potential sale

Well I guess no one cares about the customers.
Is RAII in C a serious suggestion being made anywhere?
"mostly illegal" - you have to elaborate that, you make it sound like Microsoft as a whole was illegal, which is obviously ridiculous.
There is no general answer to this question.
Frame latency, timing and synchronization is a difficult subject.

Some games are double or triple buffered.

Rendering is not always running at the same frequency as the game update.

The game update is sometimes fixed, but not always.

I've had very awful experience with GC in the past, on Android, the game code was full C/C++ with a bit of Java to talk to the system APIs, I had to use the camera stream.
At the time (2010) Android was still a hot mess full of badly over engineered code.

The Camera API was simply triggering a garbage collect about every 3-4 frames, it locked the camera stream for 100ms (not nanoseconds, milliseconds!)
The Android port of this game was cancelled because of that, it was simply impossible to disable the "feature".
No but it would get somewhat better. You also need great education, a respect for science (rather than superstition), political stability, and good infrastructure. Right now that doesn't exist, but unionization could help it along. Fewer warlords would also help.
Sadly with the current US health care system not having enough money for hospital visit may easily mean the loss of life.

The only difference with airplanes is that it's much more visible, which means that it's harder to cheat.
If you have some source about the efficiency advantage, could you please share?

I only ever read that hypothetically it could be more efficient but never stumbled upon actual measurements/benchmarks.

Also, extension adblockers are already so efficient that I would doubt there is a perceptible difference.
I agree with you. For what it's worth, I work at Intel in Oregon. I would be interested in joining a union if that were an option.

I suspect that tech industry work is sufficiently different from most other kinds of work that the optimal union might be somewhat different than unions that currently exist.

Some questions we would need to work out:

What do we want the union to advocate for? Pay and benefits are the usual ones, but what about cube/office size, cube wall height, noise levels, access to dual monitors, freedom to use any editor, 20% time to work on projects outside your usual scope of work, public credit for work, ability to open-source work, a ban on draconian intellectual property agreements, and so on...

How do we prevent the union from being co-opted by leadership that isn't representing the workers well, or is neglecting the needs/desires of some minority of members?

How do layoffs work? Job security through seniority doesn't seem good for productivity or morale, but if management can lay people off for arbitrary reasons then it can create excuses to lay people off for union organizing.
Since it is usually way, way more than $1,000 to replace a catalytic converter I think your point is completely off-topic.
> Everybody thinks his business is different, because everybody is the same. Nobody. Is. Different. [from a wall street analyst about Boeing]

This in a nutshell represents the core failure of modern managerial thinking. What started as "scientific management" many decades ago, an attempt to systematically understand how corporations should operate, quickly evolved into a group think belief that management could function as fungible & completely replaceable units of work-- that a "manager" could be trained up in various basic principles and plugged into any role

There are of course commonalities across businesses, and commonalities across managers for necessary skill, but each business is, in some core, fundamental way, different from others. Good management of a company doesn't following a paint-by-numbers rule book, it requires deep understanding of the particulars of that business, the market & industry it operates in.

I think this is changing, slowly, but the legacy of this flawed thinking is a long one.
You're right, this is a good discussion! Unity introduced an incremental GC that splits the work over several frames, essentially performing an entire sweep "for free"

https://blogs.unity3d.com/2018/11/26/feature-preview-increme...

I have mad respect for all using low level C / Assembly / Rust in gamedev. But I have a hard time recommending anything other than C# / Unity for secondary school 14-15 year olds just starting their journey. The wealth of resources, tutorials and community online is astounding. And as an entrypoint into VR / AR it's difficult to top ;)
Very much to the contrary, why go over the network to get a value from a key-value store when you can have a mutex protected map that only hods the values that where accessed by that node. The "lets have a shared memory between our services" architecture makes things easy only to make it much harder again.
> If you have a garbage collector that runs in 200us

The problem is GCs for popular languages are nowhere near this good. People will claim their GC runs in 200us, but it's misleading.

For example, they'll say they have a 200us "stop the world" time, but then individual threads can still be blocked for 10ms+. Or they'll quote an average or median GC time, when what matters is the 99.9th percentile time. If you run GC at every 120 Hz frame then you hit the 99.9th percentile time every minute.

Finally, even if your GC runs in parallel and doesn't block your game threads it still takes an unpredictable amount of CPU time and memory bandwidth while it's running, and can have other costs like write barriers.
I have no problem with H1B visas in the union as long as everyone is working for the same entity, why wouldn't they be welcome. Unions are to be inclusive, not exclusive, there are strength in numbers. Sometimes it's the only way to face down the money grubbing people running a company.
How is this different from a clinician who has to diagnose autism without even such a handy instrument.
Chrome did not introduce any limitation yet and it’s gonna take a while before they do it (they only started showing part of Manifest v3 changes in canary versions). So nothing changes for forks of Chrome for now.
From my experiences with psychedelics and ketamine I have come to the conclusion that the answer to this question is probably too profound and weird for the current human brain to grasp (if there even is an answer). So I try not to think about this too much and just focus on struggling through my life.
Very bizarre there is no discussion of numba here, which has been around and used widely for many years, achieves faster speedups than this, and also emits an LLVM IR that is likely a much better starting point for developing a “universal” scientific computing IR than doing yet another thing that further complicates it with fairly needless involvement of Rust.

https://numba.pydata.org/
Here in Poland (where we have universal, state-provided health insurance), there are relatively few office admins, but the paperwork still needs to happen (perhaps less than in the US). The health care providers need to diligently fill it out in order to get paid by the state-run insurance. And since the doctors don't get admin help, they have to fill out the paper work themselves, which is a giant misallocation of their skills...
Being malicious will not take you far in life. Seek better objectives.

Think about how much worse Amazon is too
Unions are as much about fairness as "more money". People genuinely want better work conditions, better hours, and better benefits just as much as "more money".
>>Nobody does this.

I disagree - I work at a AAA games studio and we're currently building a little project made entirely in C. Not even a hint of C++. This is probably going to end up being just a little research thing in the end, but don't think that no one does this anymore.
Though he has pledged to give away his fortune. So far he has given out $35billion. On things like curing malaria, as opposed to buying self-portraits and NFL memorabilia. I’d say his behavior is the text book definition of great.
Ethical or not people look for alternatives if they feel the cost is too high.
Genome of 5000-year-old woman links modern Indians to ancient civilization
I only know a couple of WeWork employees and they are totally divorced from any of this.

Its a mixture of not following any financial publications, not understanding financial terms and thus the memes, seemingly no emphasis on IPO at work (this I find harder to believe, maybe the word is mentioned but its white noise if the financial literacy is really that low), and then sprinkle the “cult of CEO” where everyone pretends to be there for the vision instead of 15 months.

The margin call is going to be a rude awakening.
Or, you play by the rules and your old code continues to just work. Might not be optimal, but at least it will run. Your customers will thank you . . . well, we all know they won't, but they won't be speculating about your ancestry in public forums.

I don't remember how many Mac applications were '32-bit clean' and ran without modification when VM was turned on. I do know that some apps had to do significant rework, and that there was a whole generation of abandonware where developers didn't think it was worth the effort and just walked away from their customers.
ACM Code of Ethics
IIRC traceroute was how I originally looked it up locally. I posted the link for convenience. Perhaps I misinterpreted the results, though.

I'll have to take your word for it that the Russian IP address you use does not mean you have a server there. Thanks for the explanation.
All these hacks just illustrate the fact that money is a social construct.

It's funny to watch the block chainers come to this realization too. "Bitcoin is hard money! Finally we have an 'objective' currency!" ... then someone forks the chain and makes a new coin. Now there is twice the "money" in circulation, with holders on the old chain now also holding some other coin in the forked chain.

But what about gold? Why is it that we find a certain non-reactive yellow metal so valuable? Answer: because we have implicitly agreed to do so. If we all decided gold was worthless as money its value would collapse to something more on par with its value in terms of its industrial uses. Right now it trades far above that because we like to stockpile it in warehouses and use it as a large-scale "store of value" to back currencies and stuff.
If you need to ask other people's advice, then it's probably not ok, because you're already questioning it yourself. The problem is that there's a part of your psychology that wants to ignore any 'moral' issues for some reason. Money and self-status are the two most common reasons I can think of that makes us want to go ahead with a project that others would prefer be left alone.

Specifically, you used the word "harm" which implies that you understand that your actions can actually harm others. I'd give that a solid - "don't do it". Love thy neighbor, brother.
yes, went to a march and listened to demonstrations at the end.
Interestingly, in the US, legal cannabis prices are usually more than double those on the black market because they’re taxed extremely heavily.

Granted, users of cannabis aren’t* usually as captive as those on opioids, but the issue remains that legality may not provide the price change desired.

* Edit: corrected typo on mobile.
As I was reading and reached:

> To be clear, I’m not a journalist, nor a forensic accountant.

Forensic accountant?? That reminds me of Snow Crash:

> When she says, "Do you have any relatives in Afghanistan?" that's like a code phrase, it tells all of her spook gear to get ready, shake itself down, check itself out, prick up its electronic ears.