skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Searching for code to reuse, call into, or to see how others handle a problem is one of the most common tasks in a software developer’s day

I don't disagree at all that this is how we code these days... but I distinctly remember a time when this wasn't so. We had to do everything ourselves. We engineered our solutions based on various requirements and constraints, and most importantly, we had to figure it out ourselves. The only external help we had was with the APIs we used... and they had to be studied to be understood.

Even in recent times, the most fun I've had programming has been when it's all come from my wee little head, rather than trawling for solutions and shoehorning/ reworking something similar.
If fully true, how terrible. If only partially true (or partially accurate), still terrible and confusing to know how to respond.
How you tackle all the extra text with AI on articles which should not be read.
> I should've also mentioned that some of my closest relationships are with people I almost never meet in person. The US is full of people who are close to their families, but only see them a few times a year.

I don't know man - there's something uncomfortable about the majority of our time being spent stuck to a computer. Even as a programmer being around and talking to others is a break from that.

Video calls will never be good enough.
Ask HN: How much would it cost to sell yourself out to a company like Palantir?
Why? A wise person, maybe. But a rational one? It all depends on what they're optimizing for.

Someone might "rationally" come to the conclusion that the output of their work is extremely important, so much so that they are willing to sacrifice everything else.
An alternate POV: you can sell boutique software as a means of getting paid to do initial iterations on an idea while simultaneously building out an impressive set of logos to slap on your site when you release an off-the-shelf version down-market to capture what the smaller companies are paying LOB/plugin devs to do.

The shop I'm at is in the first half of that, TBD whether it works out. Which is about as much anecdata as the OP has in support of their claim.

If I had to guess, I'd say the amount of consulting you're providing to your customers to supplement the software, or the gap between the process of using your software vs. just automating existing workflows probably has a lot to do with which approach is preferable.

The other note is that if you have a decent amount of domain expertise/networking, you can do the above and not take on VC funding. You may not eat the world but you'll do a hell of a lot better than most lifestyle startups.
They'll probably get us controlling with our mind, then reading it
That’s not the same thing - they could provide your IP to the site you visit in an added header or something without compromising your privacy from your ISP. That doesn’t imply they aren’t routing traffic to some websites.
Serverless React – Instant AWS S3, CloudFront, Custom Domain, SSL
Bitcoin and other digital cash systems that are bearer instruments would change this: if the 1st outgoing transaction is valid, one can't then defraud the bank of the same money. On the flip side, if a user falls for a phishing campaign and sends digital cash to a fraudulent 3rd party, that can't be reversed, either.
Chaining operator is likely to land. V8 has optional support for it and Babel has some plugins.

Pipeline operator has lots of quirks and syntax bikeshedding. I don’t think it may land.

Especially when you can make your own pipe(x,y,z) function quite easily. Just a guess though.
How information is getting cheaper – the potential of Information Communication
Hmm:

- Are variables allowed in the links?

- Can you set it as the default search engine for your browser so these can just be typed into the main search bar instead of going to the Zapmarks site each time?

Firefox's built in keywords already do great for this, and I have seen https://shortmarks.com/ for other browsers. What does your site offer that those do not? They are both free options.
Quite a bizarre story, what on earth is "transmitting a zero"?
The reason why Swift isn't being used more is that the Build and Integration team at Apple forbids the use of Swift for any project that has downstream dependencies. This is because Swift doesn't support sending out its symbols, meaning any Swift project has to be fully built and compiled before beginning compilation of any of its dependencies. They're getting a little more lax on it now but we've wanted to use Swift for years and are totally unable.
thanks for the detailed info
Assuming the AI work perfectly, it will only be as good as the circuit simulation it can do. Unfortunately, there are some many things the start-of-art circuit simulation software cannot do. I really doubt the claim the author made here.

Back in time around year 2000, Scientific American had published an article about using genetic evolution algorithm to create circuits. 20 years later, the same idea keeps pop up again and again, but no commercial product has really claimed they were generate by algorithm.
Frankly, we are already in our own virtual worlds, with our own thoughts and experiences. We all perceive reality differently and many of us can feel extremely alone even in the presence of those we love. I'm not sure this technology is going to emotionally isolate people even more than we already are.
Excellent questions, thank you!

1. We could log additional information about the model, such as inference time, number of parameters, memory usage, etc. and have the primary metric be overall efficiency (best NDCG with fewest parameters/fastest runtime/etc).

2. We're experimenting with different kinds of benchmarks, and I am most excited about explicitly collaborative ones. In these there is no contest/prize (hence no incentive to cheat/withhold information); only the shared goal of improving the model and our collective understanding of the problem. I hope we can incentivize information sharing by tracking and acknowledging individual contributions to the eventual best model in the benchmark. We could approximate individual contribution by seeing which scripts, code segments, workflows, architectural changes, writeups, or discussion comments other participants rate as the most helpful or choose to include in their experiments most often as the benchmark evolves. Of course this could only be an estimate--as Shawn says above, any idea could have "actually happened in a hallway conversation". Still, this is much easier to achieve in a logging/visualization platform like W&B than in the current paradigm of "read research papers, clone relevant repos, spend weeks trying to synthesize/reproduce their results, run your own experiments, write them up in a research paper, hope it gets accepted to a conference before other people publish the same idea, try to integrate your changes/publish your own repo, repeat"--and for hundreds of practitioners, ranging from brand new students to PhDs, working on related problems. This cycle is especially challenging for folks who are new to, working outside of, or trying to collaborate across the relatively few established/well-funded academic/industrial teams.

Collaborative benchmarks can be especially impactful for social good projects, where the primary incentive is to figure out and broadly implement the best solution ASAP (e.g. climate change!), not to make money or argue over the credit attribution. So, my long-term goal is for as much sharing of information and collaboration from as many folks as possible--the more inclusive and transparent the field of deep learning research becomes, the safer and better its outcomes. Very open to ideas on how to help make this happen.

~Stacey, deep learning engineer at W&B
S is a different body size entirely, and Model 3 has some more advanced tech (e.g. more power-efficient) until S refreshed. 3 is actually cannibalizing S sales.
Facebook purchasing Oculus felt like a weird move when it happened, and has gotten no less weird over time. It makes me sad, because if you showed this exact same product but called it, say, Disney Horizon or Nintendo Horizon you would feel so much more optimistic about where this could go.

What are these two companies really getting from one another? Whatever it is, I don’t think it’s working.
When it's impossible to avoid ambiguity in the parameters, you can just chose a function name that makes the ordering explicit:

copy_from_to(file from, file to)
I think that’s exactly what the nullish ?? Operator is.

You can write x ?? y

Which is x !== null and x != undefined ? x : y
Their only product is the digital equivalent of crack, it sells itself. Building something that doesn't intrinsically attract people is, more hard.
What Is Electromagnetism
Will politicians be able to use this feature?
The wipers wipe automatically when the camera detects rain on the windshield. If you want to do a window clean you just push the button on the end of the blinker handle on the left of the steering wheel. It's one of the few physical buttons of the 3.
Tesla owners are known to be willing put up with things other car owners aren't. I don't want to fool around with a touchscreen in traffic.
Nvidia really has the GPU market under their thumb. It would be one thing if their pitch was "We're not as good as AMD for games, but we've got CUDA for professionals and researchers!". At least that way there could be some sort of segmentation and I could tell people shopping for GPUs to "get the right one for what you want to do!"

But that's not the world we live in. Nvidia's pitch is "We make the only hardware that runs the framework used by almost all deep learning research and media creation software, and we're also the only folks operating at our level when it comes to high-end video game graphics, and if our high-end cards are too expensive for you, we have cheaper ones. And when our competitors start to think they can catch up, we'll drop RTX and Tensor Cores on their face."

AMD seems stuck on "We have great value middle-to-high-tier video game graphics cards" at best. I have no idea how they can get out from under that rock. They've been turning the CPU market upside down and smashing Intel's once proud "near monopoly" status. Nvidia seems like exactly the kind of prideful company that would be poised to fall, but I have no idea how AMD could make it happen.
What does he actually do at the gnu project? It was my understanding that RMS doesn't program anymore.
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|| short circuits on falsey. 0, “”, false, null, undefined

?? Short circuits on nullish. Only null and undefined.
narcissistic millennial
Palantir called me yesterday for a pretty senior position. I politely told them that they would need to pay me $500k just to talk to them, and they said they could probably make a $750k/year package.

I responded by sending the recruiter some doctored emails of Peter Thiel having sexual relations with a pig, and a copy of our constitution. He never responded, I don't know if I'm going to get the job.

Anyways, it makes me wonder. I used to believe that the people I worked with were generally ethically good people who stayed true to their own values, whatever they are. I told a friend of mine about this story, and he asked if I could refer him in, an that $200k was his sell-out number.

Personally a long series of tragedies in my life ensured I just don't give a $@$!$@! about money, and I have zero sell-out number.

What about you. Would you work for Palantir or an equally despicable company?
He would do well to acknowledge the controversy surrounding his recent exits--the people saying his resignations were a leap forward for tech. To ignore them lends them credence.
Maybe the real cards were printed on one side of paper and you folded it in half? I remember having a card like that, though it may have been for the Selective Service. Otherwise I would guess it's just a mistake.
> * "Privacy": I don't see this more private than the information contained on a driver's license.

Your DNA tells a lot more about you than the driver's licence.

Think about the next step: this time it's the police submitting false profiles. Next time it's your insurance agent checking for hereditary preconditions you may not even be aware about. Or your bank trying to assess if you'll live beyond 50 before they grant you the mortgage.

Without a proper regulatory framework all of that can happen without your knowledge and without your consent.

Does this not change the goalposts in privacy?
It's pretty funny how you imply I'm saying facebook is evil because it makes me feel good - pretty ridiculous statements in light of what I've actually said. I was just saying facebook is a business. It seems you have a lot to prove though. Sorry, I don't buy that "It was solely to see if we could make people feel less self conscious by decreasing social comparison" is the main goal. It seems like a pretty direct way of driving user engagement, seeing as you're literally removing an inhibitor of engagement.
There is a Tizen (Samsung) phone
do you have any suggestions for people like myself, who aren't interested in or are not capable of building their own proprietary static site generator? Any tools that meet similar needs to those that gatsby meets that you would recommend and why?
The scary part is that you have to be this active to prevent false charges.
Time to donate to gnu!
Great list! Do you have an official source we can reference?
One feature not mentioned in this article is that BTRFS (and some other file systems) supports transparently compressing files. It's another (very important) reason why the actual number of bits the file contains might not be how much of your disk space the file is actually using.
Same. No Ryzen :(
All manufacturers should converge, and the most common standard now is CCS so logically and practically that's what should be used.

It's fine for Tesla's to use adapters, but it would be better to just accept the reality that the timing didn't work out and join the group rather than waiting for the group to change (which at this point won't ever happen).
dont give them ideas
You might have grandchildren
> "Like" was turned into "algorithmic retweet". Now I can't like a tweet without some percentage of my followers seeing it. This is also a problem when I follow others. I can disable seeing their retweets but I can't disable seeing their likes. I've had several people tell me that they unfollowed me because of tweets I liked. I've done the same to others.

G+ had this too, and I also got threats of being unfollowed if I didn't stop liking things. (I could turn it off in my settings, though, but I liked to use reshares to add comments and +1 to reshare without comment.)

Ultimately what the social networks never delivered on were the true concept of areas of interest. You should be able to follow someone's interest in a certain subject, and then like things in that context. That way if someone is following you for your programming content, they don't have to read the anime reviews that you like, or whatever.

It never happened. I think social media is a dead thing now. You can use it to snipe at political figures and promote products for money. That's about it.
Ransomware is big enough news that I don't think that's true even for very non-technical users.
I'm using Ghost + Gatsby for my personal website / blog [1].

[1] https://www.ronaldlangeveld.com
Costco is a membership store so they have the right to condition your membership on showing the receipt at the door, but at Fry's you can walk right past the door checker if you wish and they have no right to detain you as long as you haven't done anything illegal (like steal an item) since private citizens (like store security) has no right to detain you.
> JSX code is hard to debug, because the code that is really executed is generated at runtime, so it is not possible for example, to put a breakpoint in a JSX file from your text editor and start a build with Node running in debug mode

I don't get it, is this some Gatsby limitation? I've been debugging JSX since the dawn of time with breakpoints, even with SSR and typescript
And thank the maker for noise cancelling headphones.
I dunno how I would survive open plan office hell without it.
A comparison to Rec Room or VRChat would make much more sense and be way more fitting to support your argument.
Who called it "The alternatives to privatisation and nationalisation" and not "Guy Standing on the common."
Azure API Management Update–September 2019
Depends entirely on workflow. A lot of shops will have all of their stuff on a 10G NAS share, so you’re actually forbidden from copying to and from your computer because it’s just stupid and sometimes slower to do so.
Correct. The author would be screaming "cultural marxism"[1] if that anti-semitic conspiracy theory wasn't already discredited.

The facts of this piece are pretty specious here as well. Boris Chicherin, for example, died in 1904, well before Lenin came to power.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurt_School#Cultural_Marx...
The Unix/Linux command line is unfortunate like this; the cp/mv/ln commands would be better off with the destination specified specially. For instance gnu cp allows the syntax

cp -t <dir> <source...>

Which is good because it makes it similar to most other commands.

It would be unfortunate to mandate it though; it would be unfortunate for an `option` to be mandatory.
It leaves a bad taste in my mouth how quickly people will let one bad cluster of comments negate a man's entire life work. I have already outlined my opinions on this matter elsewhere but I still hope this incident doesn't ruin RMS.
Sure, adding meetings that affect the whole team instead of addressing someone's lack of communication is the way to go.
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At least that can be determined to be buggy without checking the documentation of CopyFile
Care to elaborate? In what regard?
This feature in many ways reminds me of shadowvoting on HN
Global Crisis and Consumer Psychology
He did post an apology on his personal website but it wasn't particularly strong I guess
Isn't that the question posed by Black Mirror's Waldo episode?
Is the browser safe against tracking?
.NET Framework September 2019 Preview of Quality Rollup
Mmm, I think I was going for "lots of things cannot be understood completely by appearance, it is not unique to humans"
Perhaps that no one in your circles will use. To hundreds of millions of people around the world, Facebook is the internet. They are the target market.
I don't get it. Did he just proclaim this to the world without provocation just after lunch?

Also, Chief Gnuisance gives me all these feelings of nostalgia for my teenage years spent learning to compile the Unichrome Linux driver to play Unreal Tournament on a Via VT8378. All that silly nonsense about GNU's Not Unix.

I'm glad the right culture for software was set up back then. It could have gone so many other ways.
Millicode
Google's info box for giant octopus confirms right away that, yes, they too live for 3-5 years.
Around the time of the parent comment, 12 years ago, Facebook was eating everyone else's lunch.

Friendster was dead, Myspace was in decline (mainly because FB opened up to everyone besides college students), nobody I knew in the USA used Hi5 or xing.

Flickr, meetup, and IRC existed and still exist but they were never the primary social network for the "younger and cuter" college crowd.

If you wanted to connect with your cute classmate 12 years ago, it was almost certain she had a Facebook. It would no longer be certain today.

I actually miss the 2007-era Facebook. No likes, no timeline algorithm, no shares/reposts made for a fun experience at the time.
Setting HTTP Header Attributes to Enable Azure AuthN/AuthZ Using HTTPRepl
Maybe Sea Org can have it
Announcing the Xamarin and Azure Functions Challenge
More detailed explanation:

The What and Why of System z Millicode (Bob Rogers, IBM Corporation, 2012):

https://share.confex.com/share/119/webprogram/Handout/Sessio...
Integrate Linux Commands into Windows with PowerShell and the WSL
Actually, this is false. IIRC, it seems that most women on OkCupid considered 80% of men under-average, but still messaged them. Which is strange to say the least.
> Which was: of course you can take your municipal government to court over how they dole out stalls at a market they run.

In the US, sure, you could sue them because the manner they did that:

(1) discriminated on a basis prohibited to government under the Constitution,

(2) violated some binding regulation of a superior level of government,

(3) violated a promise made by that government that you reasonably relied on to your disadvantage.

Similarly, for a private entity doling out market stalls, you could sue for the same reasons, except #1 becomes “...on a basis prohibited to businesses open to the public”. And with a private entity, there's no issue of whether governmental immunity applies to your suit.
He makes decisions about software. It’s the same position as Linus or Rossum.
Ah I thought the parent comment meant that only humans dreamt.
It can, manually (as it can for a non-destructured object), but it has no typing guarantees - the function will still happily be interpreted and run as long as _any_ object is given as an argument.
Well, it certainly is technically possible.

> it's really surprising how powerful GPUs have gotten. Improvements over the last few years have been very nonlinear

These improvements did not come at fixed cost, though. Prices for top-of-the-line GPUs have been increasing (as well as die sizes, power consumption, and manufacturer margin).
Together with Moore's law, that already brings nonlinear improvements, the available computation power has increased a lot.

However, those GPUs are very expensive. Most people just can't afford them. And if few people can afford them, it's hard to justify paying a whole army of developers (like AAA game studios) to bring that kind of experiences.
I would imagine so. As long as you don't block people (so they can't see your stuff when logged in, or reply under that handle), I don't think there are any potential legal issues. They can say anything they want, and anyone else can see anything anyone said (if they click through to see it). So it's a minor inconvenience, but I don't think this presents the same issue as blocking others.
[2016]

Still cool though!
Yep. Damn thought police.
It wasn't an apology, but regret.
Show HN: Templatify.io – HTML to Pdf API
You can do that in c#, though an IDE like Rider can also display it like that when no label is provided, or insert the labels, depending on your preference.
Yet another pdf api. But also lets you to manage templates outside your project for easier modification without changing application code. Might be useful for mobile applications and cloud functions.
You don't need expensive hardware to do better than glossy pastels, at least for desktop gaming. I don't know what the requirements are for VR, but even turning modern games down to low/medium settings can still look pretty stunning if you haven't gamed in a while.

This reminds me of higher-res Mii's from the Wii, which was dated tech even at the time.

That said, the most important thing people should be asking is: is it fun? Because if you aren't gonna go super realistic then you had better nail the gameplay (Nintendo or Blizzard style).