skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I don't believe that you making an argument in good faith here.

You always claim people are making "bad faith" arguments when you get called out and owned. It's a poor, thinly veiled response that everyone sees through. Annatard claiming "bad faith" translates to: "REEEE!!! I got owned, let me start foaming!"

>It's neither slow

Yes, it objectively and statistically is, as shown in pretty much any test/metric ever in the past decade or so. I even linked examples to which you have no retort.

>nor do I live in the past: illumos is being very actively developed and not only does it beat Linux in everything, it has more features

WRONG! It's nowhere near as actively developed as Linux (there are Linux sub-components that are more actively developed than illumos), and it can't beat Linux in anything, and has LESS features. illumos still doesn't have GPGPU support last I remember... nor does it have PCI passthrough in 2019... IOMMU? LOL!

>Brendan has gone rogue after a fallout and is not to be trusted. He became a hostile witness the moment he abandoned the illumos movement and gave into trend-pandering because of what vast majority is running. Anyone pandering to trends has no credibility as far as I'm concerned. I don't care if it were Scott McNealy himself: you start advocating for a piece of shit technology like GNU, Linux, or GNU/Linux, I'm done with you. It's not up for discussion.

Are you seeing your doctor about your delusions? You need to seek help. Gregg specifically outlined exactly why Linux has won, and again, aside from your delusional dribbling, you have no retort.

>Correct on both counts! What do you know? Yes you had to get special switches and equipment while I completely saturated an entire switch with a piece of junk DELL, and here comes the kicker: running Solaris 10 for i86pc... without any tuning whatsoever!

Is this even English? Pure nonsensical dribbling. You could never saturate an entire switch with illumos, even with tuning. Linux outperforms illumos/Solaris, and it has for years.

>I'd rather drop dead.

I can't imagine saying something this autistic in 2019.
So the argument would be "they tried it in Taiwan and it ended up with all the problems opponents predicted it would have, so we have to reproduce it in California"?
Having HSR is not a goal. It's a tool. The goal should be having efficient (both monetarily, time-wise and people suffering wise) means of getting people from point A to point B. If California spends $100b of taxpayer money and doesn't get closer to the goal - that means every single person in California just because couple of thousands bucks poorer just so somebody could be proud of California having HSR. Thanks but no thanks.
Hi HN'ers,

This is my round up of last week's privacy and technology related news.

Hope you enjoy it :)

Nick
Don't forget the file system and how locking by a rogue program can stop your build (and your workflow) until you figure out which program has a handle to the file you want to rebuild. The lack of scriptability of most tools. The perpetually behind C++ compiler. The lack of a proper terminal. The fucking ads. The broken updates. The relentless ratchet to control your machine and how you use it.
Is there a Sprint mobile network outage?
I'm a boost mobile customer and haven't received any texts today, and cannot send any. I can't use 2FA for multiple services that I need to. Are any other Sprint customers seeing this today? Does anyone have additional outage information? https://downdetector.com/status/sprint/map/
I really, really like Kanban as well. Seems the hardest part is selling it to upper management.
> I think the best thing we can do at this point is to agree to disagree

I would say yes to this except for your parenthetical there. Reading that, I think we're finally on the same page.

> unless it merely duplicates a set of measurements that could just as well have been made locally, in which case the excercise would have been pointless

Yes, it does duplicate the measurements that could have been made locally. But to whoever is writing the proof it's easier to use them in the 'remote galaxy' form. So it's not pointless. It's a critical part of that particular proof.

So with that noted down, I think everything is resolved?
https://github.com/iamadamdev works good in Chrome. I haven't tried Firefox.
The complaint is that the tech mega-corps are too big and should be broken up. Then they wouldn't distort markets (among other things) by dumping free products subsidized through ads on them, only to forget about said products two years later.

Regarding your specific interpretation:

1. The product was developed for internal use AFAIK, then released externally.

2. Google is getting something out of this: a PR boost, better engineer retention and the engineers feel good about themselves.

3. All these projects not only don't become standards, but they just add to the pile of things one has to learn because there are still too many people that are fawning over anything published by FAANG.
I heard one person say that reading a novel is the only time most people would engage with something that has a complex logical/abstract structure. Must people in their daily lives would not do anything like research or engineering work.
Oops, sorry for that. I don't have a browser that supports dark mode, so I just tried something that I thought may work. Then I changed some CSS earlier this morning that probably messed something up.

I'll try to fix it as soon as possible.
> 100 plus people to port Skype in 16 months.

To all employers out there: if you put me on a project with a hundred others to port a wee VOIP front-end to another platform, I too can get it done in a year and a half.
At this point I just assume anywhere else in the world have better pubtrans than anywhere in the western US.
Netflix and HBO Pirated on TeaTV Supported by Ads from Pandora, BET+ and TikTok
You have no idea of what poverty and misery are.
Simple types are by value, objects are only by reference - feel free to verify in your friendly local debug console.

More than that, assignment of an object is also only by reference which is super useful and great potential for spaghetti code at the same time.

How it is implemented under the hood I could not care less because it is not exposed to me as a programmer (unlike in C).
(I wrote the text)

I mixed the two up, will fix.
Are people really working in Photoshop/Sketch/Gimp/Inkscape/Blender using the trackpad? Sounds extraordinarily inefficient compared to using a mouse.
San Jose has plenty of good meeting points for urban transit. It's likely the same points HSR would be using anyway. What it doesn't have is the proper urban transit - the one that exists takes hours instead of minutes to get anywhere and virtually nobody who can afford not using it uses it. Having HSR wouldn't solve any of it.
I have to have all of the control system software ready for a power plant the second construction is finished enough to begin turning things on and commissioning them. This frequently overlaps with electrical, mechanical, and civil works still in progress. Not starting as early as possible means not finishing as early as possible which means holding up the transition from a construction project with construction loans to an operating asset earning revenue with much more favorable financing, which is significant in hundreds of millions of dollars projects.

All of the software needs to be ready to start commissioning on an unknown date. A lot of the programming can’t start until equipment details are received, which makes the whole thing a game of identifying what information you need and pointing out that if you don’t have it by x date your deliverables will be late, or you’ll have to work overtime or bring more people on it which will cost extra.

Having a good estimate for how long each piece of the programming will take and what inputs are required to finish it is crucial to having everything ready to go on D day or a bulletproof paper trail of how you’ve been fucked over by other people who couldn’t deliver, because those liquidated damages are no joke.

To me time estimates are a major component of engineering.

Edit: remove snark
The "game loop" is actually just FRP (functional reactive programming). It basically defines the game loop in abstract terms, and was implement in many languages, Elm being one of them. React seems loosely inspired by Elm and therefore FRP as well.
People don't wear suits at Microsoft, even PMs. Some of my best friends are PMs, and they were offended. The rest is all true though.
Or lack of experience. Want to go from Denver to Albuquerque? The shortest route goes through Illinois. I'd love to take Amtrak -- there's even a station in my city -- but anywhere I want to go, it's faster and cheaper to fly.
Actually the new Google Pixelbook Go looks like it could be a 2019 version of the old plastic MacBooks, which were beautifully functional.
In the tradition of name monad suffixing, it shall be called Sysmonad
It gets worse when you fully quit. For me it took two weeks: headaches, muscle fatigue, flu like symptoms, anxiety, lethargy, etc

Then it was all gone. Not too serious. But, the headache you're describing is just the start of withdrawing.

The literature suggests 4-14 days for withdrawal iirc. Less sure about the lower bound.
Taiwan rejects murder suspect’s surrender offer, wants Hong Kong to extradite
Topology: The Slum of Combinatorics
> Apple is not even close to being the only company selling laptops with soldered RAM.

They were certanly the first to implement that and starters of the wider trend.
Thank you. It will be useful resources for people starting their career now.
> as if they were a private business and the taxpayer is the owner.

Theoretically that's the case. Practically, the taxpayer ends up owning the downsides, and the government nomenklatura ends up owning the upsides. If you have stock in the company that does that, you can sell. If you have government like that, you can vote for another government, but somehow people never do.
> It signifies the threat is within.

No, it isn't. China is trying to censor the world.
This is fake news and BS. Coffee is very bad for your health and it is also a drug. They keep on advertizing coffee to keep this commodity price high.
How? Time would be needed to make an alternative transit option available.

Are you aware the city (and private lots) already charge for parking?
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Of course it is more fun to work with out any deadlines!
Very kind of you to say this. Happy to hear that my 99% perspiration is your 1% inspiration :)
I skimmed a bit, but is this article trying to imply that the FBI killed Billy in Ukraine because they thought he was trying to defect?
> I think some newer devs come out of school not actually knowing how to implement their own, from-scratch application using vanilla JS or jQuery

I'll go out on a limb and say that most webdevs (regardless of schooling) can't handle basic "from-scratch" work using a language without a framework... it's terrifying. It's a lot of trend-followers who often can't verbally dictate their decision to use one tool over another (framework, lib, or otherwise).

I have a JS interview question which is, "describe to me the the common nodes one would often leverage in a DOM?" Really all I'm looking for is a basic understanding of the document, element, attribute, and text nodes as those are the ones often interacted with. I'd say about 80% don't have an answer/totally BS one. They still totally get hired though (and I'm seen as the big bad wolf who "thumbs-downs" everyone). This is in Southern California in a major city where there are multiple FAANG offices =|

Webdev has always been a huge variability of skill. You have WordPress "install 50 plugins" "developers" all the way up to top-level programming talent who are just as technically talented as top C/C++ folks (they just target a browser/web server)... and it's incredibly difficult to weed the engineers out from the "devs" in my experience.

> Something tells me that you could probably serve a page with almost no JS on it and accomplish the same thing Imgur does

Yep - and I'll even argue it'd work better (more performant), and be a much more predictable product to develop on and ship!

> which is what we used to just call "CGI serving HTML" until that wasn't trendy enough.

100% agree and actually had a good chuckle at this =)
Also, most TV remotes seem to follow a standard, and as long as I can get into the TV UI, I can change settings.

So, even if the TV remote stops working, any kind of universal remote can help.
The video they released hinted at instrumenting but I thought it was for validation purposes only. Interesting, thanks.
const capital = () => [capital(), capital()]

Humans are an implementation detail in that scheme.

Economic power (the ability to extract, move and transform resources to perpetuate the economy) is gradually moving from people to capital. At some point in the future, it will not make sense for the industry to keep on feeding people, and people won’t have any power left to do something about it.

The jobs you mention are peripheral things meant to keep meatware happy while it is still economically relevant.

There are people who are starving today, whose will to live and imagination is as strong as yours. It turns out they are not economically relevant, and thus we let them die. I don’t expect an automated industry to care more about about us than we do about the unfortunate folks I just mentioned.
The article seems contradictory. Is it really estimating if you drop features you can't finish to ship by a deadline? Is a 16 month estimate worthwhile when you screw around for 12 months before getting serious and then getting it done? If the upshot is just to keep a conversation going with stakeholders and always be working on the most important functionality, isn't this mostly accomplished by 2 week sprints with a touch of externally set deadline pressure (e.g., WWDC)?
> That seems dishonest.

There are few honest people opposing Stallman who has, at the very least, been _extremely_ honest! You can dislike Stallman (as I do) and still believe that he is an honest man.
If you put the other half in the fridge and drink within a few days, no.
Imgur used to be just an img tag. They found out they couldn't make money that way. Eventually the images became the 110th most important thing on the page.

That wasn't an engineering decision - it was a business decision made to force people to switch to the app. Ever try browsing imgur on mobile web? You can't - it keeps popping up the 'download the app' button. Infinite scrolling breaks because of that popup (by design). If you don't want to support a business that tries to force people to use their app by making the mobile web version horrible you don't have to.
Just stating you've matured isn't very useful.

Matured in favor of, or in opposition to, or in a different path altogether?

How do you plan to spread that maturity to others if what you're sharing is not clear? I grew up on the same diet of SF authors, and while I do acknowledge the need for work to be done here on earth, we shouldn't let that need tear down progress towards space. Especially when space expenditures are such a small part of what we as a country and the world spend our resources on.
There are significant advantages to having the entire Nixpkgs package set in a mono repository. While I think Flakes are quite interesting for a number of reasons, I hope it doesn't result in the primary package set getting split up too much. They conceptually act a lot like Git submodules, and going overboard with that is a very easy way to make your life miserable, and significantly increase development turnaround for changes that "cross" package sets. A group of packages just being "conceptually related" isn't a high enough bar to move things out.

As a long time contributor, I'd much, much rather see our bug reporting, triage, and discovery/resolution strategies improve first -- long before going as far as splitting up the mono-repository. That's the part that's frustrating for users (their reports get lost, forgotten, duplicated) -- not the fact the default set merely has a lot of packages.
That is quite humbling. He is obviously a very skilled musician and can play ragtime like Scott Joplin but picking up a new piece and playing it by sight without any mistakes that I could see or hear, is amazing.
I don't think one can summarize the history of Spain since 1970 any better.
This is a really good topic ;)

1. There is nothing stopping you from cold calling ad buyers and selling banner or full page mobile ads directly. It's a lot of work, lots of hustle. But the advantage is that you can microtarget to specific industries you think your users (whom you know best) will be interested in. And you learn A LOT of domain knowledge in the process.

2. Self serve text ads. I believe there's an open library for implementation on the web. But rolling your own shouldn't be onerous. Drop dead simple pricing model. Simple content moderation. And you can provide a single analytics page to buyers. They will handle their own click through analysis via embedded URL.
Koberlein's explanation is okay but I read Burns's "Keep velocity constant on z-axis" as an instruction rather than an assumption. In that light the error doesn't appear so subtle (it manifests as a simple error of "conservation arithmetic").
Broken link. WSJ doesn't work in outline.com anymore. This article is impossible to read.
I was looking for something like that a few months back, took a gamble on LG Gram. I have been using MBP(work) and Gram(home) side by side for past 3 months. Given the price and performance Gram for me hits it out of the park. Cherry on top is that it's just ~900gms, with USB and HDMI, also upgradable ram.
It could simply be a single person with multiple accounts trying to manipulate the overarching discussions through downvotes. The downvoting patterns sometimes raise an eyebrow for me too.

That type of behavior is termed "Call-out culture," or "Cancel culture."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call-out_culture
Look, I don't even know what your point is. I thought you were claiming "you can't/shouldn't hire someone who doesn't know well the technologies that you currently use". If it's not that, then don't mind me, I was debating something else/ I misunderstood your point.
Well, if you have those with sugar that might explain it.

Try having those without sugar and report back in 5 years. :)
Boeing wants it to fly, but travelers fear the 737 MAX
Between A and B there's quite a few type system tricks & tools that one can use which bring many benefits without incurring the costs of fully verified memory ownership.

I stand by my original statement though:

a) in a language like C and C++ one has to use their knowledge to come up with a solution and verify it. Pretty human.

b) in a GC language, one mostly does not care. When they do, they do a).

c) in Rust one does their best at a) and then does what the robot tells them to, even if the code is correct but the robot can't yet figure it out.
There is no big problem with going through courts to make sure the project has sufficiently good cost-benefit ratios.

The problem is, that alternatives are not priced comparably, thus the economics simply favors them. (Such as driving or flying.)

If tunneling would be cheaper (in concrete construction costs), then those could go ahead, because there's not much issue about it, it's about as straightforward as flying. (Of course below a certain depth, so no noise and structural concerns arise.)
That covers about all I’ve heard too. Wonder how solid / convincing / replicable that really is.
You are right. But we will lose.

You see, one thing is one or two vendors misusing protocols to remove users control from their devices. Another thing is an official protocol that does the same thing. We find have anywhere to run anymore.

As bi dollar corporations and organizations are more and more "protecting" ourselves they need to remove control from ourselves.
(I work at OpenAI.)

We also have results with an uninstrumented cube (as described in section 7 in the paper, or "Behind the scenes: Rubik's Cube prototypes" in the blog post), which are slightly weaker (see Table 6 in the paper). The 20% number is an example of critics cherry-picking their facts — the success rate is 60% under normal conditions, but 20% with a maximally-scrambled cube (which would happen randomly with probability less than 10^-20).

Also note: success here means that the robot was able to perfectly unscramble the cube — which requires perfectly performing up to 100 moves — without dropping it once. What it means, in practical terms, is that you need to wait for a long time in order to witness even a single failure. If you pick up the cube and place it back in the hand, it'll get right back to solving.

Note that like with OpenAI Five, the success rate is more of a function of how far we've had time to push the system than something fundamental. We're not building commercial robots; we're in the business of making new AI breakthroughs. So the next step for our robotics team will be finding a new task that feels impossible today, and see what it takes to make it no longer feel impossible.
It was some kind of mailing list solicitation from the author (I actually didn't even bother reading it, just frantically closed it as quickly as possible), so not blocked by an ad blocker. I'm running ad blockers and pihole and I still saw it.
> there aren’t any explicit requirements but there are requirements, we just don’t know what they are and also they change every sprint so good luck

What a sad way to view your profession. The requirements aren't hidden from you, and they don't just randomly change. You can't get them up front because no one has any idea what we are looking for. Solving a small problem usually reveals more of the problem.

I don't think you believe in long requirement documents either, but I sometimes hear arguments very similar to yours.
Also see the Panasonic Let's Note series, though I have not experienced any of the post-2013 (or so) models. Very light weight, extremely durable (not as durable as official Toughbooks). Feels a little cheap at first (too light weight?). I used to regularly prop a T5 on the floor against the counter as a make-shift step ladder.

A caveat: Let's Note machines are user hostile if you are the sort of person who likes opening up & doing your own repairs. I barely get over it for Let's Note.
Perhaps this makes it less puzzling https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geolibertarianism

Basically the idea is that UBI follows naturally from the fundamental right to the commons. To make the commons private property it’s only fair that the owner compensate the excluded commoners for the privilege.
Is it common to do a whole-body scan? Seems to me to be pretty expensive way for probably finding a lot of false positive irregularities in the body that will never cause any harm to the patient.
As much as I'd love to give OpenAI the benefit of the doubt, I have to agree that they are purposefully being misleading to generate more interest rather than be as straight-forward as possible about their accomplishment. After the confusion over whether or not they're really "open" after taking MS investment, and what I personally consider terrible mismanagement of the GPT-2 announcement and release, I've just lost faith in the organization to be honest. They never directly lie, they always ambiguously lie, so I rarely even bother to explain to people why I don't like them and just recommend my friends look for work elsewhere.