skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
damn this is addictive... main problem is how to keep the employees happy..

After $4k in earnings, only Tester is happy..
As long as you need to wear a headset or glasses, I have a hard time believing it will take off beyond the niches it has already found believers in.

A real tech fatigue seems to be setting in with lots of people and the last thing many of us want (including many here) is more tech in their lives. I think it's especially true of tech that isolates you like AR and VR does.
"We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil.

Yet we should not pass up our opportunities in that critical 3%."

The end of Moore's law is the end of passing up opportunities in that critical 3%. There's a lot of performance debt accumulated.

It's only 3%. Optimize when it matters!
Feynman on honours [video]
unfortunately in current western society, equality of opportunity (or somewhere closer to that) will never be achievable compared with equality of outcome due to an enshrinement of identity politics in our political structure.
This problem is designed more in the spirit of teaching the algorithmic thinking side of the course objectives than the Python side.

If you prefer, you can view the problem restrictions as a means to encourage students to develop a more general algorithm for solving the problem, rather than a programmatic implementation specific to Python. Hopefully this makes them seem less arbitrary.
Datasaab, Swedish computer company 1954-1981
Remember that Jobs gave us the toaster desktop, which in my mind is still their very best example of superficial design over considering function. (Well that or the early QuickTime player for OS X.)

Meanwhile, AirPods are a phenomenal product. Up there with the best work Apple has done.
He doesn't have 112 billion dollars, he owns shares in a company worth that much, which have to be sold to be converted into dollars.

If the government seized 75% of it, the government would be left holding 80 billion dollars worth of stock, which they can't really do anything with.

The problem with stocks is that when you sell it you have to have buyers on the other end. This is called liquidity. I doubt there are enough buyers of Amazon out there to sell 80 billion worth, so what is the government to do, just hold onto it? They could try to sell it all at once, causing the stock to crash. Or they could sell a little over time.

I suppose you could create a sovereign wealth fund with the seized assets, sort of like what other countries do with oil reserves (Norway, etc.) But all that does is create a giant, government run investment fund, which will invest in businesses, etc. Not exactly redistribution...
I still haven't seen Ubiquiti officially acknowledging controller-level phone home. "unifi-report[.]ubnt.com" has not been mentioned anywhere in their announcement.
Look, as far as the broader argument for or against nuclear goes, we are one the same side. I actually want you to have strong position.

> Of course you can't calculate the risk of being run by an opressive regime like the soviet union or ignorance/incompetence by those who granted Fukushima rights to build.

You can not by decree avoid ignorant people and/or incompetent people and/or less-than-ideal political frameworks. You need the wrong people to do the right thing.

> Neither is an argument against nuclear and it's an unrealistic standard to set from my perspective and it's not a problem in the west.

This is really just moving the goalpost. What if due to incompetence/negligence some reactor in a politically/economically deteriorating France blows up? Are you going to say "it's not a problem in America"?

You just keep repeating the mantra that it "isn't an argument". In reality it is an argument that "the other side" uses all the time. You're hurting your own credibility. You may disagree that it's a good argument, but it is an argument.

Now here's my standpoint: We can't by law require operators to purchase insurance that cannot exist. This is an impossible demand of "the other side", presented as a "cost" argument. It just doesn't help to say "but there is insurance!" when that insurance doesn't cover what we're actually talking about.

However, while we cannot calculate an insurance plan, we can pit the actual costs of either wind/solar against nuclear, including potential disasters and including CO2 prices and including the required buffering. I'm fairly confident that nuclear could come out on top even with one or two trillion-dollar disasters in the estimation. Remember, "the other side" just made a cost argument.

At another level, the argument for nuclear changes as the technology changes, newer and safer designs should have exponentially less dramatic worst-case failure scenarios. If "the other side" keeps factoring in speculative cost reductions in both production and storage facilities, so can we.
For an interesting science fiction take on ants you should read the book "Children of Time"! This story of ants adapting reminded me of the ants in that book.
I also definitely didn’t read your username, so don’t take anything i said to be a reaction your female handle. I definitely assumed a male writer (which is it’s own problem).

It is, in fact, a much larger problem.

To my mind, white knighting is about men playing hero in order to enhance their ego and public reputation as the primary or sole goal such that actually addressing sexism is not only incidental, it's actually counter to their goal.

Being chewed out by you and lectured about how I'm wrong to find any of this offensive amounts to mansplaining.

At every turn, no matter how much men theoretically decry the existence of sexism in the world and pretend to fight against it, when push comes to shove, they expect to be treated with respect by women while not themselves being respectful to women. That expectation amounts to demanding deference from women.

Start by working on treating actual women you are actually interacting with in the here and now with actual respect instead.

That includes not assuming everyone you speak with on HN is male. If you don't know, don't assume. That assumption based on the odds is a fundamental part of sexism, racism, etc. It's a really huge issue.

If you really want to see change in the world, get with the man in the mirror and work on his bad habits. He's the person you have the most control over.

If every man who ever beat his chest about how sexism is a bad thing spent more time working on his bad habits, things would change.

Instead, what happens is every time I comment, multiple people treat me like shit and then come up with justifications for their behavior and reasons why the problem is me and then fail to see the irony in decrying sexism while basically telling me "Shut up, woman." in the same breath.
The challenge for an only-upvote system is articles like this, which perhaps aren’t flag-worthy, but will induce enough users to rage-vote to hit the front page.

I’d downvote it if I could, but I wouldn’t flag it outright even though it’s the kind of “gotcha” story which has no content of its own, and doesn’t tend to elicit particularly interesting commentary.
> David Heinemeier Hansson railed against the Apple Card for giving him 20 times the credit limit that his wife got

Heh, railed. Good on DHH for using his platform and bringing light to an issue like this.

Original thread on Twitter: https://twitter.com/dhh/status/1192540900393705474
To add to this: Reaper may not be open source, but it feels like it is. There is no other DAW that is more extendable and configurable. If you can imagine it, and can script it, you can do it. There is a huge community of free add-ons for it. But in full disclosure, while I own it, I do most of my production work in Bitwig.
In theory this should be compatible with free market ideology, let the markets innovate.

The trouble is corruption gets in the way, by that I mean carbon based industries lobbying against such taxes.
Vanilla ad blocking will continue to work because companies that participate in Acceptable Ads [1] will be happy to implement restricted ad blocking, such as Eyeo with Adblock Plus, while advanced and effective ad blocking that is not funded by advertising companies, like what uBlock Origin offers, will become impossible in Chrome.

Meanwhile a bunch of unrelated extensions will be killed, the ones that rely on modifying requests and which have nothing to do with ad blocking. Innovation around extensions that involves modifying requests will be halted, and everyone will suffer as a result, except Google.

Crooks will have continued and easy access to user data, since Manifest v3 is not focused on protecting user privacy.

I can bet on that.

[1] https://acceptableads.com/en/
1.5 lbs of beef a day is _a lot_. Are you sure you're saying that right?
Yeah - I have come across this on a number of occasions. The CTO of am company I was contracting for once described it to me as "The Technical Ghetto" - he had been pulled in of CTO of the division from CEO of another division.

Basically, tech skills are in high enough demand that good tech people are too valuable to be allowed into management
> Like searching for "iPhone" literally presented an ad for the Samsung Galaxy at the top, for a while.

That's how ads work. If Samsung pays more money than Apple to show ads to people searching for "iPhone", then people will see Samsung ads.
I thought we'd agreed that objectivity exists within subjectivity? To keep banging on that everything is subjective is to miss the point - there's objectivity too, and there is suffering (as The Buddha rightly pointed out) and it can be objectively measured.

I also have not made any claim about what others should do - are you going to keep up with the straw men? It's getting a bit long in the tooth. My initial response was about the way Koobla makes the distinction.

> Are you really motivated by a moral cause

I wouldn't call it a moral cause but a choice between suffering and not suffering.

> or are you taking the easy route, signalling away your guilt like many of the western middle class on this forum and elsewhere?

No, I'm not guilty and I'm working class and I've no need to signal virtue, I'm not religious.

> Does your choice not to eat meat and prevent animal suffering

It does reduce and prevent animal suffering, good of you to… admit that.

> not really just mirror a realisation that you yourself are at the wrong end of the hierarchy?

No. The realisation was and continues to be that my choices can reduce unnecessary suffering, for myself and others.

"Wrong end" is subjective. "Hierarchy" is subjective… Either you're going to start using terms in a normal way or you're going to remain inconsistent in your use (or, more precisely, convenient in your application) and continue to provide no argument at all.
Would it be a terrible evil to put measures in place to prevent people from ending up in grinding poverty though?

Reasonable financial/social welfare regulations do not amount to violence by any reasonable definition.

If inequality is inevitable, then some people are going to end up on the bottom. If the bottom is not enough to live on, then that could be argued to be structural violence.
Its becoming blatently apparent that high tech is heavily tied to saudi interests which are (not so) secretely supporting radical sunni interests in the middle east starting with the arab spring and our state departments conflicted interest and collaboration with tech at that time. I would not be surprised if we found evidence that social media companies were involved in creating bots to fan those flames leading to the death of thousands.
This article is great for context on how/why this happened:

https://popular.info/p/the-republican-political-operatives
For me the problem is that it's considered an established truth that one could somehow manage to spot intelligence by reducing its dimensionality to some calculable metrics. If one is good in some tests, he or she is good in these tests, nothing more.
> "If you’re one of the eight or nine people on the planet who has never interacted with Alexa"

What?? Replace "planet" with "United States". I doubt outside Europe and North America Alexa is that pervasive. I only know one person who has it in their home, and I know a bunch of rich people who shop at Amazon. It's just nowhere near common in my large, very populated country.
>It’s often hard for me to imagine that anyone can grow up in this era and not end up doubting the competence and motives of nearly everyone in charge of nearly every American institution

Yes. Especially including Gawker network writers, like the author himself. What he sees as "rudeness in the name of speaking truth to power", millions of others see as low-rate tabloid-esque journalists injecting biased, poorly-formed, condescending and contemptuous opinions into articles with the direct intent of maliciously stirring outrage in an unwarranted and sensationalistic manner.

The death of the Gawker / "rude" press was a long time coming.
When a house goes to auction and sells for very little money that says something about the house: the previous owners destroyed it. They probably took the stove, carpet, light fixtures and so on. They cut the pipes to get the sink out and left the water on while doing so: the resulting flood and the water bill are the bank's problem. Of course by the time the bank knows this the damage is done and the house is worthless.

If the owners know they are in trouble and have options and sense they will contact that bank. There are programs to skip payments (the bank makes a lot of money off these in the long run - but this is your best way to get out of a temporary problem). There are programs where the bank will let you "short sell" where the bank counts the house paid in full when you sell it for less than you owe (you lose your down payment so it isn't a good for you but it is better than the alternatives). The bank often knows of assistance for people in life trouble. None of these are possible though if you don't try to work with the bank.

Banks want their money back. They do not want to own houses. They do it - but only when they have no other options.
I note that the solution is invalid at the bottom of my post, but it is worth mentioning that I know all of the students in the group session when I teach this problem, and I am familiar with their background. If I know that a student has prior Python experience, I will discuss the string solution with them, but let them know not to use it in their homework until strings have been covered in class.

In this case, even though the solution is disallowed for grading purposes, there is an opportunity to discuss it during the lesson.
This seems like a really bad comparison. You could take it as Dara Khosrowshahi saying that über's self driving car program was created with the intention of killing people.
Medical records you can copy-paste
I fully agree. If they could somehow reframe the fine into a positive contribution they would not have to resort to short term hacks [0] like zeroing the fine.

How could that reframing work? Instead of free limited time lending plus optional fine after n days, make it a rental, but with the first n days free. If you return on time that's fine, but you're a freeloader then. Those who take their time with the books are the true supporters. Nobody will perpetually postpone returning because they feel uneasy about admitting wrongdoing (no matter how small).

[0] I believe it's only short term because bad habits usually take time to develop. Long term, the negatives will outweigh the positives. The person who would systematically take advantage of zero fine doesn't use the library, yet.
I gather I am supposed to be scandalized that this outlet has an agenda; I’ll pass on that.

However Warren is definitely not a millionaire who “loves socialism”. She couldn’t be clearer about her appreciation of capitalism.
One would think there are enough stories already written down. I am not sure I can add any new perspective. I remember, but since I did not really experience it, it remains a memory.

It is kinda like now we seem to inevitably move towards new world war. People already forgot the pain. All the writing about WW2 does little to stop the crawl.

I can definitely see your point though.

Today I just feel, dunno, defeated on privacy front
You are citing a historic (and outdated) meaning of the three world system. The current meaning is essentially an economic classification:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_World

“Since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the definition has instead largely shifted to any country with little political risk and a well functioning democracy, rule of law, capitalist economy, economic stability, and high standard of living. Various ways in which modern First World countries are often determined include GDP, GNP, literacy rates, life expectancy, and the Human Development Index.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_World

“Subsequently the actual meaning of the terms "First World", "Second World" and "Third World" changed from being based on political ideology to an economic definition.”
Once I flashed my router with tomato I never had any problems with it again. It just works and needs nothing. Now that I set up a pi-hole I have to worry a lot less about telemetry from TVs and rogue devices.

Good technology doesn't need to be updated all the time.
Non-existent apparently.
Demystifying Asynchronous Rust
I've been adding #chromeIsTheNewIE to related posts for a while. As someone who worked at the end of IEs dominance that feels spot on:

- lots of developers not caring at all

- businesses being businesses caring that we don't spend time on it

- ordinary people not caring even when the alternative is in another league

We got some work ahead. Hopefully Mozilla won't mess up too much during the next few months/years and then we might pull it off again.

And feel free to reuse the hashtag above : )
You're talking about IoT in general; I was specifically talking about voice assistants
> Japanese syllables are very simple, and typically lack final consonants

So do Italian words, but we still have plenty of rhymes. From my almost non-existing Japanese knowledge, I don't really get what you mean.
If you are born as a serf in a feudal system then being willing to work twice or thrice as hard doesn't guarantee success or even safety from near-starvation.

Hard work alone can only guarantee success in a perfectly fair and even system, and obviously not even the west is anything close to that.
In my limited experience, it takes a very special someone to adhere to an "enough number." I've met many who claimed to have one, only to work long past it. For most, reaching that number only becomes a motivating factor to reach a higher number ad infinitum.
Good edge case to consider when designing an auto scaling service, but now that I'm aware of it, I think I'll be able to design around the problem with some combo of the suggested solutions, and still get the autoscaling that I feel like the article was trying to convince me not to do...
12-16 Years Younger Than My Chronological Age: What’s My Diet?
> Which is dead wrong, because not only is there no usable definition of "improve itself", but there isn't even any understanding of the kinds of skills required to create a usable definition.

I disagree. A program improves itself when it reacts to a problem and implements a solution. Obviously that is very general, but enough. A human of IQ 100 certainly can develop software; a program of IQ 100 should be able to do the same, and then you scale horizontally.
I don’t think people will think twice about wearing a headset if the content is intensely compelling or the use cases it enables are genuinely revolutionary.

Most importantly it needs to be packaged in a way that you don’t need to be a motivated techie to pick apart the offerings, understand specs, setup a bespoke system, and just generally try so hard to get onboard.

I’m not sure about the thesis that people want less tech in their lives. Look at the widespread adoption of “smart speakers” which to me seems like the ultimate expression of superfluous technology.
This is truly excellent. Well done.
Enough to know a 20-to-1 difference is abhorrent, given they file joint tax returns and she has a better credit score?
XCode Fix: Change Mac Date to October First, 2019
In case of Sonos - the speakers disconnected all the time. Taking off pihole completely solved the issue. I did not check for possible problematic URLs on the blacklists though.
It's a roughly accurate measure though. If there's a storm that slows them down, it would be perfectly acceptable for them to burn more fuel to arrive in port on time.
there are a lot of variables that go into determining a credit score.

in this particular case, i could imagine that in his role as partner as Basecamp there is a longer "credit trail" attributed to him just from a business operational standpoint beyond his joint family tax filing. that alone could explain the discrepancy between him and his wife beyond sexism.
>A good example is a authoritarian could take power and decide to reducate any one posting comments not espousing the ideals of the ruler in power.

This already happens on a horrendous scale in China. Since we're buying pretty much everything from there, will it be long before they gladly sell us mass surveillance infrastructure?

>The data from the past couple years would build you a nice list for your next sessionnof your reeducation camp fun.

Imagine a sinister big data implementation of the ironic punishments in Dante. It's possible should the political will arise. There's already enough contempt for privacy in Western governments, it's not too hard to think of what's on the horizon.
> My argument here is that it's ridiculous to think that we don't have or use "high quality windows" in North America because you once had friends over to your home that were impressed.

I'm not the original poster :-)
Very true. Most developed state in India
It's an extreme case to demonstrate if a CPU's multicore performance is clearly better than previous generations.

For what it's worth, I migrated from a consumer-grade i7 CPU to a workstation-grade Xeon and the differences in compile speeds in my everyday projects (less than 400 files) are still significant and very noticeably in favour of the Xeon.

Linux kernel compilation is just a benchmark that multiplies such differences between CPUs. Thus the buyers can -- hopefully -- make a more informed decision.
It's a programming class where "algorithmic thinking" (and therefore, in my opinion, some amount of math) is one of the course objectives.

Since the discussion takes place in a low-pressure, guided group lesson, students will certainly not be penalized for suggesting the string method in that setting. Also, students trying to use strings on homework will fail tests in the linter and autograder before they finally submit, so they will have plenty of opportunity to fix their mistake before receiving a grade on their work.
Transistors haven't really been getting smaller for the last few nodes, they've mostly just been getting denser.

AFAIK nobody currently knows how make finfets much smaller without making them awful.
There’s an assumption underneath the Gawkersphere snark (that this piece is a part of) that the correctness of one particular far left political worldview is unassailably true. This assumption undermines the entire article, because it leaves no room for dissent.

Fortunately, most non partisans recognize the complexity of the world reaches far beyond the limits of what one political viewpoint is able to encapsulate.
Give it a year and developers will make sure your software slows down enough to make more CPU power seem like a worthwhile investment.
The introduction of value types in the JVM should hopefully alleviate this.
My point is that none of those improvements bring us meaningfully closer to general intelligence. It's all surface-level stuff. Important surface-level stuff, but nevertheless. I don't see much progress in the actual hard part of creating a truly helpful AI assistant.