skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This might interest you (and anyone reading this thread): AnyDSL is a language framework that separates the concerns for both viewpoints (designing for expressivity, designing for abstracting 'complex ideas') but also that of the machine expert (designing for efficiency). I'm not affiliated with AnyDSL, I'm just parroting the blurb on its main site[0]:

> When developing a DSL, people from different areas come together:

> - the application developer who just wants to use the DSL,

> - the DSL designer who develops domain-specific abstractions, and

> - the machine expert who knows the target machine very well and how to massage the code in order to achieve good performance.

> AnyDSL allows a separation of these concerns using

> - higher-order functions,

> - partial evaluation and,

> - triggered code generation.

[0] https://anydsl.github.io/
And on black friday, the line would loop all the way around the store even with some 200 registers open.
Aren't people still playing quake?
I find Tachyons better than Tailwind. Much shorter class names and a thought-through system which makes it hard to make bad design. Also setup (there's none) is easier than with Tailwind.
Is there something about being a flight attendant that changes they way you use clothing? Does the air pressure do something? It seems odd that Lands End would run into such an issue when their whole business is making clothes.
Thanks for the reply. I agree with your assessment.
You don't know what you're talking about, FairFight is a third party solution that EA pays for but it's not the only anticheat technology used by DICE.
This is a classic case of "it's not a product, it's a feature". This is true of almost everything in healthcare that's software-related: it's only useful if it's integrated with the EMR. This is why you never see software startups in healthcare.

In this case, similar functionality (drug recommendations) exist within EMR systems. Except the recommendations are issued by other doctors and medical researchers, not some ML algorithm and it works transparently with the pharmacy management modules.

Moral of the story: don't get involved with healthcare startups unless you know the structure and economics of the industry. They are very different from consumer / business tech.
Discussed a year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18838808
A white list solution seems rather extreme, although white listing keyhashes might be a bit better, you can even hand out cd-keys and verify in a cryptographicly secure way server side that the client has the cd-key you've assigned.

Using VPN detection techniques on TGE has really helped a great deal without having to jump all the way to white listing.
> Making taxes difficult to pay and a major annoyance contributes to keeping taxes lower than would be otherwise.

It contributes to the political success of politicians who rail against taxes leveraging the frustration, but then take action that doesn't address the frustration even if it relates to taxes being lower for someone.

Also, making people do extra work or pay someone else to do it is a tax, it's just an in-kind tax that provides no usable revenue or value, rather than an in-money tax that provides usable revenue. It's not usually counted in the cost of taxes, just like various mandatory fees aren't counted in airline price comparisons. But that's fundamentally misleading, in both cases.
Obviously, the doctor is going to torn to shreds here...but I think this kind of misses something about medicine. You prescribe a drug, you know roughly what it does...but aren't totally sure what is going to happen when the specific patient takes it. SSRIs are a perfect example of this.

...and that is kind of why you hire a doctor rather than a computer who has looked at some studies...that isn't really what medicine is.

More generally: this just sounded like a terrible business model. Consumers and probably doctors would value the end product but are you going to get back the money spent on contractors manually going through these studies...no. I can see this making sense for a larger company but these kind of projects are terrible for one guy alone, they just tear through cash.

You also don't seem to have asked how doctors/insurance companies actually look at this data either. I am sure I have no idea but the first question should be: is the user looking through these studies manually? Did you survey doctors: how many studies do you look at a week? Do you look at them before prescribing? Etc...and probably do this before you build obv (and try to get money upfront).
>The US is an outlier, granted, but mostly for fixable reasons (in particular, over dependence on cars due to poor public transport).

This isn't an obstacle, given electric cars and clean electricity generation. As I said elsewhere, nuclear is the only viable answer. Sadly, it has been demonized, and that needs to be reversed.

ThorCon's efforts in Indonesia will be interesting to watch. I'm not sure I like its current plan of siting the reactors like oil platforms in coastal waters though...

The best approach is underground siting, with no or very little water cooling requirement.
Private healthcare already preys on exploiting the money of the public.

I'm not convinced the distinction between "public money" and "the money of the public" is particularly clear in these situations.

And of course you don't need a hypothetical "correct" solution - just one that's clearly less exploitative of consumers.
Have you ever tried ordering from those cafe things? It is almost comical watching the poor cashier try to punch in the "order" on their POS. Like they had a binder of SKU's they scan for "coffee" or "latte", and then it would spit out the same mile-long receipt you'd get for ordering a $3000 laptop. It was super bizarre.
"Carbon-based life detected on planet 3 and 4" would be hilarious.
Yeah, I'm pretty surprised how people just bought this idea strongly.

How advanced of a civilization you would need to have so that "shooting" into a different solar system is cheap and inconsequential? And you can detect transmissions telling you about one civilization but not where this is being sent from? Doubt

The dark forest theory was the underwhelming part of the 3BP series to me.
Metformin Analysis
Possibly

"Zibaldone: Blogging 14th-century-style":

https://nicholasrossis.me/2016/09/04/zibaldone-blogging-14th...

Wikipedia entry:

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

"zibaldone" is mentioned in the following Hacker News discussions:

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=zibaldone
They also tend to pass obvious or self-fulfilling advice off as 'prediction'.

This is an actual prediction for Pisces about January 2020 that I've found on a British newspaper's website:

" Splash out on some fashionable clothes or a new hairstyle on the 13th, when you're sure to be delighted with your new look. "

Yes, if someone splashes out on new clothes and new hairstyle I'm sure that the probability of them being 'delighted' is very high even if, gasp, they do it on another day.
If they did that, it was quite illegal.

My practice when I used to shop at Fry's was to stop and let the receipt checking person mark my receipt with their pink marker, if no one was ahead of me in that line. This was only to let them feel good about their job, not because I had any legal obligation.

If there was anyone in the receipt checking line I would just smile and wave and walk by. They never stopped me, nor could they legally, but the people waiting in line would often look at me and look at the receipt checker, puzzled that I could get away with it and they "couldn't".
I don't want to see retail outlets go away. There is sometime important about being able to physically check out things like keyboards, gaming mice and headphones. I'll pay the extra premium at a BestBuy just because I can actually paid each bluetooth headphone with my device and try it out and actually hear the sound-stage and quality.

I remember when MediaPlay and Circuit City went away. So are we just down to BestBuy and MicroCenters if you want to actually look at things before buying them? How long until all we have are YouTube videos by Markus/Dave2D/Linus to judge products by?
New decade starts with 2021...
Just saying
I had almost this exact same experience three weeks ago at a Fry's in LA. It was honestly sad to see it.

I kept joking to my friend that it felt post-apocalyptic because it looked like it had been looted. There were rough and cut-open boxes on empty shelves, empty and open packaging on the floor, no signs for the aisles to show what they had on them, employees that looked dead in the eyes, rows of shelves that were just empty or had maybe two or three items on them. It was legitimately sad to see.

We were on the hunt for a dual monitor setup. They didn't even have a 4k monitor on the shelves. That was how poor their selection was.

I've heard they're having issues even paying their vendors, so yeah. I'm pretty positive Fry's is in big trouble.
Interesting. You know, I would’ve sworn I had a pat answer to this question, but it turned out I had to think about a little bit.

They say that some of the most rewarding interactions for teachers are the ones where they learn something, not jus the student. Every once in a while I get an example of that in real life.

So what are some examples? Programming language is often difficult to change. This is sometimes listed as a pro for microservices. Because I get to change my mind for every new area of the app, which makes it cheaper to reverse directions.

The most obvious answers that I have are load balancers and external caches. I shouldn’t have a big knockdown drag out argument over haproxy vs nginx. Now, a load balancer is almost a given. It’s possible that someday in the future, someone will invent an SMP machine with 256 cores that gets some economy of scale by running a whole website on two machines. It’s easier to reduce the number of machines behind a load balancer than it is to add a load balancer to a mature product. So put one in, but don’t fight about which one. We don’t know if we need haproxy features, or if we want paid support from nginx now. Just flip a coin and move on.

Similarly, external caches are usually easier to turn off than internal ones. With internal caches, people start to pass around IDs instead of objects, assuming object lookup is “free”. It becomes integral to the information architecture. A rat’s nest of lazy and duplicate lookups. External caches are cheap but never free. Access tends to leave bigger footprints in the code. And there’s some small hope that you can get a direct lookup down to a small multiple of the cache lookup time if it really becomes necessary.

Database architecture is another big one, for certain dimensions. Going with Oracle is hard to take back. MySQL vs Postgres is smaller. KV store versus MVCC SQL database is also harder. For a prototype it might make sense to pick one that is obviously a placeholder, like SQLite, until you know what your customer’s needs really are. Do they need audit trails? Are they addicted to graphs? Multitenant security? On and on. You can stave off fights with SQLite because it’s effectively a promise to revisit this later.
See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07euJhZbeSc&list=PLe63S5Eft1...
High Quality Prefab Home Sellers on Amazon.com
Donations are extremely difficult to make work. I tried it after getting decent traction in 2009 and didn't receive a single donation to cover server expenses. I'm guessing with Patreon things have gotten a bit easier but for a business I would highly advise against going down the donations route. In general, small payments also tend to take up a disproportionate amount of your support time compared to larger transactions so you have to be prepared to deal w/ that.
Spooner is also the author of 'No Treason'/'The Consitution of No Authority', essays refuting the legitimacy of the U.S. Constitution:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Treason
That's an excellent question. Another is, how many more injuries (head- and non-head-related) are caused by the increased recklessness that drivers engage in around helmeted cyclists? https://www.forbes.com/sites/carltonreid/2018/11/14/motorist...

Please note, I'm not trying to argue against helmets. The point is that arguments over helmets deflect the conversation away from the people sailing around recklessly in two ton metal boxes. Every time there’s a collision involving a cyclist, the question is "was he wearing a helmet?", not, "was the driver paying attention?"

The safest places to bicycle are in the nations where there's the lowest rates of cyclists wearing helmets. This is a car problem, not a bicycle problem.
I'm always curious what's the point of such articles? It is as useless as a programming language benchmark on "Hello, World!" and "Number of empty HTTP request/sec".

I am able to install a vanilla Drupal-based forum with all these integrations in the fraction of that 4 hours (working with Drupal for 15 years certainly an edge here), which I think can scale much better for less than your solution up to a certain point, but certainly fits to a York-scale. But would this prove it is a great business? Not really. Would this change if it was NodeBB, Wordpress or any other technology? Not at all. Would I hate working on something that is super boring to me just to earn money? Absolutely.
>What's a labelling tool that non-technical users can use intuitively?

i haven't used it but microsoft has this

https://github.com/microsoft/VoTT

>"If we spend all this time and money labelling footage, how well is the going to work?"

"not well at all because we don't have facebook/google scale training data. let's try to figure out a conventional way to do it". for the supervisors problem i would recommend bluetooth beacons.
Looks like they have hotmail, azure, and microsoft on there, and probably others.

> // Microsoft Corporation : http://microsoft.com
> // Submitted by Justin Luk <juluk@microsoft.com>
> azurecontainer.io
> azurewebsites.net
> azure-mobile.net
> cloudapp.net
1) The US will not get any sort of major infrastructure renewal.

2) There will be major pushback against drones across western nations. They will be seen as infringing on people’s rights/a safety issue.

3)China will continue to rule with an iron fist, but towards the end of the decade demographic problems will start to show their colors. Trillions will be dumped into chest puffing around the South China Sea.

3) AR will become fairly normal in the workplace, but it will still be weird, but not unheard of, to use in public

4)Major strides are made on reversing/slowing the aging process. The average life expectancy will go up 5-10 years in advanced economies.

5) this will be paired with an epidemic disease coming out of China or China controlled Africa, and will spur increased world scrutiny of Chinese economic practices.

6)UBI is rolled out in some European economies.

7)Possibly a large swing to the left in American politics, spurred by Social Security and Medicare coming to a financial impasse. UBI in the US not out of the question.

8)California finally chases most of Silicon Valley out of the state. Major tech hubs will be in Texas, Colorado and Toronto. California also on verge of/declares bankruptcy. The transition won’t be complete by 2030, but the writing will be on the wall.

9)lack of software developers persists driven by constant churn, there will be a major shortage of programmers who are willing to take on maintenance of old systems.

10) average level of techsaviness goes down significantly as gen Z becomes adults who have never had to use a challenging computer.

11)Regulation of social media will be a hot-button issue globally, but the US will struggle with it because of how it relates to Free Speech. Without leadership on this problem Chinese style authoritarianism will proliferate.
A better question to arrive at the same answer is: "Which startups are working on HARD problems?"

Extremely talented people will gravitate towards those companies and you'll find yourself surrounded by raw passion.
I know you are trolling, but what you are describing is an electric velomobile. Right now, they are too niche for mass production, but they are coming too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CURGm-BcaaM
If you had read the article you'd know that's not possible, as solar wind would have had a negligible effect - unless the object was in practice a light sail. OTOH that hypothesis also doesn't sound correct IMHO - why would it appear to be tumbling with a fixed period?
Yeah, I've gotta wonder how much money it can possibly take per month to keep running, if you stop paying people to add data to it.
> open source’s commitment to “inverting power structures and creating access and opportunities for everyone.”

I’m pretty sure the current reality is open source reinforcing power structures. Only large companies with deep pockets can maintain open source, and they do so to forward some strategy.
USPTO open for public comments on A.I. creations, are they patentable?
I'm not convinced knowing about how this works is the solution. Plenty of software engineers that understand TLS/DNS/etc. get phished because it only takes a few minutes of distraction. The same principle applies in medicine or aviation: without systems in place, even the most educated person will predictably fail at least some of the time.
> ... surprised posters outside of the US who can't imagine having to fill in everything themselves ...

Maybe it's a holdover from times when many earned substantial cash income. Tips, for example.
My close friend who served in US army SF said that it should have been done a lot earlier.

This is just a beginning of the year ! We have a rough year ahead of us !
Plus almost everybody on the floor at Fry's was paid commission, including the cashiers. Woe be the cashier to checks out a $3000 order only to have the customer come back a month later and get a refund... bye bye commission.
If X is a roman numeral, then π must be a greek numeral. I'm not super familiar with greek numerals, but I have to assume that they are in some way compatible with roman numerals. Pi probably confused the greeks in the same way it confused the Indiana State Senate, so the greek numeral π must actually be 3. Therefore, Xπ is actually 13.

Edit: Ok I looked it up. Looks like π actually is a greek numeral (who knew?) with a value of 80. X would be 600. So it would actually be 680.
I am not interested in that kind of astrology. I want to map out the whole rules of astrology and see if a pattern emerges.
I believe commitment has now been removed from the scrum guide.
That depends quite highly on the object's mass.
I think writing is your true calling OP,
It's true that you can't do the same work 1000 times faster with 1000 cores, but what analysis like this misses is that often you can do 1000 times more work, work that you wouldn't even attempt with a single core system.
I think a part of it is due to the difference in store size and product offering. Fry's had PCs and components sure, but it also tried to have a bit of everything. Large home appliances, software/games, DVDs/CDs, car stereo, home security, networking, gadgets, cameras, home theater, a cafe, and on and on...

Seems like a store that big is only sustainable if you've got a ton of daily foot traffic.

Microcenter on the other hand has much smaller stores and a more focused set of product offerings. Also much better service. You can count on Microcenter staff to be helpful and informed, while Fry's staff was hit or miss but mostly pretty useless.
It's all based on finger printing like shitty old virus scanners (that are themselves an attack surface). I know people who get by them by writing their own programs instead of using ones found online; naming them "Google Chrome" and running them as the system user so they can read/debug game processes.
That is hilarious and I fixed that :P
Predictions

- TikTok is either acquired or killed by Facebook/Youtube copying it

- At least one major (previously unheard of) social platform like TikTok will pop up from nowhere with FOMO as its fuel & gain 500M+ users

- Rise of some Wikipedia/DuckDuckGo like community for news/blogging

- Voice assistants devices didn't take off much. They find a safe home in our TVs & Mobile phones - since they come preloaded and provide a handsfree interface

- JAVA is no longer used for mobile development. JAVA updates still tout 3 Billion+ devices run on JAVA

- Rise of some lightweight vanilla javascript coding paradigm
- ReactJS peaks its popularity and then continues without less hype & more stability

- The decline in popularity of GraphQL & flutter

- More people want to work remote. Remote work still didn't take off much

- US and SV continues to dominate the software industry. Canada becomes another destination for hiring top talent but nothing as compared to the bay area

- Electric two-wheelers become mainstream in India

- 75+ Tech unicorns from India

- [Personal] I am a VP/Director/`Head of X` in one of them

A.T.
In my personal experience the top dangers on a bike come from the side. These are the things that happen to me at least once a week:

- Driver mergers in to me too soon

- Passenger or driver opens door in to my path

- Driver making turn cuts me off and I have to swerve or brake suddenly

- Driver does a right-hand hook across bike lane to make a right turn.

In almost all these cases I’m going to be crushed by a moving vehicle. A helmet won’t save me.

As for being rear ended... I’ve personally never felt like I had a “rear end” close call on a bike.
> Lisp, in fact, wasn’t proposed as a programming language at first. When John McCarthy invented it in 1958, all he intended to do was define a formal model of computation for AI research.

Where does this myth comes from? McCarthy wanted to develop a programming system for AI research. Not primarily a 'model of computation' for AI research. He programmed in Fortran and then he and his team developed it as a new language for an IBM 704 computer. The new language was designed and developed from 1958 on for that machine: code was hand translated first and then McCarthy came up with the interpreter idea, which then was implemented by Steve Russell and so on. It was a several year long project to develop a programming system. McCarthy also proposed ideas from Lisp as a model of computation - but that was more of a side-effect from "developing a programming system called LISP (for LISp Processor) for the IBM 704 computer by the Artificial Intelligence group at M.I.T." - literally the first sentence from the 1960 paper on "computations of recursive functions of symbolic expressions and their computation by machine".

That Lisp has functions like CAR and CDR is not because it was a 'model of computation', but because these were influences from the IBM 704 architecture. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAR_and_CDR
I'll bet he is aware. The problem with the trading industry is that they have hundreds of users with bespoke solutions catering to extreme performance criteria rather than hundreds of thousands like NATS. They will keep reinventing the wheel every time a nanosecond can be saved by the latest hardware stack.
Lots related: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
Do you have any suggestions to document it so a kind of visual map emerges as I keep adding modules to it?

I am sure there is a psychology aspect to it and that’s why I am not interested in learning to predict for people...then it becomes a people pleasing thing.

I want to connect to the mythology and the rules to understand why and how they emerge to form patterns
Sounds more like Clifford Stoll…
I think it's more related to how "normalized" it is. You don't really view wc as solving a problem you had - you view it as something that's always been there. It's worked for decades, and will likely continue to work for decades.

People are only likely to donate to something that's solving a problem they care about.