skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One hope that this might be able to improve a bit on the traditional problem you experience with optimizers: "will it still optimize if I move this calculation 1 line down?".

I find the big problem with optimizers these days is not performance anymore. I'd just so gladly trade even 2-3% performance for assurance that it's going to actually work, even if I move bits of code around a little bit. That it won't slow down by a factor 2-3x.
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>Before or after taxes?

Before, median household income for my city at that time was mid-50ks. Of course median household income is with 1.5-2 workers. I wasn't married, but I did split rent on a house with friends... so adjust accordingly I guess.

>What year?

circa 2005

>Where did you live?

A 2nd tier major metro. Not NY/SF/LA, but a city you've definitely heard of.

>What was your monthly rent?

I don't remember

>Did you rely on your family/friends for ANYTHING (including something as innocuous as "storing your childhood possessions")?

No. My parents did have my childhood possessions but I grew up in an abusive household and never went back to retrieve those items.

>Did you have any chronic or acute health issues?

No

>How far did you have to drive for work?

30 mins

>Did you have friends or family you were obliged to support, even occasionally?

Yes, I helped friends pay rent a few times if that counts.

>Did you have a side hustle?

No

IME people will look for any excuse not to face their own personal failings. These are all the wrong kinds of questions. Instead of seeking an excuse for bad behavior, the right kinds of questions are about strategies for achieving better outcomes.
> There's another guy on my team that seemingly spends every waking moment working on code for work

Work out your hourly rate after he gets a promotion and see who does best.
Define better.

It's more CPU/GPU intensive, is not as widely supported, and there probably are more downsides.

Better quality at the same bitrate? For most use-cases: yes.
media/digital subscriptions more expensive than SV? Like which ones and at which scale?

My experience with europe (France and Netherlands) is that most of those things are also incredibly cheaper, 20e/month for unlimited data cellphone plan, 40euro for fast internet, etc.

What type of media subscription you have for those to feel like they lower your buying power? I feel like once you've paid cheaper "rent, transportation, childcare, and groceries" you mention, how are your media/digital subscriptions making a difference?
I'm not sure - stigma can actually be quite effective at compelling action.
"...there are two ways of making money. The first is what most of us do: work. That means tapping into our knowledge and know-how (our “human capital” in economic terms) to create something new, whether that’s a takeout app, a wedding cake, a stylish updo, or a perfectly poured pint. To work is to create. Ergo, to work is to create new wealth.

But there is also a second way to make money. That’s the rentier way: by leveraging control over something that already exists, such as land, knowledge, or money, to increase your wealth. You produce nothing, yet profit nonetheless. By definition, the rentier makes his living at others’ expense, using his power to claim economic benefit.

For those who know their history, the term “rentier” conjures associations with heirs to estates, such as the 19th century’s large class of useless rentiers, well-described by the French economist Thomas Piketty. These days, that class is making a comeback. (Ironically, however, conservative politicians adamantly defend the rentier’s right to lounge around, deeming inheritance tax to be the height of unfairness.) But there are also other ways of rent-seeking. From Wall Street to Silicon Valley, from big pharma to the lobby machines in Washington and Westminster, zoom in and you’ll see rentiers everywhere."

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Ceptr.org - the most promising attempt I've seen who are trying to better make visible, and then democratize and distribute, the rents.
'but isn't suddenly drastically increasing for no reason.' You have data on that?

Given the fanatic stirring caused by Thunberg, enactment of a 'State of Fear' as envisaged in the novel by Michael Crichton is not an unreasonable fear. It's even been encouraged by climatatogist Stephen Schneider who wrote: "...to reduce the risk of potentially disastrous climate change ...we have to get some broad-based support, to capture the public’s imagination. That, of course, entails getting loads of media coverage. So we have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements, and make little mention of any doubts we might have. This double ethical bind which we frequently find ourselves in cannot be solved by any formula. Each of us has to decide what the right balance is between being effective and being honest. I hope that means being both."

If any arsonist did light a fire with this in mind, he or she has certainly been vindicated given the media's reaction.
I would prefer a functional approach and formal verification so we can know for sure it will exit.
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I think emacs is the winner here. It's true beauty is that most users have remapped everything so all you can do is bruteforce your way to the exit.

And where do you get exiting an OS? We don't know... maybe another OS...
It still strikes me as one of the greatest ironies in the last half century, that in trying to protect the environment from contamination from nuclear accidents, many encormnetalists have committed and condemned us to this path of climate change. Some even going as far as directly taking funds from big oil/coal.
For reference, just in case the title is changed, it is currently: "A Minimalist Encoder, Written in C, to Convert H264 to H265"
You ignorant cunt.
Also a true pearl:

"...A key point is that due to the electronic communications network that is increasingly permeating society, more and more people are being exposed to the same information and stimuli, making the overall psyche and responses of large groups of people increasingly similar, the result being that the potential increases exponentially for copycat behavior that forms a Standalone Complex. There is no original Laughing Man, no leader. Everyone is acting on their own, yet a coherent whole emerges. There are people who employed the copycat behavior before others, but what started the coherent whole is indefinitive."
> `ddkP` is probably the most advanced command I know

Maybe I'm not thinking straight because of the sickness, but I think `ddp` from the line above does the same thing with one fewer keystroke.
There is a full industry of developing enterprise software using this low-code platform:

https://www.outsystems.com/

Does webapps and mobile as well
https://howtoexitthevimeditor.com/
Straumnes.
Most adults are just grown up children and should be treated with compassion even when they make idiotic decisions.
Am I the only one who find papers linked in these articles [1]all fluffy and stretched out in presentation?

Why can't they just be text like other papers?

What purpose does putting a bunch of unrelated picture and different fonts everywhere fullfil?

1] https://www.mckinsey.com/~/media/McKinsey/Business%20Functio...
If you care about the amount of jobs in these fields then consider data science or potentially machine learning (which is mostly doing devopsy stuff in reality)
That's just rubbish.

Sure the fashion show continues, with its constant churn and in order to keep up with that churn you probably need to keep on learning in your spare time.

But most problems could be solved far more simply if people put a bit of forethought in rather than chasing fads. Does every website benefit from being a SPA. Do you really need all the kubernetes and docker containers? Realistically how much are you going to scale?

Here is an example:
https://adamdrake.com/command-line-tools-can-be-235x-faster-...
> the only ones making actual breakthrough for money reasons

That's also a suggestion that those aren't breakthroughs. They are just someone getting 1% because their corporate sponsor spent $250k more than the other guys.

Look at the ideas, not the results. Is there something new and is it clearly expressed? If you can't answer that in five minutes, move on. Ideas transfer, results don't.

In particular, if an ML paper abstract states a percentage improvement over SOTA and then lists five existing techniques that were combined to get the result, you can just put it directly on the trash pile.
This used to be on it's own domain as well but it looks like that's gone too now:

http://web.archive.org/web/20180514064448/http://ghostinthes...

Looks like the following is the original author. They mention it on their portfolio page:

https://www.michaelolaya.com/portfolio
You need a huge voltage density. Ten volts between your feet is going to do nothing at all.
It's very rare to hear someone say "I won't eat this burrito - I won't be able to afford the diabetes treatment in 50 years".
Well, it only adds one bit of information, that is probably highly correlated with everything else being unique as well :)
text objects are a big reason for the satisfaction for me. I spend a fair amount of time moving code around and I like being able to say "delete everything in this indentation level and copy it" in 3 keystrokes. It's pretty sweet when you're use to it and you have it customized to do what you want (which takes time and isn't for everyone).
I was on a remote system and remember I couldn't exit vi. What did I do? Well, I opened a second ssh session, looked up the process id with ps and killed it.

This is so many decades ago ... like the very beginning of my curiosity when it comes to IT basically. Thinking back to it, I wonder how I was able to use ssh and tools like grep, ps and kill but did not know how to operate basic vi ...
Evidence? I think most of these "Russian funded propo attacks" are vastly overstated.

We have our own monied interests to do that for us
Yes, but it’s never been just about startups or business. It’s always been any topic of interest to hacker types which includes startups and business, but also technology, programming, tools, peoples projects and even sometimes satire of such.
You'd be surprised to find out that Common Lisp has actually quite a strong type system (not Haskell-level but much better than C++/Java); just that it's optional. You get the best of both worlds — fast prototyping, and then when you decide upon the types, you can add type declarations, which usually result in (much!) faster code and robustness.
A dictionary? ;-)

But seriously, if you want to know the differences look up the etymologies and then keep your eyes open for how each term is used in practice. That's all there is to it.
If you look at it from a hobbies / interests point of view, coding is one of the few hobbies where there are a lot of jobs around and well paid ones at that. Professional sports are a hobby that for some sports is very well paid, but the competition is way harder and the jobs available far less.
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Ask HN: Is it possible to restore WhatsApp backups from Android to iPhone?
Apparently, there is no official solution, but I have found some third-party software which claim to do so. Most of them seem suspicious at the very least.

Does anyone know if it's even technically possible to restore Android Whatsapp backups on an iPhone, and if so can recommend me some options (private message if you want)?

Not a very HN-like question, but it's the final resort because here I'm sure that people are legit and tech-savvy.
It can cost a million dollars to become a doctor in the US. Less if you go to public schools and pinch pennies during your time at school but still half a million or more.

Doctors earn high salaries because if they didn’t we wouldn’t be able to convince kids to become doctors. We already have a severe shortage of geriatric doctors because kids don’t want to enter the field and get paid Medicare rates after accumulating a mountain of debt.

No easy solutions. We have built this problem up over many decades and it will take many painful decades to unwind it all.
That's stupid. I think when these laws were made wattage was a good proxy for luminosity. It should be updated.
The problem is and always has been NIMBYs far more than environmentalists
Interesting, I had no idea such headphones existed.
Pretty sure there will be a TAS in the sub-second range in the near future!
That's not the case where I work.

It's a sound business decision for a company to invest in its people. Better-trained staff, happier staff, longer retention.

It sounds like the place you work isn't like that. There are other places that are better.
To add to that, stadia has claimed teraflop ”power” that is almost double of the XBox One X yet runs red dead redemption 2 at half the resolution of what the Xbox does.
HN is not a chronological "news" site, if people haven't heard of it that's new enough.

Recently we had a discussion on an article from 1738: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21832371
How to exit vim big brain style with all changes saved in memory.

:q!

your memory, not the computer's
> while motor vehicles are constructed to be as quiet as it’s possible.

The interior, perhaps.

I live on a street which has a relatively low limit (30 mph) but cars accelerate as if they were about to join a freeway...they are not quiet at all.
That would be a reasonable outlook but antivaxxers spread cult like anti scientific beliefs that endanger the lives of many people beyind the individual antivaxxers.

This cult like behaviors isn’t deserving of ordinary empathy it needs to be seen for what it is and stopped. Fortunate many countries are doing this.
I'm thinking the 787 with its rather shaky reputation might end up less safe than any 737-MAX8 that is approved for service again. Only time will tell, it's a game of (large) numbers.

Choosing not to fly is pretty simple (If you accept that some locations are simply off limits). Flying "another plane" is NOT simple, unless you completely avoid airlines that have MAX8's, or avoid flying where a MAX8 may be used.

The problem is amplified by a few statistical problems: 737-800 is probably the most common jet around. Most (all?) MAX8 operators have 737-800's. That means any time you book a flight where a 737 may be used, it can be either a 737-800 or a MAX8. You can't know.

You can always turn around when you see a MAX8 in your gate, but you can't know when booking that a MAX8 won't be used, even if it says 737-800 when you book. So unless you are ready to turn around in the gate when you see a MAX8, you simply can't book that airline. Depending on whose wedding or what job interview you were flying to, turning around at the gate might not be so appealing either.
I thought it was a joke article until I realized it wasn't
Praise "Bob" or kill me!
I'm in Hanoi, I see airpods everyday (and no, I don't go to tourist areas). I myself use Huawei Freepods 3, which cost about the same as Airpods (~180 usd).

Go to a random rural town in a midwestern US state and I'm sure you probably won't see people wearing Airpods, which is probably what people are picturing when someone says SE Asia.

We have paved roads believe it or not, as well as a large class of people who use the newest iPhones.
I like this commit: https://github.com/kelseyhightower/nocode/commit/80f38e0f103...
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see also this cluster-fudge: "firefox: Safe Browsing updates fail due to insufficient quota on the Google API key" https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=895147

both issues are still open after more than 1 year! There seems to be a disconnect in how FF security is perceived by tech savvy users and how security/privacy critical bugs get prioritized by Mozilla.

edit:

Just recently I discovered DoH was activated by default now and bypassing my /etc/hosts block list without any warning. This opened me up to tracking from sites I thought I had blocked (discovered it only by accident and after several months when I actively looked into DoH and the network.trr.mode setting).

In all above cases the failure-modes are insecure. It's like a firewall that suddenly switches its enforcement policy from a deny-all+whitelisting to allow-all+blacklisting without properly informing users.

Totally unacceptable!
This chap's YouTube channel has a good number of videos about growing apples that are less well known:

https://www.youtube.com/user/1sustainablehedonist/videos

If you're based in the the UK, the National Fruit Collection at Brogdale grow quite a few different varieties of apple seedlings (and other fruits) and has a reasonable sized seed stock I think you can order from.

https://brogdaleonline.co.uk/

http://www.nationalfruitcollection.org.uk/index.php
It also prevents the modification time from being changed after closing the file, if no changes were made.
More technical (and sceptical) discussion:

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2019/12/epo-refuses-ai-inventor...

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2019/08/the-first-ai-inventor-i...
I'm trying to use 16 bit floats for matrix multiplication on x86-64. I found solutions for ARM and some NVIDIA GPUs but none for any X86-64 chips. Any pointers in this direction would be helpful.
They don’t look good. They are a status symbol that says you’re willing to spend money on a premium product and drink the Kool aid.
Absolutely it needs to be stopped - all I'm saying is that those unfortunate bumpkins who have fallen for it don't deserve to die (or have "evolution take its course") simply because they are naive and gullible.

Not everyone is smart, some are easily manipulated or prone to irrational anxieties. They are still deserving of life and happiness.
That eliminates almost all NPM packages.
> The information develops through the expression of the phenotype in the environment, but it can't be said to be latent in the genome.

Why not?

Consider birdsong. Many birds must learn "correct" song from models. If raised without good models, they still sing, but they sing a deformed song. This is, correctly, treated as evidence that the song of these birds is a cultural phenomenon -- a bird raised in isolation will sing in an identifiably different way than a bird raised normally.

So is normal song arbitrary? Can we say that it isn't encoded in the birds' genetics? Those answers are no and no; when birds with deformed song raise children, those children learn normal song. Normal song is the only steady state of the bird population; any other state will inevitably become normal song.

This is sufficient to say that normal song is latent in the birds' genome -- the genome will create it from nothing if necessary -- even though the genome cannot cause a single individual bird to sing correctly in isolation.
I do not believe the concept of low-code to be hype. It has existed in one form or another since at least the 80s. Lotus Notes, Sharepoint, and finally Salesforce were always the enterprise powerhouses in that arena. And they also show its weaknesses, because they all have taken serious reputation hits due to poor apps written by inexperienced developers. Still, I'd estimate there were dozens, if not hundreds of small low-code apps in every large company I've been a part of, for my entire career.

The bigger question in my mind is quality. Almost all those apps, if they became a success within the business, eventually were given to the professional software folk in IT, who would fix them up and make them really work. At some point, low-code needs to be migrated to high-code.

So for all the smaller and newer players in the space, I have high hopes that some of them will become terrific solutions. But I don't know which of them truly understand the life cycle of a low-code app, nor do I know which of them will still be around in 5 years, so I'm hesitant to put much work into them today.
My two goals are to maximise my disposable income and to get to know people who could improve my life (by further career opportunities, by being good cofounders in the future, or simply by inspiring me, being worth talk to or learn from). The second goal is hard to achieve when working remotely (I used to work remotely for several years). The first goal: I know that SV is an expensive place to live, but I have an impression that companies hiring remotely pay so much less than SV wages, that even considering cost of living you can save more living in SV.

I had some roller-coaster in recent years and I need some peace of mind for the next few years. What I mean is to work for a company which most likely won't go under in the next 12 months (hence "reasonably well funded") and with enough resources to get things done; and kinda to focus on one area rather than having to take care of everything and then more. I don't mean I'm looking for a low stress job. Just a bit less stress, bit more certainty and bit less responsibilities than when running/bootstrapping your own company (I did that in the past and will probably do it again, but in a few years).
well stated.
> I'll refrain from posting the entire messages he received as they were a bit, well, "legal"

So... why?
One of my Computer Science lecturers had a rule: use Vim for all development for his class whilst on campus, and if caught using any other editor/IDE – or committing any artifacts showing evidence of such – we would lose several percentage points from our final mark for his class.

Harsh? Perhaps. But I can’t thank that lecturer enough for that rule. He converted a mostly IDE-wielding class into one that actually appreciated Vim, and most of us still use it or its key bindings.

Edit: this was in 2018, when VS Code, etc. were already popular.
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Ask HN: Chrome Extension Is 'Pending Review' for 7 Days
Something has changed recently and now Google, instead of a few hours (as it was before), manually review our browser extension for several days (up to 7 days) every single time we publish a newer version to the Chrome Web Store. Frankly speaking, we see no prerequisites for this: there were no significant changes, we are working on this extension for many years already, we have many users, good ratings...

Google does not provide any feedback/guidance upon review so we have no idea what can be improved. There is neither any support nor answers on various public forums. Altought we are definitely not alone with this problem.

Has anyone encountered a similar problem? Maybe someone managed to understand what was causing the issue?

Please advice.
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Being passionate is not the same thing as being a talented professional.

Having a passion for something may or may not convert to career competence, depending on the person.

The problem is that it's very hard to quantify programming talent, and it's easy to signal passion - hence passion is used as a false cipher for competence, although likely with some correlation at least.
>Am I supposed to feel sorry for the police now? Should we not fix security issues because law-enforcement may be relying on them?

Well according to law enforcement you're supposed to be in favor of anything that makes their job easier and removes them from accountability regardless of trade-offs. So yes, at least if you ask them.
> delicate skin, lower-yield trees, or greater susceptibility to disease

All of these are very valid reasons to not try to mass produce them. Even if they would be available from some person's orchard, they would still not be available in the shops or markets.
Google has deals with many OEM vendors for Windows laptops and such. Whether it's the platform default is meaningless in this context.
That part isn't terrible, even though it is really unwieldy. The big problem is using "Optane Memory" as the branding for the kind that isn't a memory module.

The natural things to call them are "Optane drives" and "Optane memory". Don't criss-cross that!
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