skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Opinion: Some very key ideas here for whomever would run the next Google or Facebook.

Reason: The next Google or Facebook will not be run on a single server. Nor two servers. It will be run on N servers, which will need to communicate with one another.

If that network topology, that network mesh, is sub-optimal - then so will that network be.

That's why the PDF referenced above is so important.

It not only contains nice, intuitive, explanatory graphics, but shows the mathematics governing a plethora of network topologies.

It might not be complete, nor absolutely correct for all circumstances (haven't reviewed it critically), but in my opinion, this PDF serves as a great introduction to the subject matter, and design issues at stake, etc., etc.
Not even Alexander could conquer Afghanistan.
I don't think there is an effective way to distinguish bots from real users when a UA is faking what it is. IP filtering or other measures can help, but you ultimately rely on the UA strong from the UA.
Not GP, but it gives me about 5-10% horizontal scroll, for the benefit of the last few letters of 'contributors' and background to 'summary'.

It's fine though, I leave most blame at iOS' door. Everything looks too big on this temporary iPhone SE, and I'm not allowed to zoom out, default to Firefox, or use any extension or 'content blocker' in it even though it's forced to use Safari to render. (/Rant..)
Server-side analytics will tell you in most cases, and if they don’t, they’re easy to add in a way that makes them unlikely to be blocked?
Are adblockers very prevalent in Japan?
> my strong suspicion is the Chrome team killed the idea of shipping a Dart VM in Chrome

Yeah in a video last year, Lars said "then the whole mobile shift happen and there was no room for extra stuff in chrome"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPna6D21Eqg&feature=youtu.be...
> they’ve all been shady apps

As nice as it is to see these apps be pulled, I would be more comforted if Apple were applying their rules uniformly instead of going after companies after the supposedly shady behavior makes the press.
I had a tailight go out, it's new enough to be led, with a built in circuit board, so as it was extensively corroded, the whole module had to be replaced for about $200...but also lots of interior trim had to be taken apart to get access which the dealer would have charged me hundreds for. I think the 12V battery is probably not hard to physically replace, but I believe the electronics are locked to genuine batteries in some way.

I was recently reminded how in the US, car headlights used to be standardized. When I was a kid, even though I was fascinated with cars, I never really noticed it. But then we gave it up, and now there's tremendous flexibility in styling, but at a large cost. It really is valuable for government to force standards on people, even if there is a tradeoff and they can overdo it.
If you don’t want to give your information to a site, don’t use that site? That’s a very different proposition from not wanting to give your information to a third party.
What reddit is today is simple: toxic. That shouldn't be rewarded.
Some of the most “innovative” times are when someone is on parental leave.

And by innovative I mean “we have no idea how anything works - let’s fix it.”
The complaint was that this app was being distributed outside of the store, which is against the terms of the Enterprise developer agreement.
How does 4 nodes let you treat each of the 8 chiplets as a separate NUMA node?
Just like dropout in a neural network.

What is the equivalent of weight decay?
Note that the 0% for Android is because Google banned ad blockers on the Play Store.
This test compares:

1. Number of visitors as recorded in Google Analytics

2. Number of loads of a 1x1 pixel served on a different domain

They see higher numbers for (2) than (1), and attribute the difference to users blocking Google Analytics.

I don't see them describing how they excluded bot traffic, however, and for my sites the majority of hits I get are from bots. Only some bots run JS, so I suspect their numbers for blocking users are thoroughly diluted by these bots.

(Disclosure: I work for Google, speaking only for myself)
Well, I imagine you can always improve that statistic by simply making the battery, say, twice as large and not using most of the capacity. I recall reading that Toyota did that to make the Prius reliable and long-lived.

It would be a valid objection to ask if that is really advancing environmental goals, I suppose.
No, OpenAI has very explicitly made this clear: https://openai.com/charter/.

Our primary fiduciary duty is to humanity. We anticipate needing to marshal substantial resources to fulfill our mission, but will always diligently act to minimize conflicts of interest among our employees and stakeholders that could compromise broad benefit.
That's not a valid argument. It's one of the most populous modern cities. That's like saying a city has a great music scene because it's top 5 based on Grammy winners. You know London and food is not a thing.

Even if you went w Michelin stars, London w almost 9 M population has 85 and San Fran w less than 1M has 75. San Fran is known for good food. London is not.

https://www.farandwide.com/s/cities-michelin-stars-397433fb7...
I think an important angle of "consider the cost" is that materials in R&D are pretty much ALWAYS cheaper than a team and time. For example here if the whole rocket was a 4mm thick 9m X 118m cylinder, the actual stainless steel would be like $700K [1]. While the rough headcount ceiling cost at SpaceX (7000 employees) is around $5M per day. And this way they get actual valuable engineering experience out of it, rather than just arguing in conference rooms like a more conservative company would have done. I think fail-fast prototypes are super valuable and are what good R&D looks like.

[1] https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%28pi+*+9m+*+4mm+*+118...
Ah, nice. My first introduction to systems with replayable command logs at their heart was Prevalyer, and it really changed the way I think about system design for the better. I'm excited to try this out.
Also, please leave out the second sentence next time. Thanks.
> I know almost no JavaScript. I know C and asm and python. So... looking at the two, guess which one looked better to me?

I fail to see your point; surely Dart was a new language for you as well?
One more thing: the entire Google Ads Frontend has been re-written in Dart. This was a very significant, multi-year investment which usually happens at most once in a decade. And... this particular product gives paychecks to everyone else, of course including the Dart team (and core infra team as well).
The value of institutional knowledge is that it's already in someone's head. Reading documentation, searching a wiki, email archives, may be better than reinventing the wheel but the real way preserve it is retention.

I would invest in that if your are in a complicated or specialized domain where it takes months or years for someone to really get their mind around it. One thing I have noticed is that private work environments tend to be present at the low turnover environments I've seen. At least a cubicle.

Another option is extending low hour contracts to departing employees as sort of an off-ramp to their role. They are on a few hours a week or as-needed to handle the dwindling number of cases where they are most needed.
Why is email superior to slack (or other chat solutions)?
Oh shit! I forgot I have one of those sitting around!
I would note that trying to write an app at this point without UIKit to fill in the holes that SwiftUI currently has would be foolhardy.
Its easy when you don’t have to worry about weight. Just make it thicker and stronger. Steam engines don’t often explode, but they aren’t going to make orbit either.
Thanks for the confirmation, I think I had tried right when 3.11 came out so that lines up - I'll try the newer builds.
Its a lot easier to detect problematic over not-problematic but fake.
As someone that spent many countable (billable) hours doing Excel audits--yes there is.

You build them yourself.

The fallacy that you're bringing to Excel is pretending that it's a "all-and-be-all" in a package.

It's a tool with an embedded programming environment. Much like you'd take a basic Python install, and add on additional tools, the same applies to Excel.

The embedded programming language (VBA) is a fantastic language--it has absolutely no libraries out of the box which makes it a poor development /environment/.

To directly address your question:

- include a "version" cell on a "Config" worksheet (optionally include values for "audited by", "audited date", "audit version", "audit type", note this could be a multirow, so you could actually specify "full" audits, and mini audits)

- build a function that maps all formulas to an "Audit" worksheet

- build a function to export to CSV with the date and version tagged

- build a function to export all code modules to text files

- create whatever release-versioning you want around this: zip of exports + "deployment" XLS, GIT repo with tagged version and exports and a binary blob of the XLS, etc, etc.

(Edit: workbook vs worksheet; each tab in a workbook is a worksheet.)
Celiac does __not__ go away... ever. It is a genetic, auto-immune disorder, your body attacks the protein as it's being processed in your lower intestine, stripping and killing the cillia which is what causes the primary symptoms of inflamation and malnutrition.

Celiac, like Type 1 diabetes, gout, lupus, and many other auto-immune disorders can only be managed, not magically cured.

Gluten intollerances are a different matter entirely, and can stem from over use of gluten enriched flours (think pizza doughs, white bread, anything using bleached flours, and anything that commercially needs more rise than the natural flour can provide).
I understand your feeling, but it's also HN standard practice to assume good faith.

I think the first comment is quite short and, while it doesn't bring a lot to the table I think it's a feeling echoed by a many in the current community. (Not necessarily me, but the zeitgeist seems to be there). So, in this light, doing a disclosure on each and every comment is... Unreasonable, especially if it's something you feel deeply about.
Thank you Elad for writing this very succinct and useful document. One thing you may want to include is what sort of symptoms there are and when they appear. I've found the preliminary NEJM case study helpful to me as Figure 2 clearly drawn:
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2001191
Another document I've found helpful is the Chinese CDC document:
http://weekly.chinacdc.cn/en/article/id/e53946e2-c6c4-41e9-9...
in understanding the aggregate behavior of Covid-19.
You may know of better more recent primary source documents, so I look forward to seeing the updates in your overview.
>But I think keeping in sync changes in API, hardware device drivers and new interactions across different platforms and device will still be nightmare and in general it will play catch up with native. It can be seen in the number of issues opened on flutter project on GitHub [1]. Hopefully there is some support from different platforms so it remains reasonable choice and perform well compared to native.

I am an optimist; I have high hopes for the future of mobile development. Specifically, I hope that the developers who develop AndroidOS and iOS will metaphorically bend over backwards to make Flutter compatible with those operating systems. After all, isn't it in Apple and Google's best interest to make mobile development as painless as possible?
Nope. Just premium economy seats. Summer flights from US to Germany with no weekend stay are really expensive.
> Who decides what qualifies as a general purpose

Alan Turing and Alanzo Church.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church%E2%80%93Turing_thesis

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

However, my use of the term is an explicit (my previous [2]) reference
to these important talks by Cory Doctorow about the War on General
Purpose Computing, which I strongly recommend watching/reading:

https://boingboing.net/2012/01/10/lockdown.html

https://boingboing.net/2012/08/23/civilwar.html
Definitely prepare, I mean there is not really a down side to it, but my instinct is to cut through the hype and look at the data. The site this article links to is good:

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

Error bars on this would be even better, but note that the growth in cases is still linear, about 3000 new cases per day. It will be interesting to follow how this changes, with more testing in the US for example, but based on this one thing it looks to me like we'll make it to summer without it taking over the world. If you have better data or analysis, I'd like to see it.

[edit]: found the curve that shows new cases outside of China, and it's indeed NOT linear:

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-cases/...
If their salary was docked to pay for the raises then I can totally see why they left.
he said it’s a 50 person company. even if he had the authority you mention he would not be a “CIO”
Almost all jobs are badly paid compared to professionals working at a FAANG
It doesn't make much sense to me. In the 90's, my HP 48 from Service Merchandise (0, lol) could solve most PDEs, ODEs, systems of equations and integrals symbolically. MATHLAB has been doing it since the late 1960's, and Mathematica since the late 80's. They're CASes. [1]

If you wanted to solve something more complicated, like simulate a nuclear reactor, simplify it as much as possible and then use Monte Carlo or other heuristics. (I worked on such a product.)

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service_Merchandise

^The article failed to mention the most interesting part of the pickup area: the enormous conveyor belt, long set of rollers and noises from the upstairs inventory warehouse.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_algebra_system
Why not turn it back on for everyone? If you have to maintain the feature anyway, might as well offer it.
It's the main reason why I will ask if they have dietary options for someone with Celiac instead of "gluten free." If they look at me weird, it's a good sign that their gf options aren't really gf, and that all I'll be having is an iced tea for dinner.
Shipping a new language in your browser is no trivial task.
Do I need to use Dart in order to use Flutter?
Yeah, not advocating for chipkill, but the OS has to know how to interpret the machine check syndromes, is all I was getting at. This has been a problem for me on Skylake-SP with Linux, to name one.
You don't happen to be working on cryptocurrencies do you? I'm surprised to hear of Agda being used in production.
> Will Strafach, the founder and CEO of Guardian Firewall, an iOS security app, said he doesn't see any way Clearview can remedy its situation with Apple given the startup's clear flouting of the rules.

A web app can do this easily.
It’s not always clear that a site is logging things server-side.
X is a placeholder, maybe I should have used a ?
"You poor sweet summer child"

haha. Google is way ahead of you and your "leap seconds".

"Since 2008, instead of applying leap seconds to our servers using clock steps, we have "smeared" the extra second across the hours before and after each leap. The leap smear applies to all Google services, including all our APIs."

https://developers.google.com/time/smear

...now write code to convert Google time to any other random type of time.
Yeah, exactly. "Inexcusable" seems a bit extreme.

Are you suggesting companies spend 10x on manual user research? Are you willing to pay more for a product because of increased costs to understand what users actually want?
I just turned on the television for the first time in years. There was an ad from an oil company talking about climate change as if it’s a given, and how they’re taking measures to stop it.

Is the ad superficial, meaningless bullshit? Of course.

But the presence of hypocritical financial interests is irrelevant. Or rather, it supports the thesis that the clerisy are interested in power rather than actual morality.

Regarding the poor academics, the conflict between members of the middle class is the point of the article.

Tenured professors v. adjuncts might be the best possible example of the authors point.
How would they? Their analytics don't show it.
Not everything needs ECC memory.

Ceph monitors aren't in the data path and Paxos is robust against byzantine failure, so...
Big companies actively encourage regulation! Notice Facebook lobbying for privacy regulations.
I assume he means that in selecting between two languages, with that given lang background, he made a preference choice of Dart.

As a counterpoint, we have whole swathes of JS engineering teams building new mobile apps and would select react-native / Typescript (and where possible Expo) over Dart.
Nope, just advanced planning and VoIP. You'd be amazed how much you save in both service fees and distraction. Friends and family quickly adapt as well, knowing to call in the evening - which leads to better conversations in my experience (no more "...so whatcha doin?", they've collected their thoughts and I'm not distracted). Obviously it doesn't work for everyone... but unless you are a doctor or a volunteer firefighter, I encourage people to give it a try for a month or two - you won't want to go back to lugging that privacy invading media consumption device around after that.
There was a working group of stakeholders that worked hard for months on proposed LAANC systems and solutions that included the AMA and FliteTest and it was disregarded.

Discussion on YouTube suggest the NPRM was mostly written by non-pilot lawyers and lobbyists for Amazon and Verizon, ignoring the findings and suggestions of the working group. So a large segment of airspace users are ignored (fpv racing and freestyle drone pilots, photo drone pilots, RC airplane hobbyists, etc numbering a few million people and all the supporting industry and hobby shops, STEM robotics educators, DRL fpv racing on ESPN, etc). So this is why we are protesting.

Read more in depth on this topic:
https://fpvfc.org/
and
https://content.dji.com/we-strongly-support-drone-remote-id-...
and
https://dronedj.com/2020/02/28/help-save-out-hobby-protest-a...
The government's definition of a bad actor is different to yours and mine.

You can lie, cheat, steal, spy, torture and kill, so long as you do it on behalf of, and for the benefit of, a government.
Not having to ALSO know JS + XML + HTML + CSS... it looks familiar coming from C.

If Flutter apps are two things, Flutter and Dart. Then React Native apps are six things or so.
I feel OpenAI has stayed fairly close to its mission and principles. I'm not sure about why so much secrecy, they could have just NDAed and let the reporter take look at things which is common practice even at Apple. However, apart from that, they are the only ones explicitly sensitive to safety and economic issues surrounding AGI. Specifically, AGI is certain to generate the first trillionaire or even deca-trillionaire and throw the wealth gap between countries completely out of control. Unlike guns and nukes, it would be a far more difficult tech to clone for less fortunate groups. I think OpenAI is the only group actively working against that outcome (i.e. max 100X return provision) while most others wish to race to AGI first, patent the hell out of it and become the most powerful richest entity world would have ever seen. Also, until recently with only 200 folks and limited pay (relatively speaking), they have amassed extraordinary talent that has given run for its money to teams 10X larger. When people say that they just try to copy/scale others innovation, they grossly underestimate very impressive contributions that has touched virtually everything from supervised, unsupervised, RL, NLP and robotics.
Perhaps the OP is thinking of Sarah Jeong Twitter activity, of #CancelWhitePeople and NYTimes fame. With pearls as:

> Dumbass fucking white people marking up the internet with their opinions like dogs pissing on fire hydrants.

> Are white people genetically disposed to burn faster in the sun, thus logically being only fit to live underground like groveling goblins.

> oh man it’s kind of sick how much joy I get out of being cruel to old white men.

> #CancelWhitePeople

> white men are bullshit

etc...

https://twitter.com/LarryOConnor/status/1025081955400994816
None of these edge cases have a chance of being handled correctly without an accurate time zone database to detect the problem at all. Good luck maintaining that on the side! I am fairly certain that you would get it wrong. There's a reason why most software relies on zoneinfo.
Yes it is; all sites log.

Not everyone does smart things with the data.
> It's fine though, I leave most blame at iOS' door.

I think this is just some missing CSS to hand this case.

> Everything looks too big on this temporary iPhone SE, and I'm not allowed to zoom out, default to Firefox, or use any extension or 'content blocker' in it even though it's forced to use Safari to render.

On my very much not temporary iPhone SE, I can use content blockers and zoom out…
I remember seeing a thick dead tree type of book with the history of time zones in the US, for figuring out times in historical documents when things were less standardized. It was practically the size of a phone book; I think it probably covered county level history or something like that.
I mean personally I happen to agree that Java's checked exceptions represent a reasonable experiment, although I think they suffer from low-level problems, namely the way they interact with lambdas, the way they're at odds with the community's interface-happy habits, and the self-inflicted tension between whether something should be checked or unchecked (should an out of bounds exception on a dynamically sized array be checked or unchecked? It doesn't seem morally all that different from whether a file exists or not).

But language features exist within the programming community that uses them and on codebases where even if you go to the trouble of threading through all checked exceptions underlying code still blows up under you with what should be checked exceptions (which is all production codebases I've ever seen), it quickly becomes an uphill battle to convince team members to use checked exceptions.
Except that a mask worn by you may be a mask not worn by a sick person, nurse or doctor in a close range situation.
+1

throwing off 75% of knowledge increases generalization capabilities

(actual experience detecting real criminal behaviors within financial claims)
I've always had to go out of my way to find single-bit correction numbers in Linux. I suspect that once you find that, noticing a chipkill event is pretty easy. But I've never seen a chipkill event, despite having a lot of DRAM for a long time.
The notion that Apple should not be “allowed” to keep some software out of their App Store is nonsense. It saddens me that a person who claims to care about freedom also wants the government to forbid people from making editorial decisions on their private platforms.
This argument works equally well in both directions: if you don’t want people to modify your site with client-side scripting, don’t serve it to them.
The difference is that Teslas are much much larger than a phone which gives ample room for advanced cooling systems which prevent the heat buildup that kills lithium ion batteries.

The only way to get a similar number of cycles with a phone battery would be to put a large heat sink and possibly a fan on the phone’s SoC and battery or to permanently throttle the SoC so that it never gets hot, even when all cores are maxed out. Essentially, the choice would be a brick-like phone or a phone that runs like it‘s a decade old. Neither seems like the sort of compromise consumers outside of a small niche would buy.

Of course in the future we may see battery chemistries that aren’t so sensitive to heat, but no such battery is on the market currently.