skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For high performance CUDA kernels people still need to write derivatives by hand. I know this as for my own research, and for many production systems, I'd still need to write it myself. Many of my architectures wouldn't have been possible without writing the CUDA myself (Quasi-Recurrent Neural Network[1]) or using optimized hand written black boxes (cuDNN RNN). The lack of open optimized hand written CUDA kernels has actually been an impediment to progress in the field.

Automatic differentiation allows for great flexibility and composability but the performance is still far from good, even with the various JITs available. Jax seems to be one of the most flexible and optimized for many use cases for now however.

[1]: https://github.com/salesforce/pytorch-qrnn
Thank you, Maria!
@TomMckenny, is there a resource that speaks to this economic theory of yours? Because the sources I cited here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22815572 reflects mainstream economic theory and what I have learned in my economic courses at university.
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But somehow it was also at the right time. Collaboration tools were not so available and interactive at that point so everything new was accepted. If if was available today, I cannot imagine any development team using it to collaborate. It's just so colourful and dense (and fun ;)), I think most people would refrain to use it.
You forget burning man and all the other people who use blm land. It's not all ranches. It's forests and deserts and watershed. It's just tons of land.
I'll flag the HTML pages with the team. I'm honestly not sure. I know we're able to offer epub and mobi this time, something not previously possible with the other books.

I haven't looked at those other resources, but I'll ask if others have.
So, a few objections. Most sites that use Google Analytics are not owned by monopolies or duopolies, so that aspect of your comment does not really apply. I also don't know if your claim r.e. malicious purposes is true. Probably depends on whose definition of malicious you're talking about.

> That customer model is a mental construct of said companies.

Well enough, but as I said, it's the one they care about. You seem to have a dualist view of customers where there are some things they care about that do affect economic behavior, and others they care about but which do not affect their economic behavior. I don't buy that model. I prefer the monist model where in competitive markets the customer expresses the totality of their preferences through economic behavior. I know it's incorrect, like all models, but I think it's least incorrect.

I doubt there's more than a tiny fraction of customers that even knows the existence of Google Analytics. Of them, only a small fraction of those has any idea of its capabilities. And of those customers, only an even smaller fraction even checks whether a site is using it before deciding whether to shop. The notion that a large fraction of customers care about the use of GA just doesn't fit with these other observations and conjectures. Please correct me with data if you think I'm wrong.

And anyway, whether you're right or me, the monist model encompasses everything companies have any incentive to care about, so it's the one that will be used to drive decisions. It's also the one that we can use to predict company behavior.
Eventbrite lays off half its workforce as coronavirus crushes events business
For Mac Dropshare is an unsung hero in this space: https://dropshare.app/
AWS Account Structure: Think Twice Before Using AWS Organizations
Or, let your relationships fall apart because you are working essentially 100% of the time you are not sleeping eating and fulfilling the other basic responsibilities of life.
Curiously enough, the Chinese themselves use the most boring weekday scheme on Earth: Sunday, then weekday 1 through weekday 6.
Jabra Speak 710 (speakerphone for excellent audio with great echo cancellation, can also be used as bluetooth speaker for your phone)
I can set up a DynamoDB based serverless API that scales automatically in a minute. I wouldn't call this an effort.

It's just that you know Postgres and I know DynamoDB. So go with what you know :)
> This person fundamentally does not understand databases.

Oh boy I do love hackernews :).

It sounds like you’ve spent a lot of your career in a SQL world. Have you worked a lot with DDB/MongoDB/Cassandra? If not then give it a whirl with more than a toy application and share your thoughts. Already done that? Try the brand new “constructive criticism” framework.

Instead of “this person fundamentally does not understand databases” based on 13 words in a 1200+ word article, consider: “I disagree with this statement and here’s why”.

You get all of the karma with none of the ad hominem! Win win!
Cool project. Micro SaaS opportunity :D
Haven't you heard about fully automated luxury communism?

I am past trying to debate with people that fall for this, it seems a better idea to sell kiddies pipe dreams and make some cash off of them. (For some reason these people get a lot of attention in the UK media).

https://luxurycommunism.com/about/
No, no we haven't.

A police state is a one-party state whose domination is maintained through the application of despotic force against the civilian population.

We, on the other hand, are experiencing a once-in-a-century, world-wide, corona virus pandemic with a mortality rate at least 10x the normal rate of corona viruses and which no one has immunity to because it just recently jumped species.

Since the vast majority of ultimate victims of this disease are the old and the infirm, we are undetaking a collective, other-sparing, selfless plan of action.

No one is alarmed by this action. It says absolutely nothing about our form of government and.what it says about our national character is inspirational and affirming.

See the difference?
Are you related to CloudApp? Your interface is very similar: https://www.getcloudapp.com/
Nice! Downloading right now. Yesterday I bought [CleanShot](https://getcleanshot.com) because [Giphy Capture](https://giphy.com/apps/giphycapture) sucks...but I might just refund it without even using it cause Zapier products are

For screenshots, I have loved using [Xnip](https://xnipapp.com/) above the built in screenshot maker.
I think that's insane, but I also don't have a space to do any kind of workout at the office. When most people are gone for the day I try and use one of the empty meeting rooms for a few stretches and push-ups.
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Does it "generally account for scale"? Citation needed. The GDPR has a fine structure of up to 4% of world-wide turnover or €20 million. Whichever is HIGHER. That means for any company doing less than say, €20 million in revenue and found to be non-compliant, GDPR gives the legal authority to fine them out of existence. I only mention GDPR as a specific example because of the familiarity here, but the general pattern of non-scaling regulation that results in regulatory capture and monopolization is the norm, not the exception.
I don't see that many pushing for communism.

Now, a lot are pushing for universal healthcare and similar social safety-net programs. Confusing these two things is a hallmark of either a propogandist or one of their rubes.
In my experience (using Dynamo for 4-5 use cases while Postgres for many more) a properly configured HA Postgres with RDS costs way more than Dynamo for the same workload. There is only a big catch, data modeling is not as straightforward with Dynamo. You cannot change it up so easily than with Postgres and your access patterns must cover every single use case. If you can do that, model your data and the access pattern fits Dynamo great, if not you are going to have a hard time.
The weak link is the copper cable going to the home. It's only possible to transport about 20 Mbps usable within a mile. It's split about 90% up 10% down because download is more useful for homes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G.992.5

Anything on the ISP network is most likely fiber (or Ethernet within one building), so symmetric both ways.
In a way Wave had been that enabling technology by becoming a compelling demo of Operational Transformation that was later incorporated into many other products with much more focused workflows (e.g. Google Docs).
The fact that your proposed scenario is scary / unpleasant / difficult does not automatically make the alternatives better, as we have learned over the last two decades. We need to seriously consider that perhaps these things are not actually simple unless you ignore the consequences.
"use containers" - no no no - containers and kubernetes are horribly insecure and in a multi-tenant situation not even an option

great marketing google!
Evolving Path of Exile's Renderer
The Science of Rubbing
This is not a valid to excuse companies when they do this.
Thanks for the balanced context. That provides a new perspective into the note and makes a lot of sense.
Could you elaborate? According to Wikipedia it is 70%-90% alcohol.

"In a base of dilute ethanol (70–90%), eau de cologne contains a mixture of citrus oils"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eau_de_Cologne
So, uh, can or can't the wife's husband choose to spare her?
seems like you already have a paid plan. if that is not working maybe your free tier is just too giving or the jump from free to paid it's too big and worth it.
this is an interesting counter-counter-argument i've not seen before. does discussion of this sort of derivative behavior exist elsewhere? i.e. is there an established narrative of incumbents pushing against regulatory capture, or examples of this behavior?
This graph shows total mortality in NY state https://twitter.com/JDVance1/status/1247728338484985857?s=20
What's surprising to me is that it was allowed before. They have had their own videochat solution for years, so I would expect the usual "eat your own dogfood" approach.
We all drink from the same cup. Anecdotally I find that the people who seem to need to feel "better than" the other beings we share the planet with tend to be more likely to treat their fellow man with contempt as well. It's almost like them saying "humans are the best and most important" is just their smokescreen for an "I AM THE BEST" ego trip.
If that problem exists it needs to be solved at the OS level, not worked around in shady ways. BTW, can't Web pages link to the app store?
Resorts in Mexico are often in rather poor areas. The workers may indeed WANT 80 hour weeks (at their whatever few US dollars an hour). If you only work them 40, they would get half pay - so go work at the neighbor resort for 40 more hours.

Yes, ideally each worker would work half the hours for double the pay, but that is not free to the resort owner.
Museveni says fighting indiscipline of Africans ‘tougher than Covid-19’
Flameshot looks interesting. Also, if you're using gnome 3 (standard ubuntu, in my case) the screenshot tool extension is great. https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1112/screenshot-tool/
I don't understand? Can you explain what that means?
we would have heavy coverage of drone delivery and drone powered internet before this became physically or economically feasible. I don't think you understand the remote is of some of these areas or the sheer acreage involved. also wolves are smart I think as soon as they realize that the flash bangs are going to hurt them they're going to start ignoring them. this happens with all sorts of noise makers that are used to remove predators from an ecosystem such as things to scare herons away from fish breeding areas.
Can you port it to Windows? Windows has, from what I can tell, no decent screenshotting + annotating tool that compares with Skitch or any of the Mac alternatives.

Lightshot comes the closest to a decent, light, free alternative but it's still not ideal.

The built in Windows tool is nice (win + shift + S) but there's no arrows, it's a faff to get straight lines and it's just up to the quality of the OSX tools.

I started making one but like all side projects it just sits there waiting for that elusive "free time".

Thanks
Orange man bad, yeah?
So send them home with an O2 bottle and a cannula, or to a quarantine building. Don't intubate just to protect staff.
I don't think I can talk about that, sorry.
The same way you turn anything into a business: figure out who will pay how much money for what. Then, figure out how much it will cost you to provide that to them and tell your future customers that you exist. If the former is more than the latter, you might be able to make a viable business.

Your existing users might be good leads, or they might not. At the least they see enough value in your offering to use it for free. Talk to them and find out what they think you’re adding, and figure out if that’s something people might pay for.
Str: Yet another string library for C language
The Soviets met their production quotas, at the cost of unrelenting and dangerous working conditions for little to no pay, a stark lack of consumer goods, and in many cases starvation and mass execution or deportation. But they got Stalin his steel. They met the quotas set at the top.
i should mention, it also acts as a pi-hole via dnsmasq configured with these hosts:

https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts
There's nothing on par with the main search product, but here are some of their products that seem successful from the 2010s: Google Drive, Google Flights, Google Hangouts, Tensorflow, and Google Photos. This isn't an attempt to be an exhaustive list, but these are all products that a lot of people on this board probably use frequently and have stuck for years.
Who are your audience here? I’m trying to figure out whether this is some Zapier/Integromat type of tool, but the emphasis on more “high volume” integrations and scenarios is interesting.

I’m personally just doing some simple workflows with Gitlab-to-Telegram etc, and I have to say that I find it quite difficult to accomplish that what I consider “medium complexity” stuff: one Gitlab push event has multiple commit messages, I want to iterate over them for formatting, and then collect all of them in a single Telegram message.

Unfortunately, the sheer fact that I’m not “allowed” to write any code makes the solution so much more complex; debugging what’s wrong is a nightmare, and generally it all just leaves a bad feeling behind.

Don’t get me wrong; I’m paying for this service because I get value out of it, but it feels as if the devil is in the details if you want to pull this off.
I wonder why Spanish, with its strong Catholic tradition, uses Roman gods for the weekdays. Especially since Portuguese and Spanish are so closely related languages...
Sourdough Starter Is 'Growing' on Trees in San Francisco
Dev.to is a good demonstration of how content-based web apps should be developed
She created the foundation and has had a leading role in it since forever.

She’s not someone who came in left field as an interim and started firing people left and right.

I’m not sure why you think a ceo should also be a programmer.
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Google dogfooded Wave before releasing it publicly.
But in a world where we feel it was backwards that moderators were punished and unmoderated platforms weren't... Congress decided "let's just make everyone immune" was the right way to go?

And again, I think the examples here are missing the same concept that Section 230 fails to recognize: Profit, as I discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22816016 It seems like the author of Section 230 failed to recognize we're in a capitalist society when this regulation was drafted.

When platforms are taking a cut out of illegal activity, as Big Tech platforms do when they operate ad networks, courts would have to agree that any platform party, regardless of whether or not they currently moderate, should be held to some manner of responsibility.

Right now, when an old lady clicks a Google search result for "mapquest", clicks the top link for "Maps Quest"[0] because Google ads aren't distinguishable from real search results to the untrained eye, is pushed to install a browser extension (from the Chrome Web Store) that hijacks her browser's new tab and search, injects malicious ads, and scrapes her private info to relay to an attacker, Google makes money. And is wholly protected by Section 230 for that activity and unable to be held responsible for refusing to delist the malicious ad.

In what world is that the right legal position?

[0] (This is a very real world example, I've done a lot of senior citizen tech support, and this is how 90% of them get owned.)
Very interesting. Thank you for sharing.
Ironically, we are most capable and productive when we're constrained and have limitations.
> and funneling product requirements

I don't think the funneling stops at product requirements.
OP note: The original article title was modified as this post's title because it was a few characters too long.
Yeah, but if you only have one last name field, you can only index on people's first last name, not their second last name? How are you going to solve that?
> Does anyone can tell anything positive about her?

She's the reason Mozilla exists today as an independent, non-profit organization.

On March 31, 1998 Netscape allowed the Mozilla code base to be open sourced under the Mozilla Project. [1][2] This was the result of an intensive year-long effort to

(1) remove proprietary source code that couldn't be open-sourced,

(2) release the source code under a brand new license called the Mozilla Public License. This license was written principally by Mitchell Baker whose formal education is in law, with input from ESR, Linus Torvalds, VA Research, etc. [3]

On July 14, 2003 AOL (which had acquired Netscape earlier) closed down the Netscape division and laid off almost everyone there, including Mitchell Baker. That very day Mitch Kapor [4] stepped in with funding and advice to help Baker and a core team of total 10 employees set up the Mozilla Foundation in an office in Mountain View that is today occupied by the Khan Academy. [5]

Wikipedia [6] has a good summary of her career.

The documentary Code Rush is required viewing, IMHO, to capture some of the excitement of that era. [7][8] Bonus points for spotting JWZ. :-)

[1] https://www.cnet.com/news/netscape-sets-source-code-free/

[2] https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2018/03/31/mozilla-turns-twent...

[3] https://www.oreilly.com/openbook/freedom/ch11.html

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitch_Kapor

[5] https://blog.mozilla.org/press/2003/07/mozilla-org-announces...

[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitchell_Baker

[7] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_Rush

[8] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Q7FTjhvZ7Y
I for one am glad that you took this action. I do something similar for Amazon specifically: I politely decline the offer to interview up front stating that I take issue with how Amazon treats its employees across many of its departments and I link the FACE
of Amazon website here: https://sites.google.com/site/thefaceofamazon/ .

I was not always this way. I interviewed there twice and was rejected both times. It was disappointing at the time, but I consider it a blessing now because I know that I am not ambitious / competitive to the necessary degree I would need to be to do well there.

I still buy things on Amazon, and I consume a lot of content on their wholly-owned subsidiary Twitch, but I do not believe that a ruthless focus on the customer necessarily means ruthlessly treating employees and contractors to as close to the breaking point as permitted by law. For Amazon specifically, I’ve started looking more towards companies like Costco and NewEgg for what they carry. I’ve done the same with other tech companies too: I only have Google for Gmail, and a silent Twitter account that I do nothing on besides update passwords and 2FA if I see the day where my voice counts for something.
The most challenging part of this series is not in the material itself. These insights are learnings through hard experience and scale from Google are invaluable.

No, the hard thing for everyone is to recognize is that most companies are not Google and don't have Google's problems, resources, or time to follow these practices.

Definitely read the material, I will thoroughly, but don't apply this blindly. Solve YOUR problems, not theirs.
I didn't think they'd be foolish enough to completely ban it.

They're not comically evil, they just have certain incentives.

Key escrow meets those goals.
> suggesting that without it companies would be inherently violating the law any time one of their users violated the law,

Well, that’s almost literally what immunity means in this case. I’ve read that post of yours you linked downthread, and you’re basically just saying “courts will be wise enough and make reasonable decisions”.

I’m somewhat sympathetic to some expansion of liability. Revenge porn, for example, shouldn’t exist. That’s real harm being done every day to real people. And the tube sites are not just unwilling to spend money on moderating uploads. They obviously know that a large percentage of uploads are made without full consent, and that content represents a significant chunk of their revenue.

BUT Sec 230 is specifically aimed to indemnify websites that do try to moderate content. Before Sec 230 there was a brief period of time where that theory everyone on the internet believes in even though it is completely stupid was actually true, namely that the act of moderating some content somehow creates an obligation to moderate all content.
Every noun and every verb is a euphemism for sex. The solution is to drop the taboo around sex talk, not eviscerate the language.
Isn't that the purpose of rewards cards, as a company? To get a small % from every purchase, and encourage use of your product?
Yeah I'm aware of this functionality but you need one more extra tool for the text/symbols and it gets even more complicated with gifs.
I particularly like his silver rule principle as it indeed seems like a better version of the golden rule.
Year-old data isn't worth very much.
If you take Cassandra and remove the power user features whose runtime cost is hard to predict, what you're left with is pretty close to DynamoDB. It's harder to use and incompatible with everything else, but its key feature is not overpromising capacity. We're only considering alternatives because there's no cost saving story around tiered storage.
That's almost worse than having no volume control in their interface, even for their desktop site.
I found dev.to hard to read. Something about the combination of color choices, font sizes, and page layout makes it feel too busy to me. It's not impossible, it's simply a little difficult on the eyes.
The Guide on How to Find Business Investors
The book has no value unless the goals and the lessons are internalized.
Coronavirus: Exploiting nature 'drives outbreaks of new diseases'
I remember using Matomo when it was Piwik and it was really easy to self host.

I do not see hosted analytics as real competition to GA since you have the same privacy problems.

Self-hosting should be the preferred option.
Ah fair enough.

As someone who’s been fairly mobile/nomadic most of my career, I have always enjoyed the thin client approach.

I can get many more years of service from my client hardware when offloading the bulk of compute, storage, and stable bandwidth needs to beefy servers.

I’ve found that it’s just generally more economical and efficient this way.

Plus, the few times I’ve had laptops die, get stolen, damaged etc to have a much lower impact when they don’t have anything all that important on them.
Sounds good. I'll try that.

I'm not interested in the selfie tool.
Communism is a very broad term.

Unfortunately, propaganda (from both sides) has made it synonymous with full blown authoritative Soviet unions style regimens.