skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe you already have a stance here and you're rather embroiled in the beliefs you already have. So I'm not going to comment to you- but to anyone who reads your comment.

Sorry for that.

> Based on what? They don't end up there, [...]

Well, yes, you can argue the factors here but there is a trend that something is off-putting. Either Gamer-gate (something which is absolutely mired in controversy of its own right) or 'rape jokes' but more likely the tropes of: long working hours with a dead end at the end of it, competitiveness, isolation and the notion that if you're in technology your job is your life.

Frankly to assume you and I know the true reason is rather arrogant, I'm not a sociologist I can only read the corpus of their work and believe that they came to the correct conclusions.

Your comment indicates that there is an aggressive amount of sexism in tech, rape jokes and groping not withstanding, and I'm not going to ask for evidence of that despite my conviction that this is not nearly as endemic as you indicate; instead I'd ask the question: If marketing is also inherently sexist (and definitely more "boys club groping the ladies" than tech) why is there a much stronger representation of Women there?

I think you have internalised a mistruth about the tech industry at large.
On the one hand, I’m grateful as Nevada sorely needs new industry outside of hospitality. Probably some benefit similar holds for Texas. Meanwhile LA and Cali have plenty of industry and corporations local to hardly notice Tesla leaving.

On the other hand I think society should have some safeguards and safety nets in place for once per century events such as a pandemic that shutters the economy. Surely if we had kept a preparation in place since 1918 we would have a much easier time weathering this storm. But instead society forgot all about these things. It wouldn’t have been easy of course given the shortsighted nature of politics.
Having knowledge of the material and writing it down is considered a negative when it comes to creating Wikipedia content.
I think there are as many people that would be happy with "ya know what, we should chill while we collect more data about the risks of restarting manufacturing" as there are that would be happy with "fuck the government, i'm moving". It will be in the news either way; people LOVE talking about Elon and Tesla even when he's not being weird.

I don't know what is going on, but I think he should take a break from Twitter.
I will definitely try it as vs code became so slow and has all not needed features for me.
Thank you very much for posting this!

Roughly that 3000× is 18× from multithreading, 3× from SIMD instructions, 15× from tuning access patterns for locality of reference, and 3× for turning on compiler optimization options. This is a really great slide deck!

I was assuming "single-threaded nonvectorized C" already had compiler optimization turned on and locality of reference taken into account. As the slide deck notes, you can get some vectorization out of your compiler — but usually it requires thinking like a FORTRAN programmer.

So I think in this case reasonable C code runs about 54× slower than Leiserson's final code. However, you could probably get a bigger speedup in this particular case with GPGPU. Other cases may be more difficult to get a GPU speedup, but get a bigger SIMD speedup. So I think my 97% is generally in the ballpark.

A big problem is that we can't apply this level of human effort to optimizing every subroutine. We need better languages.
I didn't check but I would assume it's based on https://github.com/rxi/microui by the same author.
Ask HN: Easy way to save files from web app to cloud?
I have a Java desktop app to create/edit files that I ported to the browser/JavaScript with TeaVM. What is the easiest way to save files from a web app to the cloud?

I'm looking for a shortcut right now - ideally, I'd like to be able to save the file with a simple HTTP POST, then retrieve the file with HTTP GET. I'm hoping I can use a public service like DropBox/OneDrive/GoogleDrive (setting up my own AWS S3 server is a job for another day).

I was just hoping someone might have some ideas/insight.
There’s no reason to have a factory there. It’s not as if Apple manufacturers iPhone in California, or anywhere near it.
That's the dataset used in the paper.
You are crossing streams.

This is not about whether Damore was 'right or wrong' - it's about whether he was within his right to make a reasonable statement and not get publicly murdered for it.

Also - your comment has also demonstrated the intellectual dishonestly against him by misrepresenting the thrust of his argument.

There are considerable differences between genders, this is not a scientifically controversial position, and in an entire 24 years of general upbringing, imbued with gendered differences and possibly marginal - but material - biological differences, is going to yield very different outcomes.

There are many fields in society that have unequal gender ratios and it's not remotely specific to 'tech'.

It's obviously a thorny subject, which requires some dispassionate thinking. We don't need people screaming 'Nazi' at the first hint that they might think someone, somewhere committed a 'thought crime' against their personal and very narrow view of the world.

This is the kind of bigotry that is not 'right, healthy or valid'.

The mob is much, much scarier than Damore.
'bcantrill says he does, and he's offered it to people who've wanted it[1], but I think he's managed to not check his /threads every time someone's asked. I haven't found any way to procure a copy, let alone a legitimate way.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10325362
Elon and Trump behave rather similarly in many ways. Same narcisist bullshit, different asshole.
It depends; if at least one of your parents is american, but you are born in a foreign country, you can be president (Ted Cruz). I don't think Musk qualifies (and he would never win, anyway).
I find this almost funny to read if it weren't so sad.

> He once seemed to be the savoir of humanity but these days he just seems like the typical angry CEO looking to manipulate things to his advantage.

> I can't help but wonder if Musk has had some medical event that is imparing his cognition.

How condescending is this? Is he acting like an angry little man, selfishly concerned for his bottom line and little else? Is he behaving like the stereotypical, upper-class born, billionaire CEO which he is? No, he must be having some kind of medical condition!

Have you considered that maybe, just maybe, he is just... your average billionaire CEO? Father owned an emerald mine, had a "lavish lifestyle" growing up (his words), had enough capital to invest in companies and strike it gold. A mixture of luck and merit.

Maybe, just maybe, he is not Our lord God-Emperor Elon.
They have a facility in Nevada and rumored to already have a location in Texas picked for the next factory so it makes sense to me.
I cover it here https://wiki.nikitavoloboev.xyz/other/wiki-workflow

Plan to write some more things and do videos to explain my workflow & wiki setup in more detail.
I found this piece to have all the interesting details: https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2016/7/204032-why-google-stor...
Yep:

https://github.com/rxi/lite/blob/master/src/renderer.c
Aha, that's a completely different application than what I had in mind (just an alt webcam that's better than a static picture for communication while still protecting your visual identity), but it would be amazingly cool =).
There are probably few other single cities that would be as competitive, even if most people would rather be elsewhere (they’d all be different places).
Although it might cost more than most games over time, Notch wasn't initially rich when he started developing it, right? V1 was pretty frugally created.

(Genuinely curious)

I'd love to hear an insider's opinion on: Why aren't more games developed like Minecraft? Bootstrapped, slowly crafted over years rather than months, soft launched, minimal marketing, iterated on, etc.? Why is "pump out and hype an AAA game as inexpensively as possible" the only option Serious Game Companies™ go with?
The kind of law and finance Musk is likely referring to is the chicken game red queen race. You need none of it unless your opponent reaches for it. A classic prisoners dilemma leeching value all around.
It feels snappier then sublime! Is there any limitation in the plugin system?
> ultimately harmless

Like calling an innocent person a pedophile?
Freedom Became Free-Dumb in America
Im from buffalo, and I have a feeling it would have a lot of trouble getting tech talent there. also, no one wants to move to buffalo, as im sitting in my living room on may 9th, im looking at a blizzard.
I don't know if it's a big enough niche. There are quite a lot of costs to air cargo aside from marginal fuel efficiency and somehow developing novel cargo-specific aircraft has to translate into both increased profits for Boeing/Airbus and decreased costs to shippers. Keeping in mind that these slower craft would be unsuitable for some of the most profitable uses of air freight today. I'm not sure it makes sense.
Since 2015, according to Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Character_Animator

They won an Emmy for it this year, their post about it (https://theblog.adobe.com/adobe-character-animator-receives-...) notes that it was used for a live broadcast of the Simpsons, and a Showtime series called "Our Cartoon President" (https://www.sho.com/our-cartoon-president).
Is there a form of card counting for sports betting that produces results
Tried both - Resolve is slower and, most importantly, TONS less intuitive than FCPX (even than Motion 5).
Also, last I checked, the free version of Resolve is non-commercial
Good fanout, but consider:

1. is normative, it assumes the reader respects the all of the (US) constitution's values. Two possibilities:

(a) the reader is from outside the US (this article is about Finnish basic income after all) and

(b) the reader is american but disagrees with the constitution's values (which ironically is somewhat in spirit with the constitution anyways, free speech and all)

2. This one is somewhat of a problem of semantics if you've ever tried to argue with hardline socialist/capitalists because there is no purely socialist or purely capitalist state out there, even in the US we have plenty of government controls. Hardline socialists are eager to distance themselves from historical failures (it wasn't "real" socialism) and capitalists are eager to distance themselves from supposed market failures (crony capitalism).

(I definitely have personal bias to the latter though. There are plenty of distorted incentives which create market failures, yet I will admit that markets left to their own devices often result in sub-optimal outcomes through a process
like the prisoner's dilemma)

3. Not necessarily communicatable to every reader but maybe similar readers would be able to relate.

4. Also not communicatable to every reader but I can believe that one :) though the worst customer service I've ever had was from comcast (caused by either {lack of government regulation | government regulation creating monopolies } depending on who you ask), and they refused to refund a double billing mistake until I ended up having to use some FTC website to make a formal complaint, at which point they finally assigned me a real customer service person from their business division.
This inversion has been years in the making.
I understand Silicon Valley is quite the Disneyland of tech, but you realize the rest of California is a third world country, and people and companies are fleeing in droves.
The socially liberal Hollywood moguls? So in a hundred years, it will be Tesla that's still in California, only then they will advocate to shut down their factories indefinitely?
They think 15gb monorepos are normal and sane and will bend reality itself to make it work.
My other comment on this thread followed others in congratulating the author. It specifically said "Bravo!" and guess what? It got down voted.

So the explanation may be that it is useless input but believe me it is not useless to the author to have people congratulate them for the fruit of their labor. It's a human desire to be recognized by others. How is it not a positive comment? Why down-vote something as benign and empathic as saying congratulations? So force a comment on each down-vote and things might get a little bit better because at least we'll know it's not just random acts of hostility and that the down-voter has a rational reason for it, at least in their mind.
Google is entirely full of vindictive people with blatantly political opinions - many who have acted with obvious malice towards others, so spare us the hypocrisy.

If this were truly a matter of 'opinion rocking the boat' - then there would be a bunch of other firings, policy changes etc. - but that is not the case at all.
Went to a music festival in Memphis (2006) on the water and while walking up to our car a limo was driving by. The window rolled down and there he appeared waving to us... make up to the max and all.

Fun memory as my friend sweetly and surprised said, "Oh, hi Little Richard." Most of us didn't notice him until her greeting.
- paying the extortion every month,
- speed (no real time in AE/Premiere)
Lens looks great! I'm going to try it on Monday :)
Well you must be getting screwed over in the US. Québec hydro is 6 cents per kWh, at your house, and is profitable. State owned nuclear energy in Europe has comparable costs.

If only the transmitter and receiver for space solar is a very significant fraction of the cost per kWh shipped at your house with profits of nuclear or hydro it can't be viable.
Sorry, I should have been more specific. Yes, I meant useful for building things up the gravity well. Sounds like the answer is "yes."
My company with 250 employees with offices in Europe and US announced last week that it aims to be 100% remote after this. Of course there will be a transition period, but i won't see myself in the office even after summer.

To be honest, i have worked remote for at least one year in the past, and i can safely conclude it was way better and more productive than the last 2 months mainly because it was by choice, as well as it was part of an overall remote culture (e.g. meeting regularly in cafes, doing fun activities as a group). However, even after this perfect year i personally couldn't do it no more.

People are probably making wrong assumptions of how nice the remote work might be due to the last 2 months because there was an overall excuse for their drop in productivity, or their lack of confidence (the world is collapsing how do you expect me to perform 100%?), and some extra time for family, netflix, spotify and social media due to the latter. IMO, in the wrong run the vast majority of people will definitely hate it and beg their companies to return to their offices.

With all the above i am not underestimating the health concerns. Of course companies should take minimum risks while the threat is still ongoing. In the positive scenario where it is eliminated companies should rethink their full remote policies (if they apply such) which were imposed during this weird period.
Scientist who fought Ebola and HIV reflects on facing death from Covid-19
There are some quite well documented differences in women's personality traits - particularly surrounding sociability, agreeableness and neuroticism. It's not particularly contentious to state that men and women have differing personalities. What may be contentious is the conclusions you derive from that.

Incidentally:

1) An environment filled with intellectual posturing is not "hyper competitive". The fact that you could confuse the two is concerning.

2) My post may have seemed to you to make a set of assumptions about women's abilities but it didn't (just their preferences).
Plus Texas, come on, guns and prayer, good luck finding talent
From abstract: "Given that accumulating evidence points at cholinergic dysfunction as a driving force of major dementia disorders, our findings mechanistically explain how prolonged use of PPIs may increase incidence of dementia. This call for restrictions for prolonged use of PPIs in elderly, and in patients with dementia or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis."

This is classical A causes B and B causes C, so A leads to C which is something we have had before with amyloid plaques. This does not tell us this is false, but really just a link and nothing more.

Some beautiful day, we will fully understand the cause of dementia. Today is not that day.
https://kottke.org/ - love Jason's blog,
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/ - great news aggregator,
https://pluralistic.net/ - another good one,
https://www.drudgereport.com/ - as someone that leans left I sometimes check drudge out to see what my dad is reading,
https://www.matthewball.vc/ - recently found this guy, been enjoying some of his essays
Well:

1. I would like to see strong progressive taxation that explicitly taxes concentration of wealth. This would be aimed at all large companies and wealthy individuals, and ultimately based on which actual human persons have legal control of the company such that it can't be gamed by creating shell companies, etc.

2. On top of this, I don't see why we can't explicitly put tariffs on things like financial or advertising transactions. Somewhat similar to a Carbon Tax, it would correct for costs to society caused by the activity. I'd be particularly keen on seeing measures that make it extremely expensive to do short-term trading, forcing investors to take a much more long-term view.
> WSL2 is fast, rock-solid and outperforms a Mac with iterm2 by far.

You have benchmarks for this? I’m running a Windows Pro installation with a Core i7 4790K and 16GB memory. My 2015 MacBook is much faster. I honestly thought the WSL thing was just a gimmick and some online searching told me that there are IO performance issues.
Making a music video by feeding the audio signal directly into an oscilloscope
Elon had generally had a flair for the dramatic. I feel like being mostly housebound might be wearing in him too. It reminds me a little of the Simpsons take on Howard Hughes.

https://youtu.be/FQN8UTLLU0M
> He's even asking fans and shareholders to sue the county[1]

Um, the tweet you referenced reads "Please voice your disagreement as strongly as possible with
@AlamedaCounty".

Isn't this just asking people to, you know, contact their local politicians and voice their opinion? Like, how individual citizens with an opinion can do? There's nothing about suing anyone?
Spiderman is another decent bet. He obviously has some long-term staying power.
For those not aware, the plant used to be called NUMMI which was a joint venture between Toyota and GM (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NUMMI). There had been an GM plant there since the 60s, many Corollas were built there for the CA market. Many things about NUMMI were very interesting but eventually GM went bankrupt and Toyota moved Corolla production elsewhere.
Hannah-Jones receives Pulitzer for personal commentary, not historical writing
Larry Ellison is on the board of Tesla and holds multi million dollar fundraising events for Trump.

Tesla doesn’t care about CA, Tesla wants to win and will strategize to do so.

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2020-02-15/larry-elli...

https://ir.tesla.com/board-directors/larry-ellison

The company is no longer a rogue CA carmaker, it’s a mainstream brand.
Yes, it does get rather complicated. There are edge cases but it’s safe to say Musk does not qualify.
And Textadept, which is also written in Lua.
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What is a number that man may know it, and man that he may know a number? (1960) [pdf]
The three IDW figures you mention, Dave Rubin, Sam Harris, and Ben Shapiro, are all Jewish. It's no surprise they'd not want to support BDS.
> to the name of his kid

Have you seen his girlfriend? Given her aesthetics and creative output, you should be glad the name can even be expressed in unicode. Musk probably moderated it, if anything.

> tweets manipulating stock prices

The stock price which is now... close to 2x the exaggerated $420 claim? Yeah, maybe he knew something you didn't.

> claims of forsaking possessions

This is for a good reason -- he needs cash to exercise the TSLA options he was just granted. He's stock-rich but cash-poor. The choices are either take on massive debt to exercise them, or free up cash ASAP. This is fine.

> false claims about constitutional guarantees of limitless freedom

Yeah... gonna need a cite here.

> to the flagrant disregard for the health and safety of his employees

He has different risk/reward beliefs than you. If he was working from home while his employees sweated unsafely on the factory line, that's one thing -- but he's also been in the office working beside them the whole time. He cares about what he's trying to do, and his risk/reward function is "fuck it". Did any of his employees honestly expect any less, when they joined?

> He once seemed to be the savoir of humanity

He's doing the same thing he's always done. His belief is that stopping global warming and getting humans off of earth take 100% precedence over anything else. Including, a 0-1% risk of death from disease. The same reason he's pushing to put astronauts in space -- the future is worth taking risks for.

If believed in Musk in the good times, you should have understood that he'd hold the same principles in the bad times. It's the rest of the world that blinked, not Elon.
What we (3D beings) see is a 2D projection of the world around us, 2D beings would indeed see a 1D projection of their 2D world (e.g. we only really see a circle when looking at a sphere). Just as we use depth perception to differentiate 3D objects from 2D ones, 2D beings would also be able to discern a circle from a line in a 2D world.
Completely agree - I'm confused by all the elon hate on HN. If he died today, he would accomplish more by 48 than most people could in 10 lifetimes. He's obviously a bit crazy but you would have to be to take on the projects he takes on.
I don't get the obsession with Musk on HN and elsewhere.

The man is a certified loon. From falsely claiming the rescue diver that helped free the people from the cave in Thailand a "child rapist" to saying he was taking Tesla private as some insane joke because, well, $420 everyone! Get it? Marijuana! 420! Do you get it? SEC wasn't laughing. I'm sure they aren't amused by his recent tweet that TSLA is overpriced. The guy has firsthand knowledge and is as insider as can possibly be and is carelessly tweeting that the investment is too high. If this isn't ringing some major alarm bells, nothing will. And I'll believe Tesla leaves California when I see it.

Call me old fashioned, but I still believe the CEO of a public company has a fiduciary responsibility to the company's investors. Crazy, right?
> I can get a very macOS-esque experience in Linux.

The problem is the “can get.” If you value your time at, say, $200/hr, how long can you spend learning about Linux distros, repos, software, and troubleshooting issues etc before you’ve spent the savings from buying a non-Mac-native laptop?
Given the effects of my own stints with way too little sleep over long periods of time, I would say yes. Not getting enough sleep really does mess with your brain.
CAA DNS records – prevent hijacking TLS/SSL certificate
It’s specialized for a very general problem though. If he made his own graphics logic in there too he could maybe make it faster too