skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The problem with forums isn't that they are dead. It's that you are trying to have them do what reddit does right now, which is endless content and interaction 24/7.

This is interesting, something I think i had a feeling about, but seeing it put in words, you're probably right. Ive probably changed a bit in my browsing habits and been conditioned to expect constant content.
Intel has the majority of its fabs in Arizona. What are you talking about?
Yeah, so what are they going to do when they then claim to need to to represent the length 2^64?
Love it!! One day we can just “order” a “new” Hitchcock movie or Crichton novel?!
Thank you! My question was deliberately vague but you hit all the points I cared about and gave me keywords to read further about.
One indicates the state of the company and might indicate wider issues for the industry and the other doesn't?
Probably also a pretty good existing ecosystem of 3rd party contractors and suppliers that support the Intel fabs and would be happy to do business with TSMC as well.

edit: also, a minor quibble: I wish we'd get away from calling it "poaching", as if there is anything illegal or immoral about employers competing for employees.
1. Everyone (except maybe for murderers and insane people) is a master of their body, so other people have no right at all to decide whether a sane non-murderer should be able to end his or her own life. This has nothing to do with any illness.

2. See 1.

3. When cognitive function is damaged severely, the person cannot make decisions on their own, including decisions on whether they should live or die.

4. All voluntary interactions are fine.
noice! and kudos for not using google analytics and google fonts
Basically do not use Ruby
He might not be the most trustworthy source with the waymo thing.
Definitely. Lots of water damage though, quite a few of them have been attacked by rust and it is hard to remove the rust without significantly weakening the strings. Endless patience. Today I set all the hammers so the una corda pedal works as intended, not that I use it but I felt it looked like crap with all those irregular spacings. This instrument has had a very rough life. I should have made 'before' and 'after' pictures. It's a cheap DDR product, even so it just hurt to see it in that shape. It's a 'Zimmermann' they have a bed reputation (deservedly so, the action really is poorly manufactured) but with a lot of tweaking you can get it to work quite well, definitely above the level that I'm at in playing so that is good enough.
This is interesting. Right now TSMC seems to provide Taiwan with guaranteed US protection because they are so far ahead technologically. Apple, AMD, and the defense industry have little alternative if they want a cutting edge node. It's unclear how long they will maintain this dominance.

Maybe the long term US-Taiwan ties of factories in the US will make this worth it strategically.

I assume that all R&D will remain in Taiwan. I think this might still be a good move in the long run since it'll give more politicians stake in what happens to Taiwan (Arizona senators, etc).
Because supporting the "long tail" is basically Microsoft Windows's entire selling point.

Everything works with Windows. I can run Linux software on Windows. I can run run greenfield web applications on Windows (the new Edge is being built for this purpose, but even Chrome for Windows was satisfactory, as long as it's easy to install). I can run old web applications on Windows. I can run old win32 applications on Windows, even stuff using emulated 16-bit APIs.

About the only thing you can't run on Windows is XCode. I wonder how big of a bribe Microsoft has tried to propose to Apple to get XCode for Windows, because developing iPhone applications is an enormous gap in Microsoft's moat.

The locked-down RT tablets were a horrible blot on an otherwise great brand. "Everything works with Windows" is a terrific selling point.
The peers gossip using compressed bitfields in regards to what data they have. These bitfields are super small so we can pack quite a bit of information.

At the moment we don't do anything special in regards to discovery, but as we scale that's something we want to investigate. Since everything is running on append-only logs we can group the data into sections quite easily so there is some easy wins we can do there with announcing to the dht that you have data in a specific region.
Not a bank account, but a E-retailer I am a customer of, started to send me occasional emails targeting another customer, without any name or email similarities (at all), from another European country (wtf ?).

At beginning it was promotional stuffs regarding the loyalty card program, and a call to support in both countries even denied this is possible. I gave up.

Then the other person bought an iPad, with extra insurance and I got very personal details (shop address, person name and address, bank details...). Insane.

Making it (gently) public on Twitter solved my case (and the other person, too) very quickly.

I just try to avoid thinking about whether a random email receives information about me...
The EU tried to resolve the issue in good faith - they passed the GDPR with two years between publishing the law for all to see, and the date at which it would start being enforced. The various privacy-violating companies did not act in good faith by attempting to comply with the law and the guidance surrounding it, instead hoping that they could put it off until they got sued over it.
That is a very good metaphor :)

Actually, I wonder why we went with un-compilable Java bytecode and JIT instead of advancing projects like gcj.
Checked Tahoe-LAFS, Perkeep, but they are too low level.
Haven't tried Resilio Connect yet, although I would prefer something open-sourced.

I think we have all the tech needed already (WebRTC, DHT, NAT hole punching, decades of p2p, encryption, onion security, StorJ/Filecoin) etc but what is lacking is dead simple UX and wide support of operating systems - Windows, Mac, Android, iOS, Linux (Raspberry, Synology, cheap VPS backup)
Okular works fine, is not bloatware, doesn't spam me with ads and works just for all my annotation & viewing needs.

It's also Free software & respects data/privacy.

Don't like KDE-based software? How about Evince, Skim, Xpdf, gv...

https://pdfreaders.org/

I say, stop moving everything to the web browser!

Actually... stop using OS X altogether. The infamous High Sierra root-login vulnerability is harrowing enough and I'm gobsmacked as to why folks didn't abandon Apple at that point.

I've been happy, gainfully employed, and quite successful in all ventures using Debian + free software, exclusively, for nearly 8 years. I'm not the only one. Happy to help anyone migrate should they have challenges!
> Has anyone taken these laws to the Supreme Court?

No, but that's because we live in a legal regime where the government assumes the power to punish people with jail time even when no actual harm is caused, based on a government official's judgment of "possible harm". But the fact that we live in such a regime does not make it right.

In a sane legal regime, what would happen if you were driving drunk, but had not caused any actual harm, and a cop saw you and stopped you, would be: cop determines that you are drunk (breathalyzer, let's say); cop makes sure your car is safely parked off the road, locks it, and takes the key; cop says "sir, I really think you should let me drive you home, since you're too drunk to drive safely; you can get a family member or friend to bring you back to get your car tomorrow when you're sober". Then, either the cop drives you home and gives your car keys to whoever is there; or, if you resist, the cop puts you in the back of his car and drives you to the police station instead, and calls a family member or friend to come take you home, and gives your car keys to them.

In other words, the cop has a perfect right, when he sees you're obviously impaired, to stop you from driving. Indeed, anyone would; if you were at a friend's house and you were clearly too drunk to drive home, the friend would have a perfect right to hide your car keys and either drive you home himself, or have you crash in his spare bedroom or on the couch. But the government does not have the right to throw you in jail if all you did was drive drunk, and caused no actual harm. It only has the right to punish you if you caused actual harm.
I predict cdnjs/jsdelivr types will explode in use for Deno packages since they can make bandwidth and security guarantees behind what's actually returned from the URL as well will be able to accomodate versioning in the path. That seems to be what this dep system is built for, unless I'm missing something.
Well I think in good times, it's trickier to do a layoff. Like you said, it can appear like it's related to financial pressure. In good times, if you do a layoff, investors/shareholders will worry that you are doing it due to financial pressure or limited opportunities to use those employees to make money (growth). The way to say it isn't about financial pressure is to take the PR hit and say these are low performers. Which kind of implies you messed up by hiring them. So either way, it hurts you in good times.

Now in bad times, it's considered "prudent," because everyone is under financial pressure. Laying off people preemptively wins in both ways in that in can look like you're eliminating financial pressure when everyone is worried about it (as opposed to the good times, where you will be singled out), as well as being able to get rid of the lowest performers and reducing pay of everyone else while avoiding bad PR, and even being considered good because you're still employing the rest. As long as the business remains solvent it's a win-win for the company.

Not saying this is good or bad for the economy or the employees, but just reflecting on some of the game theory of this.
It's a very different medium which is why is presents a valuable feedback loop. It presents a rare opportunity to build the skill of making a strong argument, without putting your reputation at stake.

In my work I'm able to make a convincing argument as to why a given architecture is the right way to do it, why a given tool isn't worth using, etc. This allows me to participate in high-level design discussions and be a major contributor to them, even though I have relatively little experience. I attribute that almost entirely to my experience as an internet commenter, as odd as that sounds.
For hours of escape, invent a board game
Google just killed off their condo project. I'm fine with leaving the company town in the past, though. We need more public housing, and less private land speculators.
The scam is the fact that prices are being propped up by constraining supply. If things get to a breaking point and the State limits the abilities of municipalities to block housing construction then the price of housing will deflate significantly.
Trump adds another year to Huawei/ZTE ban
Standard IO: Under the Hood
There is no such thing as bad capital.

But looking at the web site, over approx 2 years, 15 investments, I presume low-6-figures.

So out of 1000s online applications of "self builders" u have a 1 in 1000 acceptance rate?

This statistic is just as important as being "founder friendly" or "no song and dance needed".
> I suspect trading offers a higher expected value of return than starting a bootstrapped company. Startups, especially those not started by someone wealthy, have a higher failure rate than day traders

This seems highly unlikely

Sure, there are people that have the skillset and capital to earn a living from day trading that don't have the skillset or interest in running a business who'll be better off trading. But successful businesses selling products or services can consistently earn very large multiples of their initial investment, and day traders can't. Short term financial bets are much closer to a zero sum game than starting businesses. And we've already established that 90% of day traders fail, just like startup businesses. More than 90% since the criteria in this study is beat the index, not earn a living.
I agree, I just think capital feels more tangible and riskier to lose than opportunity cost. Also easier to put a specific number to so easier to quantify the risk.
Not surprising. Subreddits are basically like totalitarian institutions. I've been banned, or even worse shadow banned, for the stupidest most nonsensical stuff. Everytime I've responded to the message asking me to respond if I wanted to contest my ban, I've never gotten a response. The worst are those ultra-strict subreddits that act as "safe spaces", censoring any dissenting discussion that challenges whatever propaganda the mods are trying to peddle (the most ironic are probably /r/socialism and /r/latestagecapitalism).

A lot of people will say "yeah that's unfortunate, but Reddit can do whatever they want because they're a private company." I don't quite agree with that. When you have 430 million active users (that would make it the 3rd most populous country) and market yourself as a "community of communities", and your site is the go-to for people looking for discussion, I think your site needs to be held to a higher standard. If /r/economics with its 810k subscribers automatically censors comments that don't conform to its handful of mods' neoliberal agenda, that's a real imbalance of power that has serious consequences, not just within the Reddit community but to the world at large. If /r/politics with its 6.1m subscribers is censoring viewpoints that don't align with its agenda, that has serious implications. Humans are unfortunately extremely susceptible to hivemind bias.

In any case, Reddit is generally not the best place for meaningful discussion ever since ~2009 or so when it devolved into a watering hole for memes and pun threads (thankfully the pun thread thing died). Top comments seem to consist of 1-2 sentences of sarcastic jokes. The default subreddits range from the internet equivalent of junk food to outright propaganda. HN is great, but it'd be nice to have some alternative places to go to discuss the more non-tech things (eg. politics/economics) and niche topics.
Compatibility yeah I don't think there's any reason we can't be very close to 100% there.

For parts of the Ruby ecosystem running production workloads, such as the Liquid template engine, I see 6x performance today. I think that's a realistic goal in time.
One thing you also have to understand here (other than the replies I've read) is that you can in fact lay off people and yet increase the percentage investment you are making in something.

You have to cut your budget by 30% -- you can do this as a haircut everyone takes, or you can be selective, and ask one group to take less of a cut and other groups to take more. Your overall spend will be more heavily weighted towards groups that take less of a cut, obviously.

You can also leave your overall budget for one team unchanged, or even grow it, and simply change your focus by putting more emphasis (and budget) on one set of activities vs another.

In the Cruise case either scenario is possible. They can have decided that 3rd party LIDAR is good enough, and not strategic enough, that they should cut there. That could be the sum of it, while other groups like HR, Marketing, etc takes bigger cuts. Alternatively they could use the same logic to cut the LIDAR team and then take the savings generated to invest more heavily in (made up example) route planning or something.
I understand, they would be in the energy storage and reselling market, rather than generation or distribution.
Just because they run it as family foundation doesn't mean they are nonprofit, but yeah they basically dodge taxes by virtue of their complicated financial scheme.
How soon until this can replace Dropbox for my little distributed working group consisting of 3 people wanting to share a single file system?
> that joining a startup and taking their basically worthless 'equity' is more likely to lose you money than day trading.

How is that not obvious already?
Yes, Ruby is meant to be easy and magical, but it was never meant to be fast. It's fast enough for most things, but you also wouldn't show up to a drag race with a tuned bicycle.
law of history: telling people who sit at the bottleneck of a trade network that it's their culture that made them rich will always get you invited to dinner.
Call corporate directly at 212-270-6000. A human will answer and ask for your name. Tell them you need to speak with Frank Pearn (Chief Compliance Officer) regarding an ongoing “GLBA” (Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act) violation. If you get pushback mention that you thought you’d try to resolve it with compliance before you filed a complaint with the FCC. Be polite/calm but speak with confidence and as matter-of-factly as you can.

You won’t get put through to the CCO but you’ll probably get put through to someone who can put a stop to it.

If that doesn’t work you can send a letter explaining the situation via certified mail. Someone in the legal department is guaranteed to open it.
I've been writing a 3D engine from scratch, which has been really interesting since it's well outside of my normal professional software experience. My goal is to make a game with it for the upcoming Playdate console.

You can follow along with my progress here: https://twitter.com/zackmichener
The problem is that if the PDF forms where create with an Adobe program even things which should work with generic PDF might not do so because the Adobe program used JS or whatever below the cover.

EDIT: I looked into some of the PDFs again and it seems I had been wrong. Not sure what they use but it doesn't seem to be js.

EDIT EDIT: But I found other forms which where affected see my response below.
I have the same concerns. Personally I liked coming into my office. My workspace was decent, I liked being able to have lunch with my coworkers, and the free food was good. Plus my commute was basically non-existent.

I also have long term concerns about my career. Most of employees were working in the office, and the few employees who were remote, regularly came in for a few days. I was happy with my rent, and I wouldn't want to move that far away. So I wouldn't see much savings in time or money from moving.
Installing code as root does not necessarily mean granting root privileges to said code. (Even running an application under the root account shouldn't require or imply that. For example, if I use a text editor as root, I still do not want it to be able to reformat the hard drive.)
Also, the average at-home trader probably doesn't sell at a random point in time. They are probably more likely to sell after a loss.
I run a hackerspace in Fresno, CA called Root Access. My side project is that we're making PPE and other things to help with various efforts -- face masks, face shields, scrub caps, ear savers, no-contact accessories, etc.

https://rootaccess.org/covid-19/

We're working with other local maker-y spaces on these efforts; we've picked up a few Ender 3's to help with the 3D printing and we have a small team of volunteers helping with sewing. So far we've distributed over 1,500 face masks to folks and healthcare workers in Fresno, San Diego, Idaho, and soon to a school in Uganda.

This is all on top of trying to keep our community engaged and hosting meetups and happy hours on Zoom. Also on top of my day job. I've never been so busy in my life, and I'm looking forward to a time when we can safely re-open and get back to building the community face-to-face.
Bosque: A TypeScript-like programming language that compiles to native code
Does anyone have experience using Bazel (or a similar build system) together with create-react-app? Specifically, is there a way do it without ejecting?

I work on a project with a Go backend and a React frontend, and having to update all those React dependencies myself is what keeps me from moving to a system like Bazel.
I’ve used Affinity Designer as a cheap alternative to Illustrator. Not surprisingly it’s way better than Inkscape (the Inkscape UI alone makes me lose all interests in designing anything), but Illustrator definitely has a lot more features and power tools, and arguably more importantly, a hell lot more online resources. So I guess Affinity Designer fulfills the role as a budget alternative, but not much more.
Give me 1 or 2 weeks. I'll post the link here.
Sorting by new might be nice also, in comments, for this type of thread.
Does that mean Apple endorses Eero’s level of privacy? Are Eero’s privacy guarantees as strong as those of Apple’s own products?

Obviously, that’s not a requirement for them selling a product, but it does make me wonder.
I think that's a deep question with a deep answer and will urge to to talk to your doctor about that.
When I see a layoff story, I think two things:
1. Those poor folks losing their jobs...
2. That company must be under a lot of financial pressure

The comment above yours is basically saying:
#2 might not be the case, especially with only 8% being laid off"
I've worked remotely, and for creative, collaborative work, and chance meetings and that sort of thing... I still think offices and cities win.
The point of a signature is to affirm the authenticity of something. When you sign something by hand, you're showing that you reviewed it. If you cryptographically sign something, you're doing the same thing to a bunch of bits, and arguably in a way that's a less easy to forge.
aside from the fact that it's custom and the prices/wages are already set with the expectation of tips (ie, adjusted down), you are essentially bidding for attention. stiff the delivery person enough times, and you might find that your future orders find their way to the end of the delivery route.

if you're this concerned about saving money, you probably shouldn't be ordering food for delivery or dining out in the first place.
First, that's true-ish in an expected value sense, not a Sharpe ratio sense. Even then, it's true only neglecting bid-ask spread (if you take liquidity) or adverse selection (otherwise). But the big effect is behavioral, that for the average person, if you can stomach actually implementing a strategy with your own money then that increases the chance it's a loser.
At the same time, GitLab services are NOT priced per region.
Neither cost of the IPhone or Telsa is discounted in the region of FarmVille, Nowhere.
Push back on this.

You deliver the same value from SF or Denver.

They have the budget. They can (and will) pay you.
Wait, didn't Uber decide that Bazel didn't scale enough (speaking as a xoogler, lol) and made their own build tool? Or am I misremembering?
“No one could possibly believe this, they must be a paid stooge” is an extremely optimistic view of human nature. Plenty of people in real life with incomprehensibly awful opinions, too.
I wouldn't put node in with luajit. Luajit is about 4x faster than v8 JavaScript. So it's still in the slow category
I really appreciate this resource. Thank you!!
Can someone explain to me why people keep referring to average return as some sort of magical answer to the question? The median person makes the median income, that doesn't mean that trying to get a good job is pointless.

By definition in order for you to make more than the market, someone else has to make less than the market.

Assuming that knowledge has superlinear returns (I consider this to be obvious without proof required), of course less than 50% of participants will 'win' - those at the bottom are totally useless and burning money, whilst those at the top are quite skilled indeed.

It's fair to say that one should not expect to be in that upper echelon, but I don't think it's reasonable to state 'most people lose' and just leave it at that, it's blindingly obvious that most people lose, it would be impossible for them to not.

(Adjusted for balances - a guy with 20 billion quid can lose 1 pound each to 7 billion market participants and in that case 'almost everyone wins more than the market')