skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Coordinating this sort of change in a large org like Uber is not entirely "hacking on cool tech". It's a lot of communication and writing documents and going to meetings

And a lot of tearing your hair out when trying to use tools in the ways that they weren't intended to be used.

Of all languages, Go is not the language where you want to be doing things against the grain (that is, against the way the language designers intend it to be used). Some people like that about Go, and some people don't. Either way, Go is a very opinionated language with a very opinionated ecosystem, and ignoring those is a recipe for frustration.

Last time I checked, Bazel was not recommended by the Go developers - and with good reason: there are a lot of gaps in rules_go/Gazelle, which this blog post alludes to but glosses over. While Google uses Blaze internally, Blaze is not Bazel, and the differences are very apparent to anyone who has used both to build Go specifically. Furthermore, rules_go was developed entirely independently of the Blaze ruleset that Google uses internally, so it's a tool that's not actually used internally at Google, but also not used by the majority of the non-Google Go developer community either, in addition to not being recommended by the Go team at Google[0].

[0] There is exactly one mention of Bazel on the entire golang.org domain - in a changelog from over two years ago, in an /x/ package, where Bazel is mentioned as one of two build systems in a "such as" clause that the new package could potentially enable support for (/x/ packages are considered experimental and not subject to the same backwards compatibility or maintenance guarantees as the rest of the project).
Overly dramatic? The US financial system never recovered from the 2008 recession - that was 12 years ago, and the Fed is still propping things up.
My personal favorite photographer on social media is Nick Carver out of Orange County, CA. He covers similar themes (Americana, forgotten architecture, desert landscapes) all on medium and large format film. He walks through his techniques and is very enjoyable to listen to!
But political candidates are not exempted. That leaves a huge area for abuse.
This was also in New Zealand, where it appears to be required to be collected by the law (the article is unclear but references the public health commissioner explaining how it should be used).
> The fact I have to go three menus deep just to open the history screen is bad

History is never more than 2 clicks away:

- Open Library button, click History
- Open History menu (macOS)

However, yes, core browser functions seem to be stuck to what they looked like in the year 2000 for most browsers. Only Safari basically tries to reinvent its UI every couple of years.
Can you summarize how Python async improved in 3.7?
Link [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLcKQhTO6i0oq10S234vWyA]
Speaking from experience as a Redditor and Reddit mod, it does happen - just some subs are more diligent about avoiding shills than others.
"just legal and political"
Something like a group collapse feature would be nice here
From the screenshots it seems they give space priority to the name of each tab group instead of the tabs themselves (when space was already at a premium). In one example, 3 tabs were barely intelligible yet the group name was fully visible.

It would be better to have:

- An alternate short name or icon that is automatically used when there is no space (common?).

- Relocated tab group name, e.g. small text “above” the tabs instead of stealing space from the tabs.

- An option to have no name at all, relying on other distinctions only (some people are color blind so you always need a non-color option; maybe different patterns of border lines, or shapes?).
Not to mention he considers sneezing/coughing/breathing but not intermediate actions like talking.
The Boston marathon bombing was carried out through plain text messages if I recall correctly. They weren’t even encrypted and no one caught them.
Reminds me of how back in 2003 we were cracking jokes about how the FBI was still making their way through the 2000's 4chan posts.
This looks really cool, nice! I don't want to look like I'm spamming links, but I posted a comment yesterday about an Elixir course I've been doing - they have a great Liveview one too. You might be interested :)
> Hopefully this can incentivize for better moderation. Many subreddits have become the empires of power hungry "volunteers" who carefully prune wrongthink content.

Wouldn't it make it worse? The more vigorously you ciclejerk, the more the jerk will reward you with a brand new kind of e-points.

I think too many people but too much faith in quantified reward mechanisms.
Announcing The Launch of the Global Encryption Coalition
Super steel project attains major breakthrough
I've made some good progress on my Dashboard project [1] during the quarantine. Currently I'm (re-)writing the tests from enzyme to react-testing-library.

I've also decided to redesign my Bookmarks app [2] recently - it's now one of my few designs that I'm really happy with :)

[1] https://dashboard.darekkay.com/

[2] https://darekkay.com/static-marks/
Create more than you Consume
Why Is Facebook So Afraid of Checking Facts?
> They make good hardware, but there's a lot of lock-in, and not a lot of transparency.

This sounds like you'd like NVIDIA to open-source all their software. I see this type of request a lot, but I don't see it happening.

NVIDIA's main competitive advantage over AMD and Intel is its software stack. AMD could release a 2x powerful GPGPU tomorrow for half the price and most current NVIDIA users wouldn't care because what good is that if you can't program it? AMD software offer is just poor, of course they open-source everything, they don't make any software worth buying.

ARM and Intel make great software (the Intel MKL, Intel SVML, ... libraries, icc, ifort, ... compiler), and it doesn't open-source any of that either for the same reasons as NVIDIA.

Intel and NVIDIA employ a lot of people to develop their software stacks. These people aren't probably very cheap. AMD strategy is to save a lot of money in software development, maybe hoping that the open-source communities or Intel and NVIDIA will do it for free.

I also see these requests that Intel and NVIDIA should open-source everything together with the explanation that "I need this because I want to buy AMD stuff". That, right there, is the reason why they don't do it.

You want to know why NVIDIA has 99% of the Cloud GPGPU hardware market and AMD 1%? If you think 10.000$ for a V100 is expensive, do the math on how much does an AMD MI50 costs: 5000$ for the hardware, and then a team of X >100k$ engineers (how much do you think AI GPGPU engineers cost?) working for N years just to play catch on the part of the software stack that NVIDIA gives you with a V100 for free. That goes into multiple million dollars more expensive really quickly.
Well, OP didn't say MKL works well on AMD. But you can at least run it on a non-Intel CPU. Compare CUDA.
I'm on MyFitnessPal as well, and completely agree with the food library! Though it's a bit of a pain that there's a lot of incorrect data in that library -- mostly typos or mistakes from whomever first input the data.

Nice on getting stronger! I did my first 50 miler last week, and it's got me thinking that I might want to find a group once this whole thing blows over.
Try challenges or missions in some recent version. Puts you right away in a pilot seat. Mods add extra flair by adding better cabin interiors and more instruments
A few other characters I'd add (that appear both here and on Reddit):

* "The Pedantic Nitpicker". He will respond to your long, 50 sentence comment and say something like: "That one sentence said 'all' and should say 'some' because here is a counterexample. Therefore, YOUR ENTIRE POST IS WRONG."

* "The Sealioning Scientist". No matter what you say, she will ask for linked academic sources, and goad you into arguing, all while acting sincere and curious. If you fail to cite them, then obviously you are writing fiction, and she wins.

* "The Silent Downvoter". Skims through posts, looking for ones that violate some established groupthink or simply go against the current subreddit's zeitgeist, downvotes and sneaks off into the dark. Nobody knows their username because they never comment or explain their downvote.
Some subreddits (certainly not any of the popular ones) set their comment threads to sort by new to combat this.
Yea, I did not realize the huge difference moving from the east coast living in a few cities there going through the detailed inspection. I moved to the south, a different city, brought in my car, they told me to turn on my signals and hazards, asked for some money, and gave me a sticker. Very different.
That is true but their have already been dozens of articles explaining how Apple/Google designed their contact tracing system to make it nearly impossible to be abused.
We're not at the scale of Uber yet, but at Jupiter (YC S19) we're using tech like Bazel, protos, and Kotlin to prepare us for when we are: https://starship.jupiter.co/jupiter-stack/

We're actively hiring for a senior SWE right now, so feel free to shoot me a note if you're looking.
It takes effort to not own a car. Not owning a dog requires no effort.
The World's Longest Alphabetical Email Address (2004)
All I have to add is this:

If Bernie can't "compromise his values" enough to make political deals to get the nomination, then he would be completely ineffective as president -- where getting your policy enacted requires constant deal making with Congress.
Yeah, this honestly feels far more likely to kill reddit than improve it.
It's my one complaint about Vivaldi's implementation, yep: you can "stack" tabs, but this creates an absurdly tiny target space to click between tabs, and there's no way to create tab trees instead. It would be lovely to be able to create them, because I often create trees of tabs when browsing sites like HN: I pop tabs open behind HN as I see interesting links, and then click down the tree to go through the sites themselves.
The fluid was really unrealistic and they panned away from it quickly.
Huh, I have the same experience and we never did it on my subreddits (and I rarely saw it, but I usually browse /r/all)...
Building a high fidelity visual approach to my Quickbooks implementation. Current UI is terrible and very misleading.
Agreed. I did get a chest x-ray about 2 months after it started (and the rest of the cold symptoms had gone away), to see if there was anything there. Nothing found yet, but I am due for another check-in. This is a good reminder to do so :)
If anyone wants a demo, this guy tried talking with a massive fan active and banging a hammer on his desk: https://twitter.com/theGunrun/status/1252789873699745792
1. Were you laid off recently? If so, are you getting the supplemental $600/week in Federal UI benefits, on top of whatever your State provides? It varies by State but with the Fed supplemental you should be receiving between $835/week (in Mississippi) and $1,423/week (in Massachusetts). If you have kids, the amount may increase further.
In most States you will also qualify for free or heavily subsidized health care via the ACA.[1]

2. If your loan is owned by the Feds (as about 90% of private residential mortgages are) then I believe the deferred loan amount is added to the end of your loan via an extension of the amortization schedule. You can also defer payments for up to 12 months. You would not owe a lump sum in August.[2]

3. Even if you quit paying your mortgage and intentionally chose foreclosure as your best option (as many did in 2009-2010), it's unlikely the foreclosure would occur within the next 12 months.

[1] https://fileunemployment.org/unemployment-benefits/unemploym...

[2] https://www.consumerfinance.gov/about-us/blog/guide-coronavi...
Thank you for your compliments! And best of luck with Taaalk. I am also a fan of chess :)
Is it possible to compile in presence of errors? I love TS that it's gradual and for prototyping I can use "transpileOnly" and after I'm done I can verify everything. I have bad memories from typing json interfeces for Elm while prototyping (maybe could be disabled).
A fun quick of GPU pricing economics is that on Google Cloud platform, the relatively recent T4 (on Turing and has FP16 support) is cheaper than the ancient K80s. https://cloud.google.com/compute/gpus-pricing
It's absolutely not justified. Talking to neighbors is a lot better than calling the police, which has a small but real chance of ending in violence.
Matrix Math for the Web
I never knew what the “b” in “bfloat” was in all these new DL chips… until today. Man that’s bad.
> So then you're committing fraud or whatever.

But how would they ever catch you?
Not just large companies - plenty of small startups building cool developer tooling. And much more fun when you get to start on a green field, rather than slowly migrating the existing code over the course of a decade.
It is not just the US. Strange enough, around the same time (give or take a couple of days), the protests started in the US, people in germany started protesting as well. Turned weird rather quickly, all the common conspiracy theories are present. Over here, this stuff is pushed by "celebrities" online, mostly from the fringe. Left and right wing nuts seem to agree. There were also court challenges.

We also see various politicians to take up opposite positions regarding restrictions. Mainly between two state prime ministers, Söder in Bavaria and Laschet in NRW. The former pushed restrictions hard early on, the latter alsways took the approach. Both want to become chancellor during the next elecetions. Söder profited in popularity from his restrictions, he changed course, to a degree, as soon as public opinion started to "shift". At least the loud part of public opinion.

Similarities between the US and Germany, I see are

a) federalism, making central ction more difficult

b) upcoming election making Covid-19 as much a political question as it is a medical and economic one

c) multiple, opposing politians (Germany, even from the same party) or parties (US), aggravating point b)

As much as I hope that we can lift restrictions, I have the feeling that we might regret it. Hope I'm wrong.
Building a weightlifting workout tracker, as a mobile PWA: https://www.liftosaur.com

There're a lot of apps that are either focused on one weightlifting routine (like 5x5 StrongLifts or Five3One) - they do nice job leading you through the routine, but if you want to try another one, you basically need another app. And if you want to create a custom routine, you're out of luck. There're also generic ones, like Strong or Jefit, but it's hard to make them follow some specific routine, increasing and decreasing weights automatically, changing exercises when necessary, etc.

I thought - how hard would it be to create a platform, that'd support many routines, and you'd choose any, and have a consistent UI across them you got used to?

Another thing I wanted to see - how hard it is to create a PWA app that is nice to use, and what features are still lacking there (compared to native experience).

The app is already in a usable shape, I use it 3 times a week, though it only has one working routine now. It's written in Preact/Redux/TypeScript.

It's a surprisingly pleasant experience to have a personal project like that, and slowly build it in your own pace, working on features you care, that would actually help you in your workouts. I found myself sometimes working on it til late night, being in that "flow", like in the beginning of my career, having so much fun, and returning back the joy of coding!
Thanks for the suggestion, I'll look into it!
Building a high fidelity visual engine for my Quickbooks (QBO) implementation. The current UI / UX is terrible...
It's tensor Ops, and so the precision might be even lower than single. It could be BF16, for example.
ImageNet Roulette, an art project, is changing people’s minds about AI
Very cool! Old keyboards and key-switches are an endless source of fun trivia.

I think Topre is the only one that manufactures keyboards with contactless key switches today. Topre key-switches measure the change in capacitance instead, and their keyboards (of the HHKB fame) sell for greater than $200.

https://www.keychatter.com/topre-switches/
The PhD Completion Project
As others have pointed out, this is so businesses can inform you if you've been exposed.
I own an export factory in Shenzhen and we buy acceptable quality kn95 masks for our staff PPE in low volumes of a few hundred or so masks per order, for 10-11 RMB each, ~$1.6 USD/mask. While there is a variance in quality standards depending on the manufacturer source, I think labeling anything cheaper than this $1.50ish as “fakes” is kind of not the full story in this PPE case. See, in China, instead of political parties posturing to give Five Trillion Dollars in stimulus funds away without much to show for it (like we didn’t even get a single new mask factory in America for this?) instead the “CHI-NA” Government did the smart thing by mobilizing manufacturers directly to make PPE, with terrific financing terms for equipment purchases and promises to buy whatever quantity of PPE stock was made, for any manufacturers that wanted to switch over to make PPE. We even considered taking this factory stimulus incentives ourselves to get into making PPE, but I ultimately decided against it because it was too hard to get workers and we had existing orders to work on with our staff. But many factories that didn’t previously make PPE got into it. Masks from those kind of factories are not maliciously “fakes” but the quality is more highly variable.
Building a custom engine for my blog/playground with hyped technologies (svelte, rust[api]/graphql, k8s).
Hello. You are addressing an illness on an open forum. You are already thinkng outside the BOX! One day, there is the possibility that I will be facing your challenge. I am a qualified Biochemist, now a db dev. You are able to read. You are able to research. You are capable of analysing data. What do you think your Doctor or a Medical Researcher is doing differently? Some of my best friends are top Doctors. I know their strengths and limitations. Extremely intelligent people. The internet is a researh tool. Use it. They do. Next, addressing queries raised. There is a body of evidence that the worms we humans ingest, excrete by-products, includng toxins, that are detrimental to their host. Material analysed from worms in the human gut has been assessed to be constituently similar to material that blocks myelin sheath in the neural synapses. Regardless, if you have a pet, you should take a wormer. It'll never happen to me!! I don't have worms. Yes you do. We are the perfect host for parasites, including you. It is highly recommended by Vets. I am not here to persuade nor defend. I am helping you to explore your options. Check everything out for yourself. Now that it comes to mind, eliminate sugar completely, fully, totally. Substitute with Xylitol. Not all sugars are created equal. At the heart of DNA is Ribose, a sugar. De-oxy-ribo(se)-Nucleic-Acid. kill the bad ones. Next, why stop Dairy? All human disease emanates from the gut. You are introducing bacteria to your micro-biome, some of which is causing you illness. Eliminate, investigate, evaluate and record your results. Do this in conjunction with a human nutritionist. Your health is in your hands. Exercise is the best medicine. The ancients: "Physician, heal thy-self". Please, reserve your questioning for your journey back to health. Read, assess, add, eliminate and strengthen your understanding. Readers are leaders. There is a documentary on-line and on Netflix called 'That Vitamin Movie'. It will inspire you. If I found it online for free, you can too. C'mon baby! Get moving!! It would appear there are a lot of very good people behind you here in this forum; Use us . . . God Bless.
This will surely bring them to profitability. Exactly the innovation the food delivery space was looking for.
More politics, then tech.
Previous discussion of the baseline results:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11617906
What does that have to do with the Aztecs?
> that means that i sold my soul like a tennis shoe and i derived no profit from the sale of my soul.

You may not have profited in dollars, but you profited some utility out of it. Otherwise people wouldn’t be posting. Or they can do it on their own website. But then not enough people would see it.
>Reddit counter culture movements and backlashes. Seems to be bipolar with pro China / anti China every day of the week.

Don't forget Russia and Israel. It's obvious their governments are paying people to post on Reddit and it gets old fast.

Any thread with even an ounce of negative sentiment is instantly jumped on by people obviously getting paid to defend said countries. 30 seconds of post history shows they aren't actual users, and yet the admins do nothing to fix the problem.

Article on Russian invading Ukraine? Well Ukraine was mostly Russians anyway who wanted to be part of Russia so it's ok. Plus USSR - that land belongs to Russia!

Article on IDF bombing a Palestinian grade school? Well they were going to grow up to be terrorists and there was a rocket that landed in the sea that the Palestinians fired last week. If they look at us wrong we're allowed to shoot them in the face because self-defense.

China torturing Hong Kong protestors? They need to get in line with the party. We are one China - that agreement we signed on unification allowing for a democratic election was just a for fun. Nobody can seriously think Hong Kong should get to vote!?
I understand the point as: being able to send a message to a particular actor, passing it a value that you can later retrieve by sending that same actor another message, is semantically exactly the same as calling a setter on an object reference, and later calling a getter to get the value back. In both cases you have a pocket of mutable state, potentially accessible by multiple unrelated places in code, that isn't reflected in function signatures.
Ironically, what matters most for your own audio quality is that other people use headsets — because feedback cancellation is an extremely difficult algorithm which often malfunctions, and if someone wears a headset that algorithm doesn't have to run.

But I'm shouting into the void about that. Most people won't adapt their behavior when it doesn't impact them personally.
Not positive about hiring committees but I think most would be very open and judge you fairly. It won't be easy to get into a good PhD program, even with prior master's research experience. Did you get and keep old recommendation letters from your master's? That would be helpful. You could throw your application out there, but if not successful, a way forward is to identify a research area or problem, start reading papers, and get in touch with some current researchers (if they are slow to respond, their PhD students or postdocs). Demonstrate your knowledge and enthusiasm and see if you can join on a research problem. That project and recommendations from it will get you in somewhere (maybe the same lab), if successful.
That shouldn't matter much here, as long as the underlying crypto is fine, baring any very bad exploits in the message pack library, any manipulated message should fail authentication.
I just checked and happy to find that it's on Audible.

Can anyone recommend similar audiobooks on tech that are not as well known?
Then people just yell past each other and everyone becomes Hitler: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law

Generally, when unmoderated, the loudest user(s) will drown out everyone else