skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A six year old CPU can still be described as "pretty fast?" Moore's Law really must be dead and buried.
Do you have a similar public sheet as example?
I remember getting SimCity for my Amiga, probably in mid 1989. It was one of my favorite games from that time. Populous was another one I enjoyed...
At a former employer, a fresh CADdie designed a brake housing with a bolt circle too close to the outside diameter for a socket to fit over the bolts. Oops.

He'd apparently turned off some constraint check without noticing, and, never having worked in manufacturing, didn't think twice of it.

The workshop foreman had to have sockets machined down in order to install the brake packs effectively.

That designer didn't dare venture into the assembly hall for years!
Re GPU: Running a desktop with a shiny new AMD 5700-xt, and it has been pretty excellent. Only nit to pick is that I had to add a small bit of configuration to enable FreeSync support with my monitor.

Performance in various Steam games (native as well as emulated via Proton) has not been a disappointment.

That said, previously had an NVidia card that worked okay with Ubuntu, but required enabling some proprietary drivers. It worked fine, but was an extra hoop to jump, and using proprietary drivers sticks in my craw.

If I did anything on my desktop that relied on CUDA, I suspect I’d be stuck with using the proprietary NVidia drivers.
Twitter Could End the Office as We Know It
Two months ago, this was posted here and many supported the idea that the measures were an "overreaction".
Consider the compliment well and truly returned for your honesty - thanks!
I don't care about ads, I care about walled gardens. Especially walled gardens that are designed to spy on you.
How to Invest in Software Infrastructure
I strongly recommend people give ledger a try, especially if you're a UNIX-nerd who gets a lot of use out of sed/grep/awk.

It's totally changed the way I think about finance, for my person and for businesses. It also means I can have very informed conversations with accountants! :)

Double-entry accounting as a domain is super interesting, and Ledger's intersection of that domain with UNIX hackery is a joy to experience.
Pushed! Thank you for the suggestion — completely forgot about some meta tags.
To be clear, I'm not asking for the ability to intercept DNS requests, or encrypted traffic, at all. I'm fine (and encourage) encryption on the wire. I'm just as happy to get the logs on the local system, and ship them off.
I agree with you here.

In a previous career, I was responsible for delivering timely and accurate information to people who then went and put their lives on the line based off of that information.

I was regarded as "brash" and an "asshole" because I would correct my colleagues information as they were giving it to those individuals who were going to put their life on the line.

I wasn't doing it to demean or belittle the people who I was correcting, I was doing it because had those operators gone out with wrong information, it could lead to their deaths. And I would much rather be thought of as an asshole than quietly and kindly "talk" to my colleagues AFTER they had delivered bad information and corrected them in private.
Rewrites are the devil though, at least that's what Joel Spolsky taught me.

Additionally, spending time at a really large tech company taught me that rewrites apparently never work (or at least it's better to build compilers for your shitty slow code rather than rewrite it in a better language).

The linked post concerns Dropbox, who to be fair are an infrastructure company with low margins selling a commodity product. It doesn't surprise me that they would find such a move more important than say, Instagram who have a very large margin selling a differentiated product.

I do really appreciate python types (and things like monkeypatch from IG for adding them) as they are an incremental improvement to a widely used language.
Software Time Capsule
116 Countries back Australia's call for virus inquiry
Yeah. There are tons of bad domain names on those drop lists. I wonder what the deal is with that too.

The new TLDs aren't that bad IMO, especially if you want something short and memorable for a quick site. Last year I wanted a non-SSL site to help out with captive portal redirection and I was able to register wifi.help rather than some crazy long name on an ogTLD.
I get this impression as well: again completely anecdotal, but FB is the only advertising that I've actually heard friends actually talk about approvingly (as in, it offered them things they found they wanted). Which I find slightly bizarre: I've never really ever heard anyone talking about advertising approvingly. As I'm writing this, my partner has just walked into the room and is debating whether to order ice cream on delivery due to being shown a targeted advert on Instagram. Something seems to be working, anyway ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
A visual manifesto on how machine learning works and how it fails
Uber needed an excuse to layoff some people for a long time now. They went with a very "parallel" strategy, spinning up new teams for every project and ignoring code/process efficiency by sharing. Basically throw money at it to win quickly. Pretty unsophisticated engineering, enough microservices and huge DBs to ignore coordination problems.

They will transition to a more efficient structure with more co-ordination now that they have many different bets going and 1-2 core businesses that could work. Right in line with wallstreet expectations and Dara's job to make Uber profitable. I called it a year ago :D
This is a related and surprisingly fascinating article about the cast of characters involved in many of the missteps of the Green Collection (which became the Museum of the Bible):

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/06/museum-...
Don't go too cheap. Mid grade tools work well in general. Cheap tools are often so bad that the frustration they cause is worse than the help, or worse you think it is you not the tool and spend money hiring someone to do what you really could do yourself if your tools were up to the job.
Thanks for making my point—-You’re willing to swallow anything the kkk ceo claimed (including the obviously false “but I’m Jewish!” howler), but are comfortable discounting this whistleblower’s claims based on a vague sniff test and nothing more.
Cutting through institutional pressures is not easy, especially when those pressures are well entrenched. I recently had to rid our SEO department of a religious belief that everything in creation must be server-side rendered or it couldn't be indexed and the phrase "holy war" applies.

So, I have some empathy for the NYT staff as individual contributors, but as an org, it's time to evolve.
This allows DirectX usage on Linux. The catch is that it only works on a Windows host. This is for WSL specifically, running in Hyper-V on a Windows host. It basically forwards DirectX calls to the Windows kernel through paravirtualization.
Thanks for that great link
"Professional responsibility", if nothing else.
Mal de Debarquement Syndrome
The Electron version numbers are essentially meaningless now. I have no idea what even changed between Electron 4 and 8, the changelogs are all just bug fixes that didn't necessitate so many major version releases.

Also there are some NPM packages that have to create builds for specific versions of Electron, and those builds come out after Electron does, so I'm always 1 or 2 versions behind on Electron which leads into dependency hell situations.

Trying to stay up to date is exhausting.
I no longer use facebook as well and I know a lot of people in my age group not using it. But having said that, a lot of people, specially older people still do and they have valid reasons for it. May be shops will be targeted towards them.
This new offering feels a natural outcome now that the core product (fb.com, Messenger) user base starts to saturate. Previously they could just focus on international expansion on existing product, now the approach needs to shift. And that might be the reason why FB has so little in house built products v.s. products via acquisition, compared to Google.

So there's a growth pressure across the company's structure chain. From this point on, it would be interesting to see what other products FB would launch to leverage their huge social network. My 5 dollar bet would be cloud infra that compete with AWS and Azure - the selling point would be, hey join FB Cloud Infra and we'll help you reach 2 billion FB users!
My approach has always been that somewhere in my fleet there is a heat sink that fell off and a CPU running at 400MHz. My last two jobs have started with me sitting down at my desk on day 1 and demonstrating this fact. After concluding that the zoo is unavoidable, the only thing left to do is write the software accordingly.
If you do:

[[subject]]

it is interpreted as:

[subject](subject)

This makes it easier to do links within the wiki, similar to MediaWiki markup.
Don't call me nobody!
Most banking services - at least mine already provides reports and graphs along with simple budgeting features for free with online banking. I prefer to use that, as that is where most of the data lives anyways.
take that, L. Bob Rife.

(the similarities between hobby lobby stealing tablets and religiously motivated tech magnates doing the same in a certain cyberpunk book of wide repute are, as usual, a bit eerie)
You're right, this is a long way from Nielsen ratings. Online media is definitely not cable.

What the NYT is offering is no different than what Facebook or Google is offering. You're paying with your personal information to consume their service. If you don't like the terms, then you're free to simply not use their service. I believe that's fair.

Why are we entitled otherwise?
You're on my wish list for interviewees too :)
The article is not about domain trading. It's about letting yourself be inspired and pushed by a domain name to try some new venture.
The advice is to buy descriptive domain names and build a business basing your decision "solely off the domain name" that you're able to find. His About page claims that he himself does this. But does he actually do that?

Of the examples he gave – ComputerCamp.com, ShippingSupply.com, KobeBeef.com, CameraBag.com, Pacifiers.com, ZoysiaGrass.com, SouthernCookbook.com, Ziplines.com, CannedHam.com, SexyBastard.com – every one of them except ShippingSupply is a parked domain, spam site, or fails to resolve. Since the article is from January 2017, it seems like the average price of $5388 that people paid at auction for the 9 unproductive sites has been wasted for the last 3+ years.

As far as I can tell, his business is buying and selling domain names. (ShippingSupply, although it looks real enough, does not belong to the author; he writes "sell shipping supplies [is] exactly what this buyer did".) I can believe that the author has a profitable business doing what he does (buying & selling domains), but the artilce does not convince me that building a business around nice-sounding but arbitary domain names with no expertise in that business is a good idea. It doesn't seem like he's doing that.
It's a sliding scale between immediacy and accuracy, with a very high upper length of time for perfect accuracy. I work with death record statistics for a state government, and our reports use data from 2 years ago. A big reason is gathering reports for residents who died in other states.

I know the CDC has a good system for sharing infectious disease diagnoses (https://wwwn.cdc.gov/nndss). I don't know if there's a similar rapid-collection system for death records. We usually don't need to track deaths with this urgency.

A possible compromise is to model a delayed reporting factor. Not sure if there could be a good enough model, though.
Facebook Shop
Contract-level commits will generally work on top of Committed Use Discounts, not instead of (but obviously this comes down to your own SKU by SKU negotiating).
Quartz Cuts 40% of Staff Amid Ad Losses
Have recently resumed using dokuwiki and the newer templates are quite nice. I also like the advantages of the easy editing alongwith being able to sync between my laptop and phone via syncthing.
Covid-19 data sharing with law enforcement sparks concern
Great project, thanks for the link.
Seems like there is a lot of mistrust of browsers these days. Personally, I like Brave, except that some versions on Linux seem to bloat out / crash Fedora.

I think I see your view as to the "why" of Brave -- how do you see building user trust at scale?

Another concern that comes to mind: Chrome, Safari are backed by companies with massive warchests, and though Mozilla is not as far as I know as liquid as GOOG, AAPL, it has proven staying power. I'm not sure what the term is in the mobile app space when a popular app gets bought up and modified, but what guarantees do I have that the Brave app won't be bought out by unscrupulous dealers down the road?
>Java, C#, and C++ have channels?

Yeah they do but without green threads the implications are a bit different. You can use channels and OS threads though most code bases don't.
Djikstra - not a professor I would want to emulate.

I'm unconvinced that oral exams provide the most secure and consistent form of assessment. I'm not even sure how to evaluate such a claim, though, so it may have to stand as an opinion.
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I'm interested in Notion, but I can't get over the fact that they use a Somalia TLD for their app. I'm just not sure why they have to use this TLD for what I assume is vanity purposes, and I think there are security implications to using it.
Ah yes, spoken like somebody who hasn't achieved anything in their life because everything is beyond their control.
Graffiti-painting drone could soon be yours
I have immense respect for researchers who venture in these type of disciplines. I don't think I would be able to do it. I do have a bit of a daring question: isn't there a slightly more fine-grained way to quantify that every nook and cranny of such a problem has indeed be researched by researchers? I simply assume that a rigorous research by the best minds of the world has happened, but I never see any data on it, not even anecdata.

I mean, I remember a post from Julia Evans, making a Ruby profiler, where she was astonished on how few people were actually working on it [1].

I suspect that in some cases, probably not this one, but in similar theoretical fields, a similar thing might be occuring. And if not, how do we test that? I'm probably not the only one who's curious.

[1] I found a talk of her in which she emphasizes on it:

> So the three myths that I want to start out by talking about are myth one-- to do something new and innovative you need to be an expert-- myth two-- if it were possible and worthwhile, someone would have done it already so you probably shouldn't try-- and three-- if you want to do a new open source project, you need to code a lot on the weekend and your evenings.

https://www.deconstructconf.com/2018/julia-evans-build-impos...
Those two statements are not contradictory:

1. A death _must_ have a positive PCR in order to be _attributed_ to COVID-19. This does not mean that a positive PCR means that the death _will_ be attributed to COVID-19.

2. Documentation of co-morbidities is standard, be it for COVID-19, or any other disease, "where the disease caused, or is assumed to have caused, or contributed to death".

> The reason this matters is because WA’s governor, Jay Inslee, has instituted the nation’s most strict restrictions, going well beyond what other cautious states like CA have implemented. For example he has banned fishing, hunting, residential construction, prevented rural areas from advancing in reopening phases, etc. Even as some restrictions (like closing all state parks or banning fishing) were reversed, Inslee continues to retain strange nonsensical bans on activities like camping.

The entirety of Eastern Washington is in Phase 2 or eligible (and the decision to go to Phase 2 in Adams and Spokane County is on those Counties, not the State, who has said they're eligible), which allows fishing, hunting, construction and camping: https://q13fox.com/2020/05/19/10-more-counties-including-thu...
Discovery is where the money is at. If FB can dominate discovery they will effectively commoditize the product listing, inventory management layer.
You can track these kinds of things in GNU Ledger (cousin of GNUCash)

The expense category is still something like `Expenses:Books:SciFi`, or whatever. The payee for the transaction is then `Amazon`. If you prefer to make the payee the specific retailer that's selling to you, using Amazon as a platform, you can do that, and instead "tag" the transaction with `:Amazon:`.

You can also track points as a byproduct of the transaction, but that's another rabbit hole.
I'm a software engineer at NASA and it's an annoying fact of life for us every day. There's a huge overlap in the technology, we just have different applications. In fact, a huge percentage of our airplanes are aircraft military aircraft.
You're cherry-picking these two examples to compare precisely because the comparison reinforces your pre-existing view, which is ironically the same response that this subthread is criticizing. There have been plenty of HN comments supporting whistleblowers, and plenty of HN comments decrying things in the KKK bucket.

This is a classic example of the notice-dislike bias that governs how people, especially those with strong views, perceive HN (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...). We notice what we dislike, and weight it heavily; we gloss over what we like; poof, bias.

The result is a generalization about HN that is invariably an inverted afterimage of your own preferences (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...). And I do mean invariably; I'm not sure I've seen a single case, out of thousands, that violated this pattern.

Needless to say there's an endless litany of people making the opposite generalization about the HN community to the one that you are making (it's overrun by socialists, it's full of SJWs, it's extremely left-biased, blah blah blah). I've posted lists of those many times. Do you really think that they are wrong and you are right?
> AT&T enterprise unlimited cellular internet, which the sim card can be had on ebay

Depending on your exact location relative to network towers that might work fine. I'm in Southern Vermont (Readboro) and had success buying $50 SIM cards from here: https://www.ebay.com/itm/4G-LTE-ATT-Unlimited-HOTSPOT-Data-5....

I eventually ended up going with VTel Wireless instead: https://www.vtelwireless.com. Speeds were about the same, it was a bit cheaper, and felt better to use a local company. I needed a good MIMO antenna to get good speeds with either. Good luck!
Still, for application developers the idea of installing "system-wide libraries" is all but gone. An application installer will just install to \Programs and that's normally it, even for very large applications (Obviously something system-y like a driver still installs system files). Even things that used to be typical system things like runtimes (C++, .NET) can now be locally deployed, which is nice.

In the 90's it wasn't uncommon for installers to just poop application files or config files into Windows\System32.
Shopify launches its own some rights reserved copyright license
Photo License: Burst
What does this mean for Squarespace and companies alike who strive to make shopping experiences for small and medium businesses?
Joe Rogan's Podcast is moving exclusively to Spotify
I hate this, too.

I mean everyone has a price but I’m so disappointed. I’m not going to subscribe to Spotify for this podcast. He couldn’t just up the advertising his podcasts charge? This is super lame.
This seems right, but I think it's also about authorial control of format and the expectation of readers that they are going to possibly read longer texts. Twitter is very up front about formats and character limits. Facebook is less dramatic but still very self contained. The placement alongside many other items that scream for attention, the possibility that facebook won't present it to your audience, presentation, and interactions mean investing in forms of writing outside the constraints of the medium is just not very worthwhile.

There are places in Facebook where longer form writing is possible, but the system still doesn't really encourage it.
That's a physical limitation because the touchpad hinges from the back. No new touchpad driver is going to fix that.
> Sure Lebron has not won as many championships as Jordan (Lebron's 3 to Jordan's 6)

Your sure statement is quite the qualification. Three versus six rings is an enormous difference in the NBA. That's a Larry Bird of a difference. Charles Barkley, Karl Malone, John Stockton, Reggie Miller, Patrick Ewing, Chris Mullin and Dominique Wilkins won zero rings.

> but he is an atypical pro athlete in that he wants to see his teammates score vs. himself score

Jordan's average was 5.3 assists per game (as a shooting guard, emphasis). That's good enough for #29 in the NBA this season and #28 last season. He was winning scoring titles while simultaneously out-competing some starting point guards when it came to assists.

Jordan ranks #45 all-time in assists, in 14 equivalent full seasons, ahead of a large list of point guards.

He averaged 8 assists and 32.5 points in the same season in 1989, during the height of his scoring capabilities. 8 assists per game is good enough for #5 this season (for those that don't know basketball well, that's typically elite point guard territory).

Lebron is #4 all-time in points per game. Your argument is pretty amusing to make given the numbers. He wants to see his teammates score vs himself? He has led his team in scoring for 16 years in a row, including his rookie season.

Lebron's scoring average per game is 27.1, Jordan's was 30.1. Lebron has averaged 20 shots per game, Jordan averaged 23. Your premise is plainly false, the gulf between them on scoring behavior is simply not that great. Scottie Pippen and Horace Grant won championships with Jordan and became renowned players - with Pippen being named to the all-time 50 list - precisely because Jordan had no problem with them scoring as well.

The scoring label was only partially true in the early years of Jordan's career where he was on a very mediocre Bulls team and attempted to do too much of the scoring out of necessity.

Lebron averaged 31.4 points and took 23 shots per game, with 6.6 assists, his third season in the league as a reference. Lebron clearly wasn't lacking in aggressive scoring behavior in his early years either.
Does it though? There's little doubt in my mind that this site would have far greater reach (the actual desirability of that aside) if it were located at hackernews.com. I have no idea what the current owner would want for it but I'm sure it's substantial and rightfully so.
For one thing, it's a clue you need to step back and think, "What happens when this overflows?" rather than "Oh, it's just a number."

For another, that's why you get paranoid.

(For a third, I strongly recommend something like Frama-C with the Weakest-Precondition module---it's very good at finding issues like these.)
> Russians call everything a rocket anyway. RPG-7 is a rocket

Bad example. РПГ is "ручной противотанковый гранатомёт", approximately "man-portable anti-tank grenade launcher". Its round, "ПГ-7" is "anti-tank grenade". Rocket-propelled grenade is a backronym.
> For someone to buck the orders, it takes a lot of courage and be able to stand up under pressure.

But it doesn’t mean she’s right, it just means she feels strongly about it.
My dad used Makita battery tools exclusively for ~30 years of being a self employed radio communication tech. He stuck with them because he could still get chargers and batteries for the oldest drills, the ones with the stick battery that goes all the way into the handle like a handgun magazine.

I borrowed his tools many times over the years, and I've never been let down by anything made by Makita.