skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What is interesting is that in essence, our data is the payment that we make to use facebook, instagram etc.... So if companies are now taxed on data or required to pay people for the right to use their data this would seriously alter incentives which would also change the content that we, the users, have access to. These companies will not have the incentive to provide the same quality content and product as their profits have been slashed. Data is also used not to just send targeted ads but to conduct beta testing and software updates. Without access to free data, Facebook would start charging people for having an account and I'm sure many would rather not do that. This basically got me to thinking about how consumers can get a greater hold of their data without dismantling the relationship between these consumers and online platforms.
That's anarchism.

Anarchy means no established order / ruler -- there can be tons of ad-hoc ones.
I don't even understand the question. Both Kendrick Lamar and MF Doom have their real names in the first sentences of their Wikipedia pages. The NYT has reported things in at least Duckworth's name; I didn't bother looking hard for Dumile's. Is your question "would I be upset if the NYT reported MF Doom's real name, Daniel Dumile"? No, I would not be.
I don't like it compared to the previous layout.

The new layout has soft boundaries between boxes that make it harder mentally to distinguish one box from another.
Wishful thinking for most businesses.
"Slowly" sure is the operative word. But at least it's happening at all.
Can you share what kind of system your Haskell team worked on at Google? I thought Google projects were limited to a few blessed languages. Once upon a time that was Java, C++, and Python but I guess that would now include Go and Rust (in parts of Fuchsia and possibly Chrome).
Trolling has existed long before the internet. Prank phone calls, ding dong ditch, antagonizing your younger siblings... there's a certain satisfaction with experiencing the fruits of your virtually consequence-free social manipulation efforts.

It makes you think "wow, with just words I was able to rile someone up into conniptions" while simultaneously thinking "how are these people taking this so seriously? I am able to keep my cool on the internet"
I disagree. I own a solowheel and after the initial learning curve it became safer and even more intuitive than walking. IMO, the sidestance may be okay if one switches sides as to exercise the body and the brain both ways. In reality people stick to whatever their dominant leg is upfront. Feels weird and prone to skeletomuscular imbalances.
I think he meant "bad sample" in the sense that those programmers aren't representative of abilities of average programmers. Ie, he thinks Google programmers are top programmers.
Valid question. I was rhe guy who embraced and optimized a full offering in our org, first on redshift and then on snowflake. Even merely evaluating a new db (on top of actually parsing their landing pages to understand what does what) for our data needs is exhausting to say the least. I still occassionally get enthusiastic with some new cool db (most recently materialize) and spend a weekend trying to spin it up and load our data, but I invariably walk away feeling redshift/snowflake is fine/better while simultaneously feeling guilty I didn't give the tool a real chance at all.

In the end, I'm probably going to give up on trying new db ideas unless their pitch absolutely blows me away. I've gotten much better ROI just doubling down on optimizing our code to use these popular offerings (which çontinue to add features every day) to our use cases and just throw a bit more money at it.

For example, we actually query a 115 billion row, 1.5 TB table in snowflake and barring some cluster warmup time, queries that return less than a million rows run in a couple hundred ms max. Until the day we need this to speed up to just a few ms, I'll probably stick here.
Google’s 46-camera ‘light field videos’ let you change perspective
> From a commercial standpoint, I’m not a huge fan of tossing GitLab into the concept name. It’s a little brand-y on something that just doesn’t need it.

I imagine it's meant to be a response to "GitHub Flow" [0].

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[0]: https://guides.github.com/introduction/flow/
Hey all! There's a very active slack community of some 150+ members/artists that was started in the last year or two. I did not start it but we are a very open community.

Feel free to email me at stevan [at @ symbol] dedovic [dot] com and I will gladly share an invite link!

I'll also talk to the person who started it to see if we can put out an invite link here.
Agreed. I should be able to remove comments and posts ive made. Pretty weak for a site that primarily caters to devs
You can delete comments within a time limit.
> Today I found out after 11 years on this platform there is no way to delete anything you create and post

> This seems strange and ironic considering a lot of our online comments revolve around data privacy

I agree it seems strange this just now occurred to you after 11 years.

> I have deleted Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and reddit accounts my life has dramatically improved

Why is that, exactly? Because you waste less of your time on them, or because nobody has your data from those services? If it's the later, how do you calculate value from something you can't observe?

> Meanwhile they reserve extravagant rights to flag censor and ban any content you post

Yeah, using a site that someone else wrote and pays for running the servers doesn't give you magical rights on the service. A fun fact is that free speech is frequently misinterpreted as the ability to say anything anywhere, but it's not that at all.

> My opinion: you should be upset that this platform/network is benefiting off you

That's not an opinion, it's telling people what to think which seems somewhat in vogue recently.
When you do it to Monsanto, it's not a crime.
You are comparing an encoder (x264) with a format (VP9). While there is a reference encoder for VP9 (libvpx). x264 has been one of the most heavily optimized encoders whose development was sponsored by many different organizations, whereas libvpx did not see the same kind of love and most of the work came from Google's employees (with some from outside, I'm sure).

There exist other VP9 encoders, but all for specialized purposes.
I've imagined a workaround where states would be de-stated if they fell below a threshold percentage of the total population or be required to split if they grew above an upper bound percentage. The only reason there are two Dakotas is to give the Republicans two extra senate seats (this is true, you can look it up).
If you're company is based in US/India/China you can just go "fuck it" and only offer your services internally, and still becoming absolutely ludicrously filthy rich because your home country is the size of a continent with individual states/provinces producing more economic output than some old world nations.

If you aren't based in an absurd world superpower than you just go bankrupt.
Former Herman Miller CEO Max De Pree once said, “The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between the two, the leader must become a servant.”
This is not a solution to getting Mac binaries compiled for intel to work with apple processors is it? Do the apple processors not have the same instruction set?
Does anyone know why virtual machines running on macOS seem so much slower than the same virtual machines on the same hardware bit running Windows? This is what I have observed but I have not studied it in any depth. Maybe this change will improve things?
I don't know what to tell you, since I had his real name on the simplest imaginable search, and other people have had his name autocomplete.
On the one hand, of course you can. But I do understand how it might seem tricky if you're too focused on trying to glue together `Gen a`s (or even `MonadRandom m => m a`s), principally with Monad.

To the grandparent, assuming the trouble was as I understand it, the idea is to split your state and advance one new state down the lazy list while the rest of the computation uses the other new state.

Eliding constraints for brevity, if you have:

split :: g -> (g, g)
random :: g -> (a, g)

then you can say

lazyRandomList :: g -> ([a], g)
lazyRandomList oldState =
let (listState, newState) = split oldState
in (makeList listState, newState)
where
makeList inState =
let (value, nextState) = random inState
in value : makeList nextState

When you match on the outer tuple, the split gets forced, but `makeList listState` is still a thunk. You can go ahead and use `newState` all you want without forcing it.

Once you force it, you have a cons, with two thunks that can be forced independently. The tail evaluates to a similar cons produced from a different state. A lazy list.

It's true that it's infinite, but you can fix that (if you want to) by taking the head (perhaps a random number of elements); it's easier to control the distribution of length that way than with some fixed chance you produce nil at each step, although that approach works too.
> I believe the concern is around Windows x64 virtualization

Linux support is likely much more important to Mac users, likely by a large margin. Not necessarily Linux ARM virtualization, but Linux on x86 for web developers working with Docker or Linux VMs. Nobody likes playing guessing games about whether their local setup is close enough to their production environment.
Is your data indexed or clustered? Redshift queries on sorted data is just as fast if not faster.
If you see this post before the inbound bots come and give it a -4 downvote, M5 Hosting controls this.

It's a front company. They have something like 30 names, only 7 employees who can be inferred every really worked at the company + are real humans.

Also, try finding the verified account on Twitter for Hacker News. You can't :)

The idea that this platform, full of comments and small stories from some of the best sysadmins in the world, it not a high value target...is somewhat naive.
That's a good question, I think once a single VR device sells 10-20M units, VR might get there. However, PSVR is at 5M and Quest is at ~0.5M-~1M units. PC VR (really Steam VR) is at ~2M. Headsets keep selling (for now), and we finally have a system seller game in the form of Alyx, Facebook's multiple game studio acquisitions are also a good sign for high quality content in the future. Theoretically these studios will be able to attract better talent by offering FAANG level salaries (3x-4x most game industry equivalents).
It's hard to tell what this is a solution for, since there's no information at the link.

It's probably not, but we'll have to wait and see.
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Alternately you can inventory your instances in AWS Systems Manager and start an SSH session directly from the AWS CLI itself [1] -- no Bastion servers or SSH key management necessary, pure IAM access only.

[1] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/systems-manager/latest/userguide...
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> In my estimation, the vilification of police as racist, declarations of “ACAB” and “Fuck 12”, and calling to abolish or defund the police is more likely to result in significantly more dangerous environments where the majority of black homicides are occurring.

The vilification of police as racist is political. It's always political. The police being jerks to everyone somehow seems less unfair and more acceptable than the police being jerks to only black people, so the people who want change argue that it's racism even though that's basically a lie. Because if it's racism you can get people angrier about it. (The problem is it also alienates all the non-black victims of police misconduct who would otherwise be allies, and also allows opponents to pretend there isn't a problem if they can disprove the racism, even though the misconduct and mistreatment still exist regardless of whether they're racially motivated.)

But the less extreme calls to "defund the police" aren't actually that unreasonable. Because you don't defund the murder police, only the rest of it. Reduce their number by narrowing their scope to only investigating major crimes, so that there aren't as many police needed, so that you're less likely to interact with any of them and have a bad experience.

You basically do the opposite of the "broken window" garbage -- forget about broken windows and instead concentrate on solving ~100% of the murders. Which becomes easier when you discontinue having a million BS traffic stops for revenue extraction and stop and frisk, since they only increase community resentment of the police and make them less likely to cooperate in investigations of serious crimes.
Aside from the irrational but probably inevitable over-hype, I find this whole AI/ML space quite fascinating and frustrating at the same time.

Most of the successful algorithms are much less complex/sophisticated than you might believe from the outside, and I believe that's a very good sign because simplicity scales.

But on the other hand, there is a huge amount of brute-forcing, you can't really do serious research in this field without a few dozen millions to spare, and I think that's always a limit on the innovation potential.

Unfortunately writing good code/finding new algorithms is only a small part of the problem.

I also think that many people don't completely understand how weak this model is to process real-world data when there no reliable way for the system to self-train on it.
I haven't dove into it since the initial panic around how far it would reach, and the work I've done at work to accommodate it at work, but my understanding was that just by providing the service to EU citizens (i.e. you haven't IP banned the entire euro region) you are liable to face penalties. I'm probably just talking about of my ass though. IANAL
I always assumed one could run a script or something to edit their comments to blank comments since deletion is not possible - the way many users on Reddit prefer to do.

Just found out the edit option disappear after a few minutes/hours on HN

Now I'm really bothered too, about the lack of a delete button.
Wow that's bad. I guess mac os is truly on the path to becoming a non - general purpose computer, the way iOS works.
> Can you really deploy to x86 with just ARM Docker testing?

Not if you like paying your bills and sleeping.
No, you want it to be unusable, because this greatly reduces the incentive for theft.
Glenn Gould's interpretation might be the most famous, and is worth a listen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cwas_7H5KUs (1955)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEkXet4WX_c (1981)
> Apple received some snark about this demo being lame, but it's only lame if you don't understand at all just how terrible modern integrated laptop GPUs are.

We do know that. But we also know that the high end laptop market is not all about iGPUs. Entry and mid level consumer and business laptop, maybe, but if you buy a $1,500+ Dell laptop, you're not getting iGPU only.

So not exactly the best comparison. MBPs _start_ at $1,299.
That's just silly. You would get into the most ridiculous moral quandaries with thinking like that. If 75,000 people commute 1 hour each day on a highway and then someone offers to reconfigure the highway to cut the time in half and all he is asking for is the lives of 100 children, its a good trade!

At an avg lifespan of 78 years, 100 kids is ~68 million hours.
30 minutes saved a day / 261 days / year for 75,000 people is ~9.7 million hours a year, so after 7 years, it basically free. Except we would never do that because we don't measure human value in hours because the people in power would be free to make some really terrible optimizations.

You are right though, you did include cancers and I ignored it so we can call it a tie.
I use my scooter a lot in San Francisco and I’ve found that I’m normally going faster than many of the bikers in the bike lane (>15mph). I also don’t have that problem turning, although sometimes I cheat and kick-scoot at sidewalk crossings. It would definitely depend on the environment though - I’m sure in more heavily suburban areas with faster speed limits, more lanes, and less stop-and-go they would not feel safe to ride around cars. But I do think they’re pretty compatible with biking infrastructure
“if I can’t spew my opinion with your bandwidth I’m oppression”
In my last paragraph, I said explicitly that I supported lockdown-type interventions in some cases. Further, even if the end result is herd immunity from recovered cases, slowing the spread will limit overshoot--so support for lockdowns and expectation the pandemic will end in herd immunity from recovered cases are not mutually exclusive.

So my suspicion is that you've skimmed my (long) comment, assigned it to some "template" that you've seen before, and made quick and inaccurate assumptions about my beliefs instead of reading what I wrote. I don't see how you could otherwise believe in good faith that I was "arguing in favor of ending all lockdown-ish behavior, letting the chips fall where they may, and relying on herd immunity to save us".

To start, I'm arguing that the first-order death calculations using 1-1/R0 and IFR from IgG are probably significant overestimates. Do you disagree? If yes, why do you think heterogeneity and evidence other than IgG of prior infection are negligible?

And again, how do you explain Japan? They found a way to continue mostly operating society, while American schoolchildren without attentive parents fall behind their classmates a day at a time. Wouldn't we be better off trying to understand and emulate their success instead of arguing about "lockdowns"?
I'd say it would still be less than the first ARM Mac shipping time
> It is however anarchy

No, it's ochlocracy; there's a reason the same people who named anarchy made a separate word for it.
I do this stuff foe my day job, and everything here rings true.

Every part of the "build and use ML in production" workflow is horrible (unless maybe you work at Google).

Firstly, the Datascience workflow is NOT the same as software engineering. Things like version control tools don't work properly (in every part: git on Jupyter notebooks doesn't work without hacks, versioning data is horrible, versioning models is horrible).

Deployment is horrible. Sagemaker (and equivalents) provide the very base level of functionality needed, but are so separated from the feature engineering side that everyone ends up doing vast amounts of work to get something useful.

Frameworks are horrible. TensorFlow did the upgrade to TF2, so half the examples on the web don't work anymore. The TF data loading abstractions are great - if you work at Google but so complicated to get basic examples going.

PyTorch has a horrible deployment story.

Every other frame work are either experimental research things and take months to make progress (JAX) or are so far behind modern work they are useless (MXNet).

But the thing is dealing with all these issues is worth it because ultimately it does actually work.
HN should allow you to delete accounts at the very least.
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Thanks for posting that. It was news to me; I haven't been following Windows on ARM, but am now interested due to Apple's upcoming hardware.

I was under the impression (like many others apparently) that Windows 10 ARM64 wouldn't be very useful (since so few native apps are available), but being able to run 32-bit (x86) apps is huge:

Running 32-bit Applications https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/winprog64/run...
The new Apple processors will be ARM based like the iPhone and iPad processors. Rosetta 2 is Apple’s built in translation later from x86-64.
Why isn't the Goldberg Variations already open/public domain? Bach has been dead for a very very very long time.
Not a real executive IIRC. He resigned from the BoD. And he's the only prominent person to do something concrete and direct like that. The rest are putting out PR releases and posting black squares to Instagram.
Ah, okay. That is interesting, I don't suppose anyone has looked at the arc source?
The main reason I support allowing deletion of content is that for individuals in abusive households or citizens of certain governments, if they posted something in the past that was dangerous to their health or life, they should be able to delete it to ensure they are not harmed by a parent or spouse who may be in a position of power over them and may be abusing them, or in the case of a government it may target them for something they said in the past.
My opinion comes from the literature I read studying political science and international affairs in college during the late 1990s, the literature I read studying law a decade later (I so miss free journal access), and generally following the academic discourse for the past 20 years.

In any particular year people tend to mine the longer trends for evidence related to whatever is most interesting at the time, thus the millennial angle in the Curbed article, or the extended discussion of the Great Recession in the Brookings paper, but if you go down the rabbit hole, both in the data sources and the academic discourse, discussions about the larger trend come into the foreground. Anyhow, I was asked for some links about the trend in work relocations, and I provided some, trying to balance my own sincerity and convenience. The millennial and Great Recession sidetracks notwithstanding, the prima facie evidence is right there. Who cares what graph they're showing? I provided the links for the words, not the pictures, and the heading of that article says "After 40 years of steady declines in domestic migration, mobility has hit a new all-time low". (Anyhow, if the graph presented the only reasons people moved, it would only make my point stronger.) Follow the primary sources, even (or especially) if you're driven by incredulousness--nothing can motivate hours of sleuthing like Internet rage. That's what makes the Internet so great.

Sometimes I catalog useful links to primary or important secondary sources, but I don't really have any at hand for this topic. There's nothing particularly disputable or even (IMO) counterintuitive about the trend except for the implications, but in this case you merely challenged the basic assertion that people are moving less for work.
that's just a lot of words to say HN should hold data as ransom
Watch out, only naming a company israeli may target you as an antisemite. Be more subtle or you risk a lot of downvotes
Sadly NPR, and I don’t mean the local programming, are also prone to lapses in journalism—even though I give props to Greene and Shapiro. They’re usually pretty even keeled, unlike Bob Mondello who seems a bit narcissistic.
I can't wait for AV1 and AVIF to take over the world. We've needed better formats for awhile now.
>Very few languages, even in the functional world, have such a strict separation.

It's catching on. Nim has the noSideEffect pragma (enabled by default if a function is defined with "func" rather than "proc"), and D has a "pure" annotation. Both are compiler-checked.
On days you would like to hear humming along and someone else thoroughly enjoying the music, I agree with Glen Gould
I didn't know macOS license allowed you to install it on anything other than a Mac.
This is a public domain version of the recording. The sheet music itself is and has been in the public domain for a long time.
Great! I've also created a list of tools, mostly CLI tools since that's what I was more interested in personally.

https://github.com/bradydowling/awesome-generated-art

I'd definitely be open to PRs of other things that are relevant.
Seriously one of my biggest pet peeves. So often I hunt around for the login button, annoyed at being force fed some growth hackers moronic idea of a good interface. It undermines the likely hood that I will "recommend this product to a friend".