skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I understand it to mean that there is a part of the org (separate from the engineering team) that shapes the direction of the product; decides "these are the features we're going to implement, these are the issues we're going to address"; one way of looking at it is that their primary output is putting things in to the engineering team's backlog.
>Giving orders to disperse to does not give police a license to physically assault civilians without provocation

Do you expect police to just stand around and wait until people feel like following lawful orders?

Should they carry around lollipops to hand out for people who follow directions?

>Is this supposed to be exculpatory? If I throw peanuts on someone with a peanut allergy, is "they would have been fine had they not been allergic" an acceptable defense

If you have a peanut allergy you shouldn't be hanging around in peanut factories looking for trouble (as the old guy was on video laughing earlier that day)

Edit: by the way, that bit about him trying to return a helmet was nonsense, earlier photos/videos show that it was his.
A defense attorney defending a guilty criminal doesn’t typically pledge financial and moral support and state publically that they are proud to stand with them (not for, with). EFF is tying themselves to IA far beyond just acting purely as a legal representative.
Canadian banks are stabler because of the cost and missed opportunity costs are passed on to the customer.

Want a mortgage at the current rate? Great you must qualify at 2% points higher.

Canada has some of the highest banking fees.
Looks a bit broken on Firefox.
Elliot Is Shutting Down
> That's the only way I can explain the militant anti-mask brigades out there.

90% of seemingly crazy human behavior can be explained by group dynamics.

Humans are a social animal. We evolved in tribes that worked cooperatively to survive. We hunted in groups to take down animals larger than ourselves. We protected each other at night from predators. And we fought other tribes for access to the best resources.

Because of this evolutionary history, we are hardwired to prioritize belonging above almost all other concerns. We talk about food and shelter on Maslow's hierarchy of needs, but the top of that pyramid should really be "part of the group". Because for most of our evolutionary history, if you were alone, that meant you weren't going to find shelter or food. Exile was a death sentence.

We don't need tribes to survive now, but the wiring is still there. We still wake up needing to belong to an in-group and worrying that there is some out-group out there in the night coming to take our possessions from us.

The anti-mask thing is a tribal signal. For people surrounded by Republicans, being part of that in-group means publicly signalling alliegance to it. Trump wants to downplay COVID-19 because it makes him look bad. And because he's the leader of that tribe, it means being anti-mask shows you are part of that tribe. The way human brains work, being part of a tribe feels a lot safer than wearing a mask to protect yourself from a disease.
> My confidence in the Mac was really shaken by Catalina.

Same! However, I've never actually used Catalina for a significant period of time, so I can't compare them directly. I downgraded back to High Sierra after just using Mojave for a few weeks, partly because I was frustrated with TCC breaking my scripts, but also because I'd noticed Mojave was slower and buggier than High Sierra. When Catalina came out and the problem reports started rolling in, I resolved not to touch it with a ten-foot pole.

I only installed Big Sur because I wanted to try out the new design. I was fully expecting a dumpster-fire, and I wouldn't have even blamed Apple for it, given that Big Sur is currently an early developer preview (I was only able to download it by hacking Apple's catalog URLs). I did not expect to actually like the Big Sur.

There are a couple of odd bugs that I expect to get ironed out by the fall—for example, the menu bar sometimes shows a wifi-disconnected icon even when the internet is working fine. On the whole though, I think the current build of Big Sur would make for a fine daily driver. (Although it would probably still be a bad idea if you're working on something important!)

More than anything else—and I know this will be very hardware-specific—I just can't overstate how fast Big Sur feels. It's really as if I got a new computer. I will note that I did a clean install, but I do those regularly anyway, and they don't help all that much.
Those monetization options pay less than you think they do for the vast majority of creators.

The US copyright regime has been responsible for an amazing exponential growth in IP creation because creators are financially incentivized to create.
One of the common workflows for us with Jira is to search for things that have changed in the last day

status changed during (-1d, now())

That lets me as a manager or a lead, see activity in their project and know when engineers update their tickets with details or comments. Is there a way to do that with Linear?

For all the hate that Jira (deservedly) gets, its search is extremely powerful. Maybe it's best feature. I'm not sure how well Linear would scale for a larger org of hundreds of engineers, dozens of teams, and tens of thousands of tickets without similar search abilities. Any roadmap plans for that?
Again, wildly naive. There is no "rule of law" that is so prescriptive. We basically have a loose confederation of laws, interpreted by courts, and exacted by humans. There is flexibility in various aspects, including sentencing, and things like that are (when they are) left to the discretion of the judge precisely because there is no formula otherwise. There is nothing about this that violates anyone's oath or duty, and nothing about it is inherently wrong. That is precisely the space that judges occupy that no formula can fill.
Pretty exciting to see that MaidSafe has integrated AT2 into the SAFE Network!
You don't want your issue tracker in your source control if your product includes multiple source repositories, and a single bug might span several, or need to move between them.

Also, if you have customers who file bugs, they don't care about your code structure. And maybe they shouldn't have read access to your code?
"Because I was leading the expedition, I couldn’t have any physical contact with anyone else — zero"

Wait, what? I would love to get more details about that because that sentence (no matter the rest of the paragraph) makes it sound way too much World War I kind of cold leadership with no rational reason.

On the noise aspect of her isolation I think it's quite more nuanced than that IMHO. I've been to Antarctica too and I've been working alone from home for the last 5 years as well, and isolation during pandemics is nowhere similar to the isolation in Antarctica. The silence there is beautiful, not frightening. They are just different beasts and even the noise from the street outside is enough to break the monotony but not actually going out hurts more. I think she tried her best to be empathic but 1 year in the ice is much harsher, kudos to her.
> But what does that world look like? Quite frankly, I'm not sure. Of course, we can't just abolish copyright with no replacement; it's certainly necessary to reward the creation of this work somehow.

Why can't we? Wouldn't even that state be better than the current one, where publishers outright steal (in true meaning of the world) revenue from YouTube content creators because there might be a sound that's similar to some song written 30+ years ago?

The current state is so one-sided and abusive that it's not obvious that no-copyright world is worse. Heck, down this same thread we have people calling people who put books on the internet for everyone to read "criminals". How messed up is that?
+1s are frowned upon at HN, but I can't think of a more warranted post than this one for offering up an underlined "thank you"
I haven’t tried Linear, but while browsing the site I couldn’t help but notice what an exquisite job the designer did with the Linear site.

It’s consistent, lightweight, it has pleasant proportions, a nice color theme, etc. It’s also sprinkled with all kinds of little details that show care, attention and craftsmanship.

I wish I’d see more sites like this.
You could use WordPress and some plugins (e.g. WooCommerce + Memberships + Subscriptions) to do it.

Disclosure: I work for Automattic, the parent company of WordPress.com and WooCommerce.
That's not been my experience. The police have been the first to escalate in Denver. Then the resulting chaos gives cover for unsavory elements to start tagging/burning/looting.
Creating a Custom ASIC with the First Open Source PDK
Deno makes not sense to me outside of hobby projects, lambda functions and other small components. Large projects with thousands of lines of code will be difficult to support with this paradigm. The security model is also not great. I applaud the effort, I think it is great, but command line flags for security work only for small project files. For any large project you need something that is granular and per module/function. If you start going down that rabbit hole you will end up with some kind of configuration file no different than package.json.
There's probably a good chance you could reverse it if you bribed the right 'thought leaders' in the bitcoin community. The Ethereum team was considering pushing an update to reverse a much smaller amount when one of their donators lost money due to a bug, not sure if they followed through. Something similar was also seriously discussed by bitcoin devs when binance lost 40m to a hack not long ago.
@antirez Thank you for all your amazing work! Redis and your overall approach has changed the way I approach _my_ work daily.
Ask HN: Need Help with Testing the App
Hi guys,
Would you be open to help us test our app? We are group of enthusiasts trying build solution based on inputs of users and that way have an app that will be useful for everyone.

Thanks :)
Because it is open, the crowd will be able to look over pull requests and judge the reasoning/evidence put forth by the pull request to remove an incident as well as the reasons provided by maintainer for the PR's approval/rejection.
Actually one more thing I realized about this idea that would be wild...

Since re2c itself is written in C, it can be easily compiled to wasm (even if it has a few gotos). So then you get an engine that can compile user patterns at runtime, rather than having it be an offline process.

(I don't really think there is that much difference in constraints between the offline and online processes, as some of have suggested. For example I observed that re2c compile time is linear with respect # constants strings in a large range in that benchmark.)

I have been thinking of embedding wasm in Oil, mainly to do reasonably fast string transformations. Because one goal of Oil is to provide an alternative to extremely tortured string transformation syntax like: https://github.com/dylanaraps/pure-bash-bible

And Oil has the eggex language, that compiles to egrep syntax, and uses libc's engine.

But it would be cool if it could compile to DFAs with an embedded re2c compiler.

Then again, I was surprised that the compiled C code was not faster than an intepreter for small cases, so maybe this whole thing is too complex for the benefit... I guess I would have to do some up front benchmarks to see if this is even worth it.

It could be that you need an extremely fast wasm engine to make it worthwhile, and all of those are tied to big JS engines and their very non-portable JITs.

[1] https://johnwickerson.wordpress.com/2020/05/21/diagrams-for-...

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edit: found some related comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18553393

Surprise, the "totally shocking" result there is due to BACKTRACKING :) Automata-based regex in wasm beats native browser regex because it doesn't backtrack.
As an Austrian, I love love love it!
I really enjoy how it's not quite parasitology research, but involves very similar methods :)
I second Karl’s blog. Been following the ML journey through his eyes from the beginning and his insights couldn’t have been more accurate. Despite the many criticism Magic Leap Fanboys gave him.

Edit
I found alot of the bulletpoints insightful and most seem to be related to covid-19 lockdowns but a few stood out:

>Life felt like it was suddenly zooming by (after leaving Antarctica)

I feel like right now in quarantine time is just flying by, I don't know really why this is, maybe its the fact that both me and my wife are extremely busy with our jobs while raising a toddler and no daycare makes every day seem the same/very busy with the weekend having little demarcation from the work week. Maybe if we weren't working and just sitting around this would be different. But it seems almost the opposite from what was mentioned.
If you are more cautious to begin with, you do not need to compensate for anything, so the theory does not apply.
S.A. Lebedev and the Birth of Soviet Computing
> ... that mirrors issues between Github & Gitlab?
There is some horrible conduct detailed on here, but also not so horrible conduct:

> They included a California judge who had sex in his courthouse chambers, once with his former law intern and separately with an attorney; a New York judge who berated domestic violence victims; and a Maryland judge who, after his arrest for driving drunk, was allowed to return to the bench provided he took a Breathalyzer test before each appearance.

Judges in all these states are elected. Should an elected official be impeached for any of this conduct? Maybe the one who had sex with an attorney, if the attorney had cases before the judge (but the article doesn’t say that). The other stuff is bad, but is it impeachable?

By lumping together really heinous conduct with things that probably should be disciplinary violations that don’t result in impeachment, it’s hard to know what the magnitude of the problem detailed in the article actually is.
Sparse-TPU: Adapting Systolic Arrays for Sparse Matrices [pdf]
Ask HN: What makes a great personal website?
I'm getting ready to make a new personal site and wanted to grab some opinions from the HN community as to what makes a great personal website.

What's the one or two things you look for when exploring a new personal site? Feel free to mention your own personal website or portfolio site as well as other personal sites you find noteworthy.
Exactly. Just like air conditioners cool a container while increasing the overall heat of the system, cars make the car occupants safer while increasing the overall danger of the system.
I don't think the point of the site is to be an example of Design Thinking, rather it seems to be presenting the slideshare (original document, https://www.slideshare.net/almingwork/nyt-product-discovery-...) so that it's more easily accessible.
Talk : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsvqGl38TZQ
how much did you sell it for?
If you're working at a startup you have (usually) taken on risk + a lower salary in exchange for ownership, so it is expected and disappointing when a sale gets nothing for employees. If they are paid market rates with stock/options not part of their compensation that would be different
Seems pretty odd to shut down because a founder leaves, must be more to the story
Hang on, there was a judicial inquiry that found he handed down hundreds of punitive sentences to people too poor to pay fines. He was found in violation of 10 state laws. It’s all in the article.

This wasn’t a single aberrant case where maybe he made a mistake, it was an long term persistent pattern of deliberate behaviour identified in a inquiry. He even said he was ‘very remorseful’.
Yup. This article made me recheck the economics of tape backup. You'll have to have a lot of data before it becomes cheaper than simply duplicating the storage. Worried about ransomware? Have a dedicated backup machine that does nothing else, it's as isolated as possible, it reads the data to be backed up and writes it to the backup drives.
Depends on what you are thinking. Mathematical thinking without emotions - may yield better algorithms/analysis - consumable by machines - not sure about humans. Humans need emotions attached to their thinking. Suppose if we are solving a human problem or building a product consumable by humans - the end goals are different and attached to emotions - delight/happiness/experience etc., Hopefully, I didn't misunderstand your question :)
> Do you expect police to just stand around and wait until people feel like following lawful orders?

I expect them to not shove the elderly onto concrete and then walk away as blood flows out of their ears.

That's not a high bar.
I understand it as a business but sadly banks in e.g. Bulgaria add extra fees on top of SEPA transfers which you can sometimes avoid and sometimes not.
I would assume they mean “you have not set up your JIRA workflow according to your needs”
Much what I was about to comment.

My mother passed away some 35-odd years away, and it really took me by surprise when I found out my little sister could visualise her and describe her from memory. I, on the other hand, could m and can recognise photos of her, but when describing her soul resort to learned facts: she was very pretty, slim, had brown hair and eyes, etc., etc.

Where the story turns, though, is how I remember things, as opposed to my academic (research professor) and artistic (painter/sculptor, and thus extremely visually oriented) wife. She continually misplaces her keys or glasses, for example. I have learnt to notice items, like them them amongst other things, and link them narritively (glasses on lounge table, keys on dishwasher, mask on sink…) and can then recall that without any real effort at a later stage.

It also fascinates her that I can read something like a programming manual like a story book and recall enough of it afterwards to put it into practice using the same manual only as a reference afterwards.

Horses for courses, I suppose.
>Running a full node is the only way to assure the integrity of the currency. Increasing the block size decreases the number of people that run full nodes.

where is the evidence for this? complete bullshit. How much fewer people would run a full node if the block size was increased from 1mb to 2mb?
if you use nightly too you get some extra features that might even be better than chrome's.
Seems like your cloudflare got hugged a few hugs too many.
It had never occurred to me that any developed country would do anything other than this. Are there any that do?

A bit of a survey from the Venice Commission, some sort of gang of euro-judicial boffins:

https://www.icj.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/CDL-AD2007_02...
You are spot on.
What's really interesting is when companies publish death rate numbers.
In everything I've seen, most low-cost car models suffer on safety, generally due to lower cost construction, materials, or cheaper safety/avoidance systems. Volvo obviously has historically been the best at reducing mortality, Tesla is seeming to be beating them but I don't know how many of the numbers actually match reality, that's not clearly published. To better test this it's about time we added a sixth star, for sure.
Left Turns across traffic are generally the highest danger factor, notably for motorcyclists.
Many states in the US are replacing traffic lights with roundabouts and are removing two-lane passing zones.

Oh and SUVs are markedly LESS safe. They are more prone to rollover, less likely to avoid an accident, stop slower, and generally have less safe body structure.
Is there an RFC for structured summary comments?
First off - congrats. Your product looks nice! I'm working in a similar area [0] so I look at a lot of products and yours looks like something I'd actually use.

I don't think this is about introversion, it's about comfort zone and the fact that distribution is really REALLY hard, especially in a crowded market. If you're a builder, it's easy to stop the hard thing, which can often be super unfulfilling and feel like banging your head against the wall, and slip back into your comfort zone of building stuff.

Thing is, it's never going to get easy. Your product is never ever going to sell itself. Building a public profile, content marketing, etc. is one affordable way to get the word out. The other way is word of mouth. Both of those require you to get out there.

All that being said, I'm firmly convinced the MVP culture of launching as soon as you've built a UI with Bootstrap and thrown it up on Heroku is bonkers. Take some pride and ship something good (which it looks like you've done).

0: https://kitemaker.co
As much as you and I may care about that, for many (most?) people the browser chrome is the most important part.

Syncing bookmarks, UI, tab handling etc tend to be bigger pain points for individuals, as opposed to the more dev-focused aspects such as supporting a certain API in Javascript.
I wonder why the maintainer feels their reaction is appropriate. They don’t owe anyone anything, but come on.
Ask HN: How do we take programming to the next level?
You have many years of development under your belt in multiple languages and frameworks. Some are hobby, some are work.

> The one thing that is constant, is always having to start a project from ground zero.

This could mean different things. Let's say we switch to using Flutter for Android for the first time.

You get a starter project. You learn dart overnight. You learn the Flutter framework as-you-go, then you begin hand crafting all the software pieces.

This is where things get messy.

You begin by building many classes and functions that you have built thousands of times before, with slight variations, which make it unique. You whip together all the business logic, which is easy, but tedious, as you've done this thousands of times before.

The quality, demands, and requirements of a minimum viable product are becoming higher and higher, causing development time to increase.

How do we evolve the development cycle into the next level? How do we abstract out repeated patterns in our programming that are being rebuilt thousands of times?

Where should we go from here?
> Do you expect police to just stand around and wait until people feel like following lawful orders?

If he was breaking the law, why did they assault him rather than arresting him?

Also, how do we know the orders were lawful?

> If you have a peanut allergy you shouldn't be hanging around in peanut factories looking for trouble (as the old guy was on video laughing earlier that day)

How is it relevant that he was laughing earlier?

The point is that it's incumbent on the police to determine the appropriate amount of force to use, not on civilians to retreat based on a worst–case scenario of what the police can do to them. They exist to serve us, not the other way around.
Your email reader, word, youtube and IDE isn't likely to push the limits on any modern CPU, your video game is increasingly optimized around multiple cores because modern consoles ship with multi core cpu's and they need all the performance they can out of them. Only thing that might benefit from single cpu performance is probably your general python code.
Shooting people is already illegal. Don't be afraid of information.
Music Is Anti-Conversation
This guy doesn’t understand what the MIT and ISC license mean. He needed to keep them intact (and add his name if he liked) rather than replace the copyright owner’s name. That is all.
Many games are written in C/C++ with the minimal amount of Java.
How This Entrepreneur Set a Crowdfunding Record ($28M)
If I understand these SafetyNet changes right, it's now relying on TrustZone, where "trust" frankly means distrusting the end user. This runs on a privilege level above the OS kernel, and it isn't possible to modify that firmware or extract data from it even with the unlocked bootloader, by design. It's currently used for media DRM among other things.