skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's pick one real-world example: Organ transplants. Do we select candidate recipients based on their life experience and/or accomplishments? Nope, we consider [0]:

* Blood type

* Immune system mismatch

* Organ size

* Distance donated organ must travel

* Urgency of donation

The closest we come to considering life experience is in two time-related criteria: Children and adults are different (relates to organ size), and time spent on waitlists is taken into account (relates to urgency).

Certainly, a merit-based organ transplant system is possible. In China, there are reports of (involuntary) organ harvesting from political and religious undesirables [2]; these people have been deemed meritless. China continues to work to deploy a single system for measuring merit, the Social Credit System [1].

For hiring and jobs, we might imagine hiring people based on skill sets and job duties; we would consider people based on their ability to carry out the tasks required of the position. Just like with organ transplants, this is a pragmatic approach, rather than one based on celebrity or subtlety.

[0] https://unos.org/transplant/frequently-asked-questions/

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Credit_System

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_harvesting_from_Falun_Go...
Fun Fact: it's perfectly legal to photocopy a textbook for educational purposes in India. Supreme Court threw away the court case when somebody tried to sue them.
Who handles money well? This is not true. I live in a Third world and the educated are the most wasteful. They want to show class and style. They live far above their means.
>There are a few things that we have learned in the last 60 years about writing programs where there is pretty much universal agreement:

>We agree that it's better to find problems earlier rather than later.

Agreed.

>We agree that people are awful at managing memory in programs.

Nope, manual memory management can be done properly and this is not rocket science.

>We agree that code reviews help find bugs.

Sure, but this is not the only way and not always the most efficient.

>We agree that on any project that requires more than one person, communication costs dominate.

Nope, this is a blatant over-generalization.
Then it will be "those evil companies came here, drove up rents and then left when their employees couldn't afford it anymore" - because it will never be the city planners fault!
> Conciseness [...] you're very rarely having to use type hints all over the place

This hasn't been my experience. When I tried porting some Python code to Go, I found it wouldn't compile without lots of type casts (mostly between different integer sizes and signedness).
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Superautomatics are really great. Way better tasting than the ridiculous coffee pods or cups or whatever that you'd have to buy for the other press-a-button coffee makers. And you make up the money just buying whole beans instead of the pods in a few months or so.
If a given person is eating a 2000 calorie diet then I don't believe the presence of ads will suddenly make them eat a 2500 calorie diet to accommodate some products they saw in an ad.

Advertising can be 100% effective but it doesn't make peoples' stomachs bigger.
Terrific replies, very informative, thank you.

<<...the military ingrains the idea of "perception is reality">>

I really wish this was the norm. It's so weird that we civilians need to have the smoking gun, signed confessions, and video tape before even hinting at malfeasance.

Like this privacy stuff. Just the fact that Google (or equiv) can abuse the data should be a full stop no go. We shouldn't have to prove abuse before demanding reforms.

I experienced institutional incredulity first hand as an election integrity activist. "What, don't you TRUST us?!" We were repeatedly dismissed unless we could demonstrate someone was harmed by the current system. IANAL, but the courts said we didn't have standing. So even though the gear couldn't work as advertised, we had to prove someone was disenfranchised. Of course, vendors, election admins, editorial boards, and misc electeds were also appropriately factblind.
> 120 Billion worth Shopify isn't enough, maybe Instagram then? Github ?

Do these sites also have back end services written in other languages for the heavy listing? Anecdotally, seems to be a lot of stories to that effect.

And as noted in the article, Javascript/NodeJS is in a different performance category from Python and Java, more like Java or Go. But the simplicity of Go might make the performance and memory usage more predictable.
> If all that money instead went to the people/taxpayers they would all have received an $18,000 stimulus check instead of $1,200, I think this would have been the best move possible.

Everyone I know would choose their entire retirement fund over a one time check of $18,000 . I understand your sentiment, and it does feel like we got less that we deserve, but stimulating the stock market was absolutely the right move.

Another depression wouldn't help anyone, and a majority of Americans have a 401k. The idea that only the super rich benefit from a good stock market is plain wrong - most people depend on it.
Those are structs, though. This work is about providing similar performance advantages for objects (in certain conditions).
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Probably because it shows the character of the systemd devs.
Your either born a hustler or born into it. In the last few decades the hustlers do need IT help, especially online gambling, money laundering, etc. But it does come with risks, you don't want to be the IT guy who recommended this cracked app.
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That photo of the Bateses still manages to look futuristic, and that was 1979. Good style never gets old.
Could someone explain why systemd needs DNS/NTP fallbacks to begin with? Why aren’t these both runtime configs?

EDIT: I assumed there were also runtime configs based on the name "fallback."

My question is primarily why you need compiled-in fallbacks, and secondarily why the fallback configs aren't pulled from config files.
So, uh, I even find the "defund the police" rhetoric and policy to be unwise, but the text of this article is, shall we say, not very balanced or objective.

Not saying that the mainstream alternative IS balanced and objective, but if one is looking for a cool and dispassionate evaluation of the facts, this is not it.
> That amount went to everyone, regardless of job loss.

No, it didn't.
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What language do you prefer for the typical Go use cases?
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> when on the verge of sleep my sound imagination can switch on and I hear music as if I were at a concert hall - dramatically different from my day-to-day experience.

I used to be like that in the past. I would sit in a chair and the music would come. Then I knew I was close to sleeping, and it happened every night when going to bed. When I woke up the final stage of sleeping also had music, then it was suddenly, brutally switched off and I was awake. It felt as real as if it was heard live. The thing is, the music was always something I'd never heard before, and it was huge and with lots of instruments. Classical, mostly. It was very similar to the "music everywhere" experience in the Salaxian ship described in the novel "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency".

For various reasons I went through a sleep-deprived phase, and after that time I lost the music. No music when going to sleep, and none when waking up. After many years I started to get a different experience, I would dream about music events (watching some band, for example, or some other event), hear nice (non-classical) music, and, if I woke up, trying to find a pen and write down the chords or the music - but it fades so quickly that after writing down the beginning it would all be gone.

The brain is the strangest thing.
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no politics, but this is like the "if you stop testing numbers go down" lol
If the null hypothesis is that research professionals' discovery of and access to papers interesting and relevant enough to their own paper to cite is independent from the paper also being available on Scihub, I don't think the paper's demonstration that papers interesting enough to garner future citations are [predictably] also more popular on Scihub than those which aren't does much to support its rejection.

There's no reason to believe the correlation between realized access and future citations isn't exactly the same or stronger for subscription platforms or paper copies in university libraries, and nothing in the paper itself to suggest that researchers publishing in top tier journals might discover and access papers exclusively through those methods rather Scihub.

I'm sure the frequency with which papers are referenced in undergraduate essays also correlates with future citations in top tier academic journals, but any paper arguing for a causal Undergraduate Essay Effect on citations in top journals would be laughed off, especially if they made claims like 'revealed the importance of undergraduate scholarship in almost doubling the number of [top tier journal] citations of articles mentioned by undergrads'

[FWIW I don't think the direct and indirect impact of papers being accessible Scihub on professional research work is literally zero, but this paper does nothing to indicate otherwise.]
Taking a month off from OSS volunteering (2016)
From having lunch with guys from the mechanical engineering department (they were right next door at uni) my anecdotal second-hand wisdom is: Most larger engineering projects are as broken, tedious, expensive and unpredictable as most software projects. You will always find unsteady ground that nobody told you about, new last-minute requirements, shitty subcontractors making a mess and substandard parts that happened to be cheapest on the tender. From what I've heard, around 2 in 3 projects are over budget or over time in a significant way because something was massively screwed up somewhere and needed to be hotfixed, patched, rebuilt or -my favourite- reevaluated to be statically sound without structural changes.

I think the common software engineering myth about "real engineering" being somehow better and something one should aspire to is just really a myth.
Nonetheless, bailouts come with the social cost of increasing market concentration and moral hazard.
Does it matter now (that the maintainers can't dialogue with the community)?

In one side major linux distros took in systemd (as, ok, granted, the "less worse" of the options) so the point is moot. I mean everybody should know how LPs management of the project works.

At the same time I can understand trying to cut down on drama in online discussions (though I agree that default might make more sense as a run-time configurable, not as a build-time one).

(And yes defaults are important)
I think the point of the $600 was to keep the economy from seizing up, and keeping people at home was a side effect.
Thanks for clarifying. You convinced me.
Whoever knows how to build systemd should know about this build-time flag
Never thought I would see someone referring to the use of SDRs - let alone effectively applying one - on HN. Curious as to where you picked up the skillset.
> That amount went to everyone, regardless of job loss.

I did not get any notice as such, but my understanding as to why I got $0 was I made too much money to qualify. So I don't think your statement is in any way accurate. It did not go to "everyone"
Do you think subsidizing the poor enough so our economy doesn't have to choose between immediately collapsing and killing the poor wouldn't save us an enormous set of costs?
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why did medium.com become so popular? I never understood
Those examples you cite seem pretty contrived to me.

A more real-world scenario would be more like a hospital facing a critical nursing shortage improving its compensation package for new hires. They probably wouldn’t bump current nurses pay unless they feared an exodus, but most companies operate this way.

Software firms do this all the time because the demand for developers is so high. A developer candidate that knows how to negotiate effectively can usually hit the top of their pay band or even exceed it. But the caveat is that it takes a job hop to get paid, which I assume is true for most other industries.
The amount you got in employment, over or under what you usually got was a matter of what state you were in. Each state has different unemployment benefits, and of course large differences in cost of living. and extra $600 doesn't go very far to help pay for housing in the expensive states.

The NYTimes did a decent analysis of each state.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/23/business/econ...
but ruby is moving in this direction

- jit

- more functional tools

- better introspection

- sorbet

- ractor

- truffleruby, and jruby
Why Pascal hasn't caught on is beyond me. When I was a lot younger I thought the world one day will be partly made by Delphi.

Now it is pretty much dead.
>It’s not correct to say that people only received $1200. That amount went to everyone, regardless of job loss.

No it didn't. It only went to people making less than 70k
> I think some folk get used to building EnterpriseTurboWidgetFactoryImpl type horrors and never consider the language doesn't need to do that kind of thing any more.

Did it ever though? I feel this junk comes from the Spring side more than pure Java. I'd love to know a good way to get rid of it as Spring is everywhere.
> But for web development, in general, these languages have proven themselves for so long it's getting quite ridiculous now to say they won't work.

And I don't think web development is where Go is getting traction. More in back end services and infrastructure.

> Java/Spring dependency injection is jumping through hoops just to provide a testable framework I find it hard to believe it's any easier.

As someone who develops with Spring everyday, I don't think it's the best solution for anything.
That's just a terrific tip, you made my morning, thank you.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mornington_Crescent_(game)
> Christ, what's next? You accuse us of controlling people's minds with vaccinations we get directly from Bill Gates? And that systemd uses 5G to spread CoV-2?

> I will block discussions here now, since I don't think we need the input from the script kiddie peanut gallery here.

Ohh my what a toxic open source community. I can't imagine working on a software project where the lead dev/maintainer says things like that to people.

Edit: I suppose with all the downvotes apparently lot's of people here think such responses from the leader of a open source project is acceptable behavior.
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Yes, I don't do web development. At least not mostly.

But I understand that that's what most people out there are doing. But they should also not delude theirselves that the toolsets appropriate for that environment are appropriate every where else. I see this bias a lot, on HN even, that everyone now is a "full stack developer" doing this kind of development.

Many of us work in entirely different stacks.
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I think the most charitable (and probably the default) reading of that clause has an implied "I believe" prepended. It certainly does not have an implied "It is a universal fact that" prepended.

By way of analogy, when you earlier said "This is ludicrous. Can we switch to the metric system already?" no one thinks that you're speaking for everyone, but rather are advancing your own belief in the "This is ludicrous." sentence.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23660985
Another security issue for a company that Advertises it's security and privacy being useful for even the most uneducated user.

I know people talk about finance classes in schools, but I think we urgently need marketing classes. Companies have entire departments learning how to exploit your psychology and if you haven't seen the basics of marketing, you are ripe for pickings.
And, likely, lawsuits to follow. The degeneration of women, abuse of actors, physical intimidation are being exposed in many industries and vilified. This project next?
I wonder what method they'll use to suicide her, considering they used up the inept guard ignoring a hanging method already.
It's moot
> they didn’t index the unemployment to the person’s earnings...we didn’t have an easy way to implement a more complex unemployment system at a national level

This wasn't an oversight or logistical concern [1].

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/03/26/coronavirus...
> in-game micro transactions

Those are used in full price games. Its because they extract much greater amounts of money form player base.
So that is weak argument for all those starving game-makers.

Sure some smaller ones are hurting from the piracy, but people who pirate are usually ones who don't have money to buy games in a first place.

When i was young I pirated games as we were poor. Now I don't pirate because its more convenient for me to just buy things I like.
> not even capitalism (capital based ownership) but some form of debtism (some form of financial servitude, in lieu of ownership).

Eh, I'd argue it's still capitalism. Nothing about capitalism says how concentrated capital can't be.
The original title was much more explicit: "Systemd Fallbacks to Google NTP and DNS".

I guess @dang changed it with good intentions, but he accidentally destroyed the meaning. "We wanted the best, you know the rest."
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The federal government is made up of many different actors with different goals. The $600 unemployment pandemic bonus was only added to the relief package because of the house democrats insistence. I think it’s hard to believe that was not their goal.
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That is insanely optimistic. You absolutely cannot live on your own on anything near $10/hr in any low cost area.
Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/327/
Yeah that sounds un-coerced. Governments of every European Union nation coming down on them.
From an different article linked by a comment, the replies from the company itself points towards an compromise between the phone and the update server. The police got access through the SIM service provider and was able to inject their own modified updates to the connected phones.

As a simple guess, I would suspect that the police managed to get a valid certificate from the domain name used by the update server and through that MiTM the connection. One of the comments from the company said "They repurposed our domain to launch an attack", which would fit such scenario.

Attacking the authentication of update functionallity is also in my view the usual suspect in cases like this. When a hardware device get rooted it very often is some kind of attack which allow people to push an modified update in some way. The developer in this case would need to have designed the update feature assuming that the domain name could be compromised, the SIM service could be compromised, and that the path between their server and the phone could be compromised. If they used cloud services for their servers than they would also need to assume that the cloud provider could be compromised. People can write software very carefully and still forget to account for one of those.
The point is DDG has insisted that they put privacy first, & don't collect user data, then (supposedly) in the interest of a small performance increase they introduce code that — wait for it — COLLECTS USER DATA. All they would need to do is use {URL}/favicon.ico which most if not sites have. From what I understand according to posts on the github page this could be done on-device so no need for sending anything to a server. Then when the issue was opened it was closed without the issue being fixed.
I mean I get it. I still call it nostalgia because as you point out, it's still completely possible to do it's just a smaller overall percentage of what is on the web. I run a niche site that gets ~20k MAU:

http://airforcefitnesscalculator.com/

I consider it the ultimate in no-modern-web BS. The only "modern" thing I use is GA, which even then, honestly I'm looking at replacing it with one of those 90s counters.
> and not very much else

Companies whose success relied writing v1 in Python and still using Python

- YouTube

- Instagram

- Pinterest

- Dropbox
I have to picture that systemd has hundreds, if not thousands, of build time flags. Is it reasonable to expect all non-systemd builders to grok every flag? My opinion is that it is not - that pushing it back on the individual distros is a cop out on Red Hat's side.

EDIT: 172 distinct build-time options, in today's master. Not all appear to be used as part of the build, since the build script only references 142 of the options set in meson_options.txt.
Ah, NET SEND. The first time I ever got in trouble at school. For punishment they made me start an after school computer club, run by the IT admin who I’d embarrassed.
Didn’t have a free commercial grade compiler. Made it hard for hobbyist to learn.
The model is sparsely-gated, not sparse. The individual experts in each mixture of experts are dense layers but they're sparsely activated, i.e., on each forward pass only some of them are conditionally used.

As to comparing parameter counts, I disagree with you. I think it's perfectly OK to compare parameter counts for different kinds of models. It would also be perfectly OK to compare, say, computational efficiency per parameter in each forward pass (which for this model is impressive), but that wasn't the focus on my comment above.

Finally, you're right that I didn't mention all the interim parameter counts that we have seen below 600B in all transformer variants. The list would have been way too long had I tried to include every figure!
> I'm pro basic income, but definitely don't support paying more to be unproductive than productive.

And if COVID has proven anything, its that the most productive workers are the ones who didn't even get a chance to earn the additional $600.

The essential employees, the ones that keep the country running, are forced to continue making a less-than-livable wage.

It's a very outdated notion that there is a linear correlation between "productivity" and pay.
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I could flesh out my argument: I'd guess¹ 99%+ of damaging environmental events happen out of sight from us end consumers.

¹ Open to seeing real numbers if they exist!