skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This statement:

> If doing your part to support these people just includes not saying anything while awareness is raised, I would recommend doing that.

Does not imply what you asserted, which is:

> Isn't the consequence of that line of thinking that anything that doesn't raise awareness is problematic, as it takes up attention/spots on the front page etc? Ergo: we should have nothing but LGBT topics so everybody is aware all the time.

There seem to be several logical steps in-between the two assertions that you've assumed would happen and didn't lay out here.
We don't even let health insurance to charge people different rates based on pre-existing conditions anymore, which is what drove health insurance premiums through the roof.
These services can't be trusted anymore as a single point of failure. Distributed torrent like systems need to replace them. Trusting any of these companies as the stewards of content is foolish at this point.
> The reason was (rightly or wrongly) Jim Keller

So are you buying Intel stock now?
For contrast, take this Hofstadter quote:

> This, then, is the trillion-dollar question: Will the approach undergirding AI today—an approach that borrows little from the mind, that’s grounded instead in big data and big engineering—get us to where we want to go? How do you make a search engine that understands if you don’t know how you understand? Perhaps, as Russell and Norvig politely acknowledge in the last chapter of their textbook, in taking its practical turn, AI has become too much like the man who tries to get to the moon by climbing a tree: “One can report steady progress, all the way to the top of the tree.”

My take is that there is something intelectually unsatisfying about solving a problem by simply throwing more computational power at it, instead of trying to understand it better.

Imagine in a parallel universe where computational power is extremely cheap. In this universe, people solve integrals exclusively by numerical integrations so there is no incentive to develop any of the Analysis theory we currently have. I would expect that to be a net negative in the long run as theories like Gen Relativity would be almost impossible to develop without the current mathematical apparatus.
Ah, I see, makes sense. Thanks for providing this explanation.

I really appreciate this perspective. I am way more into options trading, while keeping my savings in regular stocks, so I don't manually trade stocks much. But it is still good info to know, in case I change my mind on it later.
Joe Coffee raises another $1.3M to help more coffee shops take mobile orders
Problems with Kubernetes Cost Estimation
OP was likely talking about training where NVIDIA has virtually no competition apart from Google's TPUs.

In inferencing a lot more models are deployed on GPUs than before and this trend is likely to continue. NVIDIA is alone there.
Yep, exactly.

What's kind of amusing/terrible is that while doing this I was almost always living in very high COL areas, while a digital nomad would be off somewhere extremely inexpensive. Oh well, money isn't everything.
> we guarantee that only over-capitalized predatory businesses can compete in the space.

Assuming you can't make money at 10%, why would even a well-capitalized company that's OK with having a loss leader enter that market? The Uber strategy has been to enter a market fast, drive competitors out (possibly taking a loss), then (and looking at their earnings, this never happened, probably because there's a competitor in most of their markets) raise prices and finally turn a profit. If you can never turn a profit, why would you enter the market?
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HTML/JS was already improving, wrt better handling of the kinds of things Flash was specifically used for (graphics based interactive applications) before the iPhone was released and became popular. The canvas element was introduced around 2004, WebGL started with Canvas 3d around 2006. At that point, I think the writing was on the wall, Flash was a proprietary format that had many of the same issues as Java Applets. Something better integrated into the presentation experience (JS and canvas/webgl) was going to overtake it as it created a more uniform developer/content producer target. And with improvements to JS performance, and the general improvement of computer performance, it was inevitable.

Additionally, you couldn't guarantee Flash availability even before the iPhone. Non-Windows/Mac systems didn't guarantee it, and many corporate networks eliminated it from their computers (though, ironically, now the main reason I still deal with Flash is my employer's training system).

Cutting it from iOS, and the popularity of both the iPhone and later iPad, just hastened the decline.
It never went away and is there for you when you want to return: https://www.eternal-september.org/
Sure, but using tracking pixels will always show your github profile as the referer, won't it?
So how would having view statistics helped? Would you have curated your GitHub account differently if you knew who was visiting your profile?
> Why should she self-examine? To adhere to your standards for behavior?

I believe "lack of self-examination" is code for "she expresses views I find distasteful, that I believe she would change if she self-examined. I also want to imply she has not done so and kept her views".
Clicking through the article: They also offer a service to sue robo callers.

You get a burner credit card number to help you claim that bogus cruise you keep winning. When the scanmer tries to charge it, DoNotPay gets their vendor information and auto-sues them for $3000.
Flash continued to be available on iPhone, despite urban myths.

Adobe was quick to react and added support for AOT compilation to native code for iOS.

So plenty of casual games before the rise of Unity, Unreal, SpriteKit, Cocos, were actually AOT compiled Flash games.
Send this to hn@ycombinator.com as an email.
> only 2.2 million people

Nitpick: That was 2010. We're getting closer to 3M now.
Chinese embassy: ‘Unknown pneumonia’ deadlier than coronavirus in Kazakhstan
Is Vapor the rails-like go to web framework for Swift? Is it viable for indie hackers, or is it more like Java geared towards the enterprise? I find Swift interesting as a language because it seems that it's well balanced, usable for low level systems programming and higher level applications. But protocol first kinda indicates big design up front, something more geared towards enterprise usecases..
Ask HN: Is there static website software that behaves similar to a Wiki?
Good afternoon,

I've been working on the backend for my personal website for a bit now, and while having a blog is nice for keeping a running list of thoughts and articles, for me and my way of thinking, having a sort of interlinked knowledge base closely coupled with articles and thoughts makes a bit more sense. ( Think something closer to Gwern's site (though it is based on Hakyll) or Chris' Space (https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/FrontPage). )

Is this a category of sofware that exists, and if so, what are the major players in the space ?
This has definitely been my experience. Language and cultural differences make close friendships with US students difficult and International students are often forced to associate with one another instead. A real tragedy when many/most of these international students go back to their home countries.
It is well supported at this point that, in addition to the Bering land bridge, the ancestors of many Native Americans followed a coastal sea route from northeast Asia to the Americas.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-humans-cam...
'We've had a Robinhood suicide, how long before a Youtuber?'
Happened many times before...

'Termination without reason is a psychological attack and Google and Youtube must be held accountable.'
No it is not and no they do not.
If we’re going back to the 90s, can we re-embrace avoidance of proprietary Microsoft tools (GitHub) in favor of f/oss alternatives?
V/A fischeri (a lot of people still haven't gotten used the renaming from vibrio) is really fascinating. Slight point of clarification- quorum sensing happens between the bacteria where they detect the amount of other bacteria present, not through a signal from the squid. It's a phenomena that has a lot of importance in bacterial disease and infections as well - one of those classic cases where a scientist that wanted to study a random cool phenomenon ("but why squid glow?") advanced a fundamental understanding with broad implications. You can see quorum sensing in action by culturing some V fischeri in a petri dish and observing luminescence when they read high enough numbers. You might be able to buy an educational kit online - it's not a dangerous bacteria (my professor let us take home our plates to culture them out to see them glow in our dorms). Super cool stuff.
I think the point is only certain use cases (usually related to number crunching like crypto, but undoubtedly games too) may see substantial improvements, they still aren't close to "native" speed, and nearly all other use cases won't see much if any benefit, especially compared to the additional complexity of another language, compiling to was, etc.

Plus things like competitive games and what I'll call "pretty" games have to squeeze out as much performance as possible, and no hitching is acceptable to competitive games, which IMO means WASM is still a no-go for those types of games(although games that don't have this requirement undoubtedly benefit)
Thanks for flagging this. We will update these numbers, since you're right they have changed a lot recently
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> If you want to change the basic requirements of the visa that would require legislation.

Clearly not, since ICE was able to adjust the requirements in March for the spring semester. The national emergency is still ongoing. What was stopping them from continuing the exception?
The “smol” Rust async runtime
This is the same reason why people write Java but not C++ Apache extensions on the server side. It is safer and more portable to run bytecode inside containers.
Very interesting. Is this the first time a major city has fallen within a reservation?
So the playbook is to denigrate SSC by conflating his (granted, self-imposed) deplatforming with Srinivasan and Lorenz’ Twitter spat.

Clever, likely effective, if not ethically and logically dubious.
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Look up 'grey market'. Lots of companies try to do what you suggest, but in the US there are very few laws that support such a business model.
The article says we should focus on increasing the compute we use in AI instead of embedding domain specific knowledge. OpenAI seems to have taken this lesson to heart. They are training a generic model using more compute than anything else.

Many researchers predict a plateau for AI because it is missing the domain specific knowledge but this article and the benefits of more compute that OpenAI is demonstrating beg to differ.
For reference, winner of large lottery prizes generally have 6 months to a year to collect winnings.
I use both Teams and Slack and almost did a spit take at the idea of "switching" from Slack to Teams. I had noticed that Teams has more chat functionality than a meeting tool really needs, but I didn't imagine that it was intended to be usable as a company's primary chat system.
The restaurant should get paid regular price for their food and maybe even a little extra to cover boxing it nicely for delivery, keeping it warm. The delivery company should charge the customer the price they need pay to have it delivered to them. I expect the 10% max fee if around the margin the restaurant is making so I'm not sure this fixes anything.

Food delivery is an awesome service but it costs money, consumers should expect to pay a higher right for food and grocery delivery in the long term.

And delivery companies should expect smaller margins for coordinating it.
It's possible, but in addition to the Bering strait, not instead. The Bering was crossed as many as 19,000 years ago, and some theorize an earlier wave of > 40,000 years ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Settlement_of_the_Americas#Chr...

The claims for more recent trans-oceanic contact across the Pacific are about much more recent times, mostly the last 1000 years (which is when eastern Polynesia was settled), and none are widely accepted except for continuing traffic with Siberia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-Columbian_trans-oceanic_co...

With the vast spans of time involved, mostly pre-literate cultures in both South America and Polynesia, and the loss of both historical knowledge and genetic diversity following European conquest, it's very hard to argue that there definitely wasn't some more recent contact; but it does not seem to have left strong genetic or linguistic signatures.
Couldn't the same argument be made for restaurants? If they can't afford delivery fees, or can't afford to make money without delivery they shouldn't be in business either.
I would say, his videos are far from sloppy. High quality microphone and video itself is pretty fancy.
You can rewrite GitHub history and keep one commit.
I was doing it for GitHub pages, because I didn't want to expose my blog edits.
Relentless heat wave to bake the U.S. for “multiple weeks”
"Sollen" translates to "should" and not "will"

That means there is a element of uncertainty there whether they actually will.
Not that the NYT has any business printing somebody's name who doesn't want it to be printed, but I kind of feel like he had been looking for an excuse to shut down the blog for a while - it had been a long time since any of his posts really felt inspired like they were even a year ago. This gives him an excuse to make a clean break.
It's true, though. IBM misunderstood the implications of cloud computing at the time.

They clearly realized their mistake:

In 2013 researchers used the Kittyhawk project to demonstrate a novel high-performance cloud computing platform by merging a cloud computing environment with a supercomputer.
Some services, like Airbnb for example, specifically say a house owner is not allowed to put a different price on Airbnb Vs some other site. That means the house owner must charge bookings not via Airbnb a higher price than normal to recoup the fees paid on Airbnb bookings.

That should, in my opinion, be outlawed.
It depends what "social features" you are referring to. I go to github for code not pictures of people's cats, meme, etc. If github became more like a Facebook feed where people just shit post their lives all day it would become useless from my imo.
I used to work on an eLearning platform that used Flash. We had a team of animators creating content and working with professional voice talent. The content was rich and engaging. Asia especially loves the animated content. Then the iPad came out and all of our retail partners announced that they were adopting it. We had to switch to boring text and images nearly overnight. We tried adding some videos, but they are bandwidth hogs compared with Flash and didn’t do well in Asia where the bandwidth speeds were slower. Plus it turns out that it is much harder to create quality video content than animated content.

Prior to that job, I worked with a different company also creating eLearning content in Flash. We worked for a major printer manufacturer and created a series of flash movies that had a 3D printer that could be rotated around. The tech could choose a task they wanted to do with the printer and it would walk them step by step through the process, showing on the 3D printer this screw being removed or that part being swung out of the way. The tech could zoom in and rotate the printer in any direction. Since it was all vector graphics they could zoom in and out all they wanted. It allowed them to completely disassemble the printer down to the smallest detail. Two guys could knock out one of these flash printer movies in a few days.

I’m quite surprised that nobody has been able to replace flash vector animations and interactivity on the web. We were able to do things with Flash 20 years ago that was far in advance of anything you see today. I would think that someone could create a flash replacement that could work in canvas, but if anyone has managed to do it, I haven’t seen it. We seem to have replaced low-bandwidth interactive vector animations with high-bandwidth static videos. The web is the poorer for it. If content is king, someone should really work on creating a modern version of flash.
Indeed. There's no escape from any of it. Even The Register is starting to do it.
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I used acme for years with a laptop and no external mouse, just using the trackpad (and trackpoint). I never missed more buttons.
Silicon is bodybuilding-hard. It is extremely hard so there are few competitors, but it is inherently a series of extremely expensive coordination problems. To churn new architectures every couple years takes an oiled machine of thousands.
I'm struggling to call this predatory pricing when most of the food delivery app industry is unprofitable.

The correct industry action: push through higher pricing for the end users, share gains with drivers and restaurants to get to a sustainable business model, and accept the resulting decline in unit volume. (which also means fewer drivers will have jobs, so there's a human cost here as well)

It's easy to tell "corporations" to just suck it up, but you're dealing with a pure variable cost business here. If you make it unprofitable to serve a particular geography, they'll just exit the market. That only consolidates future market power in the surviving businesses....
His advice really concerns more scientific research and its long-term progress, and not really immediate applications. I think that injecting human knowledge can lead to faster, more immediate progress, and he seems to believe that too. The "bitter lesson" is that general, data-driven approaches will always win out eventually.
For whatever cultural reasons Chinese abroad tend to stick with other Chinese.

Since there are many Chinese students in the US (and Canada, UK, etc.) they often don't really interact much outside their circle of Chinese friends.

Now, of course it's not easy to move to a different country with a different language and culture, but I think that the cultural aspect specific to Chinese plays a significant part. I think Indians are somewhat similar in maintaining a strong community among themselves when abroad.

In general, I would say that the best thing that can happen to you if you go to study abroad is to end up being alone. That really forces you to integrate with the local people, culture, and language, which I think is the whole point of going abroad.
This is a terrible article, it just cites the facts of the decision, teases the implication (OMG half of OK!) and explains nothing. Here's a review article about the same case from a while back which does a better job: https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2018/11/28/half-land-...

The tl;dr is that, yes, indeed, half of Oklahoma is part of land reserved for the Creek in a 1833 treaty. And almost two centuries of subsequent jurisprudence and state development has (unsurprisingly) completely ignored that with effectively no legal basis. Neither Congress nor the state of Oklahoma has ever lifted a finger to try to make this right.

Basically, this is the Supreme Court saying that enough is enough, this can't go on, and telling the relevant governments to get their shit together and figure this out.

No, Injuns aren't coming for Tulsa.
It's not that they're liable. It's that the employees are uncomfortable doing business with people who they see will use their products to do harm.

It's praiseworthy but not obligatory. And it's also the only real power that Ford employees have.

If you go into a gun shop and the person working the counter believes you're going to use it to kill someone they're well within their right to simply not do business with you. The power to not associate or sell one's goods or labor is pretty much the only tangible power your average citizen has. Might as well let them wield it sometimes.
We're using PostgreSQL teams to create a database from a template for every integration test worker (Jest).

This way every worker works on their own database. The speedup was 5x-7x as tests are now running in parallel.
I like this idea. Thanks for the suggestion
my bad. that's Netherlands
Watching people who hate cancel culture try to cancel the NYT is hilarious. Watching them try to cancel individual NYT writers is gross.

All because Scott Alexander retroactively decided his last name is private information and threw a tantrum.
A dev, designer, and a PM are asked the same question: What is UX?
It's honestly very easy to counteract big peaks like those at such high frequencies, especially when you can virtually guarantee that every single driver will have essentially identical frequency response curves
I may be missing something, but why call out the page's source? Were you expecting there to be something hidden?
Yeah we will update this. Thanks for the feedback
FYI: pervasive mass internet surveillance by the US military with the active cooperation of large US telcos AT&T, Verizon, and others already enables this capability in the US and much of the rest of the world.

The surveillance allows them to read the TCP sequence numbers or DNS query IDs, and then spoof valid response packets.

It’s called QUANTUMINSERT.

https://blog.fox-it.com/2015/04/20/deep-dive-into-quantum-in...
Debian is nice if you don't mind the glacial pace of updates -i.e. you're running a server. After using Arch I don't think I can give up rolling releases.
Microsoft's grievous inability to name things doesn't help there. At least it's not the XBox One X.
If you enjoy reading SSC and want to show some form of support, consider adding your signature to the petition[0].

It's a small thing to do and only takes a little time to complete.

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NYT can talk a big talk but... if your source wants to remain anonymous, why still expose them?

What a sorry excuse for journalism.
I actually don't understand the last part of the OP story - can someone explain it?
I've noticed more and more restaurants in the Seattle area are listing higher prices for the GrubHubs/UberEats (some have explicitly told me during pickup to just call it in if I want to save some money). The picked up discount already exists within the app. So what you're saying is starting to happen as restaurants wise up.
(Ah, yes, flag when you disagree. How does one challenge a flag?)

There are similar quarantines for individual States in the U.S.A., or at least there were. However, once you've exited the true quarantine period, there are no restrictions on movement.

In _this_ thread, the poster to whom I'm replying asserts that we are under quarantine in Texas, which we are not. Most of the restrictions from the State, counties, and local government apply to businesses, not to individuals. The recent face-covering order is a good one, to prevent coughing, sneezing, or just forceful talking from spreading to someone in front of you. However, we're free to move about as needed, as we should be. Anyone who wants to go 100% isolation, that's fine and I have no qualms. However, I prefer to take a few more calculated risks and live some semblance of my former life before the COVID-19.
We have got 13k B2B Signups without burning Money
Agreed, and this goes back to the initial thread that just because a language is more focused on functions it doesn't make testing automatically better, unless it was written with testing friendliness as part of the requirements.

Sadly not all code is great.
I think you're not being fair to assume people who try out different technologies are looking to catch more buzzwords for their resume.

Using cutting edge technology can be fun and interesting. It may not be optimal, but these are personal projects--they're not intended to be optimal, but rather something more hobbyist.