skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure. In an empty project, I saw around 0.7s compile times. This is ideal. But I kept developing and added around 300 lines of code and a few (3?) dependencies to my cargo.toml, and I was seeing compilation times that were exceeding 10 seconds to, say, add a dbg! message.

10 seconds is basically as slow as I'd accept. I wouldn't love it, but I'd suffer through it if I had to. But what I really didn't like was that my feeling was it wasn't the bottom - adding more deps or more lines of code looked like it would continue to increase the time without bounds.

I like doing a lot of game dev and graphical work, and it often requires really rapid iteration to test small changes. (How fast should the AI walk? Should he turn around at this point? Does this logic "feel right" like this, or do I need to trigger it conditionally?)
All industries whose markets measure in the billions of dollars appear only with computers.
interesting, I have not downloaded anything from my IP address. Also, my partner has doesn't even know the existence of the Bittorrent. Yet, we have a list of all kinds' of interesting files that we have apparently downloaded. Either someone is using our IP address to download things by hijacking our wifi, or something else is going on. As far as I know we don't share our IP, something to investigate here.
Here's a telling fact about the Bitcoin community: this article is auto-censored in a prominent online Bitcoin forum.
Tesla really did accelerate renewable energy and battery tech by maybe a decade.

I would love to see them raise $20B and just massively move us another decade forward towards a sustainable energy future. But relative to Uber, etc Elon has always been less aggressive on equity raises, as he believes that constraints help.
SSH into Google Compute Engine VMs with OpenPGP USB Token/SmartCard
You're describing the Nth generation in a hopeless environment, not children in general. This is an encultured attitude, not an innate one. Illich's point, and one born out by learning research is that the desire to learn, to gain knowledge and mastery for its own sake - is innate to such an extent that it can actually be diminished by extrinsic rewards. All children share this.
Hobbyists don't make up even a tiny sliver of their revenue. And if you're a hobbyist and paying any money at all for Analog Devices (or other semiconductor manufacturer's parts) then you're kinda doing it wrong - most of them have free samples:

https://www.analog.com/en/support/customer-service-resources...
You are very much not in the clear if you block like this. That's just delusional.

Copyright monitoring firms have many endpoints that look like consumer ADSL/cable... because they are consumer connections.
I'm afraid of speaking out, but let's just say I've worked with many fast growing startups (several to IPO), and none of them were as bad as Tesla.
A Micro-Lab on a Chip Detects Blood Type Within Minutes
If in the US, property tax got lumped in with state income tax to create a cap where property tax benefit went away for a lot of people, but the mortgage interest deduction is still there, no (on the first $750,000)?
> On the one hand AVX-512 is incredible, the performance gains from AVX-2 to AVX-512 are often more than the 2x you would hope for.

Your assertion sounds like a gross exaggeration. Some benchmarks show only a few percent improvements (i.e.14% improvements on synthetic benchmarks), and results range between no improvements and almost 2x in some synthetic benchmarks.

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=gcc9-sky...
In the specific example of police brutality you are right, however BLM organizations are also generally anti magnet school/charter school, which in many poor primarily black neighborhoods is the only good school option for children. Since these schools get to choose (for the most part) who they enroll they tend to take all the more gifted kids/kids with good family environment out of the normal public school. This obviously leads to greater inequality of outcome, which activists try to "correct" by forcing everybody to be in the low quality public schools.

Remember this when people go on and on about "equity". In the grave, all men are equal.
An Introduction to Hagia Sophia
As U.S. Turns Hostile, Foreign Student Permits Climb in Canada
No you don't. :)
I always find it funny to see what shows up when I switch to mobile and see what gets tracked via CG-NAT.

As a Canadian, I guess others have much much much better plans that I do. We pay $5-$10/go here. Maybe telecom employees get unlimited plans?
I've gone the traditional publishing route with three books so far.

Making money wasn't the goal.

A traditional publisher organized a technical review, editorial review, cover design, type setting and project management for me; the result was better than I could have done on my own.

Sure, I could have hired an editor and a cover designer and all that, but would have been exhausting and a financial risk.

So, I went with a publisher, and accepted that I'd likely never recover the advance that the publisher payed.

If you're after exposure or the best result, a traditional publisher can still be the way to go.
I learned Rust while implementing a ray tracer. I followed the book _The Ray Tracer Challenge_, by Jamis Buck. It was fantastically fun, and was a great application for Rust!
In this same market: Analog bought Linear Tech, TI bought National.
Show HN: Smart Art – Enjoy beautiful art and Learn something new every day
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YUWDrLazCg correct link
All of these "post-covid world" predictions assume a long term risk of the virus with the consequential measures.

I suspect that this is overblown and that we'll probably go back to normal in the short term (i.e. some time next year, probably, or in 2022).

We have been continuously fighting virii and diseases for billions of years. We have been through large scale epidemics of appaling diseases many, many times with sometimes double digit percentage points decrease in population. Result? The worls as it was in 2019. So I'm skeptical that Covid-19 will have consequences even just on par with the Spanish flu of 1918-1819. In teerms of global health AIDS has had a massively bigger impact (maybe 30 million+ deaths and counting).

The biggest impact of Covid-19 may be political because of the social consequences of the massive hit on the economy cause by widespread lockdowns.

Bottom line, travel will most likely resume as before. We're already seeing the beginning of that in Europe. If restrictions remain my guess is that they will be for environmental reasons (but perhaps implemented using Covid-19 as a pretext).
I think the data shows that this coronavirus is causing drastically less illness in the past warmer months, as opposed to the months prior. This is consistent with SARS-1, other coronaviruses, as well as Influenza.

That's a different matter to the number of positive test results, which is indeed rising, but is not measuring actual illness.
Interesting! I wonder if I was hitting some pathological case with my dependency tree.
Sounds a bit like a description of Google+
Even islamic banking expects some kind of ROI. Perhaps it isn't strict usury, but there is generally some kind of ownership or profit sharing happening.
I would have guessed that fail_list is a list of items that have failed.

That's the problem with replacing an actual word with a new term. You get something that would be equivalent, but it doesn't have that innate understanding.

It's not a big sacrifice, but it's less immediately clear.
How Harold Lloyd Filmed "Safety Last!"
Wow, grim. As someone who’s on their way to being an ugly middle aged female engineer this is tough reading. Did you ever tell her you spent years completely discounting her and ‘stealing’ her ideas? I wonder what she thinks about that.
Depends how you quantify privilege. I've seen a few convincing arguments that, for men at least, height is a better predictor of success than intelligence.
i am dyslexic, this is an over exaggeration. most of the time i experience words shifting. the only time i experience single characters shifting is reading numbers. this is why i've tried to train my self to reading numbers in pairs. for instance... i read phone number not as 5-5-5-1-2-1-2, but 55-51-21-2.
You forgot https://www.tesla.com/semi for logistics.

Lots of these products and services are nowhere near maturity, but the stock market is the sum of all future revenue streams weighted for probability. There is a potential future in which many of us get our energy from Tesla solar panels, that energy is stored in Tesla battery, we use that to power our autonomous Tesla cars that we either own or call to us with a ridesharing app, all while Tesla owned and operated trucks cross the nation autonomously. I don't think that is a particularly likely outcome, but there is a way for Tesla to get there while there is a near zero chance Volkswagen has a similar future.
List is blank for me, but definitely shouldnt be, so no it definitely does not know what I download on BitTirrent.
Problem is imho easy to solve...do not use a FOSS approved license if you do not like freedom. Use a commercial license and dump the source. By the way agpl and gpl is a good way to make sure everyone has the same freedom rights.....
Last one we had was because the ssh connection was lost during the apt upgrade (gitlab omnibus ce).

Another one I remember was when some new configuration key was needed and prevented one of the components from starting (took ~2 hours to find what it was).

It doesn't happen often, don't worry that much though, gitlab omnibus works well, but is hard to investigate/fix because it's huge and not a tech stack we do understand well since we mostly use gitlab-ctl commands, so when something goes wrong it's hard
The "right black people" are usually white progressives speaking on their behalf: https://quillette.com/2018/05/14/the-racism-treadmill/
Calling anything anybody spent a huge portion of their time on "lazy" and not expecting them to take it personally just shows a lack of empathy.
This was meant as an example, not something I'd literally do.

The most common trivial change would be to add a dbg! statement.
The Next Generation of Batteries Could Be Built by Viruses
Related: ongoing compatibility table compiled by the Homebrew team: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/issues/7857. (Please respect the team and refrain from polluting the thread. If in doubt check the comments marked off topic.)
> In these essays, I will show that the institutionalization of values leads inevitably to physical pollution, social polarization, and psychological impotence: three dimensions in a process of global degradation and modernized misery.

> Ivan Dominic Illich (/ɪˈvɑːn ˈɪlɪtʃ/; 4 September 1926 – 2 December 2002) was a Roman Catholic priest, theologian, philosopher, and social critic.

I wonder if his experience as a priest informed his commentary here.

Religions start from exceptional individuals who divine spiritual truth. They develop followers who recognize said truth. Over time, followers ossify into a church, which can be thought of as an institutionalization of spiritual values.
What did you build? And did it help you get into FANG?
I don't mean anything fancy, just that HN is a large-ish (millions of users, but not tens of millions) completely open, optionally anonymous internet forum, and it's not obvious that one of those could function as well as HN does. When I say "as well", I don't mean "well". This place has tons of problems. But it could be a lot, lot worse, and the null hypothesis would be to expect worse.

I wrote about this a bit here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23727261. Shirky's famous 2003 essay about internet communities was talking in terms of a few hundred people, and argued that groups can't scale beyond that. HN has scaled far beyond that, and though it is not a group in every sense of that essay, it has retained, let's say, some groupiness. It's not a war of all against all—or at least, not only that.

As we learn more about how to operate it, I'm hoping that we can do more things to encourage positive group dynamics. We shall see. The public tides are very much against it right now, but those can change.
Learning Computer Graphics Techniques and Programming
Someone needs to create an app so awesome that the only way to join it is to contribute to it. Hopefully that will happen in my lifetime.
The Pentium II was not as efficient as the III. I remember setting up a dual socket machine where the PS started to matter. The best thing was that the web browser would only suck 100% from one processor.
Power differential is everything. Jobs and Musk founded companies. They were always the boss. The boss can afford to be belligerent. Can employees afford that?

Here's my question: Did Jobs and Musk allow their employees to berate them as much as they berated their employees? If so, then good for them! But I suspect not, in which case, they're just hypocrites and bullies. If some belligerence is required for success, who gets to succeed? Only the boss?
In France and many other EU country, tax avoidance is illegal.
In the early 1900's ammonia was needed to make sulfa drugs but that's on a commercial production level and there's much easier ways to get mass amounts of ammonia without milking cows for urine.

On a more accessible level, low amounts of ammonia is useful for topical treatments of itch, like from bug bites.
Evolution doesn't waste resources unnecessarily. The human brain requires substantial energy to operate, why would brains have evolved they way they have unless there was a purpose for very close to all the power of the brain?
Balance. As in most things.

Were you raised to have a pathologically strong need to be liked? Find it prevents you from speaking up when something needs to be said? Does your need to be liked control you?

Then you should probably fix that.

But not by going to the other extreme. The criterion for success shouldn't be whether you are ruffling feathers often enough. It should be whether, when you need to, you are willing and able to do it.

Everybody loves simplicity and certainty, but with social interaction you need to navigate complicated situations and make a lot of judgment calls. If a source of info (whether people respond positively) is weighted too heavily and your response is to completely remove it from the equation, then you've thrown out a simplistic rule that you were taught and replaced it with a simplistic rule that you invented.

Also, whether you are liked is a very self-focused way of evaluating others' reactions. Sometimes being positive/nice/friendly/whatever is about building rapport, encouraging cooperation, etc., not about how it affects your feelings.
I've always felt like there's something fundamentally flawed with open source licenses. It seems that they are all promoting the openness of a fragment of code but at the same time twisting your hands ever so slightly when you start using them. All while different licenses are engaged in a fight as to which is more open. For many years I thought that MIT is the most open one. That is until recently when I saw wtfpl [1] and truthfully I fell in love with it. At some point I'll update everything I've ever open sourced to that and I intend to use it for all the other projects I plan on open sourcing, though I am a bit short on motivation to get to that lately(for personal reasons, not because of lack of interest or burnout or anything).

[1] http://www.wtfpl.net/
Ford has $155B in debt. I don't think they want to add that to their balance sheet, so that means they'd need to raise $180B to buy Ford.
Interesting... shows me a list of things I didn’t download!
I believe the original Dropcam was an Axis with reverse-engineered (new) firmware.

They still run!
Can't really speak for Venezuela but lets say if currently 1 oz of gold is as valuable as a Macbook worth ~$1800 and in a hyperinflation event a Macbook costs $200,000,000 perhaps 1 oz of gold could be worth a Macbook? You would then just trade your coin for $200,000,000 and buy the Macbook. Obviously a massively simplified scenario. Perhaps there are sources out there on how people have dealt with hyperinflation?
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23809335
His essay on (in part) cars drove (haha) me to run the numbers and despite being fairly conservative with how much closer-together my city would be without car infrastructure (esp. parking lots and massive, useless “green space” setbacks and margins to keep roads at a tolerable distance from people) and despite my being somewhat thrifty on car spending and having a relatively short commute—sure enough, I was right around break-even for time savings vs. a bike in a hypothetical very-few-cars version of my city.
It’s great to hear about people using software to share culture. Re: Plex, I looked in your bio but didn’t see contact info. I also have a private server to share culture with friends. Find my contact info in my bio and maybe we can talk more?
I like the articles comparison of the valley's belief in serendipity and hallway conversations to Feng Shui. Some folks think it's absolutely critical, but others in the same space.. don't see it. Been in the industry for 15+ years and the "important hallway conversation" thing just doesn't seem to matter all that much? I see the point if an individual's main contribution is talking to people and schmoozing. But that is individual, not business value either.
I was able to find a job that was 9am to 4:30am, with an hour for lunch. That, and being able to read on my train commute, went a long way towards reducing burn out.

Then, I negotiated a 4 day work week, along with a 20% pay cut. Loved having a 3 day weekend EVERY WEEK!

[Edit] I meant to say 9am to 4:30pm.
The only moral problem I have in your anecdote is the lying about it. With every fibre of my being, I could not care less about torrenting game of thrones.
Has wiki-style linking been added yet? I gave it a trial run for several users and was baffled by the lack of linking features (short syntax, autocomplete of existing paths, highlight non-existent endpoints) which I consider part of the essential functionality of modern wiki software.
Some people do. While this makes makes things much more convenient for cross-platform use or the case where someone loses their phone and doesn't want to lose access to all their signal data, it lowers security (conceivably) and trust (definitely) when they're forced to store the contact information through the requirement of a PIN.
No, I mean management of the secrets. Though it is a rather moot point as the same problems apply to most systems anyway.
>"He observed that “68% of private equity buyouts are add-ons from previous acquisitions,” which is to say that most acquisitions by private equity firms are attempts to expand market power for companies they already own. A quarter of these acquisitions, in fact, are “tied to an investment with at least five add-ons.” Given that there are thousands of private equity firms making transactions every year, that’s a lot of attempts to increase market power."

[...]

"Doing a roll-up is designed to take advantage of how capital markets value bigger companies versus small ones, or what is called multiple expansion.

Buying a small family owned business for three to four times its cash flow

(or what is known in annoying accounting-speak as earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization, abbreviated as EBITDA), putting it into a conglomerate that financiers then call a ‘platform’ or ‘market leader’, means you can often

sell the much bigger company for eight to ten times that cash flow later on."

My comments:

Buy low, sell high...

Makes sense from a pure business perspective...
How many sauce packets does it take to fill the wage gap?
Can I please have 51 weeks off?
> Today, grade school serves the primary purpose as a daycare for the kids so both parents can work.

The current pandemic has exposed this fact undeniably and you can see a lot of educators are unhappy about that.

A number of friends in the legal profession have told me that's why private elementary schools have been much quicker to reduce or refund tuition. Colleges can make the argument they're providing "education" regardless of physical location, while most legal experts will argue that a private elementary school cannot continue to demand full tuition when a significant portion of their value proposition is childcare.
let me guess: s/beauty/smart/g
I've heard this called "Defund the thought police."
I utterly agree with you, but I downvoted you for your inclusion of everybody's favorite self-fulfilling prophecy: "I shall be downvoted".
Thanks! That definitely sounds like an improvement so I might grab it soon
Probably a mistake to assume the USD value of something is relevant in a collapse situation. As you said ammo could end up being far more valuable that it currently is. Similarly Gold's utility as a way to transfer value could make it much more "valuable" in that situation.
> I think Illich's criticisms of car culture pushed him outside the Overton window of policy making.

Then or now? Cars being terrible and destroying society is not a fringe view in many places.
Dockerizing DevOps
Give some love to your PR
> I've actually liked Analog Device's documentation as a hobbyist

Even reading their datasheets, I often felt like I was being taught a full lesson on the topic, which is great when you're an amateur and lack some of the foundational knowledge.
The Aids Deniers
I expect that we'll see a lot of this. At least it's getting caught before it gets to consumers? But not entirely impressed with the work Apple is making developers shoulder.
Much of this is driven by retail investors, of whom there are many more now since sports betting has not been available for months.
The golden language at my current place of work is Python. But we have some pretty gnarly business logic in some places (decision tree of average height 10 and branching factor of maybe 3).

To better understand how all the pieces fit together, I took on the challenge of writing the decision tree out in SWI-Prolog over the weekend, since I figured it would be the most “expressive” way to capture the logic.

I’d taken a PL class in college, and used prolog for a couple weeks therein. But this was the first time I’d used it in years. The first 30 minutes were a struggle, as I tried to remember how predicates worked, and tried to translate my mental model into a series of iteratively applied predicates. But after a couple hours of very satisfying top-down programming, I’d written pretty much the whole thing.

And it worked!

My grand theory is that we’d be able to get compliance, legal, and finance (main stakeholders of the program), to interface with some exposed subset of the predicates, to tweak to their hearts content.

This program could be the Golden source of truth that all implementations would have to live up to. Maybe, we could even hook in python programs to do I/O (fetch inputs from the databases, write decisions to the database), and use this prolog program directly to drive decisions in a python program.

It’s all a fantasy at this point, but it’s a fun one. The idea’s lingered since that weekend, many months ago.

Has anybody pulled off anything similar? Replacing a complex component of a bigger program with a prolog core?
> They are both bad for society

I challenge you to demonstrate that copyright infringement per se is bad for society. This would mean copyright is good for society which is still to be proven at least in it's current acception.
Not "currently" a distributed log, but we're working on adding that (in a Rabbity way). We're not trying to compete with the likes of Pulsar or Kafka though, we're just trying to round out RabbitMQ's functionality to ensure it remains the best swiss army knife of messaging - and log semantics (and performance) is now a dominant paradigm.