skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All the money in quant investing is currently coming from analyzing data sets that are not publicly available. Things like credit card data, mobile phone locations, receipt data, etc. When those are crossed with traditional economic indicators and equities prices, a fuller picture emerges.

When a data set is updated, i.e. credit card transactions come out for last week, retail stocks will move accordingly. Modeling this as an outsider without access to that data is like trying to predict a black box.
This article is interesting but it's causing me quite a bit of cognitive dissonance.

If IBM spent $3 billion dollars developing 7nm and less technology how is it that it got rid of it's own chip fab business and is now dependent on a company, GlobalFoundries, which apparently abandoned EUV, to actually produce its chips ?

What is IBM's game plan here ? How are they going to role out Power10, which is supposed to be 7nm based, when the fab partner they've tied themselves to isn't even doing EUV ?
> Your 2-letter nickname and access to important projects makes your account a high-value target.

For sure this. People go crazy for this stuff and sell access on the dark web (https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/v4he6k/)
Hey @pl0x, the reason why I wrote this book is to help people in their tech careers. Sorry if I broke some rule or anything. I thought that it would be nice to get some feedback about the first chapter and the site.
Most people also don’t live in Singapore.
Rather than criticize the content of the letter, you attack Harper's for not paying interns, which is unrelated to the content. Classic tactic for silencing disagreement is to attack the source.

What do you disagree with in the Harper's letter itself (the content, not the publication or the signatories), and why?
She is mad that her ideas aren't part of the so-called "orthodoxy", so he's either going somewhere where she becomes one of those "enlightened few" she claims to dislike (right wing media), or go independent and be the queen of her own kingdom and never had to explain herself (debate) to anyone.

It's all very predictable, down to the resignation later written for us (the public) and not particularly to her employers.
That's considered a scandal, and was on behalf of political groups, not the government itself.
I've done that for nearly twenty years now. Importantly, it allows one to trace how your email gets distributed and stolen.
Those who disagree with Bari Weiss have spent plenty of time and energy engaging with her ideas directly. At this point, it's pretty clear that she's a troll.
If you use the wayback machine and look at their AutoPilot page, the very first thing you see is ... well, here:

https://web.archive.org/web/20170201120106/https://www.tesla...

They wanted people to believe that this had more capabilities than it really does.
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Google Ernie Chan trading. I don't agree with the trading (I am pro investing) but Ernie explains as a practitioner
What's wrong with that, as opposed to promoting your app?
And this is wrong. Platform support should stay within the platform. If you are unable to support your users get out of the platform businesses.
The user you're replying to presumably understands a bit about the cited inconveniences, as well as SQL, in general

> user: petergeoghegan
> about: PostgreSQL major contributor, committer.
The two biggest line items are not easily measured and thus not included: The removal of an external dependency that you don't control and may not evolve with your needs, and the loss of the continuous improvement in that dependency without continuous investment from you.
> Since when do we define the value of something by the

> infinite list of things it can't do?

When that infinite list is things people want. I speaking of course from the "consumer" perspective and outlining some reasons why this robot is many, many years away from being ready for that market. This particular robot will likely never be anything other than a research platform that has all support dropped for it after a few years.

> I could make a list a mile long of all the things my

> dishwasher cannot do... does that mean no HNs have

> dishwashers?

Your dishwasher is not an autonomous robot, arguably it's not even a robot. It does one very specific task mostly well. This robot is marketed as some generic home automation machine, which it isn't.
If true, this doesn’t disprove the stated criticisms in the letter but only further highlights how serious the issue is and how easily people fall into that behavior.
> small matrices that cannot be inverted with 32-bit floats, or even 64-bit floats

Presumably these all have eigenvalues near zero and away from zero (i.e. the condition number is large)?
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New York Times opinion editor resigns citing censorship, harassment
No but these kind of posts raise awareness of problems that affect many many people. I'm happy that this becomes public for the guy in question and for everyone of us.
You don't have to believe in a naive worldview where the NYT supposedly used to be a principled newspaper in order to want people to behave more decently toward one another. There's always been things you can't say at the NYT. The new orthodoxy just represents a changing of the guard. America never was the place we tell ourselves that it was. Ask a socialist in the 50's about our noble tradition of free speech.

We should fight to make our world the ideal that it never was, but that doesn't mean we have to buy old lies about who we used to be.
Maybe if there weren't already countless other supporting, self-evident examples in recent history
There's nothing wrong with "claiming victimhood" when one is rightly a victim. The problem is exaggerating everything to make oneself appear to be a victim, especially appeals to one's identity as a member of a historically oppressed group, to exploit the social protections we afford to bona fide victims. If Bari's claims (that she was unlawfully discriminated against, subjected to a hostile work environment, and constructively discharged) are substantiated, then she's a bona fide victim. And given what has come out about NYT internal culture in recent months and years as well as the supporting evidence she provides for her claims, I find it hard to disbelieve her.
That would be the opportunity, I guess. :-)
Oh, please. If you say dumb or offensive stuff, people are going to react. It's not the "right think regime" — it's people disagreeing, often with some extra acid if you're a high profile New York Times opinion columnist and readers don't feel you deserve that kind of an international platform for your words.
This kind of thing is why I remain deeply skeptical about any kind of "automation is eating the world" type story.

The techno optimists (execs running these companies) often end up adding workloads because they screw up the human based systems that are already in place.
Because restaurant and bar owners have a lot more political connections than hair and nail salons, barbers, waxing centers, and tattoo parlors. This isn't particular to California or the US, it is true worldwide.
That's an interesting thought that I don't think I've encountered before; I'll think about that.
> She doesn't want free speech. She wants consequence free speech. She wants her detractors silenced by the law

Not sure we read the same letter. Can you support these assertions based on the text?
Those places have a populace that is cooperative and considerate of others. In a more "each man for himself" culture it doesn't work so well.
Its nice to make semantic distinctions, but thats not how most of the population (people buying the car) think of it.
Our "leaders" likely know little better than we and we barely know what is happening. Under such circumstances it is difficult to know "the right thing" to do.

The public is so naive that they cannot comprehend a monotonically increasing function (e.g., total deaths/cases). The news daily points out "the total number of deaths/cases is increasing &c...", a trivial truism in an epidemic, yet it engenders fear and panic.
US schools can't exactly support all those American students without income, and international students are that source of income.

My university (UIUC) heavily relies on international student tuition to provide facilities, pay teachers, and give financial support to students who need it, despite the fact that it's a public university; they simply don't get enough funding from the state.
> What % of students with family incomes under 65k/yr are admitted to Harvard vs the % of students with family incomes greater than that?

According to Harvard, about 20% of their undergrads pay nothing. That's probably roughly the percentage of students from families making <65k/yr.

> The median family income of a student from Harvard is $168,800, and 67% come from the top 20 percent.

Then the median family should have no problem paying the ~10% of their income that Harvard will charge them, after financial aid.

The point is that almost nobody who gets into Harvard decides not to go because they can't afford it. People who really can't afford it get a full ride, and even families that make 150k/yr are paying only a small fraction of the sticker price - they're paying less than what many public universities charge.
I am wondering if a regular person when is thinking about autopilot term in a car is thinking at movies and not at aircrafts. In SciFi/spy movies autopilot means the ship or car is piloting itself and you can do something else.
What are some of the arguments against `systemd`? I've used it in several production systems and don't really have an opinion on it.
This just reads as a systems engineer who is angry about new tooling/processes replacing parts of their job.
Can I get source on this? Tried googling, was ineffective.
Maybe not managing permissions directly. But I could easily see a number like that, or higher, being plausible if you consider clean up from junior devs accidentally pushing to development/main branches thinking they were on their feature branch. Which is an issue directly solved by permissions.
The reason you can't keep a post without it being flagged is because you're spouting nonsense and attacking people.

It has nothing to do with which side of the political spectrum you are on.

Your comments are downvoted because you have written in an attacking, nonsense style. They are low quality comments, and HN is a place for higher quality discussion.

If you wrote a "liberal extremist" comment in the same style, that would be downvoted as well.

Attacking other users ("SS thugs like you") is especially unwelcome here.
Can you clarify whether (and if so why) you have a problem with that characterization?

> Wikipedia states 'Massad has characterized Israel as "a racist Jewish state."'

Israel's own definition of self calls itself a "Jewish state" and says that the right to exercise national self-determination there is "unique to the Jewish people", so that "Jewish state" part is correct by definition.

And it defines that Judaism is a race by birthright and not a religion, and it grants special privileges to jews that aren't granted to others and it metes special discriminations against its non-jewish resident minorities, so, without even getting into any discussion of the history of arab-israeli conflict, it's hard to argue seriously with the other part as well.
I'd call it an information war, rather than a trade war.
Are any tele-robots used in agriculture? I could imagine using AI to get the robot hands within a few inches of each piece of produce or a desired task and then one operator could quickly swap between many robots.
I certainly don’t think that. What “ideas” that Bari Weiss presents in this essay does your conversational counterpoint here fail to engage? And why is the context of her hypocrisy not relevant?
That's hypocrisy from the German court. This is 100% a push from German car industry lobby. Note that the case wasn't started from consumer complaints, it was instead started by an industrial group.

I bet all Tesla buyers are aware about what they are actually buying. They can return the car and get a refund if they are not pleased with it.

This ban is bullshit considering that many ads in many industries are deceptive, including healthcare. Tesla is punished only because it is a direct competitor of German cars.
There's also the fact that people are not robots -- just because you tell them to do something doesn't mean they will do it.

As an example -- even among people that are wearing masks consistently, how many of them are actually following the correct protocols around mask resuse or fit?
Examples of coordinated liberal messaging based on hate and fear that has had a large impact on social discourse.

Note: Safe spaces, affirmative action, etc do not apply for me personally. While they have at times gone off the rails, they are based on inclusiveness, not hate and fear.
Maybe you're right. I changed it to "most people."
Yeah, but it's a bit on the nose...
Strange, I first read this as "Governments that try to trade the economy for safety will end up with neither" and wholeheartedly agreed. I think both versions are right, unfortunately.
One of the problems Trump faces is that he's so outside the expected behavior boundaries that positives get much harder to find. The hard-conservative anti-Trumper is FAR more common than the hard-conservative anti-Busher was.

One of my historical barometers for what right-wing media is saying was talking to my parents and family, since they would try to convince me of the talking points they were hearing from Fox News and AM talk radio, and I'd try to convince them of what I was getting from the NYT or the New Yorker.

But they abandoned Fox News and most of the talk shows they listened to in 2017 because they can't stand Trump (but still yet cannot bring themselves to vote for a Democrat, because abortion). So now all I know is that those were still wildly conservative-leaning and pro-Trump 3 years ago. I'm sure they're still conservative-leaning, but I no longer have as direct a view into if they're pro-Trump.
Couldn't they use Krieg or am I wrong / is this is just joke?
they absolutely do have a different story to tell and it has been told over and over again within the various twitter threads, in examples such as https://twitter.com/maxstrasser/status/1268636885989105665
Bitcoin Is the Symbol of the Battle Between the Old and the New Generation
I don't experience the sadness that the writer of the blog mentions. However I do understand what they mean. Personally, I've decided I don't really like huge projects, and instead have focused on smaller iOS apps. They don't have dependencies, except for what the Apple platform offers. There's a backend, but it's really abstracted away for me through a RESTful API. And I'm able to continually and without fail, deliver something of value to my customer.
It's unsurprising that Germany isn't as tolerant of "growth hack" advertising as the US. Many Tesla owners are smart enough to realize that their cars can't actually drive themselves. But those few who buy into the marketing and ignore the fine print pose a risk to themselves and the drivers around them.
Americans are losing everything at the moment because of their own shortcomings. Now just get to grips with it and stop constantly demonising other nations, whether it's the Middle East, Russia, China, the EU or whoever else, in order to prevent other countries and internet companies to become successful. America is losing dominance economically, socially and military and it scares them and so we should all expect to be fed more US anti China, anti Russia anti Asia, anti East, anti EU propaganda to keep the power in the house for as long as possible, but whatever bullshit they try to feed us nothing will prevent the inevitable change of power to take place over the next decade.
He wanted the military unleashed on his fellow citizens, a move that would have escalated violence and perhaps led to a spiraling loss of control by both sides.

"Racist" was the least of the concerns.
Is your happiness a happiness of never having a problem that needed a human to resolve or a happiness of having a problem and Github resolving it?

One is an unknown and the other is an counterpoint to this.
> But the lessons that ought to have followed the election—lessons about the importance of understanding other Americans, the necessity of resisting tribalism, and the centrality of the free exchange of ideas to a democratic society—have not been learned.

While some here are debating the credibility of the source (which is understandable), I read this idea in some form approx once a week. That is, it transcends sources.

I find it disturbing and disheartening that little has changed since 2016. One way or another we'll make it through the 2020 election. But 2024 has all the makings on a horror movie.

Heads remain pushed deep into the sand. Symptoms are passed off as root causes. Root cause - who whip up the blame-the-symptoms spin - continue to get a free pass. It's hard to imagine a healthy outcome anytime soon.
Well the problem seems to be that the other side can't be bothered to give their side of the story.

Which is not something unheard of when dealing with large companies.

If true,that they did not respond, that would be much more worrisome to me than whatever the reason for the ban might have been.
> the simple internal data model was replaced by a dense and non-orthogonal data model with different types for leases, locks, transactions, and plain-old-keys

I maintain a (/the only?) etcd3 library for Node.js[0], and used etcd extensively on my former team.

None of these things are new to etcd3 API. All of these are present on v2 as well[1], whose API the author extolls, or are built within clients on etcd's base APIs (e.g. there's no 'lock' API, only leases). However, with etcd3 we get stricter typing, better performance, and better semantics (e.g. watch streams and lease streams over polling) thanks to GRPC.

In general these rich APIs allow 'average' engineers to build complex distributed apps more correctly. I've built reliable sharding, hash rings, elections, and so on based on etcd's API--none in more than a hundred or two lines of code (more in Go, less in Node.js). All of these are classic hard problems that etcd makes easy. Sure, there's innumerable standalone services for each of these things, but often there's no need to take the cost of many tools when one would work.

0. https://github.com/microsoft/etcd3

1. https://etcd.io/docs/v2/api/
> Remote teaching may be harder, require more work, and have pitfalls that are quickly overcome in person.

I'm not sure there's any reason to believe any of these things. What we do know is that we've trained almost every teacher to teach and learn in classrooms, and that using techniques developed in classrooms to teach remotely don't work well.

We've barely spent any time at all developing techniques for remote learning, and we're already throwing up our hands.
The Rails ORM (ActiveRecord) is built atop of a relational algebra gem (arel, which was eventually pulled into the AR library). I'm pretty sure the arel functions are considered private API, so it's not necessarily best practice, but you have the option to call those functions directly when you find the ORM lacking and don't want to pass around raw SQL.
There's a lot of justified hatred for kubernetes, but for fuck's sake why did anyone adopt it in the first place, if they didn't understand what they were getting into? It's like the startups from 10 years ago who absolutely had to use MongoDB because "scale", and then they never get off the ground because they're trying to implement ACID from first principles.
IMO, a big issue is people forgetting or actively eschewing the customary precautions - going into social mode and stopping paying attention to distancing, or wearing their mask on their chin because nobody will call them out. In this regard, restaurants and bars are much worse than service businesses where participants remain specifically focused on the task at hand.

Opening restaurants and bars just seems to be pushing for some forced return to normality, so that the non-risk-adverse can pretend the epidemic is going away on its own. Restaurants themselves, like much of the economy, would be better served by a rent moratorium than this impatient rush to get the treadmill moving again.
Preoccupied with Occupations
I'm not sure if that is a good description. LXC is a library and set of command line utilities to run containers. LXD is a clustered service that makes use of the LXC library.
Oh man, thank you for this. I cannot stand the engineering culture of Google and I especially cannot stand the engineering culture of Google wannabes. Google ruins everything they touch, and I'm really sick of the engineering worship they most certainly do not deserve. Every single piece of software to come out of Google is overengineered, broken garbage.
The op-Ed was not remotely racist. Can you support your assertions?
This piece is ridiculous. Mainly:

> What matters more in an ideological war, though, is influence, and that is why I do believe that ByteDance’s continued ownership of TikTok is unacceptable.

What's implied but unsaid here is that somehow the CCP is going to fill TikTok with political propaganda that... a bunch of teens are going to somehow become influenced by? Sorry, but that's just completely far-fetched. Facebook is something to be concerned about, with people sharing political stories, memes, etc. But TikTok? A bunch of funny videos? There's nothing that could be further from ideology.

> Perhaps the most powerful argument against taking any sort of action is that we aren’t China, and isn’t blocking TikTok something that China would do?

Yes, this is precisely why we don't need to do this. We're better than China. Things like freedom of speech, democracy, and the free market set a moral example to the world. Once we start censoring things, we lose that moral leadership. (And sure you can argue all you want about our declining moral leadership and the state of our democracy, but let's not make it even worse, shall we?)

> If China is on the offensive against liberalism not only within its borders but within ours, it is in liberalism’s interest to cut off a vector that has taken root precisely because it is so brilliantly engineered to give humans exactly what they want.

Isn't every product trying to be brilliantly engineered to give customers exactly what they want? All this boils down to is, it's a good app, so let's kill it. Again, totally opposite the American values of competition, the free market, and consumers.

Sorry, but there is absolutely zero logic in this analysis.
He just entered into a multi year deal with Spotify for 100 million dollars. For his little podcast where he has casual conversations with random people.
Richard Socher, chief scientist of Salesforce AI, to depart
What is dishonest/revisionist about the statement you have quoted?
This a rant post that backs up very few of its assertions. Though, the author may not have been trying to write for serious consumption. Sometimes it's therapeutic to have a good rant.

I'm not sure what there is for us to discuss. Nice rant, I guess? The post does not attempt to persuade or change opinions (which, again: cool. sometimes it's nice to have a good rant).
The answer is "Knight Rider".