skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The issue is rarely the age of the codebase or the tech stack, but rather the maintainability and quality of the code.

Due to many factors, the age of the codebase is normally inversely proportional to its code quality. Especially codebases in fields where trends change fast, like web technology.

Therefore, if you're a talented engineer able to work in multiple technologies you'll certainly prefer to work on something that has less chances of making you want to tear your hair out.
OK kids, I need help here. There was a sci-fi novel, probably the sixties, called something like "little bugs have little bugs on them". The premise was basically that.. A cold war where one side puts bugs on the bugs of the other side. Rings any bells? Potentially there were also some aspects of bug driven assassinations... But I am unsure. This thing been bugging me.
I've been trying to figure out how to explain this. But basically what's going on thermodynamically with a swamp cooler is a classic adiabatic process, jargon for the total energy doesn't change.

When you evaporate water into dry air. The total energy doesn't change[1]. But it take energy to evaporate water. So where does the energy come from? By reducing the temperature of the air.

[1] I think the entropy increases which is why it's favorable.
What is their stance on other political messaging or activism - for instance putting BLM on jerseys or kneeling?

EDIT: comments suggest that the NBA does allow some political message like BLM. It seems like the NBA is now a political organization that is picking sides. Given BLM’s leadership are open, self admitted “trained Marxists” (https://www.bostonherald.com/2020/07/09/say-you-want-a-marxi...) and those supporting a democratic Hong Kong are nearly the opposite, it is apparent the NBA is effectively pro Marxism and anti Democracy.
Ohhhh.

So the example in the repo being, you have some set of tools which you may want to run in CI/CD, or maybe every developer to have the same version of (linters, deployment tools, test runners, etc) and this will figure out the optimal way of pulling them so they're available?

Thanks, makes sense now I think.
Most places that I've worked, that "test in prod", do so for one reason. It all comes down to laziness.

The first scenario is they have never set up a test environment in the first place. They're either too lazy to do so, or too lazy to look into how to do it. Often confused with being 'too busy to do it'.

The second scenario is that they do have a testing environment-however, for some reason, it's broken. Some change was made, usually in a hurry to meet a deadline, and it's been broken ever since. This one is usually a result of the fix being too difficult, because the test environment was haphazardly thrown together in the first place.
Agreed on basically all points here. My criticism of the state of China is not a defense of the state of the West. It's merely intended to provide a clear distinction between the two, and to combat the rising pro-CCP shilling I see happening consistently on HN. It is very much possible for two different bad things to both be bad.
Well, diseases can also infect through breaks in skin, and your feet are probably one of the roughest treated parts of your body.
Tirana – Ambushed and 2 Diplomats Shot
The academic field is called
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photogrammetry and was an outgrowth of early military aviation. There are now numerous open source implementations.
the word intended by previous poster is "cronyism."
Pretty simple to do this honestly, it's been done many times before. There are phone apps that do this that have been around for a while. After all it's just assigning an x/y value to a position that a color was detected at.
Probably meant Cronyism.
Orgpad looks really good.

I always find this kind of mindmap stuff to go beyond my screen size too quickly though.. I'd love to have something like this in VR so I can walk around and write stuff everywhere, move things etc, just like I have my walls covered in stuff like those stalkers in horror movies :D

VR would be great for this I think. I might even make an app like that.
My experience is that even community college classes are 100x more rigorous than online classes through services like edx. And that's saying something, given how easy community college is.

I graduated from one of lowest ranked CS programs in the country, and even the easiest CS course I've ever taken was orders of magnitude more difficult than any of the dozen or so online certification courses I've gone through.

Until places like Coursera step up their game and start offering something like "honors" courses, where you're likely to fail if you don't do all of the course work, then I don't think they will ever meaningfully replace college degrees.
> To remedy this defect, a new Metasophist University is needed to provide high quality online modules and reliable accreditation to all. We shall thus provide cheap education of the highest quality to all Europeans, while empowering people to explore all domains of knowledge at all ages. This is but a first step to boost creativity, a first volley in our war to ensure the creation of an effective elite.

Sounds like the neo-reactionaries of the so-called "intellectual dark web".
From Sam Altman just now:

> The GPT-3 hype is way too much. It’s impressive (thanks for the nice compliments!) but it still has serious weaknesses and sometimes makes very silly mistakes. AI is going to change the world, but GPT-3 is just a very early glimpse. We have a lot still to figure out.

https://twitter.com/sama/status/1284922296348454913
We can add a third one where the name comes from a person that was likely named after a place, which is why it looks normal (Westlake, Outerbridge).

And for #2, most of them are surely done knowing that there's a double meaning, but the origin has been left behind. There's probably a few names that are now more associated with the person than the original pun.
How far we have fallen from the era of Vannevar Bush to.. whatever this is.
NBA is a vassel of CCP
Do you know who to ask about the voice lines and voice actors?

Worms 2 introduced the "Danish Pyrus" voice bank, and it might have been voiced by Jan Linnebjerg, who played Pyrus, but it isn't written down anywhere in the manual or credits.
Any person or company using US hardware/software should understand that it may have been tainted at the request of the US state, and that for the manufacturer/provider of the hardware/software to disclose said tainting is also illegal.
Using .NET Core in AWS Lambda with Sam and Building an Auto-Scaling Manager
Bohr–van Leeuwen theorem – magnetism in solids is a quantum mechanical effect
LEDs get a lot of attention from people without any kind of training with electronics, but they aren't as simple as people think - LEDs consume a lot of power. If someone isn't careful and doesn't know what they are doing, it's very easy for them to create a fire hazard.

https://hackaday.com/2018/01/29/the-engineering-case-for-fus...
Agreed. This seems to be a case where despite understanding the problem, the solution is not readily apparent. The author does a good job of exploring the problem, and states that any solution will need to include reformulating economic theory of value.

But I think a viable reformulation will extend or build on marginal utility rather than replacing it, perhaps with differences in second order effects of different activities on value creation.
Tell that to amazon
> the age of the codebase is normally inversely proportional to its code quality.

What??? You are saying that simply because a code base is old, it is of poor quality. There are numerous public examples contradicting this: Linux, many Apache projects such as httpd, etc.

I emphatically disagree and would like to know why you think that.
>>An engineering degree does not a good CTO make.

I view it as necessary, but not sufficient by itself.
Yes, which is why I said it wasn't like law. Law is the price of the system, the price to train lawyers, the intentional complexity of law so that there is more work, time, and complexity.

Saying that there is extortionate pricing in finance is hard to prove given the level of competition. The areas of lowest competition, like deposit banking, are generally not "high finance", big salary stuff. And most of the barriers to entry in those areas are imposed by govt, not some natural consequence of finance (again, the author has an amazing ability to pick and choose what facts are relevant). Indeed, the main reason why the industry has consolidated was govt intervention after the GFC.

I think what people mean is: oh, this person makes more money than I THINK they should have (pretty much inevitable with academics). But that is something else. Empirically, this line of thought also found no success in the 20th century. Lots of people have thought that another group of people make too much money. I am not aware of any instance where they were able to take that money costlessly (i.e. they were wrong). The point of capitalism is these decisions being decentralised, and we don't need to rely on the self-appointed geniuses to tell us who is making too much money (spoiler: they will think anyone who has more money is an evil extractor, and that they should have some for pointless work...quite why the author doesn't think they are an extractor is worth examining).
Think of a single Super Bowl ad. It’s not that much if you think about recurring TV spots.
I believe this is because of Liskov's substitution principle (LSP), which is the hidden gotcha that awaits around the corner beyond the "manager is-a person" [1] example. The "square is-a rectangle... or maybe not" discussions that pop up from time to time is an illustration of the problem. In practice, when you produce a lot of classes, derive a lot classes (because of the open-close principle), it is easy to blunder.

[1] Yes, they have feelings too.
Compare the αβγ paper:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpher%E2%80%93Bethe%E2%80%93G...
I take it you've never had your comment - which happens to be on a subject of your expertise or lived experienced - downvoted because simply because it doesn't feel "truthy" enough for HNs demography. I have long since adopted a healthy disregard of HN comments in other areas that I'm no expert in. I still haven't found a way to monetize that though; that is my holy grail.
>I can't help notice how decline of democracy is painted as the 'end of the West', meanwhile Medieval Era was the 'spring of the West'. There is no democracy in Medieval West, there were kings, theocracies, crusades, burning of heretics and women.

That's because what's important is the vector, not the absolute state. Towards the end of the medieval era we saw the emergence of all kinds of positive developments, plus increased prosperity, order, etc. And of course it was followed by the Renaissance.

Similarly, now we see all kinds of degeneration, including the most major: the western countries fall down several steps in the top 10 of GDP, giving their place to Asian countries. The West increasingly loses importance economy wise, and this also means declining standard of living, infrastructure, forward momentum, political discontent (Trump is an example of that), and cultural relevance. It's a slow process, which will take decades or even a century to be completed, but it will be completed.

>So here comes the real question: What is the west?

Historically/Geographically, the Europeans and their ilk in the USA/Canada.

Culturally, the mix of Roman law / Christianity etc as it progressed through to the Renaissance, Enlightenment and on to the 20th century.

Economically, sometimes "westernized" places like Japan and South Korea are included (and Australia/NZ).

In any case, it's mostly: what's not culturally Asian, African, Latin American, or Arabic.

> Culturally, the west now is way more different then the west in 1500 as versus the East today.

Yes, but that's neither here nor there. Physiologically, mentally, etc. a 60 year old is more similar to another 60 year old than to his 5 year old self. But despite that the 60 year old and the 5 year old are the same person - and share their development history.

>Why is it that people start feeling that the west will pass - and that it somehow coincide with demographic changes

Because that's how it happened for other similar cultures/countries in the past. Including for a succession within the west: In the 20th century Britain as an "empire" declined and gave way to the USA, for example.

Also because it has already began giving its place to developing economies that have began to surpass it, and have more momentum.

>US have been through much worse, from the America First nazi sympathizer of the 30s to McCarthyism of the 50s, that's not even mentioning the civil war of the century before that

Those are not "much worse". Those are historical developments in a country with a positive momentum vector and huge development (economic, population, global relevance, etc) during and afterwards.

>We as humans tend to characterize what we're currently moving through as more significant than they are - put it into historical perspective and it could just be a 'nah'

In history few powers (or superpowers) remain in their place for long.
So you never did anything illegal in your life? Sounds more like you want to scare people from ordering rather than speaking the truth.
I love that you felt you had to point out you were being sarcastic.
Serious security risk. When he falls out of favor, likely in six months, what he knows becomes part of his “business portfolio.” If you think this has low probability, remember it’s probability * consequences that matters.
Hope there'll be plentiful decent microfilm readers in the future post-civilizational collapse
Amazon isn't the one importing counterfeit items in.
There's an app called "Exporter".
http://falcon.star-lord.me/exporter/.

I've used it and it works.
Software developer also makes Another note taking app Falcon http://falcon.star-lord.me/#features

NOTE: Exporter works well, but it does NOT decrypt locked notes, nor does it handle anything outside of text (e.g, tables or images).
Couple has lived for 29 years on an island they built themselves
>That somehow all culture exist in a perpetual state of competition, and the spread/growth of one necessitate the decline of other.

I don't think that's an opinion to agree or disagree with. Historically it's an observable fact.
vibes, puppydog... vibes indeed.

it's important to know that Dat & SSB are such a security hole. the thing about SSB in particular, though... is it's main value prop:

this tool can be used on a sailboat with no web access

our worldwide, global, ungated internet may be the thing that leaves us quite soon.

postal mail was also subject to intrusive surveillance for as long as written words have been delivered by humans. submitting them to the internet, and expecting that we should somehow be blessed with total freedom from prying eyes may have been the mistake.

more networks could be the answer. distributed social groups. decentralized governance.

more countries could be the answer... if we want to abandon the central authorities and the power they concentrate.

it's clear from this point in history nothing will be the same again. but staying connected to the global net comes with obvious trade-offs for personal security.
People don't say it directly, but all the constant complaining about the bloat and complexity of the JS ecosystem and the size of node_modules folder boils down mostly to two tools: Babel and Webpack.
> The central idea is to rent a small amount of land on the coast of Africa for one century, give it a basic constitution and access to EU markets, and ensure legal and physical security.

I mean, it worked well enough for the people of Hong Kong... but what's going to happen once the century-long lease is over?
In case anyone is wondering why RCP[PS]S and RSQRT[PS]S are specified to give only a relatively small number of digits of accuracy (I think only 7 or 14 bits?) it's because they use the fast inverse square root algorithm in hardware.

The IEEE754 floating point representation gives you an easy way to roughly approximately convert between the log2 of it. The exponent gives you exactly the integer log2 of the number, and the mantissa gives you a fractional linear term that you can drop onto the integer part to make it closer to the actual log2 version. This lets you do some fun things fairly easily.

x -> log2(x) -> -log2(x) -> 1/x

x -> log2(x) -> -0.5 log2(x) -> 1/sqrt(x)

x -> log2(x) -> 0.5 log2(x) -> sqrt(x)

The lossiness of the conversion limits your precision, but there's a lot of times you don't give a shit. So the instructions are still valuable even if they're only approximately correct. For the reciprocal case, it will do something like this:

https://godbolt.org/z/n6M4az

I'm not sure where the nondeterminism comes in between AMD and Intel. As you can see, with the reciprocal, there's no magic constant like there is with inverse square root. Maybe they're fudging something, or have a different form of Newton's method, I dunno.
Agreed. I had no idea that the NBA of all things was beholden to the Chinese market already.
Yes, this was my interpretation as well. It's always fascinating to see these kinds of abuses of language and phrase by people (ostensibly) invested in some idealized philosophical and literary tradition.
You are looking at the current amount of memory that the process is using in top, but your profiling is probably showing the total allocated while the process ran. This means there are probably LOTS of memory allocations that get freed immediately instead of the program allocating memory once and reusing that heap memory. In the case of an image of this size you could probably just put everything on the stack.

When optimizing, excess heap allocations are the first thing to look at, since they are usually inside inner loops, which almost always means they are not necessary. It definitely should not be ignored by someone looking for speed.
No, they are "only" storing and delivering them.
Honestly not trying to be snarky.

If what you quoted is the dog whistle, what is the decoded message that the in crowd would be hearing?
I'm not talking about any specifics of either administration, only about having them back-to-back with polar-opposite reactions from most people. I hope that would make anyone on any side think twice before handing "their guy" some fun new weapon, but I probably hope for too much.
John Baez on Hypercomplex Numbers (2019)
EU looks to target Big Tech in trade war with America
I fear he has been put in place to “package a portfolio.” At his level of expertise, I see little else he could accomplish in the short time remaining.
That's the definition of lying, not politics.
They're examples of someone being nicknamed off of their last name instead of their first name? How so?

Caesar isn't even a last name.
I see the point you're trying to make, but I don't see any market economy in China. I see China directly manipulating currency markets, stock markets and requiring state ownership or control of all major companies, as well as the creation of SRCs. This is not a market economy, it's a vehicle to enable foreign dollars to prop up state actions.

I mean, the Chinese government even manipulates data at all levels to lie about the status of their economy intentionally and with no attempt to even report accurate data. It's so bad that most Western companies which make serious investments in China use other data as a proxy and perform their own analytics to determine market movement separate from what is reported by the government. I'm not going to go digging for a pile of links, but here's one article in the Financial Times discussing how far off the official numbers are: https://www.ft.com/content/961b4b32-3fce-11e9-b896-fe36ec32a...

There's some depth there, I don't think all of the misreporting in China is machinations occurring at the top. I've seen too many substantiated reports of more minor governmental officials reporting incorrect data to save face or to enhance their own position politically within the CCP and once that data becomes analyzed in aggregate it will lead to incorrect results. It seems there's a "vig" being added at every layer, such that it may not even be possible for China to report accurate data.

Market economies run off of data and information, fundamentally. The stock market itself is just a mechanism to set pricing and valuation based on all available collected data. It's essentially a mechanism for crowd-sourcing, where the people participating have skin in the game and a vested interest in making a meaningful analysis of the data available to them. China manipulates and misreports data as a matter of course and directly intercedes to manipulate what little in the way of markets actually exist, so it cannot be in any way described as a "free market economy" (that word "free" is crucial to the Western capitalistic way).
It’s not necessary for IC, why would it be necessary for management?
> Who is the greater fool, the fool or the fool who follows him?

Obi-Wan Kenobi
Then you get sued for destroying government property.
Not sure why amznthrwaway is being voted down, but he has a good point.

Americans are used to others having to tiptoe around their sensibilities, and now they're finding out what adhering to a foreign culture's value system is like.
Value (in the economic sense) is where the supply & demand curves intersect. There is no such thing as "intrinsic" or "true" value.
Realistically though, CBP isn't going to come after you if you're buying a few hundred bucks of apparel for personal use.
My experience as a life long resident of the bay area is the children of immigrants very quickly adapt. In the bay area you have first world highly trained engineers whose parents were iron age dirt farmers in Southeast Asia.
Lucky me, growing up my mom didn't make more than $8k a year - this would have been impossible for me to do lol. It was also impossible for me to eat properly and have new cloths...

Did I say lucky me? :/
Rugby kinda fills the football hole and cricket is a good baseball replacement.

Korea has baseball leagues.

Mexico has football, Japan, Brazil, China and Poland.
both java and .net (core) are evolving and more mature, though
Right but the baseline regulatory function actually increases costs and prices. Extractive firms love these regulations because they create rents (i.e. law). The irony is too much.

And the problem with Wirecard is that people don't ask what would have happened otherwise. Wirecard had the govt suing people for them (basic regulatory function I suppose? lol). The point of markets isn't that the price is always right but that by creating a venue for people to disagree, you get an efficient outcome in the end. Fund managers who owned the stock get rinsed and will probably not get more capital. Fund manager who shorted the stock got more capital.

Btw, the reason why Wirecard didn't blow up instantly was the govt. Regulators are tasked with a limited set of functions. They choose not to perform them. The failure wasn't the market, it was regulation (the fraud itself was ludicrously childish, it is the kind of thing you see in China).
Dao De Jing (parallel translation collection) [pdf]
I have seen great tech leaders without a STEM degree. But they have a deep understanding of technology people, technology development as a process, and technology as a business. I have seen would-be tech leaders who tried to take shortcuts. They end disastrously.

Usually the problem boils down to judgment. They cannot tell who is producing the core value of the enterprise. They create unnecessary work. They add useless process. They have bizarre and unworkable ideas for products. They don't understand how to correctly price talent, and to retain it. They don't have the humility to know what they don't know. They overestimate how much they add to the enterprise.

The good people end up jumping ship and they are left with a rump of pure mediocrity, if anything at all.
sensational = big news