skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is 20% a real thing anywhere, aside from select google employees?
Newsletters are a great alternative to scrolling Facebook, Twitter, etc.

The Stoop app is great if you like newsletters but don't want them cluttering your inbox: https://stoopinbox.com
How to Grow in IT Career Improving These Four Pillars
The example I've always used is that if somebody uses the words "spicy tuna" in their review of a sushi restaurant, I don't want their rating to affect my view of the restaurant at all. Similarly, someone who goes to a really fancy restaurant for the first time in their life and complains about portion size. Their experiences are valid and helpful to some people, but totally irrelevant to me.
If US and EU are so buerocratic that innovation is impossible, there will still be a big market for viable VTOL electric planes in the rest of the world.

Just like most 3rd world countries these days have better 4G coverage than supposedly 1st world countries like Germany, or rural US.
Strongly agree with this comment. ELK and now EFK using fluentd are fairly mature and the dashboards used to view the data e.g. Kibana, Grafana are full of useful features to get around the "endless series of greps" method of manually parsing through logs. Another benefit of offloading app, system and security logging to a central logging server is removing a potential single point of failure from simply running out of storage. Elasticsearch clusters are easy to build out to scale, also.
I can understand why one would think this. That assumption is part of the reason I shared the story. If that were true here, the A&T students would have had the experience of the Duke/UNC group.
What's the basis for your green card? Do you have a pending I-485 application?
I can't really speak for the media landscape of Hungary, but on a general basis a diverse media landscape that allows for different and even unpopular opinions, is very important for a functioning democracy, because, believe it or not, but Hungary is in fact a democracy. Unlike most other states in the EU, Orbán enjoys a clear parliamentary majority. That means that his policies enjoy wide support within the national assembly. Moreover, it means that whatever he proposes will be voted in much more easily.

On the other hand, the Hungarian opposition owning such a small minority, may even feel oppressed because of it. This is why I think it's unfortunate if this alternative media outlet is indeed being pressured into being more polite towards the sitting government. But speaking of poor resources among alternative and fringe media may also be misleading. In some respects it is no different than the alternative media in Left leaning countries, such as Sweden or Norway. Over here it is the alternative Right Wing media that are on the brink of extinction, and Left Wing supporters are constantly calling for their defunding and cancellation, even resorting to call out or boycott businesses who dare advertise with them.

This tactic certainly seems to have worked with the big tech companies. Moreover there seems to be little to no discussion in Left Wing media about the larger ongoing censorship happening in Western Europe and the USA. As such, some may even call this event welcome when compared to what is happening on giant platforms like Twitter, Google, Facebook or YouTube. However I'm unsure if fighting cancel culture with more cancel culture is a very bright idea.
I don't agree much with this assessment.

I voluntarily subscribed some of the Cooper Press weekly newsletters https://cooperpress.com/publications/
They are definitely opt-in, not spam.

I regularly unsubscribe newsletters I didn't opt-in, usually from unknown sources. Not many of them lately and the opt-out usually works. I remember a couple of times I had to send an email with a mention of GDPR in it. It worked.

So "the majority" of newsletters are modern spam, not really.
> What's sauce for goose is sauce for gander - if this justification is considered valid, it will be primarily used by those in power against the minorities they don't like;

All modes of justification can be invoked fraudulently. This does not invalidate my mode of justification any more than it invalidates very basic uncontroversial modes of justification such as "we should reserve the right to use force to suppress murder." Sure, those in power can and do invoke that mode of justification fraudulently by falsely claiming that people are murderers and thus using violence against them. We do not throw up our hands and say "well, we cannot ever use that mode of justification, because who can really say for sure what is and isn't murder?"

> Trump reserving the right to suppress ideologies that are intolerant to "Blue lives matter" cause or conservative politicians reserving the right to suppress ideologies that threaten christian family values.

Just like my even simpler example above, this is not a problem for my argument. I can and do claim two things: that we are justified using violence to suppress intolerance, and that it's bad when people use violence to suppress things that they falsely claim are intolerance.
Tangent: Isn't Fry's on the brink of death?
The Selling Process
I thought this was an interesting part of the article that wasn't fully explained - how this was negotiated.

There is some explanation for Director's Discretionary's purpose here in the Call for Proposals (although given that this Deep Field project seems now unlikely to qualify, this might have been retconned):

https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20080527200338/http://www...
>viewing looters as fundamentally doing more harm then good

Almost nobody would disagree with that statement but I'm sure you know that. Suggesting that the majority on the left (aka "progressives") support the looting is extremely disingenuous.

It's plainly obvious what the real purpose of a comment like that is.
So should most customer returns just go to a landfill?
I'm ok with that. I miss RSS.
They are investing a billion dollar to develop a plane from scratch in order to launch a taxi service.

This strikes as quite an odd thing to do and my bet is that either one of the big guys (Airbus, Boeing, etc) will launch a competing aircraft and kill them, or they will be acquired. Even if they continue as an aircraft manufacturer I am doubtful about the mix with being a taxi company.

It also seems an awful lot of money to develop one small plane.
I think almost all the interesting games on the X-Box either already being available for Windows or else having a just-as-good version available for another console is a lot of what kills interest for emulating it. You can play Halo and such just fine on a PC without an emulator.
But Apple already controls its own chips in the sector that matters to them: mobile.

Shifting to ARM for laptops and desktops just sounds like a big burden for them.
Would-be writers that never gave it a shot are having a crack at newsletters too. I've started one to get down some fully-fleshed thoughts on tech that would've otherwise been left half-formulated and lost in a comment section.

There's something about the process of writing a standalone article that forces you to frame your ideas properly and push them towards conclusions.
> slow cargo trains that take priority over passenger trains.

This is only half true. Legally, Amtrak has priority, and railroads are required to cede right-of-way to passenger trains. In practice, the railroads don't cede priority nearly as much as they should. This is an ongoing fight. Amtrak has a whole site about it here: https://www.amtrak.com/on-time-performance
You are absolutely right. I was too quick trying to convert between millions of km to lightyears in my head.
Then you better buy a home sooner. Because as soon as there is a financial crash, central banks are going to flood the economy with new money to prop up stocks/bonds/homes prices. The template was originally tried after 2008 crash (ZIRP, multiple QEs etc) all over the world and is put to test again during the COVID shutdowns. Since the sky didn't fall the first time and not falling the second time, that is going to be a go-to tool for policymakers.
Apparently, the universe expanded much quicker than the speed of light during the big bang. So, for us to see something from 12 billions years ago, it would have to be 12 billion light years away from where we are presently.

Since light travels all directions, if something was older than presumed aged of the universe, statistically speaking, we'd be able to see some of it from here.
Belated disclaimer: I am not a lawyer, and I am certainly not your lawyer :) If you are interested in this kind of thing there is a lot of interesting casework in this area.
How is there that much uncertainty about the number of people killed?
Probably like Patreon, they expect that creators are bringing an existing fan community with them. I've never discovered creators through Patreon, but I've found countless creators elsewhere and then looked at their Patreon page to see what they were working on/funding. As an email newsletter service, this is particularly typical.

That said, these are some pretty neat newsletters so now I do find myself wanting to discover more of them. I see an opportunity for something like one of those "Awesome list" Github repos that lists neat Substack newsletters people have found. And honestly that kind of feels more "wholesome" to me than official curation since it's communicating one person's taste (or a curated group's taste) rather than introducing potential incentives for newsletter writers to try to game some system for publicity. This seems like a good start. ;)
if you are ever of the mind to share, i am of the mind to listen. my email is dai.wakabayashi@nytimes.com
I bought a new kid's book from Amazon.

A child had written their name inside the cover.
> C# is consistently a worse performer than most javascript runtimes currently

This is a bold claim. Please provide evidence that the most current .NET implementation (.NET Core 3.1) is slower than any JavaScript implementation.

This doesn't pass the smell test since you're comparing an ahead-of-time statically typed approach to a dynamic scripting language, both of which have had highly tuned JIT implementations, both of which are using garbage collection. You can implement things poorly in C#, sure, but you're making a much stronger claim of consistently poor performance.

Saying 'dude trust me' is not a source.
This does not apply to restaurants in small towns.
As I said to throwaway -- if you are of the mind to share, i am here to listen. my email is dai.wakabayashi@nytimes.com
> PERM filing will be scrutinized more closely and audited and denied with greater frequency. But that hasn't happened yet

Interesting to see you think that way.

My wife recently got her PERM application denied. The reasoning was that the in-house job posting did not include the salary for the position. We think it was a clerical mistake on part of the company attorney and we are trying to move on by looking at other options.

However, last year her colleague obtained PERM with the same job posting template. It gave us the impression that indeed the PERM filings are being scrutinized and denied with greater frequency.
Depends where you live,but in a lot of places the ability to make backups of your own digital media is enshrined in law. And in EU "license agreements" are usually worth as much as toilet paper, especially if they are implied rather than explicit (like, saying "by using this software you agree to this agreement" is essentially worthless, you can agree to literally anything and it won't hold up in court)
By that same reasoning you could also say ‘Foxconn is company and it doesn’t make anything, Indian people are making the iPhone 11 near Chennai’

It isn’t technically wrong but usually the inventor/creator is credited regardless of who they paid to assemble it.
I put this together because I couldn't find a dead simple data sharing service for a side project. I didn't want to deal with auth, or tables, or anything complicated -- just a small amount of data that I could monitor by leaving open a window.

If you have suggestions, I'd love to hear them.
Pres-to-Logs a History Lesson in Industry Efficiency
Hyper-politicization which mostly comes from the left, is a marxist tactic related to identifying and destroying all things/persons that are problematic. This tactic is designed to weaken societal bonds in general and to target people or institutions that may get in the way of installing communism.
Couldn't you come up with some smart way of changing the throttle of the engines to keep you stable. Bit like these fins

www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rCWnI8r_EQ
LOL!

No. Engineers should be afraid of offshoring, when they stop learning and take their job for granted.

Also - missing the "next big thing" is something that people do all the time.

One thing that one of my former colleagues told me - "Our job, as engineers, is to make our jobs obsolete in the end".
He reads everything except hacker news comment sections, I'm guessing.
Why GPT-3 rattles through the Turing Test
Ironically that would be a crime in itself. If you want zero crime your options are to either nuke the earth vor to make all crime legal.
> Insurers will always set premiums so that you're on the losing side of probability. Their real product is protecting you from the damage of going negative.

This is also a legal requirement as underselling the cost of the underlying risks can put your company at risk of insolvency.

States hate having insurance companies go bust in case of a real emergency so there are liquidity, zip underwriting and other preventive measures to keep companies kicking because the alternative causes the state to eat the costs.
Is he really? That sounds hopeful. I'd perhaps wrongly assumed that the Democrats would undo Trump's efforts to create and keep jobs in the US and revert to unfettered globalism.
I wonder what it would add to the total cost of manufacturing a phone, to make it in the USA.
I did hear about one accident due to mixture. They forgot to lean it out on a long flight and ran out of gas over a heavily treed area because they hadn't planned to run rich the whole way. If I recall correctly they survived.
Steve Hsu wasn't fired. He resigned from his position overseeing other people's research. He kept his position as a professor with tenure.

Cesario and Johnson studied fatal shootings by police. Hsu personally promoted their study as relevant to George Floyd's killing and/or the subsequent protests. But George Floyd wasn't shot and the protests were about more than fatal shootings. That was only a small part of the case the graduate employee union presented against Hsu. The letter started by faculty[1] didn't mention it at all.

[1] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jb7w02E5GAdrJ_QnAokp7Ier...
It was a sealed box.
Just baffling that they were on the verge of closing their CS department 8 years ago.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevensalzberg/2012/04/22/unive...
Why are those two the only options? How about:

c) being visited and treated with some respect
> $0.10 per 1000 emails

That seems to be dramatically more expensive than SendGrid, at least based on playing around with the pricing slider on their website.

Plus you're paying some other costs like bandwidth and mailing list maintenance. Most of these email providers have the idea that you can create a mailing list, and then ask them to send mailings based on some template.
That's kind of what I was getting at, but you put it more succinctly.

Either Einstein didn't know everything, and maybe part of his theory was a bit off. Or, there's an alien species visiting us with advanced craft that crash often enough that we find them.

Of course, this is all assuming everyone on record is telling the truth, which is a pretty big assumption.
It kind of "depends".

People are talking about cost of licensing, but the cost of ARM are peanuts compared to cost of design and fabrication. I am not even sure if the word peanuts correctly describes it.

ARM has made changes that you no longer need some one-off fees before you start producing "certain" ARM design. You get access to it and only paid for it once you start making revenue.

RISC-V makes sense for tiny microcontroller that ships in tens of millions. Western Digital saves millions every year just by switching to RISC-V for Microcontroller used in their HDD.

RISC-V's main competition is the like of ARC and some other DSP. It is competing with ARM in certain segment ( or the old ARM embedded segment ). But it is not competing ARMv8.
That sounds like a normal, practical thing for any company to do.
Citing Anti-Terror Law, Delhi Police Block Global Youth Climate Activism Website
> Space isn't quite transparent

On Earth scale it is for all practical purposes.
> Production will be stepped up in phases and Apple may consider exporting the India-made iPhone 11, reducing its dependence on China, two senior industry executives said.

This is being done to satisfy India's government so Apple can sell phones in India.

The diversification away from China seems like a nice seide-effect, but it's not assured until the Chennai-region FoxConn factory is running at full speed. Last I heard the Wisconsin FoxConn factory didn't ever make it that far. It's TBD if FoxConn can manage Indian employees.
Do you have readers?
Helicopters in the U.S. only need a 20 minute reserve, at least for VFR.
Private pilot, instrument rated here ;). I fly a G5 SR22 Turbo, which is state of the art for GA piston aviation, or as the rest of the calls it, state of the are for 1982.

No autothrottle, no FADEC, and that plane new costs close to $1 mil. Short of the turbine world, its the best you can get but its still ancient tech. Following a magenta line on autopilot is not a hard problem to solve.
Let me rephrase:
The innovation you describe (which is cool and needs certification) bumped the price for a new airplane from about 50k in the 70s (I guess we may be talking 200k in today’s money) to close to 1MM USD.

And that innovation is “just” glass cockpit, and some more advanced avionics. Not changing the principles - you fly a bit faster, a bit safer but still need a license and do all the preparation and checks. But it’s a bit more fancy. From 200k to almost 1 MM.

The Garmin Autoland you described bumps up the sum to 3MM (https://www.piper.com/press-releases/piper-announces-new-m60...).

So factor 10 for something “that was already unreasonably expensive”...

My argument was around “innovation has a horrible ROI” in the aviation industry.

Building a startup in that space has to take costs into consideration... I mean, Musk initially didn’t shoot people into space, there was an inefficient market and the margins were enormous... That’s a different story...
You've sidestepped the main point, which was that they first escalated and then you've made it the other person's responsibility to de-escalate. I'm asking why it is not the original persons' responsibility to pick their words carefully so as to not escalate in the first place.
Sometimes I imagine if our collective minds were put together to figure out some of those basic - civilization wide problems like clean water for all, clean energy for all, or carbon sequestration. Imagine that world...
It's borderline/barely legal. A company can base a decision not to hire on uncertainty or cost. But there's really no uncertainty and no cost here. So I would challenge the recruiters on this.
Fuly agree - TL;DR pick the right benchmark.

If you are doing AI the Top500,is meaningless and if you are doing classical HPC these ExaFlop int8 supercomputers are meaningless
Apple plays a shell game with revenue and gets away with it.
Shkreli plays a shell game with revenue and has to go to prison.

Corporations are people right?
Especially on the newest hardware that OS 9 runs on (or can be hacked to run on) it's probably the closest you can get to feeling like there's practically nothing between the software button you're clicking and the hardware it's running on. Modern macOS is decent at this but all modern operating systems tend to give the impression of unseen layers because of the latency involved.
5-star rating distributions are heavily bipolar - maybe like 80% of ratings will be 1 or 5. This is part of why some systems end up switching to thumbs up/down. I don't like it much, but empirically, it's how people seem to use rating scales.

I semi-joke with friends that I wreck the ratings of things just because I try to use the entire scale, so my 4 star "pretty darn good!" rating actually ends up lowering the average.
The restaurant experience is based on a different unit, the party. A party of 2, 4, 6, 20, etc dines together and has the same server(s).

So one bad employee can cripple a restaurant because of a dumb algorithm? Lets start by saying the right thing to do would be talk to the manager first and get them to resolve it.

I hope you see the disparity here. The reviews should be one per restaruant experience. You shouldn't be able to gang up and review spam a restaurant, but there's no way we can prevent that without the review service cooperating with the restaurant.
Good piece. I have encountered many of these same issues and had similar thoughts. I think a rule of thumb may be in order, that's something like "the more interactive a component is, the more likely it is to be better written as a class".
Again no, we use ECS, a managed container orchestration solution with far less operational overhead than K8s. Try again.
Escalation by Tweet: Managing the new nuclear diplomacy [pdf]
> There are ways that people can rationalize these gaming of the system behaviors, but it just seems to be a descent to crapitude, where every retailer treats every return as a crime, because often it really is.

I do wonder where the line is, though.

I didn't have a PS3 growing up, but I wanted to play Uncharted and a few other games when I was in High School. Game rentals were long gone by then, much less console rentals—but I realized that Gamestop had a 7-day return policy on used hardware.

So one year, during spring break, I bought a used PS3 and copies of Uncharted 2 and 3. I didn't manage to finish the latter in time, but I still enjoyed myself.

I am to this day convinced I did nothing wrong. The console was used both before and after purchase, and I took good care of the hardware and followed the written return policy. And in the process, I bought multiple non-returnable games from the store.

But I was definitely taking advantage of the return policy, since I had no intention of holding on to the console.
Nothing new, just that April 2020 news. Fry's done for now thanks to Covid. It was slowly dying before that.

Here are some facts: (a) most of the shelves are empty; (b) shelves between two shelves are removed, to make it appear business as usual; (c) vendors were not getting paid by Frys; (d) therefore, any decent vendor doesn't want to send them items on credit; (e) so, Fry's is left with the junk we see on TVs.

In some aspects, I miss Fry's. Fry's used to hire all kinds of people, gave jobs to new immigrants without English skills. Now we such people driving Uber, Lyft.
Yes, you do have to manually adjust the mixture. I have to admit, for the newer turbo cirruses its insanely easy to do. just have to pull it until your fuel flow matches a blue indicator on the display.
America’s Largest Unions Are Calling on the FTC to Stop Amazon
I based my comment on what I see daily from non-technical people's inboxes. They are packed with mountains of various commercial newsletters and typically will get one or more of those per day.

There is definitely a minority out there like yourself that knows how to manage it and only subscribes to a few select newsletters, for I think for the majority of people, newsletters are a net negative otherwise you wouldn't see people with thousands of unread emails and there wouldn't be so much hype around tools like Hey.
Reminds me of Malcolm Gladwell's "pull the goalie" podcast. https://medium.com/the-post-grad-survival-guide/lessons-for-...