skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The sheer amount of anti-science, poorly thought out political comments and plain hatred is really depressing at a time when a lot of things are not going well.

On this front, I prune my contacts when my feed starts stressing me out. It used to be you had to totally unfriend someone, but Facebook wised up and now you have a variety of options. You can put them on a 30-day timeout so their posts won't show up on your feed while they get their rant on, or you can unfollow entirely while remaining friends (so you can still actively check on them but won't get passively bombarded with dumb stuff). You can also opt out of seeing content from specific sources they share if the only problem is they're sharing dumb links.

It's still not perfect, but keeping in touch with people who post dumb stuff is always gonna be a balancing act and Facebook's come a long way in facilitating that act even though most of the options are not obvious (most of the above are found in the ellipsis icon in the upper right of every post).
Clearly you are too much of a pedant to do anything useful in life, so why don't you build a time machine and interrupt your birthing process ? It should be easy ... you can build it using calculus.

Science is about modelling the real world. Mathematics is about modelling. Programming is "interactive" modelling. Its all about modelling accurately.

Clearly you are also too much of a bigot to understand that models are just models and unreadable and undecipherable models are useless and full of shit, especially those built by schizophrenics or priests.

> If you say no, then I challenge you to construct a useful and consistent version of calculus without formal mathematics.

That was how it was constructed in the first place genius. Both calculus and fourier were built for practical purposes before formalist clowns were even alive probably. So why don't you go read the originals.

Formal calculus is beyond useless, its unreadable.
Ah missed that, thanks for pointing that out.
The value that economics promises to create is wealth-weighted. By this metric, destroying the ability of a million people to eek by is a huge win if it makes a person worth ten million times as much worth twenty million times as much.

Thankfully, as you point out, it often does the exact opposite and makes everyone richer! But not always, not reliably, certainly not as a fundamental guarantee. "The Wedge" plot illustrates this fickleness, where about 40 years ago the American story switched from "a rising tide floats all boats" to "rich get richer, poor get poorer." The economy kept growing, but the overwhelming majority of people not only did not manage to capture a share of the new growth, they did not even manage to hold on to what they had. Yes, those on top scooped up more money than those on the bottom lost -- but how is that supposed to be comforting?

It frustrates me when certain elements preach the prosperity gospel while framing it as a matter of fact rather than self-serving faith. I personally have faith that we'll eventually figure out a compromise, but I don't believe that denying blatant trends helps us get there.
I was thinking that Apache / Nginx blocking based on IP match and HTTP method is likely approximately equivalent complexity.

Also CDNs generally offer this if you use one.
US janitors can't go work in Sweden, where janitors are paid more fairly.
The "fact that a user is using Tor" is not discussed in the post. There is zero connection between how Tor nodes generate their TLS certificates and whether or not you can detect that a user is using Tor. All you can do with this information (which is not a secret but a well-discussed tradeoff with no better option) is to identify Tor relays, which are already public.
all is inaccurate. and the title is inaccurate.

it's sellers of the top 2000 products, which is "only a few hundred results".
Between the Air Force X-37B and the new Space Force, I find it a little hard to take pearl clutching about the "militarization of space" seriously.

Don't get me wrong, Russia aren't some good guy, but when you actively do a thing for tens of years and then the other guy does that thing, you have no moral high ground left to complain.
True, but x86 also got it's start in (relatively) low-end systems (PCs) and eventually overtook high-end CPUs from the bottom. ARM looks to be in a position to do that.
It would be great if there were a way to make content moderation more humane,

Oh I'm sure FB could think of a few ways.

A decent compensation structure might be a good place to start.
My thoughts in response to the lawsuit against the Internet Archive
Debris in orbit has a finite limit until we're then trapped on this planet. Micrometeroids and space trash will katamari until we then have to start thinking about blowing significant parts of our geocentric orbit. Warfare in space is a negative-sum game for every player.
I actually don't think there's that much wrong with what the President tweeted/posted, but I do think it's inaccurate to compare what he said to just any old discussion of government policy. He wasn't just discussing government policy, he was talking about enforcing it in a very particular way ("the shooting starts").

There is definitely a qualitative difference between:

"Deadbeat fathers should have to pay child support"

and

"When the looting starts, the shooting starts"

I personally disagree that the difference matters, but you have to accept that it's certainly debatable.
Base x86 is partially open partially owned by Intel. X86-64 has components owned by AMD. AMD and Intel cross-license. You can’t start a new x86 chip company without paying amd/intel (if you want to use modern isa)
"Earth's most customer-centric company"
It sounds like you are off to a great start. Afaik there really isn't any 400 or 500 level material for advanced assembly programming. You could read Goto BLAS [1] or mkl-dnn [2]

I find reading assembly output from compilers to be a good start, it also helps you develop a mental model of what compilers expect in terms of stack hygiene.

Before godlbolt, https://godbolt.org/ there was `gcc -S` and now there is [3]

gcc -Wa,-adhln -g <file.c>

for interleaving source and assembly output. Keep the reference manual close and write lots of little experiments to confirm your findings.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GotoBLAS

[2] uses macros and intrinsics https://github.com/oneapi-src/oneDNN

[3] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3867721/is-there-any-c-c...
Reopening Schools Is Way Harder Than It Should Be
> But she keeps getting voted in by CA of all places.

Never underestimate the power of the national party to protect seniority by supporting those campaigns. Seniority brings with it more power on committees.
> "An Amazon spokesman said the company doesn’t use confidential information that companies share with it to build competing products"

The above statement may be "true" if you redefine what is confidential. The Amazon MNDA in past years basically said that they could use any information they remembered from the meeting. I read non-disclosures carefully. I've never seen anything like it.
Microsoft is famous for always doing a "better" copy than their competitors. :D They always come second but then start to overtake.
I've found looking at data from StackOverflow to be pretty useless. "Number of questions asked" could very easily be interpreted as a negative thing -- maybe there's some ideal ratio of questions asked to raw usage numbers that would be more useful. Additionally the set of developers who ask a lot of questions on SO does not extrapolate to the wider industry.
"wrongthink at scale"
LOL the past 100 years of human history is an epic dismissal of Socialism.

Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Castro/Guevara, Hitler, Mussolini, Maduro.

Socialism is pure evil insanity, the worst sickness of mankind.
Why would anyone with a brain hand over proprietary information?
"threaten the peaceful use of space" and what exact is the US space force for? Cleaning up after Elon's space junk? I don't think so. Kind of hypocritic to accuse others of militarizing space.
>Which is strange because Harvard is NOT completely online for first-year, only partially online.

AFAIK, there's a certain minimum proportion of classes that have to be in-person to meet the visa requirements.
Don't they have special letters (I can't remember the name) to prevent articles being run in the press?

Don't they have separate courts?
Oh man, the video latency woes. I've been going through the same motions trying to get minimal-latency stream-to-browser from an Amcrest (Dahua) IP camera. Their app and cloud services leaves much to be desired, so I tried to roll my own. They cameras send h264-encoded stream over rtmp but also through some kind of custom HTTP protocol which their browser app (requiring a scary binary native plugin) decodes, but it's challenging to reverse-engineer.
How long would it take SpaceX & other companies to launch replacements? (Further, how much would a large attack against US space infrastructure affect SpaceX's capabilities?) In that time, how much damage would be done to US government agencies, military, corporations, and citizens' lives?
Or let me ask in different way: why use ARM if you control and build the whole stack from electronics to operating system to the software running on it?

The core instruction set is from the 80es. Surely you can come up with some better today were you to design it from scratch?
Pretty amazing, and congrats to Jacob Jackson. (I may be a little envious) ;)
Find people who enjoy horrific content,

Yup - these are exactly the kind of people you want to rub shoulders, and stock your company's ranks with.
I did lot of things, and even had to implement pixel perfect designs in IE5.
Honestly, those challenges were a part of the fun. Not sure I'd want to go through the same again, but it was fun back then.
https://community.nodebb.org

We tried very hard to make it a fast SPA.
Given how granular AWS billing data is, I would expect the odds to be fairly good that it alone is sufficient to make a good analysis for which third-party offerings are compelling markets. Then AWS takes their execution advantage, along with things like the lower friction that arises from first-party integration with IAM and billing, as well as not having to pay retail for the cloud resources, and it becomes very difficult to retain a moat unless you have a paradigm or perspective that is both critical to succeeding and is also incompatible with AWS culture.
Russia Accused of Firing Satellite Weapon in Space
China’s Weaponisation of Water
The R value is only reduced while extreme measures are active.

It will go back to its normal r value one society returns to normal.

There's no avoiding society returning to normal as people need jobs to pay rent and buy food.
I'd definetely consider Tor Node Fingerprinting (2nd issue) to be an important issue.
Nonetheless, both issues have been _accepted_ as those by Tor Maintainers, yet they failed to act appropriately.
This generally is not the case.

If you blatantly ignore and NDA, and then make a lot of money from it, then the 'small startup' will have a ton of money because the prize is huge, i.e. a % cut to lawyers who can work pro-bono.

Imagine you have a $10B company and some bonehead PM steals info from some small startup, for some stupid small project - it puts everything at risk.

In most case, I think you have boneheaded actors, usually not acting in the best interest of the company.
I'm extremely skeptical about the claims that COVID-19 is going to cause a long term mass exodus from cities. Of course cities are less attractive places to live when everything is closed down. But if that makes city living less attractive, then why would moving to a place where those bars, restaurants, etc don't even exist be attractive? I grew up in a place where the population of the entire county was only 25,000 people and there are downsides to living in such a place.

The biggest thing is that there is simply less to do. I remember that meetup.com and similar sites had maybe a dozen things listed within 50 miles and they were generally things like "Senior Citizen's nature walk" and "Small Business owner social group". Finding a D&D group? Much more difficult and you'd better be prepared to drive long distances? Makerspace/hackerspace? non-existent. Your favorite musician is generally going to stop in the big cities and you're going to have to drive to get there.

If you're a foodie then your choices are going to be restricted to fast-food, a few traditional local places and maybe one or two Chinese restaurants. Food trends might reach you a year or two after your friends in the city. And hopefully the only Pho place within an hour drive will be decent. Museums will be small and limited and sporting events will be limited to the local recreational/high school teams.

Buying things will be more difficult. Your amazon packages will take longer to there. Socially, you're much more limited. The dating scene is much more difficult (which goes 10x if you're not straight). And the existing social groups can be insular and difficult to break into.

That's not to say that it's all bad. Such places can be incredible if you tend to be more introverted and love the outdoors.

Overall it strikes me as an "the green is always greener" situation. I think that, at best, most people will try it out for a year or two and realize that they miss trivia night at the bar/concerts/sporting events/parties and move back.
> There are a lot of friends and family I have in Italy that I can't see often, and I do enjoy hearing what they're up to.

In the old days we had to actively do that using letters, or emails, or phone calls. I think it was a better system because it forced you to choose who you cared enough about to stay up-to-date with. Minimalism isn't just about things, it's also about relationships.
>But then what about other commenters saying that this is exactly what their sectors of the company do?

i don't see anybody claiming that amazon is harvesting data from inside their customer's infrastructure. amazon has a lot of data that's "amazon's data" that would tell them about businesses that are operating on AWS that might be ripe for competition.

For example, they know what your AWS bill is, and how it's been trending. If you pay a huge bandwidth bill and it goes up 50% each month, they know you've got a business model that's working and that they can undercut you on one of your big expenses.
It's what they expect, and it's what they'll now expect from every object or object'ish value in JS :)
This is called a residuals clause, and it’s increasingly common. Be really careful looking for these - I won’t sign a vague/broad one, unless I am out of options. (e.g., acquisition or fail)
I have no clue as to why Russia insists upon playing the neighborhood punk in international politics. I mean to what end?

They’ve got massive problems internally, most of their armed forces run on vapors, are they hoping to sell this to the highest bidder? Just a few last chest thumps before they become less relevant?
They still have some good lead in some highly technical areas like weapons and rocketry and ancillary technology, but most everything else is being wasted and no one seems to care there. It’s a slow degradation. So much potential just wasted.

They could work with Europe, even the US, if they just reset the way they play. Play your part—you’re not the old USSR any more.
I worked for a gaming startup that had Amazon do this to them. Pretty scummy.
one might argue that a long time has passed and the world, the industry and the market are all very different, though.
Indeed, as a startup you do typically have a speed advantage!
I was in the same boat as OP a few years back at an old grimy tech megacorp. I worked my ass off, and couldn't make any progress because of terrible tools, terrible teammates, terrible process. It was a fucking nightmare.*

If that'd been my first tech job, I might have just ragequit the whole industry.

Fortunately, I'd already been around the block a couple of times, so I knew that I just had a particularly bad team at a mediocre company. I hopped ship, and everything was great at the next company.

*A bad job:

My teammates were annoyed any time I asked them any questions. "Just read the code! It's in the code!" Yeah, OK, I'll spend 8 hours digging through this fucking code when you could have spent 10 minutes explaining it. I think this is probably the worst thing for productivity I've come across in my career. Any time someone asks you for help at work, DROP EVERYTHING AND FUCKING HELP THEM. Teach them how to fish, too, don't just walk them through things. Show them where you're finding documentation, show them the local equivalent of a man page, introduce them to the people with the tribal knowledge. If they spent an honest 10 minutes trying to figure something out on their own, it's part of your job to go help them out.

I'd fix a bug, then have to go to meeting after meeting after meeting to try and get permission to check in my fix. It'd often be either rejected, or I'd have to redo the same handful of lines of code a dozen times before I could get it in.

I'd have to set up some internally-developed test infrastructure, but it was a 40 step procedure to get the tool running and if any one of those steps went wrong, you'd have to go back to the start and start over. Nobody who was familiar with it was willing to walk me through it, so it took an incredible amount of willpower to force myself to get that shit set up.

There was another team working on the exact same thing as my team in another org, but we weren't "tented" (AKA: "disclosed") on each other's super secret projects, so we weren't allowed to work together at all or share any information. My team hated the other team, and they in turn hated our team. (I knew this because I had a close personal friend on the other team)

The development environment was almost completely paralyzed by company-wide bugs. The company was sharing a single insanely gigantic codebase across thousand and thousands of engineers, and there'd be month+ long stretches where the build and tools were broken. Since things were broken so long, people would check in new build breaks without realizing it, and it ended up in a vicious circle of badness.

And of course, the product we were building was a useless piece of crap that everybody hated.
Thank you! It's just acrylics: https://imgur.com/a/dByhxV9 One of the reasons I did this project was to try out my new axidraw pen plotter so I drew the lines on an iPad and had my plotter draw it on the sides for me: https://imgur.com/a/FKcGV2g . Definitely unnecessary though and could have just been done by hand, but was fun.
In that case twitter is way more toxic than FB.
You will not find a 4BR New Hampshire house by a lake at that price. You will not find any lakeside property for $200k unless it is a shack. I know, I was just up north in Coos County to do boating stuff and was checking prices. My 3BR in Northern NH is valued at $320k. We are near multiple boat launches and a sizable lake, but it wouldn't be considered a lake property.
maps.me has saved me many times in places with zero connectivity. I can also import my planned adventures as kml files to be sure I'm on track.
Yep. They call it out.

"ARM is so widespread that buying it will be a regulatory nightmare, and even the most lenient rubber-stamp regulators around the world must shudder at the idea of an existing ARM licensee buying ARM. "

Practically all of Apple's product line will be powered by ARM in the near future. Buying ARM would put them at a huge advantage while heavily influencing the chip IP of competitors. I can't imagine regulators in the US and EU not raising an eyebrow at this.
That completely depends on the amount of items you plan on adding to the queue. I’ve used the primary DB as a queue often over the last 10 years for things like sending notifications.

Sure there’s a point where this doesn’t make sense, but for the majority of cases there are ways to mitigate the positive reinforcement loop you’re taking about.

The easiest is to limit the number of workers to some number that won’t impact DB performance if they are running full tilt. You can even use an enum on existing records to determine the background job status if you have few enough rows (we do this for a table with a few hundred thousand job applicants).

I’ve found that in most cases we want a record that the background job was performed, so we were often updating the database anyway when a job was complete.

Sure if you are firing off so many events that PG can’t keep up with writing them, then PG isn’t a good option.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23926084
Job: Senior Software Engineer for Anti-Harassment Tools at Wikimedia Foundation
Understand the argument- it's language vs ecosystem- but Clojure leverages the JVM ecosystem in a first class manner. Spring is very productive, to be sure, but I still find that in terms of LOC, Clojure requires less for simple cases, and much less for hard cases, and Clojure practices- like REPL-driven development- themselves are more productive/faster iteration.
Good luck if yoy think that anyone can become a virtuoso on the guitar. I believe you do not really understand what this expression means. And on the singing thing, it's just like playing an instrument, you are born with a baseline hardware (your pipes) and software (your ears). It's a little bit more limited, in terms of how much you can improve from this starting point, than with an instrument, but you can for sure get better through practice.
Not just pipelines, but roads, foundations of buildings, storage tanks, and so on. And don't forget that oil prices are low and will get lower as the world transitions to renewable energy, so there is no money to pay for fixing all this.

Putin bet the economy on fossil fuel extraction, and as a consequence Russia is basically screwed over the long run.
> so in may it was 0.4 and now its 0.65 is worse but still very low. the number is of course evolving but unlikely to widely different than that.

As I said before, that's a difference in a million potential deaths in the United States.

> What bad facts ?

You presented the death rate of the whole of the united states as being somehow indicative of the situation, when you were aware that that's an order of magnitude decrease from the projections for the United States. In addition you presented that 0.04% as somehow in agreement with the estimates " Inline with what has been estimated by most research publication."
Rails was always great, JS just paid a lot more...

It felt great to get back into it having people pay to migrate their Rails apps to React and Node.
I assume the "forced to license to third parties" part applies in the case of the Zilog Z80?

But re: patents, in the case of Cyrix:

> Focused on removing potential competitors, Intel spent many years in legal battles with Cyrix, consuming Cyrix financial resources, claiming that the Cyrix 486 violated Intel's patents, when in reality the design was proven independent.

[And this is despite Cyrix having white-box reverse-engineered Intel's chips to figure out how to be software- and socket-compatible with them! That seemingly didn't matter, as long as in the end the design they actually put in their own chip wasn't encumbered by Intel's patents.]

> Intel lost the Cyrix case, which included multiple lawsuits in both federal and state courts in Texas. Some of the matters were settled out-of-court and some of the matters were settled by the court. In the end after all appeals, the courts ruled that Cyrix had the right to produce their own x86 designs in any foundry that held an Intel license. Cyrix was found to never have infringed any patent held by Intel.

With that case-law in place, it sounds like anyone demanding that third-parties license their ISA these days is effectively bluffing.
For the read part I think this something what GraalVM already does https://www.graalvm.org/docs/reference-manual/polyglot/