skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Are you saying that you're literally just buying the locked down hardware and any software services running in the cloud are not included in the purchase?

Legally (in every jurisdiction I’m aware of) yes.

If they misled the buyers with false advertising or committed fraud along the way that would be an issue but again... not a first sale issue.
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Covering indexes are a really careful thing to investigate, sometimes you'll get big wins out of it but often times those indexes can easily be misaligned with really minor application changes so it's something I tend to approach in very limited situations.

Vacuum & Analyze are two fun ones and I think postgres in particular would do well by investing a bit more into the default configuration of autovacuum since the out of the box settings are pretty conservative compared to the state most out of the box DBs are used - but I think that DB configuration is very much an unsolved problem in general and can be a quite surprising source of major performance gains (or losses!).

I mentioned mat views elsewhere - but if you are really hitting quite predictable usage patterns (where covering indexes are stable enough) then some well defined mat views might go a long way to tuning performance that little bit more - just be aware of the fact that rematerialization isn't instantaneous and if you have a high rate of change in the data then you'll probably want time based re-materialization instead of trigger based which means you'll need to account for some inconsistent data (as is the case with caching in general).
Maybe we should be teaching kids to read the phonetic alphabet before we teach them the english alphabet.
Just saying deep learning still is mostly a marketing fad...
Ignorance of the law is no excuse. Almost all engineers should at least know that doing so is wrong. And this guy was an executive, not just an engineer.
or the Taxi commission in NYC, perhaps?
Pretty much everything you buy on Amazon can be bought elsewhere. It might be inconvenient to shop elsewhere but the option is there. Of the big tech companies they are probably the easiest to avoid.

Practically everyone will have an Apple/Google phone. You can de-Googlfy or de-Applfy but you can't do both.

Facebook, yeah you don't need it. But if you want to see pictures of your nephew and that's where they're posted you don't have much choice.

Microsoft you can get away from but pretty much anyone buying a computer has to pay the MS tax (or the Apple tax). Hard to avoid Office, LinkedIn, or GitHub at work as well.
This is the exact dilemma described in "High Output Management." Corporate organization is the art of deciding what to centralize and what to decentralize.
That would honestly be a huge upside to this approach. We've already extracted most of the easily accessible energy resources, so if our society fails, the next one will have a much harder time moving from agrarian to industrial.
Any idea why they do not simply publish safer cryptographic control sums for these downloads ?
That's... not what happened. LF was formed by merging the FSG and OSDL. Only then did the combined entity have sufficient funding to hire Linus.
The prompt is essentially fine-tuning with extra steps
You can also more easily generate schemas, or generate things from schemas, if they're in JSON.

Sure, you can still do these things when schemas are a non-JSON format, but it increases the barrier of entry to writing tooling on top of schemas.
From the first link:
" It was only in 2006, with the publication of a landmark paper in the European Journal of Physics C, that neutron-induced transmutations, as something distinct from cold fusion, began to emerge as a viable theory. The paper predicts that electrons on a metal surface coated with hydrogen, deuterium, or tritium atoms can behave collectively (as Einstein had predicted) when driven by an oscillating electromagnetic field at a particular frequency. This collective behavior can give them enough energy to combine with the hydrogen, deuterium, or tritium to make neutrons.

The paper goes on to say that the resulting neutrons travel very slowly, slow enough, in fact, to get gobbled up by a nearby atom before they can even leave the microscopic vicinity of their birthplace. The atom then becomes unstable and might burp out radioactive decay byproducts like a gamma ray or energetic electron. A separate paper by the same authors calculates that microscopic surfaces of electrodes, like those that tend to produce low-energy neutrons, are efficient absorbers of radioactive gamma rays. So radioactive decay can be transformed into a bath of innocuous heat. And of course heat energy can readily be converted into electricity."
github link, please? :)
To be fair, the c5d.9xlarge instances are $1.728 each per hour, or $5.18 for the 3-server cluster (looks to be about $3.06/hr for reserved 1-year pricing). Even with reserved pricing, that's $26,806 a year, or 6.5X more than a $4K laptop that likely will last for years and would be bought anyway (or at least a cheaper variant, which would also run these queries nearly as quickly). Of course that's very apples-to-oranges, so another way to look at this is that OmniSci would probably see significantly better performance on a single c5d.9xlarge than what we saw on this Mac (would need to benchmark, but informally I can say that OmniSci was 2-3X faster running on CPU on my Linux workstation compared to my Mac).

Disclaimer: No disrespect to ClickHouse here, it's an amazing system that I'm sure beats out OmniSci for certain workflows.
I read a while ago that in communist society there is usually a shortage of everything including labor (that also why females were encouraged to work soon after giving birth)
It’s hard to comment on this charitably, but why did anyone think this was ever a good idea, and why resist fixing it? I believe you’re correct though, it was ultimately fixed.
>a few days later I see that Amazon is selling that same book and even redirect customer clicks from my page description and book cover to their line item to buy.

Can you expand on this? I'm not sure what you mean exactly. Is Amazon redirecting direct links to your free book to a non-free version?
This is also why you should NOT attempt to dissolve drugs into drinks if you're caught with them... because they can use the liquid weight of the drink as your charged amount.
Why no love for Bezos? All the questions seem directed at Zuck and Sundar.
Sure, but they are allowed to implement any technical measures they want to block third-party software distribution. If you can hack it to make it work Apple can't sue you but they can definitely make it harder and don't have to help or support you.
Yeah, Blender make it super clear in the link you provided ( https://fund.blender.org/corporate-memberships/ ). Pay 30K euros per year, and a Blender dev will work on the features you want for 6 months per year. This is way cheaper than Microsoft forking Blender, and paying their own fulltime devs ~$200K USD/year to work on the fork. Plus the Blender devs know the software really well, and are going to be far more productive, don’t need a Microsoft dev manager, etc. No conspiracy theory needed, this is just a cost effective way to get the features you need added to Blender.
Where does the meme come from about AMD being ahead on microarchitecture? Head-to-head single-threaded benchmarks are mixed results for Rome vs Skylake and its descendants, which seems to indicate that Intel had a microarchitecture comparable to AMD's, but years ago.
> In all fairness, JSON itself continues to be as simple a format as it ever was. Having schemas is an important adjuct because it frees devs up from constantly translating specs into ad-hoc validation routines that all too often miss something or make mistakes. Validation up front saves a tremendous amount of pain dealing with a key error deep in a call stack when the moment a config file was read its omissions or mistakes could have been identified.

I agree. JSON is overall better than XML for most things. It's simple and universal. This simplicity translates to the new incarnations of some good ideas that people were trying to implement on top of XML, like schemas. They are not mandatory, but useful in certain domains. Simpler format means that these things can also become simpler. So eventually we may do them right. It's a process of evolution.

> Moreover, and on a related note, in many ways, JSON is great as an exchange format, but stifling as a config language. There is a lot if room between JSON and XML to work with.

Also agree. There is also a tiny bit of room below JSON and above unstructured text that can fit a universal syntax on top of which other formats can be built, including ones for configuration. A modular one. Where you can have different formats that share the same underlying syntactical structure and as much idioms within that as reasonable.

And here comes the pitch: this is what I'm trying to introduce. A simple universal syntax. It is still somewhat undercooked (less the syntax which is minimal and stable but more its description and formats on top of it), but might be interesting for certain people. The thing is called TAO and it has a website here: https://www.tree-annotation.org/

I hope somebody will find this inspiring at least.

If so, here is a thread on HN for discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23966667
I would really love to see the links collected or curated by certain people I follow on Twitter.
What seems to be suggested as bigger point for then and now, is not the fact there are these types of characters ready to lie at every turn to further advance their own selfish agenda - they always will exist - but that us as individuals, citizens and journalists often fail to call them early for their deceptions.
I'm not sure how you get from your quotes to your own post.

My reading of it was, "Due to the fact that their offerings to the public are free, antitrust law, whose jurisprudence has for decades held that consumer prices are the sole useful measure of whether a company is anticompetitive, has largely ignored internet giants. Do you think that this should change, ensuring that they receive the same level of antitrust scrutiny as companies that drive out their competitors and then jack up prices?"

Now, I don't know if that's what everyone taking the poll would have gotten out of the given wording, but when I see the mention of "free services" in the context of internet giants and antitrust law, that's where my mind goes.

It's...not at all an obvious "yes" (unless, like me, you're extremely far left of the average American), so I'm not sure where you're getting a "gun to the head" feel.
That is not true, at least not for Germany in 95.
Stripe started doing this as well, as of a few months ago. Makes it tougher to be generous with refunds for people, knowing that we literally lose money doing so.

Fortunately their cut isn’t the massive 30% that Apple takes.
How does this interact with method_missing, the soul of rails? Obviously much of the rails api is defined dynamically, not statically. I could see runtime checks having some value but I’m not sure how an IDE could take advantage of this, period. I’d imagine you’d at least need to generate methods (rather than parse and route messages at runtime) to make this remotely viable.

I’m not super familiar with ruby outside of my work so I’m not sure if this reliance on method_missing is more widespread than rails.
I don't think that breaking up big tech equates to regulation.

I strongly oppose increased regulation because it prevents competition. It's very difficult for new companies to compete in many areas now without an army of lawyers.

We already have laws on the books that should be preventing these anti-competitive mergers if properly enforced.
A really good tutorial with examples to fiddle around and just the right amount of text to understand. Thanks!
The specific example the parent comment used may be flawed, but the main point still stands. Regulation can promote competition (just as it can prevent it).
Now project that five years into the future?
It's not a big if, this is standard practice in the US legal system. They weigh the drug + medium. If you have 1-9 grams, including the paper, minimum first offender sentence is 5 years. With the paper that's only a few doses.
You need to try to see it from the hirer's perspective too.

I don't interview much these days, but I spent several years of my career sifting through CVs and interviewing candidates.

The number of candidates with seemingly impressive CVs and apparent several years of experience, yet whom basically couldn't code, was shockingly high. And when I say "couldn't code", I'm talking "couldn't even fizz-buzz" levels of incompetence.

The fact is that there are many devs out there who coast through jobs, while all the time it's their colleagues who are doing all the work.

I wasted, many, many hours of my life before realising that it was pointless interviewing candidates that couldn't code - asking them to perform a sort of gatekeeper test improved things immensely.

So it might seem insulting to have to perform these entry tests, but unless you already have code publicly available (e.g. on GitHub), you shouldn't take it personally.
"in their most recent results Intel revenue/earnings still dwarfs AMD's."

Very simple explanation: stocks reflect future (expected) performance, not present performance. So the stock market is really just telling you they expect Intel to continue failing.
That sounds interesting:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.02504

"Though still a work in progress, our implementation is able to bootstrap a functional Emacs and compile all lexically scoped Elisp files, including the whole GNU Emacs Lisp Package Archive (ELPA). Native-compiled Elisp shows an increase of performance ranging from 2.3x up to 42x with respect to the equivalent byte-code, measured over a set of small benchmarks. "
Revealing how an algorithm works only provides a false sense of understanding/security. At any time, the algorithm can be modified. Further, mechanisms will be needed to ensure that the published algorithms are actually the deployed algorithms. There is such a thing as lying and deception. It’s naive to believe that billion dollar companies are honest.
That's fair yea - so I think there a few ways this lawyer's statements can be proven to be nonsense.

The numbers in that formulary are mostly unknown so I'd be more comfortable attacking the statement from the angle I outlined above but I agree the numbers clearly don't match what the lawyer is implying.
'member when Google threw away their innovative social network in order to break the "+" boolean search operator?
This post was great - I've been using PostgreSQL for different projects for fifteen years and there were a bunch of neat tricks in here that I haven't seen before. Thanks very much.
Apple is largely an exception in the crowd of ARM SoCs manufacturers, though. A lot of companies just implements ARM cores, with their additional magic in other bits of the SoCs.
The fact that Apple does it does not mean that ARM does not do any design.
Ah, the spirit of open discussion, and not shutting down debate with oblique (cowardly?) accusations of racism. That's what I come here for.
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A: I steal your house. You are now homeless.

B: I steal the blueprints to your house. You still have a house, but you paid for an architect and I didn't.

B still sucks, but almost everyone agrees A is much worse. And that's why if you steal $20m from a bank, the sentence is much worse than if you copy software that a bank spent $20m to develop.
As something of an outsider (being from West Africa), the extent of the panic over TikTok is more than a little amusing to me. I understand how it might be different for an American citizen, but to me much of it frankly sounds like one third party trying to paint another as the devil incarnate over much the same practices. Plus unlike many American data farms masquerading as services, TikTok does actually provide me with a measurably positive experience as a content consumer; a feed that contains fresh, relatively non-gamified content that I actually want to see.

I just treat the platform like I treat the likes of Facebook. Accessed only through the web in a sandbox, etc.
1) ARM sells "ecosystem". They can license their IP because licensees know that, once they buy into it, they benefit from a unified ecosystem. Developing and, more than anything else maintaining an ecosystem, is extremely expensive, messy, and error prone. ARM adds value by keeping that ecosystem in order.

2) ARM instructions have a fixed length of 4 bytes. This means that there's a limited number of instructions you can add. Intel, for instance, is different: they have a very complex encoding scheme that gives them, potentially, limitless encoding space.

3) If any licensee, specially a popular one like Apple, decides to take part of that encoding space for their own instructions... do you see the implications? Now, that space is unavailable to ARM. ARM, the owner and custodian of the ISA, are put in an impossible position: accept those instructions into the ISA (if Apple allows it, because now it's their IP) or lose unity in their ecosystem (fragmentation). In any case, they've lost extremely valuable encoding space and, more importantly, control over their own ISA.

And that's why not only ARM don't allow licensees to implement their own instructions, they will never allow it (generally speaking; they have reserved some encoding space in the M profile for custom instructions, but that's controlled customization in a profile that has fewer instructions to begin with).
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I wonder why nobody uses -C and --strip options of tar. It handles those stuff automatically.

mkdir -p application
tar --strip=1 -C application -xf archive.tar

For example installing NodeJS from archive when composed with curl:

OS=$(uname -s)-x64
VER=12.16.1
curl -#L "https://nodejs.org/dist/v${VER}/node-v${VER}-${OS,,}.tar.gz" \
| sudo tar --strip=1 -xzC /usr/local

IMHO thats probably the reason why most apps are having proprietary installers :)
It's because it was easy to use, and so people adopted it long before realizing just how many features they needed that it doesn't provide (for example, lack of types). "Simplicity" is a double-edged sword because you can't actually eliminate natural complexity; you can only move it around into (hopefully) more convenient / less chaotic forms.

I've been developing https://concise-encoding.org over the past two years with this in mind.
I think Microsoft did a good job with its drivers program. It was solving different (but similar) goals, and the bar was kind of high, but they essentially did a good job with their driver signing system. A web of trust approach is not horrible. You should know the reputation of software publisher before you install an app. App stores do a lot of static analysis and screening, and they yank unsavory apps, but their profit motive is suspect and inevitably biases them towards maintaining that model rather than giving the optimal environment that favors users and publishers.
> He can take on the same risks that society deems appropriate for black kids who had a joint behind their ear.

I spent 10 years incarcerated in TDCJ, and I don't appreciate you spreading falsehoods like this. There are a lot of reasons that people go to prison, and a very small number claim to be innocent (and some are, I just don't know which ones). But I never met anyone who was down for just a joint. Maybe if the joint constituted a violation of probation for aggravated robbery or statutory rape or something like that, but never for just a joint.

Most of you who talk like this don't even know the people that you think are so oppressed. It's no surprise that you complain about imaginary problems while being completely ignorant of the real issues.
Crystal is amazing (we sponsor it at Fly.io), but the sheer amount of stuff that's already built for Ruby makes it hard to switch to another language.

Node has had 10 years and its still not there.
I doubt people believe. It just shows the power imbalance, they lie to the face and no one can do anything about it.
IP infringement is typically a civil offense, not a criminal one. What Lewandowski allegedly did was corporate espionage, which is a crime, and a different and much more serious offense than merely illegal copying someone's IP.
True, but even after narrowing this, you usually end up with 3/4 of these companies in competition.

Messaging? FB vs Apple vs Google

Ads? FB vs Google vs Amazon

Video? FB vs Google (YouTube) vs Amazon (Twitch)

Especially re: Google linking to its own sites, are we now arguing Google has a monopoly over google.com? It gets a bit weird
Yes, that's the claim (which seems supported elsewhere in the thread).

You are probably underestimating the magnitude of the effect, though. A single square of blotter paper weighs on the order of 10 mg; it holds a dose on the order of 50-100 micrograms, about 1% of the paper mass.
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This probably lower incentives for App devs to create refund situations. For example you attempt to get people to download your app by misrepresenting it. Most will not get refunds, and the Dev gains from such behaviour.
We don't know, but AI doesn't.
A lot of us knew the self-driving car industry was bullshit.
Tesla wasn't piling it any higher or deeper than everyone else. Within this iteration of the discipline, there was something approaching consensus (ie all of the loudest voices agree with each other). Outside of that bubble, some of the rest of us had very strong convictions that they were nucking futs.

Some of us know, as sure as we know the sun will rise tomorrow, that AI and fusion are going to arrive within five years of each other. Which is to say, "don't make any life plans around either".

But you have to be a scholar or of a certain age to have a grasp of 1) how many times and with how little evidence we've been promised both and 2) the painfully vivid ways in which this series of events has resembled Charlie Brown and that football. She's lying to you Charlie. She is always lying to you.
Having been myself on grand juries for drug prosecution and subsequently reading more about the process, this is not just a baseless assumption. Including carrier weight is SOP from police+DA for drug charges, and they're not upfront about that fact when talking to the jury. When they say "X grams of Y" what they always mean is "X grams of thing containing Y" which could mean anywhere from X grams of Y to X femtograms of Y in tablets that are mostly chalk. They do this because the legal code isn't specific about measuring active ingredients[see edit] and they are universally incentivized to elevate the charge.

[edit] To clarify, I mean that the law does not say specifically to weigh only the active ingredients. In fact it's the opposite.
Didn't PayPal get a bank license which also caused them to close a lot of accounts that were created decades ago by users that weren't old enough for back accounts back then?
I can give you a quick one: 5nm CPUs in Apple laptops.
You mean CTRL+Z
No evidence wearing face masks creates a false sense of security
I wasn't born in Mexico, but I had a similar experience. There was a fancy magazine shop/bookstore/coffeeshop that sold MacWorld, MacFormat, MacUser, MacAddict, etc. And they were expensive. Everything seems so when you're 10, of course, but I imagine it truly was, if you account for currency exchange, shipping, etc. It sure consumed every christmas, birthday present and dime I could get my hands on at the time.

I learned so much from those magazines: tips and tricks, reviews of products I could never afford, industry analysis. Being featured on a Q&A session was ecstatic.

A few years ago I had coffee and a Cuban cigar at that store when I visited my parents. I heard it went out of business recently.