skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok, but that's not at all the same as

> ask directly about breaking up or regulating Big Tech, which is very popular.

If this is what they were referring to then it seems intentionally misleading in the context of criticizing the outcome of poll results based on the details of the question's construction.
Ian Hutchinson: Nuclear Fusion, Plasma Physics, and Religion
Why the brain never processes the same input in the same way
Sliders are for the audio.
To me it doesn't seem like we are going back and forth. Rather that we are moving forward in a zig-zag pattern. One win is cultural.

In XML-world, you felt this shame when you weren't use schema. You didn't have to, but you really ought to kind of deal. Now it's instead "hey there are schemas if you want that tool". To me that's progress.
If Stadia were just a monthly subscription and you could play all the games, it wouldn't be hard to swallow because they just stop charging you when the service goes down and you got your value out of it while you had it.

It's the "purchasing" of the digital good that's the problem because you loose access to something that you think you "own" when in fact it's more of a lease.
war story:

worked in at least 2 different shops with the same restriction: "developers can never touch production database".

actually, it's been that way in most places large enough to have enough staff to separate things out. however, in most of those places, a dev or two would still have access to use, whether for emergencies or debugging or whatnot.

In 2 places, there was an enforced rule, where the DBA (in both cases, one and only one person) had the sole password/credentials for production. "Devs can't ever be on production, they could write random SQL - everything has to be tested". The person who said this would routinely write his own sprocs on the DB - on production only - without tests. he acted as a support person for the owners - he'd just write sprocs and custom query on production only for any reports or data updates owners and upper mgt wanted. But... those sprocs were never documented, tested, or pushed back to dev, so we never knew what was running there. If we asked for a new table, or new index, or whatever, that might cause some trouble for his hidden/untested code, we'd get blanket denials. "that causes a performance bottleneck - won't do".

The "complain about the DBAs" issue is real, but is just symptomatic of bad culture all around. It's just as bad to have any cowboy running rampant without any visibility in to what they're doing. But sometimes (often?) DBA folks seem to escape this scrutiny (perhaps just at smaller shops?)
There is also Julia, which JITs very performant code.
Great, get me some samples from the bottom of Valles Marineris, preferably from the dry river beds.
The real issue is the circumvention of the first sale doctrine. Before the download era, licenses were mostly attached to physical media that could be given, resold, or loaned out. By eliminating the physical artifact, modern content companies are exploiting a loophole in consumers’ traditional resale rights.
Thanks for this great play on words :)
"It's uniquely online processors that do not refund fees"

Uniquely those that provide some higher level thing, like PayPal or Stripe. If you have a merchant account, you can get an actual refund for online purchases.
That a regulation which promotes competition could be made has not been definitively ruled out, but it has yet to be demonstrated. Clearly despite a regulation being well reasoned and good intentioned, it may nevertheless produce the opposite effect. Identifying the issues with such a regulation prior to its passage may be quite difficult, even before we consider the financial incentive to deliberately craft and promote a deceptive regulation. On top of this, there is still the fact that regulations can not accurately anticipate future innovation and thus it is purely left to chance that a regulation which promotes competition right now will continue to do so in the future.

If we had a history of strong independent regulatory bodies who consistently updated regulations as new data emerged and dropped regulations which were found to do more harm than good, I might agree that we should strive for those hypothetical good regulations, but alas we can be quite confident that a regulation which stifles competition (whether intentionally or not) will stay on the books for years if not decades. I'd love to be convinced otherwise but I see no reason to believe regulating innovative industries like tech is likely to be a good idea.
This looks pretty great, though the SaaS model is an absolute non-starter for my own usage unfortunately. We've been pretty prolific users of Explosion AI's (Makers of SpaCy) Prodigy [1] and actually the interfaces look very similar. What would you say the core differences are between Humanloop and Prodigy?

1: https://prodi.gy/
GPT3: All Your Questions Answered
Making content is a good way to be successfully passive for some time, but unless it is timeless, I think we still need to earn our reputation as contentpreneurs by creating again and again.
https://archive.is/jm0qr
"In 2006, Congress passed a law that imposed extraordinary costs on the U.S. Postal Service. The Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act (PAEA) required the USPS to create a $72 billion fund to pay for the cost of its post-retirement health care costs, 75 years into the future. This burden applies to no other federal agency or private corporation."

This is the anchor that is killing the post office.
then it will because they don't feel like it, the same way that the US does not really want to take over Canada.
Having humans on Mars means we can find the best sample rocks in a tiny fraction of the time, and test them right there.
It seems that it'S samples as seen from the credits at the bottom : https://pluvoir.netlify.app/credits.html
"I feel like their only hope would be if America deployed troops to HK and kept the city fed via air supply like with Berlin."

I think positioning 100,000 American troops would deter the CCP. Given the New Territories is connected to the mainland, I would position them all on Hong Kong Island to defend against any potential naval invasion.

When the invasion occurs, America would then mobilize its naval assets closer to Hong Kong and bombard any amphibious landings.

Given America's naval superiority, China would not want to engage in a decisive naval battle.
I can see it being helpful for random domains one might forget. For large websites, like reddit, searching within that site is usually pretty accurate (for me).
Perhaps the refund-rate is higher on $100 apps than $1 ones? If you find out your kid made an unauthorized purchase of $2 you're not likely to refund it, if its $100 you definitely will.
This is essentially identical to the procedure I did 15 years ago. What's the issue?
It doesn't exactly roll trippingly off the tongue, does it?
Show HN: NovelPad, an online editor for writing novels
Neuromorphic chips and electronic skin to give robots sense of touch
I wonder if this type information can be used by the vm to improve performance?
In theory, yes. In practice, many people hate certain privacy-related aspects of Chrome, so someone created an ungoogled version. You'd think it would become an instant hit, right? Wrong: most people on HN commented they would never install a browser built by a random person. It's paradoxical but this is how things are. You'd need to have a very particular position in order to be successful as a fork (e.g. MariaDB, LibreOffice). Most forks just die out as not even their creator uses them.
It's really sad how youtube is becoming a selective news service where it's always doom and gloom and impending fear and anxieties.

That's why I just use it for music.
Definitely not the first, I see that the first release of SQLite was 2000, and I found these railroad diagrams in old Pascal programming books of my father.
Even if the public cares and is able to restrict government surveillance, how will we stop private surveillance?

For a couple hundred dollars I can install a computer-vision enabled camera that tracks and logs the face of everyone that passes, the clothes you are wearing and each car that passes. Security systems like Verkada already do this, and it is perfectly legal for companies to install these overlooking busy streets and public areas.

This tech will only get cheaper, smaller, and harder to notice. It's ridiculous to think that mass surveillance will be beaten.
nobody is openly opressing anybody

the keyword is "openly"...
Did anyone? I've read there were less than 1k units sold.
How to Survive the Chaos of Working at Home
> Such mobility is not as common in Germany or Italy, for example (I keep bringing up Germany because I lived there for 4 years). In Germany you tend to get boxed into your career fairly early and after that you kind of just coast to the end of your life.

I'm sorry to say it, but the actual data disagrees with you.

> You don't see aggressive job switching to try to get the highest salary and you don't see 40 year old Germans deciding they want to go to dental school like you do in America (for example). In Germany your future career is pretty much set by your mid-20s depending on how you did in school/exams.

You only see those things in already upper-middle or upper class environments in the US. An amazon warehouse worker doesn't aggressively switch jobs to maximize salary. They suffer in a shitty job because they need to to survive.

If you ignore the existence of the least economically mobile when discussing class mobility, of course you'll see greater than average class mobility. There are more working and lower class people in the US than upper-middle class people, and those people have less mobility than their European counterparts, and data on social and economic mobility backs this up. Stop wearing rose-colored glasses and looking only at the social mobility of your peers. Look at everyone, and look at data.

> Sure you do - there is an entire generation of middle class people in America who started off lower middle class in the 80s and retired millionaires in the 2010s thanks to investments, promotions, increased education, real estate, etc.

I don't think that's true. There are some, perhaps, but what you're claiming is that there's an entire generation of blue and pink-collar workers who retired with six-figure incomes. That's not true.
I'll personally be impressed if humanity as a whole makes it to the 22nd century with global warming and current geopolitical tensions.
Is this a joke post? Boeing has the greatest pool of experienced space engineers on the planet, all funded by 70 years of government projects.
>> The american government isn't using the data to openly oppress entire groups of people though.

> Didn't the US have that entire thing with PRISM/the NSA?

You can possess a gun, you can use that gun to kill someone in self defense, or you can use the gun to kill some innocent person. All those things are very different in important ways, even though they involve guns. It's true that US has surveillance and propaganda capabilities, but just noting that doesn't show equivalence to China in the areas that really matter.
I understand your point of view, and I know that it may be risky to create long form videos like these in such a niche, but here are my 2 main reasons for doing it:

- The youtube channel Marketing Mania talks about these kind of issues, and it is the most popular business channel in France with 350k subs, and he also has the most successful french business podcast.

- It's also fun to me :)
PHP has a JIT coming in 8.0, using the same underlying tech that LuaJit does. Unfortunately, most of what people do with PHP isn't CPU bound, so it doesn't help much.
> still not there

And never will be.
Hackers Broke into Real News Sites to Plant Fake Stories
It wasn't our goverment. Allende won by parlamentary tricks (not by popular vote) and had very poor support during the entirety of his govement.
As far as I know, they were originally introduced by Niklaus Wirth to describe Pascal's syntax. See the last pages in this manual from 1973: https://www.research-collection.ethz.ch/bitstream/handle/20....
Hey all! I've been working on this for the past 6 months, after many years of being a wantrepreneur. This is the first time I've launched a product and taken payments. Would love to hear any feedback or questions on any aspect of the site, product, etc.
Crystal is pretty unstable at the moment (in that it changes often). I have a very small project in crystal (discord bot with only a couple of commands that CRUDs a database). Every time I deploy to heroku, if heroku updated crystal, the bot breaks. I have to spend an hour determining what broke. The language changes so often that either I update with heroku or I can't use any newer libraries for development.

And then you get stuck in very opaque error loops with the typing where it's expecting eg. a Number. no, not that number, a different type of number. no, not that type either. no, not that type. Most the code i've written has been typecasting.

Crystal does have some significant benefits over Ruby (which is why i'm using it - better memory use, better for scaling for my purpose) but I just spent time rewriting the non-user facing, non-scaling part of the bot in Ruby so I could actually get stuff done instead of fighting the language.

Of course a lot of this might be my inexperience with Crystal, but as a Ruby dev for 13 years, it's not as easy as just switching over from Ruby to Crystal. I've had this bot running 4 years and it hasn't got any easier for me.
The authors are literally choosing profit over the best interests of their customers and yet somehow this isn't their fault?

I'd also like to blame Amazon for the weather, but alas...
The Venture Capital Flowchart
Find, Decide, Win, Help, Exit - the five different pieces of the role of a venture capitalist.
How to STOP everything being so critical and urgent
At some point in a Product Engineering team you will be tired of every bug or issue being urgent and critical. This usually happens after dealing with several problems informed by late night Slack messages. At this point nobody really knows which issue is an urgent incident, which is worth waiting to the next morning and which isn’t even something worth solving. All this is harmful for the team’s culture and for the business itself. When everything becomes urgent, nothing is urgent and nobody cares anymore.
Testing OmniSci on web analytics workload
So you're saying that companies who have to compete charge less whereas companies with a dominant market position can extract monopoly rents because they lack competition? But people keep telling me that isn't the case for Apple. Shouldn't they be doing the same thing to try to get store market share from Google?
https://sorbet.org/docs/faq#when-ruby-3-gets-types-what-will...
Bridging the Gap Between Fully-Connected and Convolutional Nets
One of the backend data center is Alibaba cloud on Singapore.
I haven't heard of anyone reverse engineering common schemas / parameters from existing APIs (I doubt the commonalities are really there) but there are projects like this one [0] which express schema.org types as JSON Schema objects suitable for use in OpenAPI.

[0] https://github.com/tandfgroup/schema-oas
I used blender since the beginning. It makes me so happy to see it evolve over the years, first to open source then to a widely supported project.

Donating my meager highschool pocket money to help buy the source code ended up being the most impactful thing I've done in life so far.
Instructions, scripts and log can be found here: https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/tree/master/benchma...
Please don't post unsubstantive comments and please don't take HN threads on generic ideological tangents. These are repetitive, therefore uninteresting, and usually turn nasty.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Sure. If valuations continue to go up forever, at some point they're over valued. The point was that those predictions have been silly in retrospect.

DHH had a widely shared post where he said FB wasn't worth $33B+ and it could never be. He was clearly wrong (off by an order of magnitude). Eventually there will be some overvalued companies (WeWork before the valuation plummeted might be a good example). But given how many bear predictions have turned out to be really wrong, it's good to be skeptical of similar arguments going forward (they won't always been wrong, but some have been spectacularly wrong).
So they managed to kill Google Reader twice?
Seems to have been fixed.
Follow-up: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23990844
How Notion.so was able to succeed in a saturated market
Optimising your GitHub projects to get hired
> maybe Japan

I suspect Japan's stance (and Australia) is more about U.S. alignment. Being in the pacific the situation is more precarious.
Bezos' ex-wife: Wealth a result of 'collective effort' and 'social structures'
A small suggestion to the website owner:

The "What is whiteboarding" section has a longer and better argument against whiteboarding than the "Why is whiteboarding bad?" section.

It might be of benefit to have more than a 2-sentence argument against whiteboarding on a website designed to rid the world of whiteboarding interviews. Rather than simply referring people to "additional resources", why not include some of the most pertinent points (sourced, of course) directly under the "Why whiteboarding is bad" section?

Of course, I wholly agree with the sentiment of the website. However, I feel like it could be much more persuasive.
My business idea inspired by your comment:

1. Users of site request and upvote requests for individual memoirs, and comment with their questions and prompts, which are also upvoted. Similar to an AMA. Upvotes are purchased with preorder deposits, and if the subject accepts, the funds will be transferred from users to site. Similar to Kickstarter.

2. Subject sees that their name is high up and accepts the memoir invitation. A tool allows them to select the questions and prompts they want to use.

3. An app plays the prompts using text to speech and records the conversation with the subject, performing a live transcription.

4. The transcript is sent to an editor, who fixes any transcription mistakes and adds some organization so the book has some sense of flow. Using a transcript and audio combination editor, the interview audio is recut to match the text.

5. The edited transcript is sent through a template and sent to Amazon's publishing service. Audio goes through similar process for corresponding audio book. Preordered copies are delivered to the users that upvoted the subject. Revenue is split between site and subject. If successful, subject releases a sequel written in a more traditional way and offers it to the same users.
And Falcon 9 is nearing its 100th flight, and has made first stage recovery normal, and a Starship prototype has already flown with the new engine. Based on SpaceX typical cadence, full Starship prototypes will fly this year and achieve orbit next year. That’s three years to work out the kinks for the first Mars attempts.
Normally if management approves this kind of spending, they have to be convinced. You need to properly justify your proposal: what kind of competitive advantage this would give us and so on. Companies don't spend money just to "have some influence". They want to have this influence for their advantage. And unfortunately Microsoft has a very long history of misusing this advantage.
And let’s not forget HHVM. That was (is?) quite the beast.
And it's not even true. At least here in Europe (I can't comment on the US as I've never visited), Google Maps is really poor.

It's fine when you travel by car, but when I'm hiking through the hills I'm just walking through an empty square on Google Maps. Volunteer-driven OpenStreetMap is MUCH better. And there the data is actually open and safeguarded.

Governments should support that kind of project instead of corporate privacy-invading playtoys like Google Maps.
Percona Kubernetes Operators for Xtradb Cluster and Percona Server for MongoDB
Who was that AI guy NY times did article about?
I do remember reading about some weird guy that no one understands but he is a AI researcher
Woodstock, a Logistics Miracle
How much taxes do they pay? 50%+ of their income?
I think that Julia uses the LLVM JIT. When I used it last, Julia was somewhat prone to long startup delays since it would fully compile functions on first execution.

That can work great for long running applications such as its main niche of scientific computing but would be terrible for JS since you want the page to be interactive ASAP.

This is why talking about JIT performance is so complicated. Not only do you need to worry about compilation speed and speed of the generated code, you also have to worry about a lot about impact on memory and impact on concurrently running code. Plus most JITs also need to have some sort of profiling system running all the time as part of those constraints to only spend compilation resources on hot paths.
One more dynamic to factor in: the tree canopy will also block long-wave radiation emitted from the ground, which will increase urban temperatures.
Google search quality has been in freefall for a while and I'm never sure if the "Verbatim" button will still exist on my next search. I have zero faith in the repeatability of a Google search, especially with a delta of months.

Also my memory is perfect, I can't remember anything I have forgotten.
Against Literary Darwinism (2011) [pdf]
- Bytedance's global TikTok app is based out of datacenters in Singapore.

- Bytedance's Chinese Toutiao app is based out of datacenters in China.

Bytedance itself is a Cayman company, so in regards to the Chinese National Intelligence law, TikTok technically isn't required to share data with China nor am I aware of any evidence that they actually do (despite the memes).
With what advantage? Performance per Watt? Probably not anything software based they currently offer.
> And i dont care what you personal believe of a Kernel is.

> https://www.freertos.org/a00020.html

That's literally the documentation for what you can directly link against the kernel as a driver writer. That link if anything proves that it's not a microkernel. (By the way, you're talking to someone who's written a few FreeRTOS BSPs).

> Like Debian right? The Kernel's are (where) Hurd, Linux and, kFreeBSD

So wait, is Genode like Debian or not? You were fighting that just a comment ago.
Materialized views are also nice for many modern DW applications where you don't live in legacy "once in a hour/day/week" ELT/ETL environment, but more in a real timeish or micro batch world. You can have data marts / reporting tables composed with these materialized views over many kinds of underlying DW models. Just dropping this to promote the Materialized View functionality :)
A big workflow in modern Photoshop is stuff like Layer Styles (non-destructive image editing). GIMP has no equivalent to that (most of its filters are still destructive, despite the 10+ year project to switch to GEGL).

There's plenty of other weird awkward UI and mental model decisions (e.g. GIMP makes the user select the width and height of each layer up-front, when Photoshop just assumes an infinite canvas and computes an AABB for each layer, leading).

A good portion of the work I do in Photoshop is vector editing (e.g. any real composition has dozens of shapes and even purely pixel work is going to use a lot of vector masks), GIMP lacks any vector tools and the team has been opposed to adding it, because it thinks Inkscape is better suited to vector art. Which, I mean sure, but it misses the point! Vector masks are incredibly valuable for compositing work, and we shouldn't have to switch between two radically different apps to have a usable workflow.
.rb is a ruby file, so it's more what the s stands for