skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who has spent the last year disentangling a manufacturing supply chain from China — we did, and we also cared about the IP protection concerns in China. These circumstances have us the air cover to move forward with long discussed and to leave China, with little to no impact to our ability to conduct business in the country. Its not a nice reality, but that’s what it is.
Yeah, you’re right...Anybody should be allowed to do anything that they want like on the highway where you’re allowed to just ram your car into other drivers without any consequences.
When your name gets turned against you (2008)
Agree, at this point it seems like that’s the only thing that’s going to save us from a long drawn-out clusterfuck.
Inhumane, unsanitary conditions in California jails spreading Covid
The Feds have picked the lesser of two evils. QE and various monetary policy does increase inequality (of opportunity), but it also propped up some businesses which are employers and prevent an even larger economic collapse.
You're right of course. Duh. Yes, and mid-70s makes a lot more sense for that kind of thing.
Agreed, I think people are underestimating the potential for societal breakdown in the US. The common refrain is that inequality is necessary but not sufficient for a revolution, but that it's also the case that the absolute level of the masses needs to be bad enough that the feeling of "I've got nothing left to lose" sets in.

I think the post-covid housing crisis could be a potential trigger for that. There are going to be a flood of evictions once the moratoriums are lifted. There is already a growing belief that property ownership in the US is "rigged", and once a society has widespread disillusionment with property rights, it's usually downhill from there.
Thevy've already said there will be no Bootcamp, my guess is running Linux on Apple Silicon is as likely as running Linux on an iPad.
Intel's drivers are far more reliable in my experience.
It’s almost as if the city showed that it doesn’t tolerate violence and bend over to mob rule. The protesters got the idea eventually. Feds had to help police get the message across.

[0]. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_windows_theory
I mean bill mitchell does literally believe it. The man is a complete lunatic.

Rona is the #3 cause of death in the US right now.

I question how much of quarantine angst is actually real. In most states it's barely a thing... You stand in line at the grocery store and eat outside at restaurants. That's not a substantive difference. The only real thing is that people haven't been going into an office, which honestly... Harden up, or at least find coping mechanisms that can handle the slightest disruption.

Imo quarantine is exposing a lot of social rot and forcing confrontations with chronic unhealthy behaviors. Work should not be a crutch for your social life, and you should be able to handle being with your children.
Question for people that run websites that have been “hug of death”ed: would your website be able to be statically hosted on something like github pages, if no why not — if yes why do you choose not to, given it is free and would make all scaling troubles go away (or so I’ve heard).
Alliance on Antitrust
The poor “working professionals” that are making more than 90% of households but still consider themselves “middle class”/“working class”.

I know where my household income ranks

https://dqydj.com/household-income-percentile-calculator/

I’m in no way “rich”. But, I am intellectually honest enough not to consider ourselves “middle class” according to statistics.
TikTok’s Chinese owner offers to forego stake to clinch U.S. deal – sources
You can have an address struct, and functions that manipulate it in controlled ways (like always updating the state when the ZIP changes), in every language, whether OOP or not.
On Windows, Alacritty is actually extremely fast compared to anything else I've tried, including windows terminal, powershell and CMD, from startup time to keystroke delay. Unfortunately many of the third party terminals for windows that have normal terminal features are Electron apps and are so slow they're unusable (looking at you Terminus). On Linux I don't see a difference between Alacritty and konsole, terminator, rxvt, etc.
What would happen over time if a specific class of people had an unfair advantage?

I did the math and Bloomberg has ALREADY earned back all the money he spent in the election by literally doing nothing.

- They pay dramatically less taxes. Often zero percent on many transactions and with money hidden overseas or in specifically designed financial instruments for the rich.

- They have connections you don't because they send their children to ivy league schools, the ENTIRE purpose of which is to act as a filter for the rich.

- They own the means of production.

- The working class won't stand up for their rights, won't unionize, and consistently ...

- They can bypass state taxes entirely by lying about where they live.

I've started FOUR companies now. Sold three. I'm NOT a communist. Capitalism is amazing - but it's fundamentally broken.

All the criticisms that US conservatives have previously applied to the Soviet Union now apply to the US.

- The government picks the winners.
- Government and corporations are in bed with one another to the point where we have a centralized control of power.

The BEST reform we could have, and fight for, is adequate taxation. Make the rich pay the SAME % as everyone else. NO tax benefits for corporations for moving to a specific state/city. Uniform state taxation.

The extra money we make from making the rich pay their fair share, without having YOU subsidize them, should go to help ALL Americans pay for health care, education, etc.

If you're a Christian it's what Christ commanded you to do. If you're a good person it's the RIGHT thing to do because it helps your fellow man. If you're a capitalist it's the right thing because it will SAVE capitalism.
First you'd have to convert your 1BN gain of non-cash assets to cash every 2 weeks.
Come on. China’s communist regime killed tens of millions of its own people within living memory. It presently commits egregious human rights abuses against its Uighur Muslim population. It prohibits its citizens from accessing media which might possibly negatively portray The Party. Banning TikTok may be a bad idea and the US certainly has its own troubled history, but this executive order isn’t “hypocrisy” and it certainly doesn’t put the US in the same moral ballpark as China.
I live in Europe and I never understood the in-network and out-of-network concept (I know what it is, I just see it is ripe for abuse).

So I wonder, why hasn't Congress enacted legislation to put a ceiling on out-of-network charges to (say) 2x the median in-network charge?
No, unless and until there is a domestic chinese Luxury Car maker of note. This is the exception which proves the rule. They don't make directly competing products; so these come in. Watch what happens when they do.
I had to work on different projects where raw SQL queries where all over the place. This usually happens when the ORM does not help building very large dynamic queries or the developers just want to go the easy way and write the query in raw SQL rather than learning the ORM-specific way of doing it (I have done this myself a lot, to be honest).

In my opinion, I feel more comfortable tuning a raw SQL query to get better performance than tuning the ORM to work in a very specific way to run the very same query and get the performance benefit. However, for easy selects/updates it's more convenient using the ORM and getting the benefit of serializing the results to a domain entity
This is the sort of mentality I left the *BSD world for. Xorg is not some elegant codebase that's being unfairly targeted by an upstart.
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They should change the name of the app. The kids would figure it out in 10 minutes and reinstall. Trump would take a couple years to sort that one out.
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> Arrive early on the day of your interview and smile a lot (it helps portray confidence, but more importantly helps you stay relaxed and be in control).

I almost liked the 'smiling' advice... But on the second thought, it's very much personality specific. In my opinion, some people appear less convincing when they smile a lot. Also, you need to realize that interview is a meeting of strangers, so the other side is somewhat nervous too, thus allowing yourself to be nervous is ok, no shame.

As always, the best advice is know yourself and be yourself. Managing a pretense requires extra effort, better direct that energy towards the challenges.

Interview requires some luck (there're always factors beyond your control). No matter what the outcome, I'd consider it a success, if I managed to stay true to self and learned something new about people on the other side...or myself.

Btw, 60 interviews in 30 days... Any offers extended/accepted?
> if there is _any cost at all_, which means that _they have some way of billing me_, I have to operate on the assumption that I will at some point get mailed a bill for X thousands of dollars.

At least that particular issue could be avoided by making it a cash transaction.
I'm having a hard time seeing how OOP style data hiding could be effective at controlling PII. Is this a method you've put into practice?
You would need large memory bandwidth and a good set of cache pre-population heuristics (putting it directly on the memory is a way to get the bandwidth).

ML would benefit from both too, as would highly complex graphics and physics simulation. The cache pre-population is probably at odds with low latency graphics.
Fear of deplatforming. Mention that hydroxychloroquine is frequently used outside the US and get kicked off Twitter, FB. Lots and lots of third rails.
If a company apologizes for violating regulations and promises to do better, it usually means they made the minimum changes necessary to signal compliance, not that they suddenly changed their ways and will always do as told from then on...
The history of economic growth is a tale of cleanliness
Well, surely web-only means that it didn't make concessions to work on other targets like UIKit.
They're worth that. It doesn't mean anything until that is converted into cash. So their wealth increase or decrease isn't coming at the expense of everyone else. It is a reflection of the secondary effect of millions of other economic decisions made by others.
That's one way to avoid a US ban.
The proverb is "a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush." It posits a scenario with three birds, one held in the hand, and two free in the bush. We can assume all bird have the same intrinsic value. If each bird has the same intrinsic value, the only way one can be worth more than two is from a subjective perspective. From the perspective of the bird-holder (who is defined to hold one bird), that bird in hand is worth more than the two free birds.

The reason for this is that the bird in hand is certain. The value to the bird-holder of the free birds must be discounted based on some probability that the bird-holder may capture these birds.

The implication is that to go bird-hunting, one requires two hands. In order to attempt to capture the two birds in the bush, one must first relinquish the single held bird. Bird hunting has some probability of failure. If you hunt for the two birds in the bush (by first letting go of the bird you have), you may end the day with no birds to your name, a position that is leaves you worse off than if you had simply held your bird in hand.

In the case of Perl and its userbase, the bird in hand consists of existing users who value stability and portability (per the article). The birds in the bush comprise current Perl non-users. There are more current Perl non-users than users. Pursuing current non-users by means that alienate current users may leave the language with fewer total users if there are simultaneously

1. A low rate of non-user to user conversion

2.And a high rate of user to non-user conversion.

Several references for the proverb, usage, and origins:

https://writingexplained.org/idiom-dictionary/bird-in-the-ha...

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/a_bird_in_the_hand_is_worth_t...

https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/a-bird-in-the-hand.html

https://grammarist.com/proverb/a-bird-in-the-hand-is-worth-t...
why would you do this
> why hasn't Congress enacted legislation to put a ceiling on out-of-network charges

Because they are bought and paid by the same people profiting off the system.
> install it into BIOS and then talk to it via standard interface

Isn't that how it's worked since forever? The graphics card already comes with a driver in a flash ROM chip, the BIOS installs it during boot, and programs can talk to it through the standard INT 10h interface. AFAIK, modern graphics cards also already come with an EFI driver in the same flash ROM chip, which the BIOS installs during boot when in EFI mode, and EFI programs and operating systems can talk to it through standard EFI interfaces.
I build factories that build factories that build solar panels and batteries which would power the factories

With the resulting glut of energy I would do anything

P.S. Mild curiosity: why the downvotes. seems like a solid plan
It's wrong for those who invested their career on it. If they switch to a different platform they lose their compatitive value.

Also a company with a huge Perl code base there is large value in new developers who can become productive without much special training.
That’s a very simplistic “physics engine”, that doesn’t handle rotational motion at all...
So where else can toy manufacturers go in 2020 to sell their toys in retail? The music labels and movie studios knew they couldn’t be successful before digital without Walmart
Can you elaborate? Why a big chunk of your life?
TikTok's Chinese owner offers to forego stake to clinch U.S. deal – sources
Long form satire is really a dying trade.
Derek and his writing used to be a frequent top page link on HN. When I first started reading them I found them inspirational. As I read more of his writing I got the impression that most of the things he did were presented in the light of “I’m just a simple person that doesn’t need a lot” type of minimalism. However if you look at his “charity” he seems to have just figured out a way to avoid taxation and keep most if not all of his CD Baby exit. Additionally despite using what was the .com boom environment of the late 90s and early 2000s to generate his wealth I believe he has renounced his US citizenship and lives abroad now. I don’t care that he did that really, it just seems that his public persona is a bit of an act and hides a bit of entitlement/petulance.
Rust straddles the line between the statically typed, compiled languages and newer more featureful ones that tend to be slower due to things like GC, dynamic typing, running on a VM. For those migrating from C++ they want to advertise it as a better language without performance compromise. For those coming from the other side the primary benefit may actually be the increased performance.

In the case of Alacrity the author did go to great lengths to optimize and benchmark the text rendering. It really is fast. That's not usually an issue in a terminal, but I have had rare moments when an excessive amount of text output caused me to wait for the terminal to catch up.
I hear YouTube plus does that, but they don’t really label it as a fee or show a price comparison if bought through the web browser.
Right because ramming your car into someone else is the equivalent of not being able to side load apps on a phone that you don’t have to buy.
yeah and I guess it makes sense in the aspect that they're trying to survive however they can.
Depends on how quick is "quickly".

If anything, they seem to be doubling down on this. From my discussions on the subject with people "in marketing", they are really convinced that not only is the data "accurate enough", but that collecting and exploiting it is actually for the client's benefit.

I wonder how one would go about quantifying the usefulness of all this tracking, because I doubt it's cheap. The best I could get was "we're able to see changes in sales which correlate to marketing campaigns". I can totally buy that and it seems somewhat more advanced of an answer than the more common one of "If didn't work they wouldn't be doing it".

What I wonder though is how they would go about quantifying how much better a tracking-based campaign worked than a "traditional" one would have.
Production ML systems already do this: servers used for peak capacity are repurposed during lulls to retrain the model and do tasks like compact data. That retrained model is then shared across the system.

So I’d argue that ML systems already “sleep”, it just looks more like dolphin sleep due to their similar need for continuous operation.
I think the point being made here was that alternative approach don't eliminate the difficulties of global state. Simply using immutable object doesn't make all your problems go away, it makes them different. I think it makes them better, but let's not pretend that all the challenges of dealing with state can be eliminated.
With the exception of Amex and Discover and a few others that issue their own cards, Visa and MasterCard don't issue the cards. Thousands of banks and credit unions do. They're the ones responsible for managing fraud on those accounts.

The banks decided the PIN part of chip and PIN only protects against physical theft -- what they call "lost and stolen" fraud.

Assuming that is accurate, given the costs associated in dealing with customers who forget their PINs, and the fact that Visa massively pushed for chip and signature, it's not hard to see why none of the banks wanted to be the hardest card to use in the wallet: Lost and stolen is an infinitesimal amount of loss for them when compared to counterfeits and e-commerce fraud.
These are all clickbait articles that multiply equity * most recent sale price and make grandiose claims out of it.

The real story would be how economies of scale and technological efficiencies, and now coronavirus lockdown effects have driven even more business to the already biggest businesses, and what to do about that.
I think the 40x overhead is a case of comparing throughput overhead (from what I know, FHE based secure inference protocols have poor latency, but can process many predictions in parallel, improving throughput)
Companies tend to fight back when it's profitable to fight back; and do their best to ignore the government otherwise. See: this week's tech CEO house hearing. I can't recall this example of the backdoors; and if you say "Clipper Chips" I'm going home.
I really do miss the simplicity of grub 0.97,keeping it as long as I can on my older boxes.
You hold a misconception.

The task is not that; instead we assume that we already have a table that correctly describes the TM's maps from bounded input to output when they terminate. His claim is that this table can be expressed as a function in addition and multiplication with the input as operands. To be more precise, with the input and constant numbers (arbitrarily choosable while designing the description of the function) as operands.

Incidentally,

> You can't even describe a Turing machine on one single input (using whatever operations you like)

is false, we can simply encode it as the encoded tuple of the TM and the input; this is a standard construct when we talk about simulating TMs with a UTM.
And the ancient characters are different still, they're all wavy and it's a lot of guesswork for people who haven't specifically studied them.

But it's clearly a continuous culture. We don't use a bunch of wacky f's in our writing anymore in America, doesn't mean we're not a continuous culture on our timeframe.
I actually know Derek in real life (although not very well). He gave away most of his wealth, but he still draws a very comfortable salary from the fund he set up with the wealth that remains. He's rich.

I'm not sure where you heard the $1k/month figure, but there's no way he possibly makes that little. He lives in Oxford, possibly the most expensive city in the UK outside of London. $1k/month in Oxford isn't enough to rent a one-bedroom flat, without even considering other living expenses - there's no way he lives in Oxford on an income that low.
Their push into services would be helped by having more volume products. I'm suspect this is why the iPhone SE was priced so low.
Hitting objectives is way more important than hitting a date in BO's case. Even if SpaceX has a head start, Amazon has scale.
Sure most websites could easily served as static files on a server, but advocating for everything to be hosted on a single proprietary service is not a good idea.

But hosting an Apache or nginx to serve static files is easy enough and a single $5 or $10 instance on any hosting service out there could easily survive a HN frontpage.
Whatever form of government and economy that arises most directly and naturally from the first principles of land and property ownership, the freedom to work, sell, and buy, and especially that “all men are created equal and are endowed by their Creator with inalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness”—which include freedom of speech, religion, the press, assembly, arms, etc.

Unfortunately, every other large-scale form of government that’s been tried has badly trampled on the personal rights enumerated in the USA’s founding documents. If anything should change here, it should be a dismantling of all the laws and institutions that have grown up like weeds since the late 1700s that are trampling on those rights.

That’s not to disparage some great things that have happened in the mean time: freeing the slaves, illegalizing discrimination by the government, women’s suffrage, etc. But each of those things I’ve named are good because they apply those first principles to areas of government that were lacking application when the country was founded.
This isn’t true, it’s just that different kinds of operations are more or less efficient in FHE
There is more than one way to make awaitables in asyncio -- at the core, this is about sharing a single future, for which there's a joyfully boring native standard constructor.

For example, when working w/ immutable GPU dataframes to represent our user's datasets, we often get into variants where loading a dataset may take a bit and thus get multiple services requesting it before ETL is done. So, we want to only trigger the parser once per file and have any subsequent calls wait on the first one:

datasets = {}
async def load_once(name):
if not (name in datasets): # sync, many
fut = asyncio.create_future() # sync, once
datasets[name] = fut # sync, once
fut.set_result(await load(name)) # async, once
return await datasets[name] # async, many

And then throw in an async lru.. :)
As it proves that when people have a choice - ie can afford it - they would rather buy Apple walled garden and all over Android where you can sideload.
> so that there remain pristine skies in more remote areas

These pristine skies do not exist. There are already many satellites in polar orbits that intentionally pass over all points on Earth (e.g. for observation, or for the Iridium satellite phones). If you spend an hour stargazing in a recliner during reasonable viewing conditions, you will likely see a few passing overhead in the north-south direction.
There's a very good reason why organizations should be allowed to keep "fool me once/twice/thrice" records: it's what enables them to be nice to customers who don't abuse that niceness.

But there's no process to appeal and the data might be laughably wrong. Outlawing cross-organizational aggregation might be a reasonable middle ground. It gives a further advantage to giants like Amazon, but all the problems compound at interorganizational integration.