skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In addition to everything pseudalopex said below, which I agree with 100%, I'll just add that, yes, some things absolutely are and should be black-and-white, my-way-or-the-highway. Particularly, issues of human- and civil-rights.

The opposition to Eich was not because of some unpopular opinion he held at some vague point in the past. He wanted to ban same-sex marriage in 2008, and all indications are he still wanted that in 2014. Eich had ample chance to easily diffuse the situation by clarifying his beliefs; instead, he provided vague platitudes about inclusiveness and leaving his personal opinions at the door.

I'm sure there's plenty of companies that wouldn't mind having an anti-gay-marriage CEO. Hell, most people could stomach working with someone with those views; remember Eich was chief technologist and a Mozilla board member from the start, and CTO from 2005, which Mozilla's LGBTQ employees obviously tolerated. But I'm sorry, I have very little trust that a company can maintain a certain set of values, when I know for a fact its Chief Executive Officer holds diametrically opposite views. Management shapes every aspect of a company, so the personal opinions of the person holding the highest position in that chain matter.

There is nothing unethical about acting this way. This is not denying Brendan Eich his humanity (unlike what his views do to others). Being CEO of Mozilla is not a basic human right that he is being denied.
I've used cost explorer enough to know that it lags meaningfully behind current costs, but you would probably have to do some measurements to know how much (I would guess several days). If you do that, remember that individual services (or even different components of a single service) might have different lag times. The cost explorer data seems pretty good though.

> I think this tool could help smaller teams where you don't know who's doing what with the resources and you just need an upper limit of your monthly/daily spend.

Yeah, definitely!

> But again I always forget about the data transfer charges

Yeah. AWS can have some pretty complex cost models since they charge based on the amount of resources you actually used - there are way more axes of cost than most people have time to think through.

If you end up building this, I suggest considering that many people will not want their resources automatically shut down, either because they want to serve the spike in traffic or because they are paranoid that there could be a mistake and have production infrastructure accidentally shut down. I would consider designing it so that users can choose to get a Slack message or something instead of having the resources shut down.
That's typically what is done. At my uni, most of the housing stock was 1920s sears catalog foursquare houses. some were duplexes right off the bat with 7 bedrooms each half, but most single family homes had at least 4 bedrooms. Some of the houses themselves were crudely subdivided into apartments, where you might get a floor with a retrofitted kitchen and a couple bedrooms, as well as an attic apartment. At my uni, rent hovers around $500/mo for your own bedroom in an apartment or house. In high cost of living cities, students share bedrooms to get rent down, and even in LA students who are sharing bedrooms might be paying around that $500/mo price too.
The idea of competent volunteers contributing is wonderful as a hypothetical, but if such things existed in reasonable numbers then this funding issue would likely be moot in the first place.

The reality is that the PyPy folk (all single-digit-number of them) have fought tooth and nail to keep the project going for well over a decade. I can't begin to imagine how much highly skilled labour has been poured in by such a small concentration, all for little more than praise and repute on a handful of IT forums.

Give them a break
But it doesn't happen often these days, does it?
SpaceX and Starlink

You know and own everything about the other process so you can match them far better.

This is what Elon does. Hacks processes, not technology.
it has fewer syllables going for it
Have there been attempts to measure modern compilers' ability to optimize large programs against "perfect" machine code? The few times I've poked through demo scene binaries, I've felt a sense of awe at the complexity described by just a few instructions, but demos aren't starting from a specification and trying to find a compressed representation, they're trying to create small binaries that expand into something complex and interesting. Clearly this problem is NP-hard as hell (and most software doesn't need to be optimized instruction-by-instruction), but it would be incredibly neat to have an estimate of _how much worse_ our compilers might be.

I'm reminded of the old story about someone who tried to evolve an FPGA configuration to perform signal processing, and the final generation exploited imperfections in the chip to use fewer gates.
thanks, makes sense to me.
Manual assembly is almost never worth the effort.
Big discussion yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24132722
Facebook is the opposite of a privacy bastion. If you have such privacy features, it's only to stay relevant in the market and maintain some degree of trust so users continue to publish their data. Facebook do not care about privacy, they track people everywhere they can. They accumulate data and sell the knowledge they collected.

Engineers who really care about privacy do not work for Facebook like engineers who really cares about peace do not work for the army.
PyPy is targeted at general purpose workloads, NumPy support is totally an afterthought, so the basic problem it set out to solve was/is definitely not faster numpy calculations. Numba on the other hand is way more targeted at numeric workloads.

Besides, I don't see why they should mention any other project in a post announcing their departure from the Conservancy. The only surprising thing is no mention of the funding model they're moving to, other than a rather vague hint, "exploring options outside of the charitable realm".
Wires than that. Most people live on the border of the cities and the nothing. Suburbs are practically designed to make mass transit expensive and slow.
I'm baffled by this. Many times it is listed under the ingredients, no need to look up anything. NaOCl, HCl, NaOH make up the majority of cleaners.
My wife prefers to buy the expensive stuff even though she knows I consider them a blatant rip off. I lost count of the arguments that started with a grocery shopping.
The JSON library is probably a C-extension so PyPy won't make it any faster.
Yes, but not entirely.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17218096/

> In a study of Hawaiian surfers with sun exposure of at least 15 hours per week for the preceding 3 months, 25(OH)D levels ranged from 11 up to 71 ng/mL, demonstrating wide individual variation.
In my experience the neighbors complaining about college students partying moved far away from campus about 4 or 5 decades ago.
I'd say downvoted because self-satisfied smugness.
> for nearly every kid there is intrinsic motivations you can find

I think this can be generalized to all humans. It would be near impossible for a true lack of intrinsic motivation to have made it through evolutionary selection.

Like you say, what matters is matching the child's potential with what is available in their current environment, and institutional schooling might be a very blunt tool for that. Not only it is necessarily inadequate for every individual kid, it can also occupy too much time and deprive them from the opportunity to experiment and explore to their niche in society in their unstructured free time.
Can you elaborate on point (b)? I don't quite get what you mean. Performance bonuses are designed to stop happening altogether?
For DuckDuckGo users: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ddg-hide-unwa...
Worth noting this is not an effect of the recent layoffs, being from July 7.
It's interesting that how Intel lost its leadership and "state of the art" in chipmaking now belongs to TSMC and to a lesser extent Samsung. Given how aggressively China is trying to invest into it, there's a potential for a future situation where China directly or indirectly controls the means of producing world's most advanced chips and US companies are denied access and can only rely on US-based Intel, which is several generations behind.

If I were US government, I'd be very concerned with this development right now.
How does "running fully free software" helps alleviate "compromised x86"?
I didn't say it was revolutionary, and it doesn't need to be revolutionary to be a product ideal for you, from a company you find more trustworthy than any other - those appear to be your adjectives, it only follows that this means it's a great privacy & security product for which those are fairly critical qualities. Insult my reading comprehension if I'm wrong, but I might even say those qualities make it the "best" for you.

Good for you that you're really enthusiastic about Firefox usage, that's not my point. My point is that it's quite empty and valueless to dismiss a product like the VPN because you're afraid it might go away despite its apparent quality.

You did say you've never even glanced at the VPN for that reason, and given that Mozilla is apparently refocusing its efforts on paid products like those, an army of users who won't even glance at their products regardless of quality is increasingly useless. Especially if Mozilla experiments with potentially great products, which involves killing bad ones, quite frustrating to see a "will it be there in 6 months" attitude kill any apparent interest.

Edit: not sure it'd help, but an analogy might be: imagine I told you I care deeply about chicken dishes, chicken is my favorite, I choose what to eat based on whether they have chicken, I'm a chicken warrior! You make a high quality chicken dish, and then I say "it looks great, if I ate it I'll probably enjoy it, but I can't even try it. What if you drop it on the floor while serving it to me? What if the dog eats it while I'm digging in?". Would you think my complaint is sincere? I don't know, I've evidently spent too much time pointlessly arguing about this.
Today Caltrain can't run more trains because diesel locomotives are too expensive and slow, and the current route has no passing tracks which makes scheduling hard to work in with express trains, which are needed to stay competitive to commuters. When they move to more modern EMU trains over the next couple years, they will be able run with 10 minute headways, potentially down to 6 minutes if you include the blended service with the CAHSR trains.

But that only solves the waiting-for-a-train problem. Regional train line still have trouble keeping up with expressways because of the time needed slow down, wait, and then accelerate up to speed at each station. Lighter rolling stock can make this a little bit better, but not dramatically; BART has always used relatively light EMUs and it still can only average around 55 km/h. Even the most fanciful of Caltrain upgrades would have a top speed of 180 km/h, which means they'd really be lucky to average 100 km/h on a train making every stop between San Jose and San Fransisco. Express trains would be slightly better (perhaps using the HSR trains to do SJ<->SF nonstop in ~30 minutes) but that could only cover a subset of trips. For most trips, if you can avoid terrible traffic, driving will remain faster.
Wow, Singapore has some really pretty ones. I've always been partial to butterflies with eyespots.
It was not abandoned at the side of the road. It was deliberately placed there to be picked up by a designated waste hauling service provider.
This is one of the things that always annoys me when stayin to large hotel chain i particular in the US and China, you can't open a freaking window.
I like to sleep with open window, I just sleep much better. However most modern hotels don't allow you to, instead you have AC, that constantly turns on and off during the night (waking me up) or if you turn it off things get way too hot and sticky.

The reason why this seems better in Europe IMO is because many hotels are old buildings which were build without the extensive HVAC systems.

I do however realise that providing good ventilation via open windows in urban office spaces is definitely challenging.
ETH-collateralized loans are permissionlessly accessible on the Ethereum blockchain. Right now it's a 0% APR.

https://oasis.app/borrow

You can also get a Bitcoin-collateralized loan using the same service. A Bitcoin loan on the Ethereum blockchain. But, it's less secure because the WBTC "Wrapped Bitcoin" token on Ethereum relies on a network of custodians who redeem these tokens for actual BTC.
Could be? Sure.

Definitely is? Again, there's no way to tell from just the data you cited.

We don't know what Tesla counts as "registering an accident", and clearly it isn't a neutral observer here.
Reading between the lines, as we grow up, we get conditioned to follow instructions, rather than act independently.

For the adults, there's no incentive to maximise how many virtual candies they collect, beyond doing it because they were told it was the aim.
We're not. Everyone just likes to pretend that they are. Every white girl likes to virtue signal about how awesome they are but the reality is that white people have the lowest [0] miscegenation rate. The reality is that those who most claim to be against bigotry are often those who most perpetuate it.

[0] https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/06/12/interracial...
Corporate plans don't qualify for the ACA, only individuals. That is the actual median rate, from Anthem, for a corporate plan. Uber might get a better rate.
I would actually advise another way: if you have to waste the whole afternoon putting algorithm together, then it probably going to be a week after you implement all tests and fix all the bugs. But even if it was just afternoon, still not worth it. You don't want to maintain what you don't need to maintain
> I doubt that working for a sewage treatment plant offers much in the way of Autonomy.

I wouldn't be so sure. I think Deming (and, perhaps more concretely, the Toyota Production System) has showed us that there is a surprising amount of autonomy that can be unlocked even for the most menial roles.

Treating low-level workers with respect, training them well, and listening to what they have to say is a mutually beneficial agreement. They are the people who know what is really going on in the processes they control. They are (or at least should be!) the most informed people in the room when it comes to decisions around those processes.

In exchange for their valuable input, low-level workers should, then, get a piece of autonomy. If they have figured out a way to prevent mistakes, or a more efficient procedure to accomplish their objective, they can do it their way – with the support of management. Of course, if they know they aren't respected or listened to, it will never occur to them even to think about improvements.

Really, it's two sides of the same coin.
Never wash it, just throw away coffee. Let the coffee stains sink into the metal..

Get a good one like Bialetti Brikka not some cheap Chinese clone.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-onwBTm0g8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aT6DCAKQII

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gtKLxl76eE

Experiment and find a mokka blend that suits your taste best - Lavazza Crema e Aroma, Bourbon - I will start with that..
Repeated bad PR stories erodes public confidence, which can result in regulations? My reasons include altruism and a long term view, which don't always play well with business types.
Academia was like that before the turn on the century. I don't know too many people in academia who would agree with you now.

Academia is the same cut-throat pursuit for funding as industry, but with fewer options.
reminded - failed body armor test (Donbass war) https://youtu.be/2ysQqHKYV1o?t=8
New ChromeOS Dev Portal
There are two huge problems here:

First, very little freight is latency sensitive. The vast majority of cargo is cost sensitive, which is why most bulk goods coming from abroad arrive via cargo ship rather than airplane. There are a ton of companies that’ll accept days or weeks of delay to reduce overall cost; so a loop must compete with rail freight and semi trucks on cost.

Theoretically a cargo hyper loop network could compete with domestic air freight, but I find the idea that air freight alone could cover the cost of a hyper loop network hard to buy. This is doubly true when you consider the fact that air freight shares costs with commercial passenger travel, both in terms of infrastructure and vehicle development.

Second, they’re already working on automating existing railroads. There’s no particular reason why a hyper loop is necessary to automate a train, and we’re already seeing some of the very long haul train routes in Australia being automated. This comes with the benefit of much lower development time and cost, since it allows for the reuse of the most expensive bit of infrastructure: the rails themselves.
We Used Mock APIs to Save $$$ on Our Cloud Bill
I think what the article could have talked more about is that claimed victimhood is often used as an excuse to (continue to) victimize others.
Yeah, here in The Netherlands too. Once I got into a taxi, and I ask how his business is doing, whether his car is paid off, etc. The guy tells me that he had a shitty week, because he had several days driving at a loss.

Apparently it's possible for a rather slow week to happen, in combination with rides that mean a loss for the driver.

I can't help but think that the business is quite tough.
We knew about mass surveillance via Echelon in Romania in the early 2000s... Mobile phones were just ramping up, best internet we had was PPPOE neighborhood networks.
Yes. I'm genuinely surprised how timeless this is.

You watch it today, in 2020, and it's shocking that it was made 20 years ago. This tells me that Judge and the other writers managed to latch on to some very timeless things.

Not sure what they are, but they nailed it.
If a person is dying of thirst, they'll stick drink brackish water if it's all their offered.

What is egregious about uber is that they themselves are tapping into the clean water source, extracting the best part for themselves and then leaving only brackish water for all the uber drivers.

If you believe the end goal of a society is to extract every last bit of value from its members, then yes, Uber is great.

If you believe the end goal of society is to provide some sort of dignified life for its members, then I don't see how you can justify what Uber does.

> How about this: let’s presume all of what you say is true. What if after all those costs are accounted for, it’s still profitable for many people to drive for Uber.

There have many studies done about what someone can earn from Uber. Even without the externalities nobody is going to get rich from Uber. With the externalities, they are barely making a subsistence wage.

Lastly, I would argue that even if working for Uber is a net negative, in the short term (even years) they can extract some value from an assets they already have (their vehicle and their time) against costs in the future. For someone who needs cash today, this is a acceptable tradeoff.
> Elon Musk's plan to connect major cities with Hyperloop tunnels is raising the interest of investors. Boring Co.

It's pretty clear that Hyperloop is part of the scam.
I suppose it all comes down to the methods to measure - just like with COVD statistics.

Because one method does not come to the same conclusion others do does not automatically prove that it really is that way.
I don't think being robbed by a passenger is a reasonable fear - after all, the app has their location, both start and end, their credit card info, and their phone number. Criminal activity by passengers is easy to catch. Fear of crime in this circumstance is reasonably other, unrelated people, which stars does nothing to prevent.
I was right.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastery_learning#General_conce...

The only person I've heard say "mastery" are Betsy devos (when she was getting grilled by warren at her senate confirmation) and some religious conservatives i know that homeschool their children.

My general impression is that it's a marketing gimmick by carter schools that want to show they're somehow innovating in education. This is probably all horse shit as the longer term outcomes in devos type schools are really bad (see: michigan).

anyway, it's a flag. probably a big red one.

I doubt it's taken seriously by regular school teachers whos models come from Columbia university.
If you have TikTok on your resume, I would never hire you.
I know they do, but a lot of their users don't which is unethical. But this comment was about the Jet database listing a use case about speed vectors. There is absolutely nothing unethical about that use case nor technology. All the other issues you list, absolutely, but those are not things Jet does.
Figures there would be some obstacle.
KDE Neon 20.04 Review: Fast and Stable
From context, I don't think "change tracking" here is being used as a general category of programmers' revision control systems. When you're working with editors at publishing companies or magazines, you need document revision tracking. Embedded comments, being able to see changes the editor made and being able to accept, reject, or modify them. And your program needs to be able to do this in a way that makes round-tripping the document between you and the editor absolutely bullet-proof. If the editor is using Word (and they are), that means you either need Word yourself, or you need something that's so good at doing that round-tripping with Word that the editor doesn't notice you're using something else.

And, speaking as someone who really doesn't like using Word and has searched for various solutions, this turns out to be really hard. I haven't looked at LibreOffice in the last two or three years, I confess, so it may have solved this by now -- but neither it nor OpenOffice could consistently manage this. There are other word processors that don't even try. I eventually settled on using Apple Pages, which so far seems to manage this well enough that no editor has called me on it.

I can see people raising their hands to object to my assertion that the editor is using Word, because they submitted to a mathematical or engineering journal that accepts submissions in LaTeX. And, sure, there are meaningful exceptions out there, but I can assure you that if you peruse the submission requirements for virtually any non-technical publisher, they are going to either mention Word or just expect Word because it's the industry standard for manuscripts. It doesn't matter how much better any other system is -- Penguin Random House ain't gonna change their workflow to accommodate you.
Any tips on improving technical writing beyond what you've mentioned here?
I agree we need to shore up the democratic systems. However, I think you are greatly underestimating the amount of propaganda that is fed to a huge amount of people in the U.S. who lap everything up. I feel people sweeping it under the rug are part of the problem. And I think you are also underestimating the amount of people who have extremely strong nationalistic and even white supremist attitudes and seek to spread them. The U.S. is a very big place and many of these people hide in plain site, just waiting for their opportunity for people like Trump or Stephen Miller to get power. I've experienced it from both educated and non-educated, rich and poor. I grew up in a rural, predominately white area. I know these people and how they think, and it's scary.

Social media acts as a medium for people to transmit these ideas at a speed and power not known before. We need to address both our democratic and communication systems.