skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
what does a 4k screen do for productivity? i get the image is clearer than 1080p but is it worth the higher spend?
Luddites were mostly concerned with the protection of their livelihoods from the powers of larger producers of equipment at the time. I think we as a society could learn a lot about our situation by looking closer at Ludditism
As far as functional languages go, F# (and thus OCaml which is the parent language of F#) IMO has the best syntax. The code is actually readable even if you haven't ever written a functional program and everything feels super practical about it.

Its a shame that F# doesnt gets the attention it deserves.
Yes, but do you not see the issue at play here?

> "all apps are reviewed against the same set of guidelines that are intended to protect customers and provide a fair and level playing field to developers."

This strongly implies that all apps have to following the same rules and guidelines. Having the guidelines say that (for example) Youtube is exempt, means that yes, _technically_ all apps are following the same "guidelines", but Youtube isn't following the same "rules".

Ie, writing exemptions into the guidelines means that the quoted statement, if it was being honest, would read:

> "all apps, except for those granted exemptions, are reviewed against the same set of guidelines that are intended to protect customers and provide a fair and level playing field to developers."

The exemptions are quite literally the issue with their statement.
I think the best way to prevent this is, whenever you get a raise, open a new bank account and have the difference direct deposited into it. That way, the main bank account that you work with regularly, always sees the same amount deposited.
Every time I see a JSON config file I miss those kilobytes of XML.
When you say "can", do you mean in the sense of "is it possible for the average homo sapiens..." or "is it the case today in America that..."?

I think it's yes to the former and no to the later. I don't have good evidence though.
"A veblen good is a good for which demand increases as the price increases, because of its exclusive nature and appeal as a status symbol." -- https://www.investopedia.com/terms/v/veblen-good.asp
I’m convinced that AOC is backed by the GOP at this point
I got that many times when a relative said something rude to me, and I answered right back. In the past I was told how rude I was, at which point I would parrot word for word what was said to me and ask.

"You don't think that was rude from them in the first place, I am answering in the same manner they talked to me. If they don't want it, then they should learn to talk nicer to me in the first place. Instead of assuming they can say whatever they want and get away with it.".

Interestingly, in the last decade my relatives have been a lot more polite with me when we talk.
Jingoist.
> Doing so makes you pay a punitive exit tax on all you assets as if you had sold them.

This sounds like the blasphemy punishments for leaving a religion or cult.

What’s the point of that?
Mac rendering only looks good on retina though. On "normal" monitors windows looks way better.
As a counter point, I find I learn a lot from Twitter, HN and Reddit. In that order too (ie, Reddit is the least useful). Twitter absolutely does wonders for staying on top of tech trends (especially TweetDeck), and has shown me lots of tools, libraries, techniques, etc that have made my software endeavors much more successful.

I do agree with you overall though. I have a virtual desktop dedicated to social sites, and a separate desktop for work, and I keep myself always aware of what "mode" I am in.

Facebook is utterly useless, I deleted my account years ago.
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>Try using LTE in a large city’s central train station at a busy time and see how you get on.

There was some ad campaign in Helsinki about two or three years ago telling people to do just this to compare carriers. Telia, Dna, and all the others worked just fine at rush hour at the central station with 50mbps+
I really regret disliking XML all those years ago, now that I've seen the alternative.
Personal attacks will get you banned here, regardless of someone else's views on relationships.

Obviously there's a criticism to be made about treating other people as means to an end, but this is not the way to do that.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Total immigrants = EU immigrants + rest-of-word immigrants

If you have a cap to total immigrants and can’t limit EU immigrants, the open spots have to come from ROW
Thank you for saying this, I am more than frustrated by that mentality whenever I go to conferences or message boards. There’s a big world out there and most of does not resemble the practices of internet companies. It’s this fallacy of inevitability for cloud.
My experience seems to be similar to yours.

I think this may be one of those weird paradoxes of life.

I wonder if in 5 years when (if?) people are back in the office we will pine away for these times.

It might be a good time to set appropriate boundaries, self-manage better, and make the most of the situation.

I look at it as maybe practice for retirement.

I think a lot of people have these retirement dreams that are poorly imagined and when the time comes they'll mismanage their time left.

Maybe getting this right could end up being retirement with a job you like instead of "any old" retirement thing to pass the time.
That describes a CS degree heavily biased towards practical application instead of towards theory, like mine was. We only had a couple of the things in your lists.

Anything that involves the physical world went in the engineering degrees - we didn't do circuits, assembly, or programming a robot. Likewise networking I think was an elective, as might have been kernels (though I don't recall that one, and didn't take either of those myself). We did talk about kernels in our systems programming course, but the extent of practical work was things like creating our own malloc and creating a simple shell.

Web apps were in the ITM courses (Information Technology something), which was where people learned specific practical skills and most people doing CS degrees didn't touch - I took one out of curiosity and it was so absurdly low-skill-level: The first assignment was creating mockups for site, then imagine spending the next few months on just HTML and CSS implementing it.

One specific example of the theory-vs-practical-application difference between our CS degrees, we didn't do compilers, we did programming language design. Parsing theory, grammars, and after learning Scheme we used it to implement an interpreter for our own language.
Yeah, I was dismissing the analogy with antibiotics because usually it takes quite some time between creating the antibiotic and germs being resistant. But with deepfakes the arms race is almost instantaneous. The moment something appears to tell apart deepfakes, the moment people can train deepfakes against that something.
Thank you. I’m not sure that’s an option for us unfortunately. Unless you know of some stripe atlas equivalent service for setting up a company in India?
The exact problem is that it puts the burden of proof on the accused, who has to fight the claim under penalty of perjury (while there is no reciprocal requirement for the accuser).

The simple fix is to make false DMCA claims tantamount to perjury.
Any examples to share?
For reasons that are not easy to explain, no.

[JSON] and '[JSON] have different meanings. Here, '[JSON] does not refer to a list of json files, but to a type-level list of the mimetypes that can be returned. You could see '[JSON, PNG] instead, which would make no sense in the context of a list type declaration.

The genius of Servant is that the DSL doesn't require you to know how '[] is implemented and why it's different from [], you just have to know the DSL.
Maybe the mechanism of death is similar so if it kills a more difficult strain the same mechanism will kill the "easier strain". It doesn't directly state it though, I think it's just speculation. It doesn't belong in a science paper except maybe in a speculative section about the future I guess.
Nobody tell them what goes on in sub tenders.
> 3 times as many ILIs

Compared to surgical masks. There was no study of unmasked people. I expect it would be 10x.

> The observed mechanisms may lead to more severe symptoms in individuals with impaired capacity for myocardial compensation.

The study was only on N95 masks! Most people are wearing surgical or cloth, it's irrelevant.

> I am talking about how the all sources of information systematically downplay the negative effects and serious side effects of masks.

There appear to be very few, similar to how all sources downplay the negative effects of walking on the sidewalk vs walking in the road.

I would be a lot more sympathetic if you targeted your ire at "washing down surfaces", because that seems irrelevant with respect to spread. But masks work, and that's the long and short of it.
The LLVM x86_64 backend just gets as much work, and HPC is just one of the reasons. The NVIDIA PGI compilers for example use LLVM as a code generation backend, and that's one commercial option.
It's how "work" always was for thousands of years, before the office culture meme changed it during the 20th century
If the only incentive to source talent locally was having butts in seats in an office building, what does that say about the current state of office jobs? Sincere question.
> Iraq could be harboring weapons of mass destruction

Too many of these articles feel like they're part of creating manufactured consent. It's all too common in the history of the US, and sadly works every time.
Can be used as an algorithm for a new discriminator in the GAN.
> I don't run antivirus on my microwave oven. There's no need.

Only as long as you have not connected it to any network - "smart" appliances have often enough been used for botnets now.
French here.

We always have milk at home, my 16 and 13 yo children drink it, or eat with muesli

One of them drinks pure milk, the other much less. I do it from time to time my wife rarely to never.
VerbalExpressions

Not for short regular expressions, but if you need to write longer ones you probably would want to use it.
That doesn't seem to be a matter of "not enough time" but "not going to read many books."
For web stuff, I find having three monitors invaluable.

One monitor for code, one for the browser (and devtools window) and a third for everything else (an API document, or a spec, a control for the music I'm streaming or a chat window etc.)

I've found the same setup works really well for any workflow that involves making a small change and immediately seeing the result.
Note the question in the article is not the question in the HN title. It's « I'm told the Sun is a big hot ball! Awesome! I love balls! What color is the ball? ».

Under « Methods - Question design » in the article:

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The "ball" helps clarify intent - 'object, viewed from space', not 'eyeball observation made through atmosphere'.
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I'm not a US citizen nor a fan of US's imperialism, but even I know that's entirely absurd to conflate the criminal conduct of a few enlisted personnel with US's foreign policy.

Otherwise you'd need to apologize for the abject horror of your contributions to the world just because someone who works with you or studied with you or lives close to you happen to commit a heinous crime.
He's a great teacher of calculus. Here on HN he's often cited as a resource for learning linear algebra, but actually his lesser known book on calculus is an excellent way to teach yourself from almost nothing.
Does your company use both Avro and Protobuf for message serialization? Most places tend to standardize with one or the other and I’m wondering if there is a use case for both.
Does every thread really have to turn into some us-vs-them USA election fight?
So what will they do? Just shut down production? Try to move to RISC-V? Somehow acquire SOCs from other manufacturers?
That's what this is though. It's forcing their hand to develop their own alternatives and making sure the Americans have no place at the table.

It accelerates the process.

It's the latest brilliant policy by the same people who outsourced everything there and gave them the ball to begin with.

This is essentially the US automakers play of the 80s. It only accelerated the sunsetting of the American car industry. The policy doesn't work when a bunch of other places can replace you
Being an American...reading this was sad.
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> the Ayes to right, the Noes to the left

The Cambridge Union Society, being based on the House of Commons, has a slight extension to this - Ayes to the right, Noes to the left, abstentions down the middle. You're counted as you leave the chamber, so anyone abstaining leaves through the unmarked central door.

https://miro.medium.com/max/908/1*ut4G1Vo8C8Uc4sqQ4A6m-Q.png
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Gthnk is journaling software. I use it as my technical "work journal" and I find the practice to be valuable.

I've been working on this software for years by this point and I occasionally post updates about it to HN.

The current update is a pretty big one and, with all the discussion about personal knowledge bases and whatnot, I've decided to share the progress.
The implicit argument is that one must wholly comprehend the exact details of a company's systems in order to meaningfully control them.

This is obviously false reductio ad absurdum given the existence of managers doing exactly that right now.

CEOs are not testifying to congress about exploiting side channels in hypervisor memory management. On one level, they're offering industry viewpoints on policy issues; on another, they're actors in a political game.
I haven't read getting to yes. But I read "never split the difference" and highly recommend it (caveat the author thinks getting to yes is not the best approach).
I have 3 not so tick blankets so that I regulate the temperature further yes. For some reason I am extremely sensitive to temperature.
From the London Review of Books?
I guess I'm that guy. My answer would be "principally Ultraviolet C." Only if you asked "What color is the sun after filtering through our atmosphere?" am I going to say "white."

Similarly the correct answer to "Why is the sky blue?" is: "It isn't - small particles reflect ultraviolet even better than blue. We just can't (consciously) see those colors."

ipRGCs do detect UV, and our brains do get this message, and we can report it under at least some conditions.
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Yep, but no editor can decide if the code must align with the last line of a loop or be indented out of the loop. I got at least one bug in production because of that, and a test that didn't catch the error.
There's also powerline, which works very well for me and all you need are power sockets to bridge the distance between your desk and the router.
Any tips to get started?
You are absolutely right, there are many options which we looked at before we began with the project. None of existing solutions provided the features we needed:

Authentication and authorization to meet our compliance needs, a satisfactory UI/UX, message streaming with JavaScript filters and a couple more features. We thought we can do better and just started hacking something. There's a lot more to come. I'll create a blog post describing in more detail why we've created Kowl.
Ah, yes, I forgot about that, I use those as well and they do help. Sometimes I also use a mask.
The only pathology I see here is the claim that a vaguely specified question has a single unambiguous correct answer.
I don't particularly dislike PowerPoint, but I can't resolve the fact that in 30 years of development and massively increased software footprint, the presentations look the same now as they did in the 90's. The only thing differentiating the age of a presentation is the choice of default font.

OTOH I have a friend who would argue this is a sign of perfect design, and the amount of hard drive space a software package takes doesn't matter so much these days anyway. Six of one, half a dozen of the other.
If you think of your employment as a mutually beneficial relationship with your employer, it's not that strange.
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For me, one reason not to freak out about this is Photoshop.

It's been around for decades. Perfect photographic fakes (literally called "photoshops") are possible. Yet is there a great crisis of fake photographs taking over the news? Not really. The actual "fake news" barely even bother with photoshop (and those for whom it works, don't care about the quality). It's somehow still fairly easy to get context and at some point, you just have to trust a news outlet, just like you had to trust them for text-based news.

All we see is a trend of making it easier for people to subscribe to a bubble of "news" that fits their world view. The quality of the fakeness barely factors into this.
But diffusion through the atmosphere can change that color. For example, at sunset or sunrise.
I feel the same. The amount of poor neighborhoods with brand new cars rolling around really depresses me. As someone who grew up pretty poor it always fascinated me that my family and neighbors would buy cars worth 20k - 30k which would be enough to provide a very basic/safe way of living for the foreseeable future. I would take the peace of mind I would of had over having a status symbol that random people on the highway could look at for a few seconds on a trip.

Also driving is such a waste of human potential, I don't think the amount of attention needed to drive safely is worth the monotony/tediousness of driving. It's wasted time on a large scale.
Sadly that can be gamed too. The fake account can give 2-4 star reviews to randomly selected apps in an attempt to not have it's targeted review devalued.

But it would be useful for normal accounts. Some people are just super-critical of everything. A 1 star review from such a person shouldn't count for as much. Same thing on the other side with people who only give 5-star reviews.
I do expect TikTok to lose users after Microsoft acquires it. But not because of anything Microsoft might do. TikTok just seems like a fad social network that will inevitably lose the cool factor eventually.
> What is this ungodly mess?

An eDSL ? Much like every DSL, it requires to invest some time learning, and gives you something if you take that time. It's not really specific to Haskell.

Back when I was doing some Java, I had to learn the logic of maven xml files, and it was exactly the same kind of investment-for-future-reward.
For me it will be interesting. I have been working from home for 21 weeks now but will put in some office days in the next week. so that my SO can have the house for herself and I have a room with a temperature not reminding me of a Finish Sauna. Not sure how it will feel, but I expect to have my mind at least a little bit less occupied with work after 30 - 40 minutes commuting and listening to audible. Maybe thought I will be shocked how traffic feels and gladly go back to full-time WFH. I will probably experiment with times of commute and number of days per week, thought. hoping that this change of scenery will add stimulus to my days.
We switched to asynchronous standups that just involve writing a short post stating what we did yesterday, what we are doing today and any questions/blockers we have.

Everyone seems to prefer it. They don't have to stop what they are doing at exactly 10am, and they can re-read things that are relevant and skip things that are not easily. There is also a bit more personal accountability because everyone can see what was said in previous days.
There are records of farmers intentionally selecting for larger seeds; this was easily done by selecting the seeds on the bottom after winnowing.

People would barter and buy seeds from farmers with higher yields with the intent of getting those larger yields themselves in future years. This is not natural selection.

I'm equally sick of people implying that ancient people were stupid and incapable of engineering.
Note that at any given moment there's usually a couple dozen daemons running in the background on iOS. And while iPhone will only show one app at once, iPad can do a handful.
Yes, this year I made about $100,000 (mostly I was lucky) but I had a conversation with a person who claimed to have made a million dollars in the last year and how poorly I did.

??????

It does not enter his mind that normally I make a third of that and so I am very happy with the windfall. Heck, with hindsight I could see how I could have also made a million, but only by worrying over every dollars I invested. There is more to life than spend all your time thinking about how to make more money. I have gone camping, hiking and living at a cabin by a river. He on the other hand sound like he spent the entire year glued to his computer monitor trying to make more.
I know what it is. That's why I'm laughing at you.
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This was an interesting read. Really appreciate the effort!
For 90% of your opening sentence, I genuinely thought you were talking about HN, and agreed wholeheartedly.
Also, I would pay someone to do my lunch and breakfast cooking and dishes. Now I do that myself which I enjoy but the 15 minute lunch is no more for me. Plus that was a small walk. Now I cook, tidy up and go for a walk before sitting back down. A net win and better productivity for my life, but I don't have that much more time in my day. Also kids, so that may make this an irrelevant data point. But I'm cooking 4/5 meals a day and doing 3 loads of dishes a day, up from one of each.
As much as I oppose forcing people into the office, there is nothing intrinsically bad about being in the office.

Two guys from our team are in a similar situation as you are and we've agreed on them taking up our office spots permanently. It's still simple to control and track contact in that situation in case an infection occurs. But all in all, it's been a great boost for their mental well being.
I have a hard time putting SAT, SMT, and at least some linear algebra algorithms into the AI category. They are all logic, just of a sort that’s far more mind-numbing than our usual data processing workflows.

I know the AI people get grumpy about all of the problem spaces that have been harvested or “stolen” and called conventional code, but in this case I’m not so sure that’s accurate.

It feels more like a bunch of people who wanted to use advanced math and logic jumped on the AI gravy train while it was going past, and then hopped off again when they had their fill.
Does nothing compared to when? Were you previously obese?
Yeah it’s crazy to see how important horses were while by the end of the war dog fights by airplanes had become common. Between the tanks, machine guns, gas, and planes it was the first major mechanized war.

Hemingway has some good writing about this and the horror of it all. Especially as previous tactics were being used with mechanized armies - just complete slaughter.
It lets you fit more stuff on the screen, legibly.
This is a clown car reduction of a very complicated global issue starring a company who got to where they are now through brazen corporate espionage. It's "utterly foolish protectionism" when the West tries to protect their own, but "all's fair" when Western firms are left with no recourse while their IP is stolen and copied all over China because the CCP wouldn't ever rule in favor of a western company.