skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "Computer programming is so easy as long as the program that you're writing is small so it can all fit in your head at once, which is how it used to be in the old days..."

Actually, a lot of what we learned about writing big programs, we learned in the "old days". For example, The Mythical Man Month is about the design of the operating system for the IBM 360 in the 1960s. There were also plenty of big and complicated compilers (PL/I, Algol 68) written in the old days.

ARPANET, the precursor of the internet, was created in the 1960s. So was the software that ran the Apollo space missions. Remember the iconic photo of Margaret Hamilton standing next to the stack of printouts for the Apollo software that was as tall as she was?[1] Certainly too big for one programmer to keep in her head.

So the assumption that in the old days, all programs were small and fit entirely into peoples' heads isn't really true. Writing significant software systems back then was as much about control of complexity as it is today.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Hamilton_(software_en...
Without uBlock it's Chrome 2s, Firefox 3s.
Quantum Algorithm Characterizes Noise Across Large-Scale Quantum Computers
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what is the appeal of Blazor (as for that matter yew), when now there's a healthy ecosystem based on Typescript for the front-end? Is it just the ability to never leave C# (or rust)?
That's not JSON, though. It's absolutely something else. Maybe a JS snippet. Maybe YAML. Definitely not JSON, though.

(Some JSON libraries do have option flags, but usually it's about whether, during deserializing into a known type, unknown fields are an error or silently ignored. Or whether C-style comments are an error or considered as whitespace.)
>Efficient learning of quantum noise

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-020-0992-8
I agree. And there are more problems than waste of resources, although that is one of them.
What do you think the query pipeline looks like?

I can assure you that it's not mapping each query down to a single-sector disk read off an inverted index.
I know I'm late to this discussion and nobody will see this, but, the Matrix is very clearly an exploration of the philosophy of Jean Baudrillard...

Simulacra and Simulation (French: Simulacres et Simulation) is a 1981 philosophical treatise by the sociologist Jean Baudrillard, in which the author seeks to examine the relationships between reality, symbols, and society, in particular the significations and symbolism of culture and media involved in constructing an understanding of shared existence.

Simulacra are copies that depict things that either had no original, or that no longer have an original.[1] Simulation is the imitation of the operation of a real-world process or system over time

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulacra_and_Simulation

Neo even handles a copy in the first film:
https://unfoldlearning.net/2016/09/11/beyond-modern-educatio...

Is this then a metaphor for being trans? That's awfully circuitous.
Mi dispiace...

I learned Italian via solely listening to it only while working in the country, best from an Austrian ex-lover who was from a border town in the North no less... so much like the other 3 languages (non-English) I speak, my grammar and syntax are admittedly usually off.

Thanks for the correction, though. Antipasto, no hyphen, got it.

As for this:

> I don’t see the issue with these kind of protections. If there were none, some massive corporation would come in, make a cheaper, worse version with the same name, and put the original makers out of business. Consumers lose, small businesses lose, local communities lose, and the only winner is BigCo.

That's exactly what has happened anyway in food without those things at the very source, farms are mainly a consolidated conglomerate all over the World; but in Italy the biggest food monoliths are able to have amazing clout, especially in ER, but the truth is that Italy has an integral counter-balance as it has a deep and rich history with it's cuisine such that the consumers are far better educated and entirely unlikely to fall for the the allure of a 'race to the bottom' as ER prides itself as 'Il Paese del Buon Gusto.'

It was such a pleasure cooking in ER where many of our patrons would give me direct feedback and come back to see the improvements as we went throughout the season(s) as many were locals and how so many invited me and my staff into their own homes to hang and show us how they make those aforementioned products without the labels. And just so it's clear, its not like they don't have some that are protected along side as well.

Modena is best known for it's Aceto, but one of the patrons I mentioned had vats going back over 500 years that were moved to Maranello during WWII due to damage and re-purposing of what was mainly farm land and not only did it have that regional seal, but he had proudly stated that he had sold out his entire foreseeable inventory (at the times) for the next 3 years. He had no desire to expand, and he took great pride in just making an amazing product that embodied his family's traditions and his local culture.

The situation is just a lot more nuanced than what you're making it out to be, and also you have to understand that Italy is a country with 50+ types of cheeses, and probably well over 100 types of pasta, that are really just colloquially named to differ from the others and are only slightly different, if at all, than others.

What I'm trying to say is that Italy specifically is so fragmented that I don't think what you propose is a real threat after having lived and worked there.

Ironically, this is also why they say Italy is entirely ungovernable as well.
Hi _cart, creator of Planimeter's Grid Engine (a Lua game engine) here. Congratulations on your phenomenal work! I'm very familiar with the fact that posts like these on HN that help drive adoption, so thanks to adamnemecek as well.
That’s also why I stay away from the clusterf%%% of front end development and JS if possible except for simple AWS Lambda scripts that have one dependency - AWS SDK.

Any other scripting I do with Python. Any more complicated development it’s using a language with an ecosystem with adults - C# or Go.
> you absolutely should use every dependency you can that will save you time.

Absolutely. As long as it does save you that time over the foreseeable lifetime of the project. Or you are deliberately incurring a technical debt because of some deadline.

On the other hand, saving an afternoon (or even a week), over the next two weeks means very little.
I'm curious which package managers / repositories allow you to update to the latest version of go as soon as it's released * ?

* In any remotely trustable and reliable way; random PPAs relying on somebody's free time don't count, IMHO.

I've noticed Ubuntu, Debian, Centos, and Oracle Enterprise Linux are always trailing by quite a clip. Often years.

The strategy I've been using is to just manually install it on the machines where I need it. The production go versions only get updated as required.
It's a popular claim that 1 in 5 CEOs is a psychopath. I don't know if that's true, but I'm inclined to think it wouldn't be such a popular claim if it weren't somewhere close to the truth. CEOs who don't seem to give a damn about the wellbeing of their employees aren't particularly rare.
They spend a few thousand bucks conducting the experiments and collecting samples in those countries and then pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to gene sequencing companies. They get a spreadsheet in return that no one knows how to read or that has glaring discrepancies. I had to explain to 3 biogists that even though their PCA plot looks decent, a total explained variance of like 10% is not much to brag about. They had grants in the millions of dollars...
There’s not a particularly thrilling benchmark here:
https://bevyengine.org/news/introducing-bevy/

Basically an ECS is not really a secret easy pattern to cache coherent data access. This benchmark shows its fast for the easy cases but says nothing about typical game requirements.
Yeah, I've done it. You just get your bags searched a little harder as if you had been "randomly selected for additional screening".
Can I take in from the answers here that no one uses anaconda?

I'm only a beginner and that is what I was told to use. It has environments too. Should I be using something else?
"There are no changes to the language."

Rob Pike is the ultimate troll.
Until I have to come in behind you after you’ve left for greener pastures and I have to figure out your bespoke framework and libraries.
Thanks very much for that correction. I have no idea how I got the idea that the Commonwealth is so much smaller than it is.

So I retract the points I made based on that false assertion.
Not the only people anywhere. The only people on the job market.

So the skills in question, while niche, still enjoyed a supply/demand ratio that ensured that the structural unemployment rate for people who had them was 0%. And most companies know to get who you can and then make sure they stay happy.

Unfortunately, large conglomerates tend to be very credientialist. So leadership positions tend to be filled with people who have diplomas from schools with a lot of name recognition, rather than people who have enough of their own domain expertise to understand the product's business environment.
Don't forget that she was also the top law enforcement officer for California aka 'Top Cop', which to some on the left find unforgivable. (see ACAB (All Cops are B*stards)
It's very likely that YouTube still loses money.
Caddy binaries on Linux shrink by ~2.5 MB with Go 1.15! (~33 MB down to ~31 MB)

3 MB savings on Mac, and 2 MB on Windows: https://github.com/caddyserver/caddy/pull/3642#issuecomment-...

So about 8-10% reduction.
Impressive!

this has the potential to be rust’s flutter! (Bevy UI)
If I recall correctly this is also the advice PG gives in On Lisp when deciding whether or not it is time to write a new function.
DRM isn't good for the end user.
Hah, reading through that list I thought 'hey this is my ADHD', and sure enough that is where you went with it.
Here's a writeup comparing Specs (Amethyst sub-project) and Legion ECS. https://csherratt.github.io/blog/posts/specs-and-legion/
They forced Eich out because maintaining him in a leadership role and "face of the company" was at odds with their values as a company and foundation.

And usage of "virtue signalling" in the manner you used it is strongly associated with bigotry.
Changing your mind, repentance, and learning are extremely important and possible for all 90-year-olds except for the severely demented. I've known one 89-year-old who changed her mind on a very important (negative) core value she had her whole life.
It also does a lot of storage intensive, non search related stuff, like Google Cloud Storage.

Every Google data center does...everything.
List of Upcoming IPOs in 2020–2021 / Part 4
Nothing beats 146% election

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My main worry is that there may be longer term effects which are not apparent for a year or more. There doesn't seem to be a way to ensure long term effects are absent besides conducting a long term test. I'll happily get my flu shot this year though, so perhaps I'm being a bit hypocritical.
No one percenter can solve racial inequality, pollution or climate change if you and I are not on board.
Founders Do. Not. Raise. Venture. Capital
Adobe Dropping Support for PhoneGap
"Drive" is by Daniel Pink, and it's about what really motivates problem solvers/intelligence workers.
i really love this. i wish the entire internet was like it.
Ah yes forgot about that. The kernel side has also been split up into win32kbase.sys and win32kfull.sys/win32kmin.sys (I think win32kmin may have only been used for the now discontinued Windows 10 Mobile), and win32k.sys just calls into those.
This feeling can definitely be found in shorter sports. The mental strength needed to get into the ring and box a 3 minute round (or multiple 3 minute rounds) is the same feeling.

It's really all about if you are pushing yourself or not. If you are playing a fun social game, then yea you won't get tough. But in the same way I've done many day hikes etc that I didn't find particularly challenging at least compared to boxing. Having someone trying to punch you in the face is a fairly stressful experience even in a controlled environment.
The Bill of Rights (the first 10 Amendments to the Constitution) limit the government. The Articles of the Constitution assign the rights and responsibilities of the government.

> The govt has no right to prevent us from flying

You have also misunderstood the Constitution. The government does have the right to limit our individual rights either because we have lost them after due process (eg. you have no right to fly if you are serving a prison sentence) or due to national security actions (eg. you have no right to fly if the country grounds all flights like it did immediately after 9/11).
I don't think a country with space capability is seriously considering making orbit useless over censorship. That'd be like shooting yourself in the foot right after you've trained for a marathon, in order to ingratiate yourself with firearms manufacturers.
Just an anecdote but TINA is the reason I’m in the market right now. Though it doesn’t help that home prices around me are rocketing.
> Companies that classify their workers as independent contractors in this way are taking advantage of the fact it can take people up to a year to realize that taxes and car maintenance will take what little income they have made.

When I drove pizza delivery, I discovered car maintenance took what little income I made. I was a W2 employee, paid less than minimum wage, because I earned tips. Independent contractor status isn't the only method for surprising people.

I take issue with the paternalistic idea that an employee is more deserving than other types of people. The commenter above said, "This is why we have regulations." I interpreted that as beginning a discussion of what regulations we should have. If that was incorrect, I'm sorry for causing confusion. If that was the intent, then I'll reassert that focusing myopically on the distinction between an employee and a contractor is ignoring much better solutions.
> The fact that they've chosen to focus on revenue instead says everything you need to know about how far Mozilla has fallen.

You have to be able to pay the bills first IMO. I don't fault them for that at all.
My son has eight different IM things on his phone, counting Signal/SMS as just one. There is Element, Discord, and a bunch of others, that all warble and chime at him.
Ask HN: How to think of big ideas for your software architecture?
As a leader, if you are asked to develop 2-5 year plan for the software, how would you go about it. I feel like my imagination has become quite bounded lately, dealing with day to day and have lost the bigger vision.
Didn't they remove it?

Didn't find it in chromium. Might look again.
I am very interested to know what's up with common voice... Please chime in if anyone knows anything!
> I'm curious which package managers / repositories allow you to update to the latest version of go as soon as it's released * ?

Arch Linux.

I just saw the release when I was checking for updated versions of packages I maintain, and built it before users started bugging me about outdated go binaries.

https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/go/
>consciousness solves problem X efficiently along dimensions Y and Z' where X is some fundamental component of intelligence, and Y and Z are environmental constraints

There are two criteria I'm addressing here. Consciousness is either physical (produced in the universe) or informational (produced in the mind). Consciousness is either important to intelligence or incidental to intelligence. My position, which I'll justify below, is informational/important. If you accept that consciousness is manufactured in the mind and important to intelligence, that means we evolved it. Because it is a widespread evolved trait, it very probably is an effective solution to a problem against environmental constraints, towards the larger goal of reproduction.

Constraints might include the amount of genetic data needed to produce a useful output, how well it deals with failure cases, how well it responds to genetic mutations or how well it withstands viruses or cancer. The kind of stuff that is irrelevant from the perspective of an intelligent designer like us with access to basically limitless indestructable computational resources.

Physical/important I responded to previously, but briefly: the big issue is scale. Humans run on proteins and large organic molecules. If there was something nonmathematical at that size and in our bodies, we would very probably know about it by now.

Both informational/ and physical/ irrelevant are 'side effect' models. They have at least two flaws. Consciousness follows attention, not brain activity. If I do something subconsciously, I am engaging the same neurons but not producing the same side effects. Consciousness is not a disconnected afterimage of intelligence because I am aware of it and can perform reason on it. It affects and is affected by my brain. If it's a side effect, it's one that has been knitted into me, presumably to some benefit.

So what does that make consciousness? Taking it as an informational tool to some end, we can probe some interesting questions. Self-assertion, which I referred to earlier, is an interesting mathematical property. A set of rules that allow the system within them to prove its own existence? And it's a global property across all conscious experience, that's certainly of note. The benefit of consciousness seems to be related to awareness of self and environment (that's all experience seems to be) as well as executive function- we experience a sense of free will, presumably because evolution wants us to help run things from here. There's a remote possibility that free will is real, and consciousness is somehow an non-deterministic process. That and beyond are all speculation, though.

The belief system you describe is how I got out of nihilism and escaped what was an agonizing conflict between romanticism and realism (I like the song Imitosis by Andrew Bird for depicting that conflict). There's a cold, meaningless reality out there, but somehow there's meaning that is made of it. We matter even though (or because) if we didn't, nothing would.
This is interesting - I couldn’t determine how they train them system to recognise all the products though.

Flavour variants, special promotional packaging etc make training hard due to the sheer size of images that need to be in a training dataset to yield accurate results.

How is this achieved?
ZipPy, the initial implementation of Python on Truffle, was an intern project developed by Wei Zhang [1] while doing his PhD at UC Irvine, and continued by other students for a while. It was later re-implemented from scratch by an Oracle Labs team. I think that the main reason for a clean re-implementation was that the Truffle framework had evolved enough where it was easier to start from scratch than to rebase. Also, ZipPy was reusing the Jython parser, whereas GraalPython is using ANTLR [2].

[1] http://thezhangwei.com

[2] https://medium.com/graalvm/how-to-contribute-to-graalpython-...
WebVan[0] and Pets.com[1], two of the most well known busts of the dot-com era, did not use ads.

Ad-based-internet became a big thing many years later, I believe.

(I do agree that TSLA is different, anyway.)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webvan
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pets.com
If they keep focusing on the browser at the rate things are going they'll be dead as a company. They need to think ahead and work on a strategy that keeps them afloat.
In my understanding X is a situation not a goal to achieve. So it can be as simple as 'Today at 5pm' or 'I am at a bar craving a cigarette'
I think parent means this, which was posted yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24114354 ("The Three Bay Areas").
Before contacting them, I asked to Paypal: they confirmed that the VAT applied is specified by the seller (Gumroad). So I suspect a fraud, too. It depends from who really collect the VAT and who have to pay that tax to the EU country. In any case their behaviour is questionable.
But Libre is a massive product was well, with a tremendous number of work hours put into it over decades. We're talking about alternatives that are nimble and have fewer features.
Thank you, that makes perfect sense.
A useful analogy indeed, thanks.
Where is the site guideline which states that I must fellate VCs?
Would the need for the population to do those things be any less if there were no billionaires?
Using it on all of our services, we all love it. Troubleshooting and optimizations are ridiculously simply, there isn't much investigation, APM just tells you what is wrong, saves a lot of Dev time and we'll worth the money IMO
Repl.it is hiring a programming language hacker
Its much safer and secure to add list Cookie to uBlock Origin.

Or use uBo's element picker. One time job
> My guess is Starlink isn't going to turn off subscribers for small countries, but large countries like Russia and China may have more influence.

That Musk guy lives in America? What about some extra persuasion?
Don't worry, I would never write a bespoke framework. I'd write a custom one. :P
Russia and China have already moved to prohibit access to these LEO internet services, or try to compel the providers to bring down all data that originates in their country to in-country servers for review and control. They are also developing their own constellations in order to provide a service which they can control.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/technology/russia-bans...

https://www.scmp.com/abacus/tech/article/3085146/does-elon-m...

https://www.scmp.com/abacus/tech/article/3089481/satellite-i...

Russia to create orbital Internet satellite cluster by 2025 - Tass https://tass.com/science/1005554
DNS-adblocking in a router can be complemented by the router's firewall blocking outbound to all DoH provider IPs.

(It'll need to be a constantly-updating blocklist, but the DNS-adblock lists are also that already.)
This will presumably pair with their anticipated rollout of a subscription service, if/when that happens.
The part about finding an "African identity" that isn't merely "western" gave me pause because I come from a country that was colonized considerably earlier and, like the rest of the Americas, had its native population decimated so completely and its identity so completely replaced, practically nothing is left but "western"... And I find myself completely alright with that, so it's harder to me to see the importance of such an identity.
“Cerf bet me fifty bucks I couldn’t write a book using only 50 words,” he said later. “I did it to show I could.” This encapsulated the lesson I learned from the recent Michael Jordan documentary - take silly bets and trivial insults seriously and you can be driven to do great things.
For a constellation as large as starlink, that would probably require a lot of missiles, even accounting for Kessler effects.

Also, doings such a thing to an American corporation that's only one or two degrees of separation from the USDoD may prove to be a costly mistake. I think Belarus would need to depend on the strength of their relationship with Russia to avoid retaliation. That hasn't protected Syria though, so maybe Belarus [Lukashenko] should think twice before attempting some hotheaded shit like that.
Let's Build a 28-Core Raspberry Pi Cluster
Some don't, some do. Users living out in the sticks with poor satellite connectivity care about binary size. The HTML5 platform, which I see becoming increasingly important as things like wasm and webgpu mature, cares about binary size because you're potentially downloading it every time you play. It's slightly surreal poking about on itch.io where practically every game is 50 MB, even when most of them are simpler than a 4k demo.