skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm actually OK with this, particularly in the area of tech reporting. The state of the art advances quickly and it's likely worth revisiting assumptions, options, and outcomes with updated inputs.

*I haven't read both articles, so there may actually be no updates.
We've been calling it mana among my group.
> don't get grumpy and territorial over climbing areas

Surfers too were once stoked to share. I imagine climbing will soon reach that critical mass?

Nice of you to share this. I'm moving nearer to the coast for the surf/climbing/hiking. (2020 plan, pre covid, now accelerated!)

edit:

> "I suppose", I said, "I could stick around on a Contract..."

Nice article, I like the pic of you doing support on that sailing boat
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Google needs Mozilla as much as Microsoft needed Apple and will be happy to fund them one way or another if only to look good in the eyes of the regulators. And it's pocket change to Google.
Caltech is a private university. They have to be race-blind because their graduation requirements make it impossible to admit students who can’t do math.
What is rocket gambling!?
yes, understood, but its a good chunk of it (probably 2/3). and for a non profit to be spending nearly $300K per employee seems problematic. (i.e. average salary is probably close to $200K.
I assume all companies except may be Apple and google never delete the data even if they provide the delete option. For example, I still keep getting emails from mint saying that my credit score has changed even though I deleted all my info from my account.
I don't agree at all that the URL is meaningless to humans. If I want my friend to read this page, I copy the link and send it to him. That ID above is clearly the comment page ID. I don't have to see the backend code to know that.

I'm certainly not an average user, but I am a human. The URL on nearly every site gives me all sorts of information.
Browsers should be linked to the OS. The problem is that Google is trying to replace your OS with Chrome so they can track everything you do. Apple has resisted implementing a lot of bad stuff Google is trying to push, and made serious, if insufficient, attempts to stop tracking.
For the whole school year? Or for a couple weeks at the peak of the outbreak?
"There are two cases, one a federal bankruptcy case and the other an employment tax liability case that deal with liability of a member in an LLC. In Re Ashley Albright and Littriello v. United States, et al., remind us that proper asset protection planning, especially in the design of an LLC, is a necessity and without it the consequences may be disastrous. These cases are important because courts are beginning to view a single-member LLC as a disregarded entity under multiple scenarios in some states"

Literally the top result on google. Why are you insulting me?
Why is a computer different then? Would a MacBook Pro that had the same restrictions be acceptable?
Interesting, but the one thing I would want to add to this is that expiring skills are often sort of gateways to permenant ones. By this I mean that learning a coding language that is going to not be in vogue in 5 years still has the potential to teach you perseverance, work ethic, and a new perspective to think through. Very cool thing to think on generally though
nothing is capped during an ongoing pandemic but yeah given we're seeing around 40% asymptomatic, 1% seems about right if not a little on the high side.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/planning-scena...
Show HN: Paramidi – make MIDI music with Nim
I did this, my gmail account has become a convenient burner account. I initially intended to eventually phase it out but it's great for giving out to crappy websites.
It isn't that Google built a faithful recreation of AOL's mechanism. The claim is that Google is in a very similar ecosystem position with very similar incentives to attempt to Own All The Traffic.

I realize hindsight bias is at work, but I think I preferred Microsoft playing the Shitbag Monopolist role. They weren't passive aggressive about it, at least.
I'm a programmer because I enjoy programming. That's also why I enjoy Factorio.
Factorio only sort of deals with queuing theory, concurrency, and so on. Probably to the same extent relative to the actual depth of these subjects as Kerbal Space Program deals with aerospace concepts relative to what aerospace engineers do.

But IMO that's not actually the hardest part of Factorio. The hardest part of Factorio is the same as for software engineering: how to build something that scales and where you can still reason about it. One of the big challenges after just "beating the game" is hitting specific scale targets (the community calls it megabase building), and the factory sizes needed to do that definitely reach the complexity limits of human brains, so many of these players start establishing design conventions and start writing down notes and documentation and calculations for themselves.

I've definitely done things like using a stopwatch to measure roundtrip time for a train in order to calculate latency/throughput numbers for a supply chain in Factorio. But you rarely need to do more than back of the napkin math to be effective.
I use Darktable on Clearlinux, OpenCL is absent here too because I'm using AMD Radeon graphic card which has proprietary driver blobs, and can't be accepted by Clearlinux. This sucks.
>I've had coworkers who would put this before every method call, because...? When calling your own method, in your own class, that inherits/implements no other classes, why on earth would you decorate your own method call with this?

Because it's consistent with the pattern of [object].[method](). When you call a method in class B from class A, the call is b.someMethod(). When you call a method in class A from another method in class A, the call is this.someMethod().

I personally find that the consistency makes the code easier to parse and read. If I join an existing project where "this" isn't being used already, I wouldn't push it. As long as your consistent either way it's not a big deal, but for new projects where I get a say in it, it is my preference.
I remember when Nokia decided to kill meego, or when Canonical stopped pushing DEs (and firing a bunch of people with it). The exactly same reaction happened back then: people tried to save things, push public projects more in the open, move ideas to other companies or create a community repo to sell the idea of an independent project. None of them really lasted or got traction.

It's sad, but the reality is that the fate of a project with only one major stakeholder is tied to that stakeholder's fate.

I'm pretty sure they will all get other jobs, but we have to face the fact that the project itself will probably die.
This is true, but I don't think you are using word embedding like most people use them.

The linear relationship between things like king/queen etc is a cute demo but not really useful or used in practice.

The real usefulness of word embeddings is that similar concepts are close to each other so they make a great representation for other models (vs something like TF-IDF). These days they have been mostly surpassed in terms of state of the art by full language models, but the point is that simple techniques like average embedding of words in sentences generalised really well to unseen data.

And if you add in subword embeddings they generalise to unseen words, too.

We could talk about how context lets language models do this even better, but I'm still back trying to persuade the OP that this isn't just memorisation and good ML models work well on unseen data!
This sounds so much like something that I'd do, that I had to stop and think about my personal hall-of-fame screwups to make sure that wasn't one of them.
Active ingredient drugs most certainly addict people. Physical addiction is a physical state. So much so that if the drug is removed too quickly the withdraw can kill you in some cases (see Heroin).
>EDIT: If you're an Asian-American you get used to this kind of "model minority" discrimination / racism. It just is what it is. My guess is it is similar for Jewish people.

Oh yes, with a similar side-dish of people claiming we're spies who control the world.
Better yet: get your own domain and use it for your primary email and simply have it forwarded, so if your email hoster becomes a problem for whatever reason, you can switch easily.
Undergrads are usually required to live in dense, on campus housing. Even in normal times, campus dorms are a hotspot of disease transmission.
> > their competitiveness isn't just about their cycling stats, but buying from the cheapest source.

> Well, yea. Competitive cyclists want to buy that $1000 power meter, or those $2500 ENVE wheels as cheap as possible.

Is this the ultimately the market for parts from bike chop shops? What I never quite understood is how parts from stolen bikes are turned into cash; some of it doubtlessly goes through eBay or craigslist, but those sites are new and bike theft isn't. My suspicion is that a lot of stolen parts somehow find their way back onto store shelves as "second hand" parts that can be sold at very low prices for a large profit.
I use emacs all day every day, and I’m not sure what was going on in these screen captures. What keys were being pressed? Which window had the point? What were the letters s d l r for? What was trying to be accomplished?
In a few weeks most of the developers on the Servo team will get another job. The project could be picked up by other people later but only with a significant loss of knowledge and momentum.

Now is the critical time for a another company to step in. Microsoft has better alignment with free web than Facebook or Google. This could be a chance for them to get a competitive independent browser again.
SV (and to a slightly lesser extent NY) compensation. not worldwide. Having worked in SV for the past few years and now earning a european salary, its no where near same ballpark.

and yes, I called it personnel cost vs salary, because I wasn't talking about the fully loaded cost.

if people are willing to work at startups in SV for $150-$180K salaries (with significant experience, and I had enough offers from my time in SV to get a good handle on the market) those same people if they wanted to work at mozilla would earn similar amounts. but these are higher end engineers earning the $180K at a startup. mozilla has a significant number (article I just read said about half) of its employees work remotely.
ZIRP and Markets
Most countries have subsidized "basic food products" such as eggs, bread and milk.
> Seems to be a bit useless without it.

...In the same way a dictionary is useless if you want a novel.
The data say a male Karen is a Terry
I work at a non-profit and all back-end office workers are going to be WFH for the foreseeable future.

My MIL has been living on her own for a while now, so my wife and I will be moving in with her to help her out, be close to family, and save $.

My quick estimate is that it'll save us ~24K/year. I used to be able to justify rent and other expenses but it's never seemed dumber to me. If/when we move back to the city where I work, we will do so when we can buy a house/condo.

We will use this saved money to pay off debt, save, and help out our family.

P.S. I should clarify that we are moving from a large city to a very small town in a nearby state where COL is significantly lower.
That sounds like a shitty sequel to the goose game.
They've got 30 days to delete data, there's no excuse not to manage it within 30 days.

Also, you're saying they intentionally built a software stack without even thinking about how to obey the law (the 30-day deletion requirement existed even before the GDPR, since 1996 even, just with lower fines)

I hope in a few years this case will be taught in school just like the Therac case is being taught right now.
I really think you're making a decent contribution here, except for the part where you blame Marxists. Marxists hate these people.
And the speed runners are the ones doing waterfall design rather than agile.
Interesting. I am in Ontario and I hadn't noticed this trend before.
For me it was less about leaving the tech giant, but moreso diversifying away from them.

I used to be a Google Guy. Android Phone, everything in my Google Account, Gmail and would use a Google service over anything else. Then I started to hear about Google randomly banning accounts and realized that having this one god Google account that basically ran my life is a major vulnerability.

So I started to diversify, not just to other services, but at Google as well. First I moved my mail, calendar, tasks to Fastmail, ditched my Android and got an iPhone, moved from Google Photos to iCloud. Next were the services I still needed from Google: Youtube, Google Play Console, Analytics, Search Console and a few others.

For those I created seperate Google accounts to manage every individual service. One for GP, One for GA and Google Search Console and one for Youtube. This way if Google bans my Youtube account, the damage is only contained to that one account and that one service.

That's how I did it.
Not for the whole school year, no.
I'll admit that I've never deployed a service with 10,000+ clients.

And CORBA (after looking it up) seems to include behavior (or allow it, anyway) in the messages. That's about much more than having a precise/tight contract on what you're sending. It's much more burdensome to ask someone to implement so much logic in order to communicate with you. I'm fine with the contracts only being about data messages.

SOAP is closer to what I'm talking to. Or even just regular REST with XML instead of JSON.

I'm asking genuinely, how would life be worse between a REST + XML and a REST + JSON implementation of some service? In either case, tightening a contract will cause clients to have to firm up their requests. In either case, loosening requirements (making a field optional, for example) would not require changes in clients, AFAIK.

The only difference that I see is that one can write JSON by hand. And that's fine for exploring an API via REPL, but you surely don't craft a bunch of `"{ \"foo\": 3 }"` in your code. You use libraries for both.

It just seems insane that we don't have basic stuff in JSON like "array of things that are the same shape".
The entire premise of the article seems to be that the owner has written off the middle to high end of the market, and everybody who rides seriously or competitively. It's just fine, it's a totally suitable market niche to cater to the casual customer, if that's who makes up a large part of the local customer base.

Serious cyclists will indeed laugh at bicycle shaped object sold by Walmart and similar stores. But, when somebody who rides 10000 km a year for regular base training is asked, by one of their friends or relatives to recommend a bike shop and a normal bike in the affordable price range, their opinion does carry some weight.

The best bike shops that I know of are not ones that cater exclusively to the high end of the market, or to only the casual cyclist. but rather shops that carry a full range of everything from bicycles for a two-year-old child, to a $400 city bike, to $6500 road bikes.

How many accessories and higher profit margin small items can a shop reasonably expect to sell to a person who has purchased a $600 bike to ride around town? Helmet, maybe a light? It does follow logically that they would rely on more revenue from repairs and services.

Once you get into much more expensive bikes, which are more technically complex, the riders are also much more likely to be capable of doing a good amount of the work themselves. the sort of people who owns several $3,000 road bikes probably also own at least 400 to $500 of Park Tool hand tools. They're not going to be going into a shop to change a chain and cassette, they're doing it themselves. Similarly people with serious mountain bikes are likely to own their own hydraulic brake bleed kits and such.
After 20y of Apple with a Mac Cube, XServes, XSANs, first ipod, first ipad, Webcams, Airports, Mac Minis, first iPhone, first MacBookPro, many MacBookPros after that, iPods, iMacs, iMac Pros, iPhones, filling departments with Apple products as CTO in several companies, I no longer buy Apple because since some years they do not care about developers any more - it's no longer the same company as with Steve.
College takes a lot of the administrative burden off of that stuff - offering student groups funding, space to meet, administrative support, systems to adjudicate disputes, etc.

If you think about yourself at 18... how likely would you have been to seek out social clubs, conferences, or hobby groups on your own?
In C#, 'this' is how you gain access to extension methods for the current class. At least, that's how you get most tooling to expose them as viable completion candidates.
Servo wasn't even the main engine.

Considering their main revenue sources will likely be decimated, it makes sense to focus resources on the primary browser engine, and allow the open source community to build out the experimental features, moving temporary resources there as needed.

The thing with Open Source is that even if Mozilla Corp goes under, all of us can continue building out Firefox like a regular open source project. Or the Linux foundation could pick it up, etc.

That's literally how Firefox was created in the first place, as an open source continuation of the Netscape browser.

Using Firefox will lead to improvements that will persist even beyond Mozilla Corp. In the meanwhile, Mozilla Corp can be looked at as an experiment to commercially and profitably develop Firefox, which, if it fails, will require us to switch to the non commercial models that are driving several other open source projects.
I think the difference is mainly in restrictions on what kind of activities a non-profit can participate in. I'm not sure on the details.
Trump: 'A lot of people' think Edward Snowden 'not being treated fairly'
There are many studies that show a link between incidence of cancers and meat consumption as well as increased risk of heart disease[0]. The relative risk is minor, though, and you can live unhealthily on any diet.

[0] https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Francesco_Sofi/publicat... for example
>Obviously you're being glib, but the truth is that a lot of the "old" production and supply lines no longer exist.

I would counter that "old" farmers were able to use the seed from the current crop to plant for the next season so that it was self-sustaining. Now, with modified seeds from places like Monsanto where the plant from the seeds of this year's crop will not produce fruit. This forces you to need to buy new seeds each year.

I'm also suggesting that we go back to planting more than one crop per farm, and then even switching which part of the farm each plant is grown in. Crop rotation is such a huge concept that we've just thrown away. We can still use "plastic" and even "smart" equipment. We don't have to go back to stone age tools, that's just daft. We had that before July 5 1994 too.
I like the idea of supporting my local shop (I’m an early 30s MTBer, the target of much of this article’s justifiable complaints however I would have happily bought that inner tube if they’d just pumped my tyre up like that and probably gone back to me a larger purchase) but my shop doesn’t deserve my support.

Slow, rude and one ran up a £250 repair bill when I asked them to do an investigation with an initial cap at £50.

There is a guy running a repair shop locally though who I recently discovered, he charges slightly more than I would like but he does a good job, has gone above and beyond for me on one occasion and really knows his stuff. He I will happily give my money, the local shop not so.

Now I think about it, there was a great shop where I lived up north who would regularly not charge me for small jobs. Nothing I did persuaded them to charge me. Their stock was really low end due to being in a poor town so I used to just buy a box of CO2 canisters and a couple of inner tubes, I’ve got dozens of the damn things kicking around still, they must have wondered how I got so many punctures!
This is the problem with the low hanging fruit strategy.
Everyone gets behind the 20% improvement. Almost nobody gets behind the 1% improvement. Those only happen by force of will (some developer doing it despite being told not to).

In the end you are 80% of the way to the goal and the last 20% is politically insurmountable. This is, IME, a primary driver for the Lava Flow Antipattern.
You seem awful to work with
Experiments should not involve other people’s money. Both companies and individuals do it all the time, but involving « investors » (mind the quotes lol) for something that’s expecting to fail is simply irresponsible.
In most asian culture, people live with their parents for the entirety of life

As a non Asian (with an admittedly fictional Asian pseudonym) I happen to be a member of a Facebook group called Subtle Asian Traits. It’s an extremely popular group, largely made up of young high school to late-20s Asian-Americans (and expats living in other western countries). The most common and persistent theme is the tension between westernized Asian kids and their traditional parents. These kids are desperate to get away from this controlling influence. They find temporary relief and camaraderie by joking about how extremely strict their parents are.
> can be emulated

yep, you just need money.
I really enjoy the responses here because I think this is the first time I got what all the fuss about containerized systems.

Stateless is a pain unless it forces you to decouple from the state (in the database, presumably?) so you can roll back (or forth) easily.

I know everyone in the industry probably thinks: haven't you read all these manuals and guides? Even as a tourist, that is what we have been telling you.

As a tourist: no, I didn't see what the guides thought they were showing me. I've seen this a lot where I read through an intro just to learn (I don't program sites professionally), and then at the end I have an "aha" moment that was never (in my opinion) explicitly stated.
>They even had a video ready to go!

The beauty of their main technology product, a realtime engine is that it can create videos like that on much smaller timelines than traditional CG or a live shoot.

Honestly with the right talent that could have been pulled together surprisingly fast.
Cool idea. Sadly only the b/w example scans for me, and even that takes a while to register.
There are mods that add blueprints to Satisfactory. Kind of wonky but definitely works. I'm sure official blueprints will work fine. My gut feeling is that we will see it in Update 4 since it's the most requested feature.

Best game ever btw and this comes from a seasoned Factorio player.
The outburst is aimed right at us that's a little disconcerting even though it's 642+ light years away.
Do you support GoPro videos (h265)? I have played around on the same concept but the lack of .mov support (iPhone) and mp4+h265 (gopro) is kind of a bummer for Chrome users.
That's the view of one random person at Microsoft.
At one point there was definitely a mod where you built the rocket in Factorio and launched it in KSP.
Can this be used for courses ? Or is there a reason why it should not be used for building training courses ?