skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I lived in Cary for a long time and also attended NCSU for grad school. I've been following the conversation on related sub-reddits and it seems like the biggest concern is what students are doing when they're not on campus: parties, crowded gatherings down Hillsborough St, etc. Community spread will still happen ... just that campus activities will not be the main driver.
Two things. First, it signals that maybe solo founding isn't going to be your thing. Second, it cautions a career path that involves working for big companies with good job security and benefits, ideally in a department where you can be forgotten about and not ever required to produce any results.

If you remove all blockers from your path and still remain blocked, it's a good indication that you shouldn't ever place yourself in a position where people are going to notice.
I was under impression that it was a green policy to recommend people eat more fish, acting as a replacement for e.g. beef which (if I recall correctly, I'm not certain) has more harmful environmental effects than fishing.
Word embeddings suck. Take a look at the graphs under "
2. Linear substructures" in

https://nlp.stanford.edu/projects/glove/

and note that they all involve looking at a small number of points. It is easy to reproduce plots like that but if you try to increase the number of points the result breaks down completely.

It is a curve fitting problem: for a small enough set of points compared to the number of dimensions, you can find a matrix that projects a set of random points to an exactly specified set of points in the plane. If you relax the problem to something like "put colors on the left side, put smells on the right side" you will get better than random performance from that kind of model, but not that much better than random.

Word embeddings are a strategy that approaches an asymptote. Systems that are destined to low performance will perform better if you use a word embedding, but they throw away information up front that makes high performance impossible.
Alumni paying millions (billions) of dollars over years is of great merit to a private university.
ripgrep has been in Debian and Ubuntu as a non-snap package for quite some time.

> So you claim the package was in Debian and Canonical removed it to replace it with a snap?

No, I don't claim that. I'm not sure how you drew that conclusion.
This is def solid advice. Once you have a good idea of the codebase, going hard like this would be like a few months of investment? Which I think pays more dividends unless you have a burning desire for something on the side (mastering interviews, project, side business, etc).
That link seems to require a google account to access. So the mail-archive.com link was rather more useful.
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You probably won't like what I'm saying: WASM and Rust are completely irrelevant for the vast majority of people. It's only HN and a couple other places where folks are obsessed with it. Far more important is having a browser that can decipher that laughable piece of shit we're calling the web, and have unleashed upon the world. It would be cool if we could focus on fixing it.
On one hand, I get where you're coming from.

On the other hand, if they offer a recipe app for free (because it contains no recipes, and let's face it, that's how you get quick user interest), then purchase recipes for $1.x each to cover the amortised app creation cost, you're basically just sidestepping the app store cut by any other name.
Before all of my work time transitioned to deep learning projects about 7 years ago, I spent about 15 years (mostly as a remote consultant) creating and deploying systems for customers. A few random thoughts, admitting that my opinions may be out of date:

Question number one: what is the business cost for a system being offline? If the cost is moderate, I find it difficult to argue against running two copies on a single server or VPN in different availability zones behind a robust (managed as a service) load balancer. Scale the servers or VPNs for anticipated work load.

Managed container services or platforms like AppEngine or Heroku have always made sense to me to to reduce labor costs.

Containerized infrastructure makes sense when the benefits out weigh the labor costs.
People don’t know what to do with Asians because, as a group, they achieve better than white people. However, this shouldn’t be possibly in systemically racist white America.
I was just thinking about this the other day: at the same time, they keep adding weird, inscrutable nonsense at the end of every Google Search URL, so what's the point of hiding the protocols and www and whatnot?
I just confirmed that desktop Safari has exactly the behavior this post describes. If I visit any Wikipedia page, what I see in the URL bar is "[lock icon] en.wikipedia.org". The path is entirely removed.
"I'm trying to inform folks about data deletion works."

Is hard to reconcile with this comment.

Whether data is an image or some other record is immaterial. If the user (or the controller, for that matter) tells you to delete their data you delete it. Full stop. That's the right thing to do and in many places now a reason to get fined if you don't. Whether your company is based in the USA or not is immaterial.

You also responded to an inquiry of Facebook employees as though you were one, when in fact you work somewhere else entirely. I think you mean well but possibly do not understand the implications of your statements here.
I'm likely biased because I spend some of my time doing perception research, but I find the "advanced sensors are necessary" argument so odd. We have clear evidence from humans that you don't need them. I expect we'll be doing this sort of thing [0] in toy dynamic scenes from monocular vision in ~1year, and in real-time on city scenes in ~2. Perception-wise, what more do you need?

Planning and control seem much harder, but that's not a sensing problem.

[0] https://nerf-w.github.io/
This isn't a problem with the game. This is a problem you are having with games in general.

I have it too, and it's a consequence of growing up and/or having more responsibilities.

I can either play Factorio, or I can spend time with my kids. Factorio, which I love, loses every time.

The only games I play now are ones I can play with my kids. ... so I set my daughter up with Starcraft 2 and am teaching her about strategy while still scratching that gaming itch.

My dream is to have a multiplayer LAN based VR Elder Scrolls game to play at home with the family.
The desire to make production changes outside of version control and change management flows is not a complaint about containers. It isn't an Apple vs. PC debate. It is literally reading a question from that person on your team who makes your job extremely difficult and error prone.
India also has very high incidence of cardiovascular disease. Just because you can doesn't mean you should.
Wow! This is the elephant in the room that doesn't get talked about in that article at all. You're also the only person to mention it, despite the fact that it is the only essential step to a commercial machine learning project.
I created some Covid-19 emoji masks at Teespring. Let's see where this goes
Meh, "hosted on AWS = I can't avoid Amazon" isn't a reasonable question, it's like "My dentist used Amazon to buy his pants = I can't Avoid Amazon". You aren't doing business with Amazon by visiting a site hosted on AWS, the site owner is, and you're doing business with them. If you don't want AWS to see your IP for some "no direct touching" reason, get a VPN.

Six Degrees Of Separation is a fun game, but I don't think it's useful for this kind of debate.
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My son's state university is forcing students to return in person.

I fully expect a notable outbreak in some college to start a wave of media noise, followed by all the universities sending everyone back home again.

Sucks because students are signing leases, moving crap, buying meal plans, etc, right now. Aside from the obvious safety issues.
My immediate thought to your comment was that "frosh" is actually very common and accepted slang for "freshmen". That said, I did not expect to see it in the article's lede – or in the president's official statement [0]:

> We will continue planning with the hope and expectation of bringing undergraduates back to Stanford at the earliest possible time. If public health conditions allow, we plan to invite frosh, sophomores and new transfer students to be in residence on campus for the winter quarter, and juniors and seniors for the spring quarter.

[0] https://healthalerts.stanford.edu/covid-19/2020/08/13/autumn...
I think it kinda didn't had an end goal anymore.

They had detected the most profitable improvements and moved them over to Firefox.

So I'm not really surprised about them not continuing servo, even though it had been grate.

I'm more worried about some of the other layoff.

Further it feels a bit like they got in a place where they financially couldn't go on like before and fanned out to get more revenue streams but if that fails we might be down to chrome + safari, which would be horrible, tbh.

If it really comes to that we might even want to try to push the EU to get financially involved or something.
It will (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3XcQtoja_Y), and VR already conveys MUCH more of the micro-interactions of being with people that we are unknowingly blind to in Zoom meetings, which is one reason Zoom meetings are so draining.
Production of what?

I've worked in one industrial plant, and they mostly just needed power and steam to run the processing equipment.

If you need oil as a chemical input, you could offset that carbon or likely synthesize it. But even just reducing our fossil oil use to ingredients and not fuel would make a massive difference.
Safari does something like this (showing the full url only when you select it), and it can also be disabled in the settings.

It does not do anything like obfuscating where the document comes from, like Chrome on Android does to hide the fact that they are serving AMP pages.
Yeah, well maybe after they have this power, we can leave it to google to fix all the content next ;)
It would be more correct to say that homeopathy became explicitly based on water memory after atomic theory and the size of atoms achieved mainstream acceptance. And while Dalton and Avogadro had certainly made convincing arguments based on chemistry in the early 19th century, and thermodynamicists like Boltzman had models of heat and heat transfer that seemed to depend on particles, it wasn't until after Einstein's paper on Brownian motion and Rutherford's interpretation of the Geiger-Marsden experiment that homeopathic dilution just being dilution became an unsustainable notion.

It was always a silly notion, especially when numbers like 30C - a dilution of one part in 10^60, or one molecule of the target substance in 3 × 10^34kg of water, after you understand what molecules are - were being thrown around, but there was at least a plausible explanation before, say, WW1.
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I wonder if Livvie Lin and other Google engineers read such HN threads. What might be their internal discussions, I wonder.

How do they justify such design decisions? Are they asked by someone else to figure out how to make such wierd things happen as they just do as ordered?
Have a look at the ice cracks/cracking at about 56 seconds in:

https://youtu.be/chxn2szgEAg?t=56

Compare this with various different wispy, cloudlike-with-tendrils pictures of Nebulas, at different scales.

Is it possible that light/planets/solar systems/gravitational wells/galaxies/energy/other objects found in the universe -- are created by stress pressures in various regions of space as they rub against one another like tectonic plates, or like the regions of ice with immense pressure (forming cracks) as in the video above?

It brings up an interesting question in Astrophysics, which is, "Can two very large regions of space -- form lines of stress pressures between them?".

If we think about space conventionally, the answer must be 'no', since we assume it's sort of like a superfluid, and that pressure (as a vacuum) must be consistent everywhere.

But what if that vacuum "pressure" (the inverse of pressure, negative pressure) is not consistent everywhere?

What if some areas of space, for lack of a better way to describe it, are more "vacuumy" (less pressure) than others, and if so, could this allow pressure differentials at scale to form, and if so, do they create everything else in the universe that is NOT space, much like the cracks in the ice sheet, above? (Region of ice = region of space, ice crack = everything else that is NOT space (Counterspace), i.e., matter, energy, gravitation, etc.)

(Also: I would completely expect to be called a "Crackpot" for suggesting this potential comparison... <g> I personally don't believe that science is ever advanced unless we attempt hypotheses, no matter how crazy, and then see how they play out over time... <g>)
> customer and developers have no alternative and no choice.

They have Android, which dominates the market.

I get it, Apple Bad! Bad Keyboards! No Upgrades! Bad Bad Bad! And yet people time and time again want iPhones over Android - because they like the way the App Store is, they like iOS, they don't want malware on their phones that is rampant on Androids. Opening it up will be WORSE FOR DEVS.

> This is the same as with store owners who have to hand over part of their earnings as danegeld to some gangs controlling their neighborhood.

No, it's the same as store owners who have to pay higher rent to be on a busy street. Which isn't illegal.

> I don't get how anyone who stands up for freedom of information, a free internet and a fair economy can still own an iPhone without developing schizophrenia..

There are plenty of avenues for information - the iPhone controls apps - but the rules of engagement are clear and 2 million apps managed to get on the app store. If you can't, that's your problem.

Still waiting for a real argument on here.
HA! Try growing or raising animals and not using Amazon...
Can't speak for others, but Steam gets 30%

Source: https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/30/18120577/valve-steam-gam...
I’ve learned to take the time and go through the normal deploy steps for any hot fix. More often then not, rushing the steps leads to longer outages, missing the actual bug, creating a new bug, etc.

Don’t cowboy it, deploy properly and you’ll be more relaxed in the long term.
No, the aws start-session command does not require a keypair - you're reading further down in the instructions about other ways to connect.
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Great game. Without being critical of the team's awesome accomplishment, I do wonder if there's something to be learnt here about software development productivity. How did the Coffee Stain guys develop Satisfactory apparently so much faster than the Factorio guys?

Factorio started in 2013. Satisfactory started development in 2016 and released 2019. At the time Satisfactory was released it seemed already more advanced than Factorio -- and after only having been developed for half as long. (The visual complexity of Coffee Stain's game is off the charts compared to Factorio. Factorio has a board game style whereas Satisfactory is a modern 3D game. Look at the launch trailers.)

Coffee Stain has about 25 employees working on 2 games (Goat Simulator and Satisfactory), Wube Software has 15 employees working on 1 game (Factorio).

Having read Factorio's dev blogs I feel like there might have been a bit of not invented here syndrome. They wrote their own UI toolkit for instance. Maybe they kept inventing technologies while Coffee Stain found ways to reuse existing tools?
> An actual community project should rise from this state of affairs

This is just so naive view ... it's always the abstract "community" which should step in and save the day. Recently it was LibreOffice too where people got all mad due to proposed branding and again "community" superhero was expected to step in, fork it and carry on the whole development.

In reality these projects are far too huge to be purely community projects. They require full time paid developers and not few of them. They won't be able to survive without corporate sponsorship (and thus influence).
How long would it last?
I have grave doubts about these claims.

I don't have a copy handy but I seem to recall the author of "The China Study" making this claim and then presenting his lab evidence to support it. The evidence includes the admission that the laboratory mice used are a specific breed chosen for their predisposition to certain types of cancers and that they are fed diets of protein far in excess of what they would normally choose to eat. With these two factors combined he was barely able to get a statistically significant signal regarding health effects related to the long-term ingestion of protein.

He summarizes that extrapolating his results to human scale would be the equivalent of a person eating something like 2,000 hot dogs a day which he admits is ridiculous. This isn't a one-time event but an ongoing level of protein intake which would result in potentially harmful future health outcomes. His conclusion is that despite all of this, protein is a great risk to human health and the consumption of meat and meat-based products should be reduced if not eliminated.

No evidence is ever given related to normal levels of protein intake in healthy mice or humans. No mention of confounding factors like smoking, exposure to environment, or simply other dietary factors like gut bacteria. The only controls are the fact that the mice used are genetically pure and therefore many of these variables have already been eliminated.

This book has been heralded as a great example of nutrition science and why things like vegetarianism and veganism are superior to omnivorous or carnivorous diets. It has been directly contrasted with Gary Taubes' work who has pages full of analysis on many fairly modern studies using reasoned arguments against the worries about cancer and health related to meat. The laboratory science in "The China Study" was at least 30 years old and did not incorporate new information.

For the record I have been hard-core ketogenic since 2013 and pretty much strictly eat dairy, meat, and meat by-products. I am at the healthiest I have ever been in my entire life by any standard you want to measure and even if I'm wrong I am perfectly willing to continue this way of life because it is higher quality than what I was doing before.
Couldn’t you just use whatever you already use to manage your infrastructure? They are just files on a server so you would manage them with a deploy just like anything else. Initial keys can be added through userdata at instance launch.
I feel your pain. Believe me. After years of building platforms I've just gotten to the point where I think, why can't I just take my source code and run it. Why does no one really offer me this and of all the things that do how many different UIs do I need to go through, how much setup do I need to do. I quite frankly never want to touch AWS ever again.

I built https://m3o.com with this primarily in mind. I spent 5 years building an open source framework so that M3O would not be a silo and multi-environment is a thing. We made it so simple that `micro run [git url]` just works. And what's even better. We just run your code, we don't build a container, there's no CI/CD cruft, we just literally pull your code and run it. That simple.

Containers are a great way to package an app and its dependencies but we can prebaked then and inject the source code. What's more devs don't need to even think about it.
I will from now on consider Chrome as a malware.
By that time it will be warranted to limit user freedom on the web to make security and privacy accessible for everyone, just like Apple does today on their devices. The scary open web and the meaning of a general purpose computing device will be easily forgotten.
Google offers clear alternatives to their play store.

Apple offers a closed experience, which is what my parents want. They don't want to be tricked into downloading malware through some crappy facebook post.

This is depriving the market of a valid product, it's unfair to people who want this product, so that devs can make more money, and Epic can rip off more kids for a skin on a gun.
So you are assuming all black people are poorly educated and will suddenly be flushed with cash?

I wasn't talking about wealth transfer. I was mainly talking about stopping discrimination and providing loans and scholarships to a section of the population that has been discriminated against to redress centuries of oppression.
> Hispanic of any race

what does that even mean, exactly? I fail to see how can it be defined to be non-intersecting with the other categories.
I hope you're not referring to durian. :)

I was just pointing out characteristics that would lend themselves toward sourcing a network switch (e.g. accessible, wealthy, giant freaking electronics malls).
They say "frosh" now because "freshmen" is gender-specific. Many schools do this.
Maybe it's marketed that way by some but it doesn't really make sense given the current state of our oceans.
Yes, this is the best way to do it.
Then you've not used many AMP sites - many do not function properly and try to 'stream' the content as you scroll leading to a garbage experience and missing content.
I firmly think there is a sea change going on from standard “college” degrees to more practical training that will be a mix of apprenticeship and solid training like air/vac, electricians and online skills, since the vast majority of jobs don’t really need a college degree.

This has actually begun already at the high school level.

Once again I believe net/net the beer virus will be positive for America in the long run - even if only on the educational level.

Some will insist that a portion of the population will be disenfranchised and that is true.

But our education assumptions and priorities have been wrong for so long now that it has actually become the weakness of an entire generation for the last 10-20 years.

Just think of it! In a few months we are completely re-examining the utility of taking out a student loan that many cannot pay back in their working lifetimes.

We’re looking and complaining if colleges will go online or reopen in person classes - but there is so much more going underneath that conversation.

This is maybe (hopefully) the last generation of the “underwater basket weaving” so-called useless degrees.
It's absurd here in my state as well. We have peak number of cases in one of the biggest college towns, and students are moving in as we speak. I give it two or three weeks before we cancel everything again.

As an aside, equally scummy are universities that pulled the rug from under students very close to move in. My sister got kicked out of her housing by the university a few days before move in, and basically had to accept that she would be staying home for the fall, as rent prices near school nearly doubled overnight.
For small deployments, running a Common Lisp web app with remote repl access is great for finding problems. I wouldn't recommend this for high traffic apps but there are many use cases in this world for small user base, focused web apps where maximizing developer productivity is required for profitability.
Vote with your choices (use a different browser). That's the only way to address such behaviour. Yes, I know the 95% out there who don't even know what a browser is but only know Chrome's icon gives access to the web won't understand any of this and they will continue giving mega-corporations a critical mass of unquestioning users to be used, but we have no other options.

We either express our voices, no matter if they're fringe (and hope it catches on) or we can just give up and not even write these articles any more.