skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What? Palantir has tons of commercial contracts, although I guess they don't pay as well as government contracts do. Scroll down in this long Buzzfeed article to find a subset of Palantir's commercial clients and their internal code names for them: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/williamalden/inside-pal...
My recollection may not be entirely up to date, but Palantir fielded two distinct product areas: what were previously called (1) "Metropolis" and (2) "Gotham"; the distinctive difference between the two were applications and context to (1) Financial Markets / Quantitative data and (2) "Intelligence" and other unstructured data. These have likely evolved.

The "Intelligence" and other unstructured data area is the main place where Palantir is most known.

It's useful to think of the Palantir company as a Systems Integrator in the classical sense known to the US Federal Government's DoD and Intelligence Communities, and other governmental entities at other levels (e.g. municipal/state). You can also think of them as technology consultants that integrate with customer missions to understand and provide mission-effective technology solutions.

As a systems integrator, they aim to solve customer problems and provide technical solutions; the product can be considered to be parts of their software platform(s), new tools/additions/augmentations, professional services, and relationship/engagement management.

Forward deployed engineers often act as consultants/systems/sales engineers to characterize customer needs and integrate Palantir platforms with customer systems, which often includes the need to write new code/adapters/interfaces; today, you might call them data engineers.

Palantir also has"Software Engineers" that primarily work on the platform(s), rather than directly with customers.

Regarding "evil/not-evil" and secrecy, etc. We're living in a very divided age where many people feel their cause is righteous and more just than others across the political spectrum. We're also seeing that people are too commonly painted as "evil" if they don't share viewpoints.

The thematic mission of much of Palantir's work relates to matters including National security, etc, which their employees are proud to take part in and contribute. This is tied to the meaning of "Save the Shire," where Palantir employees believe in and do their part in the mission to preserve and do good, from their perspective. Lord of the Rings references are plentiful in this world, and Palantir employees have self-referred to themselves as the "Hobbits" working to "Save the Shire."

One of Palantir's early investors was In-Q-Tel, and Peter Thiel. You'll see this theme present in other places involving In-Q-Tel (it's their purpose for existing), and Peter Thiel's other investments (e.g. Anduril Industries, which has many former-Palantir employees).

Other interesting facts: Palantir was/is based out of Palo Alto, CA and occupies a large chunk of Palo Alto's commercial office real estate. It's main office once, or still does, occupy Facebook's former headquarters building, 100 Hamilton Ave, from its early days.
complex stuff like building cars?
> It [the government] should provide child care and public education for families.

I worry that once childcare becomes taxpayer-paid, salaries will eventually reach an equilibrium where use of this public benefit plus dual incomes is the expectation. Then the decision to raise your children (and thus revert to single income) will become an even more premium experience that only the very wealthy can afford. Which is kind of depressing to me, that even more couples than today would be priced out of raising their children by themselves if they desired to do so.

IMO a better way to lift up the poor who can't afford childcare even on dual incomes is for these dual incomes to become larger through wages increasing, such that they can afford said childcare.
Please. NO.
> Table's notion of antifragility

sigh, someday we'll have auto-correct that just works. Doesn't even need to be AI, just use words in the current page. Heck just use contextual info such as the capitalization. Somebody, please?
Wouldn't that make the jet just a fancy missile ?
I agree. I'm running prop nVidia driving 4x 4k monitors under X11 and it. just. works. Nouveau driver crashes every few days.

Intel has freezes in Mesa. It is a known issue.
I said this about Firefox itself, but if they charged to directly sponsor MDN I would sign up. They can even create support tiers that don't really mean anything other than it gets appended to your user role, maybe badges per month per role or something so it stays immortalized.

What I said about Firefox Developer Edition: if they kept it free but added a paid version, I would pay for it just to directly support Firefox development.

It has to be 100% clear that all funds need to go towards MDN and Firefox Developer tools / Firefox itself in order for me to remain subscribed to either one.

Firefox has been my browser for decades now, and MDN has been my bread and butter since whenever I discovered how useful it was.
Thanks.
To save a few click for those like me - H. P. Lovecraft.

https://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/poetry/p121.aspx
> What am I missing/misunderstanding here

Some (not all) GPU memory types are not cache coherent with the CPU. Some of the cache-coherent cases have poorer performance relative to the non-coherent memory from the perspective of the GPU's memory bandwidth and access latency.
Looks a lot more interesting than the Xeon Phi ever did. If they can provide the huge memory bandwidth this will need to keep it fed, and if they can offer a decent programming model, then this could be very competitive. I suspect they can do these things and the next challenge for them is going to be optimized software. NVIDIA have a massive lead in terms of software support for their accelerators so I can see this being a challenge.
Totally agreed. Getting comfortable with a profiler is a superpower.

FWIW, this is also one of Rob Pike's rules of programming:

> Rule 1. You can't tell where a program is going to spend its time. Bottlenecks occur in surprising places, so don't try to second guess and put in a speed hack until you've proven that's where the bottleneck is.

It's implicit, but the "proven" part implies use of a profiler.
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8751946

Maybe we'll use the HTML doc title for this one too.
“and that's that many people are still new to Rust, so serving them best involves accepting talks that are more broad, both in scope and difficulty”

Once the main conference on a technology starts to primarily target experts, you should start worrying about that technology.

The only ways to avoid “Many people are still new to Foo” are either to organize specialized conferences, or to have a conference on a (slowly) dying technology, where new users are rare.

The latter technologies tend not to have large conferences, so large conferences will mostly go for breadth, rather than depth (a workaround is to have both, with the ‘in depth’ sessions typically in smaller rooms)
Upvoted but wanted to add that this also requires the right mirrors. If you try to tow some trailers with a vehicle that doesn't have tow mirrors, then you could have a blind spot, especially behind the trailer if it blocks your regular rear view mirror.
*ability
I think life is about having good experiences! That is why traveling and visiting new places and food is great, your mind gets to experience news things. Running around in 80 mph+ well you tend too miss things is my experience.
Life is usually not about maximum efficiency unless you are a 100m sprint runner. Robots and programs can run as fast as they want and automation do us favors, however us humans should not strive to do the same.

Compare Junk food, you get full quickly, nutrients in junk food is usually bad. You can instead choose to have the experience of slowly cooking a nutritious meal. Eating slowly cooked food with your family and friends is often better. Usually stress comes with running around too fast so you tend to consume not healthy food and you then after a while gain weight. I am not saying consuming junk food, or running fast is bad every now and then but doing so all the time you might miss slower better experiences...

Same goes for buying local vs buying cheap stuff which does not last long. Often buying local is better for the environment.
Why would the image remove the *.pyc files?
A very efficient singular planetary government (or, excessive international homogenization of approaches) seems like one plausible example.

To me, this very conversation is the approach we should be taking to the major problems du jour on the planet (treating it as an incredibly complex system with an infinite number of interacting variables, many of which we do not even know exist). But it seems as if once a system reaches a certain level of complexity, we lose the ability to even realize that it is in fact a complex system, and insist upon discussing it only in simplistic terms. Or maybe it's the fact that we are embedded within the system that makes it impossible to see.
Is there an easy way to find EU/specific countries’ available grants? Anecdotally I’ve also heard that grants are one of the key advantages to starting a business in the EU
That's a reasonable concern, but considering Belarus has had problems like these for a while, and given telegram's popularity, both as a messenger and as a tool to circumvent Big Brother, I'd say that the majority of those Belarusian accounts are legitimate.
Quibi had a big ad budget too.

Marketing gives you leg up, but at the end of the day, a product's merits have to live up to it. Both IE and Safari had an even bigger advantage than marketing by being built-in to their respective platforms, and both have lost marketshare to Chrome.

I'll say pointblank I don't know what people see in Chrome, but they clearly see something in it. To me today, Safari, Firefox, and Chrome are essentially identical, which is a bad spot to be in for everyone except the market leader, because there's no incentive to switch.

UPDATE: There's a stronger case regarding Google sabotaging Firefox, but I don't think that accounts for the magnitude of the switch, here's a detail of the accusation[0]:

> A Mozilla Program Manager named Chris Peterson accused Google of making Youtube performance slower on the Firefox explorer in July 2018. Peterson alleged that Google was aware that both Firefox and Edge, Microsoft’s browser, were performing better with regard to loading the popular video sharing platform YouTube and decided to switch to a Javascript library which was incompatible with Firefox.

Google Chrome became the dominant browser around 2012, after being released in 2008. That's an astronomically fast takeover, if there were any shenanigans that accounted for it, they'd have to be quite aggressive (and therefore discussed more at that time).

[0]: https://btcmanager.com/former-mozilla-executive-accuses-goog...
Only if you define local interest as purely financially motivated. I am not even talking about the ethics, but even social status is not only dependent on wealth. We are much more than a bank account number, thinking that we are is more or less a pathological disease, because rationally it makes no sense.
> As your poll size increases past a certain point, it does begin to guarantee correctness.

> An election is a poll with the size of all eligible voters.

I think you're oversimplifying the situation. Clearly, sample size alone doesn't have that much of a correctness guarantee, or according to your own statement, we'd be able to trust the official results.
Hand-soldered BGA chip, wow.
If 2020 has shown us anything, it’s that some far fetched scenarios can actually happen.
You can generate CSV if you need it. See psql --csv. [1] What's brilliant about this approach is that you can generate any format that's supported by the interface defined by the PostgreSQL SQL dialect and wire protocol. (Obvious caveats about timeouts, network bandwidth, etc. apply.)

[1] https://www.postgresql.org/docs/12/app-psql.html
"There are worlds out there where the sky is burning, where the sea's asleep and the rivers dream, people made of smoke and cities made of song. Somewhere there's danger, somewhere there's injustice and somewhere else the tea is getting cold. Come on, Ace, we've got work to do."
Never, ever, "help" the compiler.
Not [redacted]-notify-[redacted].
We resorted to only giving PHP ready to transmute data, so it didn’t handle any of the manipulation unless it was straightForward based on our own criteria, but anything involving too much searching or filtering (yes I realize there are other problems here, but our scale was large enough that these problems had to be tackled piecemeal, and aren’t relevant beyond that for this discussion)

Ultimately I’ve had less issues with Python for this type of workload and is eventually where we moved.
The first time I saw Crash Worship, I thought they might sacrifice me to whatever horrible god they were following. When they didn't, I never missed them when they came back through town. I miss that band so much
Incidentally, I bet a lot of us would pay to have w3schools taken down
Although I lean towards seeing killing the company as short-sighted, suppose you then invest that money back into a new venture. You have far more capital than you would have had you let the business remain healthy. This may give you even better value in the long-run (say 200 years) if you let this new venture live. But if you kill this venture too and invest its earnings into yet a third venture...
If you want to insist and keep pushing a patently false take then you should at least be aware that you're trying to push a personal definition for a well-established concept that contradicts it's definition, origin, use, and purpose.

https://wiki.c2.com/?ConsCell
Also, higher maximum G limit. AIs should be inherently much more maneuverable that human pilots because humans can only pull -1 to 9 Gs, AI would only be limited by the aircraft itself.
>>This term also allowed them to book much more of their revenues as software licenses than services, which makes them look much more attractive to investors.

Changing the job title of a professional services staff member, whether it's "FDE", "Consultant" or "Customer Success", doesn't change the final gross or operating margins. The financials and economics remain the same whether this is at the deal or firm level.

>>With it, they were able to get a $20B valuation in the last round, where if they were viewed as a government IT services vendor they would've been lucky to be valued at $0.5B.

If Palantir didn't sell a product then you're right that they would be viewed as a services company which drops their valuation multiple. But since they sell a product, and presumably charge license fees for the right to use, their classification as a product company seems to justified from a valuation perspective.
Fast-Paced Multiplayer (Part I-IV)
Look like "The messenger - Delta Chat".
It keeps the image size down and they’ll be recreated on first load for what you actually use. If you use the compileall module you can generate them for your app in the final layer.
Between autopilot and remote control, it's not too much of a stretch imagining one guy in an office making sure 10 autopiloted planes do what they are supposed to. Maybe have to make sure none of them take off or land at the same time.
So we're very early and only do CPU parallelism right now, but we plan to tackle that problem domain in the future.
That sketch predates Monty Python formation - it was part of "How to Irritate People."
Does this use SMTP under the hood? I.e. can I join in a group conversation without signing up to a proprietary system?
I tried to go through this a few years ago. The time commitment is huge, especially if you really want to understand all steps in detail. In the end I lost interest because it turned into a mindless command-copying exercise for me. My only real take away was a much greater appreciation of the complexity of an operating system.

Has anyone followed this from start to finish and can now comfortably compile their own linux kernel from scratch?
Insurance premiums and the lottery both have expected negative returns.

I don't (generally) play the lottery, and I don't (generally) participate in involuntary insurance schemes.

I don't buy pet insurance, I don't buy extended warranties; I generally try to avoid paying a third party's payroll, G&A, real estate, taxes, and profits, all on top of the actual expenses I incur that they (hopefully) pay for, after much paperwork.

That said, I sure don't carry the bare minimums in auto or health or homeowners insurance because I cannot afford a multi-hundred-thousand-dollar unexpected expense.
Marc Andreessen should chip in.
> All the security services need is to find one protesters phone force the person to unlock it and they have it all.

This is true for all apps regardless of how good their network encryption is. With Telegram it's possible to delete messages for everyone. Not so in some other apps.
> The other areas we have had to scale back on staffing and programs include: Mozilla developer programs, developer events and advocacy, and our MDN tech writing.

> We recognize that our tech writing staff drive a great deal of value to MDN users, as do partner contributions to the content. So we are working on a plan to keep the content up to date.

The stated rationale for the "re-org" (read, layoffs) was to shore up the financials and explore new revenue opportunities. Here is a novel idea that I will provide at no cost:

Charge for access to MDN, structure the legal particulars so that revenue goes to pay the tech writing staff, covers operating costs, and provides the excess to the Mozilla Foundation. Use the resulting goodwill and attention as a lead generation mechanism for whatever other projects Mozilla tries to create and charge for.

Market validation you say? People won't pay for documentation you say? The sole developer of the macOS app Dash[1] makes a fairly decent living selling an app that merely allows you to search freely available documentation offline. MDN has real value that people, myself included, will pay for. Just this week I have referred to MDN documentation at least a couple of hundred times.

Charge. Money. For. MDN.

And pay the tech writers.

[1] https://kapeli.com/dash

Edit: wording correction.
It was Serif: The Magazine of Type & Typography. A couple articles were on an earlier incarnation of the website, but they've disappeared in the course of one or more hosting changes since the magazine failed. I published among others, Robert Bringhurst, Charles Bigelow and Christian Schwartz (this last while he was still a high school student).
There are several ways to virtualize a card. Splitting the card into multiple virtual units only works with the pro/datacenter models. Passing through the whole card works if you trick the guest driver by hiding virtualization.
>It crashes my whole linux system.

Enable SysRq magic key and use it to invoke OOM killer manually when it freezes. Linux has this weird peculiarity of not invoking OOM killer automatically before system exhausts memory. (and instead just runs extremely slowly, shrinking buffers to zero and loading executable pages from disk)
Anyone can contribute. A big part of Mozilla's job is maintaining and improving the tools and process to do so. That said, I wouldn't want to downplay the contributions to the text made by Mozilla.
Judging from mainline's commit log for linux/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu there's been a steady flow of SR-IOV related fixes/updates up to and including v5.8 so it's at least not being ignored.

I admit I haven't used amdgpu in this capacity, but just the fact that we can scrutinize amdgpu's history in mainline is a huge improvement over the past.
Ok, we've de-villaged and Wuppertaled the title above.
> email is great, because everyone has an email address

I've been thinking lately that the ability to send messages is perhaps the less interesting role of email. The real value comes from providing globally unique, federated identities. It's not perfect but it's pretty dang good.

If for no other reason, this is why Slack or any other closed system will never supplant email. Even the biggest walled gardens like GOOG and FB bow to the power of email identities in the end, as the preferred (maybe even only) way to recover an account.
I can't imagine a modern language without GC. So yes, it has. Destructors are not yet implemented,though I do plan them.
Behold! Private Equity
Underage people and foreigners are in the 'unable to vote for perfectly normal reasons' bracket. Extrapolating from census figures, you'd need pretty much every single person in the 13-17 age range to vote Tikhanovskaya to make up the disparity between Telegram and official tallies though. And if she got literally every teenager in the country to register a protest vote on a web app, there's a sneaking suspicion she might actually have got more than her 10% official tally with the adults too...
And a bunch of people's data.
A pretty familiar HN trope is calling in the Tech Billionaire Ex Machina to solve the world's problems. Most of the time this feels like myopic hero-worship ("why doesn't Zuck just fix free speech?"). In this case, though, that would actually be _relevant_. Individuals or businesses with excess wealth that build value using the web would be well justified in working with MDN to ensure these docs stay alive and fresh.
"Two of the most famous products of Berkeley are LSD and Unix. I don’t think that is a coincidence."

Nice. Does this mean to be a successful Unix Admin you also need to be an accomplished psychonaut?
I think you mean resilient when you say stable: A stable system NEED not get back to resting state by itself. A resilient one does.

Along these terms, I think equilibrium doesn't really make sense - it means stability in many definitions. From the top google result:

> Equilibrium is defined as a state of balance or a stable situation where opposing forces cancel each other out and where no changes are occurring. An example of equilibrium is in economics when supply and demand are equal. An example of equilibrium is when you are calm and steady.

Another take on this: (Stable vs unstable equilibrium)
https://web.ma.utexas.edu/users/davis/375/popecol/lec9/equil....
This is the exact comment I wanted to make. I rarely use MDN, but would pay for it anyway, because when I need it, I really need it and there is no high quality alternative.
Reminds me of some of the stories in Never Split The Difference, where the author was a hostage negotiator for the FBI who would reduce ransoms (on human hostages) from millions to in one case, a few thousand. He relayed a similar reasoning, at the end of the day they want to get paid and a dead person is worth $0 (and potentially the swat team coming in).
I would pay for this as an individual.

Competent organizations would pay for this in bulk.
exactly! This is the reason why I recommend this course to my friends and colleagues who ask me about how to get into AI/ML. I tell them to do this course first to get idea about what all is possible. The version 2 (which you do at your own pace) provides the theory/maths behind it.

While coursera/Andrew Ng course are(were?) classic and have great content - I personally prefer Jeremy's style and this code-first approach to Deep Learning (yes, DL != ML != AI but that's not the point).