skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wonder what kind of conditional logic you would want to apply. If its more for managing differences between different environments (say staging vs prod), you could just use the profiles option in HyScale:
https://github.com/hyscale/hyscale/wiki/Tutorial#specifying-...
You sound like all the people whom grew up in New Orleans that I spoke with when I lived there; I moved when Katrina hit. They heard the same thing. Turns out it was true, and the fact that it hadn't happened was in fact: just luck.
If I could reduce the spread of a disease by starting my professional emails with "Heyyyyyyyy" I totally would.
Not current numbers but some old projections put 2020 projected android users would be around 127 million users in US. iOS projected 110 million in 2021 in US. Does 50% market share when achieved even equal a monopoly?
What's the evidence of this? Is the theory that there was a meltdown in Siberia or something where there aren't many neighbors to notice?
We've seen on Android that the practical effects of competing app stores are basically zero. There's too much advantage to controlling the OS and being the default. Epic getting a store on iOS is likely to be a moral victory at best.

The effective solution is stopping dominance in one area from spilling over into another. Can't use iOS control to gain control of app sales and you can't use control of app sales to gain control of payments.
I would argue that we crossed that rubicon in 2008 with the bailouts, but I completely agree with you that it's going to be quite an interesting decade.
Why not model based on expected future cash flows? That's basically the gold standard in finance and what you'd expect most investors to follow.
Funny, while so many in this community...

I think it's easy to overlook that aspect, people are focused on the upsides and it doesn't even occur to them they might not have any neighbors under sixty.

I'm not sure wealth is the key barrier. Rather, if a parent ranks school quality & neighborhood playmates highly when buying a house, they will wind up close to good schools. I've seen this in action myself- I lived all over the place, rural, urban, suburban, for ten years and saw virtually no children. Then I moved within sight of a good school, and now kids of all ages are a constant presence outside. Quite a few of my neighbors could easily afford to live in a lavish rural mountain mansion, but have told me point blank they live here for their kids.
The dictionaries are stored offline and will work fine in airplane mode. Wikipedia won't, though.
Right. The storage pool for VMs should be zfs (if you’re going to use zfs as an assumption) while the VMs should be something else unless you’re doing something specific to use zfs in the VM. Zfs is engineered to almost turn a system into a file system server in exclusion so use it for its strengths appropriately.
Ha! I promise I don't receive a penny from the sales of the book. I wish I did, given how much I've recommended it over the years...
Chips are not designed to have fault tolerance. The typical solution on large chips today is to have large number of identical units, and use fuses to deactivate some when they are faulty. This is called binning and how all manufacturers build their line of products.
Design and validation of fault-tolerant chips is MUCH more involved, which slows down next-gen products a lot. It's in general better to simply use today's process ASAP, with no or little fault tolerance.

The exception is wafer-scale chips, which are chips that span multiple "reticles", i.e. the size of the masks used to manufacture normal chips.

I have a Ph.D. thesis linked to building a wafer scale chip (ala cerebras, although 10 years ago). And cerebras AFAIK is the FIRST commercial product using wafer-scale approaches. Maybe we will see more products ? I have doubts...

Note also that defect density varies depending on location of the chip on the wafer. There are areas with more defects on average, so it's not as simple as 1 number.
> Usefulness is NOT the same as usage.

Metrics can tell that story though so you’re arguing a straw man.

Example: If you see that 99% of users have never used a function ever - you have a pretty good idea that it needs to be reworked or removed. You may also see a function that is used by 80% of users once a month, that you may opt to keep.
Would you support compelling developers who have a monopoly on a particular app to support all available app stores? It seems like a developer who held a monopoly in a particular app would be the in the same position Apple is in with the app store writ large?

For example, if the only way to fill out my employer's timecard is via an iOS app, should they be compelled to offer the app in all the available app stores?
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Can't you do lost of those things by sending encrypted data to Amazon, and getting back the encrypted data from them? They act as a storage in most cases, not as a server, no?
i've read an old article that talk about how much TSMC made from Apple. its about $10 per chip. i believed TSMC make their money from volume.
> and Apple would still buy from you rather than let someone else take the crown of fastest smartphone...

... and invest in making their own chips from end to end in a couple of years. Apple has proven that they do not hesitate to completely take over stuff with the recent Intel-ARM switch when the quality or price does not match what they perceive to be fair.

TSMC is in an extremely powerful but also very precarious position - they are worth ~400B $ in market cap, and Apple has ~200B $ in cash reserves and a market cap of 2T $. If Apple wants they can either buy up TSMC whole or they can set up a competitor.
Monopoly on customers with lots of expendable income, who account for most App Store revenue.
Or they realize that at any point they have low-N years before Samsung, GloFo, etc. could catch up with investments from AMD, Nvidia, Apple, etc. so it behooves them not to gouge to the point that those investments make financial sense for those companies. TSMC might just be a couple billion dollar investments away from becoming a commodity again.
That data allows users to pick up where they left off as they change devices.

I rely on that regularly as I use both my phone and a Kindle device to read books.
Of course he did, he had money.
This guide makes excellent points. I also recommend this book:

https://www.amazon.com/Style-Clarity-Chicago-Writing-Publish...

He says that to achieve clarity, imagine the subject of each sentence as the character of a scene, and the verb as its action. Make sure you hit both character and action within the first 6-10 words of your sentence.

Begin each sentence with information that the reader is familiar with, and end it with the new information you want to introduce.

That will get you a long way toward creating understanding (and feeling) in the reader.
> For example, can I get double the logic density if I'm happy to get defects from 0.1 per square centimeter to 1000 per square centimeter? If I can, I'd very much like to for some usecases.

Not any semiconductor defect can be "fused off," or worked around in software, and provisions to do so cost space too.

Super high yields are transformative, as they allow for much simpler test, and binning strategies. Throwing out 1 chip out of 1000 is incomparably cheaper than having to salvage "every n-th chip."
The primary way that helps is to communicate that everyone on the team appeared to think this is perfectly acceptable to do without communicating it to the paying customer.

I mean, we already knew this, but it means any and all Amazon hardware must be considered potentially hostile.
That's beside the point. The reason these phones do what they do isn't because they're Chinese-made; it's because they're advertised as cheap but there's a catch. The title distracts from the more important point and instead panders to our natural xenophobia, which is one of our greatest weaknesses. We should all be working to overcome that weakness, not stirring it up.
I mean I'm all of those things too but I have way less money and external validation
I would say exactly the opposite. I regret of buying a book from Amazon [0] dedicated to Kindle-use, because it is DRM protected and I am forced to use "Amazon Kindle" application, otherwise I cannot open it. I am usually okay with DRMs but I miss a fact I haven't bought it elsewhere with less annoying protection.

[0]: https://www.amazon.com/Designing-Data-Intensive-Applications...

Psst, "Designing Data Intensive Applications" was very good read. Do you know similar books that focus on distributed systems?
Well MLM scams are alive and well today and have been coming out of Utah for the last 20 years so I'd say fraud is pretty common. Check Craigslist for some fun frauds and scams, they're right out in the open. Social media are open markets for fraud too
Basic sunlamps aren't expensive. I grow plants in-doors and suppliment w/ them, the bulbs are ~10-15 bucks and fit in any desk or ceiling lamp.

I have a "happy lamp" by a reading chair in my living room, and sit under it in the mornings while drinking coffee and watching the news. Coffee+Sun perks me up in the morning right quick.

I'm in Edmonton, Canada -- look it up on a map, we're far up there -- and it's basically how I make it through the winters here.
How much of a chance do you have if you don't have missiles, but your enemy still has some? Isn't it better to just retreat?
> And cerebras AFAIK is the FIRST commercial product using wafer-scale approaches.

Amdahl?
Such a great country, always ahead
>> I choose to have “that choice” taken away from me, that’s still choice

This is a great example of Orwellian doublethink.
> Privacy LARPers are a tiny segment of the market, the average person doesn’t really care if their ‘usage of the highlighter function is tracked’

If so, why don't they loudly advertise the data collection and do it only with opt-in?

It's not that the average user doesn't care if they're tracked, it's that they're not aware that they're being tracked.
> That's why national governments typically have National Emergency Reserves or something like this, but naturally, even they only stockpile really basic and absolutely necessary stuff.

That is a very inaccurate statement when it came to PPE, and how it was handled at even the hospital and Union Rep level where first line workers (mainly nurses) had to resort to make their own from trash bags and such only to be reprimanded, told to STFU, fired in one case one died for their ad-hoc problem solving solutions where Governments failed to provide its medical workers with these 'basic' reserves.

1: https://nypost.com/2020/05/14/nurses-union-fires-potty-mouth...

2: https://nypost.com/2020/03/25/worker-at-nyc-hospital-where-n...

3: https://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/news/2020/04/15/nur...
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You'd have to figure out some kind of secure key sharing mechanism between phones, tablets, web browsers, and e-readers.

Or, you can trust that a position in a book (bookmarks, notes, etc.) is not sensitive information that really needs to be encrypted. This is my - perhaps overly pragmatic - position.
This is especially true for late 1700s English, specifically around the time of America's founding. The entirety of the Federalist Papers could be reduced to a fraction of their original lengths with plain English without losing any of context.
I'm surprised no one brought up revenue sharing.

I was under the impression there was a revenue-allocation problem that Amazon needed to solve (Kindle Unlimited subscriptions?), that depended on reliable reading statistics. E.g. How many people read book A?

Wish I could find the article, but the implication was there were a ton of publishers attempting to game the system. For example, by publishing blank, very long "books" and having them "read" by software automation.
Very interesting read and I think this "academic" culture is not only present in the US but is pretty damaging overall.

In contemporary culture the most egregious analogy in my opinion is "black face". If you believe that it is unethical to paint your face black, I don't think you have thought about it too much.

But even if you know the context of why it can be seen as offensive, because of a culturally now completely irrelevant show in the United States, it still makes no sense to enforce a global ban on it. I have seen Europeans getting penalized for it because somewhere on the path someone dropped their mind.

It is a sign of courtesy to not use it that if you believe that it could bring pain to people, but there is a limit to courtesy. At some point it is senseless submission to irrationality. And that limit is quickly reached if people begin to prosecute others for alleged ethical violations, especially since some abuse for some infantile power play.
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Well, this article is certainly lovely, but does no one else think that this has been written by GPT-3? Did just I become a hopeless sceptic?
I'm mostly talking about devices that are too small to run Linux :). This is the biggest MCU I've worked on to date:

https://www.nordicsemi.com/Products/Low-power-cellular-IoT/n...
Yeah totally. I think most feature work at a B2B SaaS company can be classified as either trying to drive retention, or trying to drive new sales. The “new sales” features are often focused on one or a handful of potential large customers with very specific needs, who won’t buy without feature X. This kind of work is basically invisible to almost all of your customers, but is necessary to close the largest deals.
"Stop Worrying About the Novelty of Your Ideas", https://apple.news/AP_mqERGaRDiL0w2N1qhtvA

Generally it comes down to building things better and easier to use than the competition. It would definitely be very hard to compete against an app that's Free or $5/mo and has 500 5-star reviews and isn't a dumpster fire.

I tend to look at creating apps that are more complicated than what the average joe could build. One of our apps is an automation app (like Shopify Flow but 10x more useful). It's so stupidly complicated that nobody in their right mind would compete with it in a short time period. To match our features would take at least a year.

Generally we have found that all of the low-hanging fruit and quick ideas have been taken. But the more specific and complicated problems are still worth solving, even if there's one or two other apps out there that are similar.

Definitely looking for ideas with the least amount of competition is good, and really trying to figure out what kind of differentiator you can bring to the table. Usually there's at least one angle to compete on, whether it's price, simplicity (ease-of-use HUGE), hands-on support, features, beautiful UI, responsiveness, integrations...

Sometimes its hard to find the right thing to build if you don't know enough about store owner problems. There are _entire verticals_ that have unique problems that are hard to "know" about unless they tell you. Lots of different types of stores exist on Shopify. People sell classes, events, digital goods, bookings, AirBnB style stuff, equipment rentals, services (hourly based).. There are probably some available ideas that are geared more to those specific verticals.
That's an interesting concept. Normally fire is a healthy part of the ecosystem, but as humans we've changed the context in which fires occur (e.g. by reducing naturally occurring fire and by making droughts more common) such that when they do occur they are more destructive than many species are able to handle. If that is the case, I wonder if there is a way we could reintroduce fires to the system (i.e. controlled burns) in such a way that it doesn't completely destroy the ecosystem.
I would object less to that for sure, but you have to admit that there is absolutely zero chance of that ever happening: Apple never relinquishes control. The closest to it, ironically, is to go through the actual legal system and see what judges, tasked with interpreting the people's will encoded in laws, will say. Something that they will now have to do, probably several times, until they accept that there is an easier way.
Given how data driven Amazon is this is not really a surprise, is it?
Valve has had a lot more Linux support, but it seems like they just want Steam to be "Google Play Services" for desktop Linux. GPL software can't even communicate with friends on Steam, isolating the open source community and ultimately turning their devs, if they want to be part of Steam's extensive gaming social network, into serfs for the store.
I mention that the data that appears to be used for those purposes is sent again in a separate request to a separate end point, so we have two types of requests: last read location, and reading analytics. Sorry it wasn't clear, I'll try to improve the wording.
Wow, this site has completely given into the cult of Apple. Thankfully the judge is a reasonable person who is interested in actual harms more than the letter of a TOS.
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We have a small number of "slots" of short term memory. I wonder how smart we'd be if we had twice as many slots.
It is a great combo, but you need to have a lot of personal initiative to make it work.

Here's the thing - the typical software engineer interview doesn't assess writing(or many other valuable traits that can become unusually valuable when combined with good coding ability). Almost every one I've done has been a rehash of data structu res and algorithms along with a few other technical topics. Someone who is an excellent writer and merely a good programmer is likely to be screened out. If you combine skills, you're treading a path that people don't really hire for, mainly because they can't conceive of it, and it doesn't fit into the silos.

That's fine. You need to accept that the google-style software engineering path probably isn't for you. But you do need to have more initiative. Companies that post jobs tend not to look for these combinations. However, if you have personal initiative, you can often build this role within a company (or on your own), and the career path it opens up can be very satisfying.
We can step outside of government examples, too, and find cases where corporations getting all data sciencey with this information have accomplished some pretty ucky - and also impossible to anticipate - things.

An instructive case here is Target figuring out that they could use customer purchase history to detect, with a pretty decent degree of confidence, when a customer was pregnant. They then proceeded to use this model to send out mailings, and those mailings resulted in people being outed in rather compromising and potentially seriously harmful ways.
You are not only wrong, but absolutely confused.

The lock down is not a scientific study, but an emergency response. Leaders respond to emergencies by making educated guesses and having his followers live with the consequences. It is not that they DO NOT KNOW what will happen, but that they CANNOT KNOW. Decision under uncertainty is baked on the cake from the start.

We can debate whether the particular decisions being made around the World were appropriate for the emergency or not, - and in an ideal world the careers of the politicians/executives who made particularly poor decisions would be ruined beyond repair,- but the fact that they did not sit and look pretty until some peer reviewed article told them what to do was absolutely right. Otherwise there would be millions of death already, with dozens of millions who would have recovered with lifelong sequels. (And it would be naive to not think about the economic and social consequences of that as well)

But hey! At least we would be close to herd immunity by the end of the year.
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From what I've seen, all going well most professional events business (and a great deal of other business travel) is completely shutdown for the next 12 months. That will have huge downstream effects.
1. Nobody actually reads Terms of Service (well, governments and some major businesses do, but 99,99% of regular users don't).

2. Nobody reads them because most of the time they are explicitly user hostile, I'm pretty sure they are designed to prevent users from reading them.
It also costs more than an iPad and has terrible response times
>So I am thinking of switching role and transitioning into a Data Scientist or AI/ML engineer. I can put in the hours to study and do self projects, but I am worried if I am too old for a transition now, given that I am already 15 years old in the industry.

There's a lot of the heavy lifting done in Spark (written in Scala), and many parts of the "ML" ecosystem are on the JVM, either with Scala or Java, so you can leverage your experience with that. Kafka is also used and written in Java. Often times "data scientists'" output will be a Python notebook, and in many organizations someone "translates" that to either Scala or Java if they don't want to use pySpark.

My point being that you can have a smoother transition than what you imagine. A huge part of the work in "AI/ML" is not model building, and that could be your entrypoint.
About Fortnite, sure. About their entire account, that seems to have surprised them.

Fortunately for Epic, last night the court agreed that is likely a step too far.
What do you mean by worsened? Frequency? Intensity? Recovery response? As a general sentiment, things have gotten better since Hurricane Andrew in 1993. That was the first, modern major wake up call for Florida. Massive changes to building standards, general infrastructure and environmental management. It's been constantly refined since. I also feel the Florida gov (state and local) takes hurricanes far more seriously compared to other states.

Part 2. I recommend you try watching videos of "local Florida resident decides to ride out hurricane". Floridians are less afraid of death, generally. Every year mother nature threatens to kill us. It takes a lot more to scare us. Also, wildfires aren't a big deal here. Hard to believe, we have some of the best wildfire responses in the country. Our fire crews train throughout the west coast (most wildfires you hear about only happen in about 3 states on the west coast) on a regular basis so when they do spring up in Florida, theres a swift and hardcore response. Politics... eh, Orlando has seen the brunt of it. Most of FL is actually pretty racially diverse other than some really small pockets (where no one cares). I'm constantly told theres racial tension on the news, but in real life, no one here cares. At least in most parts of Florida. If you go to a Florida beach on any day of the week, you'll see every race sun tanning or swimming with or next to each other, having fun.
Either way, they're great numbers.
Yeah, fair point. This is more an answer to “how can you have such a large product/development team, and ship so few new features”, as I believe that’s a natural consequence of having a larger business, with far more communication overhead, far more focus on planning and predictability, etc. That’s not necessarily bad for the business, but it does mean you have a lot of people shipping a relatively small number of features, especially compared with your velocity in your startup days.
IMHO if you need a tool like this, you are normally better off building it yourself in-house. You will inevitably end up fighting all of the leaky abstractions something like this does not support for your use cases.
Try Restyaboard which is better than Trello in all aspects. It has more features and free to use. So you can use that and it has dependencies.
Lol who holds them responsible? Not civilians, I can assure you.

They’re just more nimble because they’re top-down leadership. Not as good at expressing the people’s will, but more nimble at implementing autocratic decisions.