skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The average FAANG engineer is partially being compensated for NOT working at a competitor- i.e. the best talent is also the biggest threat and if there isn't a salary cap then the NY Yankees are sometimes going to sign redundant players just to keep them from improving competitive teams.
Source: https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/8...

Summary: Cyrix (and subsequently, VIA) have an implied license to Intel's patents; allowing them to develop x86 hardware.

How that differs from AMD: AMD and Intel have a full cross-license on technologies. This means, AMD can utilize Intel resources to integrate AVX-512, a ring-bus, etc (and vice versa).
VIA can not. They must develop those technologies independently, in a compatible manner.
What a great man. Such a shame that he gave it all away to a bunch of scammers and then a different bunch of billionaire scammers come out and try to claim that they're affiliated with this great man to boost their own reputation when in fact they're nothing alike.
Ask HN: What do you dislike about video on the web?
I’ve been working on building a video platform that’s a bit different - we’ve all sat through so much recorded and live video over the past months and there are many clear pain points - typically it’s not an accessible medium, has poor SEO value unless transcribed and when prerecorded is inherently one-way. My personal bugbear is that it’s also entirely unnecessary for many of the things it’s used for (what happened to phone calls?).

I’m working on a platform called Foyer (foyerlabs.com) with the aim of improving those issues and more, and would love to hear what HN likes and hates about (work-related, I’m not gunning for YouTube) video on the web.
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That's the anglicization. In his native tongue of Italian he was Francesco.
Sure, if you treat and account for engineering like a cost center. The reason big tech companies are so successful are precisely because they treat engineering like a profit center. Though sales may be the organization actually bringing in revenue, without a product, they wouldn’t have anything.
Only very rich people in the UK wear red trousers.

I am not joking.
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Good example of why I really like HN. Quite keen to read up more on Feeny. Reading about anonymous contributions and selfless behavior like this is such a mood lifter when trawling through the day to day news and information floating around
Use 2x8 ripped to size :-)
> Why in the hell should the Rockefeller’s of today be billionaires???

I'm curious what the statistics are for a family remaining wealth over a long period of time.

Even with wealth evenly split between each generations kids, given a growth of just 4% it might end up with each generation getting a greater amount of wealth still.

In the past large familes prevented this, but if the average extremely wealthy person only averages 2 kids. The dilution through children just doesn't occur.
dang: should this really be flagged, while human rights violations from other countries aren't?
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Right, but it is almost impossible for anyone else to compete in the ecosystem.

If another major fitness brand wants to do the same the probably cannot because:
- The tight integration is not possible, only Apple can build these kind of Apple Watch experiences.
- They would need to pay Apple 30%, maybe making this not profitable especially against Apple's own offering that can have internal pricing where the 30% never comes into play.
Many delis are Jewish. He's saying that whenever he sees buildings named after people, he's in a Jewish neighborhood. In context, it plays into nasty stereotypes about Jews being obsessed with money.
Lol - I found a wikihow page to answer your question. :-D

https://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Computer-Operating-System
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Yep, I agree with you 100% and as I said before I think companies looking to hire are doing themselves a disservice by not paying attention to this more. A grueling day long interview to get into Google is/was worth it at least from a monetary compensation POV.

But frankly most shops out there are not worth it, but if they are, let's talk about how. Many very smart people I know would willingly leave their high-salaried FAANG job for a more rewarding or interesting job even with a steep compensation cut -- and there are many places that would benefit from that talent -- they just need to learn how to recruit it.
I have a dream that dang will automate flagging and removing the inevitable inane comments about name uniqueness every time someone posts a project on HN.
When Google started they sold the platform based on better search results with an interface that didn't put advertiser content above organic results. Now you usutally don't see organic results without scrolling. When Google first started advertising, they didn't have the massive tracking network they have now. Advertising was based on surfacing advertising related to the terms you searched for and was often relevant to what you wanted.

They were profitable enough under that model to buy You Tube, Android, and many of the other services now under the Google umbrella. I would assume their business model would continue to be selling advertising based on relevant search terms.
I’ll ask the same question I’ve asked for 30 years. Maybe someone here has an answer or link.

Is there any peer-reviewed evidence that computers in classrooms lead to better outcomes?

I’ll cede the practical reality of the Covid era.
But if you want to buy a digital fitness program, why should you ever choose Peloton's? Especially when you probably already have an iPhone, an Apple Watch, and airpods.
Arrow's impossibility theorem has always seemed a little fishy to me: I think the axioms are too strong (if you pressed me on this, I'd wonder if the 'independence of irrelevant alternatives' axiom is problematic).

The fact that it holds when there are three or more options but not for two options just doesn't sit right with me.
Economists were saying that about the interconnected economies of Europe prior to WWII. War is declared by human politicians in an instant. It is not required to be rational any more than human behavior is in general.
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Social signalling is important. I fully admit that. I wear completely different clothes when I'm meeting a minister of Canada than when I'm hanging out at a think tank beers night.

That said, I think there is a correlation between the amount of social signalling one must do to be successful in a society and the amount of wealth that that society allocates to those that are capable of navigating organizations. It's one of the reasons I think the tech sector is mostly jeans and sneakers.

Fancy shoes don't mean you're capable of knowing what a gin index is or when to use it.

While I have many qualms with modern tech, this is not one of them.
Yggdrasil seems to solve that fine https://yggdrasil-network.github.io

It's not "Ethereum is just..."

Urbit is sacrificing accessibility by adding complexity which Ethereum is, on top of the reputation of what cryptocurrency is, while also additionally requiring the complexity of wallets and ERC-21 (or w/e it is these days) to prove you have address space.

That's bs in my opinion. It should be completely automated like Ygg does it and allow any peer to participate and connect and discover routing deterministically and dynamically.

I hear Urbit can switch at any time, yeah, easier said than done when you've built a lot of expectations on a significant piece of the stack including the wallet and auth parts which are pretty integral. Then shifting the conceptual model? Not likely.
When one candidate is _clearly_ anti-science, ignoring scientific consensus and by doing so harms the country, why wouldn't a magazine that celebrates it endorse the other candidate?

This seems like one of those bad faith argument that is just trying to muddle the water.
I respectfully disagree. Trying to accomplish something with lasting impact with volunteer labor is really hard. Sure you can clean up litter and staff a soup kitchen on the weekends but to make a meaningful, lasting difference requires organizational structure and sustained effort by dedicated people. In other words, you can have volunteers ladle out soup, but running the actual soup kitchen as an institution requires a professional staff. That requires money to pay those people's salaries.

By all mean, volunteer at your local soup kitchen. It is a great thing to do! But the money is more helpful on an ongoing basis.
What about AKS and EKS?
What is the pricing? It seems to all be free on the webpage.
The power to lift or enforce lockdowns is at the state level, not the federal.

Coronavirus: Power resides with the states to institute lockdowns or not

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2020/04/20/coronaviru...
Well I travel a fair amount for work and would like to have an external monitor for the work laptop, but also a personal tablet. With a 2-in-1 device I could solve both concerns without adding too much travel weight.
But you don’t decide how much tax to pay.

Obviously many poor people will decide that few rich people must pay more.
Yeah, I just want to have fun. I know it's a lot already but I crave that deep sound. Techno go boom. lol
Everyone is different, and there's not going to be an automated way to fix your movement and training form unless the app can ask you questions as it walks around you to look at you from all sides. Generic form guide for a heavy squat could lead to injuries. Our bodies are too varied for this to be feasible at the moment.
Wouldn't the reduce the amount of donations greatly? Gotta think most people do it at least partly for recognition, otherwise there'd be nothing noteworthy about the article we're discussing.
Watch the event from today, specifically regarding the new iPad. They show it analysing someone's tennis form providing knee extension info and ball speed etc.
In Massachusetts the last glass recycling plant closed a couple years ago. The main problem glass bottle demand was down and the plant making the bottles closed ( beer being more popular in cans is cited as a cause)

https://www.wgbh.org/news/local-news/2018/07/19/massachusett...

They've been using the ground glass as aggregate in roads..

You are 100% correct in that there needs to be economic incentive.
Your approach strikes me as a singularly inefficient and needlessly
spendthrift.
I agree with all your points.

I considered getting into Cocoa dev but between the lack of resources and the probability that Apple will kill it in the not so distant future, it didn't make much sense.

Better wait a couple of years until the mud settles.
Making a very public show of philanthropy as a means of self-promotion or self-aggrandizement isn't awesome, though frankly if letting people feel good with a little recognition results in more donations then that seems well worth it.

But there are other reasons to make a public show of philanthropy: to encourage others to give, to be a part of giving campaigns, to draw attention to an issue you consider important, to tell a personal story for why something matters for you, and otherwise to direct that attention towards the cause rather than yourself.
They already have several white papers about how they treat privacy - dunno why you would assume they are bullshit right off the bat.

As for validating their claims I don't need source code for that. There are enough people (like you, apparently) that have an axe to grind that would be more than happy to point out any malfeasance - for me that's far more valuable than having source code available.
Poptel in the UK was a worker COOP that was about 45-50 ISP / Web
The app thumbnails in macOS’s Mission Control [1] and GNOME’s Activities overview [2] provide a nice way of managing graphical windows and workspaces which requires a compositor. Animated window management in general is a UI affordance that I value. I’m not sure if it’s a “real benefit,” but consistently getting this right is one thing that attracts users to macOS and iOS.

[1] https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204100

[2] https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/stable/shell-introdu...
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It's obviously not supposed to be a disclaimer of any legal value, judging from the sentence immediately after your quote: "I might take down these tracks or add more depending on the number of lawsuits I get slapped with". I don't particularly condone this attitude, but at least it's pretty clear. Either you slap him with a lawsuit/DMCA and the tracks will be removed or you don't and they probably won't.
Of course one could argue that we should not be dependent on the goodwill and grace of billionaires to choose to donate their wealth to good causes, but rather should tax fortunes at an onerous rate and put that money in public, democratic control, regardless. For each Chuck Feeny and Bill Gates how many Waltons OR Kochs do we have?
> we won't solve it overnight.

We are past and overdue on too many milestones in this planetary anthropogenic destruction.

The future of humanity cannot afford anything less than solving this overnight.

Some people will sit in Davos and ponder but the longer we waste time the longer we risk collapsing the world order that allows them to sit at Davos and ponder.
I was thinking more in the lines of the electoral college - there was some wishful thinking as the votes came in by some that the electoral college would be the check and balance this last election. Very wishful.

But the college is there historically because the founders didn't trust direct democracy...

https://www.factcheck.org/2008/02/the-reason-for-the-elector...
But songs must be individually liked in order to show up in “liked songs.” If you press the heart icon on an album, that album will only show up under Your Library > Albums. There is, as far as I can tell, absolutely no interface to see all songs that you have added to your library.
i've always seen the flashy computer bits as something that isn't intended to be viewed literally, but rather a way to understand the mental models they had for things. in the same sense that i would explain something as "hopping into a box and poking around systemd to see what's on fire", the movie used big flashy graphics as a metaphor for the minds of expert users. i think that was the best possible choice to bring you into their world without requiring the viewer to have an expert understanding of the inner workings of a computer.
Well now Peloton doesn't even have the option.
Everyone reads nonverbal signals, even when they're not aware of doing it.

In stratified cultures, it means "rich-looking person is important", but also can convey more meaning, as the small variances that are allowed take on meaning.

In less stratified cultures, you get jokes about the sales schmuck who lost a sale because he assumed the man was buying the car.
> Worst of all it normalizes the idea that one political party is smart and rational, and another is stupid and illogical

I think the entire point of their endorsement is that they are not saying anything about parties at all, but rather that a singular candidate is dangerous for reasons relevant to their purpose and readership.
This is a very important point, often overlooked. It's worth building and maintaining essential capabilities, even if you're not the most efficient at them. E.g., a large nation (> 50m people) should be able to feed itself (fine import oranges from somewhere else if you have to, but grow your own wheat and potatoes).
Google Classroom is just a horrible horrible software (ahem SAAS) which is bad at integrating with anything. Plus I have the feeling that any time I'd spend trying to customize it for my students would be wasted because of Google tendency to just depreciate things.

I recenty came back to Moodle after 10 year absence and it is not that bad by comparison.
Sure it has lots of warts (and I am sure the underlaying code is a mess) but hey it's just a CRUD.

Worst case scenario I can hack around it.

I will probably get around to getting a program autograder for it.
Jewish tradition says to give from 10%-20%. I have been giving 20% for the last few years and that is exactly how it works. The first thing I do when receiving my paycheck is putting 1/5 into a separate account which must be used for charity. It is anyhow all accounted for with monthly donations to various charities. I find it to be incredibly empowering personally, as I can support the charities I choose without agonizing over each donation. I already made that commitment a few years ago.

WRT income, I am thankfully able to afford my lifestyle, but I currently earn 5 digits a year and always have (I am still young). I don't regret a penny I gave.
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In case you're interested, there's a bit of mathematics related to this. It's called "The secretary problem" [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary_problem
This makes total sense for Cockroach Labs, and I trust their engineering ability to get it right.
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In my view, living within your means, and accumulating wealth beyond your needs, are two ways of saying the same thing. And I think there's a point of diminishing returns on it, in terms of virtue.

If a person lives on a million a year, but accumulates a billion, do they become more virtuous if they accumulate a second billion?
> you would think they would cynically propose a soft spoken figurehead who says inspirational things

Oh, but they did, just not from their own ranks.

Think about that. Who, among the entire political spectrum in the US, promises to the America's middle class and end to hostilities, a sense of harmony, and a partial absolution of the white guilt?

Hint: it's not one person but rather a team of two.
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I've worked with Canvas a bunch and concluded that they really don't care about open source. Maybe they did at one point when they were the underdog and it gave them an interesting edge. But now they will provide no support to help you run it yourself. The wiki pages outlining how to deploy are community-maintained and pretty frequently out of date. They're attempting to replace pieces (analytics and quizzing) with closed-source standalone applications.
If an expensive track suit, not sharing your Porsche on the 'gram and referring to your lawyer as "legal" are all it takes to seem legit then getting swindled by a "vendor" in Uzbekistan might be in your future.

Edit: the point was that shallow things easily copied with minimal investment make bad signals.
Unless they were up front with it.

I'm used to Siri talking to me already. Although she rarely says my name, if she were cheering me on during a personalized workout, I'd be lying if I said that wouldn't be motivating.

My fitness 'workflow' is pretty well established, and it's Apple Watch centric already. If this Fitness+ business will count my lift reps for me, I'll probably get it.
The queue stuff is mind-bogglingly broken. Sometimes, if I have old stuff in my queue, whenever I instruct Spotify to start playing a new album or playlist, it will play only the first new song, then will skip to the old queue. This doesn’t seem to happen consistently, but it’s incredibly annoying while driving.
WL tried to discredit the Panama Papers (which feature some prominent Russian officials). That doesn’t look like just a factor of not having an international team.
I've come across it during literature searches but I'm no expert!
The most "inclusive" people are always the most divisive. See the current political US climate
This website is so hard to read.
Well of course you need a product. What I'm saying is that the median engineer at Big Tech does very little to influence it in any meaningful way(at least that was my experience, and people I know who have worked at Google/Facebook)

A tremendous amount of value was created by the early engineers of course and they still have top performers shipping new things. But as somebody who worked at one of these companies early in my career well after its monopoly was established, I felt like I was just given busy work to do.
Yes, but I have not had stuff that dropped off Apple music drop off my library that was previously matched.

Now whether I could, say, rip a CD, match it and it would stay forever like it did with Match - that is an interesting question.
Funding is a problem for tech COOPS its what killed poptel
"Obviously there were only 210 responses so this data is not entirely accurate, [...] but I [...] think it still reflects the opinions of the sites users."

That's not how samples work.
I'm a bit confused. The NYT article from 2017 says they he had finished giving away $8b and was only keeping about$2m for his retirement. This article says the same thing. Is he any more or less broke than in 2017? It sounds like the main development is that he officially dissolved his charity
> We're not looking at other languages outside of the JVM at the moment, but we're continuing to contribute to Tensorflow Java and ONNX Runtime to improve their Java support. We could look at pytorch inference support based on their Java API, but that overlaps pretty well with the things that ONNX Runtime supports. Do you have any suggestions?

Many models are deployed as restful endpoints, so a quick and easy ways to deploy models as services with containers or serverless providers will be very useful - although admittedly, you might not want that in the core project, could be a good sidecar project to this. Given your focus on model provenance, extending that beyond to model deployment and life cycle management tools such as MLFlow could also be very useful
The motivation for writing this amuses me. The Wikipedia prose "proof" is frustratingly familiar to many math textbooks I had when getting my BS many years ago. Fortunately, I had a couple professors who insisted on properly structuring proofs so that they were, you know, actually readable and understandable.

That Wikipedia prose is like the lazy author's approach, it's a brain dump and not a real attempt to inform or educate. It is nice that there is Python code in the relevant section on the algorithm, that's informative (and why I like Python, it's executable pseudocode). But it would also be nice to have properly structured proofs to go along with the awful prose section (and either remove it or clean it up).

Also, here's the discussion from when this was first posted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14967697
> Likely it's a tax writeoff.

You can take $1 and pay the taxes on it and end up with $0.60. Or you can give away a dollar and not have to pay $0.40 in taxes. But you still gave away a dollar, so you're sixty cents in the hole.
Just read the MIT license. Doesn't say anything about file headers.
I didn't say recursive descent parsing wrt screwing up, I just said "hand-writing a parser". Nothing about the flavour.

I guess our experiences differ but I don't know why. I have written a seriously major SQL parser in antlr and had no problem. And it was huge and complex, well that's TSQL for you.

It may be you have been parsing non-LR(1) grammars in bison which could prove a headache but... well IDK. Maybe I've been lucky.
> Recycling is broadly speaking nonexistent.

Can you link to a source for that claim?