skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
GNU libc, at least, has versions of a variety of functions for different SIMD variants with runtime dispatch. You can provide that with GCC attributes, or explicitly with the cpuid-like mechanisms typically used in linear algebra libraries, for instance.
i tried writing some toy Ethereum smart contracts circa 2016. at that time it was immensely difficult to write them in a secure way -- even a simple "hello world" level Solidity contract could easily have exploitable bugs if you don't code in an extremely defensive style.

i'm told things have improved since then -- can anyone who's used Solidity more recently comment on this? is it true?

this, plus the fact that putting information from the real world onto the blockchain unavoidably requires some trust, seemed like the two big problems then, and it seems like they haven't really been fixed.
Yes this doesn't seem like an issue about misinformation, but rather about making a reasonable inference when knowing only a subset of relevant information (they probably remember that coronavirus originated from bats, and early on a wildlife market was suspected as the source of the outbreak and think based on this that people got infected by eating bats).
Must be crazy dealing with that many log events coming in. Hopefully they get it back up soon.
Uh no. Changing the algorithms to not push you into filter bubbles isn’t censorship.
This seems like great advice, and it resonates with me. I've seen people make a big impact by following this path.

> It’s ok to spend some of your time on snacks to keep yourself motivated between bigger accomplishments, but you have to keep yourself honest about how much time you’re spending on high-impact work versus low-impact work. In senior roles, you’re more likely to self-determine your work and if you’re not deliberately tracking your work, it’s easy to catch yourself doing little to no high-impact work.

In my own personal experience, that boost of actually accomplishing something right now instead of slowly starting the process of impactfully pushing another rock up a hill is very tempting.

Does anyone have any experience or recommendations for effectively tracking your own work and putting yourself in the right headspace to tackle these more long lived impactful tasks? This mental game seems to me to be one of the huge factors that determine outcomes.

I tend to have some challenges with attention at the best of times. My interests tend to run hot and cold. I can make a huge impact and move a project significantly forward when I get into it and hyperfocus on it. But other times managing to focus my attention on a tasks that I know would be high impact is mental torture.
Why would you live mostly off of soy beans? That sounds depressing indeed. As a vegan I have an even more varied diet than before. I eat all kinds of fruits, vegetables, beans, grains, nuts and seeds. And I eat 0% soy. I also hate tofu/soy/etc.
> They're not standing for rights. They're standing for profits.

The entire reason we have a private right of action for firms (rather than just a public right of action) in antitrust law is that actors selfishly standing up for their own profits will incidentally serve the public interest. The law does not rely on or expect litigants (other than those acting in the direct employ of the government) to seek to serve any interest other than their own narrow interests, instead it is (insofar as it seeks to serve a public interest, which is sadly not always the intent of the law to start with) designed to achieve the public interest by shaping private incentives so that the pursuit of private interest itself moves the public interest forward.

So, while what you describe in the above quote about Epic is unquestionably true, that's exactly how the law is supposed to work.
I would definitely want more app stores on my game console. Sometimes the deals are just not there, for PC it has a lot of options, and it has been good for consumers, Epic store has been giving away free games like it was going out of business
My new favorite site, thank you.
The Byte benchmarks are still very useful today. They’re also old enough that it’s doubtful that compiler makers are going to accelerate them (we know Intel does this), because barely anybody uses them any more.
The state knows that backdooring encryption wouldn't help with any of this stuff, they just role it out as propaganda tool.
That was one of the points Andrew Yang made when he was pitching the Freedom Dividend.

Noting the efficiency of giving people money directly, and they can use it in a way that would be most useful in their particular case.
Long-documented behavior of the US to other countries as well.
> 28% of 18-24 y.o.s believe that humans originally got coronavirus from eating bats

Doesn't that simply mean they are a few months behind on the news of the origins of coronavirus? The main theory used to be that, and the topic is irrelevant enough to people that it's unrealistic to expect them to be updated all the time.
I worked at Foodpanda, which was one of the Rocket Internet flagship companies for a time. Foodpanda was a mess, and the people from Rocket Internet were saying it was 10x better than Rocket Internet. Which I can believe since Foodpanda outsourced work to Rocket Internet because Rocket Internet said so. They literally assigned me to make sure they didn't screw the project up, they wouldn't take any feedback really. I ended up not caring about the project because it wasn't actually within my offical responsibilites. At the end of the project I was included in the email threads between the two CTOs where the Foodpanda CTO repeatedly pointed out that they were warned about all the shortcoming in the project way before the end and that they needed fixed. Rocket Internet responded saying that was a lot of work and they would need developer resources from Foodpanda. Me and one of the guys I worked with at Foodpanda decided a way to tell if a developer was worthwhile in Berlin was how long they stayed at rocket. Majority in Berlin would have worked for them at some point, so working there wasn't a sign they were bad. But if they stayed there for more than a year, that was.

From my experience Foodpanda's biggest problem was tech. They literally had hundreds of servers be knocked off line because one redis server with session data went down. This was considered acceptable within the company. There was a culture of failure. And the business side had these issues too. There was a write up in an Indian newspaper where they basically got tore to shreads for all their failures publically. Turned out half of the company didn't realise how bad things were.

Foodpanda was Rocket's attempt at buying up competitors and dominating India. They literally bought everyone and still lost the war to dominate food ordering in India.
This has been somewhat of a long time coming. Water's been on the financial brain for a long time now. From 2012-2018 Harvard's $39bn endowment spent $305m on California vineyards that had reliable access to groundwater[0]. It wasn't for the wine.

[0]: https://www.businessinsider.com/harvard-california-vineyards...

edit: correct dates.
I've only used Zenni Optical. Their glasses start under $10 but different frames and different lenses can change the price.

My biggest complaint with Zenni is that shipping can sometimes be slow. I've waited 4 weeks for glasses to show up and other times it's only a week. I think it depends if they come from China or their US facility.
Can't believe how biased western media is, calling the Vocational Educational Camps "internment camps". They just don't understand the cultural context of socialism with Chinese characteristics.
So it looks like this keys off of class selectors. Anyone know of a solution for cases where you have dynamic selector names? Frameworks like next.js (using styled-jsx) add random strings to class names at build to create classname uniqueness [0].

[0]: https://github.com/vercel/styled-jsx#how-it-works

EDIT: Looks like one solution is to put an ID on the elements you're interacting with. [1]

[1]: https://github.com/checkly/headless-recorder/issues/32
Do you not believe in content moderation? When someone posts spam, or a virus, should it not be removed? If it should be, what about propaganda? What about dangerous disinformation?
Guess, in times of globalization "copying US companies" doesn't cut it anymore, hu?
Menthol cigarettes were, at one point, 'superior and novel'.
> Pro-human, Pro-democracy, Pro-equality. Not anti-Trump

I can't reconcile the first three statements with the fourth.
This is probably one reason why the US republican party refuses to provide the necessary economic stimulus payments--they don't want the masses to get a taste of a kinder, more just society.
> Even bitcoin suffers from the same centralization - the top 4 pools have over 50% hashrate (and so effectively control the blockchain).

In my limited understanding, this is not an issue because it is in the miners' best interest to actually do their job correctly. They wouldn't have an incentive to muck around.

For the other cases like smart contracts and such maybe it's a little different. And perhaps that is why Ethereum is moving to Proof of Stake instead?
For code using intrinsics (not assembler) https://simd-everywhere.github.io/blog/ might be helpful, including on x86_64, though it doesn't provide runtime dispatch. GCC itself knows a level (sse4.2?) of x86_64 intrinsics on ppc64le.
Ok, got it. Off GC Heap memory allocations.

I thought it might be an Oberon specific concept. I'd like to see something like ref counting, but an actual ref list where there is a global list of references to an object.
> it's not like they are somehow taking the place of quality time with my loved ones or bringing joy to other people.

Then we want the same thing. Genuine happiness. But try to see it our way: that coffee money could go to working 5 hours less a week in a decade. That could be quality time with your family. One the other hand, two years into that latte — you're hitting withdrawal by 3:00pm. So maybe your just as happy overall as when you started.
"They want to be part of a small exclusive group of store owners who get to share in the benefits of Apple’s investments"

False.

Epic made very clear, early on, IN THEIR COURT FILING that their case was an attempt to legally force Apple and Google to allow for third party app stores to exist equitably on iOS and Android.

Does that benefit Epic substantially? Of course it does. They want a mobile Epic Games Store on both platforms. But it would also break the stranglehold duopoly that Google and Apple have over the mobile software marketplace.

Example to prove the point: Nothing in Epic's proposals or court filing would prevent Steam Mobile or the Microsoft App Store from launching on iOS and Android on the same terms that Epic prevailed on in court. That's about as far away from anti-competitive behaviour as this court case could possibly hope to be.
Is liquorice derived from wheat?
are you not paying attention or is everything he's saying, he's just joking
> He can't be a right wing extremist because he supported a fringe democratic candidate

When anyone who strays from your self-righteous, moralizing worldview is a right wing extremist...that term ceases to mean anything.

My only point though is that the left hasn't been self-reflective whatsoever. They still have the Hillary-esque view that the rest of the country should apologize for the last 4 years, and the deplorables ruined everything. They're absolutely dripping in working class resentment and it's pretty clear.

Instead of asking themselves how they could lose to an absolute moron and do the hard self-reflection that would maybe reveal how they could appeal to the working class and disenchanted - they just yell about Orange Hitler and how right they were all along.
How does the welfare state currently help person with sufficiently problematic mental health issues ?
Author here. There's a good amount of hype around fintech lately showcasing many of the latest fintech successes as brand new and different. My point was not that they weren't doing innovative things, it's just that fintech has been embedded in Silicon Valley since the 1950s and new fintech startups have been built around new technology every decade. https://www.forbes.com/fintech/2020/#66762c394acd
And often the line of "malevolent propaganda" is variable and moves depends on who is interpreting that.
How to remember what you learn
You're not going to get open firmware. Cell phones are radio transceivers in the hands of millions of unlicensed users. The only reason any of the cellular infrastructure works is all the devices run tested and certified firmware.

For most cellular basebands the PHY is more powerful and capable than the regulations would normally allow. They only get certified for consumer use because the firmware bounds the operation to the regulated envelopes.

No devices would ever be allowed to be sold on the consumer market if end users could go tweak the firmware or run uncertified firmwares. They shouldn't be allowed to be sold. The difference between a transmitter and jammer is a pretty fine line.
I’m all for people wanting rootmode, I just don’t want more freedom and choice on my device, I see no need for it and I like the way Apple can streamline everything by forcing everyone to interact with their device on their terms.

And obviously I realize that this doesn’t go for everyone, and that’s completely okay. I just don’t think Apple should be forced to make their phones into full-on computers just because some people say they want the choice, when you could just as easily get a phone. If most customers really wanted to root iPhones Apple would probably have implemented it by now. I don’t believe for a second that Apple’s desire to unilateraly control their ecosystem trumps shareholder greed, why would it?

Not all phones are for everyone and I think that’s OK. More options and more modular devices means everyone will setup and use their device differently, like with a computer, this is fine for many, but I think it would adversly affect the streamlined nature of iOS (even if it is ‘just an option’), so I’m still against it.
> 4. Immigration is actually critical US economic health. The country needs more immigrants.

This is true in some ways and false in so many others that I hate when people say this.

I can't speak directly to the USA, but I can only assume it's similar to the situation we have in the UK. Here it's true that certain demographics of immigrants are a net-positive to the UK economy. Specifically, Indian and EEA migrants are very beneficial.

However this doesn't mean the vast majority of immigrants are beneficial to the UK economy. Many immigrant groups contribute less in taxes which creates a fiscal deficit which other groups need to pick up. For example, as a group non-EEA migrants added £9bn to the deficit in 2016/17. [1]

Because the data is clear that non-EEA migrants are a net-negative to UK tax payers you'll often see economists and reporters try to justify non-EEA immigration by reporting the benefits in terms of GDP. To the average, economically uninformed person it sounds great that non-EEA immigrants raise GDP, but it's obviously the wrong metric to use unless you aspire to have an economy like Chinas or Indias where sheer population size makes up for low per capita GDP.

And this isn't even considering all the negative effects mass-migration has on communities here in the UK or the increased job competition seen by lower skilled workers. I have an elderly relative who no longer recognises the community he grew up in. He's lived in the same tower block for over 40 years and when he moved in almost everyone was British. Today he may be the only British person left. None of his neighbours celebrates Christmas. The notices and signs in the tower block are written in Arabic. The shops in his area feature Arabic signage and sell foreign produce... While I don't have a problem with any individual culture in the UK, I am sceptical that this kind of cultural transformation which is occurring in many parts of the UK (and US) today is in the interest of the average Brit or American.

So to be clear, the US & UK don't need more immigrants. What we need is more of the right kind of immigrants. We need people who want to work and integrate into our communities. We want people with skills who are able to pay more in taxes than they take out. However, the conversation around immigration has become so black and white that it's impossible to argue for sanity.

[1] https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...
Blockchain is not suitable for micropayments. The computing resource requirements are many orders of magnitude too high.
This. It boils down to "words mean things". They're fine being firmly on the side of proprietary-with-some-preservation-of-rights; it is _their_ code after all. Their customers get to decide what level of rights they're happy with putting up with.

They're not Open Source. They're not Free Software. Being part of those communities requires following the norms of those communities.
Thanks, that is really great. I didn't know about that one.
The question from a principle standpoint is - can a company create an area where trust / safety / security are prioritized. T

Developers no doubt disagree with this, they have created a web that is filled with crap. Let's be 100% clear about that.

Spam calls via voip, spam into email, ddos floods of every sort imaginable, impossible to unsubscribe, cramming and slamming on subscription renewals and the list goes on. They don't want root on your device to help you, but to screw you in enough cases that you shouldn't give them root. Trust / security / safety are low low low on the list of almost all startup and other developers "growth hacking" etc.

Apple wanted to create their own little world. Phones with updates that keep on getting updated, an app marketplace with much more transparent pricing (lot less fine print), and the list goes on.

You need to look at what apple is doing in context. The world on the net developers and hackers here on HN have created is terrible in many ways for many many people. At some point folks are just tied of the endless scams.

Now the same folks who trashed a lot of the rest of the web (do you answer your phone when an unkown number calls?) want into the walled apple garden.
You mean alcohol.
This move makes sense; I am trying to think about the implications of this specific license long term, and it seems it strikes a balance between protecting the company from AWS, Azure and GCP, while at the same time offering a relatively straightforward framework for their customers and, down the road, for 3rd party vendors.

If they succeed, this could be the blueprint for many other companies in a similar situation.

Keep up the good work!
I would stay away from Rings ecosystem. Especially since police have been given direct access to Ring footage, and that seems like a no-fly with this.
DNA of a Password Disaster (2014)
Around 50% lines of `neofetch` are the ASCII arts of distro logos
Most modern states with the necessary capabilities spread disinformation to other countries for their own political gain or the political gain of their allies, Russia is far from the only one.
Aww, thanks =) We are good co-editors for each other!

We have a fun and long co-founder history, actually, going back >20 years. So lots of experience doing so!
This article, as with much tech discussion I've seen in the past 5-10 years, seems to take sprints as a given. Are most devs here working in a sprint model? It sounds a bit soul crushing to me to be "continually sprinting".

I'm so glad that our company doesn't have them—I think it's a significant factor in me grinding it out for 9+ years. We have feature releases every 4 weeks. If your feature is merged before QA, it goes out in that release. Otherwise, it gets delayed till the next release, and we don't make a big deal about it—several other features will still be in the release.

I feel like it gives me a lot more agency and ownership of my work. I think it's the right amount of subtle deadline pressure, relying on my intrinsic motivation to get my feature shipped and move onto the next one. Or to have the freedom to determine that it's not ready yet and spend a little more time to avoid shoving out a pile of technical debt.

I'm curious to see what I'm missing, though. Anyone love sprints? Anyone working in a non-sprint model and hate it?
> Hypothesize a machine that allows you to change people's emotions directly, one that has seen mass adoption.

There absolutely are such machines and we call them computers.

> Should people be allowed to install it?

Communication is the powerful 'technology' that changes people's emotions directly. The mode of communication is a side-note. Tear down FB and none of this goes away - not because something rises from FB's ashes but because communication is a central facet of humanity.
A CAFO is a feedlot with 1k+ animal units (1 animal unit = 1 head of beef cattle), Australia has plenty of those. Here's a list of the top 25

https://www.beefcentral.com/top-25-lotfeeders-list/

I believe it is true that cattle get more nutrition from grass in AU than US but I haven't seen numbers that break it down.
> In fact, I don't understand why employees at tech companies believe they have the right to police people's opinions period.

Of course they have the right to. Any website can make whatever rules they want about what's allowed. HN has rules too.
You say "the only thing different" is the chief executive, but... https://www.factcheck.org/2018/06/nielsens-rhetoric-on-famil...

(If you don't like factcheck.org, fine, but the facts have been widely reported elsewhere as well.)

I don't think that this gives cover to either Obama or Bush for any abuses of the system under their administration, but suddenly changing to a zero tolerance policy and massively widening the scope of family separation counts as a difference, no?
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Honestly, if you think spending 15 minutes (we’re closer to 10 though) talking to your team to ensure that you know what others are working on and they know what you are working on, then I don’t want to work with you.

It’s not wasted time, and even if you don’t care what I’m working on I still care that you know so that we don’t spend two weeks building something only for you to go “Oh, that won’t work after the changes I made to the core.... why didn’t you come by my desk and ask me “are you intending to change the core code in a way that invalidates all assumptions we had two weeks ago when we started working on this?” And do so like clockwork every day, even though I’d answer no 6 times before suddenly answering yes?

“But we already communicate in the team outside of the Stand-up!” You say. Ok then, tomorrow at your standup, have everyone go though someone else’s points, I’ll say what you did yesterday, if you have blockers and what you’ll do today. If everyone does this flawlessly, then yes the daily is wasted time, but for every mistaken assumption you hear, that is a potential mistake or missed opportunity or just general annoyance you avoided simply by talking 10 minutes together.

Now don’t get me started on the number of bad excuses that you avoid by having daily stand ups that’s a whole other subject, but also an extremely valuable element. “I’m waiting on Kevin to finish X” “Does Kevin know this?” “Yes of cause! “ Kevin: “Wait what? Err what am I supposed to be doing? That’s not on the board”. Etc.