skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many of us discovered in college that our peers who had to learn to study in high school often thrived while 'smarter' kids struggled.

Similarly, I have seen a lot of 'smart' developers who never learned to break down a problem. They end up making solutions that only they will ever understand. They won't be able to mentor anyone. If you get more than a few of these people on a team, you'll see a bimodal distribution in productivity, where nobody is really effective until they've been on the team for 3 or 4 years.

You want people whose answer to "how do you eat an elephant?" is "one bite at a time", not "grow bigger jaws", and watching how (or if) they break down the problem and offer multiple solutions is probably the best you're going to do in an interview setting.

The rest can be mitigated by harping on Bus Factors early and often, and insisting on diversity (ie, the bus factor for each part of the system should not be the same 3 people).
Nokia was pathological before Elop arrived, but it was still huge, and a huge name. There was more than enough time and money to turn it around. Instead he released his "burning platforms" memo that made everything worse.

From the outset it looked (from the outside) exactly like his goal was as described - torpedo the company and get it bought by Microsoft, returning to the mothership in the process.
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The last CEO and Founder was outed because he donated to a Christian Organization and the Firefox code of conduct was used against him saying this was discrimination against gays.

So the CEO left and started Brave and Firefox is now imploding.

Good. Let Firefox burn. They should have never weaponized their code of conduct.
I like the way that Ars headlines the exciting claims, but also includes the boring facts. For example, that these claims would represent basically industry standard progress on price/kwh, and that 3 years from Elon Musk is not a useful claim, and that Tesla is stating several mutually exclusive claims.
I use it to get rendered web pages I want to scrap.
The reuse terms of these images are pretty curious, "within the bounds of common sense".
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I think he is referring to this, they seem to come from Changzhou, where Tesla has no plant:

https://l0dl1j3lc42iebd82042pgl2-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-...

https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2020/01/29/does-tesla-make-solar...

Maybe you can't buy them elsewhere in the US because Tesla has an exclusive distributorship deal. That's very different than what was presented during the solar city acquisition, and billion in subsidies for the New York plant...

You can also buy the Boring Company's state of the art brick machine invention on Ali Baba. The cyber quad was a Yamaha four wheeler with some steel panels and I believe a motor setup from someone else's electric bike.
> ... hold online platforms accountable both when they unlawfully censor speech and when they knowingly facilitate criminal activity online.

If these proposed changes are enacted, I await the catch-22 where an "online platform" is sued in relation to the same content; first where they "censored" something and then had to put it back online, and second as "knowingly facilitating criminal activity" because it's online.
Thanks for the info, the note about Rust being a way in makes sense as well.
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I'd go even further and weight-in the whole lineage.

I believe my grand parents on both side were damaged, leading to damaged parents, producing a very dysfunctional me.

It's like driving with the brakes on.. I speculate that the efficiency of not having to fight toxicity constantly leads to a thick rain of happy.

To the point that if I have children, I'd be sure to regularly send them away so they can see the world outside my sphere of influence.
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It was down at the time plenty of other comments about this as well.
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> Our defense budget was increased to $700 billion.

That doesn't matter. Money is not the problem. Making helping people contingent on also lowering the defense budget doesn't magically make things easier because there's money for it, as money was never the problem. It just means you have two hard things to accomplish instead of one.

> We can also trim the fat right now.

My point was to say money is not the limiting factor.

> The GOP and Trump's cabinet have been using their majority to stop any "socialist" legislature from being passed

Let's not pretend the Democrats have been some bastion of good behavior. They've squandered any high ground they might have had through gamesmanship just as much as the Republicans, but to worse effect because they still try to present themselves as taking the high ground.

> some Americans' votes are favored over others, and most don't have a real opportunity to vote for the candidate they truly desire.

How is this different than it's ever been? The system was designed to be this way. States are supposed to be elevated and have power, only to be offset by the number of constituents they have. States are supposed to be far more important than just some county, they are individual polities with their own laws and are supposed to be used to experiment with different laws specifics of government, and traditionally they were. It's only with the ascendancy of the Federal government and Presidential powers over the last century or so that states have lost of lot of the power they used to hold. In a system where states are supposed to be able to implement their own systems and try new things, it makes sense to allow states themselves a bit more pull than the sum of their people, so they don't get steamrolled.
Yup, but it doesn't support something as simple and widespread as custom breakpoints, CSS variables, pseudo-classes, but also descendant and non-class selectors.
Of course it is. Conservatives have raced so quickly to the right that they've outrun the Overton Window. So rather than snap back, they're trying to push Big Tech to accelerate the movement of the window.
Rust’s two most prominent type system features are lifetimes and traits. Traits aka type classes first appeared in Haskell and are not a feature of ML.

I would be interested to learn of features in Rust that came from ML and that aren’t features of Haskell - not counting strictness :-) I can think of a non-example: one of ML's distinguishing features is its functional (in the FP sense) module system; Haskell and Rust have more conventional module systems.

You could maybe argue that a Rust enum definition is more like an ML type definition than a Haskell data definition because the constructor parameters are tuples rather than curried, but it isn’t clear to me whether this is actual influence from ML, or Rust aiming to be more C-ish.

As I understand the history of algebraic data types and pattern matching, they first appeared in Hope, and from there they were added to ML, and on the separate branch of lazy functional languages they were inherited by Hope’s successors Miranda, Orwell, and Haskell.
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We also have a demo at https://blindsend.xyz/
In a pair of tanks that weigh 87.5 kg.
I recall receiving an unsolicited email about this project a week ago. Did you scrape email addresses from GitHub profiles to try to promote your project, by any chance?
Counting Words in Scala
Even a hypothetical "perfect" captcha that resists 100% of bots can still be defeated by just paying humans to solve them. If your objective is to defeat political interference by well-funded adversaries it will do absolutely nothing.
i see we are entering the poetic phase of pandemic reaction.
Someone owed me money. I found out he was having a rough time, and had for a while, so I forgave the debt. What I got out of it was of greater value than the money.
Wait, "pushed Obama"? So Obama actually needed to be "pushed", because he was of the same opinion as Eich? But it's OK for the President of the United States to be of such opinion, because unlike CEO of Mozilla, he has no authority over the vast giant powers of Federal Government that actually decides what is allowed and not allowed in the country... Priorities!
As usual for Section 230 stuff, Mike Mansick at Techdirt has the thoughtful, sourced analysis - including all the players and a history of their past actions

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200921/22345845352/trump...
I thought several of these did show infrared heating? Or maybe I'm thinking of a different case than you.

In any case a lack of heat is problematic. Even if they're using some unknown means of propulsion, the second law of thermodynamics is absolutely settled bedrock science. They must dump waste heat somewhere.
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> Gender balanced?

Fwiw, when i was there, engineering teams generally had more men than woman. No
tech teams and management tended to have more equal representation. However i would say the gender demographics of eng teams were fairly on-par for the industry at large. I never saw any sexism, but as a man, if it was present it probably would not be directed at me, so i may just not have noticed.
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I think it was another answer to the GP question "what does reward past content creators?"

The editing and organizing work is satisfying to some types of people, including some people on the autism spectrum. And that specific type of satisfying work is rewarding to them. Kind of like how a freshly mown lawn is satisfying to others. There are plenty of people who love mowing their lawn that would hate to do it as a job for others.
>even incest - not a big deal moraly in ancient Egypt, Westeros, and/or some parts of the rural South).

Actually, the only places in the US where incest (between adults) is legal are New Jersey and Rhode Island.[0] Which isn't exactly the "rural south," no matter what the bad jokes say.

[0] https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/incest-laws...
Has anyone noticed Elon Musk stutter? Almost with every sentence he says there's a word or two he visibly struggles to pronounce.
We'd love comments and discussion from the HN community!
I think that the title is correct but it is not very descriptive of what it is about for people having a look at it.

Tldr quote from it:

"We therefore urge Congress to make these necessary reforms to Section 230 and begin to hold online platforms accountable both when they unlawfully censor speech and when they knowingly facilitate criminal activity online.”
Don't be pedantic, you're doing it right now.
Well, they apparently aren't taking his "threats" seriously then. Just watch any of his pressers, and compare it to those of Joe Biden. Oh, I forgot, Joe Biden doesn't have any pressers where questions aren't pre-approved in advance.
The weight factor also makes it easier to transport. In off-grid use-cases, it could make a lot of sense to get hydrogen delivered instead of setting up solar/wind + battery.
You can probably get even higher performance for your money by switching to a VPS like a Linode (and on a single machine with limited RAM, SQLite might perform better for read-heavy workloads than running a database server).
They have approximately $165 million in assets and the total running costs for wikipedia servers are on the order of $2 million a year. They could keep the lights on for wikipedia for something like 80 years without a single dime of additional revenue.

The vast majority of their spending does not go to keeping wikipedia's lights on, and that is the only reason their excess reserves are as low as "four years."

Here's the graph of revenue and spending over time:

https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/page/graph/png/User%3AG...
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It think this is an oversimplification. Mentats still had agency--both Piter de Vries and Thufir Hawat have their mentat schemes to kill the Baron Harkonnen.

One of the big points of the Dune series is the indeterminacy of the universe. Computers, being deterministic, couldn't think properly to handle the full universe, so humanity's subjugation to computers (i.e., "machine thinking", both as rule by computer and as habits of thought for humans) was a dead end. Dependency on computers also meant people didn't develop human skills.

After the Butlerian Jihad, the Guild, the Mentats, and the Bene Gesserit all became schools of human development. Mentats aren't just human computers who perform calculations quickly. They cultivate almost zen-like mental states that allow them to sift patterns of data into conclusions, among other techniques. The later books go into much more detail, but part of the point is that they're not deterministic thinkers; they're practitioners of very advanced modes of consciousness.
I thought that would be understood implicitly - how many google products do you know, maybe 10 to 20? That’s a < 10% success rate, pretty comparable to startups in general.
Love seeing the intersection of OSS and the variety of related business models that have emerged (and will continue to be created). Recently having joined Ockam, I am excited to see this happening in realtime. Well done, Matt.
well, we had dreamweaver when browsers were pretty much toys, why can't we have dreamweaver now that browsers are gigantic application runtimes?
In order to build Traefik you have to get go-bindata and run the go generate command. You can find more information on https://doc.traefik.io/traefik/contributing/building-testing...
Those are basically patch sets for Firefox. Brave, Vivaldi, and Edge only use the same engine.
Hey, all. I'm a PM on the Flutter team and happy to be able to fill out the set desktop OSes that Flutter supports with Windows (in addition to macOS and Linux). Got Qs? AMA.

https://flutter.dev/desktop
And water scarcity is expected to be a growing issue for many parts of the world. I guess we could use sea water, but then the shipping you mention comes into play.

Just a side note, you could ship it in hydride tanks.
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How expensive is integer-overflow trapping in C++?
> If there’s a better charity, I’d like to know about it...

Not saying it’s necessarily better or worse, but is worth considering– the Internet archive (ie they run the Wayback machine, among other services). I have donated to both.
I feel strongly about archiving/storing all types of information- digital and non-digital.

There is a great amount of information that is lost or unable to be easily located due to 404 errors or servers going off-line (and the source of this issue is only getting worse)
If Fox News is streaming over YouTube TV, is it an online service that can be sued for moderating content in bad faith? Who gets sued? Fox News, YouTube TV, my ISP?
Love this great job Matt and team!
FF is my daily driver too, but since Google properties increasingly only work reliably in Chromium, I use Brave for those (without opting in to BAT, which doesn't appeal to me). It's not bad, works fine on Ubuntu, built-in adblocking (but you can install uBo etc.)
It should be the same, uncheck Use Legacy Vector in Special:Preferences (at least, it is for me in 1.35rc3). I haven't found a setting to make that the default, however.
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This is going to be a very unpopular opinion, but I'm curious what folks think: I don't like Wikipedia.

I think it's done more harm than good, I think the editing process is biased, skews to the political left or right (depending on the article), Wikipedia also generally skews secular and humanist (because that's the nature of most contributors). References constantly 404, but that's not even the main problem: references are not parsed properly. A lot of times, I'll look at a cited paper and its cited content will be diametrically opposed to what the Wiki page says.

Controversial topics are nightmare, and contributing to them is even more of a nightmare. The voting process, by definition, is flawed -- and Wikipedia is very much a "tyranny by majority." The only articles that are high quality tend to be very technical ones (where you generally have professionals in the field contribute to non-controversial topics). Most rules -- like NOR, NPOV, and BLP, are implemented haphazardly.

Why do I think Wikipedia has done more harm than good? Because there's a new phenomenon where one reads the Wiki page of a complex topic (say, something like Free Will) and 5 minutes later, the reader thinks they're a bonafide expert on a topic that has puzzled humanity for millennia. There's a reason Wikipedia can't be cited in college (heck, even high school) papers: it's low quality and unvetted. I make it a point to never cite Wikipedia in online discussion. I'd rather cite Wolfram Alpha, or a professor's personal webpage, or a specific paper.

Even before Wikipedia, you had knowledge being disseminated via the web: philosophy professors had their own web-pages, theologians had their own web-pages, and particle physicists had their own web-pages -- all filled with morsels of specific (and often times technical) information. I really wish Encyclopaedia Britannica put more efforts into their own knowledge base, but I get it: high-quality vetted content is hard to do. Wikipedia takes shortcuts, and we'd be foolish to ignore its shortcomings.
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The common memory-related bugs are:

- use after free

- memory leaks (failing to free)

- concurrent and uncontrolled access from multiple threads (race conditions)

Garbage collection helps with the first two. The system will not free memory until it is certain (by whatever method is being used) that the memory is no longer in use. But this comes with a run-time cost. Rust's innovation here is a more reliable way of tracking memory usage statically, and removes some of the run-time cost. Paired with its ownership/borrow mechanisms it also works to solve the third issue, which GC doesn't deal with at all.
I really wish Go plugins got some more love from the go team. It looks like this is using Yaegi a Go interpreter, which is probably the only reasonable choice. Go's plugin package requires that the plugin be compiled with exactly the same compiler version as the main binary. So you need to recompile every plugin for every new release, at least if you upgrade the compiler between releases which you often do. It also doesn't work on windows.
Notably, this also means a lock-in in traditional layouts, as I doubt that an AI trained on the usual corpus would parse any non-traditional, maybe even dissociated layouts well. And, since there's apparently no way to control the reflow, this means serial presentation, all the way, just to make sure that your content will be presented in a meaningful way.

This is a bit ironic, since the USP of PDF has always been its ability to preserve individual presentations in a portable format, which made it also ideal for sharing and archiving non-traditional presentations of content.
I think maybe you met the game mechanics too quickly and that might have ruined it for you. For me it was very non-gamey because I had no idea what the consequences of meeting one of the monsters was so I spent almost the entire game petrified. Once I had died a couple of times and learned how the monsters worked, the spook factor wore off quickly.

But I still far preferred that to the classic weapons based horror games where the spookiness is derived from how tough an openent is in combat.

You should really, really try SOMA though. They dialed in the non-combat spookiness and even once you figure out how the monsters work, the few there are, it's the story and atmosphere that drives the spookiness anyway so it doesn't detract from the experience. Much less gamey, and quite a good mystery mixed with some existential dread.
I think that’s fine to ask social medias to choose between being a publisher or a platform.

It’s perfectly fine to push your point of view online as it’s protected by the first. But you should bare consequences for the cases not protected by the first.
I wish the original comment to which I replied could show the edit.

I'm no troll, just a very annoyed reader - and UK citizen - who sees The Guardian as proclaiming how utterly fantastic they are while also doing exactly what the Powers That Be want them to say.

The Guardian are ..... words fail me, but truthful and believable are not on that list.

And troll? Nope.
I also have the book, and agree that it is very nicely put together. A sequel would definitely be in order, given that we seem to be in a third age of science fiction.
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It seems like you’re grasping at straws to defend your original statement.
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i have no openai insight, so treat this as idle speculation please.

supporting partners properly requires a lot of work, especially since openai clearly wants to monitor usage and curtail toxic applications.

starting with one makes sense, and if you intend to start with one, why not charge for the right?

if we don’t want openai to degrade, it must control its own destiny and create healthy, sustainable revenue streams. having the foresight to charge one of the richest corporations for exclusivity should increase confidence that openai has ample business talent as well as technical.

this hypothesis is false if openai doesn’t offer GPT-3 to other partners within a reasonable timeframe.
I'm seeing a lot of comments that say things like "so what should I do instead?" The article doesn't specify, but the forum it's posted on (effectivealtruism.org) has a lot to say about this topic. One simple recommendation would be to look at https://www.givewell.org/charities/top-charities instead.

A sketch of the argument: If you think donating is important, it's because on some level, you're hoping to bring about some good in the world. You donate to Wikipedia hoping to encourage Wikipedia to continue existing, and more work to go in to the effort of building Wikipedia.

But I'll bet that you care about other good things in the world as well: saving sick children, preventing climate change, fighting unjust policies. There's a lot of things you could make an impact on donating. How do you decide?

Effective Altruism states that not all donations are equally effective. One charity might take your $1000 and use it to buy a dying child an all-expenses-paid vacation to Disneyland. Another might use it buying bed nets to prevent the spread of malaria, in expectation keeping one more child alive than would have died. And given that your budget is limited and you can't afford both, you must decide which is more valuable to you.

So this article roughly says, "Wikipedia is a great and noble cause. But here's why it doesn't come close to the _very, absolute best_ way to use your money to help others."