skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What’s the practical difference?

One is the liability is much clearer. At least in some jurisdictions, if the manufacturer can't be located to take responsibility for a defective product, the retailer can be sued instead. IIRC, Amazon weaseled out of some hoverboard product safety lawsuits by claiming it wasn't the actual retailer.

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/amazon-beats-state...
I feel like this can actually happen in practice... Your code sucks and then you hire a 10x developer who is really good a duct taping everything in your code to work with nasty hacks. Good times!
The chinese system should be renamed to 'Social Control System' because that's what it does. It's intention is to control the masses.

The problem with governments is size and reach. Governments attempt and do usually keep growing. The government ends up with laws like: https://library.municode.com/ar/little_rock/codes/code_of_or...

Why does a government care if you honk a horn near a sandwich shop after 9pm? How many places also make adultery illegal? How about ever decreasing speed limits? https://www.brusselstimes.com/brussels/107383/coronavirus-ci...

Government wants to grow, but how many of these laws are really enforced? However, if you had a social control system. It might be much more possible.

That's the problem with robot cops. Which are coming eventually. The size of the police force will increase and the government will start to be able to enforce these laws. There will be a robot outside of every sandwich shop and you will be punished for honking your horn.
FWIW, what the Stanford Graduate School of Business types found was that when you take a bunch of inherently pretty uncreative people, then try to regiment their creativity with a rigid process, they become even less creative. Gee, ya think? Creativity, by definition, cannot be bounded and contained, and the best creative insights are "bolts from the blue"...
I've used a KinesisGaming for years, bought out of desperation due to severe wrist and finger pain.

Has done wonders. Being able to remap keys with the heardware is awesome.

Mine recently broke due to a move, so I reached out. They offered to replace it, or swap out the cord they suspected was the culprit. I opted for the latter, opened my keyboard up, gave it a good cleaning, swapped out the cord, and I was back online. Very easy to open up and clean/repair.

A few criticizms:

Every once in a blue moon, I will create an extremely long macro of my everyday computer usage, and when I hit a button the keyboard will absolutely freak out and do all kinds of bad stuff: retype passwords I have typed, etc.

HONESTLY would prefer macro support to be a "app only" feature, because it has caused me nothing but pain.

Second, it is a bit boring. I kinda wish I had gone for a more interesting layout like the ErgodoxEZ.

Overall really solid mechanical keyboard.
Shmig: Database migration tool written in bash
Let's compare seed valuations & dilutions of : a YC company vs Non YC Company

YC : takes 7% for 125K and then let's say you raise $1m at $12m post money. Total diluted 15%.

Non YC : If you want to raise $1m for same 15% dilution - your post money would be $6.5m.

So these are pure numbers[1]

With YC, I guess Founders' gain a network, bay area connections etc

[1] : https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kxOBF0CPhcktmgFvAZtY...
We've made this as isolated and private as possible. By design, we kept it separate from any bank-linking processes, and we don't ever keep track of who's the owner of the transactions (nor do we have a way of knowing).

Even more, the free api does not require any authentication and you can remove anything you'd consider personally identifiable information before making the requests.

Hope this answers it!
> why not have a PC built for games have some personality in the form of pulsating water coolers, light bars, video cards with self-illumination?

Because this is the opposite of personality. Its dressing things up in pre-fabbed cookie-cutter accessories with a uniform aesthetic of cheaply made electronics. Its just an easy way to sell generic products at a markup.

Personality is personal, something that you came up with, not something that you bought of the shelf - that just makes you a consumer. Examples of PCs with personality:

* https://www.pinterest.de/pin/527765650070789504/

* https://www.pinterest.de/pin/170714642095089041/

* https://www.pinterest.de/pin/278941770641263283/
He found that Erlang (and to a large extent OTP) certainly "helped" to write reliable code, it didn't just "make it possible."
A long time ago, in organic chemistry we had a lab where we decomposed multiple brands of acetaminophen pills including tylenol to measure the content of acetaminophen . And well, Tylenol is the only drug that 20 or so independent groups that was even close to its labeled dosage. The off brands were as bad as 60%.

But there's alot of shady as fuck shit that goes on in the OTC and generic market where they are produced largely overseas in labs that intentionally cut corners and the FDA doesn't give a shit. In fact, the FDA announces their inspections ahead of time which allows the labs to cheat.

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/05/16/7235458...

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/11/opinion/sunday/generic-dr... (One FDA inspector ended up quitting because of his consistent findings in unannounced inspections he made and the FDA not giving a shit and reducing violations)
With the rare exception like Costco, cheaper house brands often imply they're equivalent to brand name goods, but take unadvertised shortcuts in process and/or feedstock, misleading consumers who don't take the time to carefully compare to weigh whether the shortcut is worth the value to them.

This is not true. I used to have a number of consumer products clients when I was at a firm. Store-brand products are all made for the stores by name brands as part of their white label programs (excepting clothing, since the transaction flows are different for that industry).

Usually the way it works is that the white label product is the same as the standard product, but with store-selected packaging. In most cases, the differences are purely cosmetic (as with cereals, which are made for most stores by General Mills and its competitors.) In a few instances, the store brand is usually a white label version of the brand name's discount brands, such as the store-brand products at the 99 Cents Only and Dollar Stores.

I wouldn't mind house brands as much if supply chain information and process information was transparent across all companies, but that supply chain information is a pseudo-trade secret (and for real-time supply chain information, definitely a trade secret) [1], and you can forget about obtaining process information.

This information is known within the industry. As 99.99999% of customers don't care about the supply chain of a store brand product, they don't include that information on the packaging. But then again, neither do the name brands. In some cases, you can the name of the manufacturer by asking the store's corporate office, and they'll usually tell you. Generally, they don't have access to "process information" for how the product is manufactured because they're just buying the product from the manufacturer. Whether the manufacturer will tell you depends on the product.

I wouldn't go as far as to say ban house brands by law. But I wouldn't want to keep them completely unregulated in all contexts like we are currently doing, either.

House brands are subject to the same regulations as name brands.
I've been through many corporate procurement processes, so I understand where you're coming from.

But I disagree. First off, if Amazon couldn't offer their marketplace, if it were profitable, they would spin it off.

Secondly, they would almost certainly work out a co-billing deal, where approved marketplaces could bill through AWS, because they too know about the value of being already approved. It would also be a way for them to keep making money off of a marketplace if they couldn't run one anymore.

My point is, if AWS could not run their own marketplace, I'm sure solutions would come up to enable a 3rd party to work as smoothly as possible.
You're supposed to use APIs provided by mesa (OpenGL, OpenCL) or TensorFlow and similar ML Frameworks which then talk to D3D12 or DirectML as seen on linked diagrams.

It makes zero sense to consume D3D12 and DirectML under WSL directly from user applications since that prevents your app from being deployed on the real linux. There also won't be any SDK or headers released by Microsoft so you'll have to manually load functions from .so.
I love the LWN model, in addition to this it lets you read the subscription-only articles after a week, and to also (to an extent) choose what you feel you can pay
Give me early Autumn, 75F/23C in the day, 55F/15C at night (those may be slightly off).

Yes, I know, SF has that. I love the weather in the Bay but the culture just makes it a non-starter.
Record companies and artist were initially also fighting single track purchasing, trying to keep customers to buy albums, fearing the loss of revenue if customers could buy only what they liked, without all the low value fillers.

And they were right to fear it, as spotify revenue streams hardly resemble the revenue streams they had from selling albums.

Selling through spotify is now seen as marketing, bands have to make their money from concerts.

Newspapers and magazines are correct to fear selling per article, it will significantly reduce their revenue, with no real revenue model to make up for it. Newspaper concerts?
Sounds like hot desking with new branding. This was tried by many companies (especially large consulting/professional services firms) back in the 1990's and people hated it. The lesson learned was that, when your employees do show up at their office, they feel like visitors. Maybe google can do it in a way that works but I have my doubts.
Professor Graham Richards on Computer-Aided Molecular Design
Docker is for applications. Using it in an actual library for a programming language should be limited to setting up the dev environment needed to run tests [for the benefit of consistency]. It makes sense for someone like Discourse to only support running via docker since they want to make sure you're running with the exact same dependencies they're running with which makes issue-reporting and debugging easier.
"[...]especially knowing it can run on batteries for 10 hours (allegedly), without having a UPS."

In my experience of trying the same, this is a swollen Li-Ion battery waiting to happen.
On a Plus Minus for Engineering Teams
There isn't one, at least not one that isn't superficial and wrong, as I pointed out at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13948337 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17586058 .
private sector credit systems have the same or similar result in dictating outcomes, but as long as its not from the state, nobody in the west will care about it

If I do something bad, like file for bankruptcy, it is wiped off of the "private sector credit systems" after seven years. China's scorekeeping is perpetual. There is no forgiveness. No second chances.

Another important difference is that in the West, being penalized for things like now showing up for a dinner reservation are opt-in. You choose to make a reservation through Open Table in order to get points. Part of that contract is that you will honor your reservations. Nobody forces you to use Open Table.

credit bureaus in a variety of countries have the same effect

Which Western credit bureaus are tracking charitable donations? Blood donations? The times someone plays music too loudly? The times someone throws a banana peel into the recycling bin?
A small business fight with its landlord leasing to a competitor nextdoor
I read the reviews for YC. There are three VCs from YC (in this website). They got 1, 7, and 10 marks on a scale from 1-10.
> when you update the content of a file, the mtime of its containing directory is not changed ... if the directory mtime were updated (recursively to the root) when contained files changed ... This is probably because of hardlinks

It might be partly due to hardlinks, but I suspect it is mostly an efficiency issue. Modifying a file could mean updating quite a few directories every time if you have a deep tree. For some uses this could be quite a performance hit, and for some media would potentially reduce the life of your hardware too.

IIRC even when updating atime for every access was the usual default for many filesystems, only the current object had its time updated not all its chain of parents.
Because when you rebuild and redeploy you loose the state that you have in your application and then you need to put it in the correct state for you to test if your change worked correctly.

Here is Shaun Mahood explaining this while building an application to do the presentation without even having to reload the page: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDzjlx6otCU
What new research reveals about rude workplace emails
Similar as in tomatoes are to potatoes.

As far as i know, even if you have a terrible US credit score, you can still buy a train/plane/bus ticket to travel outside of your city, you can still buy mobile phone contracts, start a business, buy property, send your children to a private school etc etc.

The SCS in China will punish the individual by restricting these things.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXyzpMDtpSE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evBzPwCdeHI
This feels like the ones often seen as 10x heroes, because they're the only ones who can be productive in the mess they created.
Thought experiment. If Amazon had to divest the marketplace and not integrate third party sellers with their website and decided to sell the most popular/profitable products in house, would that help the third party sellers?

Who would buyers go to? Amazon.com or the hypothetically amazonmarketplace.com?
I don't think I'm a 100x developer or anything, but I think people underestimate the compounding interest of being a 5x-10x developer. If you architect things just right today, that can save you a lot of time tomorrow. Spending time testing today can save weeks of bug time later, which can be spent to create something useful, compounding on itself.

If we say green field is 10x, and someone is doing good things, I think that should go up over time. Getting things like builds, documentation, tests, make people more productive.

Whereas on the other hand, people who make code worse eventually start drowning in their own filth, and eventually slow down to nearly nothing. Filth also compounds.
There were a few papers I read that reported on how obesity spread through online-only (no physical contact) social groups. I have not been able to resurface these off late. If anyone has a link I'd be very grateful.
Pay fewer folks more money each, but less overall gets them to own the software they build. It's a virtuous cycle. A large team treated like "resources" will build exactly what they're told to build, and it's someone else's problem if that solves a business need, or even works.
I work for Netflix Open Connect (CDN). We've been leaders on CPU and power efficiency with things like async sendfile, kernel TLS, and more. We've had servers doing 100Gb/s in production for 4 years, while competing CDNs are just now rolling out 100Gb/s servers. I have a prototype machine right now serving 375Gb/s of TLS encrypted customer video traffic with just 32 cores.
You don't need any digits of pi. You should be using tau.
Yea but you can’t prove it’s not occurring. All you can show is lack of evidence that it is occurring.
I think one misconception is the range. I think that the range is dependent on the situation both immediate and long term. The immediate situation’s range is more bounded. The bottom of the range can veer into the negative and the top can go way beyond 10x. It’s more a phase change at that point.

Example of >> 10x phase change: Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat with MapReduce and BigTable.

For the negative, I think we all have seen the programmer who is useless and that actually requires other people to replace their work.
It will also make minorities more accountable for being minorities. Also known as "driving while black".

"Enemy of the State (1998)" but as mundane everyday reality, not a blockbuster movie and with your jelaous neighbours reporting you for anything and everything.
Yes but if you are an adult I can't coerce you into voting for a party of my choice. Children can be coerced. Children can be used as pawns. Schools can turn into political arenas. There are so many things that can go wrong by introducing politics at that young age. It is rare for adults to fall for peer pressure as you would have matured by then. Kids and teens can easily succumb to peer pressure.

You might want to read about on peer pressure and age influence here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2779518/

Do you really want your children to be exposed to political influence at such a tender age when they are already dealing with peer pressure, bullying and all other negative aspects that come with school life?
First Bionic Vision System – Ready for Human Trials – IE
Belize barely has stable broadband throughout most of the country, so not sure if this is a typo or some kind of inside joke? Maybe autocorrected from Britain -> Belize?
George Jetson tried to warn you, but everyone laughed at him.
I have a working Chromebook with a broken screen. Sure would be nice to put it to work! Loved that little machine when it was working, perfect for the kids and to take to client meetings (all day battery). It's now in storage, because paying to fix a screen on a $200-something computer doesn't make sense.
I’m starting to question the whole app store distribution mechanism. The web is clearly not the best platform for mobile, but as mobile developers, maybe we should make a stand and only develop for the web. Pushing mobile os manufacturers to improve their platform for web, instead of having us cooperate to publish in their own private garden.
Worse, "What's Going On" (a good, but not #1-worthy album, for sure) rose to number one, while the remarkably complex and innovative "Getz/Gilberto", which influence myriad other performers, dropped off the list entirely.
Even when insulin patents expire, there haven't been house brands introduced on more modern formulations [2] [3]. Nor have house brands moved into vaccine production.

This is because house brands are made by the name brands. In order to maintain their competitive edge for their name brands, they don't offer the modern formulations white label to the stores, and vaccines generally are not permitted by FDA regulations to be sold white-label.
It'd be interesting to see their implementation and the trade-offs its designers made.
Exactly the point of my post - OP doesn't have a mentor so he reached out to HN. In this case we're his mentors. Consider my post in the context of me trying to provide advice as a mentor. I am not sure how this is interpreted as being anti-mentor.
I'm curious too. This [0] is old but provides some requirements he gives to do such interviews.

[0]https://groups.google.com/a/mysociety.org/g/mysociety-commun...
Really??? Who knew

My point is that my example is complex because some client-side code is necessary. The snippet you shared is nice pseudo-code but a real implementation would be comparable in complexity. Either way you need to learn some stuff, and then it’s a few lines of code.
Obviously, I know this, but it rhymes better with 6 at the end (I am Polish).

There is only few instruments I have been around in my life that can actually measure this difference. I have 6.5 digit Voltmeter which would almost be able to detect it in certain situations if I somehow contrived the experiment, but not in any practical measurement where I actually had to calculate anything.
I think a big part of this is that the psychology of cash and online purchases is very different.

When you're walking down the street with some bills in your pocket and you see a newspaper, this is a low-effort, low-stakes transaction. So you're comfortable making an impulse purchase of a newspaper without thinking about it too much. Thirty seconds later, you've got a paper in hand.

But when you have to put your credit card information on a website, the stakes feel higher. There is some level of risk. Do I trust this company to keep my information secure? Will there be repaying payments? Do I really want the newspaper badly enough to type in the 16 digits? All of this requires just enough cognitive effort that it's no longer an impulse purchase so your natural decision aversion kicks in and you just decide to not bother.

Newspapers spent a ton of time experimenting with microtransaction business models when the web first got big and they were never able to make it succeed. They do subscriptions because it's the best thing they've found so far that actually works with human psychology.
https://meyerweb.com/eric/comment/chech.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9744916
The title sounds like it could be fanboy clickbait but it’s actually a thoughtful look at how far CRDTs have come from the viewpoint of an expert and skeptic.

A good read.
100k$ or 135k$ is for me a nice cash: It gives you freedom to be 130% of your time for the project and have a budget for other things.

Looks good to me .
Quality control is basically the differentiator in modern manufacturing.

Intels high price chips, and low price chips are often the same chip except the low priced one failed quality control and had some of its circuits turned off.
Well, the explicitly obscure social credit system “terrorism watch list” keeps you from flying with (almost) no recourse. I’m pretty sure it will be privatized. And it’s only a matter of time before your arrest record will affect your ability to attend a concert or sporting event — this is already the case in the UK.
Please check out cuFFTDx - you may be able to fuse parts of your pipeline on-chip.
Just because Germans are taught not to be proud of their history using the above method (perfectly sound argument), doesn't mean they aren't. It's just more quiet and subtle.

Apologies for the confusing video, but you're watching a master of dark humor.
I agree, but I used 0.1 - 10x for illustration purposes only.
I want to like Zig, but I just hate the

{var | const } identifier : type

syntax.

I know it's an extremely superficial observation, but it just doesn't feel good to me.
No, I meant Belize. As in, at the costs involved, practically every country can maintain this capability.
In near all this special keybs the F1-row is absent (and many others). This is my pet reason I don't even consider them.

That is why I try to build my own as close as possible to a MS Natural (with straight lines instead of curved. I think is near equal comfort):

https://imgur.com/a/By9YN2q

One big thing for comfort: The body is made of wood. It feel very good!
Many libraries have access to newspaper archives and it's hard to compete with free!
So it looks like that came in around 2016 - https://tfl.gov.uk/info-for/media/press-releases/2016/octobe...

I wouldn't be surprised if it was TFL trying to force the black cabs to modernise and compete with uber.
Yep! This is already done and for exactly this purpose; I believe the common term is "trusted timestamping" [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_timestamping
People enjoy the things they enjoy. Busting out the "No true Scotsman" to put down the tastes of others as having the 'opposite of personality' is needlessly negative and gatekeep-ey.

The bar for personality is not 'Spend thousands of dollars on bespoke computer cases'.
So are you saying that pharmacists are making a bad decision when they buy OTC products? Are they that uninformed?

https://freakonomics.com/podcast/how-to-save-1-billion-witho...
I think there's something to learn from everyone we work with. Sometimes it's simply how to be patient and compassionate with people who are challenging to be around :)