skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To add to what others have said: Staying on an old version (and only upgrading when your current version reaches end of life) may be a viable strategy if you accidentally find yourself dependent on a project with policies like this, and don't like the situation.

But that's a mitigation strategy, not a place you actually want to be. I would not consider selecting a dependency with the intent of doing things that way to be a sound policy, because infrequent big-bang updates like that have a tendency to be expensive and risky. There aren't a lot of development ethics that I find less palatable than "move fast and break things," but "move slow and break things" is definitely one of them.
Bandwidth limits seem excessive?

Outbound transfer – 40GiB per app

Overall a cool idea. Would personally still prefer GCP Cloud Run which will bill me for request time only and allow me to scale based on requests per second.
Thanks for the feedback! I will be sure to address your points with the team as we continue to develop our roadmap. One thing to point out is that there is now console access available in the product.
It's because Human Resources, public relations, advertising and marketing are the very departments that are taken over by people with an agenda.

I have no idea why people are so naive, there are literally people in government who are trying to slow and impede the progress of technology because they want to retain the right to manipulate the public via centralized advertising, marketing and mass media.

Nearly every single technology company in the United States that has a large enough user base is partially taken over by people with an agenda to slow down the pace of technology. There are severely mentally ill people who literally believe they are in a war against technology devouring people's jobs. Most corporations aren't telling people this because it is embarrassing. There is a growing e-commerce company in NY that was partially taken over and the employees they hired believed that you had to be enslaved (yes, enslaved I'm not kidding) to people who do no believe in technology in order to participate in technology. This is a real thing but not a single company is going to admit this is happening because they want everyone to believe they are perfect.

The way this works is that they use these departments to control the people in these companies and slow down innovation by creating unusual amounts of frustration and screwing with the advertising and public relations of companies to give technology and people in technology a bad image.
The unanswered question is, will it be cheaper?

Price / GB of DRAM hasn't actually fallen much in the 10 years of progression.[1] LPDDR is still over $3/GB. UDIMM is still ~$3 /GB, which is about the same in 2010 / 2011. i.e Despite what you may heard about DRAM price collapse in 2019, the price floor of DRAM has been pretty much the same over the past 10 years.

Every other silicon has gotten cheaper, NAND, ICs, just not DRAM. And yet our need for DRAM is forever increasing. From In-Memory Datastore on Servers to Mobile Phones with Camera shooting rapid 4K images.

Compared to NAND, or Foundry like TSMC, there are clear roadmaps where cost is heading, and what cost reduction we could expect in the next 5 years, along with other outlook. There is nothing of sort in DRAM. At least I dont see anything to suggest we could see $2/GB DRAM, if not even lower. I dont see how EUV is going help either, there won't even be enough EUV TwinScan machines going around for Foundries in the next 3 years, let alone NAND and DRAM.

The only good news is the low / normal capacity ECC DRAM has finally fallen to ~$5/GB. ( They used to be $10-20/ GB ).

[1] https://secureservercdn.net/166.62.107.55/ff6.d53.myftpuploa...
> The firm's who are treating their customers best

What customers? They offer you a good service, sure, but what relationship do you really have with Facebook or Google?
This was, in effect, always the case in Northern Ireland. The overlap between the UVF, the RUC, Special Branch, and the armed forces. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miami_Showband_killings and Pat Finucane, for example.

At the end of the war in the late 90s the Blair government issued effectively blanket pardons for a lot of crime from both sides.
The HN crowd is not one to support conspiracy theories, but if the CCP were to strategically release a virus into the world, what better way to give them a competitive advantage than to give a non-negligible percentage of their global competitors chronic fatigue?

Speaking as someone in the tech space still suffering from fatigue and brain fog (with no real signs of improvement) 7 months after infection. My productivity has certainly gone down.
What’s your revenue model?

As the saying goes : If the product is free, you’re the product.

“We plan to make money” doesn’t cut it.

There are many good financial tools almost exactly like yours.
Why do you believe you will succeed.

Making this clear up front is vital.

Few here will go on blind faith (I hope)
That's a huge stretch so that you could pull two boogeymen into the conversation and stand them next to my argument. The big tech companies may have undesirable effects on the world but paying individuals too much isn't one of them. Literally the only complaint is that other owners can't hire for under market rate? Who cares?
a store (even a multi-location physical retailer) is not the same thing as a digital platform

the crucial difference is due to the digial aspect. digital "material" does not have physical contraints. this simple fact changes everything.
The parent comment asks why we can't we prioritize handling the companies which the author perceives are a greater evil. Why can't that prioritization happen without it being "whataboutism"?
Does this mean it will work on any motherboard?

On the whole, I find these 20% performance memory upgrade (leading to a fraction of that in real-world performance) more obnoxious than anything, but I'd love ECC!
Until they kill competition, then they'll take your peanuts back.
As someone diagnosed with ADHD who sometimes looks in the rear view mirror more often than I should, I have to challenge you here.
What? The loop invariants aren't part of the spec! The loop invariants are just an intermediate step in your proof that the preconditions are enough to guarantee that the postconditions will hold.

If I was proving that 0 + 1 + .. n = n(n+1)/2, I wouldn't say that whatever induction step I chose to use was "part of the theorem", would I?
I agree that dealing with Covid is the way to go forward, but we simply cannot drag our feet with restrictions until summer/fall of 2021.

If politicians choose to do so anyway, they should know that economic devastation can be a very real outcome from going down that path.
> I have the feeling that in between bursts things are still computing in the background so it looks like you're not doing anything but the brain is still churning.

This is something that's bothered me since my university put out a survey asking about time spent on homework.

Suppose the following things happen:

1. A math class assigns a proof.

2. I look at the problem, fiddle around with it for 20 minutes, and get nowhere.

3. I play Final Fantasy for 6 days.

4. I go back to the problem. In 40 minutes, I have the proof worked out.

How long did I spend on the proof? What if the counterfactual was

1. Proof gets assigned.

2. Look at it, do nothing.

3. The day after, sit down and spend 3 hours proving it.

How long did I spend then? Are the two scenarios... different?
Because Covid is about a magnitude more deadly. And seems to have more long term effects than the flu typically does.

It’s not just another flu. Saying it is is downplaying it.
I mean maybe Apple and Netflix do. When was the last time Google provided meaningful customer support without the customer getting some attention on Twitter/HN? Amazon is getting mega-lazy with their shipping practices; damaged goods are pretty normal. Meanwhile Facebook keeps shoving services you don't want in your face (Reels), pushing algorithmic feeds to the detriment of the user's mental health, and collecting information on you whether you consent or not. Oh yeah, and the recent move to make Facebook logins mandatory for Oculus (which no customer seemed to be happy with).

FAANG companies mostly treat us like trash. We've just come to accept poor service, UX dark patterns, and all-pervasive tracking as the norm. I've had much, much better customer service experiences from smaller, more focused companies.

Edit: I feel like I breezed over Google. They've also killed multiple popular services (Reader), tried to force G+ on everyone (again with UX dark patterns and no consent), and degraded their main product (search) to the point that some keywords return only one or two organic results "above the fold".
BTW, out here in the real world where I evaluate tech companies for major investments by private equity firms, I have personally worked on a deal that ended with a $100M investment in a company with a Common Lisp DSL in their modelling engine under the hood. They aren't publicizing this fact, but it happens more than one would think, a lot of tech companies are told by investors not to share their secret sauce.

I've done 50+ diligences in the last two years, ranging from $2M to $1.5B transactions. Only two had embedded DSLs, one in lisp and one in their own language that wrote an interpreter for in C. I don't think Python gets embedded much these days to be honest, I've done it and the experience was not pleasant compared to using S7. Though I do know Lua gets used in the game industry.
The Sodium event was on another level, four hours flew by! Agreed, BigMap/Search is fascinating, there were so many great presentations and unique solutions. I thought Origyn's elegant sound signature, for certification was very clever.
Do you mean this is organized effort?
Just adding another opinion to the poll. I think this is an extreme scenario, but it also is a shift towards a new "normal". The inefficiency of commute, and the ease of not traveling to work everyday is a thing many people would love to reduce. Pushing buttons on a television screen has been largely eliminated by remotes because it simply requires less mental energy and I think the workforce will fight for it simply because people are lazy.

Also, I would WFH for the paycut, and that's because technically I'm not home at the moment - and that is potentially more valuable than what the extra money would have bought.
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He's the main reason the Tesla stock price is so high. If you are a shareholder of Tesla that cares mostly about capital gains, you really want it to continue.
Am I the only one who instinctively hit delete when I made a mistake, and ended up backing out of the page?
This isn’t about your definition of “evil”. It’s an antitrust report, which deals specifically with monopolistic behaviour.
Crappy mindless jobs tend to be the first ones to be automated.

The less complexity, the more mindless it is. The less complexity, the easier it is to automate.

Unless you think cashier, burger flipper or product labeler is a top-job type thing.
Try out the new Python 3.9 features in a Python sandbox
Just "to be a programmer"? Frustration tolerance. Thats pretty much it.

To be a good programmer: very much depends on your area of expertise. Most of them need good communication skills, some machine-level understanding, some math or algorithm skills, some require high velocity / long hours... It really is a very diverse field.

But like for most jobs, frustration tolerance gets you surprisingly far.
yes, I would like to know that too
Air pollution particles in young brains linked to Alzheimer's damage
Ed25519 curves are currently being adopted for DKIM in RFC8463 [0]. I I wrote an article about this [1], where I concluded that Ed25519 is an improvement for DKIM over RSA (smaller keys, deprecation of SHA1).

However, this finding may have big impact on the adoption rate of Ed25519 for DKIM. Specifically for DKIM validators (MTAs).

MTAs are already amongst the worst offenders when it comes to not adhering to the standards. The DKIM canonicalisation scheme [2] is already hard enough to implement on it's own, now with this finding we might get even more false positives and negatives in DKIM validation.

Let's hope that the finding will encourage library maintainers to come to a consensus on how to validate Ed25519. And also hope that MTA developers will not try to roll their own...

[0] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8463
[1] https://www.mailhardener.com/kb/how-to-use-dkim-with-ed25519
[2] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6376#section-3.4
My understanding of the belter language was it was partly driven by the necessity to communicate in a vacuum so gestures were also important. Does that feature in the linguistics at all, or is it purely supplemental?
Zen 2 IMC can do DDR4-5000, but it's rather pointless, because it requires un-coupled mode with IFCLK != UCLK (since IFCLK cannot be pushed to more than ~1.9 GHz, and even that is not stable on many CPUs), which adds so much latency that you _need_ DDR4-5000+ to approach the performance of DDR4-3800 with IFCLK = UCLK.
I've a MSc in Computer Engineering and I think the most important stuff I learnt are "Design Patterns" and in general any Principle that guides you to write code that is: flexible, clean, maintainable, efficient and reusable.
Any programmer can write code, but how many can meet the requirements mentioned?
Show HN: Bypass CircleCI Login Wall
> What about patent trolls

What's the largest patent troll even worth? $10 million?

> What about tobacco, pharmaceuticals, oil

All of them are already intensely regulated, the exact opposite of big tech

> What about airlines with hub monopolies keeping up prices

What's an example of this? The biggest problem with airlines today is that there are too many of them, and so none of them are sustainable.
> Programming languages should be designed not by piling feature on top of feature, but by removing the weaknesses and restrictions that make additional features appear necessary.

"A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
> firm's who are treating their customers best are the FAANG companies

Haha nice. E.g. google treats their customers (advertisers) best while dumping tons of garbage on billions of users. And AFAIK they dont even have customer support. Way to miss the fiorest here.

> Go after the actual evil companies.

Big tech is no less evil that tobacco/big oil . The honeymoon days of the 2000s are over and done.
What relationship do I have with Verizon, or Comcast, or Pfizer or Du Pont? It seems to be one where they sell call metadata logs and consistently under deliver on contracts (Verizon, Comcast, other telcos), dump chemicals, push doctors to prescribe medicines unnecessarily, etc. etc.
It has really annoyed me that CircleCI thinks it's a good idea to force you to connect your Github account to see CI output. I wrote this addon so I can contribute PRs to projects that use this CI provider without divulging personal data to them.

So yeah; this addon is extremely tiny. But that just further shows how their login wall is pure "growth hacking" BS.

If someone wants to upload this addon to google chrome, please do (I'll put a link on the AMO page)!
That would raise a ton of questions. Most of the deals Facebook did to buy WhatsApp, Instagram and others where approved by the US government. But if those approvals can be reversed, why bother requiring them to begin with?

Google only develop Android and Chrome to fuel their ad business, those two product can’t turn a profit on their own, as proven by Mozilla. Would the lawmakers force a creation of companies who are doomed to fail?

Lawmakers should have been more careful about which mergers and purchases they approved. Many of the issues we face with big tech is because lawmakers are to inept at seeing the long term consequences of the deals they themselfs approved.
>Quadruple abnormal protein aggregates in brainstem pathology and exogenous metal-rich magnetic nanoparticles (and engineered Ti-rich nanorods). The substantia nigrae is a very early target in young urbanites and the gastrointestinal tract a key brainstem portal

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00139...
Not the GP - it doesn't have to be organized; things like this come into existence emergently, without the need for coordination.
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Tell HN: Y Combinator’s Work at a Startup Expo Is Online on Thurs, December 3rd
Y Combinator runs our annual Work at a Startup Expo as a way of introducing promising YC startups to engineers (and others) who want to learn more about startups and might consider working at one. This year’s event will happen on Thursday, December 3rd and be entirely online, including both the founder pitches and the virtual expo hall:

https://www.workatastartup.com/events/startup-career-expo-s2...

The expo is an efficient way to meet a number of great startups all at once, and not have to seek them out yourself. We start the event with rapid pitches by founders -- like Demo Day, but for engineers instead of investors -- to give you a quick way to survey the companies. There is also custom software to let you easily like the ones that stood out, so founders can reach out to you.

After the pitches, we open up an expo hall (again, all virtual) to give you a chance to meet founders and early employees, learn more about the domain and technology, and hear about open roles. We’ve been experimenting with the format over the last few months, and recent participants of YC events say it’s just as good as our past in-person events. (Thank goodness!)

We aim to have 40 or so YC startups attend and give pitches, with a bias towards ones that have graduated in more recent YC batches (W20, S20). These startups are vetted by YC and have raised a healthy round of funding. A good number of the roles they are hiring for are in engineering and design, but there will also be non-tech roles as well.

Working at a startup isn’t for everyone, and many HN users will be the first to point that out. Justin Kan, a former YC partner himself, has this great post on what you will and won’t get out of working at a startup, and it’s pretty accurate: https://www.atrium.co/blog/work-at-a-startup/

That said, we’re finding more people are joining YC startups this year, and for a variety of reasons: to pursue something better aligned with their values, to have a bigger impact through their work, to grow skills in ways that their current jobs won’t allow, and (yes) to seek out “the next big thing”.

If you might be considering something new -- or even if you’re just curious to know what’s out there -- we welcome you to join YC and our founders for an informative and efficient evening of networking, job hunting or just seeing if startups are for you.

https://www.workatastartup.com/events/startup-career-expo-s2...
Not original commenter, but for one thing, all the emissions being saved by Teslas being electric? Tesla sold the credits to Fiat/Chrysler so their cars can have higher emissions: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/23/teslas-sale-of-environmental...

My math is wonky, does that mean on average, a Tesla is just as polluting as a Fiat/Chrysler car?
As far the dictionary goes, that's true.

But "filons" is the imperative tense of a verb literaly meaning "let's run away".

And also "Fillon" is the name of a politician who was exposed for fraud while he was running for presidency. He was sentenced last spring, his name was all over French news for a while, and it became quite infamous.

edit, added more context
Sure they aren't the same thing, but doesn't mean you can't manipulate the physical layout among other variables in order to push your own products at the expense of your competitors.

You also have access to sales trends for competitors, giving you a leg-up in market research (i.e. Target decides to enter Chips market because they see Lays data). I mean it's not that dissimilar to what Amazon does, it's just done in the physical world.
That's the whole point. The URL is the 'secret'.
VCs don’t rely too heavily on this. In fact, taking a early buy out is one of the outcomes that can be very good for a founder but terrible for a VC. VCs need outsize returns to boost the market overall portfolio, which has many zero outcomes. Getting acquired for 110% of your series A valuation doesn’t do anything for them.

That said, getting acquired as a strategic acquisition is a good outcome for VCs. However that’s much more rare and isn’t specific to big tech companies.
Facebook was used as a tool to incite genocide in Myanmar.
Unsourced conspiracy nonsense.
You pay them money, they sell you a product/provide you a service.
Why would they release it among their own people first?
How much of this is pre-election sabre rattling?
6,500-year-old copper workshop uncovered in the Negev Desert's Beer Sheva
The name Bing! sounds itself very porny. Sometimes I'm thinking that that they did a survey on the likability of the brand name unknowingly on a large pool of porn viewers and it naturally came up with Bing. Well, probably not but at least it is used for previewing porn
In the world of distrust, who do I distrust more. Random post on HN, or Intuit and Empower Retirement? This tool looks like it does what Mint and Personal Capital do, the difference being Intuit can probably already buy my entire transaction history from a partner, so giving it to them isnt something they dont already know.
This highlights an interesting philosophical disparity. You (correctly) point out that a license is a "permission to do something" - but the perception among folks appears to be that the license is in fact what restricts your permissions. Thus, from their perspective, "the smaller the license, the larger your freedoms" - and, so, they conclude (incorrectly, but understandably) that the end-point of "no license whatsoever" would correspond with "complete freedom".
Been using Plausible since I started working on https://btfy.io. I actually copied their algorithm to detect unique visitors for Btfy also. Really great work. Will be open-sourcing mine too soon.
I guess I'm being selfish as a developer and thinking about my own ergonomics and dev experience. Is Rails as fast as .NET? Probably not, but if it can serve web pages in under 200ms, it's fast enough.
Why would a human that isn't related to the business but working from a script perform better than an algorithm?

Serious question. If you had a line to the CEO, or someone with actual power in the organisation, then sure I understand why connecting callers there would help. Any business that does that?

Because of this reason I actually prefer (voice) chat bots over actual people. It's clear you're working against a script and you don't feel bad dealing with them.
Programmers and problems come in a bunch of varieties. Some programmers only need to solve a small subset of problems, so understandably their skill set doesn't need to be particularly broad. It's ok to be capable in a niche area if that brings value to you or your organization. Largely though, programming does come down to problem solving.

The best programmers have an eye for detail that can see below the surface of a system. When someone says "we need feature X because Y", they take a Socratic stance and ask "Why do they believe X will solve Y? Why is there a Y? Is there also a Z or a W to consider?" These aren't necessarily coding questions, they're engineering and process questions. Anyone with some familiarity with a system and the tools can add feature X, but the best developers will think about the precursors and implications of X first in hopes of improving the system as a whole.
Really? Really?
What harm are they actually causing?