skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I also inferred that sentiment from the title. "Strapped" paints the startup as a struggling underdog, "poaches" paints Apple as a big bully, "NP" paints the court as indifferent to the plight of the little guy.

"Court approves Apple's hiring of startup's engineers after failed acquihire" is the most neutral phrasing I can come up with. "Startup CEO tries to sell engineers to Apple" would be a bit flippant and biased the other way, but seems to capture the most intriguing bit.
Well that is exactly what Formula 1 is. Unlike NASCAR or Indycar where everything is prescribed, there is a formula which sets the outlines of the box and teams are free to play within that box. The box has just gotten really small in the past couple of decades.
Is there an advantage to using fastcgi to using plain http with an async application server?

Or how about using http/2 for multiplexing?
Has this project regained some momentum?

I feel like I heard about it a number of years ago and then it never went anywhere.

The copyright at the bottom says 2012-2019, which makes me think it's the same project.
Try MotoGP, it's got plenty of overtaking.
Sounds like a cool idea, wish there was a demo room without uploading a file. Can you talk a little bit about how the video is handled on the server? What steps do you take to keep the file secure and protect the privacy of the users?
This is a cool idea. I did give it a spin and found that the fidelity between viewers was not all that true. For example, if I pause the video (as the room creator), the video gets paused for other viewers as expected, but not in the same place. In other words, not all viewers are in sync.
That’s whole other ordeal. This was a replacement for a broken machine I _had_. And now I have to wait til January to get a new one. I think I’ll just use my external keyboard and monitor for a while.
Law of VC – The Mutable Laws of VC
Funny you have to pick all 30 year old examples.

We have been running almost entirely Windows and Mac for over 20 years (at least in consumer land).

We have been running mostly Intel and nVidia for
over 20 years.

We have been running mostly Chrome and maybe 2 others for 10 years.

We have 1 comprehensive social network (FB/Insta) for over 10 years.

We have 3/4 major internet providers and 4 wireless carriers - forever.

We have essentially 1 Search Engine.

We have 2 smartphone platforms for over 12 years.

... when there are 'new markets to be exploited' or a fundamental shift in a market (ie feature phones to smartphones) - new entrants have a chance, but outside of that, they don't as incumbents win relatively easily unless they get lazy.

Each of the major players above has been able to leverage their market power into domination.

IP is one of the few vectors of power for smaller companies (often the only vector) that stop these behemoths from wiping them out. Sadly, depending on the scenario, there are often few material IP protections to be had.
> the general demographics of the region, which would be affluent white people.

FCPS is actually probably the largest diverse school district in the US. It's about 37% white, 27% Hispanic, 20% Asian, 10% black, and 6% multiracial.

(Although affluent still holds true--Fairfax County is the second-highest median household income county in the country).
> However, I think treating this as the abandonment of meritocracy is a straw man. Discourse with other grads changed my mind. A key factor is how much the test is now being gamed.

> Based on some facebook polls of ~500 alumni (not scientific but moreso than any other direct evidence presented!), the percentage of accepted students going through specialized test prep has climbed from <2% in my day to >50% today. Some of these programs cost thousands of dollars for a chance to change your admissions outcome.

The median income for a family in Fairfax county is over $140,000. A few thousand dollars isn’t a lot of money for them. It surely is for some people, which is why I would support a holistic admissions system. But I’m not sure why, for everyone else, we can’t just treat that as the cost of doing business. Especially if, as you say, everyone is doing it. Everyone studies for the LSAT, the MCAT, etc.

Now, if your point is that it’s a bit mental to treat admissions for a high school like admissions to medical school, in sympathetic to that argument.
I totally agree. I've always longed for a class called "differential reasoning" that focuses on building differential equations, proofs with differentials, and tricky arguments and mathematical justifications for all the stuff physics professors say "is technically invalid, but works".

In my engineering program, they did something like this, though it was weak on the differential reasoning part. And heavy in hand-coding numerical solvers in FORTRAN.
True. However, the community is still young and they may course correct before maturing.
Call me cynical but I doubt all those companies claiming they'll go "green" or "100% electric" in X years really do that for the environment or are really serious about it.

There is no economical reason to do so dude to the fact that electric cars cost too much, mainly due to the batteries for which the price can only increase if there is a market of a billion users. And except for the high end market which Tesla occupies the most, nobody has the money for that.

Not to say I'm against the idea, coming from a place where hydroelectricity is king I just can't wait to get my first electric car, but I am skeptical.
That depends on how you "code" your world. Sure, individual sprites aren't pretty, but then again it's supposed to be industrial.

Regardless, you can optimize your builds for symmetry or some other aesthetic goal and come up with some really beautiful designs. Though just like real world programming, lack of planning will result in spaghetti code.
This video highlights some of what you're talking about: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnIjQC08qKk

Little out of the box innovations that are pretty cool and then banned. The mass dampener in the video is really what gets to me. FIA just loves to ban random things. Like, I get some forced regulations according to safety. The Halos, for example, I get that they must be to a specific standard. But a simple mechanical device that helps keep the car stable, gripping the road? Ban that? We're not talking about group B rally level of innovation.

Kind of feels like the FIA adopted the principle, "If it's fun and/or interesting, ban it."

Fresh blood is needed too.
I have often said more philosophically that the most important thing about intelligence is what you think about, not how good you are at thinking about it. I say it with all due respect for analytics, which are fundamental to my mindset. But many extremely intelligent people reach the point of basically squandering their lives by never asking the right questions.
Maybe I’m out of luck, but can honestly say it’s been very difficult to find the kind of doctor you describe.
That's basically what John Rawls ends up concluding [1]. But the same line of thinking also leads to the conclusion that Free Will doesn't really exist, rather we humans are a product of our environment/genetics (and thus don't inherently deserve better treatment or rewards since all our efforts and subsequent results aren't 'really' our own doing). I wrote a little bit about this here [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veil_of_ignorance

[2] https://www.hugomontenegro.com/blog/the-absurdity-of-free-wi...
There are other ways to cheer up.

Making up bullshit or propagating bullshit is always going to have a cost. Admittedly there is a very low cost here.

But there’s also a ridiculously low benefit.

No one, I warrant, will have their life’s happiness seriously impacted by an author urging people to abandon these nonsensical terms. Not even those who write articles about these terms - these are by and large the only people who use them - as it gives them something to struggle against, and we all love a good struggle.
A CDN is not the same as a hosting provider. Proximity to edge locations of the CDNs likely has something to do with latency delays. Also proximity of your hosting server location to Cloudflare's CDN.

I ran a similar benchmark for time to first bite with a Heroku site behind CloudFlare and since the Heroku edges location varied wildly, latency varied wildly as well. CloudFront in front of an S3 bucket in the same location would likely really fast. That said when you get hit by a bot attack using your registration form to spam QQ emails, you would be putting CloudFlare in front and that might be worth a benchmark as well.

One thing I would improve: benchmark of hosting provider speed and then benchmark the CDNs in front of specific hosting providers. If your hosting gives you a static IP to connect to your CDN, the speed will be less varied.
Isn’t it Cytoplasm?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytoplasm
+1 Pretty cool analysis. Would be interesting to see how load also affects these numbers (e.g. connections/second).
That's kind weird law seriously.

Say you work as an anonymous contributor, and all the evidences which could proof the fact got accidentally destroyed, isn't that effectively relinquished your author rights? (Moved the right away from you, the right could still be there but licensed under an non-existing entity)
Please don't take HN threads further into ideological flamewar. We're trying for something different here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
i checked out their repos on github, at first glance it seemed somewhat low activity (but not dead), but there's actually a lot of activity on the ARM branch at least:

https://github.com/darlinghq/darling/commits/feature/arm-sup...
"calliagnosia" or "the inability to perceive prettiness". Ted Chiang's works are mind-blowing and I recommend this. It is a great piece on giving different perspectives on this issue from different parties' perspectives .. like journalism embedded in sci-fi.

As for the article itself, I find myself gravitating towards not trusting Google's (or such org's) motives in this. After all, if such a touchup feature were activated by default, it would skew Google's face dataset away from real faces and embed a notion of "Calli" in their face models.
Another commenter already responded, but some more details:

California's pro-employee stance starts with section 16600, which states "Except as provided in this chapter, every contract by which anyone is restrained from
engaging in a lawful profession, trade or business of any kind is to that extent void." That was passed in 1872 and has effectively banned non-competes in CA.
It’s the truest article. I hate? despise? well at least I dislike these ridiculous terms as they are twee and are made up entirely to have a proliferation of names for things.

There ought to be one for a group of ridiculous terms of venery. Let’s call it a nerfball. There are articles that feature a nerfball of terms of venery. Don’t like those articles much either. Yes, I think that’s good.
What's not well known is that actually are hybrids technologies used in F1, e.g. MGU-H and MGU-K components.
Like I said, I didn't know of software that could do that (and I still don't), but that's all beside the point because there is no value in the data.

You and OP are likely referring to the recent news of algorithms that detect heartbeats[1].

That software uses changes in skin color to detect it. If someone, like the president, is wearing opaque makeup, then that method is not going to work.

The researchers have also not said whether the raw heartbeat data can be extracted or whether they're just comparing one region of the video to another region of the video. They may be able to detect acceleration/deceleration without being able to deliver raw BPM data that a medical professional would recognize.

1. https://findbiometrics.com/researchers-use-heartbeat-detecti...
late to this thread, but I noticed the same behavior on Firefox (81.0.1) without a stylus/pen. whatever tool is the default when creating a new board, when I started writing nothing showed up until I stopped clicking.
Please don't take HN threads further into flamewar, regardless of how wrong another comment is or you feel it is.

If you know more than another commenter, that's great, but in that case share some of what you know so the rest of us can learn. Responding to bad information with good information improves this place; just putting others down makes it worse.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
I wish I can turn my side-project into full time.
Even though I tried but unfortunately non of my side-project have ever made any money. That is also why I think I always abandon my side-project too quickly.

Now I'm just focusing on building my side project[1] for fun without paying too much attention on how it will generate revenue. Hopefully this will make the project last longer since I won't get demotivated if I don't generate any revenue.

[1] https://www.inoffice.chat
I think it's cos that community is a very wide range of people, some of which are very young. It's not like HN where we are all older and generally a crowd who really likes to tackle problems from an intellectual angle and try things out to get the data on them. That subreddit kinda has to stick to the lowest common denominator which is just following the standard advice.

Very interesting to hear of your experiences in this thread though. Maybe we need an r/ADHND for all us ADHDers on HN :P
> Say you work as an anonymous contributor, and all the evidences which could proof the fact got accidentally destroyed, isn't that effectively relinquished your author rights?

No, that's just making it difficult to prove you had the rights, not relinquishing them.
Also, relevant to the OP author, a gloom of pedants?
Another way to describe "low labour mobility" is "high job stability". It's easy to sit in an ivory tower on a $200k+ silicon valley salary, with a healthy job market if you get the sack, and bemoan the fact that workers have rights and can't be fired because their employer feels like it.
> CEO who just 2 years ago was receiving the "female founder" accolades and talking about making the world a better place

PR Intern: But we already used that angle

Manager: Her LinkedIn network doesn't know and it still work! Free advertising when the inspired people argue with the “why does it matter” males! Engagement to the moon!
Let's dive in a little to how Serverless & FastCGI might be related.

The thing that fastcgi brought over cgi-bin was that an application process could be left open to communicate with the server, where-as cgi-bin model required spawning a new process for each request.

If one reads the AWS Lambda docs, they'll see the execution context[1] has a similar behavior. AWS will spin up new instances, but these instances will serve multiple requests, via a fairly custom "function" interface defined for various runtimes (but which is actually, typically an http interface). There is a standard HTTP api for runtimes to use to retrieve function invocations[2].

With FastCGI the front end server uses a socket to push request messages to app servers, which replies in order. Where-as with Lambda & it's above mentioned runtime API, the runtime is retrieving requests from Amazon at it's pacing, & fulfilling them as it can. So there's a push vs pull model, but in both cases, the application server is talking a fairly custom protocol to the front-end server.

Also though, there are some cgi-bin like behaviors seen in some serverless systems. Serverless is a big umbrella with a lot of different implementation strategies. One optimization is use of checkpoint-restore. With checkpoint restore, an app server is brought up to a "ready to serve" state, then the host operating system takes a "snapshot" of the process. When new instances of the process are needed, the serverless system can "restore" this memory mapped process & the resources it was using, bringing it up in a ready-to-serve state quickly. This behavior is more cgi-bin like, in that it's a technique for spawning new serving processes quickly, although few serverless systems go as far as cgi-bin went with a per-request process. None-the-less, openwhisk for example has was showing off start times decreasing from 0.9-0.5s for node, python, java app servers down to .09s-0.7s startup times using these checkpoint restore capabilities of the OS.

[1] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/runtimes-contex...

[2] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/en_us/lambda/latest/dg/runtimes-...

[3] https://events19.linuxfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2017...
I put Cloudflare in front of my portfolio, which is hosted on Github Pages, so this made me do a bit of spit take. I always just assumed that GH Pages was a sort of “free perk for using Github” and that it must surely be hosted on “meh” infrastructure that would benefit from having a CDN in front. This article basically says that analysis is upside down.

I’ll need to see more benchmarks with a range of methodologies before I go in and redo how my portfolio is deployed, but this sure got me started searching.
1.1.1.1 doesn’t serve your websites. You’ll have to ping a hosted page.
You can actually do much of the exact same research at industry labs as at a university. You can even compete for the same government grants. In many fields the highest-cited authors with the most publications actually work in industry.

You will have managers in industry of course, where in academia you just have a dept chair and dean who only have a vague sense of what you're up to. On the other hand, in industry you can actually devote most of your time to doing the research yourself. Often they break the labor up into those that write grants and the team that does the work. Whereas in academia the incentives really drive you to spend all your time dealing with funding sources and students. When you do have free time, you then have a backlog of writing you want to get done.
Real estate should still be a good bet for 4% real. It would be better with leverage if you could borrow at least 50% at some outrageously low rates but it’s not passive.
There's a bunch of copies of the original specifications floating around still. For ex, http://www.mit.edu/~yandros/doc/specs/fcgi-spec.html
Even cheats in F1 are brilliant by engineering standard. Look at how Ferrari (allegedly) circumvent the fuel flow limit by aliasing techniques.

https://motorsport.tech/formula-1/fuel-flow-gate-did-ferrari...
Ask HN: Why Are Printers Cursed?
I went to public school in the USA and nobody (at schools in the region) was bullied simply for being good at math and science; in fact the social "top tier" students got straight As in the hardest classes, were varsity athletes, and of course, were social. The only differentiating factor of the pariahs is they were generally ugly-weird.

This trend continued in college: Those who excelled in academics got middle-class intellectual labor jobs, those who partied all the time were their bosses, and those who did both really made it big.
If you're curious:

I don't have the machine in front of me, but it's an eee PC with I believe an Intel n550 CPU and an Intel GMA 3150 graphics chipset. I saw this behavior under a recent version of Ubuntu, probably 19.10.

(The "fast" framerate was something like one frame very 1-2 seconds, which was acceptable for running an image filter. The slow framerate was one frame every 30-40 seconds, during which Chrome locked up completely.)
you know... older people weren't fully protected from death before covid
> It is a huge can of worms to declare the current smartphone + app store design as a public utility to be preserved for 50 years, when this industry is barely 12 years old at this point.

Who is making it a public utility? Just prohibit anyone from restricting users from using alternative app stores or sideloading their own apps. It's the opposite of making it a utility -- it's ensuring that competition exists.

> I don't think it will come from "the smartphone" market which has already been won. It will come by some disruptor that eats into adjacencies: AR, VR, wearables, etc.

You also have the problem that the successor need not be any better. If one of those things replaces the smartphone, but the new incumbent still restricts users in what apps they can install, unseating the old incumbents hasn't actually solved the problem.

> Alibaba group, Facebook, Valve, Tencent, Huawei, Amazon, and Microsoft.

Microsoft and Amazon already tried and failed, and none of those others are as big or even making an attempt.

> I think most users are broadly aware that Apple control things and take a cut.

They're vaguely aware that it happens, but not of what that means to them. The opaque and arbitrary criteria they use for rejections, or the implications for app price and quality of transferring wealth from small developers to the world's largest corporation. So it feels like somebody else's problem. And when Apple and Google both do it, something they have no meaningful choice in regardless.

> So does every other platform provider though. Publishers and retailers can't discount Nintendo switch games unless Nintendo approves it. This goes back 40 years to Atari.

And they should prohibit the lot of it. It was never different, it had just never been big enough to matter this much, because before it was only games and not everything.

> I think the bigger issue is if users actually prefer the current curated arrangement.

Which we could find out if the vertical integration was removed and the users could choose a curated store or not, independent of which phone they buy.
One basic problem is that science (and related disciplines) is really a slow incremental process where no one knows what is going on, and many people make small contributions, but this doesn't sell well. So every little thing ends up being promoted as if it is. It's the classic cargo cult problem: no one is actually a supergenius -- if there ever was such a thing really -- so we'll just act as everyone is because that's the corner we've painted ourselves into.

Another problem is that academics is full of dead ends, and it has to be if it's being done right. But no one likes that either. So rather than working on changing expectations, we do the opposite and bean count.

Yet another problem is the classic fan fiction / fan community issue: if you get into enough expertise, the experts have to become the audience, because no one else understands it, but then that leads to increasingly narrow fields of view because of increasingly narrow interests. You could broaden the audience, which is increasingly a demand, but that has downsides too, because often what's really the way forward is incomprehensible and boring to the average person. People love their iphones; not so much all the incremental computer science, physics, and engineering that went into every little part.

Something I think this essay maybe misses is that there are a lot of senior academics who would say publishing doesn't matter, that a paper is a dime a dozen, and what does matter are grants, and lots of them. This is how this dynamic has shifted in a lot of places, from the science -> publishing -> money. You might argue that this is better but it has its own set of incentive problems.
Compare the numbers recycled or otherwise disposed of to the numbers reused. they will only reuse through their own channel so they can pick and choose the reuse that will strengthen their premium brand image. It's the same practice as having licensing for repair and distribution. They only want people that they think help their brand identity and image. Otherwise they would be fine with general right to repair.
yeah, my plan b would have been buying some time on lambdatest.com, which is the same idea, but it was just a small thing on a personal project, so I was trying to get around having to pay money. thanks for the tip, though, I hadn't heard of that one
The goal of TJ was to cultivate STEM graduates to help modernize what was, at the time, a fairly conventional southern state economy.