skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People love to throw around the big "Break up" but what they really want is probably much more nuanced. What do break ups achieve? To use an example from Benedict Evans, suppose Windows and Office were broken up... at the end of the day, you'd eliminate cross-leveraging of Windows and Office, but as far as crops of new PC operating systems licensors or productivity software companies popping up go, things would probably have remained more of the same. If the goal of a break up is to eliminate a complete market grip, we need to think a few steps more deeply. Google and Facebook both operate in two sided markets. If you break that up, you'll just end up creating more leverage for advertisers and less power to the successor companies. A better example is probably telecom in Europe, where regulators decided that instead of one big telecom provider, they would build the lines nationally and rent access to those lines to a slew of network operators. This created a rich and competitive market where consumers can get a data plan for a reasonable price and plenty of companies have made plenty of money.

The crux of Evan's argument is that what makes FB/GOOG/AMZ/MS strong is the network effects they possess, not their sheer size. Google failed at creating a social network, Facebook wouldn't even try taking an aim at search. So, any reasonable unit these orgs can be "broken" into wouldn't achieve the intended effect.

Regulators need to look at things like price capping, requiring big platforms to offer up certain data entities for use by third parties, requiring consumers to choose their default search provider instead of selling the position, et cetera. Get over the break up already
VSCode on Google Colab
I guess zoom won’t have end to end encryption after all... if this gets implemented, I wonder how it will affect non-US services. Perhaps PaaS (Privacy-as-a-Service) will be a EU export product?
My favourite "oh, Babbage" story is his letter to Tennyson¹. It shares a lot in common with the linked noise nuisances, as he appears to genuinely want to improve society². It is just that is his manner leaves a lot to be desired.

I often try to think of him when I'm busily writing a code review or such, in an attempt to sound a little more pleasant. My admission is that is doesn't always work ;)

1. https://lettersofnote.com/2012/09/21/the-vision-of-sin/

2. Whether we agree about his poetry edits or silent streets being an improvement is a different point.
It's built around everything being an HTTP request, and billing for the continuous seconds of time the app needs to run to service those calls.

You can run worker code by moving them into individual HTTP calls, triggered by whatever workflow you want. Cloud Tasks, PubSub, Cron, etc.
Breaking these big tech companies seems only fair. My question is why are big banks not being broken? Why are big oil companies not being broken?
I would expect people working alongside these visa recipients, and even the public at large, to have some idea of the system and the problems they face. (Although, for the general public, farm labor should probably figure larger).

And, yes, I do usually expect people to have the capacity to sympathise with others. I would even assert that everyone will instinctively want to help when they see others suffering. It's called empathy and is among the basic human emotions.

There is an ideological stream in the US that has seen the success of the market mechanisms based on competition and selfishness and is now misinterpreting it to mean than any form of altruism is bad.

Closely related is the glorification of competition to a degree where people are entire oblivious to the fact that a market economy is first and foremost a mechanism of cooperation. This has gone so far as to make even the notionally educated and self-styled rational tech community grasp around for speculative theories trying to frame this issue in terms of zero-sum competition. They somehow prefer to believe this against all evidence, i. e. the number of high-profile startups founded by first- or second-gen immigrants. And thereby give themselves license to do what it is they either actually want all by itself, or what they consider a proxy for good things happening to them: hurting others.
Mhitochrondrial Eve and Y-Chromosome Adam likely could not have met.

There was too much time between them.

We focus too much on these two inputs, and forget the other (20) pairs of our nuclei.
Man-made is relatable. It’s understandable. It’s comprehensible. All things that the universe, when considered in its entirety, could never be.
I would argue that operating systems have been feature-driven.

For years now at best you can see 1-2 minor features a year. Mostly its just some design tweaks.
Yes. This was a great feedback. Should be considered for future releases.
This looks super interesting, thanks for posting.

Can't help but wonder how much cooler it would be if only the attributes were not hx- namespaced. Is that not done for some technical reason?
Doctors told patients that their Epstein Barr was psychosomatic for decades. I'm sure some percentage of people are developing similar symptoms as a non-viral consequence of lockdown. However, for me, my lifestyle didn't really change and I don't mind lockdown at all. I got sick quickly one day in mid-March, mostly recovered after a couple days, and then just never got all the way better. The only physical symptom I have to show for it are much larger dark circles then normal under my eyes. I can exercise hard and everything works, but I pay for it later with a week of worse fatigue afterwards. I can say with certainty my symptoms are related to whatever virus I came down with in March. One of many anecdotes for you.
A lot of these issues remind me of twisted pair Ethernet. It's interesting that Ethernet is usually coupled with transformers, but USB3 is typically done with capacitors. Can someone more knowledgable comment on the relative difficulties and problem points in 10Gbe vs. USB3?
what I read is when worker's lives arent threatened (by deprivation of health care) we make sensible decisions about balancing a commitment to an employer with our commitments to family and community.
I don’t think he is pro Trump, just a standard misanthrope. He predicted the Trump victory in 2016, and mostly pointed out the weakness of the herd to manipulation and is mostly sticking with his sentiment this time around as well (although I don’t know if he adjusted given recent events).

For example, he pointed out that a lot of this country is truly prejudiced and the Democrats are bungling their messaging by positioning themselves around defunding the police and protests, which illicit primal fears amongst a large voting block. Trump can manipulate these emotions easily, so beware of these dynamics.
It's certainly possible to have a religion that accounts for the grandeur of the universe, and there have certainly been many religious folks whose religious experience is heightened by their understanding of the cosmos, but I'd guess those folks have put a fair bit of their own efforts into such belief because IME the common teachings of the major religions imply that the actions of the humans that live in a tiny slice of history in a tiny piece of the cosmos are of major significance. I would argue that perceiving some of the grandeur of the universe may make it difficult for the most common teachings to really resonate without significant modification.

Also, for folks who are drawn to religion primarily due to "spiritual" experiences they've had with the religion -- where they experience a loss of self, a one-ness and connected-ness with others, and a distinct sense of clarity -- it may be that having a very similar experience in a non-religious context may lead to new beliefs about what that experience is or means.
Is this documented anywhere? Search results are only showing plugins that have been discussed here.
> You can't wash your hands of him, He is democratically elected as a representative of you.

What I mean by that is that his actions do not represent the American public at large. The nature of his victory is highly suspicious and he did not secure a majority vote. I don't know how much you know about our politics but there is a lot of nuance that you are glossing over.

Additionally, his popular support is at an all-time low. Election polls for 2020 show him lagging considerably behind Biden. At this point he is very likely to be one of the few presidents that will not be elected to a second-term; the first in 28 years.

Whatever propaganda you are reading or seeing or hearing about us, you would do well to question it
What makes you think these are unreachable? They seem like somewhat standard salaries for SDE/senior/staff/principal to me.
As a person who used to live like that in the US when I worked there. Its just how it is. US work opportunity is very expensive/valuable for us third world people(in my case India). Its like 70 rupees for a single dollar!!!. Time and opportunities are 70 times more expensive. Every minute, and every purchase matters. You have to make a dent every time you hit.

Its like the most important period of your life. There is little time for non-serious stuff.

You likely won't get a chance again. Even if you do office politics and get visas, you still need to beat the lottery and visa interview. Given how precious the opportunity and what you get out of it. You have to do all that.
It's not obvious to me that this is the case. Chris Olah and others talk about "superposition" as a mechanism to explain "polysemantic" neurons that arise in image classifiers. To me, that suggests (using very vague, hand-wavy terms) that the optimization process is attempting to pack in as many concepts as possible into the finite parameter space. Certainly the scaling of GPT-3 suggests that these larger models are not necessarily any sparser than smaller ones.

[1]: https://distill.pub/2020/circuits/zoom-in/
I don't think so, I think it's mfgs skimping on the hardware. I have an xps 13 and it is incredibly precise. My old lenovo was ok. Not terrible but nothing like the xps. Which in my opinion beats a macbook pro.
Created a issue around this. Thanks again.
I see what you mean. But if we consider endianness and reading direction arbitrary conventions does it still hold? Maybe it does, since in your latter example the reading direction is inverted in any case and endianness applies only intra-number.
God was supposed to have created men not the other way around.
We should not be surprised to see new language models achieving GPT-3 performance with fewer parameters. The purpose (I assume, as an outsider) of the GPT-* project is to try to find the upper bound of how good a language model can be, without caring too much about efficiency. GPT-3 essentially scaled up the known good architecture of GPT-2.

If you have a really big compute cluster, it makes sense to do experiments like this. It would be foolish to constantly try new methods without occasionally checking to see how far you can push current methods.

A similar thing happened with VGGnet in image classification. It achieved SoTA with a huge amount of parameters, using the standard techniques of the time, but increasing the network depth. Later, people discovered a lot of tricks to get similar accuracy with fewer parameters.
Too sad the switch to WebExtensions in Firefox totally screwed up these addons.

I was a religious VimFX user and I can tell you that i mourn having lost that. It's like an era of powerful browsing ended. I use the mentioned Vimium addon, but it's not even close to what we had with VimFX.

Does the keyboard shortcuts in Vimium work when the page is loading? No. How nice is it to have keyboard shortcuts that work sometimes? Extremely frustrating.

How about using "o" to get to the address bar (CMD/CTRL+L)? It opens some overlay on the page where I can't access my bookmarks.

I could go on. VimFX is still somewhat maintained, but you have to run an unsecure browser to use it (like WaterFox).
This should have a clearer, more direct headline.
https://dishcraft.com/ : what dishcraft is doing now...dishwashing robots. dishwashing at restaurants..as a service.
If you like this then check out the Peabody Award winning 6-part Documentary series from 1995 David Attenborough & filmed by the equally talented but less celebrated BBC Natural History Unit :

The Private Life of Plants [1]

It's AMAZING! They speed up plant time to show layers of behavior that are otherwise invisible to the naked eye.

"Midwinter, and the countryside is so still, it seems almost lifeless. But these trees and bushes and grasses around me are living organisms just like animals. And they have to face very much the same sort of problems as animals face throughout their lives if they're to survive. They have to fight one another, they have to compete for mates, they have to invade new territories. But the reason that we're seldom aware of these dramas is that plants of course live on a different time-scale."

— David Attenborough’s opening words

[1] (9/10) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0123360/
Don’t worry, one day soon you’ll be able to ask an AI agent to explain to you what’s going on, in simple terms.
Programming Scala – New language version, new edition
I wish Java has LINQ. It has only non-friendly non-expandable LINQ-to-Object equivalent.

Example for bad parts: Handling checked exception in lambda, no extension method support, calling ".collect(Collectors.toList())" every time, no real closure support, complex lambda type due to primitive types.

I should mention async/await for C# feature compared to Java.

IMO Scala/Clojure is too much for me, C# is balanced option.
You have to realize that there really isn't a "shortage" of workers in the computer science field. Companies like to pretend like there is, but really it's just about pressing salaries in the long run. I have a friend here where I live who is a well-qualified java backend dev, not completely socially inept but who couldn't find a job in two months now after his previous company didn't renew his contract. This is not an outlier, I have spoken with lots of software engineers who had trouble finding work even in the next big city here, despite 50+ "open" positions. In reality, most of those spots are either a) nonexistend, the company just wants a stream of new applicants in case they can get their hands on a cs master for like 2k/month or b) pro forma because they're required by some policy to open the position to outsiders to fulfill a quota. In my experience the lack of IT workers is bullshit and anyone perpetuating it is either unknowing of the real world or acting in malice.
Most older paintings are filled with hidden symbols[1], that was kind of the point.

Today we still find this tradition of set dressing occurring in diplomatic photos.

[1] I have not read The Benedict Option but from its reviews, and from Dreher's professional and confessional background, I currently suspect Madonna's Justify My Love has stronger theological grounding.

Bonus clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wlk4ulVs-2M (note the seppele and gestures, which finns apparently share with slavic cultures)

Edit: for the downvoter, are you aware of the various christian doctrines of justification, and their roles in the schisms within that religion?

For Dreher's confessional cursus, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24588118
(Not being a believer in heresy myself, I am feeling more charitable towards the shakiness of his theology after having discovered he is a journalist and/or blogger, not a theologian.)
If Oracle wins I really hope they get sued to hell by IBM and everyone else they have ripped off over the years.
Demanding people read things against their will is a hell of a stretch of the original argument :)
4 years effectively. It takes almost 12 months to process the citizenship application.
I just followed other frameworks on it, feels a little presumptuous and dangerous to use unqualified top level attributes.

I could make it pluggable so you could do away with the hx- if you wanted to. Most people want to go the other way and use data- prefixes (which is supported out of the box)
Why Did Facebook Stop Promotion of an Article on India's Home Minister?
Keep needing to explain this one to clients... sure, I think I can get it to work... it'll be a lot trickier.

HDMI though, the routing examples for that one are stunning.
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/search-contents-current...
> I live alone, and still find the dishwasher to be the most useful appliance in my house.

More useful than the washing machine?
You have it backwards. Political ad creatives needed something to do outside election cycles.
That's naive. Why would I let it go?

Firstly, contrary to Benatar, our lives are not "meaningless", even from a cosmic perspective. Our personal problems, concerns, relationships, and feelings are in no way less significant merely in the virtue of the size of the (multi)verse. Your feeling of pain is still pain, whether the universe contains billions of galaxies, or is just 10 light-years across. Same with joy, same with health, everything.

Secondly, our lives are certainly not inconsequential in the grand scheme of things. The whole future of the Sun depends on whether humanity's descendants exist long enough to develop the technology to stop it from going nova and gather its energy. If Earth is indeed the only planet in the observable universe to contain life, then our lives are of tremendous significance. Either we live and hopefully, build grand Kardashev IV-utopia among the stars changing the universe completely, or we go extinct.
First there is nothing called center of a blackhole. What mathematics tells us is exactly what is a black hole.
After crossing the event horizon, there is no time so there is no "information" exists. Its the end of "everything" which I wrote "nothingness". Thats what is in the black hole. Thats the structure.
Hard spend limits are not an easy problem with cloud. There are too many things that incur costs. Everytime this comes up, I ask the same question: what do you expect to happen when the quota is hit?

Shutdown your servers? Wipe your SSDs and storage buckets? Remove your DNS records? Should it be permanent? If not then they're just subsidizing the costs. If it's soft-limit then its just a warning, and if you just want a warning then billing alarms already exist in every cloud.

Also for most customers, the data and service is far more important than the cost. Bills can be negotiated or forgiven afterwards. Lost data and customers can't.
> Core functionality such as screenshots and input record/replay is not universally available on Wayland. So X will still be used for significant amount of time.

This is exactly my case. For me it's the difference between earning money or not working: I do some screen sharing with my customers every day. Wayland is not an option for me yet.
Cool, but real web surfers use Emacsium.
The scale of numbers in some Buddhist works such as the Flower Ornament Scripture are unimaginably large (infinities for every infinite item).
There was a thread the other day that mentioned a variety of products that were killed by Google, which were aggregated here: https://killedbygoogle.com/

There was also a similar one for Mozilla: https://killedbymozilla.com/

Perhaps they were being weary due to the practices the entirety of the company has displayed in the past, in regards to killing off products.

Not sure about Google Cloud in particular, though.
One does not pay a couple thousand $ get into an eternal line. You need to have an approved I-140 i.e. an approved green card application to remain in line.

To do this a company must (1) hire you; (2) decide to sponsor you for a long, expensive process; (3) interview broadly and prove it couldn't not find an American to fill the role. Not to speak of a number of hoops an applicant has to go through.
For composable nested parallelism, I think spawn and sync like Julia has would be great. If there is a variant of spawn that asserts there is no concurrency is required for the child task, I'd imagine the runtime can do more optimizations (Julia doesn't have it but there was an experimental PR [1]). But concurrency sounds like a very basic thing in JavaScript so I'm not sure if it fits well in the language. But I don't have experience in serious JavaScript programming so I don't know what fits best there. I'd imagine you can build some data parallel libraries already with web workers API.

[1] https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/31086
I had a situation lately where the CSP was not enough because of Safari, so I had to fallback to dom-purify. It is not always possible to just rely on it unfortunately.
You simply never use string concatenation to produce HTML, CSS, JS, SQL, etc.

Instead, use e.g. an HTML library that automatically escapes strings. Then you don't even have to think about it.
Thank you! I added your website to my "read later" folder.
Or in a video game where the background is an unreachable layer.
How to use, open, resize, and split Panes in the Windows Terminal
Nothing, but I suspect your concept of "religion" is not the same as the parent's. Some people think of religion is a valuable tool humans invented to help them govern their lives . To others, religion is a doctrine that teaches ostensibly facts about the nature of the universe. Typically these facts lead to conclusions such as "humans SHOULD do x, MUST NOT do y", etc.

Two completely different concepts, one word. So it's a bit confusing. But for someone discussing the second type of religion, saying it's "man-made" is definitely a knockout punch.
It should be location based. 170k is an expert in many areas of the country.

Maybe something like upper 2% of salaries in the county.

A fixed number will never be appropriate for all the areas in the US, and a fixed number will always need to be adapted.
Mathematics is quite similar as well. I hated memorising formulae and theorems as I always thought if I can derive them then why bother. But the cognitive load when working on more complex problems and having to think about the problem at hand as well as the tools used to solve it just doesn't scale well enough and it limited me until I accepted that a large part of mathematical intuition involves having these as a part of my memory.
Of course, this doesn't need to(and shouldn't need to) happen through rote-learning but rather through a large number of problems that it happens naturally.
Doesn't HDMI also have dedicated pins for Ethernet?
I was thinking of doing something like this, connected with a small screen, and UART send/receive (because it's simple) - so that I could use it just to keep ibuffer in Emacs up and help me move through buffers.

...still need to do that project. Just a small, single use device to make my Emacs life easier.
Does USB4/Thunderbolt will change the story? I heard their signaling is quite different than USB3.
That means they were over pricing their skills. This is how a free market works.
You are projecting christian view a bit here.

Buddhism and perhaps other Indian religions have some really large numbers, e.g. http://allergrootste.com/big/book/ch1/ch1_7.html