skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Commenters are arguing about U-3 versus U-x but the question is really: how should our population think our economy is doing? The rhetoric on the news since 2008 has been: oooh, look at those low unemployment numbers! But reality doesn't seem to have matched the claim that low-unemployment-means-people-are-doing-well... Unemployment was near record lows and wages weren't increasing much (even with a suitable time lag)? Whatever measure we're currently using, it doesn't seem to be serving the population well. Certainly is serving politicians well. How is labor force participation down so much over 20 years if we're doing so well?

(As raised in the comments, it's good to use universal-ish standards so that countries are comparable.)

And I'm not classic "liberal" or "progressive" (I lean (proper, not movement) conservative). This is intended to portray a fairly balanced view of BLS stats...
There is also a long-running children's cartoon starring a [very] anthropomorphic aardvark on American public television.
China is neither food nor energy secure and Russia cannot provide sufficient quantities of either. PLARF would be focused on not continental US, but US forward positions which would allow for US assets to easily strike Mainland China. Fact is that the US could starve out China from a distance if needed.

Furthermore for all the Chinese efforts for self sufficiency, it lacks that in high tech manufacturing.
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you sound like a religious fanatic
Isn't that how nearly all multi-threaded code is written? Wouldn't the only other option be fire-and-forget? I've been writing code like this is nearly every language I've ever used for decades.

Are you talking about the actual fork() function, instead of, say, spawning inside a loop explicitly?
I'd guess because they had yet to negotiate a ceasefire in the Soviet war.
Ahhh so that's what Retool is. Your page does a much better job of explaining what these things are. And it looks like an interesting project - good luck!
That's just a way to reduce the number of applicants if you don't care about getting the goods hires because bad hires can game the interview just as much as good hires.
If you're using a corded drill to assemble furniture, you're doing it wrong.

Corded drills are just _drills_. Cordless drills are typically drill / drivers.
It's funny that never actually occurred to me as a possibility. I would have to get in touch with the advertisers to see if that data is still in their account (which may be possible, I'll see what I can do).

It's also not sufficient even if they do that. Many advertisers will run a time-sensitive campaign -- free traffic 3 weeks later in those scenarios is worthless. I actually doubt google does this because if they did it would be most easily implemented as an account credit.

They just keep the money and hope no one ever holds them accountable for anything.
Depends on the jurisdiction and tort. America is notably hostile to attorney fee shifting, to the point where we literally call it the French Rule. If you're sued for something baseless you're expected to have the money to defend yourself. Copyright is unique in that fee shifting is regularly granted in the US, but even then it's limited to specific amounts of hours billed at a reasonable rate as determined by a court. You don't get to just hire the most expensive attorney with the expectation that they can make the nuisance suit go away and then collect from the plaintiff rather than the defendant.
The git thing is only for on-prem.
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There has always been a tradeoff between security and freedom.
> why he put it there.

Because they're gonna shut down on Dec 31 2024? Would you prefer them shutting down without a notice?
Ask HN: Why is consumer ethernet so slow?
The state of the art in other technologies is extremely fast: 10 Gbps for Wifi 6/6e, 10 Gbps for 5g, 48 Gbps for HDMI 2.1 (not networking, but common). Meanwhile, consumer ethernet is still predominantly 1 Gbps. Why hasn't this changed over the past twenty years?
I think he had it right... the thing holding most people back is fear, most of the time.

It's only after you get past the fear, does the need for more resources come into play.
Yep pixlet is very cool, but I want a Tidbyt :)
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Not to mention that the design constraints of a reaction wheel and a drive wheel are almost polar opposites: a reaction wheel needs to have the largest possible moment of inertia, to maximize the change in angular momentum for a given mass and torque; meanwhile, a drive wheel should have the smallest possible moment of inertia, to maximize the change in angular speed for a given mass and torque, particularly since you typically want to minimize unsprung mass (in fairness, the demoed robot didn't have any suspension to worry about).
I think voice recognition would be a better example.
It went from 'toy' to 'everyday use' because the word error rate dropped an order of magnitude.
I've heard that it's disappointing, which is too bad. The first novel is one of the true greats of the field, the kind where you can feel the existence of a deeper history and crave to know more. Only Tolkien did it better, and he only by being obsessive about it. Unfortunately, it's really hard to actually fulfill the reader's craving without disappointing them.

Friends have pushed me to read the rest of the Dune books, but I'm reluctant. Not because the story is unexpected -- that sounds promising, actually -- but because if it's not well-written, it would feel like it taints them gem I already know.
That tweet is a big deal if true.

Were there any follow-ups from Backblaze?
I think the key to impostor syndrome lies in one of the author's sentences:

"Your sense that you’re not the expert/rockstar/whatever thing everyone says you are might be true."

The more your identity is based on the subjective interpretation of what other people think of you and your skills, the more at risk of impostor syndrome you are. If your identity revolves around grades, grants, auditions, reviews, etc.- you're in a high-risk group for feeling like you don't deserve anything you have.
Big entities probably make up 99% of the firewall market today, and for those who currently want firewalls, it makes far more sense to have independent hardware.

The use case for an end user managing their firewall experience with a 3rd-party software-based firewall AND who also wish to monitor Apple traffic is very niche.

For the overwhelming portion of the population, I would be more worried about the MacOS security model. Someone's iPad or iPhone experience can only be screwed up so much and can be reset without losing data. For MacOS the stakes are a lot higher, and users are trained to enter credentials for annoying-to-audit vague permissions.

In my view, MacOS is the biggest security hole in Apple's ecosystem. Doesn't this make you wonder how Apple will handle the health app on MacOS?
Because it's expensive. People don't like expensive, specially outside the US and a few EU countries.
You have it backwards, China is deathly dependent on semi-conductor imports. And what replacement parts are you imagining of? Be specific. Because the US has plenty of manufacturing capability for just about anything that comes to mind for Oil and Gas.
Is this a GPT-3 based blog?
Are we living at the most influential time in history? (2019)
> ISPC can generate C++ (with --emit-c++) I would think their compiler is conceptually very high-level

It's a Clang-based frontend for LLVM, so yeah, no reason Julia couldn't make use of their work. I think the main thing to tap into is the uniform vs varying support, since this drives the whole thing.
The key thing there is that you installed the OS. You're saying there's little difficulty in using the OS, but that isn't what I mean when I say it's not a practical option. The core problem is that the average person doesn't know how and wouldn't be comfortable taking that step, even if it's pretty easy once you know how. You have also made yourself their support person. They can't bring their computer to Best Buy or call Apple if they have a problem. We don't have the retail & support infrastructure in place for desktop Linux to be a viable option. These are the things I'm talking about when I say it's not a practical option for a typical user.
I’ve been assigned a .0 public IPv4 address by AWS before. I was a bit confused when I first saw it, but it worked just fine.
In Denmark it's so prevalent that it's codified as Jante's Law. It's not a prescriptive law, despite the way it's phrased. It's more descriptive, a satirical summary of the way Danes think of ambitious people.

- You're not to think you are anything special.

- You're not to think you are as good as we are.

- You're not to think you are smarter than we are.

- You're not to imagine yourself better than we are.

- You're not to think you know more than we do.

- You're not to think you are more important than we are.

- You're not to think you are good at anything.

- You're not to laugh at us.

- You're not to think anyone cares about you.

- You're not to think you can teach us anything.
Correct, Starlink does not currently support IPv6.
"thousands in the case of SIMD or GPUs"
What does 'Single Instruction Multiple Data' have to do with threads?

Also fork join sounds just like normal threads to me in the way you are describing it.

Sorry what an I missing?
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The biggest problem with chatbots is that getting conversations right is hard... and expensive. To make one actually helpful, it requires extensive knowledge not just about the potential topics that customers could ask about, but also linguistics, NLU/P/Q, scripting, and the diverse technical environments that these tools will be interacting with. With all the drag-and-drop chatbot creation tools out there now, companies are being sold on the idea that ANYONE can make these chats, and as such don't see the benefit of hiring an experienced professional whose sole job it is to make these things work well. Instead, their creation is being left to existing help desk/HR/doc employees that lack said in-depth cross-functional knowledge, with predictable results. Sparse NLU models are poorly constructed, background tasks are hacky and frequently broken, and the resulting chats are stilted and disjointed at best. Which is why they're so frustrating.

The tools to make good chatbots are complex, but they exist, and in the hands of someone who is trained in all of the requisite areas can be wielded to create something useful. It just costs money most companies don't believe is worth spending.
hi! There are a few differences today:

1. You can make multi-page apps
2. You can create workflows by chaining events
3. Much better debugging features for datasources

More features are on their way. :)
Holy cow, this is the worst list I've ever seen. These are (almost) all things I treasure and I would hate to see abandoned to the wolves. Are you seriously suggesting libraries as wasteful programs and that Pharma companies run drug rehab programs! I can't tell if this is a troll comment or not.

In case it is not just trolling, I suggest you read about the tragedy of the commons:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons
I still think the parent has a insightful comment. It's interesting to compare the hybrid between deep care and deep recklessness of Belters in various scifi (e.g. The Expanse) vs. historical oceanic explorers on Earth. Setting off across the ocean in little more than a canoe doesn't seem particularly safety oriented, and maybe there is a civilization that evolves a similar approach to space. That could be as simple as "spray and pray," or more deceptively sophisticated like Polynesian navigation.
I loved this post, thanks for writing it. I get the argument why one shouldn't expect local minima in very high dimensions. But then, what's wrong with the informal argument that there has to be a minimum because, well, the expected loss cannot be negative?
I've been using retool for a year, and very heavily for some large internal tools for the last month. I find some of its design rather inspired. Its been massively helpful and surprisingly easy to use. Even for some relatively complicated tasks.

We are hitting the limits of its capability. Which is when applications get complicated or end up with lots of code. The javascript you write in your tool is running inside many layers of retool javascription and encapsulation.

But at this point if we decide to move such an app out of Retool, then the business logic is already written.
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I think this is a way to really piss off statisticians:

Stop talking about minima. Stop talking about how your optimization algorithm behaves around a minimum. Nobody ever trains their model remotely close to convergence. ADAM doesn’t even provably converge. All real models diverge! You are nowhere close to a minimum! Stop talking about minima already goddamnit! Why even think about minima?! Minima are a myth! Everybody proves their results for minima of a convex function.

Actually arguing for divergent models. I mean, I love it, just because it's so very very cruel.
Both-sides that shit, man. Both-sides it as hard as you can. LOL nothing matters.
YC adds resources to people who are already making something. It may not be what they'll end up with (Segment, recently acquired, started with an entirely different idea) but they've started.

In the passage you quoted, PG is talking about an earlier stage than that. ("They're too frightened even to start.")
Congrats it seems amazing, I will definitely try it soon :)
Yes, in essence, capitalism. But the discussion was about regulating the use of undeveloped land (“idle capital”) and that disproportionately benefits those in society who already own land (“capital”).
That's the reality for companies with high volume and low margins. The number of customer service representatives per user they can hire is proportional to their profits per user. You can't change that with legislation. A company making 1/10th the profit per user cannot spend as much on customer service. At best, you can make laws that effectively ban companies from having low margins.

If I buy something from my local dollar store, they have a no return policy. The items are typically low quality. But they cost a dollar.

My cell company, on the other hand, charges around $60/month for a phone plan, so they have more customer service representatives.
200 comments when it got archived in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24532973
I saw this article linked from a YouTube comment on a video by Ron Pratt, owner of the towing company who did the recovery. I was struck by the lack of ads, click bait referral links, etc. Because the website is not overrun by crap, they can feature full size pictures. Then I realized, why couldn't all local news websites be more like this?
> Isn't that how nearly all multi-threaded code is written

Producer-consumer queues say otherwise. As does Async. There's also message-passing. There's also thread-pools.

Task-based programming doesn't wait for the tasks to finish. So without the "join", you don't have an easy synchronization point to rely upon, and have to use explicit locks for synchronization.

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Producer - consumer can't work with fork/join, because there's no "join" at all! The producer keeps producing, and the consumers just keep consuming.

Async is... a tangled mess. I'm pretty sure its just the modern "unstructured goto" style of spaghetti that has been rediscovered. Yeah, its super-efficient, but no, its not really easy to program.

Task-based parallelism is probably my next favorite style. Fork-join is super easy, but the join causes a significant waiting period and underutilization of the processor. Task-based provides more flexibility (at the cost of a little bit more complexity).

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There's a ton of other models of parallelism. But fork-join seems to be the methodology that more and more work is being focused on.
Don't forget "cyber"-anything.
Dear Palo Alto Networks: There is no way I would have watched that video if you hadn't demanded it be taken down. Now having watched it I can see why you want to hide it.
> But if I come into a cooking group and just talk about cooking, why should the information that I'm also in a completely different group talking about firearms even be relevant?

Agreed, it shouldn't be relevant, but unfortunately it often is. People are so mired in identity politics that your affiliations outside of a particular group will often matter within that group. It's not fair and it's not rational, but that's what discourse has devolved to, sadly.
ANY firewall inherently trusts the OS of the device it's running. They have to in order to function. The firewall sits on top of the OS, not underneath it. Even on Linux if you're running ipfw, the traffic first goes through the OS and then to your firewall.
It's not just a weak argument, it's a bad one.

> Simply because a complaint was filed does not mean that investigation doesn't continue.

While true, it does mean that you think you can make the case, which not many people think that they can, including a bunch of career prosecutors. I haven't seen a single outside analyst that has said this is a good case. Let's check in on what the market thinks of this case: GOOG: up 1.39% today as of time of this comment.

> that the case wouldn't have been brought by a Biden administration then this may have been the best opportunity to make the complaint.

Why? Why not November 4, or December 3, or January 14? Why now, 2 weeks before an election. It reeks of political motivation. Even if that wasn't the intent, it has the appearance of that intent which could have easily been avoided by simply waiting until after the election day.
What is the connection between having a single login and disclosing a username to someone you've gone out of your way to hide it from?

There isn't one.
11 states have joined this case
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It occurs to me that whereas plenty of such C programs have been seen, where can we find such a Fortran program?
Ah. That'd actually be useful I think.
thanks!
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I get 4G in Russia, on a mountain in a crevice that has a glacier and 4 goats.

Jokes aside, you'd be surprised how good network coverage is in some remote areas that seemingly have very little economic value.
You are both right. Some things Google did (like kiling Flash, together with Apple) were fine, but some feel like made by an opinionated person. And because Google has such enormous infulence on practically every aspect of the Internet, and especially the Web, no wonder people are upset whenever such unilateral decisions are made.
I don't have a CS background, so maybe that's how I'm missing the point here, but I don't see what is so supposed to be so special about Julia's multiple dispatch. In fact, reading more about it and knowing Python, single dispatch/polymorphism feels more natural to me. This would allow a `plot` function in Python, originally written for the float data type, to also work for float-like (quacks like a duck) data types, like `Decimal`. I struggle to see what about Julia improves on this situation or makes it conceptually different.

Lastly, the article mentions that `plot` also works for uncertainty-carrying floats, because the `Measurements` package has implemented "a simple recipe" for this case. But doesn't this mean very tight coupling? The `Measurements` author very specifically (if I understand this right) implemented a `plot` functionality. For the end user, this allows things to just work, which is great. But under the hood, it seems this depends on package authors having to be aware of all possible use cases for their library code.
U-3 does not exclude those whose benefits have run out but are still actively looking for work. It relies on social insurance claims in part, but also uses surveys to estimate how many folks are looking for work that aren’t receiving unemployment.
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Could be an excuse to get it nebulously embedded and then retrofit a more restrictive license in to benefit from lockin. Bit of a reach, I suppose.
Firmware bugs (an overflowing counter, etc) are not predictable and this is where long-term enterprise usage data could be helpful as drives that are always-on for years are more likely to trigger those bugs than casual desktop usage.
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All things being equal, then unfairness should be spread evenly. If certain groups are always experience the same privilege then there is no social justice and the system itself perpetuates inequality - not randomness.
Hey we do too at Whize, surely you've seen sites that give special privilege to Google and or lock the sitemap away.

While I don't know if I'd say "hostility" I would say passive aggressive to other crawlers.
No, I think success in large platforms has depended on being able to automate away human problems, ignoring the harm that causes. We need to mandate human moderation and customer service, as well as a robust and transparent appeal process. And we need to strip Section 230 immunity so platforms have real liability behind their content decisions.

Platforms above a certain scale will either require enough manpower to handle them appropriately, or will break down at a certain size and lead to a wider market.
My aunt and my mom both died in the same year. When selling their houses for their estates the realtors both said "you can skip the disclosure part" because I didn't own the house myself.

I did happen to know that my mom had had asbestos removed from the kitchen in her 1972 home. It was required when she remodeled. But I had never been to my aunt's home (1000 miles away) until she had died. It was built the same year and I bet it did have asbestos in it because it had never been remodeled.
It's not so much average earnings per person as average people per square mile. The network providers only want to invest where the return on that investment meets or exceeds some floor. Parts of the US are so sparsely populated the phone contracts for cellular would be huge to justify building the towers and backhauling the signals.
Well, maybe they are better because competition doesn't stand a chance due to anti-competitive practices?