skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This isn't true. They wanted a one-to-one language replacement for ventrilo/teamspeak/mumble.

"Hey hop on my mumble server"

"Hey hop on my vent server"

"Hey hop on my teamspeak server"

"Hey hop on my discord... guild?"
I'm not really sure on what basis you conclude that Amazon and/or Facebook are more vulnerable than Google. Google controls +80% of search; it dominates desktop browsers with 70% market share; it effectively owns the most popular mobile operating system and +65% of mobile users use Google's mobile browser; it also owns YouTube and Gmail, which tie neatly into the rest of its products and lead to even more market domination (they read your emails and sell that information to advertisers, etc.).

Google has done more to atrophy progress on the Internet than any other big tech company. It has used its monopoly position on search and ads to crush competition. Google has been "evil" for a very long time.
>Why should any of these people be considered "unemployed"?

Because they still need to find work to live, pay heath expenses, and so on, and can barely make it in third-world style conditions without it...
>> an important new dataset shared exclusively with "Axios on HBO."
This doesn't seem trustworthy. Why not use BLS data?

This makes the current economic situation look better then the official Unemployment Rate.
When looking at the official rate it goes from 3.6% to 7.9% When looking at the "True White Unemployment Rate" it goes from about 20% to 23.6%, that seems far less severe.
Not to mention they don't break the Official Unemployment up by race(this is present in the official Unemployment Situation Report output by the BLS), so you can't do an accurate comparison.
All indicators can be gamed, and no single indicator paints the entire picture, but most people can't spend a lot of time comparing different numbers, and this new indicators seem to be correlated, so what is the point? They aren't normalized seasonally, that makes it even more confusing. They haven't strayed too much as far as the graph goes back, so this is not a new issue.
The data from this article is suspect, and it gives us no new information.
Rapid Home Covid-19 Tests Are the Best Path to a New Normal. They're Illegal
Signal isn’t optimized for the use case where you need to use it to ask for help in an abuse scenario.

But isn’t that scenario a weak one? How would you know to install signal and reach out to a specific person for help if you hadn’t already asked for help?
I feel the article conflates AI with the broader concepts of business intelligence and data science. If the “learning” is happening on the humans side, you’re essentially just collecting and analyzing data.

Or is the article literally suggesting the 10% of companies that profit off of AI are the 10% “learning” by retraining their models on newer data? To me that is akin to saying companies that maintain their websites tend to be more profitable, it’s not that much of a revelation.
This is actually a very good suggestion! Will save tons of time. Personally, to decide what font I'd like to use, I open Google Fonts, enter my letter (e.g. F), and then scroll down the list of fonts to pick my desire one.

I like you suggestion very much, I'll add this to my suggestion list and would implement this one for version 2.0.

Thank you.
NHS is not "means of production" by any extend, unlike the hospital cos, even if they are "non-profit" on the paper for as long as they are de-jure joint stock corporations with board, investors, and other stock company nonsense.
> "Contrary to conventional wisdom, robots accelerated the spread of true and false news at the same rate, implying that false news spreads more than the truth because humans, not robots, are more likely to spread it."

Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16547005
The song he's trying to parody consists almost exclusively of the actual names of the elements. There are a few filler words added to make the meter work out ("There's strontium and silicon and silver and samarium"), and a couplet in English at the end, but otherwise it's just the elements.

The rhyme is trivial, since every line ends with "ium". To do it with anything else you'd need to work a lot harder.
Why build another website builder?
I'm hoping DNS-over-HTTP will use HTTP/3 to be back on DNS.

The error correction below layer 7 is a problem, because error in one stream blocks all streams, and lower levels of the stack can't help that.
How are Netflix or Apple a monopoly?
I could buy a network of at least regional scale but the resource constraints would prohibit cryptocurrencies with no meaningful benefits to justify the huge cost increases. It’d all come down to trust between parties anyway without a shared government legal system to fall back on, and in that case there’s be no reason not to use PKI signatures at orders of magnitude lower cost.
As critical as I've been on Facebook for their targeted advertising practices, is there anything mentioned in the article that would not be allowed to be sent as a physical piece of mail through the postal service? I get snail mail ads all the time with misleading claims. The way targeted advertising works in the article sounds a bit less invasive than what gets addressed and mailed to me personally. I'm not sure what's the solution here but whatever it is, I'd like to see it extended to USPS delivered advertisements too.
Something funny they don't even mention:

> We call on technology companies to [...] enable law enforcement access to content in a readable and usable format where an authorisation is lawfully issued, is necessary and proportionate, and is subject to strong safeguards and oversight.

Matrix.org is not a company and therefore not a target at this point.
In case you didn't know, cargo is available as a library as well[0].

I don't know why the current Zig approach[1] would be preferable, as you dump some source code that you are now responsible to maintain in your project. Any bigger project project will require writing boilerplate code just to get things built.

It's also a bit of comparing apples to oranges, as Zig's build system doesn't come with a package manager (which I would say makes up a good chunk of Cargo's complexity).

[0]: https://crates.io/crates/cargo

[1]: https://ziglang.org/#Zig-Build-System
The BLS statistics are pretty much like the food labels: They'll slap a huge "0% fat" sticker on the front of the package to appease the public conscience. But you need to carefully read the fine-print on the back to find out what's that you're consuming.
My parents-in-law changed their furniture 10 years ago, previous change was when they moved into the house, which was 30 earlier.
And they now talk about changing it again, modern times force people to change clothes, furniture sooner than it was few decades ago.
I was about to ask why would they do a release if they know it's broken and blowing up their flagship libraries? It's worrying when the interpreter starts to favor shipping quickly over being functional.

But nevermind, the 3.9 release was 15 days ago and the bug was identified 8 days ago. I guess there has to be a release before people will start using it and find bugs/regressions.

There's a saying to always wait for the .1 release, this is a good illustration of why.
You Don’t Know Jack
While certainly the class of Turing-complete languages is an important one, I think it's a mistake to treat that specific class as the definition of “programming language”.
LCCA: Improved Cost-Assessment Methodology for a Net-Zero Emissions World
BLS calls U-3 the "official unemployment rate" I guess, but they publish it in a table with 5 other measures that count different things. I'm not entirely sure it's fair to blame them for the fact that most people just focus on that one measurement.
Photoshop’s AI neural filters can tweak age and expression with a few clicks
Wouldn't it be great if HBO provided us a link to their "important new data" but since they don't we can't look at it for ourselves.
This feels like moving the goalposts: first it was a core part of their business, now it's diversification.

The core of Intel's business is x86.
If you think so, I suggest you to actually read what Marx wrote. Shared, and collectively owned/managed means of productions is exactly that.
You need to use actual numbers. The total size of the active worldwide userbase on all of Facebook's platforms is at least one order of magnitude larger than reddit. And the revenue they extract from it is larger still. Reddit is merely the world's largest Internet forum. They don't have a moat.
Differential Dataflow is about differential computation which itself is a generalization of incremental computing, most commonly known from Excel.

A good introduction to the overall topic is incremental [0] an OCaml library by Jane Street and the corresponding blog posts and videos [1]. They even use it for webapps [2].

[0]: https://github.com/janestreet/incremental

[1]: https://www.janestreet.com/tech-talks/seven-implementations-... (Great to understand fundamentals of an incremental computation graph)

[2]: https://www.janestreet.com/tech-talks/intro-to-incr-dom/
Yes if you have a viable way to compute multiple samples per pass and store the updates, you’ll definitely be able to amortize the cost of the snapshot copies and save a lot of time.

It’s been a while since I played with Moana’s meshes, so I don’t remember what GAS compaction will buy you exactly, but generally speaking it’s common to see the compacted GAS end up at about 50% of the size of the first build. If you’re allocating and building multiple GASes in parallel, then it might mean you have to defrag your snapshot in a separate pass using GAS relocation. Once you put all that together, it is possible that copying is faster than rebuilding, so just be aware I’m not certain that my suggestion to build every time is a winner in your case.

I can also envision some other strategies that may save considerably on snapshot copies in many cases ( and may be difficult to implement :) ). If you keep going with this and would like more support or suggestions or perf tips, please feel free to get in touch via the OptiX forum (Feel free to DM me there if you like). We’d be happy to try to help you squeeze out more samples per second.
Cyber warfare is probably a more likely and a bigger threat than missiles. Attacking core infrastructure (like power grids, for example) connected to a network would bring things to a crawl or to a stop.
Ask HN: Is Medium ok while I ponder if a personal blog is worth it?
Starting a personal website is not a great effort, but from a tactical point of view I'd rather see if it's worth it before having it collecting dust 6 months from now.

Knowing well all Medium downsides, would it still be worth it while figuring it out?

Alternatives?
> Could political motivation be at play here

That's usually how this stuff works.

> And why didn't Facebook get sued too

You can't make one case against multiple companies, and resources are finite. It will take many years for each of these cases to play out.
> I want to be a person who can work when I want instead of being forced to be a stable worker who predictably clocks in half of my time every week.

My job mostly requires me to be there for meetings and that my hours match up at the end of the year. As long as I can get my work done nobody really cares (except for laws against overwork).

> except you wanting to force people to tie themselves to a company via employment contract.

What kind of employment contract comes with a life time slavery clause?
> Benefits fraud is a thing, the good that benefits and welfare does to a society are much larger than the impact of fraud.

To back this up, Florida implemented drug testing for some welfare [1] and the cost of the testing _far_ outweighed the money lost via fraud. It may be hard to believe for some, but there are a staggering amount of needy families that wouldn't be able to survive without assistance. I concur with the article about living wage being an issue, but that number is very region-specific.

1 - https://www.tampabay.com/news/courts/florida-didnt-save-mone...
Also, you just have to take reality as it exists to an extent. England's population density is high too, but public transport is what it is. They can make it better, if they can. We can't just look at population density, conclude that it could be like the netherlands and proceed as if it is. It isn't.

Regardless, reducing rural car ownership in most places means reducing quality of life. It also reduces economic well being. People have fewer employment options, can't access supermarkets and such...

The whole approach of "make driving expensive" as the main policy vehicle is heartless... The actual way it works is that only wealthier people can drive, and that driving is actually important to people's lives.

It's a totally different proposition in London and in the country. If England (scotland & Wales are more sparse) becomes the netherlands great... but losing your car without gaining regular bus routes is a genuine loss. People need to get around.
>Why would dems scrap it?

https://www.projectveritas.com/news/insider-blows-whistle-ex...
Crypto primitives aside, Telegram doesn't do E2E by default.
Yeah, I guess you're right. You can sense much faster progress when the product is made by a single company, rather than by a team within a major company.
Many people here asking for an example. Here's a real example of a pre-seed pitch deck that I'm using for my meetings with investors [1]. I'll explain why I like Pitch.

I am a first time founder. I am a technical guy who have to be a jack-of-all-trades for the past 6 months. I am a type of guy who's really bad at designing slides. Leave me with PowerPoint or Google Presentation and you'll see the ugliest presentation in your life.

I had to do a pitch deck and I saw Pitch app. I applied for a beta access and got it about 4 months ago.

Pitch was exactly what I needed: a set of pre-defined slides, graphs, tables which don't allow someone like me to make bad decisions doing presentation.

I am more than happy with my presentation. It looks OK without me doing any extra work.

If you're 0 at making presentations then Pitch is for you. For other, can't really say.

Pitch team, good job, thx. I'm not paying you so hope that at least this comment will do some good for you.

P.S. I've read that Pitch raised $50M pre-launch. Did they pivot or what?

[1] https://app.pitch.com/app/presentation/61deced0-886c-4c28-a6...
Seems a bit like squishing high-order categories onto biological phenomena. It seems a bit far fetched that the existence of cross-cutting categories like fluffy would be applied to all the different conceptions of what are basically tools or obstacles, as I've learned, that the brain tends to categorize into. If fluffy did exist as a sort of meta-category, though, perhaps it would exist in the touch circuitry as a bit of meta data associated with that specific usable object.

In a nutshell, my contention is that the brain does not have a library of categories it uses to efficiently map objects like some kind of database with tags, but rather builds an individual association for each object, of course in a web of relations, and it is this individual association that comes to represent the object as a tool or obstacle.
Tom Lehrer's sharpest satirical song IMHO is "Wernher von Braun"

When rockets are up,
Who cares where they come down,
It's not my department
Says Wernher von Braun

plus many more satirical pearls in just one song.
Start training assistants in a novel way?
Probably even less if you exclude benefits from AI that could be achieved with more pedestrian solutions but now that AI is hot they are suddenly not as flashy on powerpoints. Even then I think a lot of those projects have their benefits severely exaggarated because people who propose them then feel pressed to show benefits or embarass themselves. Even if you exclude those projects, I suspect a lot of projects are simply to "get ball in the game", to build a capability even before there is real need to be able to react to competition. Now, the value of that capability doesn't seem so much, this probably leads to many cut projects.

Still, probably beats blockchain. There was a time when I heard a blockchain project being awarded almost every other month at the companies I worked for and I still wait for ANY single one of them to do anything useful.
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The standard Python profilers profile and cProfile show you a big list of functions, ordered by the time spent in each function. This is great, but it can be difficult to interpret why those functions are getting called. It's more helpful to know why those functions are called, and which parts of user code were involved.

Note that you can use something like gprof2dot to convert pstats dump from cProfile to a visual callgraph: https://github.com/jrfonseca/gprof2dot#python-cprofile-forme...

Not saying that solution’s better than pyinstrument — I haven’t use this one before so I’ll have to evaluate. Also, the lower overhead is undeniable.

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Edit: Another thing I noticed in "How is it different to profile or cProfile?":

> 'Wall-clock' time (not CPU time)

> Pyinstrument records duration using 'wall-clock' time. ...

Seems misleading as cProfile uses time.perf_counter unless you supply your own timer, and time.perf_counter does measure wall clock time. See

https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/ec42789e6e14f6b6ac135...

https://docs.python.org/3/library/time.html#time.perf_counte...
Unemployment is just one of several metrics which need to be viewed together to get a proper picture.

Labour participation, Unemployment, underemployment, e& need to be considered at the same time.

low unemployment, but low labour participation? -> people have stopped bothering to look for a job not good.
low unemployment, but high underemployment? -> people are desperate and looking for anything, not good either.
hope everyone appreciates the irony of that reply as much as i do.

ie. "you can pay the muggers or build yourself a castle with a drawbridge"
Feel free to read my other response. Generally, I agree you should be suspect of my statements. We should also be suspect if the statements you’re making.

The reality is that neither of us have solid stats because, in my opinion, politically no one wants to investigate how often the system is taken advantage of. Frankly, it’s hard to determine “can someone work” is a nearly impossible question to answer. Instead it’s, “how much money do you make a year” for many of these programs
This applies to most of the Nordics as well; once you get outside city limits getting around becomes quite difficult unless you have a car. Once you get further out, it's simply not possible. Many areas simply lack access to public transport, and while a 20 km bike ride can be nice during summer, it's not really an option during winter.

On the other hand, one could live in Copenhagen or Stockholm for an entire lifetime without actually _needing_ a car.

I can imagine the same applies for much of Eastern Europe as well.
Google has monopolies in advertising, mobile, streaming video, mapping, and web browsing. The latter gatekeeps all other Internet based businesses and allows them to pick winners and losers.
Regarding DuckDuckGo, my understanding is that though they have their own web crawler, most of the information is coming from Bing and Yahoo, who are the only direct competitors to Google.
My country uses a similar definition.

I graduated right in middle of 2008 crisis and for various reasons never found a full time job (all my work was owning my own contracting companies or startups) so for example my government (Brazil) doesn't count me as unemployed and doesn't let me have some benefits. But many employers instead see my empty employment registry (in Brazil theoretically everyone has one) to interpret I never worked so they refuse to hire me in first place because I might lack experience.

Interviews don't go much better, for example Amazon interview all of the interviewers asked questions about conflict resolution in large teams I worked with in the past. I suspect the reason I was not hired was this question, since was the only one I couldn't answer at all.
And Canada has one of the lowest population densities, a tenth of the USA, and yet has considerably better public transit (though worse than most of Europe).

One major difference I noticed from the USA is that it's usually, at least in principle possible to get from any point A to any point B in a Canadian city over about 20,000 people, by public transit, because even small towns often have public transit systems in Canada. (It might take a couple hours, though.) In many US cities, it's simply not possible because there is no public transit system.

After all, in every developed country, most people live in cities. Government policy and funding seems to be most of the difference.
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Amazon and is not t the same time. eCommerce dominant? Sure, but then you have Alibaba, Shopify and eBay in addition to other marketplaces. Cloud? Surely dominant, but you also have Google and Microsoft. Retail? There Amazon is still small if you include stationary retail. Logistics? As much as everybody is complaining, Amazon Logistics is still more of an in-house alternative to UPS, Fedex, DHL,... So again, no real dominance of the parcel delivery market.

It kind of gets tricky when you combine all that, but I assume that this would be a fun thing to argue infornt of a court I guess.

Google seems to me to be much more straight forward, they clearly dominate search and web ads. The latter with the exception of social, which would be facebooks domain. And with Android, Google is the second largest player in Mobile if you ignore hthe hardware aspect.

Not saying either company should be broken up, that's for couts to decide.
Seems like a strange comment for the article but since you made it,

For me its not that I don't feel like doing work on most days. Instead I have periods where I am super uber productive and days where I feel completely exhausted. I can't tell if its a mental thing or rather there's actually something physically wrong Lol. My mind tends to be blurry like its rebelling and if I force myself to work hard I start feeling feverish. I have trouble figuring out if I'm not working hard enough or working too hard.

I wonder if its also like that for some of the successful startup founders out there too
Not all non-Americans are daunted by the effort of making a single Google search.
Trump's dislike of Jeff Bezos is well known. I doubt Amazon is getting any special favors from the White House. Given how blatant and extensive Amazon's scummy practices are, I've got to wonder if the feds and the state attorneys general are letting Amazon keep collecting more and more of the rope that will eventually be used the hang them with.
If that were true, they wouldn't have said that they "never should have sent" that letter. Also https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/11/trademark-law-does-not...
I’ve been on the Pitch beta for the last couple weeks. Previously I spent a couple years making presentations using Keynote, and then recently dabbled in Google Slides.
In my experience the #1 advantage Pitch has over Slides is that it is easy to make beautiful decks, and easy to work with non-designers collaboratively because I can pre-define all the document styles and just tell them not to customise any font or colour settings. The ability to upload custom fonts is also super useful.

There are a couple of things I wish Pitch supported, like vector image uploads and better looking diagrams and charts.

Overall I’m a big fan, and can’t see myself ever opening Google Slides again.

If you’d like to see an example of a presentation created in Pitch, check out these two. The first is the Supercast deck, and the second one of many delightful “What’s new“ presentations from Pitch themselves:

https://app.pitch.com/app/public/presentation/e6b7e457-430f-...

https://app.pitch.com/app/public/presentation/9787c433-3dc0-...
OCaml Bindings for PyTorch