skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I loved everything about that thread.

Slightly off-topic, but I want to point out how well Richard deals with a slightly rude commenter [1]. Keeps it classy and productive while still calling out the bad behavior.

[1] https://fossil-scm.org/forum/forumpost/7817eb709d?t=h
This was the site https://www.industrialempathy.com/

The source is open sourced but the Twitter part isn't included sadly.
The people who made psycho decided they needed a JIT to really make Python much faster. So they created PyPy and developed it instead.
Funny, I see zero evidence that the Syphilis experiment done on Black men in Alabama without their consent has done anything at all for the status or health of Black Americans.

It seems to me their lives still suck more than average for Americans.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_Syphilis_Study
See also: Mozilla's mobile Firefox which has recently and needlessly broken a great many addons, including many that aided in preventing tracking.

I have two that seem particularly egregious in this context: one that removes utm tracking, and another that redirects amp to html.
It's not that simple. Sure, Google currently pays the bills, but when they go to negotiate, Bing is their BATNA, and the BATNA is what negotiations always trend towards. Mozilla benefits more from a stronger Bing than they do a stronger Google.
Most of them are ageing too.
Once upon a time people said that about Apple and Microsoft.

https://www.quora.com/Why-did-Bill-Gates-help-out-Apple-back...
No matter the nuances, the 7/8th modification provision is a deal-breaker, period. It casts the whole measure in a crooked light, which history advises us should come as no surprise.
Standard (long distance) lines in Europe carry 380kv AC.
Can you please expand on this. Thanks
Having never contributed to an open source project, particularly one as popular and complex as Python, I'm not sure of the amount of justification necessary. Would I need to write a PEP?
Very nice. Graph following for the win. I wrote an inventory control system about 10 years ago that achieved this in a very hacky (read code outside SQLite) way. The requirement was to be able to track items, track users of items, track how much time an individual user had used and item, and to track maintenance and repairs of items. The would let you "charge back" wear and tear on things to the most responsible party, and to provide lifetime information in order to buy replacements in a timely way. All that hackyness would be a single statement with this change.
I use the Jamstack to some extent at work (Gatsby and AWS Lambdas). I think it's an interesting technology stack with some excellent use cases (and a fair amount of hype).

I also use Wordpress for serveral small/mid sized personal and F&F blogs.

I don't think comparing the comment options in Wordpress to the comment options in Jamstack applications is fair. Wordpress is a complete CRM designed for blogs/modular websites. The Jamstack is a design pattern; it's not supposed to include the kitchen sink.

Like @qeternity mentioned, the A in Jamstack stands for APIs. The author only mentioned the ability to hosts comments in Wordpress (or another CRM). Why not roll your own comment system? Sure, that's extra work, but it's also very doable if you're building a Jamstack application (again, it's not a one-click solution -- Wordpress already exists for that).

> As a result, my own blog, which is a Jamstack site, doesn’t support comments! What do I do if I want feedback on a blog post? I add a link to a corresponding tweet, asking to add a comment there. I myself feel ashamed at this compromise, but given my site’s stack, I don’t see how I can solve it. I still like my blog as a Jamstack, though, because it’s fast, it’s free, and I create all the blog posts in Markdown using VSCode. But I can’t create a community!

I don't have a "free" solution for you. But you could use a storage option like Dynamo DB, create an AWS Lambda endpoing (with API gateway) to add/get comments, and return them as JSON to your Jamstack application. Boom. A comments system. Pricewise, it shouldn't go over the AWS free tier for Lambda. I could literally spin this up in an afternoon -- let's do it this weekend if you're in.
They raised $9m at a $200m valuation

https://thehustle.co/09142020-roam-research/
Why send your data to Big Tech when today you can avoid it (ungoogled chromium et al)?
I read it as: sometimes an app+database is the best solution to the problem, and not APIs from a cloud storage provider. That probably applies to most small web apps and blogs, which is where people mostly use WordPress.
> This could affect the high pay of our c suite, which means we will continue to lay off engineers.

/s
Google does have a great service, but calling them a 'good citizen' is a stretch, IMO.

The events of celebritynetworth.com are a good example of why they've not been behaving as a good citizen (there is a thread about that on this forum).

A good number of people have took up your suggestion and changed their search engine, DDG's traffic count continues to rise. The reality is that many users will use whatever is put in front of them, i.e. how many people use the URL bar of their browser for searches, or use a search toolbar for a specific URL? Google knows this well, hence their paying to be the default search engine choice and paying an amount that no other engine can match.

Google's knows they are the best in class when it comes to general search, but to be sure they have been aggressive in ensuring that no one else gets a look in.

The UK's CMA report estimates that an entrant to the market would require around £20 billion of capital to be a credible alternative, as in, a proper crawling search engine, not a meta search engine like DuckDuckGo. That's before paying the likes of Apple billions of dollars simply so that people will use "what is there".

Having such a dominant position comes with responsibility, which is not solely Google's. The social networks along with Google are essentially the gateways to the web and how they present that information is important- and essentially only one point of view. Having room for more competition, choices, algorithms surely is a good thing.
September 2020 ShadowStats Alternate Unemployment is 26.9% in US
September 2020 ShadowStats Alternate Unemployment is 26.9% in US.

http://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data/unemployment-chart...

Alternate Unemployment Charts

"The seasonally-adjusted SGS Alternate Unemployment Rate reflects current unemployment reporting methodology adjusted for SGS-estimated long-term discouraged workers, who were defined out of official existence in 1994. That estimate is added to the BLS estimate of U-6 unemployment, which includes short-term discouraged workers. The U-3 unemployment rate is the monthly headline number. The U-6 unemployment rate is the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ (BLS) broadest unemployment measure, including short-term discouraged and other marginally-attached workers as well as those forced to work part-time because they cannot find full-time employment."
I contributed a small fix for a bug in CPython in 2012 or 2013 and it was fairly trivial.
Ac transmission lines are regularly 500kv with some famous ones in Quebec being 750kv. I believe there are even higher now.
I may be misinterpreting it here. Although a few points (see point no. 6, 8, 9) help one stay grounded and humble, the other points can be seen as degrading the self-worth of an ambitious person.
It has the same amount of evidence as all these "hiring is broken [for the most profitable and transformative industry in all of human history]" posts.

If hiring in tech is broken, then all of hiring is broken, whether it's fast food cashiers or aerospace engineers. Can you seriously claim that any of those have better hiring practices? From personal experience, I can say they are far worse.
> writing great asm that is more efficient than your idiomatic C code is going to be a very very challenging task

SIMD intrinsics are not idiomatic C, they are idiomatic assembly.

Here's an example when they improved by a factor of 3.6: https://stackoverflow.com/a/63759887/126995
That's not an unusual outcome.
When I lived in Austria, I had ads hanging on my doorknob almost every day. I was amazed at how many I got when I would leave for a week.

US should do same. Make spammers deliver their junk mail themselves, lightens the load on the USPS and creates direct jobs.
I always found it impressive how SF landlords successfully weaponize poor immigrant communities and financially unstable youth to campaign against their own interests in service of the wealthy.
> I don't trust the stock broker (intermediary) to hold my shares on my behalf. What if they go bankrupt? What if they are malicious and disappear with my money?

You don't have to trust the stock broker. If they go bankrupt or steal your money, you'll get it back through SIPC insurance (https://www.sipc.org/)

> I don't trust corporate executives to have my best interests.

You don't have to trust corporate executives to have your best interests at heart, only that they have their own best interests at heart: corporations pay executives with stocks and stock options, thus aligning incentives between executives and shareholders.

> I don't trust corporation revenue numbers because they are inflated by artificial currency supply and manipulation (e.g. corporations feeding off of debt-fueled shell companies to generate fake revenue).

You don't have to take corporate revenue numbers on trust, since they are audited. Yes, sometimes things slip through the audit, but you can just buy a well-diversified portfolio, such as an index fund, to largely eliminate the effect of outliers.
> There is no meaningful data that any hiring process--good or bad--improves the outcome of a hire. If there were, everyone would be using it.

Word of mouth recommendations, and yes everyone uses it.
100% agree. Just want to point out that you can integrate API Gateway with DynamoDB directly (with some Velocity mapping). In fact here's a blog post from 2016 showing just that - the use case being a comments API: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/using-amazon-api-gatewa...
I think we know how to solve all education problems technically. It's just that the solutions are impractical. Sometimes personalized (expensive management) or require a smart and quick thinking teacher which doesn't scale well, or require hard work doing preparation which teachers don't have the time, motivation, or skill to do, or they are simply effective and leave the kids with nowhere to go while their parents are at work.
I broadly agree but I’ve also heard that despite how terrible it is now, apparently it was even worse a few decades ago, with gangs controlling large swaths of the city and the mission being super dangerous.
Ah, yes, the "users actually want an operating system that undermines their every action" argument.
I'm sure there's a skeleton team remaining to keep up appearances.
>More cynically, would these companies be able to distribute work such that rides are given to drivers with more "buffer" before hitting these ACA payouts?

We already know the answer to this, from how Walmart and others schedule their employees to just under full-time status in order to avoid paying them benefits. If Walmart is doing it, it will be considered to be an orthodox business practice and Uber/Lyft/DoorDash/etc. have probably already planned for it as a contingency.
Jsx is a plague. What's wrong with simply nesting function calls like in elm and fsharp? Someone goes this far to learn a rather eccentric language you think they care about superficial familarities?
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VPNs do not provide anonymity.

Firefox mobile recently broke addon compatibility in an devastating way; notably, in this context, breaking addons that remove utm trackers and redirect amp to html.
I am trying to build a simple user registration/sign in and view your contents website and yes it takes hours or days to do in React/Vue/Angluar + Backend. So by process of elimination:

I tried replacing the backend with just Google Firestore. Surprisingly to do this on react, it's a hell lot of code. I don't mind writing the code but it's just ridiculously complicated and hard to reason the complexity.

I thought of just bootstrap with jQuery with Firestore but then you have to do all the session management which will again devolve into a shit ton of code.

Finally decided to ditch all this and just go with Wix. Wix has definitely come a long way in terms of building websites. I can build a user registration form in minutes and have the whole site up in like less than 2 hours.

Retool offers much much more than Wix so I see a bright future.
One of the shortcomings of Wix is lack of component embedding. Essentially you are limited to passing control between pages. If Retool offers component embedding, that's a huge win IMO.

Good luck folks and congratulations on the fund raise.
Amazon extends working from home into summer
> And yet, for some people the problem with software isn’t a lack of automation but a lack of discipline. Software would be better if only people knew the rules, honoured them, and slowed themselves down so that instead of cutting corners they just chose to ignore important business milestones instead.

Who is arguing this?
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It is my understanding that PyPy often cannot be used due to extension problems.
I didn’t think psyco had this problem.
Hah, you were not kidding about the names being unintuitive.

For anyone else interested there is a large list starting here [1]. The in-place versions will all end with `!`.

[1] https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/stdlib/LinearAlgebra/#Linea...
What a strange article. I am not a physicist but I know pop-culture QED/QCD (Feynman) and this article strikes me as: A) A load of bullshit buzzwords B) Title gore, should be just "Simulating QCD on a custom computer" or simply "Simulating QCD" C) They're trying to get some government funding or worse - VC funding.

Please prove me wrong.
Interesting. I actually find it somewhat jarring to take a call in the presence of other people.

I'm used to real life where you talk and see people, and the people you see are the people who can hear and talk to you.

With phone calls the existence of people around me that can hear half the conversation, aren't part of the conversation, and can't reply to the conversation, is utterly jarring and unnatural to me and I avoid it at all costs. I can't for the life of me answer the phone and be at ease when there is anyone else in the room.

I also find it really hard to comprehend everything someone is saying without body language. That is also super unnatural to me. I read faces a lot. I'm just used to real life I guess.
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It doesn't matter how constrained Chrome becomes if Mozilla can't pay any developers. Hence Mozilla's reaction being one focusing on "collateral damage" and "Unintended harm".
That's not the ideal response if you actually wanted to defend your claim about the internal data and special competitive advantage rather than just abandoning the claim.

Seriously, I would say that the competitive advantage of a company comes primarily from its product and the vision and competence of the company leadership. You can't just hire your way to success without that foundation. Bad leadership can destroy the greatest employees.

The company founders almost always come together in a very informal manner, and often the early employees do too. And that's the basis of the company. It has nothing whatsoever to do with some special snowflake data-driven formal hiring process.

Indeed, I would argue that once a company becomes very large and successful, they become bloated and bad at pretty much everything, including hiring. At that point they have to get better by acquiring other companies, not by hiring through their standard bureaucratic processes. The competitive advantage of giant corporations is the ability to swallow other companies whole.
>>You can also use money laundering to hide clean funds from uncle Sam.

That is NOT defined as money laundering. That is tax evasion.
Deffinitely right. This is for positions in a SaaS company where the developer would be mostly doing backend or frontend code.
I'm really struggling to find a charitable way to interpret this post, especially in light of other recent Mozilla moves. Are they really arguing that Google's near monopoly is good for... Privacy? Users? The internet?

This really seems like a shameless shill post driven by the same management that thinks that laying off most of their browser developers is the right way forward for Firefox.
AOC = Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
His 'predictions' sound like an old paper I read that predicted Farr's law that AIDs would disappear in the mid 90's.

Digging, found a paper from 2007 shitting on it.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1906780/

Pubmed reference. Abstract predicts 200,000 cases total.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2308183/

I'm left with the opinion that Michael Levitt is basically a stupid person.
But you could use a storage option like Dynamo DB, create an AWS Lambda endpoing (with API gateway) to add/get comments, and return them as JSON to your Jamstack application.

This is also what I was thinking. But let's continue that train of thought... Now your site is a hybrid of static and dynamic content with two separate systems (probably a static site builder plus this serverless comment system). Why not go all the way to a CMS?
Dad had about 2200 negatives lying around, and asked one day if I could scan them. Luckily I realized this can actually be done dirt cheap by professionals. I ended up with ~300+ GB of TIFFs at almost 8k resolution for £400. <20p per image was an absolute bargain.
OK, but if it's a real security risk why do they only protect their own services? Why not have the user jump through a bunch of complex hoops like editing a plist file from an elevated terminal account? Hell, this is the os that makes it onerous to install software that didn't come from the App store. Clearly they don't mind throwing some user pain in front of basic activities.
I wouldn't call it bullshit buzzwords, but "quantum chromodynamics on a chip" brings to mind some godawful cross of a quantum computer and a particle accelerator.

Otoh, the title appears to be a faithful to the computer's name.
All of this stuff already exists. By design it excludes people who would likely disparage the lack of rigor. And sometimes other people get caught in that net.

That's a good way. It's called knowing your audience. No one wants to be savaged on HN or Reddit by a bunch of people.
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>"We make sandwiches, taking a side on segregation is beyond the scope of our mission".

Idk, "we make [my edit: great] sandwiches", which sounds like a great mission, seems very much entwined with who gets to eat said sandwiches - especially if they're delicious. Since if you are denying certain classes the right to enjoy your awesome sandwiches, your sandwiches probably aren't that great to begin with.

If I steel man your argument about having segregated counter space - that they'd excuse the segregation because if everyone has separate counter space to eat the sandwich the underlying differences don't matter -, what I'm left thinking about is that, well, the experience of having a great sandwich also has to do with the environment in which you eat it. Who wants to eat a delicious sandwich when you have to sit at a crappy table, with crappy chairs and bad service? No one, that's who.

And then we're back to my original point about artificially constraining the market for awesome sandwiches.
You'd be hard pressed to find too many facts in a study like this. These are largely conjecture with a list of assumptions and simplifications longer than the study itself. NREL is particularly famous for these. The reality is there are as many people who think the grid should be split into more pieces as there are people who think it should be unified.

But it's a fair point regarding the political influence in these type things, though it's not just the current administration. In a couple of months we will all be changing the verbiage of our proposals from resiliency, security back to renewable integration to satisfy our funding overlords.
If Google is banned from buying search engine defaults, Bing might be hit by the same ban or at least they'd no longer be bidding against Google so now they'd just have to outrun... DDG?
FF usage share is already down to 10% and cash flow problematic, Mozilla doesn't have the luxury of sitting around hoping Bing will be in a position to put up larger sums of money at a nebulous point in the future while Google isn't allowed to now.
This is what you get when the money comes from a rich funder and not from the people.
> I continue to be amazed how many devices still ship with only two prong plugs (everywhere: Europe, North America, Australia...) even if those prongs are polarized

Because most devices these days have plastic cases (Class II double insulated), so there's nothing metal to touch to get shocked even in the case of a fault. That coupled with how GFCI/RCDs are being widely adopted as well leads to grounding not being as important.
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Brings to mind the Slashdot-era refrain "Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these!"
Leveraging Ld_audit to Beat the Traditional Linux Library Preloading Technique
Docker in production nullify all the benefits of nginx (optimisations).
Lock free algorithms and data structures are even harder to get right! And most of the canonical descriptions of them assume that you have a garbage collector and that memory allocation is a bounded operation. Neither of which is really true when you're working in constrained situations.

On top of that, locking is faster than most lock-free strategies unless you deal with high contention or deterimistic guarantees (90% of the latter is solved with bounded fifos).
What's better than a front? A front that thinks they're not a front.
The fault is with the US newsmedia, which very consistently always talks ONLY about the U-3 number, and in my years, has never acknowledged that their are other numbers worth discussing.
While I agree that diet and lifestyle has an impact on multiple cancer types (most obvious examples that come to mind are smoking and certain types of lung cancer, or high fat diet and certain types of liver cancer), I'm not aware of the risk factors of retinoblastoma. In my understanding it's mainly genetic factors.
> I didn't agree to the terms and conditions.

Fully agree with your POV.

I prefer never geotag my photos, but if really would need to do that — would do it in offline with FLOSS desktop & mobile apps.
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I hate these articles that feature a programmer who works within a certain domain and assume all programming tasks are similar.

Citation needed? Last I checked, Graham was working on a C64 Smalltalk80 VM as a side project, so I presume he's not completely ignorant of low-level development. And statements like "Your computer is not a fast PDP11" are aimed directly at low level development.