skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Will it change if the situation warrants it?
Obligatory link to excelint/checkcell threads.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20491091

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22431500

https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.11100

One of the interesting takeaways from Emery Berger's talk, is that he was able to replicate to 2 decimal places a published spreadsheet transcription error rate of 5.26% of cells have errors.

I highly recommend the talk.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyWKxFxyyrQ
It’d probably be slower transferring the data to it and back than just using the CPU
Why does it matter where you (physically) step foot? I think WFH has proven that crossing the physical of land barriers is no longer required to do much of anything.
Denver-born Billionaire Robert Smith reaches $139M tax settlement
Why no one talks about ivermectin? I don't get that.
maybe less editorializing in the title?

"please use the original title, [...] don't editorialize"

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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Costs go up when the process gets complicated, especially when the complications are increasingly tangential to the activity. YIMBYism, environmental impact, indigenous land rights, historical considerations (preserving sites with historical value) all play a part in increasing costs in the west in building physical things.

That is not an argument AGAINST these things. It may be a valid trade-off that we all accept. Or it may be a power grab by some department or group. It is tough to know generally speaking.

That is true in all areas where costs are rising wildly - medicine, education, cost of building real estate in pre-COVID bay area, cost of infrastructure. Whether you think the trade-offs are justified will depend on your mood affiliation as much as anything else.
MotoGP obviously doesn't have the same level of tech as F1 but it is the apex of racing series IMO. Dorna has done a great job with the rules to keep the series competitive in recent years. It's amazing that there are 5 out of 6 manufacturers legitimately able to produce wins this year!
I love that English is messy. The messiness is what gives richness and new words and allows for richness and diversity of expression. There are some people who are truly masterful with their choices of words and word ordering.

If English had a central authority, I’d imagine that we’d have missed out on numerous great works.
This shouldn’t be downvoted, I’m certain it’s true.

If you talk to a Microsoft rep, they “recommend github enterprise for new projects”.

Microsoft obviously cares about backwards compatibility, and there is no way to currently migrate your stuff.

So... it’s not going to happen tomorrow, but it is going to happen.

...and no, it doesn’t have the nice clickops UI from devops: but that’s legacy now in favour of the multistage yaml pipelines.

You can close your eyes and cross your fingers and say Azure Devops will
Be around forever... but, you’d be wrong.
The performance on the cloud version is awful. When I previously self hosted it was a miserable management experience, but it definitely felt snappier than the current cloud version does.
The idea is quite realistic. (Apart from the GCs) But given how html is changing, the behaviour would become obsolete soon.

It could be great though for smaller parts. If someone can make a super fast font renderer accelerator, it could help in general. Alternatively we could adopt the GPU accelerated one created for servo.
There are a lot of differences. AES will never change and will be recommended for decades. AES is very compute-intensive so a hardware implementation is much more efficient than software.

HTML/CSS/JS is ever-changing, control-intensive, and memory-intensive so it's probably not a good candidate for hardware acceleration.
The image is satirical, so yes, that's the point.

I would still love to buy one though.
It's not about costs, it's about supply and demand. If you move to a lower cost/tax region the amount of money you're willing to take to do the same job is lower.

You can say "no" to a paycut. And they can say "no" to keeping you employed at the same rate. Eventually you'll settle on an equilibrium - the intersection of the supply/demand curves.
Ok ty for the info!
NH property taxes [can be] high but, even in southern NH, property prices are a fair bit lower than the immediate Boston area for the most part.

"Taxachussets" isn't really that bad these days compared to, say, California in terms of taxes. But it's still a lot higher than NH which doesn't provide the level of services that MA does in general.
I don't support either party in the US really but it's interesting to note how views around using social networks in electioneering have morphed

When Facebook "helps" elects Obama - a well executed maneuver by a savvy politician on his ascendancy https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/feb/17/obama-digital-... https://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2008/11/19/barack-ob...

When Trump benefits: scandal, uproar, a gross violation of American Norms
And also in Canarias, Venezuela, the Caribean islands, parts of Argentina...
Tell me experts, why is this not practical. Can you put a HTML renderer on an FPGA?
Why not solve those issues at the state level rather than federal?

States are meant to experiment and innovate on policy for their residents. The reason conservatives push those policies into states is they’re more beholden to their local populations and more able to address local concerns than federal policy is.
This is ultimately what I’m questioning though. If I work for a MA based company, how do they have any claim to a portion of my income when I have no residency status there? States aren’t allowed to tax interstate commerce, after all, and not being a resident there I would have no vote for the state houses that determine tax laws.

I live in ID and work remotely for a CA-based company, so I’ve got a personal interest in this if CA ever decided they wanted to pull a similar move.

Interested to see what the result would be if this got to the SCOTUS.
Report them to HR for harassment. Such calls are abusive.
Because when you walk into some other State’s backyard they have the right to demand a toll.

Somewhat related, if you’re on the books as working out of their backyard, they will again demand a toll.
The trial was divided into three groups. Group 1 got simultaneous tongue stimulation and audio tone and each tone was correlated to a separate electric lead on the device. Groups 2 and 3 had no association between the tones and which leads were activated (I think they were just random, or they used them all? Can't tell) Group 2 had a small delay between tone and stimulation, group 3 had a longer one (0.5s+) and also used a much narrower subset of tones. All 3 groups showed improvement and any differences were well within the error bands.

Definitely a sloppy design, changing so many variables between the groups. No active control (maybe vibration on the tongue or something). To me the conclusion is that the general method probably works, but almost everything the actual device is overkill, from the 32 different leads to the "proprietary algorithm" and you could do the same thing with just one lead and probably some random tone played over airpods.
There is an American baseball team that started their life as Florida Marlins. The thinking was that they would establish this tribe mentality for all of Florida. After years of not great results in that regard they changed their name to the Miami Marlins for the same reason - to better establish a tribe. They haven’t moved locations, they are just re-targeting their brand
Though if there are no drivers, they don't have to worry about safety. Removing that constraint would be interesting. Might want to branch it though, as it'd become something different.
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Chesterton's Fence: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Chesterton's_fence
Favipiravir is far less promising than ivermectin with ~100% cure rate if treated early. It is peer-reviewed now (ivermectin ICON study, single dose late stage 40% mortality reduction.) I don't get why people on HN are not aware of it.
Depends: does it still have header files?
The other side of the coin is that creating a market for creative work optimizes for commercializability, not necessarily any other attributes we'd consciously prefer.

How much effort in the medical industry is devoted to me-too treatments that don't really expand our therapeutic vocabulary? How many writers were focusing on writing Law & Order: Food Truck Inspectors Unit instead of something more distinctive?

I think that maybe we need to look into UBI for creatives: we'll pay you a comfortable living as long as you're regularly producing some deliverables/signs of progress, but you don't get to drag everyone else down with patents and copyrights when you're done. We could probably finance a lot of singers at 50k per year for the cost of one Rolling Stones tour.
Same here! Among many other things, it was amazing to see the amount of fighting in the midfield. It's really not just about who takes first place.
It's not April 1st but I'm not opposed to this.
> Every Microsoft shop I've ever worked at defaults to Azure. You need a really good reason to use GCP or AWS for anything, and it's an uphill battle

(1) Github Enterprise, the alternative suggested, is a Microsoft product (Github is Microsoft), not GCP or AWS. Given the way Microsoft seems to be investing and promoting products, seeing Github Enterprise as having more legs than Azure DevOps is completely reasonable. (And I'm the one who introduced Azure DevOps into the discussion.)

(2) I work for what has historically been an enterprise Microsoft shop; our cloud transition, except for some use of Github and Azure AD, been primarily AWS-based.
Because the timing of this piece (if you look at the PDF was created a year ago, but published just in middle of October). It is clear that it is timed to affect election results.

They are not responsible, to check all things. But it's mostly ethics and self preservation. I don't think anyone will deny that they actually have real impact now (even greater than MSM now) and I believe if Democrats win, there will be some laws passed adding some checks. I also believe trump with executive order about section 230 also probably contributed.
Ok, we live in different places and have different experience.

Most places I have lived in north america you are relatively free to install whatever after market parts you want, including things you have fabricated or modified yourself and people do some pretty extensive builds. That just doesn't work without changing the tune also.
SpaceX indicates more beta testers receiving Starlink access
I'm not making any assumptions.
> I remember reading about a study from long ago where they asked people their opinions on smoking and then had some start a smoking habit.

"Had some start a smoking habit" for a study does not sound like an ethical study to me.
I actually feel opposite on many of these things:

> but on top of that it wastes two very premium home row keys, h and l, for something that you really shouldn't end up using a whole lot

Even if with all the advanced search and move features, I still use the h and l keys pretty often. Being able to skip to a certain character is nice, but I find pretty often I just need to move a few characters forward or back, and a mindless `lll` is much easier than doing the mental math of which character I want to stop at and using the appropriate navigation command.

I've also grown to appreciate that the default keys are the most basic commands: on the right side, single-unit navigation, and on the left, basic character entry/removal.

> To make matters worse, the one key that's easiest to access on any keyboard, the space bar, is... just doing the same thing as l, it moves right. So now you have two of the best keys on the keyboard mapped redundantly to a relatively little used function.

I'm actually very thankful for this. I never thought about it before, but I realize that I never use my thumb when in Vim (other than to add spaces when typing normally) and I _think_ I like that. It let's me concentrate on the other fingers. Might be a matter of practice, but as it is I don't feel a need to incorporate the space bar or my thumb into my vim commands. It lets my thumb stay "dumb" so it doesn't interfere with any non-vim typing habits.

> If you wanted an IDE and tried to get Vim to do that by adding 3MB of vimscript from various sources to make it work I can't blame you for giving up, it's probably going to end up being a mess.

Agreed with this. For people that want to work in an IDE, they shouldn't work in Vim. Personally I dislike IDEs, and in part use vim to stick to a (relatively) simple editor.
I really wanted to hate this going into it, but I think this is stellar. I echo some of the wishes of others, though - being able to truly modularize the license to include your terms in a way that is legally sound and reviewed would be groundbreaking.
You save the big press releases for announcements you're proud of.
> Massachusetts previously allowed out-of-state residents who worked for Massachusetts-based entities to deduct whatever portion of their income was derived while working from home.

Does the same thing happen along the NV CA border, where the income tax difference is even more extreme? 0% vs top marginal rate of 12.3%? My guess is no, otherwise NV border towns would be chock full of tech workers WFH'ing from a zero income tax state.
> The trend-lines were really just to guide the eye

That's the problem, no? You can draw a line/curve over any data and convince a lot of people that it's relevant, but that's more cognitive bias than anything.
Nah, I hate it. If this gets any sort of adoption we'll be stuck with HTML5 forever and changes will become much more difficult.
I work in a Microsoft shop and we're all in on AWS. Seen a few transition from Azure to AWS also.
Back in the day, in Connecticut we used to quip about "Taxachusetts", but now Connecticut business mainstays like GE are moving north because the Massachusetts tax regime isn't so bad compared to where CT has gotten.
Isn’t begging the question just a confusing mistranslation anyway? People without some serious training are not usually good at spotting logical fallacies much less categories of argument.
Source title is far more appropriate: "Republican National Committee files Federal Election Commission complaint over Twitter ban on Hunter Biden articles"

Current HN title ("RNC Files Complaint with FEC over Twitter's Illegal Biden Campaign Contribution") is hypereditorialized, presenting the controversial legal claim at the heart of a politically charged complaint as fact.
What's wrong with JIRA? If it is about the usage of it within some orgs, I don't know if it is the tool or culture.

I have seen some people fawning over tools like Asana but in my usage I just found it fancier and slower than Jira.

Personally, as a developer I find GitHub issues to be good enough.
If a Google employee ostensibly works in “the NYC office” but hasn’t set foot in the office in over >6 months (will be like 15 months by the time Google’s asking people to be back in July), lives in another state (e.g. New Jersey, maybe the employee took advantage of the remote work conditions to Florida or Texas)…how long should New York be able to tax this person despite the fact that they don’t live or work in New York? Google’s also not headquartered in New York. Google could move everyone in the computer to e.g. the Seattle or the Austin office (but are currently refusing to do so) if we’re all working remotely anyway.
Nobody is going back and verifying their growth experiences were actually a good idea though. I enjoy pointing out that there is no globally dominant religion - who whatever the most correct spiritual outlook is we know most people have it wrong.

Given how few people achieve meaningful success or happiness under their own steam it seems fundamentally risky listening to their advice. Most people are playing status games - there are a lot of losers and no winners in status games these days. The world is too big.
C++ is a very poorly designed language. A lot of the work being done by the committees is fixing Stroustrup's mistakes.

Consider horrors such as this. In the following statement what are foo and bar?

int x = foo(2) + bar(3);

Most people will say foo and bar are functions and that's a reasonable guess. Unless you are talking about C++. In C++ foo and bar could be functions but could also lots of other things. For example it could be the equivalent of the statement below:

int x = (foo)2 + (bar)3;

In other words type casting can be written as (foo)2 or as foo(2). Just to make it harder to understand what is going on. As another example consider implicit type conversions:

Foo b = c + 3;

If 3 is not compatible with whatever type c is then C++ checks if there is a constructor that accepts an int parameter, and it automatically calls the constructor to convert 3 to the appropriate type.

Many of these craziness is being addressed by standards committees. C++ as designed by Stroustrup is a horrible language. Just look at his C++ book. It is huge and heavy and in fact Stroustrup takes pride in how big and complex the language is. C is an awesome language. C++ is horrible.
What is the path forward for companies that work with export controlled data, CUI, and classified information?
Is there any language where string handling doesn't suck?
(No script languages please, because they cheat by implementing the hard things on C or C++)

From memory the less horrible experience i had was with Go, but there's help for the slices on the runtime which let the difficult parts hidden and also the batteries-included std library, which is one of the most well designed standard libraries out there.

Buffer management is one of the things that sucks the most in any language, and the ones that dont its because the complexity is hidden in another fundamental layer.
Every time I come across a thread - on any forum - where people are educating others that something is a social norm, it is because it is not.

Crediting the work of a project you directly forked to create your own is a social norm in the open source world. Happily, Amazon has now edited the post to include such a credit: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2020/10/amazon-cl...
Thank goodness! The unicorn I work for will finally ditch JIRA and move on to something more user-friendly. What a relief.
McClintock: Trump will reverse FEMA denial of emergency aid for California fires
My understanding of Jira is that it by itself does not suck but it bends over backwards for asinine “business processes” so it is difficult to find an implementation in the wild that does not suck.
There are a lot of incorrect premises in this comment.

> Chinese and Japanese are far more monocultural, and developed somewhat linearly.

> it agglomerates Proto-Indo European, Germanic, Celtic, Italic, and others

And ultimately, Germanic, Celtic, Italic and others are all PIE languages.

By that dime, you will also find in Mandarin words that come from intercourse with the various Chinese dialects (e.g. 尷尬) and its Classical Chinese roots (飲食, vs. 吃 and 喝), as well as its neighbours; e.g. reborrowing (和平 from japanese 平和). Since modernization, you will find calques from European languages, or transliterations. It's also easy to find lots of Buddhist concepts that have entered the language.

With Japan not being a regional power for most of its early history, you have even more diverse influences. On the native language you have an extensive and violent borrowing from Chinese in several waves that have completely transformed the language not unlike English's borrowings from Norman, French, and Latin. And of course, the Buddhist vocabulary as well. Then from Portuguese traders you have several borrowings from them, and from its friendship with Germany, more borrowings from them. And these days, you have wasei-eigo, English words reinterpreted into Japanese with somewhat different meanings.

Their development only looks "linear" when viewed from a position of ignorance.
It is worth stating this explicitly - NIST has in fact done the practical experiments to demonstrate time dilation at both 10ms⁻¹ relative velocity and 1m relative height in Earth's gravitational well:

https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=90505...
It's easier to understand if you've attended a live race. The visual, aural and olfactory impressions of the cars are breathtaking. That, and the fact that the drivers are largely trying to cover ground as fast as they can without sliding off the track is what fascinates me. I have done some club-level open wheel racing realize that the drivers are constantly on the edge of crashing. If they could go faster, they would.

The cars largely determine the success of the endeavor. It's often that following qualifying, the grid is composed of team cars side-by-side for at least the first few rows. There are exceptional drivers who break the pattern and all but carry the car around on their back like Verstappen and Leclerc.

The car technology is genuinely fascinating to me, but I'm a gearhead anyway.
> I know opportunity costs are a thing but a lawfirm seems like the one of the worst possible targets for a lawsuit even without attorney-client priveledge complicating matters.

If you're suing someone else's lawyer, yah. But if you're suing your own lawyer... that privilege is client's privilege, and they can waive it if they want to sue their attorney (AFAIK).
Yes, NV and CA have borders but that border isn't anywhere near where most of the tech workers live. Also, CA is notoriously aggressive about chasing income from out of state residents.
I am following the plot since Feb. This really can be the truth. Adding that HCQ was prohibited to use with remdesivir in serious cases so eventually there was less room on HCQ on that part as well because of remdesivir... Also ivermectin is not known with its ~100% early treatment success rate, wtf is going on.
Internet bandwidth growth is known to be exponential, so it would be odd if not dangerous to assume that DDoS volumes are not.
Sports are a lot more enjoyable the more you empathize with the athletes, and the more you experience what's happening viscerally. I've never watched F1 before, and I could feel the excitement, concentration, and anxiety when I watched a video on YouTube.

You can increase your ability to empathize with the athletes by playing the sport. I couldn't have cared less about the NBA until I started playing pick up.

I still don't watch sports though. There are usually better things to do.
C++ will be around for at least the next 100 years. It's an ISO standard used by business and government all over the world. Modern C++ is very safe and fast too.
There is a lot of irony and fallacy here. But the worst part is the level of hypocrisy, in using what they believe to be a rational argument... to promote irrationality.

Anyone who can't rely solely on rational thought is not actually thinking rationally. This whole thing is absurd and bad for society. The more people think rationally, the better off we all are.