skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How did you know it was Clojurescript? Pretty awesome to see Clojure getting more use. It feels like a leap forward every time I even play with it.
I've had the most autonomy when working in large, traditional companies. In my stints in energy and banking, I was basically handed a platform and told to run with it - maintain it, expand its functions, work directly with stakeholders, and just do what is needed. The leadership trusted me to handle it, and consulted me on enterprise-wide tech strategies. When a big project came up where I could not handle it on my own, we'd get support from a project manager, and get some contract help... but it was support, not micro-management.

That also gave me control of most of the other points in the article. My team had a collection of people, each basically "owned" one tech stack in the enterprise, and we could run things how we wished.

To contrast that, it is modern SaaS companies that I've seen leadership pigeonhole devs onto specific Jira boards, micromanage everything in the name of doing "proper" Scrum, and tell people to stay in their lane.

Maybe I've just hit the exceptions... the points in the article are absolutely valid differences between companies, I just don't think they correlate with SV vs. traditional organizations as much as the author thinks they do.
That sounds like a work culture issue. This would apply to any compiler or language. Why isn't everyone on the same version?

This hardly seems like a Python specific issue.
> Who cares if the server is not ?

Well... if E2EE is properly implemented, you could be broadcasting your messages on twitter and you'd still be safe.
Sorry, it was just too hard to pass up the irony embedded in this sentence:

"What one things is clear communication with no ambiguity, another might disagree."

> It is especially poor form on HN

I totally get that I was being annoying. At same time, if there's anywhere one can indulge in the art of being overly pedantic, is it not here?

> having dyslexia, or having a disability

In that case, I would feel bad for jokingly correcting them. Yes, it is hard to know the person behind the keyboard.
Well that's kind of the issue, right? There are some things you can't talk about because if you want to talk about them, it means you're a racist that just wants to legitimize racism.

Judging by the number of downvotes on a comment about this very thing, I'm not optimistic.
Look here:
https://codeberg.org/nobody/LocalCDN#user-content-difference...
I think people forget they have a nasty habit of buying companies and absorbing them or dismantling them all together (not unlike Google).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisit...
We're in the early days of Makeswift but extensibility is a big part of our vision. The way we've built the core technology of our product is such that every component used in the builder is just a React component (and could be a Vue component or Svelte component), and even the controls in the sidebar, which we call panels, are also just React components. With this architecture, we plan to expose a public API where developers can just build their own Makeswift components and share them with the world. Someone could build a Stripe Checkout component, for example. Somebody else could build a table component that pulls the rows from Google Sheets, or Airtable, or from a Zoho API?

We've spent a lot of time thinking about the right architecture to pull this off. Today, we're focusing on removing bottlenecks for marketers so that they can build beautiful websites with flexibility, fast. So because of that we are making all the components ourselves. In the future, though, we expect most components to be built by other people.
For me, the shortcomings are:

Firefox (unless things have changed recently) still has limited addon capability -- no key remapping (or most other stuff) until the current tab has loaded. You also can't do unsigned addons (unless you do dev mode which is a separate install that doesn't update), while Chrome allows them by toggling "dev mode".
I mean...

"When rendering the latest Moana island scene, pbrt-v3 uses 81 GB of RAM to store the scene description. Today’s pbrt-next uses 41 GB"
I remember reading about an ELI5: The "Old Math" in Tom Lehrer's New Math. That post was funny.

If you haven't heard the song, he describes the way they used to do math as follows:

Consider the following subtraction problem, which I will put up here: 342 minus 173. Now, remember how we used to do that:

Three from two is nine, carry the one, and if you're under 35 or went to a private school, you say seven from three is six, but if you're over 35 and went to a public school, you say eight from four is six ...and carry the one, so we have 169.
Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41377-020-00389-2
Do you not think that criticizing a religion is an acceptable thing for someone (e.g. an academic) to do? Indeed, that it would be a terrible thing if our academics were not free to criticize cultural movements such as religions? He wasn't speaking at a kindergarten; he was speaking at a university society that exists to platform intellectual debate.
This will most likely be a patch the product bits pf Chrome, not chromium. The bug isn't in Edge.
Not sure the downvotes, this is 100% accurate.
What about TPUs? Google claims they are better on a overall cost for time to model accuracy basis
I don't get many things that they need to smash AI into. but I do get it more than the blockchain hype. oh my god if mother and it's dog had a blockchain startup. what where the benefits I have no fucking idea. I like thinking of blockchain as the free energy equivalent in the software world.
Because it's fun and original. And it's usable for me at the moment.
The protocol has a good reputation, problem is that you can't tell that the app is identical to the source, and each new update has the possibility of breaking things.

Many people were angered by the recent update that forced users to have pins, which many didn't want. Doubly so since there's no recovery method.

The pin issue highlights that future updates could make things less secure and/or add backdoors. Various legal efforts in various legal jurisdictions are trying to enforce backdoors and it remains to be seen if whisper systems will pull out of a jurisdiction if forced to compromise on security.
Microsoft debuts Azure Space, partners with SpaceX for Starlink datacenter
Once you’ve got something down to muscle memory it really doesn’t matter how it works so long as it stays the same, I guess. I feel like these things are a speed bump when I run into them though. I recently canceled a my service with a utility. Instead of a simple form to select a date to shut off service, provide a new mailing address, and a submit button, I had to go through this artificial “dialog” with a robot. What if I made a typo in the date? How do I go back and fix it? Restart the whole thing? Try magical NLP strings like “change cancelation date” and see what happens? It just feels like a step backward to funnel interactions that used to be carried out using a rich UI through a chat dialog. I wonder how this affects usability for blind or mobility impaired people too. It might be better for them, idk.

Chat dialog interfaces can be cool as a way to piggyback a service through existing chat services. I used to love goog411 back in the SMS era. But I don’t want everything I do with a computer reduced down to a fake chat with a robot.
I would not be very hard to do. The principle problem is just that the moons gravity is unstable so low flying objects would need quite a bit of fuel to stay in the correctorbit.

However, since the distance to earth anyway is the limiting factor you don't need low flying sats at all. A handful of sats could do a pretty good job with global coverage.
Netflix is trying to make vertical monopoly on production and distribution. It should be split and regulated, so that production companies cannot own distribution companies. It's a PITA as a consumer that I need to subscribe to a bunch of different services because all of them have exclusive content that they are using to try to win the monopoly wars. The government should just nip the war in the bud and say that you have to choose to be a producer or a distributor, but not both, and then shows will flow out to all the streaming companies, which will have to compete on service rather than selection.
Then you'll have one of these "fancy" modern websites that load their content entirely through js and it'll fail because the HTML is the same on all pages.

A URL match is probably good enough the vast majority of the time. Maybe it could also support a bit of fuzzing, such as matching with and without the leading www and both http and https. Beyond that it's probably asking for trouble.
How did they acquire Oakley? I don't remember any major controversy at the time, and reading a few news articles and Wikipedia, it just reads like any other corporate merger.
That shouldn’t be a shocker to you, it comes down to fairness. If you have two 30 year old males, both capable of work and one works a full time job, pay 1/3 in taxes and the other guy chooses not to work and is effectively supported (in part) by the guy working, is that fair? I think most people would say no.

And I don’t think it’s unique to capitalism. Even in the Soviet Union they had “social parasites” who refused to contribute to society. Same with communal societies without a monetary system. People who can contribute but choose not to are pretty quickly pushed out.

And I see a lot of comments on HN about paying taxes as the cost of enjoying the benefits of society. Even if you ignore the unfairness of one laborer paying for another laborer to be idle (even though they can work), isn’t it unfair to society for someone to not contribute to the system they benefit so greatly from?

And I’m not even an American.
"I have great news about the extended warranty on your moon buggy!"
No you a definition of free market. Basically it appears to be a magical metaphysical thing like the Garden of Eden.
Node.js v15.0.0
Updated Firefox and the first thing I'm greeted with is an advert for their VPN. Not too happy about that.
I think the consultants get paid for it, which helps.
Was it their development team?
Neo 2.0 – Drive Sales Through Texting
Walmart’s Prakhar Mehrotra on AI's ups and downs
> Just install this CD with 3DStudio.

And attach this dongle to the back of your machine. Lost the dongle? You no longer have working software.
It's for backwards compatibility. Which everyone who complains about 2 vs 3 should understand.

Before bool existed, some folks had a habit of writing `False = 0` and `True = 1` for readability.
Your definition places every single company in the world in the category of monopolist and is therefore absurd.

Every single company sells a commodity or service different to their competitors.

For example, McDonald's sells burgers, as do Burger King. It's arbitrary (and therefore not something that one could determine rationally) where the line is drawn about what will be considered a product or service. If you want to draw the line at Burger there is no monopoly. If you want to draw he line at Big Mac then McDonald's has a 100% monopoly. Is the line Big Mac specifically, burgers, food?

No matter the company and what it sells, you will always be able to come up with a definition of their product narrow or wide enough to find that they sell 100% of that thing when you want to.

An example: Epic's complaints about the app stores. Apple has a monopoly on app stores running on iPhones, but not on mobile devices, not on consumer computer devices, not on computer-based gaming devices, not on entertainment services generally. They could never stop people playing Fortnite, but you could always call Apple a monopolist if you chose your definition appropriately.

Ultimately, the decision is arbitrary and up to the discretion of a bureaucrat. In the absence of a rational method to determine monopolies the decision becomes one of who the bureaucrat decides to shake down.
I thought it was weird that the list of states seemed to also be the list of battleground states that Trump needs to win.
Might be able to help out with CCPA analogue. Not sure how to email you though. Site goes directly to login page.
This is exactly right. The GDPR only says that you have to ask users for their consent if you want to use their data in a way that is not strictly required for the service they request from you. If you stop tracking your users, then you don't need to have stupid popups and modals, most of which are probably illegal anyway, since the default action tends to be the one that allows all the tracking cookies. The problem with GDPR is that it's not really being enforced much.
It's GNU; when they say free software, they mean "free as in freedom", not no-money-involved. You would not be the first person to find find this word choice... unhelpful.
> As an ESL speaker, I appreciate people who make an effort to correct me.

A flawless sentence!
It's an accurate way to say it.

The companies that are getting the breaks are large multinationals who drop polluting chemical plants into towns and raise local cancer rates while getting sweetheart deals that true local corporations never get.
I hope that discussion thread continues, because so far there's some really juicy sass happening in there.

> > 1. I already have working code for the first stage.

> I don't mean to be negative, or hostile, but this sounds like you are saying "I have a patch for Python that will make it 1.5 times faster, but you will never see it unless you pay me!"

and

> Where is your working code for the first stage?
The documentary Hypernormalization seems more poignant than ever. It deeply explores the history of the idea that a state and corporations benefit from a discourse where information and disinformation commingle.
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt6156350/
Trump, Biden and the ‘F****** Germans’
Backblaze doesn't provide data on DOA drives that need to be sent back, do they?

I went through three rounds of 4x 12TB Seagate Exos X16 drives last month through different safe vendors. 100% of the drives arrived DOA (tested in a bunch of different machines). Switched to 16TB Toshiba MG08s and smooth sailing since.

I know the dead ones tend to cluster because of their manufacturing, but I ended up having serious questions about their QC process. Talking to some of my peers, Seagate seems to be a bit of an embarrassment for a long time.
Google hit by antitrust charges in US over search
There’s a pseudoscience within permaculture called guilds, and a skeptics view of that theory boils it down to “plants beside each other that don’t harm each other”.
I fondly remember buying the Creative Blaster MultiMedia kit (soundcard with CDROM drive) - it came only two CD's - MS Encarta and the 7th Guest.

Nowadays cellular providers zero-rate data for wikipedia and other educational websites so at least every kid with access to a smartphone can access.
Here's one simple suggestion - when creating documents, instead of using PDF or Word, why not use forms like plain text or similar to facilitate text mining. One of the biggest problems with knowledge management right now is dealing with machine-hostile formats like PDF.
I'm not sure how my single, limited point of view is relevant when discussing the work culture and productivity of an entire nation. I say that as someone who has worked extensively in china, Taiwan, japan, and the usa. So for the same reason I don't see why your anecdotal evidence is relevant.

I saw that movie. I saw a lot of chinese foreman types expressing their own bigotry towards american workers. I saw a lot of american foreman expressing their bigotry towards union workers, blue collar workers, and imo black workers.

I didn't see any actual meaningful evidence to back up the claim that all chinese workers are harder working than american ones. That would be an extremely difficult claim to make evidence for, of course, like all prejudiced positions that paint with a brush as large as a race, culture, or country.

By the way, I can't know why foxconn employees (in china, not in Taiwan) died by suicide individually, but I suspect it has a lot to do with the massive poverty divide in china, as well as the lack of social services. I imagine they worked in such awful conditions for such long hours because they wouldn't have shelter or food otherwise, which as we know take precedence over all other needs.
Monzo launches £180-a-year premium account despite downturn
Show HN: I track my goals on a daily basis
I have similar sentiment - I’ve had a side project on the back burner that adds an encarta 2003 skin to Wikipedia
Yes, a bit of tribalism seems to be ingrained in every online community these days. That clashes with a lot of people having pretty high expectations for code provided for free to them.
This is why most databases have separate char/varchar and text types: char and varchar are stored inline, and text is stored externally.

PostgreSQL doesn't do this, there is no difference between any of the character types, they are all stored the same way, and the type only serves to validate the data. See: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/datatype-character.h...

MySQL even has TINYTEXT for when you want to store small strings outside the table (for performance). With tinytext only a single byte is stored in the table, and the rest externally, so I/O is reduced when doing a full table scan, if you don't need to read the tinytext column.
Really deceptive title. They didn't exit the memory business; it was just their NAND business specifically. The title on skhynix.com is more correct.
hashes of what, though? Without accessing the content, the URL is essentially the only thing to go on. Plus having the same post make it to the front page pretty much means the system is working exactly as intended: content that HN users are interested in makes it to the widest audience (not everyone checks HN multiple times a day =)
IMO labor participation rate is a better, existing, metric for understanding what is happening with labor, cross racially.

https://www.bls.gov/charts/employment-situation/civilian-lab...

You can see that starting 2013 and continuing on even under trump African American + Latinx labor force participation has made relative gains compared to White+Asian. I believe this is why some claim that Trump has been good for African Americans, though really the trend started under Obama. (And I'll concede who knows what really is the causal factor...)

https://www.bls.gov/charts/employment-situation/civilian-lab...

IMO Labor Participation Rate is also useful because it helps illustrate what percentage of the population is bearing the labor load of the society.
I spent a lot of time tinkering with config.sys and autoexec.bat. Partly because I wanted to get different games running and partly because it was almost like a game unto itself.
The conspiracy theorists would go rabid.
(RefCell yes, but box no)
Not if said moving leads to having to spend all time fixing existing things and leaving little to add new ones. Don't know how true this is though.

Re: mention-only notifications I definitely agree - if they exist now for groups then this makes Signal quite an attractive alternative to other messengers. I'm using Matrix for some things now but notifications are set globally (not per client/device). I'd like to keep all channels on mobile on mention-only (I try to minimize mobile notifications in general) but when I have the desktop (or web) app open I don't mind getting all notifications from particular channels. That makes me able to keep up with conversations in real time. And if I want to not be disturbed I just close the app or disable notifications globally (MacOS). With Matrix (at least the Element.io clients) this is not possible so I end up switching the notification settings back and forth...
For Windows users, Firefox now uses DirectComposition for hardware decoded video, which will improve CPU and GPU usage during video playback, improving battery life.

neato.

Websites that use flexbox-based layouts load 20% faster than before.

I haven't noticed this yet but it sounds promising.

The rest of it doesn't really interest me. Picture in picture is a great feature but I don't use it because I just throw videos on a different screen to keep working.
The pennies going towards our neighbors is probably negligible on the list of things getting between you and your new toys.

I suggest directing your callousness towards our employers, who are keeping our wages down [0], as they are milking the system far more. It also doesn't help that a conservative court consistently rules against us [1], but there's little we can do about that now.

0 - https://www.forbes.com/sites/joshbersin/2018/10/31/why-arent...

1 - https://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?a...
This sort of topic gets a lot of people going on both sides of the matter, and people get very loyal to their camps. Accuracy often has nothing to do with how people vote on these things. We've got an intersection of partisan US politics and Google here, it's voting catnip.

(Bear in mind, my post both speaks ill of Obama, who might as well be Jesus to the Democratic Party, and also made it clear I'm voting against Trump. So I ingratiate myself with very few politically in the parent comment.)
I would argue that linear regression is under the umbrella of ML. And probably the most important ML technique for existing businesses. A lot of the "low hanging fruit" for existing business cases is not necessarily discovering how to use regression analysis on existing data (which is probably already happening at a lot of places) but how to operationalize and continually update linear regression models so you can make them a mission-critical part of the infrastructure.
It's definitely political in nature in terms of timing, but it's also been a long time coming. The main reason there aren't more left-leaning states on the lawsuit is that they wanted to wait a little longer and build more of a case: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/16/justice-department-...

My hope is that DOJ doesn't blow this because they went too early. This is the level of investigation of large tech companies I have wanted for a long time.
I've been wanting to move to Wy, but I can't figure out what locations actually have decent internet. Looks like Casper has gigabit fiber? That's all I can tell so far.
Correct Apple and several book publishers got in trouble for doing just that years ago in the fight against Amazon.
On top of that... you have to use proc macros to do any kind of annoying repetitive implementation of traits. But to do that, you have to add another crate, then you have to possibly make another crate if you want to share any code with the proc macro implementations and the actual library.

I understand why it is this way but it is very much not ergonomic
The authors seem to focus on "photons per bit"... Which to me doesn't seem to be the figure of merit worth focussing on, since diffraction losses at visible light wavelengths are very small compared to radio based systems, so you will in fact be receiving a lot of photons. The noise from the sun and other light sources will be far bigger than the signal, so an extra 3dB of amplifier noise actually is a pretty small issue...
An objection that I have is that the six values are all of the form "We value both X and !X", giving no real clue as to what Agile 2 is intending to guide practitioners toward. Maybe the principles go more into it (I skimmed them) but without a compelling hook in the values statement, it's hard to find the motivation to dig deeper.

(And, yes, maybe that's a sad statement about our sound bite oriented society but it's still something that needs to be a concern.)