skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My main concern with the thought of homeschooling / unschooling as a future parent: I feel fairly confident that I could get my kids far ahead of the standard school curriculum, with stronger fundamentals. But I think the school system serves more purpose than just education, and I'm not convinced my home would be a better school for everything else:

Making friends, learning multiple perspectives, learning conflict resolution, learning about diversity, making mistakes and dealing with failure, learning to deal with authority[0]. These are all lessons that I personally would attribute to going through a public education.

[0] Just to be clear, dealing with authority isn't the same as blind respect for authority. While school tries to teach you blind respect for authority, every student builds their own relationship with authority, probably in combination with the values they learn at home.
I think you'll like our platform[0][1]:

- No setup Jupyter notebooks

- Collaborative notebook editing

- Publish notebook into AppBooks (parametrized notebooks) that allow you to deploy the resulting model, track experiments, etc. This also enables people unfamiliar with Notebooks to use it as an application without being overwhelmed, and tweak models.

- Schedule notebooks and see their output live, even if you close the browser. Your notebooks are run on a much beefier machine than when you're in interactive mode. You won't have the problem of a training job where you don't get the result because of a lost connection.

- Automatic model detection and saving, parameter/metrics tracking

- One click model deployment

- Multiple notebook checkpoints (revert back and forth to previous saved versions)

Caveat emptor: as you may notice, we're not focusing on embellishing notebooks as we believe, from what we have experienced, that the fact machine learning projects take a long time is not for lack of beautiful stylesheets. We'll tackle these problems at a later time.

- [0]: https://iko.ai

- [1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/learnmachinelearning/comments/je0pm...
Huh, that sucks. Good to know, thanks!
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I see a lot of tracing and sampling profilers for Python, but are there any profilers for manual instrumentation (goes by a bunch of names, frame profiling, performance telemetry, APM etc.)?
Yes, and...

The only way to win (on campaign spending) is to not play.

Moot campaign spending with (lowercase) democratic reforms. Public financing of campaigns, time boxing campaign season, restore fairness doctrine, etc.

As Sun Tzu advises, we should not fight on battlefields chosen by our opponents. Fund raising, campaign spending, mainstream media, Freedom Speeches™, presidential debates, ad nauseam, are all tar pits.
It seems clear to me that MS didn’t just accidentally forget to develop IE for 5+ years in the early 2000s. They did so because they needed to avoid the antitrust inspectors. Given that Chrome exists in its current form today because of a lack of competition, I don’t know how you can claim that the antitrust stuff did “nothing”.
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> One of the biggest things holding people back from doing great work is the fear of making something lame.

Any evidence to back up this claim? Maybe it's true for SV where there are a lot of angel investors. For me, the biggest blocker for starting a "lame" idea is money. Ideally, Fuck-You Money + capital to prove the business model.

An example of lame idea: A new footwear company. The main goal would be to optimize for minimal waste. Shoes designed to last 10x the time. The would cost more to purchase, but the cost per month would be the same - so something like a subscription model would need to be in place.
Again, matrix provide a server, matrix.org. Again, if e2e is outlawed, it would be illegal for them to even work on the code.
I used this a few years ago during a time when I NEVER had a stable computer (going to libraries, using a friend's PC, et cetera). Didn't use it much after that, but it saved me in a pinch. RIP.
There's ~5 million people in the N-Zed. Greater NYC has ~20 million. The old boys are there, for sure, but a greater limitation is really just that there are only a handful of these investors and entrepreneurs, and the depth of their options and pocketbooks is limited.

It's like trying to run startups only in Ohio.
D is much more "C++ done right" (and then some). C and Zig are very barebones, close-to-the-metal language. D has garbage collection, classes, templates, exceptions, built-in dynamic arrays and hash tables, and on and on and on. The "Features Overview" page makes me go cross-eyed [1].

Yes, you can turn many of these things off or ignore them and just use D as a better C, but the same could be said of C++ (for some definition of "better"). Or most languages, really, if you squint enough.

[1] https://dlang.org/comparison.html
pyprof2calltree is much better.
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Would be great if the font weight could also be changed then!
Sure. It's just that if what you want is to do a Pokemon-based version of this song, your ideal would be to cram it as full as possible with Pokemon names. You could step back and do a Pokemon-based G&S parody, rather than a parody-of-a-parody, but it doesn't have quite the same panache.
Anticompetitive behavior only matters when it is a monopoly.
This proposal is clear and thoughtful, I like it.
However, I didn’t see an explanation of how this would help addressing abuse (or other illegal activity) directed at third parties - someone who is not participating in a particular group. E.g. a group that shares child pornography.
It is obvious that the members themselves would not report it. Likewise, relying on reputation does not make sense - in fact, their reputation could be inflated by the satisfied members.
I agree that there's a clear difference between the two. Makeswift sites aren't just a "presentation", though. They're hybrid (server-side rendered on first load and client-side rendered after) React apps. And because of that you can have components that do all sorts of things a "presentation" can't do. For example, you can pull in data from third party APIs, you can build dynamic UIs with dialogs, you can animate components, you can submit forms, etc.

Not all of this is exposed just yet, which is why we're in early access. But a Makeswift site couldn't be further away from a "presentation builder".

That being said, it does seem the way we're presenting ourselves leaves much to be desired. So I appreciate you pointing that you!
Dunno about the US, but in Europe several companies in the last few decades have been forced to divest some part of their operations because of antitrust activity, typically (but not limited to) at merger time. Banks and telecom providers, for example, have seen quite a bit of movement in the Uk. It’s just that they don’t make massive headlines.
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Don't forget the part where the most recent release of Pagespeed conveniently ignores the speed impact of YouTube embeds when it didn't in prior versions.

https://github.com/GoogleChrome/lighthouse/issues/10874
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I've taken to using Chrome purely as an IDE for it's devtools. I do all my browsing in Firefox and my webdev in Chrome.
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Apple has monopoly dollar share in app spending.
Maybe that explains cities that were dense and got less dense.

But mostly it’s the suburbs and small towns where cars are totally necessary. Those areas were settled less densely because everyone already had a car. They never had subways and bus routes.

Are there any first world cities that substantially grew in area since 1920 that aren’t primary automotive cities?
Ah right, I recall that now that you mention it. And IIRC it's vector.im that's running their public home and identity servers as well, so they would indeed be targeted.
The right way to deal with new ideas is to treat them as a challenge to your imagination — not just to have lower standards, but to switch polarity entirely, from listing the reasons an idea won't work to trying to think of ways it could.

An easier way than seeing them as a challenge is to method act the ideas. The source of new ideas is often a new, lived experience. I think of how AirBnB was in the beginning: links from CraigsList to a website where host and guest could message. Payment was in person and in cash! The lived experience of being your own BnB rather than going through all the bureaucratic and government hoops was there, it just needed to be coded.
Very interesting, I don't know many mathematicians working in Coq. What is your field?
I think it is really difficult to fix the issue where having a job is worse than not having one.

If you make sure the benefits are below what the market more or less defines as minimum wage, then people on benefits are going to have a dreadful time.

If you try to smooth the benefits loss, then you mostly end up subsidising employers. (I can reduce wages because the state will pick up the difference.)

If you increase the minimum wage, then you increase the numbers of people who "can contribute something" but not enough to make sense economically speaking.
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What happened with Netscape? It survived?
Google is never going to close slides or docs. Gsuite makes them enterprise money.
You haven't even said what a monopoly is, then gone ahead to explain why they must exist.
The only place where the lack of closures in zig has been clunky for me so far is for when your firing off new threads and need to hand-package all the data for the new thread. Since this is something that one only does infrequently, it's not the end of the world.
The GP didn't imply nearly the level of judgement that you're projecting on him.

>this is a very unsubstantiated claim, even if you know personally 10-15 people who are just bumming around and living on benefits that is a very small portion of benefits claim in society and this kind of behaviour will always exist.

I know a little under ten people who do the same. Nobody so far in this thread is claiming they aren't a small portion of benefits claims. Nobody is claiming they won't always exist in some number. You're the first person so far to even use the word "fraud" here. Nobody is even saying they should be cut off. People are only saying that they don't fit cleanly into the existing unemployment metrics.

>Do you really believe that someone who lives with handouts from the government have very little incentive to get better?

What good is the incentive if you don't really have the life skills to work towards that end. It's the same kind of incentive that a plumber has to start the next Google and retire as a multimillionaire. Sure it would be nice but all of these people I know are not in a practical position to improve their situation through work.

>Do you believe that this almost less-than-baseline level of living is enough to make a significant portion of the populace unwilling to work? To the level where participation rate would become unfair? Have you ever lived on that lifestyle to check your assumption that they have "very little incentive to try and find a job"?

Unwilling is a strong word. It's not so much an unwillingness in that their existence is stable and they're not gonna rock that boat too much let alone run the rat race just to get inches ahead. These people, in my observation tend to do under the table work or deal drugs to increase their income since those paths are readily available whereas entry points into a career are far more foreign to them. (And before anyone projects their own biases on me, I consider small time drug dealers to be legitimate businesses and I don't think there's anything unethical about an under the table wage laborer job.) It's foolish to expect these people to get McJobs in light of their options and how their benefits tend to interact with income and how little that would improve their situation. The money goes right back out anyway. The value proposition of constantly working harder just isn't there.

These people's incentive to work a job is a lot like a middle age upper middle class white collar professional with a family and a mortgage's incentive to start their own business. Sure you can do it and you might make substantially more money doing it but it's a hell of a lot of work compared to what you're doing now and it comes with risk and since you're stable in your current situation you're probably gonna stay there.

I'm not sure whether there's enough of these people to be an issue for unemployment numbers but there's definitely a lot of them out there (which is regrettable).
One of the issues the government raises is Google paying to be the default search engine in browsers. If the government is successful in this suit I expect one of the results will be Google being prevented from continuing this behavior.

Get ready for Mozilla to have to make more cuts and Firefox to fade even more. Mozilla may be able to get Bing or someone else to pay to be their default browser engine but with Google being blocked from competing the amount others will offer for the small market share Firefox now occupies will be far less than Google has been paying.
Retailers do not operate as marketplaces or storefront services though, do they?
Both Pete Fader and Bruce Hardy are "marketing people":

https://marketing.wharton.upenn.edu/profile/faderp/

http://brucehardie.com
> HN reputation does not have any implications or monetary value

I would buy a slot in HN ranked posts for greater than $0.
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Having minored in this, I’d put it in the category of “abstract framework” at the moment. Though perhaps that’s also due to my exposure more to theory and math, and less to application.
>Zig has very little focus on safety and has had several regressions related to security and correctness, most of which Andrew has said he doesn't care about as much.

can you be a bit more specific?
I switched to Firefox for regular browsing, but use Chrome for development because their devtools is so much better. I hope Firefox invests more in devtools development, honestly. More devs developing on FF could lead to higher adoption.
As a teacher, I had the great benefit of staying home with my toddler over the summer, and I can decidedly tell you that my wife was far more chipper and ready to provide positive attention to our son in the evenings than I was.
Dave, I’m curious to see what happens now that the latest Quadro and Tesla parts have 40 or 48 GB of memory.

That’s now plenty enough for all the geometry of a production scene plus a texture cache, but almost never enough for the base textures themselves.

I like the “use the cpu to do texture lookups while the gpu is tracing shadow rays” solution here. But I thought you or Keith had done a similar out-of-core with texture caching implementation for inclusion directly into OptiX. My assumption is that once you got the texture cache full enough, stalling on a Unified Memory page fault or similar wouldn’t be super common (again, depends on the hit rate).

Does the new cuMemAddressReserve combined with mmap on the host side let you have a giant virtual mmap’ed host side memory region?
The problem with this and all other efforts for speed in CPython is the interop with C extensions. For JITted Python look at PyPy, sure the JIT gives you some performance, but they broke all C extensions along the way.
Genuinely curious. What did you find most appealing? For me, the landing page looks.. average.
So much of the advice I see from YC (PG in this case, I know he isn't YC, but it's all cut from the same cloth) is about how to change your outer circumstances to accommodate inner impediments, such as Fear. They'll offer hacks or "mind games" to trick yourself into moving past the fear, as PG talks about here:

"But it's a bit strange that you have to play mind games with yourself to avoid being discouraged by lame-looking early efforts."

Unfortunately, I don't see anyone over there talking about conquering fear permanently, such that these issues fall away and what is left is boundless creativity.

One tool offered here is to "switch polarity", which means to take the other side of the argument. Fine, but real wisdom comes from transcending polarity.

Another tool offered is to tap into the motivation of curiosity. That's great as "early work" on the inner game, but there are much more robust ways to conquer fear when one looks at cutting edge work on consciousness evolution, such as Integral Dynamics, or studies Eastern traditions like Vajrayana or Zen.

I look forward to the day where YC elevates this discussion toward awakening themselves and their network to more transcendental tools.
It's not unreasonable to question the motivation of this DOJ, nonetheless, that does not mean that there is nothing here, even if the green light was given for bad reasons. If we are seeing action on Google it could be that they have been preparing something for some time now and it was simply the case furthest along. I would agree that while Google is not entirely clean the behavior of Facebook and Amazon are much more egregious.
Since Citizen's United, I can think of no effective or fair way to curtail corporate speech.

But I can think of dozens of ways to amplify and nurture non-corporate speech.

Yes, the torrent of bullshit is crippling democracy. But it's also true that other important speech is still not heard.
As long as Microsoft have an effective 100% market share on desktop operating systems, I'll be remaining skeptical about the DoJ case against Google.
I still feel like there's no simple platform for a use case where you're doing stream processing, but you really care about being able to update old data. Obviously you can just rerun a big batch job, and maybe work out which caches need invalidating but that's hard work. Streaming platforms with watermarks make it hard to deal with very late events or long term updates. Something like Kafka Streams does away with watermarks and so can keep aggregate data up to date, but if your logic involves a lot of stateful, sequential logic, it's hard to know what to rollback and replay when updates come in. If and when Materialize supports window functions, a lot of these workloads become much simpler, I think. Obviously differential dataflow on its own can address some of this, but alas, not a Rust shop.
What you're saying is just semantics. On paper, the financials were changed significantly and the reorg compartmentalizes risk in a favorable way. Why would the people in charge need to be changed, based on what I said?

I guess I hit a nerve with all of the downvotes, and I don't think anything I've said is very controversial, so that's puzzling.
Do you consider people who post on HN during working hours to he "milking the system"? Are they not also freeloaders?
> You don't want to be holding your users hostage.

Except that's exactly want you're doing in case of social media. Even with the ability to move your data, you can't simply move platforms because network effects lock you in. I'm really looking forward to ACCESS Act.
Capitalism would have the free market (and therefore its consumers) deciding which regulations are needed, how much to pay and if a single company has a natural monopoly or not.

What we get is corrupted politicians stealing money from everyone and imposing regulations under the threat of violence and incarceration.

I understand where you're coming from, anti-capitalist often conflate capitalism with government control - but they're completely different things.
That's patently false. The government has an array of measurements, all public.

https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t15.htm

I would argue the number they report to press is the wrong one (U-3 vs U-5 or U-6), but a single figure is used for consistency and ease of consumption.
If the shoe lasted 10x as long, why would you need a subscription? Buy it once, no need to buy it again for 10 years?
> Finally: we are continuing to hire a dedicated Reputation Team to work full time on building this.

This sucks. A group of friends and I have been running Matrix for a year and we would gladly like more money dedicated to bug-fixing. Having to hire somebody to introduce more bugs to placate some goons from backward governments is just sad.
Plus, there is zero concrete used here.
Should be back soon. Have a ticket in with my hosting.
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What makes Spotify better than early iTunes? Quite obvious, no?
It became Mozilla
> But even the supposed best are so bad that it makes no difference.

I disagree. And I think there’s empirical data to back me up.

We can pick one politician, and look them up on Politifact.

https://www.politifact.com/personalities/joe-biden/

https://www.politifact.com/personalities/donald-trump/

Do you really believe Fox News does a better job of fact-checking? Or your media organization of choice.

Politifact is solid. Pro Publica is solid.

Attempting to reduce it to “all are equally bad, or so bad it doesn’t matter” is disingenuous and actually furthers attempts to deceive the public by undermining sources which are actually trustworthy.

Distrust everyone, and you’ll believe anyone.

Of course this doesn’t mean you get to turn off your thinking cap - we always have to exercise our own judgement, even when reading information from sources we believe to be trustworthy.

If you genuinely believe what you are saying then I encourage you to broaden your sources. For example, ‘Ghost Wars’, which won a Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction and has been broadly acclaimed, covers the CIA and all the stuff it did / has been doing in Afghanistan since 9/11.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_Wars

There are plenty of good books on domestic politics too. Books will help broaden your perspective and better evaluate these journalism or media organizations we are talking about.

If you’re not engaging in this discussion with good intention, and your goal is to deceive and generally undermine people’s confidence in reputable sources of information because you believe it furthers your own political beliefs, well, then you should feel ashamed of yourself.

I’m being honest - I don’t know which one is the case.

What you say, however, is demonstrably untrue and a falsehood.
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Ask HN: Why would my HOA change it's domain name
I have redacted personally identifying info.

My HOA Board recently published their October meeting minutes. In it they stated:
"...we have access to the [community] website
again. It can be found at[New URL]"

My question is: Why would they change their URL because they "lost access" to their website. The site its self is still hosted in the same place (squarespace, same IP address and everything) and nothing has changed only the URL. What do you think the story is here?