skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From https://blog.npmjs.org/post/621733939456933888/npm-v7-series...

> The package-lock.json file is not only useful for ensuring deterministically reproducible builds. We also lean on it to track and store package metadata, saving considerably on package.json reads and requests to the registry. Since the yarn.lock file is so limited, it doesn’t have the metadata that we need to load on a regular basis.

So I guess there are some performance benefits with npm 7 compared to Yarn 1?
This might be of interest to you - https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/development/architecture
Ha!

Have you tried having downtime at home in a lively home?
For better or for worse, time will tell, but there is no denying this at this point. To take an organization of that size with that much legacy managment and business processes, code and do what he has done is quite the feat.
I’m pretty sure this is right.

However the kind of work you’re discussing doesn’t match my understanding of “busywork”. Busywork means unnecessary work done to give the appearance of actual work. Busywork doesn’t produce much value beyond appearances.

The work you’re discussing is “the work”. It’s the underpinnings, the research, the practice, the artist’s sketchbook, the exploration, the learning. None of that is “busywork”. If anything, it’s the opposite. Much of it will look like busywork (i.e. bringing little value), yet actually producing the highest value in the long run.
It's confusing for native English speakers as well.
Although impossible, I wonder if striving for perpetual motion could lead to discoveries to create very efficient machines?
So may be worth funding.
I think taxes are utterly broken in this country. For starters this one "supposedly" is a tax for a special group of people (That is, those that for whatever reason spend money in foreign countries) but the reality is that a large group of Argentinians do shop outside of the country.

Besides that there's a huge discussions since a lot of years ago, because the amount of money you have to earn in order to start paying taxes is rather low, and they don't get updated often. Add to that inflation and the end result is a lot of people paying a lot of taxes (And the government being very lazy catching up updating those taxes).
"then deeply disappointing at the end. I was expecting explanations and resolutions of the deep background events and actors that were shaping the story and none were given."

If you read carefully, and make a couple of reasonable deductions, I think you can come to mostly satisfactory conclusions. There's room for a couple of different interpretations of what's in the center of the galaxy, but not all that many, really.
There's 9 hits for the hard-R N-word on 4chan's /pol/ board right now.

>We don't see Gamergaters pushing their silly conspiracy theories today

According to a 4chan archive site, there have been 4,845 mentions of "gamergate" this year alone. So that's absolutely false.
OK, but at the same time there can be a lot of investment in helping that erosion along.
Barnsley pensioner, 83, doesn't 'give a sod' about tier 3 lockdown – Metro News
I’m no physicist, but my understanding is that some variants and parameters of the theory have been excluded as a result of LHC experiments.

I'm no physicist either, so take my hot take with the appropriate pinch of salt. :) My understanding is that some variants and parameters should have been excluded, if you hold theorists to their ~2005 predictions, but in practice most theorists are essentially burying their heads in the sand, or ignoring their past predictions and just making new ones. Both Hossenfelder and Peter Woit (of the "Not Even Wrong" book and blog) have documented many such cases. Many theorists are still assuming supersymmetry as a basis for their work and essentially ignoring the fact that it didn't show up where expected.

More to the point, what is the alternative strategy that’s more likely to produce useful data?

I think it's "remove the focus from high-energy physics and particle colliders, bring more attention to less fashionable areas that might benefit more from huge big-budget experiments." I don't know of any specific proposals to do something completely different with the budget that might otherwise go to e.g. CERN's Future Circular Collider proposal. Hossenfelder has pointed to other big science projects that could produce more scientific bang-for-the-buck than the LHC, such as LIGO and the James Webb space telescope.
Bongo cat plays bongos, at 3 in the morning.
I replaced the thermal paste on my laptop and no longer thermal throttle.
Didn't even get fancy with exotics, just regular Arctic MX-4.
How do so many programmers commenting online, who can easily make $150k+ if not $350k+ a year, feel so qualified to weigh in on what’s right and wrong for low skilled, low wage workers, when it goes specifically against these people’s own wishes?

Is it a matter of guilt? You feel guilty for having a decent paying job when not everybody does, and this seems like a silver bullet to fix everything?

A majority of drivers support prop 22, I don’t understand how more people don’t weigh that into their decision making. To you, you want to stick it to the greedy bastards at Uber by forcing this law through, and if it runs them out of business all the better. Have you considered there are millions of drivers that would actually like to keep their ability to work, and this is not just a big virtue signaling exercise to them like it is to you?
> Imagine if a policeman stopped and searched your car (legally), and then later came round to your house saying "I didn't have my glasses on, so didn't search well enough. I want to search again".

Your analogy is invalid, though, because Uber made a legal declaration as part of their VAT return which was based on (at best) an untested interpretation of the law. Their original accounts weren’t the product of a search by HMRC that was incomplete, Uber gave them numbers which were later found to be wrong and asserted (under all the penalties associated with false tax declarations) that they were correct.

A better analogy would be if you told a police officer that there weren’t any bodies in the boot of your car, but when they later looked (following a report from a passer-by) you had a collection of severed heads sitting in the back seat.
Sounds like grit.
Given the 0 budget etc. you could perhaps as a compromise migrate to a recent VM but with an old PHP? (eg like https://www.howtoforge.com/tutorial/install-apache-with-php-...)
ugh, there goes ANY chance of having a productive friday! ;D
I was happy when yarn first came onto the scene and gave npm the kick in the butt it needed to improve.

Now I wish yarn could be deprecated and we could go back to a single package manager. There's unfortunately segmentation in different areas around package managers, e.g. electron seems to prefer yarn. And for package maintainers there's extra overhead to document and test installation with both npm and yarn.
Some people believe that poverty is caused by other people becoming rich.

So there's conspiracy theories that aren't treated as such, and other theories falsely labelled as such.
Journeying into XDP Implementing DNS RRL
No, Sweden Isn’t Abandoning Its No-Lockdown Strategy
This style of embedding was popular at one point in Python's evolution before Django appeared. You can probably find 10 such systems in this list: https://wiki.python.org/moin/WebFrameworks#Discontinued.2FIn...

There are probably a few still around
The collective biological health of various species seems like an environmental concern to me. Economic externalities are a funny concept. Economists seem to use this term to obfuscate when their model fails to account for something unforeseen. In this case, various novel diseases seemed improbable. Until they weren't.
Thanks, that is exactly what I have been looking for.

Yeah it seems all pretty random and without ryme or reason, but I guess that's the best I can get
Very similar situation as you (at least on the surface). My only advice that has actually worked is network, network, network. I have a degree in Russian language, and now I'm a javascript dev. It only happened because 1) I can teach myself/back to school for programming and 2) I met and made friends with someone who knew someone who was hiring a entry-level dev.

2 was really the hard part, can't lie. It was years of effort, and I have no formula for it besides make and keep as many friends as you can. It kind of sucks for an introvert to do this, but growing your network of friends and acquaintances is the single most important thing I have done for my career.
Alexa’s new speech recognition abilities showcased at Interspeech
When was the last time you used it? The UI has improved significantly in the last two years or so
Agree. "Silly or insignificant" is the wrong angle.

"Pushing a boulder up a hill" is my preferred framing. Better to talk about difficulty, uncertainty, and boredom. All those things will make you low status - choosing to be sisyphus isn't glamorous - but that's also where you find valuable niches. Not in the silly.
Even easier with FastApi

https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/

Auto generates both interactive SwaggerUI and Redoc pages.

Can turn off before production deployment.
Dying mother 'unable to choose' which child should visit her due to lockdown
With QAnon politicians reaching mainstream status (Jo Rae Perkins), we're long past that point. QAnon is reaching mainstream, the question is what do we do about indicating that its message should not be tolerated.
Nice! the ending was fun :)
But the work is fundamentally different. You can work 80 hours in retail for example. With Uber drivers it's not "drive down long stretch of road without a break for 8 hours".
I'm pretty confident f-strings use str.format under the hood, so instead of AST mambo-jumbo, you can do just query.format(var1="something") or something.
Their own storage backend, Gitaly: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/administration/gitaly/praefect.ht...
That proves the point, you simply don't know how to use Gimp yet. It is called "Unified Transform", available on the default toolbar or by pressing "shift-t". So the difference is literally pressing shift instead of control, a trivial difference by any standard, and reconfigurable as well.
You are responding to easily observed demographics with hypothetical anecdotes.

The startup tech industry, that involves high salaries and the transfer of hundreds of million pounds is a prestigious one. The overlap between YC alumni and FAANG employees makes that abundantly obvious. If you would like to say otherwise could you provide more meaningful data than your repeated comments about how mean everyone is so mean to VC's and founders.

In a very roundabout way you are right though, women are less likely start companies and raise capital because they are less likely to be in the privileged position of being able to take that risk - https://qz.com/455109/entrepreneurs-dont-have-a-special-gene...

I am very used to "girls just dont like computers" on Hacker News, I do have to say "People are mean to founders and there is no money in tech + VC" is a new one. I think the interesting question would be why you and several other commentators are so keen to try and dismiss what is such an emperically obvious fact.
> A much closer to home and harder to ignore example is what SV money has done to places like Denver, Boulder and is doing to Boise.

> I don't know what it is. I don't know how to fix it. But there's some very, very, very wrong stuff that happens when richer people move in. It shouldn't be that way.

Definitely agree. I live in Salt Lake City, and we're seeing the same thing here. A large part of it is failing to adapt to the local culture. I don't think it is just a growth thing, since Utah's population has been growing rapidly for a while due to the high Mormon population and it's only been recently, when the composition of new residents has changed that problems have started to surface.
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I'm not sure I'd equate "low status" with "working on something silly or insignificant"

Their not identical, but one does interact with another. In the context of an individual (not a global or social context), heterodox choices tend to be the less status oriented choices.

It's tone deaf because it relates to breakthrough success, and heterodox chance taking is tends to be a privileged prerogative. That doesn't make it untrue.
I sympathize with this view, but visit Reddit /r/qanoncasualties for a counterpoint.

On one hand I am pretty close to a free speech maximalist. On the other hand, I do believe in the “fire in a crowded theater test.” I am starting to think that certain forms of public speech, namely that which harms large numbers of mentally ill people or has the potential to create a huge outburst of stochastic terrorism, may fail that test.

The Internet changes things because now you can have a billion people in a crowded theater and one person can yell fire.

On the stochastic terrorism front: a less ethical person hacking the President’s Twitter account could have tweeted “The storm is upon us! Where we go one we go all!” followed by some instructions and probably killed more people than the 9/11 attacks.

One person. All they would have had to do is guess “maga2020!” as a password if reports are to be believed. Meanwhile we spend hundreds of billions on defenses to prevent such attacks... which would have been worthless in the face of one person guessing a dumb password and leveraging a meme-plex to mass trigger the mentally ill.

This is what is possible today. Attacks only get better.

We do have a problem. I am not sure going after the platforms is right or will work, but I can’t think of anything else.

Sure they can move to Tor, less popular boards, etc. but the point is to shut down the mass scale propagation machine that depends on access to wide platforms. This will at least contain the cult to a smaller and thus less dangerous group.
An alternative is to think of data as dangerous chemicals.

You can acquire it and store it, but you have to follow some procedures :
- do not expose your employees to it
- do not leak it in the environment

It then falls to the company to make the cost/benefit analysis : is this chemical important enough to our process to justify these hasles.

The data export also does not need to be a perfect API, dump a huge json and let third party handle changes.
Isn't it a dangerous place now? In all possible meanings
What's the reason for Microsoft services/support going downhill so bad?

I can remember in the 2000's, they had spectacular paid support on their stuff.
great advice, very inspiring ... love it!
Outsourcing will definitely increase as management gets more comfortable with not being hands on for the work being done. Once you convince them they don't need their people onsite then its a simple step to not needing their own people at all.
"I never predicted that anyone I know would become extremely successful. I guess successful people can be predicted by observing how unsuccessful they look right now".

Kinda disheartening to see obvious survivorship bias elevated to the top of HN.
I wonder how many Qanon believers are hate-filed extremists, people going through mental health issues, or just edgy kids/teenagers. I doubt that the people who would actually commit a public shooting are in the majority, and I strongly doubt that taking down their website is going to kill the group. If anything, it will just strengthen the beliefs of the paranoid people who frequent it.

What we should be doing is going after Youtube and other companies that are actively radicalizing people and turning them into Qanon crazies with their irresponsible recommendation algorithms. If Youtube stopped recommending conspiracy theory videos, Qanon and other communities like it would stop growing and would likely die a slow and uneventful death as people simply lose interest.
Seems like the only way for us to prove that they can see us is for us to see them first.
/The Cold Equations/ is lambasted for being a story that's set up to make a point in ways that completely contradict any sort of good engineering practice. Given the situation as described, the simplest ordinary precautions would prevent the problem from happening.

0th level obviousness: weight is at a premium on the ship, yet there is a closet with space for a small person and a solid closet door that makes it a hiding location. If there is a need for storage space, netting is a much more sensible protection mechanism than a door.

There are literally dozens of similar objections, including those made by Tom Goddard, the author, who explained that he was writing specifically at the direction of John W. Campbell, the editor.
Rich newcomers are very much to the detriment of anyone not making their money off the moneyed newcomers. The bar owner buries his head in the sand because business is good. The bar's plumber doesn't like it but keeps his mouth shut because he can charge the bar owner more. The farmer, the mechanic, and everyone else not close enough to the money to get a good trickle down loses out big time because now they can't afford the plumber and they can't afford to go to the bar to drink their problems away.
You mean like RHIC and JLAB? They had to compete mightily over comparative trump change for an upgrade to an electron-ion collider? (RHIC won but JLAB will contribute)

There are plenty of other areas of real research that are still nominally 'particle' physics that are actually able to put to paper real goals for what they expect to achieve.

There are also facilities like NSLS II that are heavily subscribed and doing research that is both very real world and pie in the sky.

Keep this in mind too - the Tevatron at FNAL would have had the Higgs discovery if they could have run another 3-5 years - they already had data order 3 sigma IIRC. Likewise, they would have had a lot more data on the top, something LHC has been gathering since the confirmation of the Higgs. This would have come at a fraction of the cost of the Higgs. Beyond that, has Higgs done anything more than add to the already known to be narrow avenues left for SUSY?

She is absolutely correct that the particle physics community needs their feet held to the fire to justify such an enormous single outlay and being a jobs program for a few thousand physicists is not one of them.
But many night clubs have dancers on stages anyways, so the major difference is one of clothing/uniform, not of skill set, no? Along with bar tenders, servers, bouncers, etc. The Venn diagram of staff-roles-a-night-club needs vs staff-roles-a-strip-club needs isn't all that different, but of course that doesn't mean that 100% of the jobs are going to transfer or be kept exactly as-is.
But less polished. It does seem like a good analogy.
> "Discovery or serious exclusion - it is not weasel words, it is the truth."

This misrepresents what she says about weasel words.

Also she specifically addresses the "Discovery or serious exclusion"

I didn't downvote but I would guess you've only skimmed the written article, try watching the video.
If this were true, and significant, wouldn't we expect to see more successful women in the startup scene? Women appear to be disproportionately willing to do low-status/non public-facing/schlep work, but I don't notice that they are particularly rewarded for it, probably because they tend do this low-status work in the context of an existing organization in which they have little leverage/ownership stake.
Willingness to take risks, and having the means to do so (financial and social capital reserved to draw down upon), on the other hand, seems to better fit the observed pattern.
Yeah, but in the end you still have something that is considered silly and insignificant, so there's still an uphill battle to success.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crookes_radiometer

I previously submitted [0] the Wikipedia article on Crooke's Radiometer [1] after a fascinating submission to the Klerotoria [2] mailing list that I couldn't share directly since it's unfortunately not publicly archived, and it didn't seem right to share the text submitted (by a Mr Oliver Nash) to the list under that knowledge, but got no traction.

But I'm trying again with the crux of what was interesting/plot-twisty, the paper from a niece (according to Mr Nash) or cousin (according to some random website) of Albert Einstein, who it transpires was also a physicist. Einstein A. later [2] (1924) published a paper in favour of an opposing theory, but there was apparently an error in this work, and Einstein E.'s was correct, but of negligible significance to the effect (Crooke's radiometer turned in the opposite direction Crooke predicted, due to an error; decades of determining how it worked ensued) they were theorising over.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24131958

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crookes_radiometer

[2]: https://schierenberg.nl/product/72535
Guitar Notebook
Turn your Macbook up to 11! I've been working on this for about 8 months now, trying to dial in the right form factor, signal quality and price. Just put in the first production order, would love to hear your thoughts, HN.

It's really fun to play with, I kinda feel like maybe I just made a toy for myself, haha. Hope it's a good time for others.
You decided to stay for a pandemic in a dictatorship country with internet suppression and in open conflict with 3-4 neighbors? I can't fathom why
Nadella turned Microsoft into a data mining operation just like the rest of the FAANG gang and the market rewarded him.

Surveillance capitalism must be regulated out of existence.
I want to re-read Deepness, but it strikes a little too close to home in the current political climate in the US.
The reality is that GDPR is not strongly enforced at the moment. This is not uncommon for Europe and may be a cultural differences with other places.

Those who have the intent to comply and are at least complying in spirit are not at any legal risk. Attitude matters.

And the spirit is obvious: get consent if you enable a third party to unique identify a user in reality. I.e. if it's private data or if you enable correlation across websites.

It's correlating and sharing you need consent for. Don't worry about a server log.

It is not about what you make possible. It's about what you do. Technically any sysadmin can access some information they should not. It's unavoidable.

But that's quite a far way from commercially exploiting databases of people without their consent.

Honestly they should just ban the sale of personal information. Most internet marketing vendors are not actually in the business of selling personal data.

Now the good ones suffer because of the bad ones. And the bad ones either pretend they have consent or find a way to get it.
My commute was a nightmare, and one that cannot be solved by moving closer to the office without paying extraordinarily higher costs. Or accepting significantly reduced living conditions. Or relocating to an entirely different city/region with different commute patterns (this is something under consideration).

While I'm not expected to work after hours, I find myself doing so. However I don't mind at all. Not having to commute more than makes up for it.

In fact, if I'd be allowed to work remotely, I'd gladly work extra hours. I see that as a win-win. I don't have to waste time and energy commuting - I arrive at the office already exhausted. That wasted time and energy can benefit my employer if I spend it on working - not just in time, but in efficiency too. That's an additional 2, often 3, hours not wasted every workday.