skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even if you live in a swing state, it's not throwing your power away. It's signaling discontent with the popular party, and it incentivizes said party to support election reform (such as ranked voting.)

If you live in a state where one of the two parties consistently wins by double digits, and vote for the other of the two, do you consider that to be throwing your vote away?
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I've been considering switching to pnpm for political reasons since using open source projects that are ultimately at the mercy of big corps (npm > Microsoft, yarn > Facebook) makes me slightly uneasy. But I'm hesitant to because pnpm seems so new.

Have you encountered any regularly occurring issues or headaches regarding pnpm?
This right here is IMO the fundamental heart of the argument. Things like reversible transactions and such are features that were built into the banking system, not bugs. It really comes down to a question of which feature set is valued more by an individual. The attempt to frame this in moralistic terms is just typical tech holy wars.
Just another anti-MS rant, that I heard by thousands. 0 substantiative content.

At the very least I expected it to talk GC, design patterns, or other forms of high performance engineering. But their _only_ actual argument is that .NET is created by MS.
I've never tried to find Bluetooth in Settings, but I just tried and found it pretty quickly.

Start Button > Settings Icon > Devices, which is in the top-middle, and has the subtitle "Bluetooth, printers, mouse"

But why bother? Without having any idea where it is I can still find it even faster than that.

Start Button > "bluetooth" > Enter

And with search autocomplete I only needed to get as far as "bl" before it suggests the right thing. And my desktop doesn't have wifi, but I only need to get as far as typing "wi" for the start menu to suggest the wireless settings anyway. The Control Panel always sucked, and the settings menu sucks on iOS or Android too. Typing in the start menu to search has been around since roughly Vista.

And their apps aren't great, but I haven't experienced anything like the problems you describe. They're barebones but fine.
> Although he hasn't produced any new cash cows so far ...

> Sure, there are no home runs here, ...

Huh?

AirPods + Apple Watch are bigger than either the Mac or the iPad and are growing much faster.

Companies don't crank out iPhone class "home runs" every 10 years. Microsoft had the Windows and Office, Google had Search and GMail (and made solid acquisitions in the form of YouTube and Docs). Facebook had Facebook... and bought everything else they own worth a damn.

Apple created a $25 billion/ year product line (AirPods/ Beats/ Watch) under Cook... but it's not a home run?
SARS-CoV-2 positivity rates and Vitamin D levels (Medcram YT explanation vid)
No matter what technologies MSFT have, the number one thought in people’s minds these days when you say big tech is simply FB G Amazon and Apple. It’s no longer MSFT up there with them. Definitely a stigma thing.
In fairness, Google Cloud Platform is a huge new product. GAE (which I love) was but a tiny drop compared to the vast ocean that is GCP today. And GCP is really a multitude of products.

Android was launched in 2008, although I think it really deserves to be in the post-2010 category. Today's Android is a whole different beast.

Google Home is a new product. And tied in with Home & Android is voice recognition, which is definitely post-2010. Voice recognition may not be a standalone product but it has radically changed how I interact with technology. It counts.

Google Hangouts launched in 2013. Google's whole messaging platform has become a muddled mess that they're only just now untangling, but hangouts video was a huge hit for a while.

Of course it's hard to top hits like Search, Gmail, GSuite, and Maps... but there's progress.
That's fair/fine, but what do you propose is an actionable way to handle your concern? Declare her ineligible?
If you talk to people at Microsoft, Satya has also turned around a lot of the internal culture from the Ballmer days. This included getting rid of some of those division heads you mentioned for both Windows, Sales and more.

Most importantly, he said and acted as if Windows wasn't the core of the company. A challenging but right decision.

It's still a 40-year-old company, so it still has some historic issues. But yes, I do feel like Satya has done a great job.
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A friend of mine falls into this perfectly. As an incredible developer who was great with clients, he took an entry level university dev job just to get insurance and stability.

Within 2 years he was promoted to running 5 technical departments.
If you're gonna build a generator, there's a good chance you're gonna need the fiddly bits-and-bobs engine anyway.
How about "You shouldn't vote third-party, because coordination problems are extremely difficult with a large number of players." ?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordination_game
I think OP meant leetcode is the gatekeeper for software engineers working at a big tech corp or a smaller one where compensation and the career path can vary wildly.
The actual title: SARS-CoV-2 positivity rates associated with circulating 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels

The actual paper: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
It’s being downvoted because the Node community seems to have a hard time accepting constructive criticism... which is ironically also at the core of much of what’s wrong with Node in general.
Glad to see "throw on unhandled rejections" make it into Node, finally! I can stop carting around this little bit of code I used in every Node API I wrote:

process.on('unhandledRejection', (err) => {
console.error(err.stack);
process.exit(1);
});

Had become as second-nature for me as "set -euo pipefail".
I’m kind of tired of the $2mm CEO pay that people have been complaining about.

Ok, maybe you think that the current CEO hasn’t lived up to their responsibility so the pay is unearned. That may be a reasonable argument but has nothing to do with the amount the CEO is paid.

The reality is that the leader of a not for profit organization competes in the same job market as those for for profit organizations. So if you want someone decent to do a good job then you need to pay them the market price.

Now one thing some may point to is that occasionally the not for profit CEO is paid too much even relative to the for profit CEO. But this is misleading because for profit CEOs get paid in many other ways. Stock options, bonuses, promises of future profits, buying them a place to stay, an airplane, etc.

Now, there is a different argument that CEOs in the US overall are paid too much. But that’s a wholly different issue that needs to be resolved at a macro level and cannot be resolved at an individual organization level.
How does this platform deal with licensing and royalty issues?
Here you go: https://w2k.phreaknet.org/guide/

http://blog.livedoor.jp/blackwingcat/archives/1299806.html

There's a person in Japan that is actively (edit: maybe not active) working on modernizing windows 2000
86% is about a one in seven chance of not happening. It's very much not what anyone would treat as a lock on anything that had important consequences.

I grant you plenty of people have sufficient trouble understanding probabilities that they would mistake 86% for a lock, though.
If you only produce just enough PhDs, then when you start the next Manhattan project you need to scrape the bottom of the barrel and grab someone who's been out of the field for 10 years, or wait several years for the rate of PhDs being completed to increase.

If you produce a substantial excess, on the other hand, you can instantly scale up to meet increased demand. It's all about that pipeline.

But yes, moonshot projects can also be utilized so that past PhDs can be kept sharp. Indeed, a huge number of science programs currently do exactly that - society may see little direct benefit to discovering methane in the space around Uranus, but the people optimizing those radio telescopes are pretty nice to have around if you think you'll ever need people to optimize radar systems.
I see, happy to have someone who agrees with me. I don't know why so many people ignore the fixed supply issue with bitcoin, it seems like the "elephant in the room."
" If Biden wins Florida and New Hampshire
but Trump wins Pennsylvania, Ohio, Georgia, North Carolina, Arizona, Wisconsin, Iowa, and Nevada
then Biden wins "

I like the diagram, but it seems like a lot of superfluous words are going on in the "English translation" at the top.

How about "If Biden wins Florida and New Hampshire, Biden Wins" ?? It doesn't matter if "Trump wins Pennsylvania, Ohio, Georgia, North Carolina, Arizona, Wisconsin, Iowa, and Nevada" in that case, so its just meaningless.

------------

Another example:

If Trump wins Florida, Pennsylvania, Ohio, North Carolina, and Arizona but Biden wins Georgia, Wisconsin, and Iowa then Biden wins

Clearly, the "Florida, Pennsylvania, Ohio, North Carolina, and Arizona" statement is meaningless in this example. All that matter is "If Biden wins Georgia, Wisconsin, and Iowa, then Biden wins".
I'm pretty excited to see the infrastructure (i.e. cilk). But I'm wondering if it "fixes" some of the flaw in LLVM IR? For example, (not really a flaw but I rather prefer) using basic block parameters instead of PHI nodes.
I am on 10.13.6 and use KeePassXC just fine, although I do build it from source, so that probably explains our different experiences. I just wanted to chime in that the accurate statement seems to be the prebuild dmg from them fails to run on < 10.15
This is real need, but step 3 is a hand-wave:

> 3: Highly Rated Songs Get More Exposure

..how? This is the fundamental problem.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/28/fact-from-fict...
You are over-generous.

Android - Acquisition

Doubleclick - Acquisition

GSuite - Acquisition

AppEngine?? - Is that still around?

Google is indeed rudderless, but it's been mostly just milking their search cash cow for a long time.
Exactly!

I've been using Firefox for a looooong time -- since before it was "Firefox", actually! My name's in that full-page ad that was placed in the New York Times to commemorate the 1.0 release and, of course, I used Netscape before that.

Over this time, Mozilla has certainly made some "goofs" (to put it nicely). They've done several things I wasn't real thrilled about -- especially in the last couple of years. The default settings should absolutely be tightened up.

There are some valid criticisms in this article and I can't -- won't -- try to defend them. My own "preferences file" is several hundred lines long and gets installed on my machines before I launch Firefox for the first time because, yes, it makes an absurd number of outbound connections on startup.

Firefox is the "mutt" of web browsers. They all suck, Firefox just sucks less. Even with all of the legitimate criticisms and screw-ups on Mozilla's part, Firefox is still a tremendous improvement over Google Chrome, which isn't allowed on my machines. The closest I come is having Chromium installed (from the Debian package repositories!) and that's reserved for the rare case when I need to use a different browser for a few minutes.

Mozilla Firefox certainly isn't perfect, but it could be sooooo much worse!
Well the ballet dancers definitely weren't seeking shelter in the U.S. because they wanted to see Broadway and Yosemite.
5G's hype has always been a cover for its real applications: data collection, tracking and surveillance.

Please see my comment here for references: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22480444

https://youtu.be/3m84xZo6E_A
I read a terrific book about this called Scurvy by Stephen R Bown.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/193845.Scurvy

But if you’ve read TFA you mightn’t have enough time left to read the book because it’s nearly as long. ;-)

Difficult problem, scurvy, because of the large time between cause and effect. And the cause isn’t even an element - it is a lack.

Difficult!
> It does not address the possibility that there are systematic methodological shortcomings in the polls.

I think 538 does take this into account in terms of the uncertainty, which plays into their probabilities. I know they certainly talk about this.
You seem to be implying it didn't work, but how do you know? Sure, the other person didn't go "I admit defeat", but the ideas can sit and percolate. Also, your messages may have had an effect on lurkers.
We have a pretty large monorepo codebase (460 packages and counting) that we're migrating from yarn v1 to yarn v2. I'll say it's definitely not a plug-n-play migration (pardon the pun).

Some issues we ran into:

- it can be difficult to reason about the layout of peer dependencies. Often times libraries that rely on Symbols or referential equality break and you need to mess with packageExtensions or add resolutions or unplug. Debugging mostly consists of throwing stuff at a wall and see what sticks

- file watching at large enough projects breaks w/ file descriptor exhaustion errors, forcing you to find and unplug the offending libraries

- there's a number of known incompatible libraries (flow being one of the most prominent) and the core team approach to these at this point follows paretto (20% effort for 80% results, e.g. special casing for typescript), meaning I don't believe there will ever be a 100% compatibility milestone w/ the ecosystem

- it's much more black-boxy in terms of day-to-day debugging (e.g. it's much harder to manually edit files in node_modules to trace some root cause)

- we ran into inscrutable errors deep in packages that interface w/ C++ and basically were only able to fix by pinning to an earlier version of a library that did not depend on said package.

- migration cost is heavily proportional to codebase complexity. My understanding is that Facebook gave up on it completely for the foreseeable future and ours has similarly been a significant time investment (and we're not even targeting strict mode yet)

The pros:

- install times and project switching times are indeed fast, even in our codebase that contains multiple major versions of various packages

- yarn v2 has many interesting features, such as protocols (though it's debatable if you want to commit to lock-in to benefit from those)
I agree with everything you just said there. What parts do you not see happening? It seems like the proceeds of the DOJ settlement and the unwinding of Purdue start to make funds available for treatment and remediation of some of the issues.

Also what of punitive action against the makers / prescribers would you expect? I think the article hits on the perceived justice lack of justice against the Sackler family.
And how much people do you think are willing to pony up $5/month to support firefox? 100k? 1M?
Amen. I've used all the versions of Windows for a couple decades and there seems to be a randomness to their improvements. Updating is just a fact of life, something we must do, it doesn't inherently come with "upgrades" for us as the consumers.

What % of the improvement in computer technology has come on this slow crawl of OS, vs all the hardware, browser apps, etc?
Apropos of nothing, I will note that pretty much all of Microsoft's testers got laid off in 2014, shortly after Nadella became CEO, and were never replaced. Whether it was in motion while Ballmer was still CEO or not, Nadella still would've had to acquiesce to it for it to happen and bears responsibility.
One of the developers of the Hopsworks Feature Store here. We wrote this article because we keep getting the question how a feature store is different from a key value store. If we missed out on anything or got anything wrong, please let us know here.
One of my huge pet peeves is when sites have really idiosyncratic password requirements, like they require the use of at least 1 punctuation characters (but it's from a limited subset of available punctuation characters), or uncommon requirements on length (I've seen both can't be longer than 10 characters and must be longer than 12).

And yet, none of these requirements are visible on the login page! So I have no freaking clue what my password might actually be, and thus my typical login flow for these lesser used accounts is always going through the password reset flow. It's a joke.
My concern is that remoting may be responsible for the unexpected increase in housing prices. Areas that were borderline unaffordable before the pandemic have skyrocketed in the last 6 months. Rents and housing prices both just leaped out of range.
The worlds two biggest financial primitives are borrowing and lending. These two primitives make up a large portion of the total financial activity in the worlds markets. It allows all other financial primitives to exist. As an analogy to programming, borrowing and lending is essentially the lowest level on the stack, where all other financial primitives are built on top of. In order to have derivatives, insurance, funding, etc. you need liquidity and borrowing and lending. DeFi on Ethereum is replicating the existing financial system, so by criticizing this, you're essentially also criticizing the legacy financial system.

Now that there's tons of liquidity on Ethereum, people have been building applications ontop of this financial stack. In the programming analogy, these applications are higher up on the stack (like web browsers) and rely on the primitives to build out financial infrastructure.
DC doesn't need a Senator: https://thehungergames.fandom.com/wiki/The_Capitol
It's all about the indocrinated mindset that the child has: if his father was rich then he sees that as "normal".
If his father was poor he sees that as "normal.

None of those are "good" or "bad": it's just the beliefs about what "normal" is.

It's all about the environment the child is raised in.
Well it is DIY after all.

I vastly prefer such content being available, with its imperfections, than it being held back unpublished because of lack of simplified IKEA style guide for less experienced/handy people.
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They gave Trump 28.6 which was beyond problematic. You can give baseball analogies but they were wrong. All that bad polling lead into people believing some really dumb things about the election. They've published several articles since then on why the polling is better now. Heck, even their article on being more bullish was tepid. The pre-election article they wrote[1] should have made them actually examine what they were doing. It did not. IDP/TIPP and USC/LA Times got it right.

I get that 538 is an HN favorite, but they are too damn politically biased for their own good.

1) https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-i-acted-like-a-pund...
So many car washes being built in Colorado now- why wash something that is going to be 50% hail dings in 2 years? But Californians love their cars, and Texans love their trucks...
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Finally. I missed that idiom from Ruby so much.
It's not a useful analogy because it derailed any discussion about OP.
You’re only throwing your vote away if you vote for a candidate you don’t believe in. You’re then sending a clear message that it doesn’t matter what they do or who they put forward as long as they aren’t the other guys.

Voting for a third party tells the parties that if they don’t course correct at least a little they risk losing elections to the other guys.

That’s only a problem for the individual voter if he holds the view that this election is the last election. “We have to beat the other guy or the world is going to end.”

Contrary to the marketing, you’re not helping the other side win if you vote third party. The candidates/parties are doing that by not offering you a decent candidate.
I'll be the asshole here. You're probably making some critical mistakes that are holding you back. What is it that you are specifically trying to achieve and what are the reasons that you haven't been able to achieve those goals?
Charlie Stross arguably lives in a country led by New Management, so for inspiration he only needs to launch BBC these days...
This comment thread is discussing Uber's profitability and how much they'd need to raise prices to break even independent of Prop 22.
Off the top of my head...

- Large-scale climate engineering

- Digitizing human consciousness

- Strong AI

- True life extension

- A replacement for the ISS

If you limit your characteristics to "involves high energy particle physics" it's pretty easy to put blinders on and pretend there aren't large challenges facing humanity that could potentially be solved by hard science progress and a lot of funding.
Constructive criticism is specific and helpful. OP is just kvetching.
Religious data platform [Cambridge Analytica] 'targets vulnerable people'
Well, any time you spend less than all of your money on fundamental research you're implicitly making a calculation of that kind.
USB-C is fine, its the number of ports that is the issue and not consumer friendly..

And I think USB-A isn't quite legacy just yet (it's OK they ditched the VGA and/or DVI ports), there are still a lot of need for one of those ports. Same with a card reader slot. I also think there is a need for a headphone jack even though bluetooth is qutie viable.
There is a lot of conjecture about Jobs death, I try to avoid delving into speculation too much.
Sabbatical implies you are working on something else though, so seems to me quite different than "funemployed".
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Do you feel like they are succeeding at that? I've been using Adobe products since the early 2000s. I recently bought Premiere Elements and it was my first time doing any sort of video editing. I found it awful to use. I've switched to Final Cut and it's a ton better. iMovie was better too.
Who cares?

They have sustainable business models in several segments, and even though they aren't on the cutting edge of pop culture, they're doing well.
(I'm the owner of cilk.)
I didn't know the basic block parameters. It seems better than using phi nodes. Thanks.
Yeah, my wife and I have been eating outside (in Ireland) since restaurants re-opened.

To be fair, we used to be smokers, so were used to this before. Around September, everyone else stopped eating outside, and the staff often looked at us funny when we continued.
Came here to say this, FastApi was my introduction to Swagger and now I love it!
The comment about the 90's is simply not true. I've been a successful (e.g., getting paid) developer since the 80s and have never been in the Microsoft stack. With the exception of a small bit of VMS-hosted development in the 80s, everything I have done in my career has been hosted on some sort of Unix. And I'm not some outlier. Sun Microsystems dominated the 90s for problems of just about any scale beyond the small workgroup.

I make this point because many of us (both engineers and customers alike) pushed back hard against Microsoft. They actively fought against open standards and interoperability. We literally thought of them as the evil empire. Even as late as the mid 2000s, when I was at Yahoo and there was talk of a Microsoft acquisition, I would have quit rather than work at Microsoft.

Economics aside, changing that toxic culture is what I appreciate most about Nadella's time as CEO. He has (it appears) made Microsoft into a citizen.
> And there's not really a good auto-suggestion. You need to know the args

IDEs do spoil people.