skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I had yet to read a good critique of the ISA by people who know what they're talking about.

I still wonder about RISC-V. To me, it seems pointless. But a lot of companies are buying into it so I'm wrong

Why would you ever want a standard ISA? If you're buying chips you either want a cheap standard one or a powerful efficient one. To be efficient (or cheap) you'd want to only support what's required and what works best with the implementation.

I don't really understand the point of a generic ISA. Why not have some kind of bytecode or standard format (like llvm-ir) that gets optimized for the CPU and gets a native binary that doesn't need interpretation.

Like how the f* is it easier to make something regular+generic fast rather than something custom for your hardware/chip/cpu fast?

Do you want to know how many times I used XML when it's not required? 0. Do you know how many times I used SQLite or my own binary file? I lost count. SQLite has far more constraints than XML and custom binary files/formats aren't hard after you done than a few times.
Most know better than to scream. When they scream, they get cancelled.

Don't scream.
But not the results of the pilot unless it was promising?
I actually think this is a fairly simple thing to teach at work. If I'm being asked a question by a junior, I will frequently go do a few minutes' research, then come back and say "this is the answer, found on these [wiki pages|Slack threads|JIRA tickets|Google docs]. I found it by searching these terms in [appropriate place]." If I'm the one asking, I frequently say "Okay, I can accept that as an answer, but can you show me how you arrived at that?"

Both of these things, when done in good faith, are moves that help the ignorant asker to learn. I've never been put off by a sincere request by someone to show them my work, so to speak. I don't think anyone should be put off by asking something like this sincerely, either.
Mind sharing the company? I'm in the south bay and looking.
If it costs $2000 to $3000 to replace a Cadillac brake light, what’s it going to cost to repair/replace one of these...

https://jalopnik.com/why-a-cadillac-xlr-brake-light-can-cost...
Very interesting. Is this written up anywhere?
The father mentioned his reasons, but still did not do anything to make it just and fair for the older brother.
Sinful
I suppose it is, but is it possible to do so in a way where you share objective facts and let individuals reach their own conclusion without creating an environment where your workers feel they have to parrot leadership?

I’m not sure exactly how to do this. Open to your thoughts.
Why does launching a satellite justify murdering millions of people?
That's not entirely true. youtube-dl, used as a library in a media player like mpv, is quite literally used for watching videos.
I concur. Milestones are comically similar from project to project.

Software in internal development, software available in testing, beta deployment on the customer site with real customers/data, go live in production, first user, first thousand users, etc...

For hardware projects (I did a lot of joint software/hardware) hardware design, ready to manufacture, first prototype, second prototype, first production series, first delivery to customers, etc...

Last but not least, the primary use cases are major milestones, the software allows to do A then B then C. Gotta determine the main use cases of the project as early as possible.

Large projects (10+ people over years) are split into components, each component has its own milestones and should stand on its own as a deliverable. Add major milestones for integrations, as soon as any 2 dependent pieces are in a working state, they need to be integrated together and tested.
The winamp interface is really clean and efficient. Under linux, xmms2 has almost exactly the same interface and thats what I have always used to play mp3 files
How to Balance your Kubernetes cluster
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I don't have Twitter. Where do I sign-up for my piece of blog to lament why I don't have Twitter? </sarcasm>
> Iraq invasion of the US,

That...didn't happen.
That's a very serious problem, IMO. Debunking bullshit takes way more time than spreading it. Unfortunately, I have no good solution.
99% of scientists probably identify more with Charles Turner in the particulars than they do with <your favorite Nobel laureate>. Is there some sort of canonization process for those long dead who in retrospect should have been beatified in life?
I feel this is a very biased outlook. I feel we should direct this energy towards the mental health systems of our culture to help guide people how to manage their stressors and escapes.

If I were to replace the word `technology` in your passage with `alcohol` it makes sense to me that `technology` has mutated into more of a substance rather than lifestyle improvement. But, such is most things that can be abused.

Mental health has not been addressed in the past decades at the same pace as other things in the world have periodically been updated.
Its probably downvoted because its easier to express distaste for intellectual laziness that way rather than a substantial reply.
An attacker would go after the weakest link. Does this device provide any way of verifying that a bitstream loaded onto the device during development is the same one being run when it's actually in use in the field? That would be the simplest way to compromise it. It would be detectable of course but anyone going to these lengths can compromise the unprotected device programmer hardware or workstation that reads the bitstream back out too.
I've been using Audacious with the classic Winamp skin and loving it. I used to use Wine but it's crash-y (e.g. media library).
Signal has open clients with reproducible builds. We know that they are keeping their promises wrt what information is communicated with the backends. That's a step above the other options in common use, and in fact does make Signal special.
This? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HaF-nRS_CWM
I would be interested to learn if you have examples of services whose privacy practices you admire more than signal’s.
Mobile apps often achieve better conversion rates than mobile websites - at least for e-commerce.
I believe kotlin does not persuit performance and low overhead. But given that there are multiple variants of kotlin compilers (js, jvm, native) I think it will be a lot of work to maintain that, any behaviour need to be done in three places. Assuming that JetBrains can make some money from the Tools they sell, kotlin is probably in the right hands. May be good also have some vested interest for Kotlin to suceed.
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You don’t quit social media for “cred”. You do it to improve your life (less anxiety, less misinformation, more meaningful interactions with friends, etc). If you are expecting the approval of others for quitting social media then maybe you are better off being part of it.
I don't think it's terribly surprising. When you open something up to the entire world, you shouldn't be surprised when a fairly broad cross section of the world takes you up on it. Just the influx of new people alone can lead to something like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September , which definitely was a thing.
I don't understand why is it a pain? Are you saying it makes choosing what encoding/extension more difficult? I would only see this as a pain if you had to mix/match these extensions and one isn't guaranteed to exist when another does making you have to write several versions for every mix and match.

But I kind of assumed most ops perform well enough and important optimizations have a test case for and will get done
WordPerfect definitely has styles, so in a way WordPerfect is like CSS. Whatever Word is it has always been a little broken, and remains a little broken to this day. When a document gets large weird style behavior creeps in and makes the editing slightly non-deterministic. With the lack of "reveal codes" like Wordperfect always had, the result is kind of miserable. If I were King for a day...
This is really a non-issue. There are numerous preliminary experiments and trivially failed experiments done in the course of figuring out a research direction and optimizing protocols. This work rarely makes it into publications in any field, and it would muddy the science to do so. I'm not a fan of most animal work in general, but the idea that there are "missing" animals is just a misapprehension about the process.
I specialize in runtime code modification ecosystems who happens to work on a (non-Web) Flutter app, and I don't see any intrinsic reason why Flutter will be somehow fundamentally worse for ad blocking than HTML/JavaScript, simply because of its rendering technique: the issue should only come down to how the code is structured and executed and how much of the semantics can be recovered at runtime. So, on such note, I have not examined the output of the Flutter Web compiler to see if it is ridiculously obfuscated... have you? Again, it isn't at all the case that the way it renders matters: it only matters how easy the behavior is to automatically and safely edit. (Frankly, the end game on ads is AI that does its thing on the resulting view: nothing else makes any sense, as it involves people who are incentivized to not help you to choose to help you.)
They literally say in the article that 50% of their code is decoupled from the platform.
Well, let me metaphorically show where _your_ NSA should be as a person from a country that is not the USA.

To keep it all-ages, let's stick with "far away from existence, and even further from OUR personal data and metadata".
If you're worried, you should probably upgrade your suspicion of all software, not just Russian-made software. The fact that it's made in Russia should not matter much: You should audit the code, compartment it from the rest of your system (e.g. with virtualization), or not run the software.

You're right to be worried about what software you run, but Russia is not necessarily the most relevant threat actor. Take this as an opportunity to develop your threat model and apply mitigations where sensible.
> Is there some sort of canonization process for those long dead who in retrospect should have been beatified in life?

You mean, other than the actual canonization process, which by definition is for those dead (including long dead.)
I use a mix of pens. Often a Pilot Metropolitan fountain pen, Marvy Le Pen (almost felt-like), and also gel rollers from Muji (0.38, 0.5, 0.7).

Overall, the Le Pen is my favorite, but I notice an improvement in style and consistency with the fountain pen.

I think one of the main differences between 'the old days' and what we're taught now is that we're not raised to write from the shoulder, which can lead to extra strain and exhaustion. I'm still not great with this, but when I make a concerted effort to write like this, I find that my writing is far more consistent and effortless.
> More than a decade after and everything still feels the same.

...I thought that was the entire point of trinity?
Probably around 450BC, when the Eleusinian Mysteries began initiations in Athens.
I think implicit in the story is that the eldest son is set to inherit everything in time.
Hey, this does sound really interesting. Unfortunately the site on mobile (ios chrome and safari) doesn’t really work well so I’ll have to come back to this tomorrow on a pc. Maybe instead of a modal with code as the first thing on the page offer an introduction and basic information on how this works etc. A couple of examples would also be interesting.
I agree. I've been accused of sealioning when the person I responded to has either provided no sources or spewed a bunch of garbage links in place of making an argument. In political discussions, I've somehow been mistaken for a Trump supporter and a "brown, socialist immigrant," when I am actually neither of those things. The internet is weird, sometimes, man.
Are you running an open client? Is anyone?

That's all a smoke screen. Nobody is running an open client with a reproducible build, everybody is running whatever version is downloaded from their app store of choice.

It's not special, and I don't trust it a bit.
I mean, I've worked on plenty 7-8 figure programs for Fortune 50 companies of all kinds and that has not been my experience at all. I've even worked for FAANG clients who didn't know what they wanted until we tell them. The kind of work I did (I am exiting the consulting world as of this week) was very consumer-facing and creative driven. I can estimate tech work as well as anyone, but there's always too many moving parts to a big project to know how everything will fall into place.
I understand that, and if the ECI is normalised by total economic output, it would make sense for it to be low in Australia for that reason.

But if you subtracted these industries from Australia, I would expect there to be more knowledge and technology industry remaining than in some of the countries with a higher ECI. So if ECI is not normalised by total economic output, I would be surprised.

Normalising by economic output makes it a bit of a misleading metric. Australia could have world-class knowledge and tech sectors (they don't, but they could), and yet ECI would be low just because some low-complexity sector was booming.

Not normalising at all is pretty fraught too though. I guess it has the potential to mislead in both cases.
It isn't a myth. I've seen examples of recently created Cordova apps that feel like broken web pages, not real mobile applications.

I suppose it would be possible to make one that isn't bad, but that seems like more effort than just making a native app in the first place.

It seems weird to say Cordova being a poor experience is a myth and then to say Flutter will always be bad. Flutter is already lightyears ahead of Cordova.

I don't know anyone shipping Capacitor projects, so can't really compare that.
California Proposition 22, App Based Drivers as Contractors
Visited the domain, wasn't sure what I expected, but I laughed. (https://www.ballpoint.com for easy access)
AMA: Aubrey Cottle a.k.a. Kirtaner, founder of the hacker collective “Anonymous”
Journals are only one part of the equation. Before you can publish you need someone who is going to collect all the data, do a comprehensive analysis, then write up the results.

That's not a trivial amount of work in the least. If you're a professor trying to establish your lab, would you use a few months of your post-docs time writing up experiments that don't work, or working on new ideas that might work?
fyi Jetbrains is combining the js, jvm, and native compiler pipelines. All three will use the IR infrastructure currently used by kotlin/native.
I understood it that their goal is to collect all games, but English ones are a priority.
> people have to agree on basic shared facts

What are the facts that someone has to share on this topic to avoid your down vote?
Fortunately, there are Tamil poems written around 200 CE that are still readable and understandable by native speaker. Tamil poems follow strict grammar and structural rules for poems, so they don't change over time (see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venpa).

Here is poem that speaks about children being joyous, and how they playfully eat food. A simple ordeal in everyday life. Its about 7 lines and everyday speaker still understands all of it.

https://365paa.wordpress.com/2011/09/06/063/ (poorely translated: https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https...)
> Well during the cold war, WW I and WW II you could visit your family

My grandmother once told me her dad had to console a German soldier crying in the backyard because he wanted nothing more than being back home in Germany with his wife and children instead of occupying the Netherlands. It's not like he had much of a choice though.

My grandfather's dad (other side) had to work in Germany during the war. He sure as hell couldn't "just visit his family" and there was no realistic option to say no.

And then you have things like Anne Frank hiding in a bloody broomcloset for years. But the above are just two examples of "regular" folk who were not especially persecuted (or indeed, even the occupier).

Good heavens, this has got to be the most ignorant comment I've ever seen on HN. Please, study the daily lives of people in countries occupied by Nazi Germany and you'll find that any comparison to current events is absolutely ridiculous.
You could try keyword blocking, but this wouldn't extend specifically to individual users. User specific keyword blocking would be cool.
Asteroid mining is a hell of a lot harder than sending a probe to Venus that can survive long enough to give decent data. It also only really gets useful when space is a big enough industry that we're building things in space for space.
Would I be able to build a phone by putting this all together?

I think I rather buy it. Even building my desktop computer with little fragile parts I kept thinking I'd break it.
There is no proof they didn't tamper with their OpenWhisper implementation - Whatsapp is proprietary software on client and server.

And looking at what has unfolded in the last decade, chances are against the user and we must, for ours and our peers' safety, assume the worst.
It's not covid specific. When you have a healthy immune system, you tend to get sick less often. Vitamin D, possibly, helps the immune system. I take 2000 IUs a day and have for years.
This analysis is willing to play footsie with the third rail. No one should be unwilling to engage with verifiable data.

I’m not convinced about the usefulness of homicides per gun. You’d expect dilution, especially as the number of guns approaches the number of people. Gun deaths per gun owner is more useful, and plotted against the number of guns per owner might be useful. Context is important- would the same homicide have been committed if a gun was not available?

Data science here would also see how independent gun ownership is from other variables associated with homicide and suicide. I didn’t get much of that.

Parkland, Columbine, Las Vegas, Pulse all involved easily accessed guns. The data shown here does not discuss mass attacks, ie. number of people killed per event. They could have been accomplished with other means, but likely wouldn’t have.

Of course, the best numbers available for ownership is legal ownership. Illegally possessed firearms used in crimes are a real problem, and it’s not likely we’ll remove that problem without removing most all guns. Yes, if guns are illegal then only criminals will have guns, but the same is true for cannabis, ice cream and blue jeans.

I don’t have any use for guns but I don’t mind other people who do. I would rather not be shot at (pretty sure it happened once) but I have more to fear from distracted drivers killing me on my bike.

The social reasons that people kill each other are more valuable to address. For example, don’t fill people with rage at being outcasts.
The MSM doesn't want you to know!
Something is off with your transpiling set up if you’re not getting accurate stack traces. A “create react app” default setup will should have accurate stack traces out of the box.

To your point about best practices React, at least at the beginning was not supposed to be the entire stack, by design you needed other libraries to deal with large portions of the web state and as such it could only control a small part of your stack.

That being said with hooks and providers, it is gaining enough internal tooling to be almost “the whole stack” but still the philosophy remains.
There's also a classic Liz Carroll reel, "Barbra Streisand's Trip to Saginaw": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cr2RgTmO1pI
(I was in the (Saginaw) audience the night Liz named it.)
Generate high-quality code walkthrough music videos with Python
How do you permanently blocks YouTube on your browser?
I took this "shell wrapper around youtube-dl" thing a bit further: I have a script that uses youtube-dl to download and enqueue music to mpd. I mainly use it to listen to bandcamp albums that I don't know yet so I can decide whether to buy them or stop listening to them. The script also automatically deletes stuff after a while so I don't accidentally keep listening to albums I haven't bought.

Source here if anyone's interested: https://github.com/liskin/dotfiles/blob/home/bin/youtube-dl-...
Names are not type safety
Tesla UX Button State Inconsistencies
VCs in enterprise fintech that would give free advice?
I am a fintech entrepreneur with a 9yo company, about 2M/year revenue, and a team of 15. I don't know how to lead my company to the next level. Are there VCs in the enterprise fintech space that would extend me the kindness of some mentorship or advice? I could pay it forward. Thank you.
He explains why it's just and fair.
Sure. Keep in mind that I started reading this with an open mind, so might help for you to also 'step back' and try to view it from more neutral eyes; if you want to call me a 'left wing nut' after this, no problem for me...

You have some good points about how Twitter limits the API, and screws with your timeline and settings. I fully agree with those points. However, you seem to focus a lot on the 'bot' aspect of it. This made me suspicious as to why you would; we know a lot of disinformation campaigns use bots, so it can be a natural conclusion that some have grievances against Twitter for limiting what bots can do...

You also mention S.230:
"How they expect to retain 47 USC §230 (CDA) protections with this behavior"

To me, that sounds like it's a reference to the EARN-IT Act, which is about the right's perceived censorship against them, and wanting to "punish" the likes of Twitter that "do that". Again, sounded suspicious to me.

Finally (after which I stopped reading), your example of "search censorship" on Twitter is about some QANON slogan (or something like that, I'm glad so say I don't want to know enough about them) - to me, that sounded even more of a grievance by someone on the right. As you stated earlier in the blog post, "their site, their rules"; I don't see it as a question of censorship - does prohibiting someone to yell 'FIRE!' in a crowded room constitute censorship, or preventing harm? I see it as preventing harm, by limiting the reach of something harmful (Just like France and other countries prohibit the display of Nazi symbols/paraphernalia).

Again, that's where I stopped; I don't write this to put you down, just that the way you say it doesn't validate your arguments in my eyes.
Last release was April 19, 2016...
I'm fairly sure the one I had covered many of those as well... for the building, not just my stuff. IMO, the issue isn't that insurance is required or not but that they are using it to outright lie about prices in published advertisments. If a minimum level of insurance is required, that needs to be included in advertised price (and not just small print).

For the one I used they let you check a box that said you have external insurance that provides sufficient coverage, at least for a while until maybe 6 or 7 years ago when they stopped allowing that. It is possible that others are making that kind of transition and are violating existing laws or possibly existing laws aren't covering this type of case sufficiently. Centurylink lost a lawsuit a few years ago for similarly outright lying about prices (to the point of saying "this is your final cost" with a tiny asterisk leading to a long page that described additional fees).

It seems like it can be hard to tell when this type of common unethical buisness practices crosses the line into the deadly form described in the posted article. It also depends on where you are and in some places it is not that unusual for large international corporations to kill union organizers, for example.