skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The way this topic is portrayed looks incomplete to me.

Explaining: The pursuit of knowlegde is not happening for the sake of knowledge. Maybe the individual scientists/researchers/thinkers are actually atracted to knowledge for the sake of it, but the funding and direction is coming from entities of the public or private sector and everything has to ultimately lead to some sort of economic profit.

Having that in mind, I would argue that the "problem" (more on the quotes later) is way bigger than just lost breakthroughs. You have breakthroughs that have been ignored or suppressed because it doesn't make economic sense to promote them. You have people potentially on the verge of scientific breakthroughs but not having enough funding because again, there is no forseeable profit coming out of their work. You have scientists hiding their findings from one another (essentially delaying breakthroughs) because their funders want to establish economic profit out of potential breakthroughs. And of course you have people who are brilliant and don't even get a chance to contribute to our knowledge base.

In fewer words, you live in a capitalist society that promotes and surfaces work that seems profitable, delays advances to fully capitalize on current technologies, while it also drawns scientific research that might not get tied to profits.

To prevent any keyboard warriors here from missinterpreting my sayings: I do not say that there can't be any or a a lot of funding on research that is arguably not profitable, I am saying that these are exceptions and happening waaay less than they should.

Back on the "problem". Are you worried that we've lost breakthroughs that could have boosted the economy? That's not the case because aa described above the economy doesn't profit from all research and actually may have negative impact on profits out of some important research.

If your worry is that humanity is missing on knowlegde that could have made our lives easier due to the anarchy in how we publish, structure, incorporate and teach new findings... then I'm with you, but the economy isn't
I don't really disagree. But I have yet to see a schema system for JSON that isn't just a crappy version of what XML can do. Similarly, most ways of representing services turn into bike shedding on how to map to HTTP.

I will also add that as soon as you think you need complicated models at the API level, you are almost certainly setting a path to problems. Yes, it is possible to come up with a place where sum types will make sense. In most cases, though, you are better representing a flat set of data, and let a validation layer move things into distinct types, if you really need it.

I view this as everyone wanting a programming language where you control AST constructs. Sounds great, but working with raw text/data at a layer above will almost certainly be easier. And you can use a compiler/evaluator to get to things you can manipulate at that layer. (Similarly, this idea that files are the bane of computer. In stark contrast to my always just wanting a file that represents whatever I am wanting to move from one place to another. However I want to make that happen.)
Yeah, I know. What I'm saying is taking the seemingly low-hanging fruit of locked in technologies is a conscious decision to be competitive. It has very obvious pros and cons. The cons potentially materialising is part of the choice.

> What is the point of saying this?

Whatever criteria you used to justify asking this question probably also apply to it.
People root for anything-but-intel because competition is a good thing and intel had none for very long time.

I don't know where the notion of "Intel is about to die and TMSC will make us suffer due to monopoly" comes from but before having people cheer for Intel again they probably need some time to have their execs cure some disease in some poor part of the world, do a few AMAs on reddit, open-source something, donate to some cool projects in tandem with actually improving their products before regaining the goodwill of the people. Can take some clues from Bill gates and Microsoft.

The consumers are pissed. AMD's comeback is attracting a lot of fanfare because of people being sick of the not having an option beside "should I get i3, i5 or i7" for very long time.
Apple online support has probably been my worst experience ever. On something as simple a ordering 2 magsafe power supply, they manage to only send me 1, and had to wait 3 weeks without any communication to finally get the notification for the second one shipment after a support call. Every low-key chinese Ebay sellers has better support than that.
> 5 year EV is much lower in tech than finance for Harvard grads. I'm not sure ab consulting.

Based on what? This is not true in my experience, unless you're comparing finance tech to FANG tech, in which case it is true. Moreover, at Harvard, some segment of those who go into finance are "connected" with higher paying finance jobs due to their parents/etc.

Consulting salaries are lower (sometimes substantially) than tech starting salaries.
If the same benefits are also associated with hot sauces, then I'm gonna live forever. I eat hot sauce with just about anything. (I love Cholula and Tapatio...)
Do you have over-the-range one? If not, that's probably the difference. If you do, I'm guessing you don't cook anything in oil very often?
Knights Ferry was the 1st. Unclear about the actual diffs between it and Larrabee silicon. I do know the 1st boards still had a video out port but it was disconnected.
Grove embraced Christensen's paradigm for innovation and backed this learning with investment and the risk of cannibalisation inherent with Celeron.

It's easy to be wise after the fact, but we can now say that Grove or Otellini didn't take a big enough risk. Instead of risking cannibalisation of their core markets, they might have won a bigger prize over the longer term by straying further.

Desperate Gamers Camp Out in the Pandemic for $700 GPUs
Months after the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080's launch, the lines at brick-and-mortar stores across the country can still wrap around the block.

https://www.wired.com/story/nvidia-amd-demand-pandemic-lines...

C'est la vie.
There are a couple problems with those studies.

The first is mental health issues are a very wide umbrella. This includes anxiety, depression, and things like eating disorders which all parties can agree are probably not associated with increased rates of violence.

But if we limit it to diagnoses like bipolar or schizophrenia I'm sure there are increased risks of violence.

My mother (who had schizophrenia) for instance was fine 364 days a year. But on the 365th she'd try to claw my grandmother's eyes out because she thought she was the devil. And EMTs and other people who aren't being called out to deal with my mother on the 364 days a year she's fine.

The other issue with those studies is they control for a host of other factors to get the conclusion it's not correlated with violent crime.

If you just look at a bland, we separate people into two buckets, mentally ill and non mentally ill. Which bucket commits more violent acts per capita, the mentally ill do. You have to do a lot of statistical correction before you found that mental illness isn't correlated with violence.
I don't follow. Why should EMTs getting ripped off be a factor in dispatch being unable to do more than relay whatever inaccurate or incomplete information they might gave been able to extract from a member of the general public over the phone? If a woman dials 911, says "Help!" then hangs up, how is the dispatcher supposed to accurately convey the situation to an EMT? EMTs should be paid more, but paying EMTs more won't address this problem.
I never said otherwise. I'm simply pointing out the insane brazenness that this entire comment section has become.

Multiple election officials are here admitting to breaking election code because they're blinded by their bias and hatred of the right.

The gall of it all is... Disgusting.
wipe down the outside? What do you mean? /s
What is "extremely steep marginal takes rates" ?

Are you saying that low profit enterprises create more value?
The thesis is attractive but also makes me wonder about Apple, high profit and also highly creative.
I’m a bit double sided about this. Like you I personally wouldn’t want results to be removed because I feel like I’m capable of deciding for myself, but at the same time I feel like the world is filled with more than a few gullible and sometimes straight up dumb asses that might need to be nannied a bit.
> > I was also (incorrectly) assuming that renaming a file after having fsynced the contents is a valid mechanism

> Where does anyone say that this doesn't work?

The article explains it here:

> This trick doesn't work. People seem to think that this is safe becaus the POSIX spec says that rename is atomic, but that only means rename is atomic with respect to normal operation, that doesn't mean it's atomic on crash. This isn't just a theoretical problem; if we look at mainstream Linux filesystems, most have at least one mode where rename isn't atomic on crash. Rename also isn't guaranteed to execute in program order, as people sometimes expect.

According to the article, open+write+fsync+close+dir-fsync is indeed safe on ext4 on any new-ish Linux kernel (on older kernels, fsync() wouldn't report errors in some cases, e.g. if it happened after the FS attempted and failed to write the data before the fsync).

Not sure what it has to do with rename though.
John McWhorter is a well-known linguist who talks about things like comparative linguistics. He's said in the past that (colloquial) Indonesian is one of the most streamlined languages around. (But really English is becoming the world's international language.)

One of the topics in McWhorter's research is about how languages become streamlined when they are learned by adults as a second language. English, Mandarin, and Swahili all show evidence of this (for English, it seems related to the Vikings).

Related post:

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2016/06/co...

For people interested in human languages (or people who don't yet know they're interested in human languages), you might enjoy the courses he's done for Great Courses (paid but worth it, available on ~Amazon):

(1) The Story of Language: covers the topic of language evolution; how languages change over time, how new words are introduced, how languages mix (due to e.g. invasions), pidgins/creoles

(2) Language Families of the World: a survey of what languages currently exist, features of languages in different families
New Orleans police use facial recognition, despite assurances to the contrary
Watch this talk, "Competition is for losers" (by Peter Thiel)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Fx5Q8xGU8k

It's a clickbaity title but it's a serious talk.
I think it depends on one's definition of "decent meal" :-). I can put a frozen burrito into my microwave, press "1 minute," press "+30 seconds," and have a perfectly acceptable breakfast in two presses.
There’s nothing wrong with ACPI - in fact it’s what’s going to enable ARM in the server space. Without something like ACPI, you need customized kernels and other crap to control system devices. ACPI is actually quite nice. And it replaced something (APM) that really was legacy cruft (dropping into real mode for power management?!! Ugh!)

EFI doesn’t seem that bad either. Maybe something like uboot would suit you better? But the reason we have those nice graphical bios utilities now is because of EFI.
In this literal same article they talk about how iPhones send this kind of telemetry too. A different kind of MB amount, but they still do this. They're also horribly locked down and their owner thinks you should pay 30% tax on every single payment transaction you do in life.

So I'm not entirely sure what your iPhone advertisement is supposed to support here.
Then why are you in the city? Isolated country living is where it's at. :)
Let me, eh, yandex that for you: https://i.imgur.com/JgUxoTk.png
Well yes, one wouldn't be talking to them in the first place if it were on the website. For many companies though "Enterprise" plans are always non-website prices, so there's nothing special about negotiating them, and the salespeople pretty much always are just saying that stuff to have a chance to go away, recalculate their monthly commission chances and figure out the price to try with you rather than actually seeking permission.
> No, it's not a problem. It's your problem if you become entrenched in their

It absolutely is a problem for a large amount of people.

> Do the same, you'll be free

The vast majority of people in the world are not taking the same actions as you are. Therefore this is a large problem for many many people.
> If you read into the psychology of why "pimps" (particularly of the Harlem variety) dressed flamboyantly you'll be even more disgusted.

Source?
That's an arvitrt judgment. Workers can be lazy and bad that their jobs, and leaders can enable workers to perform better.
It's easy to be perceived as an important journalist when you've built an audience and are willing to take stories far past the evidence. Readers will reward you for doing that, because stories built on evidence are comparatively boring, and nobody wants anything from the news more than a compelling narrative. Even The Intercept has repudiated Greenwald at this point. But then, a unifying, totalizing conspiracy by the media against Greenwald is also a compelling narrative.
Paramedics have more training and are paid more. While $12 is pretty low it’s not the ceiling.
Betrayal: Among Us, but for the web
>Your tone here does not seem proportionally appropriate to the level of discourse this article is attempting.

You mean this level of discourse?

>The privacy squad mobilised on this one - in fact, one blog post recieved a lot of attention for decrying such systems with the dogwhistle "you no longer own your computer!"
You cannot compare two languages by benchmarking two databases that happen to be written in those languages. You are comparing victoriametrics, and influx IO. You are not comparing Go and Rust.
> Any person should already be educated on topics such as anti vaccination.

The quality of US public schools can vary immensely, especially for students in poor areas where the community can't put up much money and education budgets are the first thing to be slashed.

Additionally, many states allow outright lies such as creationism or abstinence-only sex ed to be taught - both of this is further evidence that it cannot be assumed automatically that a person educated in the US is well educated.
Will do, thanks for sharing!
> ...if you've read Neal Stephenson's The Baroque Cycle, you probably have some idea.

I looked up The Baroque Cycle on GoodReads and the reviews weren’t very positive. One reviewer compared it to the London phone directory in terms of number of characters vs plot complexity.

Is this series worth reading? I have found HN gives better book reviews than goodreads in general - want to hear what you all have to say.
Apparently, they usually bring police with them, and they are often called to the scene by police. Adding a trained counselor for deescalation sounds nice, but it may simply be an enhancement not an alternative. https://www.streetroots.org/news/2019/05/03/portland-mental-...
For me, the slippery slope is exactly allowing this sort of transaction to be called "buying".

And yeah, when people lost access to their zune music, or their steam stuff, they did get upset.

Mind you, I would not outlaw the transaction. But calling it a "sale" is false advertising in my book.
To elaborate a bit more: vast majority of jobs where you can seek such excellence that you're able to say at some point "I am top 100 in my field, I enjoy it and am getting paid for it" are taught in an apprenticeship manner. Where you have to make the life of a bigger expert easier while stealing as much knowledge as possible from them. The knowledge that's worth learning is not publicised as if it was publicly accessible it would lose its value. It would become industry standard or competitors would learn how to counteract it or whatever. And if a top expert has hundreds of CVs to chose from for their apprentice, having "Harvard" and "Goldman Sachs" mentioned there is a good way of skewing odds in your favour to even get an interview.
Apologize, it was not come to me in that way.
> How about examining some of the technical issues instead of ideological rhetoric?

Way ahead of you:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25074959
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25076588

> I have to assume you neither own nor lease any Apple devices.

This was a ludicrously bad assumption.
> The part about the brake light doesn't sound like a good idea. Police do encounter people with more serious warrants while responding to minor infractions or calls. Some of these individuals are dangerous. It's best to have the equipment needed to deal with those situations. I think the shortfall is that some people lack the training to go with it.

are you saying police need to pull people over for minor infractions because a) this is a good way of catching people with serious warrants, or b) police need to pull over people for minor violations anyway and they need a gun in case the person turns out to be a violent criminal?

in the case of a), I think this is the kind of fishing expedition bs that makes it hard for people to trust the police. the idea that they are not just going to ticket you for the thing they actually saw you do, but also make the most of the opportunity to look for anything else you've done / are doing wrong seems needlessly antagonistic. I would also question how much more effective this is than compiling a list of the fugitive's vehicles, known associates' vehicles, stolen vehicles, etc. and just checking the license plate reader against it.

in the case of b), this is kinda my point. if there's a meaningful chance that the officer or the offender ends up dead in a traffic stop, this should probably increase the threshold for what kind of offense justifies a stop. a broken brake light isn't worth dying over for either party. just take a picture/video and send a ticket to the owner of the vehicle.

in the case of an officer responding to a call, they no longer have the initiative to decide whether an interaction needs to take place. in this case, I think it is much more justifiable for the officer to be armed.
Wasn’t meaning to be cheeky. Have been thinking about this for a few years and those are observations that took a while.

There’s analogies to building institutions in developing countries. See the constitution in the Ukraine (I think) or South Africa. Ginsberg commented publicly and Brayer agreed with (at a talk I attended) from a “source code” perspective those constitutions are superior to the American one. Sort of v2 efforts where you can adopt best practices. Yet most people would agree those younger nations don’t have stronger institutions and than the US.

So there has to be both an individual and organizational component.

This next comment is completely unbaked and probably terribly phrased, so please read it gently: in addition to the rest of the comments, I believe there is also (and I understand this is a terrible analogy) a “standby passive observer” mechanism mentality similar to how Hitler came to power. Conceptually, people that get hired externally should maybe be >50% of any large organization maybe. Those employees need to see repeated instances of malicious political acts go by (“hey aren’t we going to do something here”) and learn that sort of complicit passivity.

That’s probably a terrible analogy, but notice that there seems to be nothing the three or four people in this threat that worked at Intel could do to alter the company’s direction (obviously) but more importantly there’s also a tone of dread and finality in their words, and they seem to have all chosen to have left.

So, it seems, like nation building, a complicated problem to understand and solve.
No prob. Scihub opens a whole new world.
I tried that one. I am also a fan of convenience :)
Show HN: I'm a designer. I don't know how to code. I've made an app
I think there is no such thing as fundamentally evil.
I don't follow... what did you want me to explain and what assertions are you referring to. If you mean, the assertion that Apple users are suffering Stockholm Syndrome is an inappropriate discourse, I'm not sure how to better explain that.
IIRC Google used to have a dropdown in the search results similar to "Don't show results from this site". Luckily I don't see Yahoo Answers results anymore but would be nice to have Pinterest removed.
There are a couple Black men in the Proud Boys, too. But I'm sure Dennis Prager and Ben Shapiro endorsed the book because it's even-handed and accepting of trans folk.
The June Oven doesn't really work out in practice:

https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/june-oven/
Ok, we've regoogled it above.

Edit: now that I've had a chance to read the article, I don't agree with that change, and have restored the title back to how a moderator had correctly edited it before.

The reason is that the article doesn't say anything specific to Google. The sole point it does make is common to all the services, and indeed the article seems "conscious" of this, since 3 times it says "google" it immediately qualifies that with a phrase like "or any service".

Nor does the parent comment make the case that this is specific to Google; in fact it makes the opposite case.
Well the tricky thing is you can't "not do that" because your Elm code doesn't have control over when subscriptions fire.

Note that this applies to any subscription and that it is effectively dropped forever; the next input event won't recover it (so in the case of resizing only the next resize event will change things, not the next input event). So e.g. you could have a long running operation in a Web Worker over ports and then if its result comes in right when your user happens to be inputting something then it is dropped and never returns.
Lazy takes beget lazy responses: Evan's iron grip on Elm is why Elm is good and simple and not a kitchen sink. Other solutions like Purescript already exist if that's what you want.

But when you don't like how something is done that other people do like, there comes a time when you just need to pinch it off and leave the pot so other people can enjoy it.

For some reason it's small niche languages that really bring out the hubris in some HNers. Maybe because they have a sense of ownership over it by virtue of merely using it, something they know is silly when it comes to larger languages.
Other ARM chips are aiming for smartphone/tablet and are more than enough for this. No one using samsung latest top phone is thinking "if only that phone was 15% faster ! this is a major issue".

No one makes ARM chips for laptop, because of the chicken and egg issue. Windows on ARM going mainline could change it.
It isn't just the aspect of someone being mentally ill, it's someone being mentally ill and that their behaviour caused the police to be contacted.
If you can get it there is no reason not to buy an AMD product in a laptop, or to design one in, unless you absolutely need thunderbolt support.

And laptops sells way more than desktops do. This is a winner takes all market and there is no reason to go with the loser.
But tides are turning, Google's results are steadily going downhill. Unfortunately it seems to be too much of a daunting task with today's size of the internet to jump in with a viable competitor.
> There's no movement or force that enforces cars on everyone to call it culture.

HAH! When entire cities in a country are designed to be car-accessible only?

Please learn about walkability and access to public transportation and how sprawls are downright hostile to people without a car.

Then go visit Tokyo.
Intel turf wars extend beyond Geos. The 2nd floor and 4th floor of SC12 would tick-tock Xeons and rewrite RTL and verification code just because.