skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I found the promotional video for v2.0 somewhat silly. Epic music taken almost from some Nolan trailer playing in the background for things like "New color palette", "New shades of Gray".

Edit: here's a stark contrast of another promotional video for some tool doing a better job (IMO):
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaNsjhUdh3BxFL6tzyuhc9g
Levels Announces $12M Seed Round
I tend to just extend the config with whatever sizes I feel that I need.
As far as I understand, Nordström's second theory of gravitation is a mathematically self-consistent theory for gravitation, and the only way to decide between it and Einstein's theory was by comparing to observations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordstr%C3%B6m%27s_theory_of_g...
It's amazing you are able to discover this kind of not-so-submarine-spamming.
Sounds like you're the one making excuses. Anti intellectualism is strong in this thread.
Oh, sorry, I haven't seen it. Saw it now. Is there a way to get in touch?
My recollection is that the murderer there isn't really convinced he committed a perfect crime but frequently is panicked and pushed to extremes by suspicion that he's being toyed with (and in particular, the detective was intentionally making him ride a roller coaster of more or less suspicion of this)?
Ask HN: Does the Twitter algorithm purposefully put a contrarian response first?
Not sure if people have studied this in detail, but my anecdotal evidence is that when I read a tweet related to politics, the top response is a contrarian one (i.e. disagrees with the tweet)

This is even the case when the comment has fewer responses/likes/retweets than other comments lower down the list.

I can see that the algorithm might be trying to increase engagement, and so it might put the most liked/commented comments on top, but it doesn't seem to do just that.

It seems to also be looking at the 'semantics' of the comment (or maybe the social graph and history of the commenter) and chooses to put the contrarian comment on top.

Maybe a contrarian comment gets the most responses and that's why the algorithm favors it, but I've seen several cases when the top comment was not the most engaged-with.

It's possible this phenomenon is not due to the algorithm but due to bot networks gaming the system and liking the contrarian comment in patterns that make the algorithm put it on top.

Has anyone here noticed this pattern? And what could be the cause of it?

(It certainly makes the discussion on Twitter more polarizing, when the first comment is so often against the tweet even when the comment is not so popular/liked)
Indirect data is still data. What she's saying is that math equations aren't data and hence math equations alone can't solve this problem.
I've experienced both of these things: applying to many jobs and getting many rejections, as well as applying to a few focused companies and getting multiple offers. In my experience, without a prestigious education it's common for the first job search to involve lots of rejections. Your description of the process sounds similar to my second and third job searches, after I had some experience.

The first time, I didn't have a resume that clearly showed experience in the kind of work I was trying to get, so I rarely got past screening. After about a year working at a recognizable (but not especially prestigious) company, I was able to get interviews more consistently.

Second, I got a lot better at interviewing, through a relatively small amount of focused practicing. This got my interview pass rate close to 100%.

Finally, my work experience allowed me to tell credible stories about things I'd accomplished and challenges I'd faced. I also learned, through experience, more of the shibboleths that engineers (often subconsciously) use to identify members of their in-group.
See also https://gnuhealth.org, https://oscar-emr.com/ and https://hospitalrun.io/.

As with anything in the b2b healthcare space, most of these systems suffer from quite a bit of legacy and at-best-average code quality. Despite that, many doctors, clinics and even small hospitals use them because the private solutions (think Epic [1], but smaller) aren't necessarily better code-wise (don't ask me how I know). I wish more FAANG-calibre devs would look into contributing to and evangelizing these platforms rather than writing yet another note-taking/"productivity management" app. It has a direct impact on the quality of care delivery in certain parts of the world and a positive impact on tool-related clinician burnout [2].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18735023
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24336039
It might not really be fundamentally impossible, but it could be completely unachievable practically - harder than unscrambling an omelette back into an intact, uncooked egg.
> Exclusives don’t take the market, as is evident by PCs having a larger market share of the gaming market than both PS5 and Xbox combined.

The PC platform has huge amounts of exclusives, and lots of other advantages that aren't remotely available to Apple's sensibility (end user modding, porn, heavy discounting etc).

Apple would fail miserably at a games console, which is why people have been predicting for years the Apple TV would turn into a games console and it doesn't, because it's a terrible idea and they have no competency in this area, and because to succeed they would have to start doing things completely alien to Apple.
Netflix cost lot lower in India. Macbooks quite a bit higher. In one case reason is much lower purchasing power in other case much higher tax rate as Macbooks may come under luxury goods.

Even if I limit to US none of these 2 are like recurring major expense like food, housing, and myriad local services which have location sensitive pricing.
Hmm, tough question. You might get a more representative number by adjusting a bit for changeset size, although I'm not sure if this is easily available in bulk data. It would give a more reliable metric at least.

On the whole it's hard to measure the impact someone has on the project though. Some people tirelessly keep the documentation wiki up-to-date, or paint bikesheds on the tagging mailinglist. Some fix bugs in JOSM, Carto, and anywhere that comes along their path. Some manage to get governments to agree to license valuable data sources for use in OSM (this one is potentially huge), and again others write JOSM plugins to unlock such data or to scratch a common itch improving the efficiency of hundreds of mappers.¹

There is one mapper in the Netherlands who welcomes all new mappers starting of in the Netherlands: that's an invaluable service hard to quantify in data!

1: Or in my case, build a plugin that a dozen or so folk seem to use once a month. :P
I have started to question the value of sign-off text. It seems that is just wastes screen space. The only time it would be useful is when you are emailing someone who might not know who you are. What value do you see in it?
that's ridiculous, why not just write padding: 2px 5px; display: flex; align-items: center; color: #fff; You are basically just creating a set of attributes that just mimic standard css properties, I find this approach of tailwind absolutely counter productive, and I am surprised that it gets so much popularity.
Although the Google Guaranteed program is paid, it's specific to certain types of businesses (service providers like plumbers and locksmiths). Google performs a background check and verifies the business's license and insurance. It also guarantees customers a refund (up to a cap) if they aren't satisfied.[1]

EDIT: In fact the background check and screening are free. The Guarantee only appears to refer to the refund guarantee.[2]

Disclosure: I work at Google, and knew some people on the team.

1. https://support.google.com/google-ads/answer/7549288?hl=en

2. https://support.google.com/google-ads/answer/6226575?hl=en&r...
I use DDG, powered by Bing! I recommend it.

Yeah, I remember when Bing was a joke. Joke's increasingly on Google. Google stopped hiring the best and brightest, and instead started optimizing for maximizing headcount. Product quality followed years later. It's a deep hole to dig out of, and I'm not sure the top knows how to dig in the right direction.
Before I would consider such a move, I would want to know who controls the ledgers and what legal protection/insurance I and my money have at a federal and state level. I want to see how these systems are audited by the government and what level of compliance they must meet. My subconscious will never forget BitConnect [1]

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCcwn6bGUtU
Thanks for the explanation, I've been lost in the USB specification for a while. The last major read I did about it was on USB 3.0 so it's nice to have a summary. Will be easier to go dig deeper.
> The one thing I feel is inexcusable was the removal of the SD card reader.

A SD card reader seems super-niche. I'm sure it's important to you.... but everyone probably has some random port they'd appreciate and they can't add one for everyone. I think a dongle and USB-C is a much much better solution, for everyone on average.
Not a super big impact professionally. Creating and maintaining distributed systems is hard. And even harder when business requirements, stakeholders, etc. get involved.

One major take away I got from the course is to limit the more RPC-driven services I typically saw up to that point (and still see in current microservices examples to this day).

He also gave a lecture on the different types of coupling, which I had never even heard of prior to the course.

He also has a few talks on YouTube as well as others that work at Particular Software. I'd highly recommend checking out all of them.
Didn't the @apply tag get rejected from the spec? https://www.chromestatus.com/feature/5753701012602880
Ask HN: What does your home office consist of?
I'm thinking of upgrading my spartan home office to better support my productivity. My home is the one place where I can somewhat dictate my environment.

On that note, what does your home office consist of including specific items? Why did you set it up in the way that you did? I am looking to hear from people who think that they have achieved an effective setup.
taken in isolation, sure, "equal pay for equal work" makes sense. but it sidesteps the question of why certain work commands higher pay in the first place. the answer lies in the balance between supply and demand. engineers were quite happy to accept the market equilibrium pay when it placed them near the top of the income food chain in their locale, but suddenly they are quite unhappy to see other engineers getting paid even more. maybe I'm not articulating this quite right, but there seems to be an inconsistency in here. it strikes me as similar to the type of feminism that only cares about seeing more women as CEOs.
Yea, not to mention cigarettes versus tobacco being a bit different.
Jetbrains has a lot of videos on youtube. eg this Intellij one has a bunch of stuff I never knew existed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AMcN-wkspU
100%. There are lots of small dealers that will be super happy to go pick up a car at auction for you. I highly recommend this if you want the best price. If you don't really care, it is significantly faster and easier to just go to a dealership.
> One is being able to properly provision resources. Being able to write just a function and have it consume just that tiny amount of resources rather than a whole VM is huge. Being able to spin instances up and down as you need them is huge.

A 75 million dollar price tag is also huge.

Bothering about the operational impact of a VM or a request sent to a function-as-a-service might be a significant operational issue if your whole team can be moved around with a small sports utility vehicle.

Once you've grow over the point where your monthly cloud pricetag eclipses your company's paycheck budget, operating your own hardware is a no-brainer.

> But cloud platforms in 2020 have a lot more features (...)

That really doesn't matter at all, does it?

I mean, cloud providers are already repackaging FLOSS services as their Serverless offering.

And besides pursuing the latest fad, how many of those features are killed off and vanish from the face of the earth?

It's always great if we can get others to do the work for us, but if we consider the absurd premium charged by cloud providers for their services... Well, those "others" doing the work can be employed by your company and you still save money.
I’ll quickly try: there are a handful of big supermarket chains - the article and the video reportage mention Coop, Conad, Gruppo Selex, Esselunga, Eurospin - that set prices and mandatory discounts. They essentially don’t compete, and fairness is only left to goodwill (e.g. Coop is historically tied to the Left and operates under a more worker-friendly CoC. In theory.)

Access to consumer markets is either via a looooong chain of small, inefficient and parasitic intermediaries or via the GDO, the logistics organizations of these few supermarket chains.

So the farmers are squeezed, they fall in debt and go bankrupt, or sell out to big landlords; and both tend to employ illegal immigrants under inhuman working conditions to meet the prices set by the aforementioned.
Well it is like that, except instead of picking any attribute possible, you're picking from a pre-selected list which have been saved as variables, i.e. utility classes. And it also provides workarounds for the things that inexplicably don't work in inline CSS, like media queries.
this sounds like the kind of world I would like to live in
why do people think excel isn't real technology?
If Biden follows the playbook he had with Barack goodness knows he'll give the boys in blue and black whatever they want when it comes to surveillance of private citizens.
It's a bad cycle.

Lackluster performance means low adoption. Low adoption means developers have no incentive to support it. Lack of developer support means little or no software will be written for the platform so performance never improves. Repeat.
Jamstack Explorers
That's astonishing. I think every mother over a certain age is offered a test here in Norway as a matter of course along with genetic counselling to make sure that she is able to make an informed decision once the result is known. This was the case for my children decades ago in Norway.
And I could play disingeniously and claim a much higher percentage in my home country, where distributors routinely make much much more. But again, that would be disingenuous, since our environment for comparison is the US market and not the Indian or Italian market, both of which are rife with corruption. I could counter with a German or a British example which would just as much counter your point.
Not answering the question, but https://opensource.builders/ does list sufficiently well ran and living projects you can self-host.

You can look at the categories to see where the gaps are.
Yes but no. The figure you reference shows the lowest price of a lowers tier available. I am pretty sure if you cannot switch from S3 with full availability to S3 Glacier, your savings will not be SO impressive as that fall-off-the-cliff figure.
I hope like hell “FAANG caliber devs” never take an interest in this space. Or at least not until the culture changes substantially.

There are just some things that “throw devs (of any quality) at it” just doesn’t work. The health care industry is one of them.
Human maid in the western world costs real $$$
Retail in general is down ~20-40% YoY

And I'd argue the money is being spent somewhere, so the state won't have a total loss. It's likely offset by the fed stimulus spending, for now.

Somewhat related anecdote: I looked at a liquor store for sale. In a low-mid income area. After consistently growing sales ~$100k/year, 2020 is over a $1M increase over 2019. Of course, seller wants to base multiple off 2020 which is obviously needs an non-recurring item adjustment.
> Why wouldn't Apple's console be capable (or arguably even better) at running AAA titles? The vast majority of AAA titles aren't platform exclusives.

Stadia is perfectly capable of running AAA titles (more or less, though it's a pain to develop for, as an Apple ARM box would be).

It's still a miserable failure, because gaming is about understanding a huge ecosystem play and, in many ways, culturally going for a market segment that Apple flat out doesn't like and doesn't understand.
Continuous glucose monitoring for everyone:

> The month-long Levels program includes two 14-day CGM sensors and access to the Levels app, which provides real-time analysis on how food, exercise, and other lifestyle decisions are impacting your health. Currently in a closed beta, Levels has a 50,000+ person waitlist and will be available for consumer purchase in early 2021.

Similar to blood pressure, metabolic health is a continuum between very healthy and very unhealthy. Background in past HN threads: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15521882, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14390728
twin is a babel macro that supports integrating tw util classes with css-in-js libs like emotion
Agreed; probably more in the ballpark of $275k / $300k.
I like the recipe analogy. I've not thought of a better term. u/edejong uses the term "sequential programming", which might be the right (best) answer.

u/rgoulter wrote:

"I'd note that the recipe used in the post doesn't include a list of ingredients."

Yup. Also missing are preconditions, assumptions, defensive programming. Maybe forgivable omissions from a blog entry. But those "ingredient" steps are what allow the "recipe" to be simple.

u/contingencies wrote:

"decouple your ingredient prep from your cooking algorithm."

This is The Correct Answer[tm].

But I don't see anyone explaining why: It makes the code testable, directly.

Stated another way:

Decouple all the async, blocking, I/O stuff from the business logic. And do not interleave those tasks.

How you know you're doing it wrong:

Any and all use of mocking, dependency injection, inversion of control is wrong. Therefore, the presence of Spring and Mockito (and their knockoffs) is strong evidence you're doing things wrong.
Hi! Thanks for chiming in :)

In another comment of this sub-thread ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25140605 ) I wrote:

> "Still, I like SE a lot and might be interested in doing the work. So, I'll make my point to the ML (expanding on A. points I brought here, and B. contradictions that commenters brought), asking if folks are convinced by the vision, and asking for technical advice to build the incremental path. Then if there's agreement, maybe I, or someone else, will commit to it."

Do you think it remains worthwhile that I bring the discussion, or is it 100% nailed among current maintainers that the "incremental path" I'm hoping for doesn't exist and "just fork / do your own thing for your language and register your domain" is already the consensus?
7nm doesn't require EUV. Intel has 10nm which is equivalent to TSMC 10nm without EUV, altough it's not that great.

SMIC has already produced some 7nm chips without EUV.

As for EUV for the further future, there has been quite a bit of research in that domain for many years in pre-emption of this, and while I think they will be a node or a node and a half behind for a while, they will almost certainly have one ready eventually. Of course, that will be accelerated by stealing data on EUV machines, or maybe buying a used EUV machine from someone and reverse-engineering it.
Sounds like a fun rabbit hole - thank you for the suggestion.
I had the same experience. The dealer knew I was ready to walk, but it was as simple as "computer says no lower". I sold them a car, and saw it listed the following day. My napkin math said that the margin was close to 0 on the car in the first place,once they had paid £30 to tax it and a salesperson an hour to talk to someone and take their details.
I really think it's modern American values (or more generally those of WEIRD[1] countries) that are the outlier, when we consider what's "extreme".

Like, I get this whiff of parochialism, like people have never been outside North America or Western Europe.

A concern with ancestors and descendants is baked deeply into many "pre-" monotheistic religions, whether aboriginal, Shinto, "pagan" from e.g. Europe (e.g. origins of All Souls Day), etc. In a way these "different" religions all share much in common. I'm sort-of trying to break down the mental walls we put between these categories. I'm saying these are the normal beliefs people have had since forever.

Likewise, taboos against divorce are ubiquitous. That's like the whole point of marriage. You might not ban divorce outright, but it's supposed to be the exception.

Heteronormativity (which you mentioned) varies more across cultures, but even here I think 2020 leftish culture is now an outlier. Yes, the conservative American culture it was born in reaction against was, in global terms, not among the most tolerant. But while a larger degree of toleration (e.g. via various "third gender" concepts) exists elsewhere, I think this is done in more of a pluralistic/subculture way than by really changing prevailing dominant norms. More of a "oh yeah, some people are different, which is ok, they're called _______." There's also more "you're probably going to form a heterosexual marriage and have kids, but maybe you also had a same-sex lover (especially when you were younger)", like the ancient Greeks. Like, Zeus took male lovers but was married to Hera and seems pretty culturally "straight". I'm saying there may be more tolerance but it still fits into a traditional and somewhat heteronormative framework.

Back on the ancestors/descendants thing -- I find the conflict between leftish and conservative-Christian values funny, because it was Christianity (and monotheism more generally) that did a lot of the work of reducing emphasis on family, lineage, and kin. You could call this the transition from "these are my people" to "we are all children of God". Now we have a leftish monotheism-without-God.

It's hard for me to explain what I'm trying to get across. It's like -- most of the world, and most of history, is conservative/traditional in a way that The Culture (in the Ian Banks sense) isn't. It's focused on kinship and rooted in biological interest. And even when those cultures seem "more tolerant" it's still within some traditional framework that keeps an emphasis on the heterosexual reproductive union.

All of which is to widen the frame and make us reconsider what is "extreme".

I'm also saying that this word "modern" just, with a sweep of the hand, dismisses the traditional beliefs of ... basically anyone who immigrates to America. It's a cultural erasure. Which I think many people will come to regret.

[1] "western, educated, industrialized, rich and democratic" -- a term from psychology
I don't think this is true, Neato is not owned by iRobot
Didn't work for Google or Amazon.

Both of whom spent a lot.
I believe they're referring to https://github.com/FullHuman/purgecss.
"Instant elasticity in cloud is a myth"

This times a million. I think SQS standard queues are probably the only thing that IME actually fulfill that promise.
Oooorrrr some of us just don't care what you might think are good practices. I find tossing classes is more maintainable than trying to refactor down.
Is it possibly very bright where you sit? Blinds may make your life a lot more pleasant.
It's not just writing, good communication skills in general, and this applies to non-remote, too. This is just common sense. Don't hire someone that can't or won't communicate well with you and your team. Writing is a good start, but I think a lot of people are using audio and video calls for work.
Interesting... I don't think I would open an account though, seems like too much of a pain to have to move my money again in four years when google inevitably sunsets this product.