skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would love if the browse page could sort by "popular" or "recommended". With such a carefully curated collection it seems a shame to not surface the best ebooks more easily.
I think so, but a worker won't have access to the DOM and a bunch of other APIs, so the code would be fairly limited in what it can do. Which may be fine for some usecases!
> sit down restaurant service ... seemed to be going the way of the movie theater ... who wouldn't be just as happy ... in the comfort of their home and probably watching a movie

Well, I'm just one data point, but I vastly prefer going out for dinner (and sitting down, getting a menu, having a waiter) and going in person to a movie theater to doing those things in my same-old living room that I see every night. I don't know just how in the minority I am, but there are some of us who think it's worth the extra money you pay to have the experience.
Whats their margin? If they have any competition at all, 2.8% savings could be fat.
If those living in region A have less employment options than those living in region B, then workers from region A will receive lower offers for their labor. This is a fundamental aspect of market dynamics. There is less demand for labor from region A, so the price of that labor (e.g. the wage) is lower.

If society deems this undesirable, the government can create polices to try to achieve a different outcome. This would be a complex undertaking. But I imagine there are beneficial options that exist, especially if the goal is to merely reduce or mitigate the harshest aspects of the labor markets. We already do this in many cases. Employment law is a big area of law.
Yeah, from my experience the speed of RAM makes the biggest difference in regular usage. It's especially visible in GTK apps which perform noticeably better on the Librem 5. Compilation times on L5 are also much shorter. GPU is another factor, but obviously that matters only in GPU-heavy workflows, like games (or at least should, there are still some optimizations in phoc to be done ;)).

From obvious things that matter a lot in regular usage I'd also mention that L5 supports 5GHz WiFi that PP doesn't (and I've already seen some places with 5GHz-only WiFi), and its screen is much prettier (colors and blacks - I don't have many objective measures, but the difference is obvious in person).
Decouple payments/subscriptions from distribution (AppStore). Allow us to pay using Stripe, PayPal, Amazon Payments, Google Pay, Apple Pay, or any of a host of other payment processors: the developer can choose his own payment platform, just like in the rest of the world outside of the iPhone.

That's a good first step towards competition that would allow Apple to keep the AppStore exclusivity -- for now.
> Common advice here will be not to use pure black or white colors, which, as perfectly described in the article, hardly present in the real-world color pallet.

However, on the OLED screens that are all the rage now, and for good reason, a pure black background means those pixels are off, which saves power and shines less light into the user's eyes making the screen less tiring.

Aesthetics aren't always good for your health/battery.
> your employer should also have a budget for conf travel.

In my case, my employer paid my travel/lodging fees and I did not have to pay anything out-of-pocket (or take PTO or anything). However, if I were (for example) between jobs -- or if my employer refused to pay for travel/lodging to conferences -- I'd still strongly recommend the buy.

In my experience, larger or more corporate conferences tend to pay more (including travel, lodging, and sometimes cash compensation), but the smaller, more "community-oriented" conferences do not.
If you think that email is impressive, wait until you hear about the other shit this guy’s accomplished
Dude, you're the one who said

> Their device, their decision. The consumer gets to decide if they like it or not.

and now you're telling me that the case law isn't definitive?

That's my whole point - you're making strong assertions as if they are the way the law works, when they are just your personal opinion on how things ought to work. Numerous decisions in the past have required companies to change how they do things on their devices. I'm not saying the case will be decided against Apple.
Of course it's not a single server.
Data has a way of self-cleansing but somewhat agreed. Garbage in, garbage out.
'Market failure' is a term of art, and it's generally best to avoid redefining terms of art unless there's a very compelling reason to do so.

Failing to meet people's needs is definitely a problem, but not a uniquely market-driven one. If there is a specific phenomenon which causes markets to fail in the delivery of socially desirable goods, it would be good to come up with a specific description and corresponding term of art.
I agree.

I'm an unusual American, in that I consider healthy work-life balance to be top priority, at least for everyday employees (founders and such have a different path).

I do try to make room for the idea that my understanding of this is likely superficial, and that there may be things that I am missing, here.
I would happily go back to the original Gmail interface it launched with in 2004
Is it there an alternative notation for continued fractions in the style of pi notation?
I think there is another angle here too which is whether or not milk should be a staple. The market could function properly. It would mean people drink less cows milk and more other milk substitutes which could be good for everyone in the long run.
The cloud can be cheaper if you write your software for the cloud and need more redundancy.

The issue is that people use the cloud as just another random VM to run their software.
Google moves into Venmo, banks’ territory with checking accounts
Chinese team finds security vulnerabilities in Apple M1 chip and iPhone 12 Pro
A determined user will still be able to figure out something that blocks forever, for instance run a WASM program that has an infinite loop in it.
That's an illusion. I make that much and with two kids I can barely save a a couple of grand a month. Childcare: ~3k, rent: ~3k, food: ~2k.
In my opinion he’d be better off focusing on 1, maybe 2, projects and seeing those through to “completion” (whether that’s positive MRR or closing). Which 1 or 2 products? Well he should have done his market research ahead of time and known from his list which ones were most viable. Better yet, he should have found customers ready to hand over their CC information.
It's arguably inefficient from the perspective of the dual mandate (price stability and maximum sustainable employment), but what the fed did would be efficient under the view that employment is too high to be sustainable.
isn't everyone's kid a creative genius?
Exactly, you can even get infrared thermometers for less now that they are being used to take people's temperatures when they enter a business.
>It's just a recognition that the economy is global, not national.

True, and good point.

>just reflects the biases of the people making the decisions...The market's only real "failure" is that it's too democratic

This is a failure if you can agree that people are less than optimal at making decisions, i.e. that humans have biases that work against their own rational self-interest at times. Meaning the market can exacerbate faulty decision heuristics. Behavioral economics is full of examples of this that classical economics simply labels as "anomalies". I tend to think the socialization aspect is an admonition that markets don't always work best when humans are at their most emotional/least rational.

Most people excluding the most ardent anarcho-capitalists recognize there are times when a completely free market doesn't serve the best interest of society (e.g., healthcare, monopolies). Sometimes I think people get it inverted and think society serves the market and not the other way around.
You don't just need data to sue. You need a lawyer. Lawyers cost money. Yelp has more money than the parent poster. Yelp would not lose such a case.
> I live in high-CoL area, $FriendsAddress is my NYC address.

Using PHP presumably... there's your salary rate problem.
I'm actually vegan, so I'm here with you there, but my first priority is calling out free-market-evangelism where I see it.
its not. You can think you define it like this, but our society is not killing humans when we abort.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homicide
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fetus

" The other question related to the beginning of human life is even more difficult to answer. It is the fertilization of the egg cells; but a conglomeration of cells in the early phase of pregnancy can hardly be characterized as a human person. The human identity, personality, and worth is associated with the functioning of the brain, so only when the brain is fully developed can there be any talk about an unborn human being." https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7476658/

Just because you say 'It is absolutly killing a human' your statement is wrong.
> Plants need light and water (and quite a bit of it)

Cannabis plants are also rather... fragrant. Large illicit grows often have a duct and fan system to try to deal with it.
I think there are compromises, such as doing away with a star rating review system, and only showing positive reviews.

The unfortunate side effect is you never end up learning which companies to stay away from, because a system like that only focuses on the good, but you need a system that benefits both buyers and sellers.
For sure. Most businesses would be happy to pay a dollar or two for traffic sent their way from various channels, including some kind of directory with reviews. You just need to show proof that a given customer came from that directory. A single-use coupon code springs to mind, a fake phone number (one per directory service per business), bounced links embedded inside driving directions, direct link to a page where one can order or reserve a spot and such, etc. Anything that attaches a token to a user will work as a proof.

It's all possible, but simply asking for $100 is a lot easier because the power disparity is so huge.

Then there is the fact that is Facebook ever shows interest they can easily crush the entire market - they don't need to make immediate money and the identity of the reviewers is better known, providing higher quality score.
PongoOS coming to Apple Silicon Macs to allow custom OS such as Linux
I'm referring to the Trump-ordered assassination of Qasem Soleimani. He was Iran's equivalent of the Secretary of Defense, and also a folk-hero to Iranians. Soleimani was assassinated by US drone strike in January 2020.

Iran responded with a carefully-targeted retaliation - a small missile strike against an unused/unmaintained US military installation in Iraq. There were no casualties.

Iran chose a target with low strategic value and no personnel present. Just enough of a strike that they could sell it as retaliation, but not enough of a strike to escalate into a full war.

I won't pretend to know if the assassination was warranted or necessary. But it's easily something that Iran could have used to justify a war.
Is losing a CPU a common enough failure-case that it makes sense to implement fail-safes for? I would think that's pretty low on the list of likely causes of failure.
Ramanujan's number, 1729:

> I remember once going to see him when he was ill at Putney. I had ridden in taxi cab number 1729 and remarked that the number seemed to me rather a dull one, and that I hoped it was not an unfavourable omen. "No," he replied, "it is a very interesting number; it is the smallest number expressible as the sum of two cubes in two different ways."
Would this mean we are having a bunch of asymptomatic reinfections resulting in retransmission? Surely we would have seen a lot of examples of this already with test and trace?
I have made something similar (https://easylang.online/ide/). It is a language of its own, which is compiled and interpreted by WASM. The problem with hanging in endless loops is solved by running the interpreter in a "web worker" that can be killed and restarted at any time.
> There is a LOT more to development than coding

Agreed. Many companies already have paid work hours for hiring. I just listed those examples because those seems to be more common than work days ATM and isn't most employment in US at will unlike EU and developed parts of the world?

I understand the company will still have some cost to that but why should individuals be worked for free to offset that?
Awesome Tensor Compilers
Because the dev community seems to think that you shouldn't be allowed to go to the bathroom without checking in with Apple first, for "security."
Many people use our Listen Later playlists to curate podcasts / episodes by topics.

Here are some examples: https://www.listennotes.com/podcast-playlists/

Each playlist has a rss feed. So you can subscribe to the playlist on any podcast app (except for spotify or the like)
That’s not what anybody is saying. Are you offering to pay for the extra millions in lifetime care and need for those children?
Very interesting article, last time I tried OpenBSD I was pushed away by all the new networking infrastructure I had to learn from scratch, but this makes me want to give it another go.

Side note: Always glad to see other people running their blog on CodiMD. I use it for my personal site and we switched to it for our company blog a few years back and it's been great. We even hacked together a custom static site builder around it that lets us embed the published articles in our site UI.
If that is what the official Podcasts app returns, it’s bad search results.
Fed Put
I really liked this post. 6 months of great experience series.

Keep going man!

I also added it to the https://mastermind.vision
I hope you don't mind.
Wondering why a company like Netflix did the opposite?
This isn’t new, either nature took care of things in the past or people did...

We’ve essentially only had a few decades when it was not possible to identify these conditions in the womb and society was able and willing to support these individuals and allow them to live on.

Realistically in the past these children would’ve been killed by their parents either directly or through abandonment and those who weren’t often didn’t survive through adulthood especially once their parents have passed.
You have to guess at the return on being first to market anyhow. If anything, if there are multiple tiers of prizes on offer, then the risk is lower overall.

A healthcare system will typically have a good idea what it needs, whereas a pharmaceutical company will rightly enough focus on what will make the most profit.

Put another way: you don't need to set prizes for every drug. A better treatment for malaria is not going to make much money, because most of the patients will be in less-developed countries. But if you produce a side-effect free drug to reverse baldness, you will absolutely mint it by first selling into wealthier countries at very high prices to "skim the market", then lowering it over time.

Prizes would work better for low-profit/high-impact, for the rest you can mostly rely on pharmaceutical companies to rationally pursue their best interests.
There are lots of entities that are big enough. Given that the cloud stacks change from time to time, you don't reduce your need for engineers and other SMEs -- in some cases you need more.

I would say as someone who supports lots and lots of apps that cloud services are usually financial winners in a SaaS perspective and in a rapid growth scenario. Nobody can deliver Exchange cheaper than Microsoft. My team stood up apps for covid related activity for 20-40% of the cost and more importantly type than services under our organizations control.

That said, for what I would call "base load" scenarios, in many scenarios it's exactly the opposite.
Given 2323 employees in 2019[1], that's an average of a $32k bonus if paid out to the employees.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dropbox_(service)
The New Google Pay
p = 0.38?!

Nobody would take a p-value of 0.38 as evidence. There are a lot of problems with p-values in general, but even uncritical fans of p-values would ignore any study with p = 0.38.
K8ssandra – Distribution of Apache Cassandra for Kubernetes
Are the docs custom or are you using a third party product? Doesn’t look like Swagger UI or Slate.
> help you get hired ... a CS degree, a top-branded college, a top-branded former employer

Well, while it's true that people with all of that will have no problem finding jobs, you should remember that there aren't that many of them and employers eventually have to be flexible somewhere if they actually want to fill a position.
The withholding will be screwed up, but if you claim to be in NY and are actually in Wyoming, you'll probably get a big refund.

But you'll file in your real state of residence, and the other state will then insist you owe them taxes because your employer reported you were working there.

That could be an awkward conversation since a W-4 has this above your signature: "Under penalties of perjury, I declare that this certificate, to the best of my knowledge and belief, is true, correct, and complete."

Definitely consult a tax attorney before you try anything like this.
Understood. However, I think that the fact that it's a YC company makes it relevant for this site, which is why it's "still allowed to pollute Hacker News".
I don't think the OP disagrees, but the keyword here is "unpaid", let alone the opportunity cost for working at a potentially bad-fit company for a month.
Apple agrees to pay $113M to settle iPhone ‘batterygate’
> There's many, many ways of learning through these devices.

You can artificially lock down the device and expose only such things, but default mode is YouTube and Roblox type stuff.
That makes sense on a macro-economic level, but is an absolutely insane policy in a country with so few safety nets.
> This is not to say that a company should do anything it wants, far from it. It simply means that if you accept that you live in a market-enabled society, your salary is at stake, too. You want to pay $2 dollars for milk, instead of $20? That's thanks to competition between companies. That's market forces at play. You want it there? Accept it on salary negotiation too.

So, what exactly are you saying then? Should there be checks in place to ensure salary negotiations between an employer and employee be treated differently than two big companies hashing out milk prices or not?

If not that would certainly be a very naive position which gets increasingly problematic, quickly, the more lopsided negotiation power and money is distributed between the two parties. A human centric society has to provide checks for that. An understanding of what we want can for example be driven by articles such as the one linked and is instrumental to the process.
So is the only reason to buy TPUs to learn about them and go work for Google or something? Why sell them if you can't use them for anything (as Google considers anything computing to be under their domain).
Definitely agree and this is one reason for my reduction in drinking.
Yes, likely. I also would not make sense for a small company to build distribution and marketing channels (marketing might not be necessary in this case).
Also, big name. Nobody knows BionTech but the name Pfizer signals trust. In most cases the small company is actually getting bought by big pharma.

I work on a medical consumer device. Would be madness to market this ourself. A big company has the resources for distribution and marketing.
I am still waiting for them to stop using the world ROBOTS. It means slaves.
Reread the thread.

> 'Market failure' is a term of art, and it's generally best to avoid redefining terms of art unless there's a very compelling reason to do so.

The person conflating "market failure" with what they were talking about is the GP.

The original comment was about the market failing to accomplish a goal, which is a perfectly idiomatic usage.
I never said he didn’t know these skills, I said if he’s not willing to put the time to marketing and advertise each of these websites, then they’re not businesses. There’s nothing wrong with having a hobby of building web apps, I do it too. But a business is more than tech.
sigh something is wrong here and I can't pinpoint exactly what.
Yes, as the other comments get at the "hack" I'm referring to is a loop transform that adds a timer check to the condition.
Folks might be interested in Hacking Life (available under a CC license at MIT Press). I have chapters on the history, practice, and excesses of hacking time and productivity.

https://hackinglife.mitpress.mit.edu/
Different people have different communications styles, and resolving that is always tough. But there are definitely those who communicate poorly in any medium -- and I find that often they're the ones who like media where they don't leave a trail that can be pinned on them.

There are are advantages to the "quick call", and some people definitely work better that way. But I much prefer written communication: not only do I get to refer back to it, but it's more asynchronous, freeing me up considerably.

"Let's talk" often seems like a barbarous imposition on my time, that I have to hear it right now and make any decisions while you're staring at me. I try to keep in mind that they just have a different communications style, but that's not always easy.
Cloud is taking a taxi everywhere, bare metal is owning your own car.

In one case, you pay a premium so that somebody else worries about all details and maintenance, and in the other, you take on that burden but don't pay the premium. This has always been true for everything where a service is provided to you.

Great if your needs are small or not well known because there is no initial investment, but bad in the long run.
> Compiler does the reordering.

It does, but you can always disassemble the DXBC and see what happened to your HLSL code.

> DX11 allows no such feat.

ID3D11DeviceContext::Dispatch is asynchronous just like CopyResource. Dispatch multiple shaders, and unless they have data dependencies (i.e. same buffer written by one as UAV and read by the next one as SRV) they'll happily run in parallel. No need for manual shenanigans with command queues.
DHH's take on it

Basecamp co-founder
@dhh
criticizes $AAPL's new App Store Small Business Program calling the announcement "insignificant."
https://twitter.com/SquawkAlley/status/1329106646556094464?s...
all clouds are not equal either..

colo'd datacenter or 'off brand' cloud provider can easily be much cheaper than the big 3, still get you out of 'dealing with hardware' and either way you are still 'setting up infrastructure' in terms of developing software management tools for your system
UI&UX Schemes
I just looked through my bookshelves and here’s what I’ve been through since college (in no particular order other than top to bottom on my shelves):

7 books on general ML (highlights: Murphy’s Machine Learning, Hastie et al’s ESL, Koller&Friedman’s PGMs)

5 on more specialized ML (highlights: Agarwal&Chen’s statistical recommender systems book, Manning&Schutze’s statistical NLP, Settles’ active learning)

13 on stats (highlights: Wooldridge’s econometrics of x-section/panel data, Angrist&Pischke’s econometrics)

4 on numerical methods (highlight: Absil et al’s optimization on matrix manifolds)

4 on CS (highlight: CLRS’s intro to algorithms)

10 on calculus/geometry/topology/algebra (highlights: Bachman’s geometric approach to differential forms, Hestenes&Sobzyk's
Clifford algebra to geometric calculus)

8 on fiction writing (highlight: Bickham’s Scene & Structure)

And Rosenberg‘s Nonviolent Communication (not a textbook, but still a highlight worth mentioning).

It amounts to between 3 and 4 per year. Looking back and counting them up, my reaction is holy crap that’s a lot, but that’s kinda the point. Each year it is a reasonable amount of self study. Not nothing, but not anything crazy. Over the course of many years, it adds up to a hell of a lever.