skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find it interesting to see continental European perspectives on why the EU is lagging in AI/ML, and the caricatures of cultural differences between the US, EU and China as they relate to technology and innovation.

> Uszkoreit says we have a "Teutonic fear" of AI. It's either too good and will steal our jobs, or not good enough for critical tasks, or evil and will turn against us. We're obsessed with regulation and an "arrogance" that wants to teach the rest of the world what is ethical and trustworthy, he says. We should, says Uszkoreit, focus more on protecting people and saving lives, than protecting and saving their data.
Transparent privacy practices for Chrome Extensions
Depends on what your use case is. For GPU compute, in my experience, it's pretty much 2 months of continuous usage.
Agreed, and I pretty thoroughly unpacked that argument in the thread from three years ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14309984

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14310444
No, many pay a lot more. Basically if you see any indicators of company highlights on Yelp, they're paying for it, and they're passing off Yelp's extortion to you by increasing margins. Yelp tries to keep a visible dichotomy on their site by offering "Sponsored Results," but the reality of their listings is that they're almost all sponsored results.

Their reputation is so poor among some circles now that I don't see them staying in power 10 years out. They're going the way of the BBB.

As a result, you're safer searching for certain types of businesses on Google Maps, but even Google has "GOOGLE GUARANTEED" and possibly other paid-for indicators which make me not trust their results.

The market incentives are so bad among rating and business directory sites that I can only imagine that at this point, only a mutual company dedicated to business directory services can survive long-term. I don't think any exist right now.
That page is targeted at the value proposition for the company, not the student.

There are legit benefits to the company, in addition to the major benefits to the student.
I dunno. Where I live I can go to the cannabis store across from the liquor store in the big-box mall and purchase reasonable rations of each using my credit card and not get arrested. I can even go to the government-owned websites and order cannabis or liquor online for delivery.

I have also been to Peru where I was woken each day with a hot cup of coca tea and I could buy packaged coca leaves in the supermarkets.

I think "most societies" treat psychoactive substances with respect and toleration and view the over-consumption or inappropriate use as a disease that needs treatment. It is only a few social outliers that do not.
I have a daughter with Down's (we didn't know during pregnancy - actually, we didn't find out until she was almost 2!!), and my wife got NIPT tests on subsequent pregnancies. I don't know what we'd have done had either of them been positive, but at the very least we wanted to know beforehand.

Like you said, there's nothing to be ashamed of here.
> . And I personally suspect that the future will have traditional ram, with the on-chip ram acting as a kind of last level cache.

Amiga Chip RAM/Fast RAM is the new hotness.
Ok, this one is entirely fair, but also I'd argue the circumstances around it are a little different.

Given how tightly integrated wechat is with the chinese government, and the restriction of wechat pay to use with folks who have a Chinese/Hong Kong bank account, we're talking about different levels of utility around preserving the record.

If the government chooses not to honor your transaction record, it doesn't really matter if you have a copy yourself.
I would've loved this as a new university grad. I remember lamenting that nothing like this seemed to exist at the time.
Ah, I do that too, that must be why playing with this app made me happy :-) Thanks for making it, have bookmarked it.
Was referring to they = Google, spend = Google's funding of Play Store development and infrastructure (in context to parent's comment)
Over the past few years I've been working on improving the thermal efficiency of our house, which has mainly been strategic air sealing / adding insulation.

One thing I've definitely noticed is that as I improve the insulation in one area of the house, other areas will get colder.

The reasoning is that the worst insulated spots in my house were near to the thermostat. Now they they can maintain heat decently, the further way areas are allowed to cool more before the heat kicks on.

The first tool someone should buy when investigating the thermal efficiency of their house is one of the cheap ($30- $50 if I remember right) infrared thermometers.

The temperature of your house is likely 5-10F off from what your thermostat claims, particularly the further you get from the thermostat.
With absolute numbers of 162 and 8, 94.9% would have an error range of somewhere around 10%, right? So the actual percent would be somewhere in the range of 85-97%?

(No actual math done here, I'm ballparking it based on looking at error ranges with sample size 100 at work; my main point is that I don't think the ~20k enrolled in each group affects this particular error range, so even though "94.9%" is stated precisely the actual data isn't nearly so precise)
And still the church contains pedophiles and homophobes.

We have to see it as a whole thing and as a whole is negative.
> I don't know what you're getting at by this statement.

Saying "Maybe his teams were all India based?" sounds dismissive or pejorative, as though you were saying that he must have been somewhere that was not doing premier work, or working as part of a cooperative team in a way that valued the work he and his team did.

However the essay clearly described how innovative his ongoing work and contributions were when they were being done, including linking to research papers. They were progressively pushing forward the state of the art in the database world, and did it in production in wide deployment. What happened was that the culture at IBM identified him as someone who could lead, and as I described, their database organizations at the time helped grow people into these roles.
I mean, the more important question for me is, is running your own infrastructure something that should be a core competency. For Dropbox, the answer seems like an obvious yes. I mean, virtually their entire product is around data storage. I would be shocked if they COULDN'T save money to build a storage system tailored to their needs.
My personal favorite is "find usages". You can destroy dead code which makes life a bit better in a large codebase. The pretty basic auto refactor is also nice

It seems like there are just a lot of those small things you get used to that are really nice
Companies can't stop you from unionizing, but as Walmart has shown time and again, they will straight up close a store and lay-off every employee there if there are rumours of unionization. They would rather not have a store at all than have a store where the employees are unionized.
Is anything you listed even remotely on the same level as "assembly language and pascal with s3m libraries to program a game", what does Duolingo have to do with being able to understand and prod the workings of the machine in your hand.

Still a locked down black box designed around attention algorithms and I'm getting tired of pretending it's not.
Lucky you :)
A subsidy to a private corporation is not "socializing" production costs. Socialization is putting goods under social control. This is literally the opposite -- providing benefits to private interests. Even if the end has the appearance of being for the social good, in reality this has more to do with the power of the private dairy lobby than any pricing concerns about availability of milk.

That dairy producer's lobby is quite powerful and politically important to both parties. See the key role they played in the politics Trump was playing around NAFTA renegotiations last year.
Very interesting to see if the 6900's will have a better value proposition than 3090 which seems to be just a waste of power with no real improvement on the 3080 (for gaming at least). Good job AMD - I'm very glad they have caught up on GPUs.
Wayland still not ready for daily use. Over last few years I tried it several times with Kubuntu and KDE Neon and every time stuck with issues latest of which was impossibility to make Virt-viewer client work properly on 85Hz.

Also some issues with hardware acceleration in Firefox, glitches in IDEA IDEs, etc. Also 3 monitors configuration sometimes end up messed up...
> given their history with Pippin

Although I agree with your conclusion, the Apple Newton didn't prevent the creation of the iPad. That would have been a little silly—both Apple and the world are so different now.
No opinion on this particular issue, but actual doctors mess up correlation vs. causation all the time.

This shouldn't surprise; medical doctors generally are not scientists (although there are good scientists who are doctors).
Take a look at https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

Show HN is for something you've made that other people can play with. HN users can try it out, give you feedback, and ask questions in the thread

Home setups are fun but not really a Show HN topic since they're not things you've made other HN users can try.
I appreciate your reply and testimony!

The "image" of JPII is a conundrum. On the one hand, he was extremely charismatic and gave many, many people a very real hope and a sense of purpose during a desolate century. However, he was and is not Jesus and the "media Pope" is a problem the Church has been dealing with since. The Pope must travel and must smile, etc etc whereas we know a Pope certainly has his work cut out for him just in the Vatican. The Church has never taught that every image and utterance of the Pope is divinely wrought, but media has twisted us into an odd place. "You wouldn't dare criticize the Pope, would you? Look how holy and beautiful he is!". (By media and "us" I am referring to believing Catholics; obviously secular media has no problem criticizing the Pope). In the US there has been a marked shift since McCarrick in the laity for holding the bishops more accountable, which albeit it is proceeding at a much slower pace than any of us would like. But a dam has broken, thank God.

Regarding the US, I mentioned the American church & McCarrick as an example of still-living Vatican power-players shifting blame and it was not my intention to say such problems are unique to America. Indeed, Dziwisz and other players boil my blood like little else.
NimDBX: Fast persistent key-value store for Nim, based on libmdbx
Great work Wenbin! What's the hardest part about maintaining this API?
That's encouraging to hear that the Netherlands has an allowance for unpaid work when the goal is the learning experience. It's really clear to us at Lambda that the best way to _learn_ to do a thing is to do the _real_ thing, but US Labor Laws can make it difficult to have students doing real work that would provide the best learning experience, which is kinda self-defeating.
I think there is a pretty clear distinction, in that wide spread sex selective abortion results in a skewed gender population which causes obvious negative long term problems. It is very reasonable for a person to look at a society and say “we need increase the number of girls born”. We might have to discuss what is the best way to reach that goal but it is a reasonable goal to have. While I think saying “we need increase the number of people born with Down Syndrome” is never a morally defensible position.
It's nice that the 737 Max has now been recertified by the FAA.
But to be honest, after the FAA's handling of the original certification of the Max, I don't trust them to get it right now.
So as long as it hasn't been certified by any of the other air safety agencies around the world. The 737 Max is a no go for me.
They basically are using this as the final exam of the school, in place of working on a project with peers.
Seconded. In particular, I've come to recognize the growing confluence of woke politics and tech management as major impediment on my ability to do my job well. Reading up on career coaching and psychology has certainly helped, but can also serve to overcomplicate the situation. My therapist provides highly personal and much more practical guidance in accepting the bs.
> by significantly reducing the absolute number of developers suffering the full impact whilst taking the minimum possible hit to their revenue

When you put it like that, it sounds pretty good!
Nextstrain SARS-CoV-2 strain analysis resources
And if someone at the bar buys you a drink and you're not totally sure why, you can go over to them and say "Hey, I don't understand this message. Can you explain it to me?" You posses the social skill to ask for clarification, you lack the social skill of flirting.

That I can have someone translate to and from Urdu for me does not mean I have the social skill required to communicate via Urdu. Likewise, that your parents can ask you whether something is spam or not doesn't mean they have the social skill required to communicate via email.

Wikipedia defines social skills as:

"A social skill is any competence facilitating interaction and communication with others where social rules and relations are created, communicated, and changed in verbal and nonverbal ways."

If the ability to effectively communicate via a medium doesn't satisfy that definition, what does? You are welcome to use a different definition, but that's what I am referring to by social skills.
No, not forever. If you drop below $1M you can join again, but you have to wait a full year before doing so, during which time you are subject to the 30% rate even if you make less than $1M during that year.
Power consumption and package pinout/motherboard simplification would be the main two benefits.

Latency in DRAM access is dominated by the controller logic on the CPU side (minority) and the bank access and amplification circuitry on the DRAM side (majority). Time of flight down the wires is fairly negligible.

Power draw for the interface does scale meaningfully with wire length though. Also, routing the 100+ signals (command, address, data, reference voltages) can be a challenge, especially if the package is constrained on pin count.

The tradeoff is that maximum RAM capacity is significantly reduced. Die can be thinned and stacked quite high, but the need to share command, address, data busses means signal integrity problems and increased power for the interface with no performance increase. Stacking die has yield issues as well, so cost rises faster than linear. And finally, power dissipation becomes a real issue, DRAM doesn't like getting too hot and the bottom of that stack is a long way from the heatsink.
Just as a reminder: You are not Dropbox. You personally need to run the numbers with both scenarios. Depending on your use case, it may be cheaper to be in AWS, and it may be cheaper to be co-located. If you are as big as Dropbox, it may be cheaper to build your own data center.

It reminds me of the arguments for and against K8s. Most of the discussion is based on use case, and not considering the solution space for all solutions. E.g. if I'm running an Erlang solution in K8s, or have a small number of servers, I may have better options.

It isn't only about scale. It takes understanding your system and your needs in depth, and any short cuts lead to cost inefficiencies.
> a doctor wouldnt feel bad recommending as being generally safe

Some doctors would say a different thing.

“This might not be the answer people want to hear, but there is no safe level for drinking alcohol.”

https://www.euro.who.int/en/health-topics/disease-prevention...
Apple to Cut App Store Fees in Half (To 15%) for Most Developers
The best money I've spent on professional development is paying to travel to industry conferences at which I was accepted to speak.

Like many people, I was nervous about public speaking earlier in my career. Out of a desire to improve myself and to "give back" to the community, I applied to speak at some industry conferences. Many people think about conferences as TED-talk style luxury events, at which speakers are compensated for their time and expertise. In reality, the only thing most conferences give speakers are a few free tickets to the conference and access to speaker-only events. Travel (and often lodging) need to be bought out-of-pocket.

By putting myself out of my comfort zone and speaking at these conferences, I developed valuable skills that significantly helped my career as it continued to develop. Being able to speak confidently in stressful situations -- to a wide variety of audiences -- is a very valuable skill to have.

In addition to the confidence boost of getting some talks under my belt -- and the actual skill of public speaking -- the networking opportunities afforded to conference speakers are often unmatched. I was able to have intimate conversations with leaders in my field (information security), and learn first-hand how luminaries think about contemporary challenges.

I realize this answer probably doesn't conform to the type of response that OP was seeking, but it's the truth of my experience.

Good luck!
Yeah, it sounds like you're just going to end up wasting the senior engineer's time hand-holding the intern for 4 weeks while they learn an existing codebase, and then they go off on their merry little way. The concept is interesting, but 4 weeks just really isn't enough time to get a new-hire up to speed to be very helpful with software in most corporate settings.
Not very surprising. Cloud infrastructure is flexible, but very expensive - certainly much more expensive than hosting your own servers.
Same here. And nothing wrong with that choice at all. Others are free to plan their families as they please.
For one thing, if you give your employer a wildly wrong address (i.e. different state), your taxes will end up pretty screwed up.

Your example could possibly work for NYC vs. upstate, middle-of-nowhere NY, though.
> But it's also potentially a failure at a national long-term level as it has reduced our manufacturing capacity.

That isn't a market failure. It's just a recognition that the economy is global, not national. The market doesn't optimize for the benefit of one nation against others. As for "short-term bias", the market just reflects the biases of the people making the decisions—the same as any other system. If people are inclined to stockpile medical supplies or materiel for self-defense, the market will support that too.

The market's only real "failure" is that it's too democratic for the liking of certain individuals who feel they have a better idea of how a society should be organized than the poor, ignorant, gullible masses that actually comprise that society.
Performance jump in two interesting natural language benchmarks
All companies I've worked for haven't had problems with unions. Though in the tech sector it feels that the employees dont have much interest towards it. I dunno what would happen if all programmers in a company would say that raise our salaries or we will quit. I guess the company would just hire contractors instead and it could even save the company money.
No NAS?
There is already a history of unpaid internships being abused in the USA, as they became the only way for people to enter an industry - entry-level labor became completely saturated by unpaid internships.

This causes a whole host of problems. One is that it acts as a filter for people who can afford to spend 1-2 years being an unpaid intern. For a high status industry, this prevents swathes of people who don't have the support networks to afford being unpaid.

The other is that, once this becomes an industry standard, entry level labor being so cheap incentivizes bad labor practices. Why hire a senior level talent when we can hire someone to manage 6 unpaid interns? Why promote this person when we can pay them literally nothing?
> Oh, but you actually do! You write your programs in form of trees (abstract syntax ones), and those trees generally represent directed and usually acyclic graphs of dependencies.

Implicitly. This isn't actually represented graphically as a tree. You still have code in linear segments. You just know how to parse the text into its tree structure. The fact that code is actually parsed into an AST doesn't mean anything here. Pointing this out is just showing off. I'm happy to talk about programs as graphs (my PhD is in PL) but for the purposes of understanding how people write programs we write them as linear text.

> And the reason we don't lay out programs as visual, interactive graphs[0] is because text is faster to work with using digital tools.

Yes. And similarly, if you are publishing a recipe book the laying out text is easier than gantt charts.

> [1] - Though structural editors exist; see e.g. Paredit mode for Emacs, which lets you do edit operations on the tree your code represents, moving and splicing branches around while ensuring the tree structure is never damaged.

Yes we all know. There's been decades of research in this space. And basically nobody in real life uses them.
> we may not all share the same idea of what a business is

The IRS has an opinion [1], and its a really good list! Make a copy of it and put a recurring appointment in your calendar to revisit it, think about it, and write down your comments.

[1] https://www.irs.gov/faqs/small-business-self-employed-other-...
Pretty much, if you don't they hassle you with calls and verbal threats. They were highly unpleasant to my wife on more than one call right when we opened. I tell our customers to not review us on Yelp, mostly pointing them to google which is the lesser of two evils in this situation.
Difference is, in retail if I want to get my product to the masses I'm not locked in to selling in or two on particular retail stores.

Your comment shows the glaringly obvious problem. We don't need two monopolized appstores to "decide" how much of a cut should go to appstore maintainers for all the (real) work they do. Opening u the ecosystem for more appstores or more venues to get apps will keep the prices to a market-driven norm as opposed to a monopolized fixed percentage.
I work for a company that does about 100M revenue per year. Run everything on prem, we did the numbers if we moved to AWS, it was almost 10 X of our current spend. Again , depends on your business, ours is complex and compute intensive.
But at scale, on-prem always wins.
Folks here might be interested in FamilySearch.org, where you might be able to find really interesting stuff about yourself. They are building a single (genealogical) family tree for humanity, it is free, they allow storing photos, stories, documents, etc., all connected with oneself and ancestors, so the memories can be preserved or researched or coordinated with other living relatives (even distant ones).

It is impressive to see "where am I from" based on actual people names.

And, it is hard to think of a life investment as good as being good to your family.
I remember Gitlab blogged that they are going to use baremetal instead of Azure with some numbers showing benefit of doing so. AFAIK they quickly reversed decision and didn't even try to implement that plan, moved to GCP instead.
What do you mean by current music? I have absolutely no idea what kind of garbage is pushed on teenagers these days but a lot of new music is produced.
The number of tests isn't the only relevant factor. Positivity is, as well. When positivity is near zero, either health authorities are incredibly, shockingly bad at picking who to test... Or Covid is not very prevalent in that community.

Per capita, the tourism numbers you cited are similar across the two countries. I am not sure what your point is.

> There is just no enforcement of quarantine

Ding, ding, ding, we have a winner. This is why the virus is out of control in the United States. Even when rules are put in place to control it's spread, enforcement of those rules is incredibly lax.
There are no shortcuts here. You really have to understand your use cases.