skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some people do discriminatory things and call it professionalism. Like arbitrarily banning traditional hair styles. I've never heard anyone say avoiding sexual innuendo is anti black. Have you?
It's logically equivalent, but it seems much easier to parse that OSM [is digital version of] an atlas vs OSM [is a map instead of text like] Wikipedia
Fair, I didn't actually read that comment that closely.
> Just as with literary or media genres, "social media" as a classification mostly exists as a marketing term, not science.

I agree there. I disagree with the idea that the incremental integration of "social media features" necessarily makes something a "social media" platform, and I think the semantic distinctions are important because there is a lot of discussion about the societal harms of "social media" and the types of laws that should apply to "social media", but I don't think a site like e.g. HN or pornhub are the types of sites people are talking about when they refer to those problems.
Proving statements that are known to be true requires a different skillset from coming up with true statements.
> That this isn't happening is a crime.

I agree and like the discussion you guy's started from my seemingly innocent comment.

I add one argument why I think scientific papers and nonfiction books (Library Genisis) should be free (and legal) ...

You often hear the complaint that so many people are uneducated and believe in conspiracy theories (or other stupid things). This is (imho) problematic for a democracy.

Giving free access to books and papers could really help.

Also a lot of research is founded by tax money and papers are by far the most expensive literature....
Hi, yes! I like your project. I chatted about similar things on your launch post here. You also address this explicitly on your product which I appreciate.

What I'm getting at is that these browser notebooks try to get at the desire and feeling for rapid exploration and iteration. Losing context by having a crashing logic error is a massive blow to that ideal.

I'm not saying that your or anyone elses product is only for "rapid prototyping" but it's still true that larger projects could be bit by the same errors. When I crash my native code I C-c and I'm back in an instant. When I crash browser notebook code I lose a bit of time and unsaved code. I crash browsers often in creative coding where I write many loops and don't always do them right.

It may also be that my chrome and firefox experience on linus is worse than standard, I don't know. But I have crashed my entire browser in chrome when using observable, and I thought that wasn't supposed to be possible.
I agree there are reasons to not trust these reviews at face value, but to say you don't trust it all seems extreme. You're saying reviews have no value whatsoever?
Git is a couple of pegs down from asshole. Better analogy in American English would be "jerk," without, perhaps, the implied sexual connotation.
Doesn't Netflix have cache boxes hooked directly into the ISP networks?

I'm sure Netflix uses a lot of AWS, but as a percentage of their total traffic (which is absolutely enormous), it's probably not that much.
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The key to success doesn't have much to do with communicating. Recognizing people respond to different behavior in different ways will be much more productive. I for example, rarely spend more than a few seconds reading an email so if you have a point to make it better be in a succinct mini paragraph.
"That’s not what anybody is saying."

Read the comments carefully

" Are you offering to pay for the extra millions in lifetime care and need for those children"

Where in my comment do I suggest that I wouldn't support the Billions (with a B in the US, you're off by three orders of mag) needed? Yes. I believe that a healthy, just society that has any semblance of a future has a moral obligation towards its needy.

Question. Where does your prejudice (i.e. pre-judging) that I wouldn't support extra Billions come from?
I just switched to PyCharm from VSCode and wow, you're right. It is amazing and makes dealing with venv easy versus when I used vs code I just installed everything globally because I cba.
Shuffling Things Up: Applying Group Theory in Advent of Code
The electric car industry now has its own lobbying group
Why The Recent News From Wearable Startups Matter To You
Sure, but the point is that there's a necessary kernel component to provide access control, mediate between different users, abstract across different hardware, etc. I don't know exactly what's in this patch set, but in general I'd be surprised to see hardware that didn't require some kind of kernel interface to access it.
It depends hugely on your cost of staffing.

Also, there is not only aws vs on prem.

There are solutions in the middle where you don't have all of the AWS services but price is much lower.

I've seen very average businesses spending 1mln per year in AWS for, really not much.
IMHO most mid businesses would be better off renting servers and having some staff maintaining them.
Try Yandex, I don't know what they're using but they're light years ahead in terms of actual relevant results.
I doubt it. We've been using alcohol for thousands of years. COVID-19 for example has 0 societal benefits. And although opioids do, they were abused and that's what people are upset about.
No. That is factored into the new costs, which with all of those things, plus initial / ongoing hardware buys, saved that $75M.
Frankly, this way of talking seems to have its origin in the 2008 financial crisis more than in any actual technical economic language (https://www.cnbc.com/id/34921639). And it speaks more to American's mis-education about what socialism is (or its history) than anything else.

Apparently HN does not agree with me, I challenge my downvoting fans to find citations for "socializing losses" in the way you're talking about, prior to 2008.

"Lemon socialism" (gov't bailing out lemons) existed, but that actually has a different tone entirely.
In reality though I never have my lidar robotvac running when I am at home. Even less having a conversation as all robotvac are loud.
I personally would be still more concern about all voice activate device (alexa etc).
Moving data in and out is a pain in the ass, though. I wish they would just give me shell access instead of forcing me to use notebooks.
Location also determines the costs of other things to a certain degree. Prices of gasoline, food, housing etc are all higher in high COL areas, so why is it surprising wages are too?

I get the argument that "well I'm doing the same work here or there, why should I be paid differently?". But this is what things like outsourcing are intended to do isn't it? To get the same work done for cheaper.
I had to re-read the original sentence a time or two, but never thought it was outright wrong. I do think OSM : Atlas :: Wikipedia : Encyclopedia is slightly more clear, though.
> Trusted by 2,007 companies and developers.

Haven't seen this before, an actual figure rather than 'these big names' (and you have no idea if it's just some small team somewhere for some toy test/demo, or a significant piece of the whole organisation's puzzle).

I'm (just idly) curious what number you waited for (assuming you did) before making that public. Because, and obviously it'll vary a bit for different people, there's going to be some number below which it has negative impact, not just (probably some other, with a 'meh' range between, number) above which it has the positive impact that is it's raison d'être.
Isn't this true since the GFC? ( 2008 )

I had friends 'in the market' who felt the rebounds after 9/11 were suspect already.
To each their own but I found the opposite to be true. Coding or trying to focus on one one task while chat/email notifications are popping up left and right is very disruptive. I went down from two monitors to one and I'm very happy with the decision.
Some businesses are not about innovation, some businesses are about margins. Personal cloud storage is that business - people shop around and buy on cost.

I use OneDrive because it's free with Ms Office, which I need anyway, and their 'family plan' pricing is great. I decide cloud storage for like 5 accounts, backups of family photos, etc.

That is in spite of the fact that dropbox is miles better, and has extra features - they dont move the needle.
One minor nitpick: measuring the output of a mapper is hard to do on the basis of the number of edits. Local mappers appear to have larger edits where many details in a neighbourhood or some topical regional updates are performed. I think corporate editors focus on fixing bugs and weirdness reported by linters, which are much smaller in scale in terms of changeset size.
Not on a micro-level, no, but on a platform level irrational customers can be dealt with. If they consistently rank low across all businesses you just normalize their votes or remove them as outliers. If they vote randomly it will simply average out (both for the user and for the businesses with more than 10 reviews). If they have a particular consistent bias (e.g. against a particular ethnic group, or particular kind of food) clustering could help (if you can label the clusters, I have some ideas). You just have to work on this, but I don't know if anyone in power cares enough?

Also consider that customers themselves might have (non-algorithmic) reputation that will decide if/how they can affect the reputation of others. Pagerank, if you will.

The entire field is crying out for big data, but then drowns in big dollars.
I had a coworker with a child with severe cerebral palsy, and the evident strain on him and his family was enormous. I couldn't believe they were effectively thrown on their own resources. I came to the opinion that people in that situation deserve all the help society can give them, including caregivers and even special living situations.

Anyone who has children runs that risk. And society needs children, unless you believe the human race should let itself die out.
Unfortunately — because I am a longtime Apple user & developer — I have to agree that this is a cynical gesture designed to deflect regulatory scrutiny.

Moreover, I expect that this announcement is mostly paving the way for Apple to force all Mac OS apps to be distributed via the Mac App Store (as they do on iOS).

The optimist in me doesn't want to believe it. But this is probably consistent with Apple's economic incentives. Especially because the major role of Macs in the world is to provide a platform for developing iOS apps.

This week I ordered an M1 Macbook Air. Not because I really need it, but because a couple years from now I will be happy I have a machine that can run Big Sur, which will be remembered as the least restrictive OS of the Apple Silicon era.

Apple is the biggest corporation in the world. We can like their products, but we shouldn't give them more credit than, say, ExxonMobil or Foxconn or Goldman Sachs. They will make choices based on what creates the most profit, nothing more. That's not cynicism; it's why corporations exist at all.
Netflix is a counterpoint? A good fraction (though not majority probably) of their cost is probably bandwidth and computation yet they continue to offload that to a cloud provider, who's a direct competitor no less.
Project lead here. Glad to see that people like the project, and I'm happy to answer any questions.

We're always looking for producers to volunteer to work on new ebooks. The process is a blend of many different disciplines, so if you're interested in art, literature, programming, and the command line, trying your hand at an SE production might be fun!
I’ll fly it as soon as we’ve fixed the legal/regulatory issues that led to its initial certification. Until the process is fixed, I refuse to accept its conclusions.
Human maid vs robot vacuum cleaner... I'd take my chances with the robot.
Interestingly, in the case of And Then There Were None, the novel was originally published without its solution.

Christine's intention was that the reader would use the clues scattered throughout the book to work out who the culprit was. Indeed, like many other works from the Golden Age of Detective Fiction, the mystery is entirely solvable from those clues.

Christie ultimately added an epilogue to subsequent editions, which explains the mystery. In a sense, it's nice to have confirmation of what the solution is, but at the same time I like the idea that a mystery story doesn't necessarily need to include a solution.
Salaries are not the only things that unions can negotiate, and a group of employees can engage in collective behavior without formally unionizing.

Work rules are another way. My dad told me about the union work rules at the factory where he was a white collar employee (R&D department). I'm reminded of those stories when I've tried to get someone to do some programming for me in a large organization.

Granted these rules have their origins in preventing abuse, or replacing skilled labor with unskilled, but they existed nonetheless and were part of running a business.
There are a dozen articles a month on HN from founders or coders with websites that all say “know your customer before you write a line of code” or “find customers ready to write a check” before you start. “Sift through fool’s gold” - that’s what that advice is helping you avoid, time wasted coding a website that has no business validation. Adding features no one wants.

If the author pushed One Item Store and said “I’m going to market it cause it’s cool now, I’ll add features when people ask for them” then he might enjoy it more and be surprised to find people who will use it and pay for it as is.
In the long run "small" improvements adds up.
The margin will never beat time.
Is excess milk production really a social need though? According to the market people would generally rather spend that money elsewhere.

Via the subsidy the U.S. is forcing everyone to spend a small portion of their income on milk production.
In Vancouver, can confirm
"If you’ve ever ... peaked at the dash of your obnoxious neighbor’s new Tesla…you’ve used OSM."

1. peeked, not peaked

2. Teslas do not use OSM for the on-screen maps. They use Google maps. Tesla only uses OSM for the data regarding parking lot layouts for the automatic parking features, nothing else.
I dunno, it doesn't really fit Google's business model and whatever money they could extort from you would be a drop in the bucket compared to other revenue. Besides, wouldn't you realize if you were being extorted?
One thing you can also do is specifically look for the international edition. These will often be paperback and non-color, but otherwise have the same content. I've found some popular comp-sci textbooks for ~20% the cost of the cheapest paperback US edition.
> Their device, their decision.

Once I buy an iPhone, I own it and it is my device.
None. If they don't get the vaccine once it's available to them that is on them.
I am 100% behind you on this.

Also consider that so many expenses in life are the same wherever you live. For instance, Apple charges the same for a MacBook Pro delivered to Iowa as San Francisco, so if your Iowa rate is half that of San Francisco's, that new laptop takes you twice as many hours to buy. And for what? Also, someone's student loans don't change when they move from a more expensive place to a cheaper one, so in absolute terms anyone making fixed payment stands to take a massive pay cut if they move to a place with COL-based salary changes.

My company is remote-only for now. Without asking them, I have no idea whether my coworkers are in Berkeley or Des Moines. Why should the one living in a cheaper please make less than the one next door? Yes, I completely understand why an employer would like to pay less salary to the latter, but I can't think of any defensible reason that would make the person in Iowa OK with this.
> The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

A great book, I definitely did not see the ending coming until 2 or 3 paragraphs before the twist.

> The Murder of Roger Ackroyd is the supreme, the ultimate detective novel. It rests upon the most elegant of all twists.

-- Laura Thompson, partial quote because of spoilers.
Isn't the implication that someone has already compromised the robot? So it wouldn't be running necessarily?
> As you'd expect, water on hot metal will lead to steam explosions.

Steam explosions which kick up more metal in air. But I think typical firefighting foam would easily help with that, much less water but still deprives fire of oxygen.
I can imagine reworking the x86 processor should be straightforward, but I'd be curious about the cost of emulating the proprietary hardware inside the Original Xbox (eg: render pipeline, memory architecture, I/O, etc.).

An example of this sort of thing can be well-observed emulating the Nintendo 64. The CPU is a plain-standard MIPS III, but emulating the console's graphics chip hasn't always been accurate for a long time. Disney-released games on the Nintendo Wii would toy with the write-back cache to prevent emulators from booting their games.[1]

I can imagine the largest amounts of difficulty are outside the CPU for a polished-enough project.

[1] https://dolphin-emu.org/blog/2017/02/01/dolphin-progress-rep...
Thanks - that's really informative, it's great that things move on.
Why not?

You do realize this is a forum spawned from a STARTUP INCUBATOR right?
Summary of FAA’s Review of Boeing 737 Max: Return to Service of Boeing 737 Max [pdf]
I don't. A small business only has a 50/50 shot of surviving 5 years when there isn't a global pandemic. Since 2011, more businesses have been opening than closing each year [0]. This is worse than normal, but there's a lot of room between that and "gloomy".

https://www.sba.gov/sites/default/files/advocacy/Frequently-...
In fact it is easier to get bigger discounts if you are a mid-size customer than if you are a big customer. If you are a very big customer, then any discount given to you will directly affect the cloud business bottomline.

A public cloud inherently/structurally has more costs because it is built to be truly multi-tenant and has lots of elastic capacity.

A single tenant private cloud can cut out a lot of bells and whistles and can be tailored to the needs of the company's private use-case – this brings down the cost significantly.

If your compute/storage bill is greater than $10 million per year, then it is highly likely that for the same money you will get much higher compute/storage capacity in a private cloud. And that gives you more headroom for growth/elasticity etc.

If your bill is greater than $30 million per year, then you will likely save significantly as well as get other strategic advantages – especially if your infra scale continues to grow over next 2-5 years.
From an aerodynamics point of view, I'd expect it to be easier to protect the wearer than others. When you breath in, a decently fitted mask sticks to your face, directing airflow through the filter. When you breath out, it's very easy for air to get out gaps on the sides.

Frankly, I think it's been a huge mistake to discourage valved masks: they're much easier to breath in and more comfortable. Better to encourage the vulnerable to wear high quality, valved N95 masks and protect themselves, than worry about those same people infecting others.

My risk from COVID is something like 1/50th that of my parents.
MeshX: Foundation for Your Business
It's built from scratch, which was easier than customizing from some open source projects back then (early 2019).

But the doc is codified in openapi format: https://www.listennotes.com/api/docs/#openapi

So you can feed the openapi spec into other doc viewers, e.g., Postman, or redoc https://listen-api.listennotes.com/api/v2/openapi.html
Project lead here. There's thousands of books we want to produce out there, and limited volunteer hours. If there's something you want to work on, it might be fun to get started as a producer for the project yourself. (Note that we ask that new producers start on a simpler project first, which might rule out some longer and more complicated stuff like Plato translations--at least to start with.)

Our wanted ebook list includes a list of works that we think are good starts for first-time producers: https://standardebooks.org/contribute/wanted-ebooks

I've been exploring the idea of crowdsourcing financing for ebook production. But I think we need some kind of not-for-profit framework set up first. If anyone is in that space and would like to talk about NFP infrastructure, or being a NFP fiscal sponsor, please contact me!
> It does, but you can always disassemble the DXBC and see what happened to your HLSL code.

And you can always disasm X86 code and see what -ffast-math did. Doesn't mean that everyone would be fine with just mandating it everywhere with no option to disable it.

Even then the DX functional spec gives some leeway. As an example if you write x*y+z it will compile it into mad instruction. And that's just specified as that the precision must not be worse as the worst possible ordering of separate instructions. So which it is? Depends on the vendor. This is completely fine for graphics, but not fine for all workloads.

> No need for manual shenanigans with command queues

Unless you do access same buffer from multiple places in a way that's still spec conformant, just in a way that the DX11 implementation cannot detect.
A better alternative to "hamburger" feedback is:

1. Express appreciation for effort already investment, to show that the effort was well-spent.

2. Critique the work.

3. Express encouragement for future effort, to show that the recipient can solve these problems and succeed.

Spamming 3 unrelated forced comments in a weird order just confused the recipient, making them not understand which of the comments is more important.

That's only superficially like "positive comment, negative comment, positive comment", but below the surface similarity is where the important difference is.
>But look at China, where they have very little drug usage, due to extremely harsh penalties, and extreme social stigma. Individuals don’t get “mind expanding” or therapeutic benefits of drugs, but at least the society is not paying the cost of externalities of drug usage (see San Francisco’s Tenderloin).

That's not the case though. China has lots of drugs, probably more than the US. Many of the powder based drugs in the US are made in China. When you go on a business trip there they flaunt all sorts of things from prostitution to drugs. As long as you're rich it's no problem.

>Not all who do drugs are rational individuals with full information about what might happen if a chemical dependency is established.

This is why in a perfect world we have to take a test to take certain drugs. It could be handled at the dmv. Once you're certified you can buy a specific quantity based on being an informed actor. It's how we handle other dangerous activities.
Show HN: Parsr – it parses your text into numbers inside a note
Hi HN,

We have built a note app that parses text into numbers. Its sort of like a two column excel sheet, which recognizes text sentences like (2*4) plus 1 as input and spits out the answer (9) in response.

Looking forward to hearing what you guys think!

Have a look at some example notes here:
https://www.useparsr.com/notes/note-hkwmif
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https://www.useparsr.com/notes/note-i30k1n

Have a look at our docs as well:
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You could still totally just read the ending first if it's that big of a deal for you.
I think it would be a good time to reduce or remove the $100 annual fees as well.
I don't get why companies don't just hire in the cheap job markets paying a little more than market price there but far less than Silicon Valley, instead of hiring in Silicon Valley. Specially for remote work! Can someone who does that explain why?