skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really love this site. Ages ago, I was teaching a kid about logs and exponentials, I realised I know about 'e' via the formula, but didn't have a visceral feel for why that formula came to be. Khalid's explanation was the best.
HN saves a list of your upvoted comments which you can view via your profile. This is private.

You can click on the timestamp and it will take you to a page for the comment where you can click 'favourite' which will be public to anyone who visits your profile.

Also, thank you!
What takes time to bring a chip to market? As in the question, if you know exactly what needed to be designed (in concept), how long would it take you to have a fab turning out units?

Is it the work to figure out how to lay down the component blocks on the die and all the circuit routing? Is it figuring out how to assemble the power-efficient components from the Arm library? Does that take years? Is it the instruction set? Is it the planning for manufacturing capacity?

I'm just curious to know what the actual work and division of labor / time is to "make a chip".

I would love to know for example:

-- Initial design, 10 people, 1 year

-- Prototype runs, 5 people, 6 months

-- Final design, 5 people, 1 year

-- etc etc.

-- Acquiring fab capacity / manufacturing hardware, 10 people, 1 year

-- etc etc.

But sounds like there's no way Intel or others can just "leapfrog" even if they knew what needed to be done and could abandon their prior choices.
I've dug a fair bit into the statistic based claims and most of them just don't hold much water. The benfords law one that picked up steam being the main one I dug into, I even made a nice repo with fancy graphs but the meme had died out by the time I finished so I never shared it. However the main summary was "Benfords law just doesn't work for proportions of a precinct"

However, if we want to go deeper into the rabbit hole, if there was a coup to steal the election I'd expect there to be ample fake claims of election stealing that would be easy to debunk.
You say that Python is unsuitable here but isn’t that subjective?

60% of the speed of Redis with its core functionality could be more than suitable for some.

> It is not suitable for implementing low level primitives; because its too slow and single threaded.

Redis was single-threaded for much of its life. That didn’t stop it from excelling.

I’ll add that I also have worked in Python predominantly. One of the things that frustrates me about it are the packages that use lower-level language bases that need compilation during a ‘pip install’. Hunting down dependencies gets old pretty fast when you were expecting ‘just Python’. For those that are ok with that and the performance hit, Python can for sure be a suitable tool for use cases that would traditionally be tackled lower down the stack.
Yes and Twitter is FAKE NEWS. It is a known STATED LAW that electorates decide the president. This system was designed by Hamilton to prevent a popular but unfit candidate from becoming president. When somebody stated this on Twitter, Twitter gave this is information may not be correct warning. It is the LAW. Twitter fact checked the law.

If Twitter was willing to mind its own business, Parler wouldn't exist.
You clearly haven't been reading my comments.
What stops the waiter from putting sedatives in your food and then taking all the cash from your wallet when you pass out?

At a certain point you just have to trust that most people aren't trying to scam or rob you. The waiter is too busy putting in other orders and bussing tables to write down all your card details (and I guess social engineer your billing zip code?) I imagine most people who make their living from credit card fraud would rather not spend their days working in a restaurant.
So, one of my favorite ‘combo’ furniture designs is Joe Colombo’s Minikitchen from 1963.

https://www.klatmagazine.com/en/design-en/minikitchen-boffi-...
> Apple only tools (…) iA Writer

iA Writer is available on Windows and Android.
DMV can't afford the kind of external auditing that would've caught this

Usually, the prevailing wisdom of HN will respond to such a statement with "if you can't afford to do it properly, you shouldn't be doing it at all".
Serverless functions for a distributed monolith.

What a beautiful house of cards.
Manual shut off water pipes and power outlets if it looks bad. (as others mentioned you can automate this)

Then check source of flooding and try and fix it, see other people's comments.

It's better then to have your home flooded for a long period of time while you're off at work or sleeping or somewhere else.

Also better then having a short / potentially getting electrocuted.
Absolutely this. My side of the engineering department has taken a hard stance on what our definitions of Data Analyst, Data Engineer, Data Scientist, Machine Learning Engineer and Applied Scientist are. We have had a few issues with people wanting a different job title while interviewing and we supply them with our description plus a path from the position we believe they are to what they want to be. The ones who have taken these offers have been some of our best hires.

On the other hand the analytics/sales teams have many DS and MLEs, a DA is basically a “junior” for them, but they routinely have to reach over to an engineering team to do pretty basic SWE skills that they are supposed to cover themselves
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Twitter is the kind of place to tell you SHUT YOUR FESTERING GOB, YOU TIT! YOUR TYPE MAKES ME PUKE! YOU VACUOUS TOFFEE-NOSED MALODOROUS PERVERT!!!

I'm not sure where John Cleese would be, but I don't think it would help
Ignoring people is absolutely fine, especially if you make aware of the policy.

Making some software public does not mean that they are entitled to any operational or emotional consideration on your part. Having to 'refuse' costs emotional energy and karma, that bank is not infinite.

If you don't want to take inquiries, put that on the front page and ignore everything.
Yes, your too late.
> What is the opposite of damning with faint praise? Supporting with faint condemnation?

The "Puddy" :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNOa5Uvjpwo
Depression stops you from doing things, it doesn't make you work on anything.
I am really happy that constant medication can help you. Are you on the same dosis or did you have to decrease/increase it over time?
Wait, I thought that post length was NOT limited on Mastodon ?
(That's why I never used Twitter - 140 characters is just too short - I'm not a poet !)
If it was pointed out to their higher-ups that their infrastructure costs could be reduced by a sizable amount by changing language they might not be so fine with it.
In a single isolated incident then yes, it is difficult. However many thrives get greedy and don’t realize it’s fairly easy to identify the point of sale where fraudulent activity originated.
Yeah, I'm depressed on multiple levels.

[ I wrote a long text here about what is wrong/feels wrong, but I don't think I should share those thoughts. Only hurts more writing them down. :-( ]
I'm using upstream directly. I started using Zephyr with STM32, but even if I hadn't, I'd probably have started with upstream just to make it easier to send patches back upstream.
Since lockdown started, we've gradually converted most of our house to Hue. A key feature is that _all the light switches still work_. We just don't use them all that much, unless something's failed.

From reading Matthew Garrett's exploits, I'm pretty sure we don't want WiFi IoT devices. We have Hue switches next to the physical switches, which don't depend on WiFi being up; Smart control works with only local networking. Add more smartness for extra control (SmartThings, remote access, Google Assistant), but it's no less functional than a non-smart system when the smarts are offline.

The killer feature for me is the ability to adjust the colour temperature and brightness of lights in each room -- I've got a 50W panel above my desk which makes my work-space brighter than it is outside at the moment (Edinburgh, UK, 1pm with rain) but automatically fades down to a warm, dim light as the evening progresses.
Yes.

The orchestration vs choreography problem.

https://theburningmonk.com/2020/08/choreography-vs-orchestra...
Forgive my asking - what's cynical about this title? Should we not believe in people? Is the world not top-down oriented? Sorry - just confused.
Ah, you're right! Thanks.
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The interesting aspect in this particular case is that going out of the comfort zone is more comfortable than staying in it.
Your experience matches with mine, if people request features I don't feel like working on, I reply with "yes, this is something I would merge if a PR were submitted, thank you!".

Then again, my experience with FOSS has been almost exclusively positive. People have never been entitled to me, they've always been helpful, and I've gotten people co-maintaining projects and submitting lots of PRs to me as well.

It was perhaps that optimism that led me to create https://www.codeshelter.co/, which didn't really do very well. Turns out not as many people want to maintain projects as I thought.
Nah. If it is ok to ignore unsolicited mails and requests. It is not necessary to put effort into them.

I an strongly in camp of "it is OK to ask for features and report bugs", but it is only as long as it does not create dutys on the side of maintener. If it would create such duty, then I would think prior should not send those unless super important.

Pls, it is easy for many people to overwhelm one maibtennar.
if the system was designed to prevent a popular but unfit candiate from becoming president, it's been broken since 2016.
Do you have an example of what was censored?

Was it "I disagree with Trump's approach to foreign policy..."

or was it thousands of spam messages?
So, why Parler and not Mastodon ? Did Mastodon present itself as too 'left-wing' ?
No, those were different in that there was a path to profitability that didn't involve unicorns and pixie dust.

Uber and Lyft (the progenitors of this model) have been losing money hand over fist for over a decade now, and are both public companies and are still losing money.

Food delivery is incredibly unprofitable (because of the last-mile problem and the fact that it needs to be quick), and Uber have forced otherwise profitable companies to compete with their unprofitable model.

Here's a good review: https://ftalphaville.ft.com/2019/11/11/1573464859000/Deliver...
We use Tumblr in a custom domain + custom theme and I’m really pleased with the setup.

My wife and I can easily post from the tumblr app on our phones. Password protected site so only family can see it. Easy backups to Wordpress just in case.

It’s easy for family to check the site whenever they want rather than putting it on social media. We turned off commenting so there’s never pressure for anyone to leave a comment and we don’t have any sense of needing affirmation for every picture we put up. It’s all just there if family wants to see it. Grandparents living far away especially appreciate it.

For our own usage, it has been invaluable too. I made some theme updates so we can go back in time and look at specific months easily. It’s been a great asset of curated family photos we can go through to see the kids at different stages. They’re 7 & 4 now.

I’d be happy to share my custom Tumblr theme with anyone who’s interested.
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Discovering a (Popular) Competitor:(
We have all been there - you get super excited about a project and start building an MVP only to discover three weeks later someone has already done it. And, usually, has done it quite well.

This happened to me while starting on Bike Gear Database - https://www.bikegeardatabase.com (aka BGDB). I convinced myself I had stumbled onto a unique value prop for the bike industry. I started building out the stack and MVP like a madman. About a month in, a friend told me about the wonderful site called 99spokes which was everything that I had in my head for BGDB, and more.

At work, I was learning how to assess the value of websites using various SEO tools. A search at Ahrefs showed me that 99spokes had ranked for almost 75,000 keywords and were generating about 64k organic visitors a month.

I was crushed. How do you compete against that sort of traction? I ended up stopping work on BGDB because of it.
A month or so later, I met a new friend named Alex, that had raised two companies from zero to acquisition. He understood BGDBs value. When I showed him 99spokes in Ahrefs he said, "this is a very good thing".

The moment he said it, my entire mind clicked! Of course, it was a good thing! This meant that the idea was validated and there was a business in it. Also, there was only one other company working on the problem. This got me very excited and I got back to work. I am super thankful for Alex helping me see that.
Now the question is - how do I scale to compete? Is there a possibility for us to even work together? Etc etc. Momentum is picking up and I am having a ton of fun making BGDB.

How about you? Have you ever let discovering a competitor stop you? Motivate you?
I don't go to Twitter for family photos and very much want to see what's popular in the circles I follow so this seems like a horrible solution there. Maaybe for Facebook that makes sense but I still follow some Pages and Groups there and this would make it worse for me.
OP specifically did a Python Vs C comparison. Your assertions have nothing to do with the claim behind discussed.

Even so, if you really want to discuss specific technical aspects, you should do well to keep in mind Python's notorious and widely known performance problems, such as those due to Python's GIL, and the fact that even in performance-oriented benchmarks Python lags way behind other languages, specially C

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

If it was easy or possible to mitigate Python's notorious performance issues then we would see the results in these synthetic benchmarks. But we don't, no matter how much time has been devoted to them.

Speaking as someone who writes Python for a living, Python aficionados would do well by avoiding misrepresent Python in ways that a) it's easy to verify and refute, b) goes against it's main technical characteristics. Python is awesome to chug out quick and dirty POCs, exploratory code, glue code that ties together performance-critical parts, utilities, and non-performance critical applications. Performance-critical applications is not, nor it ever was, Python's thing. Once we see Python addictions dos trying to claim that their hammer is the best screwdriver around, we start to sell a losing proposition.
Would you mind sharing what panel this is?
I wish we could drop the word 'vulnerable'; that's what a gazelle is before a lion rips its head off.

The OP was open and honest rather than vulnerable. If we want equality and open dialogue, we have to be careful to make our language inclusive. 'Vulnerable' is associated with being weak for some people and isn't an inclusive word.

I don't consider myself vulnerable when I share something close to my heart. I would never share anything in a space where being 'vulnerable' was encouraged.

Open and honest.. not vulerable.
...but Parler launched over 2 years ago? I guess you could argue that it wouldn't receive an influx of new users recently, but it'd still be very much here, even without Twitter's fact-check.
> They put significant effort into blocking gab when it tried integrating into the fediverse.

Who is 'they' ? The most used servers ?
Nice! I'll bookmark this in case I need to change the stub later
> This system was designed by Hamilton to prevent a popular but unfit candidate from becoming president.

Whoops!
This sounds impossible given the industrial scale at which PoS malware and the likes operate.
> So seeing that this person is forcing people to pay to report bugs is absolutely wild.

From your perspective, I can guess that it does seem wild. The issue is that you're getting paid for fixing other people's bugs. He's not.
> some people have it, some people not so much.

I don't think that's true at all--not for empathy or for many other psychosocial quantities. While a statistically few people exist who really are biologically missing certain psychological abilities (what we usually call mental health disorders), for everyone else it's totally possible to increase/decrease things like empathy, critical thought, fearfulness, optimism, etc. over time.

Making those changes consciously is just a) hard and b) usually quite gradual/hard to gauge progress, so as a result the position that "you either innately have it or you don't" becomes quite seductive.

This sword cuts both ways: that ability to change is present even for awful or deeply suffering people. However, it's also possible for positive things (empathy, hopefulness and the like) to decrease over time even without conscious effort.

This is one of the reasons that I think everyone, if able, should try to get help in tracking their mental state, even if they're healthy: how you do this might differ (therapy, church, regular mental check-ins with a trusted confidant, journaling, meditation, whatever), but it is a really powerful quality of maturity to be able to watch--and to the extent you are able, manage--your "levels" of these personal/psychological qualities
That's exactly my point. They could have been completely fair and impartial and everyone still would have hated them.

That's why the fact they even tried, at least in my mind, guaranteed they would fail.
The EU definitely does not pay for their won security, just because Trump is 'bad' doesn't mean he's wrong.

The EU is a very, very rich place, they have serious military concerns right on their borders, but are both unwiling to make the investment necessary - and - unwilling to 'get along' in a manner such as they can act responsibly and consistently against the threat.

The very fact the US needs to be there - and - underpins/leads NATO is evidence that Europe is not 'doing their own work'.

If Europe was properly paying for their own security, then:

1) There would be 0 question as to the need for the US in Europe. It would be like the need for massive US presence in Canada - nobody thinks that, it's obviously unecessary.

2) There would be 0 concern over border integrity, especially in Baltic states. Again, it would be like concern over 'New Zealand' being invaded - there's no concern there.

That's what 'good security' looks like - it makes one position look secure to the point of any real aggression being unfathomable or crazy.

The Europe should pay more for it's security so we can spend the next ~100 years or so cooling down - eventually the Russians won't want to invade their neighbours.
When your parents scold you for leaving a light on you can be certain that getting internet and spending hours dong something no one understands is a far away from you. Much worse now with the library and bookstore either being greatly gentrified or closed for good.

Parents supporting a child hobby because they understand its potential value cant be overstated. Being poor just doesnt give any latent interest a chance to develop. That's the key. NGOs try to bridge this gap but without the kids parents/siblings/community understanding the value of these things, its an upward slippery slope with far more risk.
Why is it out of the question for you to create a GitHub account?
Every time I read that one of the “downsides” of RoR is that it “doesn’t sound cool” I know I’m in the right place! I’ll have mature teammates who understand the right tool for the right job. I won’t have to work with magpie developers with an acute case of not-invented-here syndrome.

Granted Rails isn’t the answer to everything. I’ve been loving what we can accomplish with elixir/Phoenix. But I’ll leave the hipsterism to the JS community and marvel as they reinvent wheels over and over again.
> I hope my comment makes sense to you now.

It does, thank you :)
I will be getting this!

I wish one day it would include a super high quality camera like Samsung then it would be perfect.
Posting on a throwaway for reasons.

I take anti-depressants so yes, however, recently I'm not sure how effective they have been, or even if what I am feeling constitutes being depressed.

I find myself constantly oscilating between apathy, loneliness and irrational anger. I've never been a person who really has "friends" so to speak, I have acquaintances and family, I'm close with family but beyond that I don't have anyone I talk to outside of performing my job. It's not like I don't want people to talk to, but I find myself unsure of whether I can't or won't try to connect with others.

More often than not nowadays, I'll get the idea to watch a movie or read a book or just do something, and the idea excites me a little bit, right up until I get to the point where I need to actually do it, and then I just have this crushing moment where I cannot move passed the thoughts "I can't be bothered" or "what's the point?" To the point where I'll just scroll through youtube, looking at everything and have no motivation to watch anything.

Anger is the one that most confuses me, because I am fully conscious of the fact that it is completely irrational, but its still there. It's always things like people driving too slowly or inadvertently getting in my way at the supermarket, or things like a news article. The big one I've found is social media, I look on social media and see everyone looking happy and successful or even just saying something that I disagree with. But, whatever it is, it just makes me so mad.

I’m not really sure what to do, I know I should probably get help, but every time I think about that I keep thinking about how I’ve tried getting help before and here I am, still unhappy, and to top it off, getting worse.
Where does this end? I could also bring my own silverware, my own plate and bowl, my own cloth napkin. “Hey, we’re going to get some soup and go for walk; wanna come?” “Sorry, I can’t, I thought I was going to have a salad and so I only brought my salad plates and utensils with me.”

I think it’s fairly unreasonable to expect people to lug around everything they might need for the day every day.
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> falsehoods about performance and optimisation regarding software and interpreted languages in particular.

At this point, I think this argument will fail to convince many. There are far too many people who have gotten 10x, 100x or even higher speedups by simply converting Python to other languages. That is without even trying to optimise the code much.

CPython running idiomatic Python code is just slow, no amount of handwaving will change that.