skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure where you're going with that, as all of the mentioned works still represent a time before people in general were forced to reckon with a post-Soviet world. Even with it on the horizon, it would be several years before we would fall into the thought and habits of what that "means."

One other thing to note of the pre/post-Soviet dissolution sci-fi media: the contrast of dominance over the enemy vs surviving within a status quo that is unlikely to change. That may be part of why you see protagonists "befriending" AI; it's more a reflection of hope than expectation. Once you get to post-9/11 media, relationships with AI become more complex and nuanced: I, Robot, Ex Machina, Her, Transcendence. (Perhaps a reflection of our decidedly mixed, toward the negative side, experiences in the Middle East; as well as the multiple crises that threatened the "end of society" and the subsequent recoveries, all within a generation.)
'Longest-serving cannabis offender' to be released early from 90-year sentence
Azure: Azure Resource Manager templates
The money quote:

> According to our tests, the Ryzen 5600X delivers, though, beating Intel in nearly all metrics that matter, including performance, power consumption, and thermals, and largely removes Intel’s performance lead after overclocking. In fact, this $300 chip even beats Intel's pricey flagship Core i9-10900K in most single-threaded workloads, and that's after we overclock Intel's silicon. And yes, the 5600X's advantage over the 10900K includes 1080p gaming.
Counterpoint: Underpaying someone doesn't entitle you to much.
It's not just corvids.

I was once lucky in finding a baby sparrow who could not fly yet, but who was cut off from their nesting site and parents.

This sparrow would recognize me and come back to me after hanging out in the park for a day.
I worked in the LIVE PA/Electronic music section, I knew way more about synthesizers and sound systems than anyone else working in the department, but they kept pressuring me to try and sell crap like top of the line MPC's to people who obviiously might have trouble financing them. Some of the snakiest people I ever met. Within two weeks of my "Oh well you could just buy this xxx groovebox on craigslist, you're better off man" instead of tricking someone they put me on the door.. It was just me pretending to work and check receipts next to this late 40s something overweight security guard who kept trying to talk to me about alex jones conspiracy stuff all day until a few days after when I disappeared and never showed again.
IMHO on AWS side: if you squint, you could also add AWS SAM among these orchestration tools
It would be better to include these links in a comment in that thread, where they would clearly be on topic.

The problem with making a separate submission out of it is that it's repetitive; we don't need two different threads about the same issue with the same startup at the same time.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
I don't get why bikes are so crazy expensive. Maybe you can elucidate. How can a bicycle cost $3-5K? What's in it that costs so much? This is not a US-only phenomenon either, I just checked e.g. UK Bikester store and the prices are pretty nutty there as well. It's just a few pieces of metal welded together by robots in China, how can it be $5K?
It's not just an Indian startup ... It's a fully owned subsidiary of a major Disney business partner. It's such a shame that Mickey mouse is now being used to scam gullible and desperate parents in the third world. Such a shame!
I don't know, but if so, is that relevant? The question was whether or not it was a good deal for Google. It's not zero-sum.
Particularly concerning is the section where the teacher is instructed to unconditionally reward the student, and then say that this reward is "exceptional" to the parents. I'm not a lawyer, but that sound like fraud. https://archive.org/details/demo-class_202011/page/25/mode/1...
My apologies, I won't do it again..
Share your own "trick" then :) one that doesn't use #define
There was an episode of The Modern Rogue on YouTube where they demonstrated sending pictures over cheap UHF radios using “Slow Scan Television” which Robot36 is a part of.

https://youtu.be/tVi9zEJkJ9g
How mRNA vaccines work, what's in them, why they're safe
I have been using more and more of https://www.pulumi.com/ for my deployments. It’s nice that the deployment code is written in js/python/go/.net so I can make it as customizable as I want.
Honestly if you could make the training procedure fast and efficient (perhaps even automating that part?), this seems like a very economical litter clean-up technique. Just stick a machine out doors with a solar panel on the top, and come by once a month to empty the bin and refill the food.

You'd need to make sure the exchange rate (food per trash) is set based on the weight of the trash in order to avoid incentivizing the birds from tearing trash into smaller pieces for more food. And you might need some decent machine vision to reject non trash. Seems eminently solveable though.
I don't think this phenomenon is specific to India, but a culture of strongly encouraging rote memorisation over actual thinking is definitely a factor. I worked in CS education many years ago (not in India) but the decline was already quite visible then, in the form of students who could recite obscure facts and copy-paste code together but were otherwise mostly computer-illiterate. These people then think they are successful and try to teach others, leading to a case of "the blind leading the blind".
Depending on the size of the company in question, introducing actual P&L responsibility makes your description sound more like a VP of Product, or, in role terms, a "product owner", whatever the specific title. But certainly team members should be able to understand the connection between their activities and the creation of value.
This reminds me of Scott Alexander's "Meditations on Moloch". It describes the same sort of competition where players sacrifice a value to remain competitive. After a while, the value is gone but the competitive advantage vanished, and everyone is worse off.

https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/
When a government chooses to (or not to!) spend a significant portion of its budget advancing a particular scientific research program, that is pretty much by definition a political motivation. And if the motivation is driven by international relations, well again, that is the definition of geopolitics.

There's a reason we talk about the Space Race and not the International Geophysical Year. Popular and political support for the Apollo and predecessor programs were ultimately driven by the geopolitical goals, and once the Space Race had been "won," that support dwindled to the normal, pitiful scientific research levels. Spaceflight and space research reverted to just being yet another scientific field trying to catch a few drips of the governmental funding pipeline. It's the sad truth here.

This isn't to say that all science is driven by geopolitics. A lot of high-energy physics research isn't, for example (although supporters of the SCC did try to frame cancelling it thusly to try to preserve its funding, though they ultimately failed).
Why? Isn’t White Hat Jr based in India?
Would you please stop this? I don't want to ban you.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25146606
I was thinking about a related idea recently - how much is my grocery information privacy worth for me? Summed up, I'm currently saving just over 11% on all the groceries + ~7% on fuel cost by sharing that information with 5 companies. (car insurance, CC, shop card, honey, airline)

I'm not attached to this, I'd rather the programs like this get destroyed. But also by stacking the offers, I believe I'm getting more value here than they do.

So for now I'm cool with this exchange. Would others put the privacy/money break-even somewhere else? (This is assuming reasonable shopping - I make a full list before starting to order a pickup, I rarely actually go through a shop, so there's no upsell here)
What is the advantage of your assume macro over regular C11 static_assert / assert? Apologies if it is immediately obvious.

And in case anyone else is wondering, the advantage of that m_max macro is that it evaluates each of its arguments only once.
Yes! Its great to capture a bespoke configuration in code. You may already know this but there is a tool called terraformer that has limited support for doing just this: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/terraformer
Here in the UK one of our TV chefs is Jamie Oliver.

He took a bit of a hit and ridicule in the papers when he brought out a TV/book series called '30 minute meals' and when people tried it most recipes took an hour.
You are not wrong. Peeve of mine too.

There are technical reasons to avoid both extreme white and black. Discussing those makes sense.
The only reason I'll pay you a dollar for your data is that I'll make 2 dollars selling you shit you wouldn't have bought otherwise using it. And for me to make 2 dollars, you need to buy 20 dollars worth of shit. Shit you didn't actually want or need.
Ocaml (almost ?) has it.
https://www.janestreet.com/tech-talks/effective-programming/
Sure, then critique the actual topic at hand.

Providing a shallow drive-by "critique" of the writing style or information delivery, especially with such an emotional topic, does not contribute to the conversation in any way.

This is Hacker News, not "Rate my Writing".
If you have the money to give away, perhaps use it more efficiently and give it to charity.

Deliberately overpaying is a bad thing when you're either feeding a company or gifting a stranger, neither of which need the money anywhere near as much.
There's an oral history of Unix, but all the disfluencies, backtracking, etc, is transcribed so uh
This would only work if, let's say, the video hosting market consisted of 10 competing companies having comparable shares. Different players would then take different sides, and the market forces would sort it out.

With the present-day monopolies/oligopolies it's different. If your financial well-being directly depends on Google listing your site, and Visa/MasterCard processing your payment, they can de-facto decide what is acceptable and what's not. And to force you to pretend that you share their views under a penalty of completely destroying your business.
W-800H if you're OK with a little de-soldering: https://ianrrees.github.io/2019/09/13/casio-w-800h-extras.ht...
> conservatism is basically supporting the status quo

what’s more status quo than Joe Biden?
I like your thoughts on this. This would be an interesting experiment to document what you are and are not successful at. And try to push it further...
It's such a shame that Mickey mouse is now being used to scam gullible and desperate parents in the third world.

You may find this amusing: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Mickey_Mouse#Adjective
The modern interpretation of a PM, essentially a glorified order taker, is not one I’d recommend.

Ive seen this model of the PM implemented in small 5 person startups and large 5,000 person public companies.
Like many people now we would buy the newest popular model and read reviews.

How can you try out a new computer when buying online through your old computer? You don't. You rely on Specs.. reviews.. brands.
How to start using AVIF images on your website
Show HN: OpenResty buildpack for Heroku (and compatibles like Dokku)
To say little of perfectionists/analysis-paralysis
It's an externality. The harm to you and society from being tracked and data-mined is worse than the profit that companies make from that data. Even if they paid you all their profit it's still bad. And in reality they would find a way to pay even less than that.
I feel strongly that a language and runtime built around this development process, ala Erlang, would revolutionize building robust distributed systems.

You probably don't need to start from scratch - it doesn't seem any more ambitious than what Project Loom is doing on the JVM, or the various projects using Rust to target GPU.

You'd probably have to roll your own tests that involve pulling the physical power plug on your servers, though.
This.
I cannot understand why so many people here want to "ban politics" from the workplace.

What are your working for at that workplace? Honest question. How to spend your hard-earned money when there is no society and market? Do you want your children to live in a peaceful, prospering world or a burning one (maybe with slightly more dollars in their account)?

I don't get this sentiment. Everything is politics nowadays and choosing to "ban" it just means egocentrically accepting that we are heading for a worse future.

(And no, "politics" doesnt mean that the company will become an echo chamber and different opinions should be silenced - the opposite is the case. But BS needs to be called out as what it is...)
Yes it's obvious if 3 things are true:

* SAT scores are highly correlated with intelligence

* Intelligence is highly correlated with wealth

* Intelligence is highly heritable (80% apparently)
I don’t think the result was that they got bored of it while it was producing rewards, it’s that when the reward stops coming, they very quickly stop the behavior. If you have unpredictable but net-positive rewards, then you keep pulling the lever for longer when it stops paying out.

So if you want to train a dog or other animal with a clicker or just with treats, the optimal strategy is probably not to give them treats every time they do the behavior.
>Your comment seems disingenuous

Your comment seems like you missed what was being talked about. In fact you appear to think I was arguing a point antipodal to what I was actually saying.

"I did not know another way existed" was referring to a second way to do it in GIMP.
This article makes me sad not because a bright entrepreneur left this world too soon, but rather a family was robbed of their father too soon.

I don’t know his working habits, but I really hope he wasn’t putting his family second to his startup. For that to happen for many years and then die would be very tragic.
The secret sauce seems to be the delivery mechanism.
Politics is not just electing people. Politics includes advocating for issues, viewpoints.

Net Neutrality is politics.
Right to Repair is politics.
Broadband Initiatives are politics.
Internet Censorship is politics.
Section 230 immunity is politics.
APIs being copyrightable or not is politics.
Antitrust is politics.

At a more basic level, there are certain values that must be preserved for a company to have a fair chance for success. Neither fascism nor state run communism is a good environment for a startup.

So yes, companies can and should heed politics. They need not even donate to or endorse or promote people, they can endorse policies or come out against people who are against the policies they support.

People that want to keep politics out of the workplace ignore how a startup workplace is the intersection of politics and markets, of governance and growth.

Companies should take the long view, and advocate for what's best for themselves, but also their country and the world.
To be fair I believe the author has changed the title of the article since it was posted. It said "Loss" at first (as does the headline here).
This got me to read "Why I am Voting for Kanye West" by Rob Rineheart (1), and now I am REALLY confused.

(1) https://www.robrhinehart.com/why-i-am-voting-for-kanye-west/
Exactly. Facebook's founding philosophy "Move Fast And Break Things" was crucial to it's success. I say give Zuck credit where credit's due even if his attitude to user privacy stinks. One thing still puzzles me about Zuckerberg, though. He says in the emails with Greenspan that he has a limited attention span for coding, hence his preference for web technology, yet he also created Synapse in C++ to a standard acceptable enough for Microsoft to offer him serious money. Doesn't add up.
With new ‘elegant chemo,’ Israeli scientists edit genome to destroy cancer
Sure, it's extensible but I was speaking on all the other fronts.
> the obvious answer to me is unless your product is directly related to politics, a company as an entity should have no public stance on politics.

You make it sound simple, but it’s not.

If you operate a SAAS company, and ICE approaches you to buy your service, you suspect it might be used in the family separation program. If you say: “I’m not doing politics!” and decide to sell them the service, you are being complacent in the policy that ICE enforces, and therefor just did some (highly questionable) politics. If you deny them, you also did (morally correct) politics.

If your workers use open source software and ask if they can contribute back upstream, but you deny them on grounds of intellectual property, you just did politics. The same if you allow them. If you pay your workers above market rate, allow them to unionize, have a liberal vacation policy, or force them to work on-site, you are doing politics. Albeit on a more personal scale then in the previous example.

If most of the other offices in your downtown building where your startup resides put a BLM flag in their window, but you opt not to, you just made a political decision. If an employee puts a prominent Palestinian flag on their desk, and you ask them to take that down, you do so on a political basis.

I hope you get the point. Businesses simply don’t have the option of not doing politics. The power dynamics involved simply prevent that from being a possibility. “Not doing politics” is more often then not simply an excuse for doing highly questionable politics.
[Watches the spread of low contrast, grey emails]

Yup. Agreed across the board.

Displays do have technical issues. CRT's bloom on high contrast elements. I just read OLED ghosting is a thing when pixels are full black, not driven, as examples.

How to best handle those makes sense.
> My understanding is that Alicia Garza and the other founders of the BLM organization coined the phrase itself

Yes, they created the slogan and hashtag in 2012 and the Foundation in 2013, and the Movement for Black Lives was founded in 2014. (Much of this is express in the excerpts you cite.) The organizations did not exist until well after the slogan was popularized, and the various organizations within the movement (even the big two) mentioned are not without disputes over both policy recommendations and priority between them; the slogan isn’t a sales technique for the programs of one organization or the other, the organizations are working to try to establish how to make the slogan concrete.
> Brian is super modest and claims to be a horrible programmer but he is comparing himself to Ken Thompson, who he thinks is just incredible. Ken once wrote a disassembler, assembler and B interpreter for a mini-computer that ran a printer they were struggling with, in a couple of days, so that they could get it printing again. This blew Brian's mind.

For the next level up here's Ken (in a very interesting conversation with Brian Kernighan about the history of Unix) describing McIlroy:

> McIlroy keeps coming up. He's the smartest of all of us and the least remembered (or written down)... McIlroy sat there and wrote ---on a piece of paper, now, not on a computer--- TMG [a proprietary yacc-like program] written in TMG... And then! He now has TMG written in TMG, he decided to give his piece of paper to his piece of paper and write down what came out (the code). Which he did. And then he came over to my editor and he typed in his code, assembled it, and (I won't say without error, but with so few errors you'd be astonished) he came up with a TMG compiler, on the PDP-7, written in TMG. And it's the most basic, bare, impressive self-compilation I've ever seen in my life.

This story, by the way, leads into how Ken created B (and how that was eventually improved by Dennis Ritchie into C).

[0] https://youtu.be/EY6q5dv_B-o?t=2314
Twitter killed my airplane tracking bot
I’ve been working on a little side project that uses ADS-B data to track when aircraft fly over the city I live in (https://twitter.com/abovecville). The code for the bot can be found at: https://github.com/hursey013/above-cville

On 11/13 I began getting failure messages from the Twitter API informing me that I no longer had write access. After logging into the Twitter Developer Dashboard, sure enough I saw a message stating “This App has violated Twitter Rules and policies. As a result, certain functions will be limited.” The message said an email had been sent informing me, but I never received any emails.

I immediately submitted an inquiry through the support form and a day later I received a generic email that said “Your app has been restricted or suspended due to one or more violations of our Developer Agreement and Policy, Automation Rules, Display Requirements and/or Twitter Rules” - no further details were provided about what rule or policy was broken. The email also stated that in order to move forward I must send “A list of specific changes that you have made to resolve policy non-compliance.”

I quickly reviewed the different links for rules and policies and made a guess that the issue might be related to me including some @ mentions within a portion of the tweets. I revised the code to make sure that would no longer happen and shot an email back to Twitter about the changes that I made.

Fast forward to today, 10 days later, and my bot is still sidelined. No response or follow up from Twitter. Luckily this is just a side project for me, but really makes me think twice about using the Twitter API for anything beyond a hobby project. Anyone else have a similar experience or have advice on finding a resolution?
I think we will see more of a push towards SSR technologies like LiveView for exactly this reason:

https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix_live_view/Phoenix.LiveView.html
Mail.app and Calendar.app work fine with outlook accounts and Word and Excel work fine in Rosetta 2.

Edge is based on Chromium now, and nobody uses it on the Mac, so there's not much point in testing rendering on a Mac (better to test on Windows Edge).

However if you're really bought into the MS ecosystem (or much of your company is), and can't do without outlook or old Windows programs like winzip (!) I'd agree with the author that you should wait, though I don't agree that it's a big problem to do so or this is somehow a failing of the new Macs.

Pretty sure this isn't going to be a problem for longer than a few weeks anyway, as MS have already announced the office suite working fine on early betas of M1 and new beta builds for the architecture:

https://www.macworld.co.uk/news/microsoft-office-big-sur-m1-...

In fact on checking I see the betas have already arrived:

https://twitter.com/Schwieb/status/1326728712948076545
Apparently made on shoestring budget. People worked for free, the only cost was compute and filming equipment (which was rented). I'm surprised by the quality of the result - this is Elysium/Chappie grade work.

The link should really be: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HZ4DnVfWYQ. This is the original video uploaded by the authors.

Aside from all the robots, drones, and black holes, this is what rural Russia looked like 20-25 years ago, and probably still looks like in some places today.
..unless you are China
I disagree. I think this is the sort of thing we do to encourage kids to do something difficult. If you interpret the comment more charitably it could be trying to say that all students are exceptional in the sense that every human is unique.
I think GIMP kinda suffers the same fate as intel. I remember a lot of efforts went into creating the underlying core for image processing (GEGL ?) but then nothing happened. It's stuck at the blender 2.7 way of life.

They may try to revamp ergonomics and performance. But that's their choice.