skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry for the confusion, I think we are using different definitions of "semantics" here, I'm not talking about formal semantics. I'm considering these to be semantically different, even though their structural types are the same:

fn min(x: int, y: int) -> int
fn max(x: int, y: int) -> int

The meaning of a computation changes depending on which one we use.

I probably should have used a different word than "semantics" since that has a technical definition in the PL field...
For a very long time, that was the position Linux was in on the desktop. Manufacturers providing drivers, or sufficient info to write them, for Linux, is pretty new, and still not exactly universal.
You are omitting the fact that the one white employee switched to working out of the NYC office. There's no mention of a black employee making the same request and it being denied, just the request to wfh being denied for both white and black employees.

And then you are extrapolating two uncorroborated anecdotes of inappropriate comments as evidence of widespread discrimination.
That makes sense to me. In software design terms, this is a generalization of the single responsibility principle.

That being said, I there’s still plenty of room for smart appliances that are fault tolerant and degrade gracefully. I agree that most “smart” things on the market today fail to implement either of these features particularly well, but I see no fundamental reason why they couldn’t.
How long before we have keyboards that will not let you type offensive things?

Surely if a pen is mightier than a sword, than a keyboard is a mass destruction tool. Apple you can do it! with your 16 core neural engine, I'll never type the wrong thought again.
I agree, the `data-` variant should be enforced so that the markup is always valid.
In the pre- Mac OS X days there were so few games for the Mac that most of the games I had access to were via emulation.

Seeing the M1s doing so well in retro system emulation this early makes my heart jump with joy. So exciting.
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The fact is that you need people to have this collective delusion to work really hard and care about something, before value can be created. This kind of work ethic and commitment is what virtually every company that you admire today has required to get where it is today.

I personally don't think this is "dehumanizing" or unfair, since the whole point is to explicitly opt in for such a life. There are enough people out there who want to dedicate a lot of their time to working on a team or mission they care about, and OP's narrative is great at selecting for people like that.
Tabloid outlets? For many ministers of the Crown.
As far as toasters go, I’ve never owned one. I usually toast things in my oven or on a pan.
Sure, but I think it's also easy to conflate success and talent with intelligence. I think many successful scientist are not particularly smart, but rather dilligent and educated; most innovation is not a leap, but a steady incremental progress which may accumulate in a "innovative" product at some point.

I don't know much about Jobs, that's why I asked. From what I got, he was rather a charismatic leader with a good intuition, but I wouldn't call those attributes intelligence per se. Is there any evidence for a particular intelligence of his?
Why is it crazy that someone would spend $4500 on something they commute with every day? I mean, it might cost that much just to upgrade the seats and the stereo in a car.
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To summarize:

1. Web apps offer a workaround to the App Store and its restrictions. Therefore, they need to be blocked.

2. Start by requiring WASM to be signed by Apple.

3. Build out WASM functionality to be comparable with JavaScript.

4. Refuse to add new features to JavaScript.

I don't think it would work because I think users would notice performance degradation from Day 1 of the policy. Ironically, it could expose users to a number of security risks. But for macOS users, the Web would start to suck all around. That's the goal, but I think the immediate response would be a fire sale of Mac hardware.
> “I started a company and I’m totally wild about it. It is my life. If it is not your life too then you don’t belong here.”

I assume he's diluting his own equity to make sure everyone has as equal of a stake in the company? That's the only way I'll accept this statement.
I think you're talking about a company where things are going well. I'm talking about one where they've gone badly, and the founder has lost most control.
144hz displays, Bluetooth, Ethernet, wireless charging, laptops with touchscreens, pressure-sensitive pen input (the Surface Pen predates the Apple Pencil by three years), optical mice, programmable GPUs...
"Time spent working" is a terrible metric for "gives a shit" and shows me that I wouldn't want to work at this place, but I agree with the general idea that people who give a shit are worth a lot of money.

Even more important than hiring people who give a shit is not breaking them. Throw enough bullshit hurdles in their way, treat them unfairly, or show that you don't care for long enough, and they will stop giving a shit, and you just reduced the value of that worker at least by a factor of 2, if not more. Even if they still put in the same number of hours.

It's the difference between doing what's right vs. doing what's rewarded. If you have people who just do what's right, you don't need a strict reward system. Once you push them towards only going after your rewards, your reward system better be 100% aligned with what's good for the company (spoiler: it isn't anywhere near that), or you're screwed.
I'm the creator of htmx, glad to see this make HN.

Happy to answer questions.
Not in response to the rule, but to the media cycle that followed publication of the rule.

I don't believe that in the editing room they went: "Next item. The Coinbase controversy. Let's do an objective investigation of this and see what we find." But I won't accuse the NYT of bad faith, economic/journalistic incentives are sufficient to explain that angle, fishing for further controversy for a company with an already bad reputation (deserved or not).

Notice the NYT article even wrote negatively of Coinbase's diversity efforts: Supposedly, black people where shoed into photos, to make the company look good to the outside, but were never promoted or listened to (implying, because they were black, and white Libertarian autist tech bro's don't listen to or promote their black employees as a matter of principle). With such an angle about questionable motives, it is neigh impossible to do anything right. It is "we already determined you are wrong, now where is your apology?".
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It would be cool to find some kind of library or set of libraries that can map directly (disambiguate) NER in text to items in an ontology. Even if it were really rudimentary it would be really handy.
Well, you can breathe it, although it will result in oxygen toxicity. This doesn't have anything to do with fires, and the gas doesn't have to be "more massive" than O2 to retard fires either.

Low pressure (100-200 mbar) pure oxygen behaves similarly to low partial pressure atmosphere in inert diluate (i.e. air). It's not perfect -- things still burn faster without the diluent -- but it's not as dangerous as pure O2 at sea level pressure, nor is it like the high-pressure pure O2 environment in the Apollo 1 test.

Also, N2 (and especially Ar) aren't consumed to an appreciable degree. They can be recycled in an artificial life support system (as they are, and have been, for decades).
3) Prepare to load yesterday's work from the tape

4) Tape does not load for some reason, retry.

5) Tape still does not load, retry.

6) You remember your friends brought some games yesterday and you had to tweak tape player's head position. Where is your screwdriver again?

7) Spend 20 minutes trying to re-align the heads so you can load the tape.

...

If you want "turn on and start coding" experience, then programmable calculators are your friend. Really, give them a try -- they have the same BASIC, support your familiar "PLOT 10,0" commands, but at the same time do not lose all your data when you turn then off, and do not require tapes.
The Linux kernel keeps full backward compatibility and you can run old distributions in a container, while Windows dropped 16-bit support on 64-bit and doesn't let you run old userlands on new kernels.
What you get from applying TLDR to their paper:

We introduce SCITLDR, a new multi-target data set of 5.4KTLDRs over 3.2Kpapers.

Keeping pdf's copy-paste artifacts:

We introduceTLDRgeneration, a new formof extreme extreme summarization, for scientific pa-pers.

Adding intro and conclusion (optional):

We introduce SCITLDR, a new data set of 5.4KTLDRs over 3.2Kpapers.

[0] https://scitldr.apps.allenai.org/
Practically, you are allowed to do so.

I understand both sides of the argument, so I set it up so you could choose which one you preferred. I don't see a reason to force my preferences on anyone.
It’s much more than twice as fast.

https://twitter.com/catfish_man/status/1326238434235568128?s...
Yes, partly because he wasn't famous (so reading his essays felt like being part of a club) and partly because he was advocating for an underdog perspective (that of the smart technical founder). The idea that you could succeed through programming skill, talking to customers, and cutting out bullshit was enormously exciting, and the fact that Viaweb had succeeded doing it was more of an inspiring existing proof than something to identify against. People like me used to sit around talking about it as sort of a "home team makes good" story. Then they started YC to prove the point at scale, and did prove the point at scale—so much so that it's no longer so easy to remember how radical the thing was. If you're radical enough and proven right enough, people will eventually call you "aggressively conventional".
Oh with the sun, there is enough energy in space and in the moon (at daytime). You "just" have to focus and redirect it.
And store it for the long nights.
It seems like it's going that way though.

I used a MBP as a phd student and postdoc for scientific computing and at the time ~2010-2015 it was fantastic for that, all my peers thought so as well. At conferences/seminars, there would just be a sea of macbooks with a few linux machines scattered around.

That is definitely starting to change - not by choice, more like people are being squeezed out due to the increasingly restrictive nature of the OS.
Wait. Isn't that entirely explained by the light being repeatedly absorbed and re-emitted after a short delay? But otherwise travelling at c?
The parent is obviously being sarcastic.
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I don't understand. If Black employees were deliberately encouraged to show up to be photographed, but otherwise ignored and passed over for advancement, it doesn't take much of an editorial slant to show a problem; that behavior is inherently problematic.
> what the hell did we think we were doing between August and November?

R was good enough in London, back then. That's all they were worried about.
You mention diversity. Do any black folks work on your team? Do you think it’s possible that black engineers are treated well and black CX are treated poorly?
Even with false positives the real case number is probably larger just because of the combination of asymptomatic cases and the lack of randomized community screening.
But prepending with data can be annoying both from a "quickly reading" perspective, and an aesthetic one. The goal isn't to provide valid HTML necessarily but just allow the library to parse it correctly.
Very well said.

People seem to be trying to apply a criminal prosecution level standard for proof/evidence, one that is almost never applied to other companies on non hot button issues or generally on HN. You highlighted the specific hoops people are jumping through well. I hope maybe people can examine why they are so motivated to use this hypocritical double standard to defend this company they have no direct ties with.
Brexit was sorted out ages ago. No deal. Johnson has wanted that from the start of his Preimership, doesn't need to deal and can try and blame the EU for when things go wrong.
Why don't we bring back pages of 6pt font hex codes from the back of Byte magazine too?
So, I just checked. We have easily engaged upwards of 500 freelancers over the last 8 years. Not possible to personally keep track. If something has slipped by, would like to know and rectify.
Donations is like.. create $1m of value, get $100 in donations
Not an expert, but I was one of those immigrants who took work away from the natural born workers. My understanding is that economists mostly agree that immigration, especially of skilled workers, is generally beneficial to the economy of a country, but perhaps not so beneficial to the local workers who would prefer wages to become inflated due to constrained labor supply. My personal experience was that I got to pay significant US taxes which would otherwise have been paid to another country, then I founded US-based companies that hired natural born employees. Now that I've been a US citizen for 12 years, so I feel that H1-B entrants are reducing my earning potential? Nope. I'd more concerned about smart engineers living in other countries where the cost of living is much lower, who can work remotely, sometimes competing with me for the same work, although to be clear I'm really not concerned about those folks either -- it is hard enough to find good developers in one country that typically one has to expand the net worldwide.
The only thing that needs to happen for government workers is removal of defined benefit pensions and retiree healthcare. Once those fudge-able numbers are removed from the equation, the overpaying by promising future taxpayer money will automatically stop.
Link unrelated? What is zerohedge? Why does one care?
That is not obvious from the parent comment at all.
Rope Trick Effect
It's funny you mention taking advice from successful pro athletes. I'm reminded of a great essay, "How Tracy Austin Broke My Heart" by David Foster Wallace.

He writes about his admiration for a successful pro tennis athlete, her intensity and dedication to her sport, and her strangely vacuous response to the question "How do you do it Tracy?" - which she answers with some vague platitudes. His point is: very successful people are so busy being successful, they're so deeply immersed in their craft, that they don't seem to even have the conscious introspective wherewithal to articulate what it is they're doing. Everything they know about their craft and their life is just so tacit to them. They've either never taken the time to really introspect, again because they're so caught up in just winning and getting things done, or they're just genuinely incapable of gleaning any wisdom from what it is that they do. So maybe it's not particularly useful to take advice from these people after all.

Now, this is probably the case for most such people, but there is a very small minority that do eventually cultivate the ability to articulate their internalized understanding and wisdom of their success to others. Maybe PG is one of them. Maybe not.
I am thankful we don’t live in a doctor dictatorship.
Are there other non-crypto political stances Coinbase has taken? It seems to me that this was just the first time they needed such a policy. I certainly wouldn't have anticipated the possibility of a new political slogan that almost every major company is forced to chant.
Thanks for this; should have looked more carefully.
Whoopsie sends bug reports automatically without consent
What's the actual optimization though?
I don't know why people who make frameworks either prefer invalid HTML

I’m guessing people do this to make it less likely to have a name conflict with a custom attribute used by another library.
I'm not 100% convinced Greg LeMond is hanging out on HN, nor that he handcrafted this particular website.

If he is and he did then he has made a spectacular midlife career pivot.
In the UK, one of the main things used to estimate the value of R is randomly sampling people from the population and testing them for Covid-19 regardless of symptoms.
There's a spec for that, but I don't know of any synthesizable RV cores with optional TSO that have actually been made, whether ASICs _or_ configurable logic.

That does make it pretty novel on Apple's end. I agree with Heinlein that "a good idea is worth one bottle of scotch"; that the execution is where the vast majority of the work is and where the vast majority of praise should lie.

And that's coming from someone who's not as bullish as some on Apple's execution. I think AMD's cores are better and compared 1/1 on the same process node Apple would look a little behind overall. But Apple for sure gets praise for their execution here (optionality in store order), which is remarkably good.
Apologies. I generally think of affect as a verb and effect as a noun but that's not always the case. It sounded correct to me as I was typing it upon my porcelain writing chair.
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The 1-2 kg weight savings is useful if you need to carry your bike up the stairs to your top floor apartment. Or to ride it up hills in manual mode. Both of those seem like niche cases.

These don't really seem niche. The lighter the better, simply because F = ma, the lower the mass, the higher the acceleration from the same amount of force from the battery applied. Or, higher range.
Working with, not for. AWS has their own consulting wing, and they can’t possibly take on all the business themselves. It is a mutually beneficial relationship.

I think they are just emulating the successful Microsoft VAR model that had different tiers from Microsoft Certified Professional to Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer to Microsoft Gold partners. Microsoft probably just imitated Novell and Cisco. The business model works. I don’t think Cloud adoption would be anywhere near as high without corporate-approved partner designations with multiple tiers.
When I interviewed there, the parking lot was full at 9:45 so.
I mean... the UK has been running a budget deficit since 2001, and the Uk has had record debt every year since 2007.
I can’t believe so many people are not picking up your humor! XD
I think I found the answer in this tweet.

https://twitter.com/Catfish_Man/status/1326298205034696705

Heres a snipped quote.

"this further improvement is because uncontended acquire-release atomics are about the same speed as regular load/store on A14"
I hereby confirm I was being sarcastic, I really would like an answer to the second part though.
The author favors murders in libraries ... that hits a bit too close to home - https://www.collegian.psu.edu/news/campus/article_b6280ed6-1.... I was only 5 at the time but lived a mere 4 blocks from that library.
Take reveal.js to the next level with markdeck. It a dockerfied version of reveal using markdown and graphics generated on the fly with asciitosvg and graphviz.
https://github.com/arnehilmann/markdeck
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I don't think that's a useful question unless you know how to answer it within specific contexts. In other words, what does "work" mean? There are so many dimensions to consider there, including technical, social, business, developmental, and legal ones.

Sometimes the most extreme NIH tendencies are perfectly justified due to these constraints, and sometimes they're absurd. I don't think any point on the continuum is generally "correct" nor should be generally advocated for. Instead we should be discussing how to figure out where the point lies on the continuum, within the context of the software we're currently writing.
On the contrary, they came up with several examples of biased behavior, including an instance where the Black members of a team were required to relocate while a non-Black member wasn't, an instance where a Black team member was subjected to to insults about drug dealing and guns from their manager, recruiting team member claims that Black candidates were less capable, the fact that Coinbase employs Black workers at less than half the average of the industry, and the fact that Black workers were dismissed in meetings, to the point where a pattern of repeated HR complaints occurred.
Zerohedge.com is a fairly prominent markets blog with a bearish/Austrian economics perspective.
No, just a lot of brute force and focused optimization going on the M1. There are a few advantages, (it’s a newer architecture after all) but nothing that justifies the current difference.
It isn't perfect yet, but hx-boost is supposed to be the progressive enhancement option in htmx:

https://htmx.org/attributes/hx-boost/
Decent chance the next iPhone will go portless and only charge wirelessly. So the EU may not get a chance.

Which will still be nice from a standards perspective, since the iPhone uses the Qi standard.
Since you mention The Dark Forest trilogy, it had some other dire implications along this lines.

Spoiler:

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If you want to dispute something another commenter says, do so. The guidelines ask you specifically not to snark like this.
What I've run into as well is free software, where the source is available but the process of building it into something usable would take "months" of work, and the internal toolchain (old software versions, patched packages, etc) is only vaguely documented.

Effectively, it's a 'moat' around the business, and allows the business to get the best of both worlds: association with the open source community, and effectively proprietary software.

The actual business plan can then treat the software as an exclusive asset (not in a technical, legal, sense, but de facto for sure).

I'm not saying it's a bad model; it's probably one of the few that can provide a reliable income, and it gives outside developers a 'fighting chance' at accessing the value of the software.
Either people didn't read the article, or assumed I hadn't read the article.
just let me save it, I still might want it later
If you know zero Black people and work with zero Black people it’s very easy to come to the conclusion that there is no racism against Black people. If there was you’d see it!
Any system with Python (so any Linux system)? Here is a real-example, just tested on my Ubuntu PC:

$ python3
Python 3.6.9 (default, Oct 8 2020, 12:12:24)
[GCC 8.4.0] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> from turtle import *
>>> penup()
>>> setposition(10, 10)
>>> pendown()
>>> setposition(100, 100)

Not quite the same commands, but pretty close. And you have more modern things like "bgpic", "onclick" and entire Python library.

https://docs.python.org/3/library/turtle.html
Is having the virus without symptoms really a case? The Coronavirus act says so. However, there's only tenuous evidence of asymptomatic and presymptiomatic transmission of the virus.
This is very similar to Stimulus which i don’t find much difference from. Who’s your target developer?

Reference: https://stimulusjs.org/
Whatever happened to that 3 pound bike?

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/superstrata-bike

Would rather have that than a 26 pound e-bike.