skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd just mention another scenario where performance matters more than is imagined. It's common for people to reference Rich Sutton's The Bitter Lesson Of Machine Learning [1], which essentially says that brute force has always beaten "clever algorithms". I'd outline an alternative view to this. The development of "clever algorithms" in the GFAI days or pre-neural-nets computer visions days often didn't follow an approach where the different parts could be combined together in a fashion that was performant. It seems like the higher you go in CS theory, the more speed gets abstracted away. And the problems with that might be the real lesson here.

[1] http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html
It is a feature. As a frequent user, I would rather have it on plain HTTP as well. Aside from the performance benefit, it also helps if people monitoring my internet traffic (my ISP, NSA, Putin, Zuck etc.) reads Paul Graham and they may get enlightened. May not seem much but it is actually one of the few steps humanity is taking towards world peace.
Ensuring Data Reaches Disk
Reasoning about Colors
It’s very rare that any data encoding doesn’t come in a multiple of 8-bits. Have you ever seen a 1.5 byte (12-bit) file? UTF-8 isn’t special in that regard. You can put literally anything into a char buffer and decode it how you like.
Anti-abortion person here, this is just my view/opinion.

Well, my first thought was "this isn't no kill, it's just chicken abortion". They're still killing chickens regardless. Maybe there's someone for whom this makes a difference; I'm not one of them.

But yeah...it's not human, and I eat chicken anyway. Religiously I am against human abortion because there is a sanctity in human life that does not apply to animals. In Christianity, humans are made in the image of God, are the only ones who contain a spirit, and are the only ones for whom there is a mandate in the Old Testament that if a human is murdered, then the one who murdered them should be put to death. That's not to say that animals are worthless in any way, and animal life is protected in other ways.

Purposelessly killing animals bothers me too, in that it's wasteful and we should be better stewards of life in general.

It feels that this article is rather disingenuous based on the title though.
Disk Compressor History: A Microsoft Antitrust Prelude (2018)
“Always bet on the web.”

PWA trumps mobile apps — until or unless it can be articulated why a PWA/hybrid app won’t work, but that is the small minority of app cases.
The acronym was literally defined immediately after it was used! Come on!
This is Paul Milgroms repsonse to this: http://www.auctionomics.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Fact-...

... invent a conspiratorial narrative ... fabrications and accusations of corruption .. In the fashion of a flat earther...

I'm sorry but if you have to resort to such ad hominem attacks your defense is significantly devalued and someone must have hit a nerve.
Are you seperating the ui thread from your processing thread?
Here's a paper on it: http://www.cramton.umd.edu/papers2000-2004/00jre-collusive-b...

Here's an FCC write-up of one of the more egregious cases, where the participant was fined $650k https://wireless.fcc.gov/auctions/anticollusion/releases/FCC...

To answer your question, I believe they weren't allowed to communicate.
It's also very likely the election of JFK was rigged. After all the JFK family had a long history of mob ties.
Developers first introduced to RxJS hate the fact they have to think about the plumbing rather than the water... that is until they have to inner join 3 asynchronous sources of data and broadcast it out to their entire application.
> Tulsa has run out of ICU beds.

So now we're in agreement. The sky is not falling, and Tulsa may have a local logistical challenge. Nothing to see here.

> Because they know their patients will die if they don't perform.

It's presumptuous to speak to what others know. All I know is that they weighed the alternatives for themselves and chose to willingly go to work instead of doing all the other things that they could have done instead.

> Its easy to build a training program when you have a $700 Billion/year budget.

Are you arguing that only a $700B/yr organization can train people to do the simple tasks that a soldier learns to do? The field manuals and training materials are all available, you can look and see for yourself that there is no secret super 700 billion dollar teaching method being used. As important as they are, these skills are not uniquely difficult to teach nor to learn. (Nevermind the fact that last year the federal government spent over a trillion dollars on healthcare, and the private sector spent even more than that, so if there is some special budgetary threshold that must be passed before workers can be effectively trained, I think we passed it a long time ago.)

> Americans won't accept raising their taxes to pay for such a thing.

Right, because we don't just assume that the solution to every problem must come from the government. There is absolutely nothing preventing hospitals from training new workers to change bedpans and insert catheters via on the job training. Well, nothing except for all the government regulations, but as they say "nobody gets a speeding ticket at the indy 500". They could do it and it would be fine.
I've been looking for a kanban tool for which I can own the data (self hosted), and preferably that the data is a human manipulated format (Markdown ideally).

Does anyone know of something like that? I haven't found a satisfactory solution so I've been building one, but I keep feeling like I'm wasting my time and that there must be something else available. In any case I am planning on releasing it as a desktop app and mobile (Android, iOS) at some point. Right now I just use Syncthing to sync across devices - you just point the app to a directory of Markdown files.
I have followed and played football since I was born. I was lucky to be in Mexico 1986 and have seen the evolution of football. Today the sport have evolved so much, diets, rules, salaries, marketing, tactics with this in mind players are less passionate about their teams and care more about the looks and salaries, this clearly affects how they perform in the field. When Maradona led Argentina in a World Cup against a very very strong English team, and score that goal is something that no matter if you are argentinian or not, this can't be quantified, this passion is not numbers. Here we are analytical and love numbers. Messi in numbers is better, but the feeling and the emotions you generate in a crowd is what makes Maradona special. He caused that in Napoli, Argentina, Mexico, anywhere, he is D10S
Yes! Coherent it was. Thanks.
Ha. I was super surprised that my dad(almost 70) mentioned IPFS to me the other day. It turns out the people he know are running or thinking of running IPFS nodes because of filecoin incentive. Apparently, the people don't want to miss another bitcoin opportunity.

filecoin is also promoting in China. https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/T0Qt2CEP7QsA6Zy9Vzvdkw
Yeah, when I was regularly running long distance I seemed to naturally maintain a balanced caloric intake.

Then I injured myself so badly that I needed to stop running for 5 months. Never fully got back to my ritual and then I gained 40lbs. A few years have passed and my attempts to restart my running all end with me taking a break nursing weird muscle and tendon pains that last for weeks.

So I guess my point is: yes, it actually is possible to out-train your diet, but that's only a good plan as long as you never hurt yourself.
> Worse, there is literally a finite amount with a surprisingly large floor on the smallest denomination

Bitcoin would have to literally be worth $1,000,000.00 for the smallest denomination (10e-8) to equal a cent. Realistically you'd be looking at ten times that before there's problems. Why pennies still exist I have no idea.

And after that 2nd layer solutions can subdivide Satoshis easily.

What an absurd argument to make.
I don't think you can draw that conclusion. Hosting in house has it's own issues and problems. I'd argue it's much easier to maintain a high degree of uptime with outsourced hosting and I've done both.
If anyone else was interested there is a virtual tour of the Cambridge Library Storage Facility

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EH_rmdeTCWY&feature=youtu.be
Colors of the Lisp [video]
Good point, long day and my cynicalism of wanting to see the world burn has kicked in.

I should rephrase it as "That if the product is going to be internet enabled, servers should be in-house."
Wait, so you are telling me that the unuseable UI I’m currently using on server, is actually the better of the two?

That’s scary in a few ways I have a hard time imagining.
Scotland Becomes First Country to Make Period Products Free
I don't look at it that way. I think privacy is secondary to Apple, and that they use privacy as a selling point when it suits them. Their overall goal is tight control over the entire computing experience, and in places where that degrades privacy, so be it.
'Using a single language to do everything' could be argued on the software side as well.

It might be possible that s-expressions/style would would really well for regex, but nobody has really gone through the effort to do it.

Where I think regexes don't do so well is with UTF and (Grapheme clusters, true word boundaries) and also it's confusing the difference between match/capture/ignore etc..

I'll bet if you really put your mind to it creatively, you might be able to come up with a novel/new approach that wasn't really tried before ... but even if was 'better' it wouldn't catch on for a while (or never) unless there were some big, institutional backers.
You're not submitting data to him, so no benefit to protect you there.

There is a risk downloading the text. Does it warrant a signature? I don't think so.

When you hand out candy on Halloween you could include a digital signature with each piece you hand out. People receiving the candy would have more confidence it came from you, and not a bad guy wearing a mask, sitting on your front porch impersonating you.

Does everything need signatures? The stakes of accepting candy are much higher simple raw text.
"Hey, there's a dollar lying on the ground!"

Found the efficient market hypothesis believer, classic failing of economic theory.

Theres no alpha in the stock market!!!11!! If there was the completely efficient allocation of human capital, access of information, opportunity cost would strip it out so fast!!!
Tesla will be $800 in December and $2000 within a decade. It is just getting started. Look at my post history since TSLA at $400 (presplit.)
BTW how do you think we would create a new Constitution today? What would it be made of, how would it be made, and how many copies would be made?
Or because we created languages like Python that are 10x slower than compiled languages and write code bases with millions of lines of code in them.
I like webcamoid but it has memory leaks on mac. I have 64gb so I only discovered this when using it for a production use case where it was open for over an hour. It was not fun scrambling to restart it every hour while live.
Sounds serious to me. I’d never live in a neighborhood of Republicans, because my chance of getting COVID would be too high. It’s too dangerous to live around their kind; better to live in an inner city where people know to wear masks.
What does P=NP have to do with that?

Did you mean to allude to Godel's incompleteness theorem instead?
The irony is that Caldera linux bought Sanra Cruz Operation, then Caldera changed its name to SCO.

Then SCO got greedy and tried to charge for royalties from IBM and Novell. They both said no, we'll see you in court.

I'm not sure if groklaw is still around, but that was a really good resource.
The id is a proxy, ignoring cross project transfers
I got PIP'ed and actually fixed the problem I had and resolved the PIP. The problem was that I would mis-ship items sometimes in a warehouse. I figured out that I couldn't reliably read some of the product labels, so I went to go get an eye exam. Apparently I had 20/100 vision in one eye due to astigmatism. Getting glasses meant that I quit fucking up, so they dropped the PIP and moved me into another part of the company.

I guess I'm the poster child for having vision insurance as a company benefit.
Eat, Fry, Love: A Turkey Fryer Fire Cautionary Tale with William Shatner [video]
I don't follow these types of arguments that the market is an true indicator of what people actually desire. If you ask anyone on the street if they would like any of these things out of technology they would unanimously say yes. But I agree it is not worth the trade-offs to actually fight for these things for most people. It doesn't mean these things are not desired, it is just that other things are desired more.

Also, why do you put the word people in quotations? Just because most aren't interested in pursuing technological freedoms doesn't make them less of a people.
> I’ve been aware of this for some time, pretty sure it was in the security white paper and talked about as a feature.

That doesn't invalidate what the parent said. The only way awareness helps is if it's general knowledge. I don't believe it was, and you personally having known about it doesn't make it so.
I don't think even the author thinks vertical
Monopolies are bad - he mentions Netflix as a positive the first sentence. I don't remember Netflix giving me the right to access their content on other streaming platforms. Unfortunately other studios have now followed suit.
I'm old enough to remember Win32 programming in C/C++ because it was the only thing that worked. There was a problem though. Memory management, shitty standard library, and a non-existent packaging system. Java came around and gave you something that worked. Memory management? The runtime does it. Want to do X? Here is a library for X. These combined with academia moving over to Java killed new C++ development hard. It seemed good at the time. Java sucked but Widgets and MFC sucked harder. Qt wasn't that popular yet.

There was only one problem with Java. Even on new machines, you would get noticeable random pauses doing simple things. This never happened in C++ apps even with full MFC bloat. The GC just wasn't that good yet. Programmers would also include FAR more code and libraries because it sped development up. Even today, C++ applications only include libraries if they absolutely have to because of how painful it is.

All of C++'s disadvantages become advantages when you look at them from the lens of performance. Manual memory management means that even if you are slow, you are consistently slow. You don't get the peaks and valleys that really irritate humans who are incredibly sensitive to rhythm. Memory leaks are honestly not even a problem unless you have long running servers. Even then, you could honestly just restart. The near-complete lack of standard libraries and complete lack of a package system highly reduced the amount of fluff you had. If you wanted it in your software, you had to do it yourself. This led to very simple, non-pretty, static interface that just tried to look like Word without the Toolbar of Death. The best optimization has always been to Do Less Stuff.

It's only going to get worse too. The same companies who think C++ is too complex for their programmers are going to laugh at Rust. People in Java or .NET shops aren't going to move over. "Native" is increasingly becoming a JavaScript space which has all the terrible performance of JavaScript usually combined with the slowness of internet connections. For good and ill, package management is now standard.

Microsoft Office used to run fast on a 486 with megabytes of ram. Think about that. Are you a more complex or intensive program than Word? I bet that ePCR has far higher specs. The program running on it isn't inherently more complex. It's literally a form filler, but it isn't used because of how ridiculously bloated even the most basic software has become. In the 90's, you could have made that machine by installing Windows on a machine and programming a VB program in a few weeks that hooked up to a printer. It would have been more responsive than a state-of-the-art ePCR that sits unused today.
API for Jira Server is not going anywhere. Of course the product itself will cease to exist in a little while, but most places where Jira is terrible are on datacenter anyway.
sort of on the same subject, lots of discussion has happened over the year of the few times we've intentionally transmitted signals into space, such as:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arecibo_message

one thing people don't often think about... We have thousands of sites all around the world that transmit stuff to geostationary satellites all the time. Some of them are quite large and powerful (up to 1200W and 2000W power amplifiers on 11 meter size C-band dishes). When those signals are sent to a geostationary satellite, it's not like the signal stops at the satellite.

If a big earth station dish is aimed at a specific spot in geostationary and tranmits something, 99.999999% of that signal is going past the satellite and off into interstellar space, possibly to eventually be intercepted by aliens.
Was it widely known that this feature was implemented as a privacy-leaking phone-home feature? Simply saying "macOS verifies application signatures before running them" doesn't necessarily imply that it's shipping execution data to Apple. All of that can happen offline, if Apple had chosen to implement it that way.
>PWA trumps mobile apps

In what sense? Most people use mobile apps than browse the web through mobile -- and most surf from mobile vs PC.

(The fact that said mobile apps might be web-based is an implementation detail).
I think you're clearly misinterpreting, but it's not worth discussing. JeremyBanks can clarify for himself if he wants.
>> it won't take long until android does the same on windows pcs

Chromebooks run android apps today.

Windows computers will run android apps with BlueStacks or a similar emulator.

Until mobile apps can do EVERYTHING that desktops apps do, desktop apps are here to stay.
It's interesting to consider that with just the last 3 days worth of valuation gain, they could purchase both Ford and GM at their present valuations.

Which, if they could pull off a single one, would leave the other fighting for survival.
Two issues. First is they have to mate cleanly, which is a matter of luck when some materials break. The other is that cyanoacrylate (aka Super Glue) does not stick to some things at all such as polyethylene.

In addition to attaching pieces together, you can sometimes also weld on additional plastic to buttress the repair.
if the future of salesforce is workflows, slack provides a lot of data for workflows (assuming they're allowed to use it).

if salesforce has a substantially more developed marketplace for plugins, SF can help slack get there too; not sure how rev-share works for slack plugins today.
Cracks in the Great Stagnation?
> enterprise applications are a "nightmare to work with"

It's my theory once a well-crafted enterprise application becomes very successful it bloats up until design-by-committee is necessary.

From that point on it becomes an unusable disaster.
I would disagree on the basis of my own experiences. I have my own colocated servers with clients. The "cloud" (which lets face is just a buzz word for servers in a datacentre) is a convoluted maze. You can take so many paths but they all end up to the same dead end.

However pushing my cynicism aside, I would be happy wager it would be far cheaper, efficient and more cost-effective to run in-house then it would be to use the cloud.

I have 4u colocation, 2u in two different datacentres. It's overkill. I host eight servers. I don't need it, but I will always be a preacher of colocation for the fact of that nothing in the world feels better then running your own code, on your own hardware on your own infrastructure on your own spec of internet dust.

It's like making your own loaf of bread for the first time.

That's not to say there are not reasons on why you should use the cloud but in this scenario if your corporate with consumers it should always be your own kit, because how else do you provide a quality service?
There is a skillset required for nursing. But those skills can be taught. They are taught. What's stopping us from teaching them en-masse?
Clustdoc – Automate your client onboarding workflows
The Yang Conjecture: http://chaosbook.org/extras/CNYang.html (last para)
I have khal (calendar), khard (vcards) and todoman (todo on caldav) installed and use them occasionally. I mostly use my phone and thunderbird to manage contacts and calendars - so they don't find regular use. However, they all are really nice curses/cli tools if you live on the terminal. I don't have any complaints when I do use them. The biggest attraction though is vdirsyncer, a service used to synchronize CalDAV and CardDAV to a directory. Khal and others interface only with this directory and not directly with the server. Vdirsyncer allows you to easily backup and migrate your calendars and contacts between different servers. This is a huge relief if you consider how opaque and locked-in most calendar/contacts services are.
Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War Mines the Paranoia of the 1980s and Today
When A.I. Falls in Love
Would be great to see some of these mega research projects disrupted in a way SpaceX has done for the space industry.

Although perhaps these projects are too speculative with an uncertain path to revenue (unlike Space).
> This also punishes possession, not use.

If companies were immune to data breaches or leaks, then maybe this wouldn't be such a big deal. But I don't trust most companies to securely hold my data, even if they don't use it at all.

And besides, by the time a company uses the data in a privacy-destroying way, it's too late. The cat is out of the bag. Sure, the law against use could serve as a deterrent, but companies will push the law past the breaking point all the time. If you make possession trigger legal action, you can mop these things up before they get to use your data. Sure, you still have the problem of finding out about that possession. But also consider that if you have laws against possession and "bad" use, and a company does something, you can charge them for both things and hurt them more. That's a larger deterrent.