skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
it all seems a bit fishy

there ads for scaleway on the linkedin page on cloud-mercato, "A week ago, Scaleway release the European VM with the lowest price. This week, place to the biggest machine with 448 CPU and 7.6 TB of RAM aka "#baremetall Ultimate Performance"."
they only have 1 employee on linkedin, company location paris

the website is owned by a portugese company called balladscale with 2 employees and generates $56,524 in sales (USD).

unless cloud-mercato is just a buggy mess, it feels like its been put up in last minute, there bugs everywhere

after logging in with a computer

they dont even offer a "price score" for hetzner
https://imgur.com/a/ymMUTj0

and dont offer a storage performance for scaleway
https://imgur.com/a/3qZuxdK

they do offer to a "compute score" comparison with both in it
and the hetzner machine is somehow ~3% slower, but that doesnt make up the price difference metrics on scaleway website

https://imgur.com/a/o7MO8Nb
It's not the first time, and it won't be the last time that gets sent thru.
> You release a bunch of greenhouse gases - but it's "OK" because you pay money to some organization

It's about cleaning up after yourself. Clearly in the case of this machine, whose carbon impact is tiny compared to nearly every other combustion based machinery we use, the intent is symbolic.

> ...that might eventually plant some trees (or use your money to buy/rent fossil-fuel-burning machinery to orchestrate the planting of trees)?

For a reputable carbon offset, those carbon costs are accounted for in the offset, so even with them, it's a net-negative carbon transaction.

> Seems like guilt-avoidance to me.

That's besides the point. If it offsets the carbon produced, then it works, and it doesn't matter what the psychological motivation is.

But I agree that there is a problem with offsets: In a saner world we'd be imposing carbon taxes instead of this, but this is where we are today, with CO2 mitigation effectively taking the form of "donations".
Posting notebooks can get you upvotes, which contribute towards becoming a Kaggle (Grand)Master. It is also a good way to "win" some attention and goodwill, without spending months trying to actually win the competition itself. Publishing Notebooks also helps you improve your coding/presentation skills, for a popular notebook needs to be useful for a wide audience (or fairly competitive).

The best techniques, certainly coming from teams, are hardly ever published as Notebooks. But yes, many winning teams will eventually incorporate some of the information in the Notebooks, if only to hedge against the others doing the same.
Spoiler alert: 42.
1987 and I would love to see the source code.
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> Where does one look up the emotional context that a specific emoji adds?

emojipedia.org or similar emoji dictionaries. Like words, meaning can vary based on context and audience, and linguistic drift can/does happen with emojis too.

You might find this interesting: https://slate.com/technology/2019/07/because-internet-excerp...
The biggest problem here, though, is that look at Google in web standards: the web is now what Google say it is, IE 6 style. If Googlers don't get their way with the Rust language team, they'll just attack the language team head-on, or bypass them. Google have zero interest in collaboration.
Oh the irony of calling it new.css which is vanilla HTML (no classes) and a 2002 era css file with some modern features. I love it.
That won’t work on the company VPN I’m afraid.
> There's not much point to enduring the hardship of launching a startup if there's no hope of growing it into at least a medium or large business though?

If launching a successful startup is your goal, then working at a FAANG (or a startup, for that matter) is definitely a good idea.

But I think the underlying assumption you're making is that launching a software startup is one's ultimate goal, which isn't a given.
> Git stats have been used against me on performance reviews

That sounds awful. Sorry that happened to you.

I've been an engineering manager, for a time, and I used Gitprime to track stats.

It was never used for performance reviews or in making promotion decisions or anything.

What it was used for was to manage upwards and demonstrate to the upper management how decisions affect the team, to indicate when we needed to spend on hiring and had room to onboard new people, etc.

I don't see metrics as "surveillance," unless they're used that way. They can be used for good. But I think as you and others have pointed out -- it requires context and transparency: you can't just rely on metrics for reporting on a person.

Tech managers: you need to bring your people up, develop their skills, and pay attention! Metrics are useful but only relationships bring context.

(I eventually returned to engineering as I didn't find I enjoyed management much)
Do facial expressions have well-defined meaning? Where does one look up the emotional context that a specific facial expression conveys when you say a thing to a person in real life?

How can you be sure that emojis aren't conveying emotional context to you? It's not possible to rewind reality to the time before you received that text, and replay it again without the emoji to see the difference. I posit that emojis do in fact add emotional context, and if you could run that experiment, that you would have a harder time deciding sarcasm, self-deprecation, humor in general, and a whole host of other emotions. They are becoming part of the textual grammar just like facial expressions provide grammatical context for sign language and can totally change the meaning of the same hand sign.

Either you learn the emotional contexts, or you don't and suffer the social consequences. I don't see much that's changed, just that technology is still way behind in-person communication. Seems to be catching up little by little, though.
They got all that iron out of one really big piece of ore.
52k views, 268 emails torched.... ruby doesn't scale :)
Apple taught people that apps should only cost $1

A big ol' [citation needed] on that one, because from where I stand The Market(tm) taught people that.

Stop worshiping a dumbass phone

You would do well to watch your tone. I'm merely pointing out that the Microsoft of the 90s, who is a convicted monopolist, is nothing like the Apple of 2020 that you're complaining about. Your follow-up doesn't seem to support your point, but rather just further complains about Apple.
fishing for someone to ask about your product feels just as disingenuous as posting from a brand account but reddit slurps it up.
If other engineers in your team are more productive
I was thinking that a paper jam would result in the whole machine burning down, and I just noticed someone wander on to intervene when a print out got stuck at the end.
I think it implies it's a cenotaph.
This is sales 101. Your founder is nothing doing anything wrong.
The only hits I get for SCM are Supply Chain Management, which doesn't make a ton of sense to me in this context. What do you mean by that acronym?
That sounds like a prognosis for a bygone era. There is nothing "uniform" about the news provided by MSNBC and OANN. Though I imagine that what we have now is not the kind of diversity of thought that Chomsky was hoping for.
Least squares as springs: physics intuition for regression
Need to replace with vacuum tubes (dual triode?)....
From what I heard while living in Asia, some of the boyband idols used drugs to rape girls because they were super frustrated about their regular dating success. So apparently, even being rich and good looking is not enough.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/nov/29/k-pop-stars-ja...
Use for what?
> But Hetzner's lack of firewall

the cloud offering doesnt has any which is controllable with the webinterface,but the machines are still firewall protected(mostly for ddos/abuse), but i would just use a firewall vm as entry point
and keep the production machines in a private network

u could also use the dedicated servers firewall(the Konsole for dedicated servers has firewall rules in the webinterface, u can attach vswitches to cloud instances)
Disclaimer: I have no first hand info.

According to https://news.efinancialcareers.com/ch-en/307393/jane-street-... "Last year, Jane Street's graduate hires straight from college were said to be paid a $200k annual base salary, plus a $100k sign-on bonus, plus a $100k-$150k guaranteed performance bonus."

According to random people in reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/69k0ap/d... "somebody said they got an offer from JS for $150k + $50k/yr "performance"-based bonus"

Both may be true.
Actually, it looks like in the paper something else is going on other than subgradient steps: there is some more randomization going on, that can prevent some steps from being taken. So yeah, there is a connection with online subgradient, but also more to it :-)
There are however, 20 matches for `Performance` including the header and not including the URL.

Is your objection that the word performant does not match your arbitrary criteria for a `real word`?

I don't want to put words in your mouth but I can't figure out any other meaning behind your comment.

History tends to look unfavorably on the stance of _____ is not in the dictionary so it's not a real word. While it can initially be a popular argument along the lines of "They're outsiders because they use a new word and therefore we should bond over hating them" it tends to very quickly start looking like "Old man shakes fist at cloud".

Time is a performant system for yeeting this kind of elitism.
Hello! Yes, HN's lack of notifications really poses a problem in situations like this. Sigh.

However, the answer to your question is fortunately a simple one: the Discord server mentioned is run by the /r/ProgrammingLanguages community over on Reddit [0]! If you go to that page (might need to be on a desktop browser because ugh) and look in the sidebar/do a search for "Discord server", you'll find a stable invite link.

Alternatively, I can just provide you with the current link [1] and note that it may not work forever (for anybody who finds this comment in the future).

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/programminglanguages/

[1] https://discord.gg/yqWzmkV
For those of us who don't know: what does "UHF" stand for here?
Thanks! It has been a long way so far!
Kenji as in J Kenji López the chef? Did he not get popular LONG before reddit as an author and consultant in the culinary world in general?
More to the point I think the population of men on those services grossly outweighs the population of women. The women have to be selective because they don't have time to engage with each of the hundreds of responses they get.

It might be interesting to run a dating service that limited signups to an even gender ratio. Or at least didn't let the imbalance grow more than a modest amount. Of course then most men would complain that they can't even sign up. You'd have to be very aggressive about culling idle accounts.
And what kind of internet do we actually deserve?
The first Geocachers ought to be rolling up any moment now
What concrete problem do you see with it? [edit: BTW you can quite easily implement common-lisp style backquote in clojure as a macro, because just like scheme clojure does not share common lisp's defect of baking unquoting into the readtable dispatch of backquote; i.e. unquotes outside of backquotes are syntactically valid; '~x -> (unquote x)]
Interesting perspective. Perhaps I should have been more precise that you don't want to make the code worse, and that you should strive to make sure your "improvement" doesn't do so. I thought that was implied, but perhaps should make it explicit.

I've seen a lot of code that was confusing left alone because "hey it works" and slowly rot, even as people are in and out of it.
Wasn't trying to suggest it's unbelievable or discredit the guy's ability to chase things down.

Merely raising the possibility that he could have gotten his information another way.

People who put up things like this often want them to get found.
Is it a saas or on-prem solution? I'd be interested in a tool like this, but infosec is going to have some concerns about data security and privacy.
Nope, its written in Swift, but optimized for Mac and iOS separately with their respective UI libraries.
When my start up spawned 8 years ago, our initial price included a $2000 setup and a monthly user-fee. We had managed to find a fair few willing to pay, which funded development and ensured we would survive. Within 6 months we were able to drop the setup fee completely and solely rely on a monthly fee.

At the time I was morally objected to it as I did not feel justified charging that amount of money for a product still in development, but I am glad my business partner had more sense.
Thing about places that are far north and cold. If you look at a map usually they are less than 1500 miles from some place sunnier.
That might be true in the FAANG/bay area world, but there was a time when nearly all of my social circle was "software people" and none of them were in any way in the capital owners category.
Yes, it's a "Single board computer with 20 ICs, and a single-gate ALU".

To me it's not really an ALU either, since the NOR gate doesn't really do the job I expect from an ALU.
Ironically IIUC replying to comments destroys the author’s ability to delete them.
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When we ask ourselves why healthcare is so expensive in the US, we never seem to point out that it's the health care that's so expensive. As many others have already said, the AMA puts an artificial cap on the number of medical school graduates each year at around 20,000.

Anecdotally, I know several bright minds who either pursued a DO or dropped out of medicine entirely because they couldn't pass the med schools' opaque admissions procedures. I'm cynical, but there's something disturbing about the fact that GPs and family doctors have to invest so much time and undertake so much debt just to become professional symptom Googlers.

I'm glad this article has the chutzpah to call the AMA what it really is-- a protectionist guild. These doctors make me sick.
> I'm 3 for 3 on jobs that don't believe in version control,

Any version control?

Because if so ... wow. That's bad, I thought that sort of practice went out in the 90s.

Most places I've worked in the last decade use git. A big bank used private instances of bitbucket or stash or something. Another fintech was on github, a smaller company had gitlab or something set up. All git.

Outside of git, one of the tech behemoths had several of its own systems going, clearcase and something in rational team concert. Even the tiniest, worst-run places I've been to in the last 15 years or so have at least used svn or something, and going back to the beginning of my career, 20 years ago, there's always been PVCS or SCCS or something...

Honestly I would find it hard to claim that any serious sort of software development at all was going on if there wasn't some sort of vcs!
Google employees have actively gotten involved in collaborating within the Rust project rather than bypassing it. Of course, anything can change at any time, but this absolutist statement doesn't correlate with experiences so far.

(Also, these organizations are huge! The web standards folks and the Fuchsia folks are, as far as I know, basically disjoint, so even talking about companies like Google as a monolithic entity is fraught with issues.)
The domain api.dev is up for sale for $250k
ADEPT method is like using "Uber for X" to explain an idea. Here, I used ADEPT method to explain the ADEPT method.
Your comment implies that the Galaxy Watch has a small memory size because it's... small?
Seek Discomfort
Thanks! I remember that I had tried Blockada but was annoyed with the VPN disconnecting, the battery usage and my phone just killing the app. I have now installed PiHole. Not sure how effective it is, but I'll try it out.
Crazy times ...
Except cooler.
Men and women don't have equivalent interest. Women are really only interested in men that are well above average.
> feminist icons

Maybe you could explain a little more here? I don't think anyone had thought Weinstein was a feminist icon as far as I can tell.
Yes, research labs like CERN have that culture. Startups, particularly those sharing incubator space, are often friendly. (I'm at a startup now, and we play table football every lunchtime).
For folks heavily using their iPhone as a camera and photo album, there are lots of ML-aided things going on. You can search through photos by text without having to have previously annotated your photos, it automatically builds albums that contain people it's decided are important to you, it automatically pulls out the "best" photos for you which really helps if you like to take tons of photos, it can automatically create entire slideshows for you. This is probably just a subset of the things to which ML is applied in one app on the device.

Fully agreed on the Siri shortcomings, though! But, I'm not sure how much of that work is done on device with the neural engine vs in the cloud. Not like that matters when the end result is so bad.
To add to this, unless your model is situated, and can purturb the market, it has no way of knowing what happens when you flex your muscle. I have a friend who did algorithmic trading professionally for a few years, and he said it was amazing to watch the data. Said he could see other bots come along and poke him, trying to look for weaknesses in his algorithm to exploit. I would expect a purely formulaic trader to underperform other traders who can take advantage of others. It’s no different than how you have to win a rhoshambo turnament.
Imagine if these people would investigate voter fraud.
No mainstream media would ever report that ;P
The problem with monopsony in theory is that it reduces the actual wage below the market-clearing wage, which results in a lower quantity of labor supplied. A better arrangement in such cases is usually a bilateral monopoly (think of how sports leagues negotiate with players' unions), which results in wages and labor supplied much closer to market clearing amounts (again, in theory).

In many ways, the US already has a soft form of monopsony, given the total dominance of CMMS in determining everything from reimbursements to billing codes to proper medical procedures. We shouldn't be surprised by the already significant shortages within US medical professions given this situation. CMMS regulation has also resulted in large hospital groups absorbing private practices such that most physicians now work for some large hospital group, and most of the rest work for larger companies focused on one or a few specialities.
Then I'm wrong. Thanks for the clarification.
People with aphantasia can use the techniques. There are some discussions about it here, including one member with aphantasia who can memorize dozens of random digits in less than 60 seconds.

https://forum.artofmemory.com/tag/aphantasia
A Rust artifact being used as a dynamically loaded library within a Ruby process via a C ABI is one of the very first, if not maybe first ever, production uses of Rust. You've been able to do this for a long time.

That being said, it is not simple to say, take a binary Rust Cargo project and say "please dynamically link all the crates it uses" or something like that. But if you want a dynamic library to be used by something else? First-class support for that use case exists.
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Hah! More like physical constraints on physical objects doesn't scale!

The decision was made to not horizontally scale out the dumpster operations to match expected queue uptake. ;)
This is great. This is the new Yuletide log channel.
offtopic: Article mentions people laughing at Columbus. What I have read before is that they laughed because he simply calculated the Earth circumference wrong: if his goal was really finding a way to India, then he would need much bigger ships and much more supplies just to not run out of food on the way. He was just lucky that America is so close to Europe :)
I agree with you.

Minor factual correction though: Christian Porter is the Attorney-General, not the DPP
According to that Stack Overflow survey, JavaScript and Python are currently number one and two respectively.
This:

> You pay some other organization some amount of money,

contradicts this:

> and now you get a free pass

and you aren't allowed

> to do whatever you want.

You pay for a specific amount of carbon offsetting, so you don't get to claim carbon neutrality if you exceed the amount you offset.

Of course given that this is all voluntary someone could lie, but that would be asshole behavior, and if you did it at scale (i.e. if a corporation lied about it), you would be discredited - in reputation and potentially be facing civil lawsuits.
Simply put, I think it is cool and would like to to stick around. For what it is worth, here are a few points to consider.

There already is art Throughout the wilderness and I think it is great. Sometimes the art is as simple as a statue or plaque commemorating a historic location, other times it is DIY art like this.

The point of national parks isn’t to preserve wilderness for the sake of preservation. The point is recreation. This is why they are full of artificial modifications like roads, trails, and sometimes attractions with shops and bathrooms.

Also, as far as I can tell, this isn’t in a national park, but on federal BLM land Used for hunting and off-roading.
Brute force search of the computational universe of simple programs for useful ones – that rings a bell, but I can’t think where I have seen that before!
Graphing Infinity (2014)
Silent protagonist games still exist. 'Prey' comes to mind (though an AI character speaks to you using your character's voice, and you can also hear your character speak on a few recordings you can find.
But in the tradition of HL, your character never utters anything while you are in their perspective, and there are no third person cutscenes.
Spoilers: the entity you are playing as is not actually the character it's presented as, so technically you never actually hear your character's voice.)

The new Doom games also have silent protagonists, but unfortunately have some third person cutscenes and are extreme examples of 'cooler than you'.
Some comparisons of the entry-level offerings at a few providers:

- Stardust, 0.0025€/h: 1 vCPU, 1GB RAM, 10GB disk, unlimited 100Mbps network

- Hetzner, 0.004€/h: 1 vCPU, 2GB RAM, 20GB disk, 20TB 10Gbps network

- Azure, 0.005$/h: 1vCPU, 0.5GB RAM, 4GiB disk, per-byte network

- Amazon Lightsail, ~0.005$/h: 1vCPU, 0.5GB RAM, 20GB disk, 1TB ???bps network

- Amazon Lightsail, ~0.007$/h: 1vCPU, 1GB RAM, 40GB disk, 2TB ???bps network

- DigitalOcean, $0.007/h: 1vCPU, 1GB RAM, 25GB disk, 1TB ???bps network

- OVH, 0.008€/h: 1vCPU, 2GB RAM, 10GB disk, unlimited 100Mbps network

- GCP, 0.009$/h: 0.2vCPU, 0.6GB RAM, no disk, per-byte network

I suppose the big question is how well the CPU performs. Their "price/performance" graph naturally makes them look quite good but it has some issues. The biggest one is that the methodology is entirely missing but there are some smaller clear issues like comparing to Amazon's C6g instance (which costs 13x as much) instead of the price-comparable Lightsail instances.
That's a DSL, not a programming language.
Digging Deep into Metabolomic Space
So in other words, easily swapped out for something far more humane. Sounds like the best path.
I remember reading this a while back. So true https://medium.com/@timbuchwaldt/rails-is-boring-thats-great...

I am also very happystill to spin up `rails new` for every little side project