skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks - this seems useful, but currently

> cloud backends are WIP

and I probably don't have good enough rust skills to help out myself practically.
> I have started to learn how to write back end code e.g. web services, APIs, working with Apache Kafka, and have found that working on these types of projects brings me joy.

Similar to data science, these things are fun when you play with them on your own. In a company setting however, it's often a shitshow not so different from your bad data situation. I'd be cautious about switching.
There's significant difference between the edition system and the C and C++ standards, and that is that the standards are done when they're done, but the editions are not, exactly. That is, new features arrive in the largest set of editions possible, whereas C99 is frozen in time. This is not to say that you or the parent are wrong exactly, but it doesn't really work in exactly the same way.
I picked up a new 3DS last year and I am delighted with it.

The 3DS is a premium gaming experience despite low specs in many areas (pixel count) because the art is built from the ground up knowing how the display is calibrated so every pixel counts whether it is in 3D mode or not.

Fan art of games often surpass the original (Touhou, Neptunia) but Fire Emblem Fates does not lose to it because it delivers a unique experience that is hard to capture on other screens. I wish they'd enabled 3D for "Pokèmon Sun and Moon" but then they would have had to make up their mind if Lusamine's hair was flat or conical...
It only costs more if you completely ignore the costs of environmental destruction of the alternatives. Scrub every damaging particle caused by non-nuclear power and then tell me which is more expensive
In the section THE SHELL AS A COMMAND, shouldn't the

sh >file

be

sh <file

?
It’s relative really. This may or may not be your opinion but it is a cynical one at best. It shows a lot of immaturity. Again I am not attacking you.

When I am hiring someone and I see they have certifications that means they put in extra effort. It’s not a substitute for experience by any means but there is some foundational knowledge that comes with it.

The certifications are not easy and do require studying and actual experience in the AWS ecosystem.

If a team wants to look down their noses at someone who has a certification then that is a red flag to me as a potential hire. I probably wouldn’t want to work with people like that anyway.

I will continue to put certifications on my resume with pride and if they don’t like it that is on them. I’ll be fine regardless of some unnecessary elitism.
How long should we go out of our way to protect horse and buggy manufacturers?

I say that as someone who runs a business focused around increasing customer engagement with local businesses in small towns, but honestly it would take a monumental effort to save so many of these "general store" type of businesses that a small number of people paying the "local" tax on commodity goods isn't going to cut it.

Local mom-and-pop stores need to be looking for ways to differentiate from their mega-competitors. It's possible, and many stores are doing it successfully. But hardware stores? Selling bolts? Their only customers are people who don't use Amazon (older/rural) or people who need that bolt right now and are willing to pay 2-3x retail price for it. Especially in a pandemic where Amazon/Walmart are allowed to be open with few restrictions, but mom-and-pop has to close.

Successful small business going forward has to offer something Amazon/Walmart can't copy. Authenticity, experiences, memories. Escape rooms were a huge success story, creating axe throwing and fowling and other group activities, and often those places opened their businesses in the empty stores of businesses that couldn't compete with Amazon/Walmart and went out of business. Live music is another place Amazon can't compete with. A beautiful river-front promenade with park benches and an ice cream shop and a coffee stand and a vendor selling popcorn from a cart with some people getting ready to launch their kayaks while others are fly fishing, Amazon and Walmart and big box stores and strip malls can't compete with that. That's downtown, small, local. That's high profit margin.

Rather than clinging to the past where shopping local meant paying high prices on commodity items, we should be looking forward to a future where shopping local means "I can't get this anywhere else". That takes innovation. Grocery and bolts aren't innovation, they're commodities.
I understood that part completely. You misunderstood my point, which is that with enough memory, generational GC outperforms naive explicit memory management, which is impossible with reference counting.

> Except under unusual conditions, there is no case where GC is faster than manual.

Their simple generational GC outperforms manual memory management in every single workload in that paper given enough memory, so that statement is clearly false. A production quality GC does so with less memory.

> Well, probably this is because GCs are fast when they have low to no memory pressure. They simply don't need to garbage collect anything.

This is wrong. It's because generational GCs start to look like arena allocators when they have enough memory, with cheap bump allocation and bulk deallocation. On most of their workloads, their simple generational GC already outperforms naive explicit memory management with less than 3x the memory, and this would certainly be better with explicit tuning or a production GC.
isn't this just something people unconsciously do all the time?
> Um. The exports exceed the imports.

As per the GP's comment, in 2020 that is not the case and have been a net importer.
It depends upon the premise which you extrapolate from. You could start with the premise of natural rights as described in the founding documents.

Alternatively you could proceed from a realpolitik perspective of what has been possible for the US gov historically and in the present. The government does many things and without exception these actions are construed as being for the public good. Despite this, we have witnessed countless abuses of authority.

Simply observing that an action is possible for government or that a precedent exists for a particular government action, is not the same as rationalizing it as just. Of course there's still room for moderation and pragmatism. It would be impossible to exist in the real world without some measure of pragmatism, but we should also strive for our ideals.
> Imposter syndrome literature takes this a step further by implying that no one knows what they’re doing, that everyone is equally bad, and that there are no adults in the room

Could you please provide an example book, I'd like to check that out. Thanks!
> Rarely does Amazon have the best price anymore.

If you ignore shipping, maybe sometimes.

But I still find that 99% of the time, for items on Amazon.com that are sold by Amazon.com, it's cheaper on Amazon because of free shipping, while most others site charge $7-10 shipping or have a minimum of $75-100 for free shipping.

And even if you don't have Prime, the minimum for free shipping is just $25, and you can pretty much always add in stuff that you need to buy soon anyways (shampoo, paper towels, whatever).

And delivery times usually has zero to do with Amazon, obviously, they're best in class. With the pandemic and all, UPS and USPS are obviously straining in general. It's not like Wal-Mart, Kohl's, or any other online stores are any better. Despite their advertising, everyone knows you shouldn't be expecting UPS/USPS packages to be reliably arriving on time since March.
Neat video, but it specifically disagrees with your point. He advocates for applying scientific rigor between leaps oc intuition. There's nothing wrong with GP appreciating beauty.
And it seems that a lot of people aren't happy with it, either.
The goalposts were with widely used computing devices this entire time, but some people want to move them next to typewriters and watches.
While I fully agree that job "quality" is crucial and getting worse in many societies, the methodology of that website is pretty bad.

They are focusing exclusively on salary and even counting hours per week as a positive thing (!!!).
Why don't you switch to another network?
Yeah Amazon still runs on Coral, there were some recent (release a few years ago) advances on it under the hood and ergonomically. I think the "replacement" for it is Smithy[0] though it will likely just replace the XML schema and codegen and not the protocol. Honestly at this point I think it would be in Amazon's best interest to heavily invest in Java Project Loom rather than trying to convert to async.

[0] https://awslabs.github.io/smithy/
They feel like they're designed to optimize discomfort.

There are really only two ways I can sit in them. One is that just one small point of my head makes contact, and my back is perfectly straight and doesn't make contact with the seat. The other is that I do rest my head against it, but I'm bending my head down at a 45 degree angle and it feels like my neck is about to snap.

I wish they just didn't exist.
Why would this be preferred over using a GPU for calculations?
Why is it objectionable? Does the government need a warrant to e.g. read comments on Hacker News?

The purpose of a warrant is to override the usual protections of privacy and against government intrusion. If the information in question is not private in the first place, there is no intrusion.

To be clear, I strongly agree with the conclusion that the end result is distasteful and we should make some sort of change in our society to avoid it. But I don't think the right step is to say that certain information which is publicly available is somehow not available to the government - it doesn't seem like either a sound argument or an enforceable restriction in practice. I think, if the information is too private to reveal to the government, it is certainly too private to be in the hands of an unaccountable unelected unauditable corporation in the first place.
There were a few points that I, as someone unfamiliar with many of the ideas presented, got hung up on.

First, the paragraph that begins with "At first blush, the requirement to use..." Seems to be a non sequitur. I don't fully understand how the previous section creates a requirement to use deterministic programs, so I could use more explanation on how that requirement is established.

Second, a very simple concrete example of what one of these programs would look like would be immensely helpful. After re-reading the article a bit I have a mental image of a program that contains a long, compressed string and a decompression algorithm that somehow models the system you're interested in. I can imagine how you might get a useful interpretation of probability from the decompression system, but there are enough open questions there that I'm not sure I have the correct interpretation.

Hope that helps!
How? I keep asking what they should have done, and I keep getting no answer.
So then I could sell the iPhone and buy more PinePhones?
Funded project(s) to improve Linux emulation
The US government's concept of due process involves a pay to play scheme, but the results are a magnitude more awful than Google banning you, and the prices at play are a magnitude beyond what most businesses have the guts to ask for.
My brother used to run a aftermarket Ducati performance parts company. “Racers” would swap out every bolt on the bike from steel to titanium (which is actually a terrible idea for a high end sports bike), yet leave the 15 lbs “toolbox” (which was a useless joke of a toolset) under the seat. Also, there’s a reason most jockeys (for horses) are tiny...
That was mostly people just not wanting Corbyn.
This is similar in theme to the article about frequent feedback that was posted here a few days ago.

On some level there's a choice between experiencing and growing from your failures, or being shielded from recognizing failure in the first place.

The second one "feels" better until someone comes along and eats you in your weakness.

The thing I am curious about is how this will play out in America. Meaning will weak americans just fade away as the strong ones accumulate skills, wealth and family? Or is weakness so permitted that we will be taken over externally?

The former will be a good cultural and physical rejuvenation for the republic. The second a disaster.
Yeah, that's true. I also have send more things back, all the things they left in the rain or go back straight away.

Lately also more and more books are dented or damaged when they arrive so they get send back too. If I want a book that looks like second hand copies I would buy one of those.
The article mentions Scotland as an example of a 100% renewable country, when only around 50% of our output is generated this way. There is a great deal of misinformation about this online, partly due to nationalist sentiment and partly due to the government omitting such details from its reports.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torness_nuclear_power_station
there’s information from this article at the time of the fire: https://www.theday.com/article/20201118/NWS04/201119437

the thing that stood out to me was that it happened at 3:30 in the morning. unless he was sleeping, which it doesn’t say he was, then the time of day is certainly unusual. it also says he was trapped in the home and they had to use force to get to him, which would imply he was locked somewhere in the home.
History/Context:

How Green Screen Worked Before Computers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msPCQgRPPjI

Hollywood's History of Faking It | The Evolution of Greenscreen Compositing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8aoUXjSfsI

Zoran Perisic's 'Zoptic' front-projection system used in Superman: The Movie

https://www.fxphd.com/fxblog/effects-of-days-past-making-sup...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbXC16p8tNc

The technology that’s replacing the green screen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yNkBic7GfI

Mandalorian 'Stagecraft' technology

https://www.slashfilm.com/the-mandalorian-stagecraft-photos/
The path to learning SQL and mastering it to become a Data Engineer
This was fixed a few minutes ago: https://github.com/susam/tucl/pull/7.

Please see the PDF document at https://susam.github.io/tucl/the-unix-command-language.pdf for a scanned copy of the original paper. If you find an error in the Markdown or HTML transcript, please create an issue or send a pull request to https://github.com/susam/tucl.
https://www.geekwire.com/2020/hearing-documents-reveal-amazo...
Why did the Soviets send dogs into space, and not monkeys?
I can tell you from having been in a building that had a major fire, the speed with which smoke and fire spreads is hard to imagine. Within 30 seconds of the alarm, halls where filled with choking smoke.

I managed to exit without too much difficulty, but even with covering my face with my shirt, I was still coughing and black gunk coming out my nose for the rest of the day. Others needed oxygen support even after being in the smoke for minutes at most.

If you’re ever in a house or building when an alarm goes off, don’t think you have time to ponder the situation... just move outside to safety immediately.

Edit: Found some photos from that day.

http://archive.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/gallery/1...
Reading through it I can figure out some context to this research, but for this presentation I'm sorely missing the "introduction" part that a paper would be required to have.

- What field is this presentation about? Ok, TCP congestion control. What is congestion control?

- Why is congestion control important?

- What (types of) solutions exist?

- Why do we want to obtain a census of the solutions in the field?

- How have prior ones been obtained?

- How are IETF decisions guided/impacted by these results?

I understand that these introductions are often annoying to write (and they are not appropriate for a presentation held among peers that all mostly know the answers to the above), but maybe someone could provide a quick summary so that laypeople like me can approach this publication? Or maybe there actually is an associated paper?
Sorry, but that's bad ecology. You're overlaying moral human values on an environment.

Scientifically, it's simply evolutionary survival of the fittest. It's adaptation. By your argument, every sudden game-changing evolutionary leap was a pathology, which is obviously false.

Plus, there is absolutely nothing "out of control" about Amazon either. Amazon's a private enterprise competing in the marketplace like any other. It's just doing a better job at it.
No Workaround AFAIK, the idea right now is not to stack compute die on top of each other but other things like SRAM or parts that uses little energy for both cost and space efficiency.
For $260, you can experience what it would be like to sleep on a park bench while 36,000 feet in the air.
One doesn't need standardized tools to get things done. One doesn't even need correctness, performance, privacy, etc as can be seen from a multitude of very successful projects.

But it's there for those that really need it and personally I like it because it shows what we can achieve when a massive group of experts from all over the planet gets together and they nurture a project over many decades which has to work for such a broad set of use cases under the most strict and diverse of requirements, from avionics to mobile apps, physics simulations to cutting edge video games, medical devices to smartwatches and so on.

These two languages have contributed so much to what we have achieved and they're part of our digital heritage. Maybe that's another reason that they had to be standardized, so that they belong to everyone. :-)
The problem is that we don’t have a sound, correct model. What we have is a compiler that seems pretty decent, but rejects some things that shouldn’t really be rejected, and accepts a few things that are iffy and potentially unsound. It’s a whole lot of code crafted in a comparatively ad hoc manner, whereas a true, correct model is likely to be simpler and more beautiful. Any specification would therefore be specifying the wrong thing, essentially a form of overfitting.

Suppose you’re a cave man and you’re just figuring out how to double numbers. So far, you’ve figured out how to double each number from 0 to 100. Someone asks you to write down your fancy rule so they can do something with it. Do you really want to be teaching everyone that the way to double a number is: “if the number is zero, the answer is zero; if one, then two, 2 ⇒ 4, 3 ⇒ 6, 4 ⇒ 8, &c. ad tedium”? Even if it covers all the required cases without error, it’s a mess. It’ll do for the moment for your own personal use, but you don’t want to be teaching it to other people until you figure out that you can say “to double a number, add the number to itself”.

Until we have a sound model, any attempt at specifying Rust would, for these key areas, be simply importing the current implementation of the compiler. That’s not a good sort of a specification.
No you’re not the only one to think this. That’s why this is currently the top comment.

I guess you’re not very independent-minded.
That's not my experience with Amazon here in the UK... Two separate orders ordered on the same day are arriving at different time slots
Once I got bumped onto a different return flight from NY to London, and it was on a 747. Got onto the plane pretty late because of this, and it was fairly quiet - this was about 10pm boarding time. Had a seat on the outside of the middle 4, and there was no-one else in those 4 seats, but a guy on the next aisle seat to me on his own group of 3. We both looked a bit sheepishly at each other and smiled when they shut the doors - had a complete row of seats each on that flight, the most comfortable return flight I've had from the US - stretched out across the seats and had a decent sleep for once!

Not sure I'd want to pay for it though - there's hard metal between the seat bases...
The patterns in our observations appear simple, the rules are deeper: e.g. newtonian motion vs relativistic.
Proposed timeline from GitHub:

> We first plan to publish an online image/video matting demo along with the pre-trained model in Dec. 2020.
We then plan to release the code of supervised training and unsupervised SOC in Jan. 2021.
We finally plan to open source the PHM-100 validation benchmark in Feb. 2021.
> who was saying this in 2014 and 2015 when the other smart watches were out and Apple's offering was only a rumour?

I was and still am. As I said, most people I know don't wear a watch, myself included. It was the same in 2014 and 2015.
It’s fun to see this “belief” in ephemeral framework being peddled again.

“It’s tribal shaman rain dance that grows corn!”

“It’s Jesus!”

“It’s sound economics!”

Real human logistics work one way. Stabilize a reality destroying itself.

Semantic games about why and for whom are the outdated traditions.

For the species, because it demands it is the only true answer.

Happy to tear down industry designed by men who hold no true power. Just advantaged access in a social system where we can clearly watch them manipulate markets with handouts
Is there an easy way to see what data these companies have on us? Is there an easy-to-use service where I can pay $10 to get the data for a phone number?

Unless it becomes easy for the average person to realize without jumping through hoops, I fear there is little hope for change.
The push for any contact tracing apps will come from commercial businesses as a requirement to enter. Labeling it "Joe's Covid App" with an implication it's from the de jure government is a surefire way to make sure any criticisms you have become sidelined.

Overall the whole situation is a predictable result of what happens to liberty in the face of force majeure. The current conditions have been directly caused by all the institutional dereliction of duty and personal irresponsibility from February to October. Along with freedom comes responsibility, and when you don't heed that responsibility your freedom disappears.
Extremely well-written comment! Enjoyed reading it.

To answer your last question I'd say my takeaway is "apply critical thinking to everything, this article included". As you and others point out, PG suffers from survivorship bias and likes to post-hoc rationalize how genius he was.

That definitely isn't something to learn from. One could analyze his career and maybe extract some valuable lessons from it. However I am not even sure PG is a good example at all; once some critical mass is accrued the rest of the success is pretty much inevitable.

So maybe the conclusion is: strive to achieve that critical mass with all your might? Could be.
Modi regime in India is intentionally keeping people poor/starving https://archive.is/6eE5g https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currency_in_circulation#Total_...
Personally I don't care about corperations tracking me because I can generally stop the tracking by avoiding their software and websites. For me Google tracking me is a reasonable trade-off for free youtube and email, I can always install a clean copy of Firefox and LineageOS if I want. I don't generally do things online (or in person) that I'm worried about Google tracking.

I am worried about the government tracking me, because they have the ability to legally required me to be tracked, giving me no way of avoiding it if I ever have a need to do something privately. And the consequences of the government tracking me all the time are much higher, since they can put me in prison, or put me on some watchlist.