skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cannabis is not legal in The Netherlands and I could only wish our policy was as sensible as you suggest. To quote [1] “Notably absent from toleration of drugs is its production, particularly the cultivation of cannabis. This has led to a seemingly paradoxical system where coffee shops are allowed to buy and sell soft drugs but where production is nearly always punished.”

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_policy_of_the_Netherlan...
When the Labor Unions Fought Socialism
Toolfinder is just a simple way to endorse software for what it's good at and to find tools based on what you need.

I always found it a slog to search for new software to do something I needed-- most recommendation sites just give you generic star ratings, or you have to dig through a whole article or comments to figure out if it does what you want.

I thought this idea would be a super simple way to rate tools for specific features or jobs they do rather than just rating the tool as a whole.
Ask HN: How would you go about rebuilding Arecibo?
Given technology advancements since Arecibo was originally built, and assuming the site has been cleared, how would you go about rebuilding it? Would a replacement need to be as heavy?
Uh what? https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Timnit+gebru

The first paper listed there has over 1000 citations in 2 years. That’s influence and impact.

Just because you don’t know of her work doesn’t mean that her work has not had an impact and that she’s not well known in her research community. She definitely is.
>Said hires have thus far, as far as I can tell, not produced anything of substantial value to any of these companies.

I mean, yes. It's an unfortunate reality that ethics are often at direct odds with the unrelenting pursuit of business value. For a big tech like Google, by caring about people and the impact of your technologies, you will almost surely sacrifice profits in the short term.

So then the question is: people or profits?
FB grants RSUs based on an initial value at hire time translated into a total number of stock units that then vests over 4 years. So if the stock doubles, your comp doubles.
So they had a drone focused right on the cable that snapped? I got the impression from the early articles that it collapsed during the night and wasn't witnessed.
> Inflation is actually really high, but its mostly hidden in rising prices for stocks and real estate.

Sort of. There's inflationary forces (fiscal / stimulatory policy) battling deflationary forces (mainly technological innovation), mainly netting out to a low inflation rate at the moment, as defined by the CPI.

Assets that are not affected by the deflationary forces (such as land, and some types of housing), do tend to increase in value, though some of that is increase is just due to interest rates being so low (since for most consumers the house payment is more important than the absolute price; when interest goes down, prices normally go up).

It would be interesting to do a graph of interest-normalized house/asset prices over time.
It's pretty much par for the course for game engines and 3D software to have a ridiculous number of features and advancements every year.

Honestly puts almost all other creative tools, especially the likes of Adobe to shame.
Clarified later in the thread:

> This is the exact email I received from Megan who reports to Jeff
> Who I can't imagine would do this without consulting and clearing with him of course
I live in the EU. I don't have instant money transfers (they are within the day but not instant). Across EU countries it still takes days.
I'd happily buy pizza with SPY. Why keep money in a near zero-interest bank account when I can hold beta. If markets were 24/7 with instant settlement of securities I could hold all my money in stocks and bonds. I wouldn't be concerned with holding cash for liquidity's sake. More so I could hold more of my money in securities representing interest in real property -- housing, arable land w/ fresh water, and commodities which are usually a better store of value than cash unless there is a liquidity crunch. There are good reasons why asset prices have been soaring for the past decade.
Say for example you need two queries, one for fetching a paged list of customers ordered by birth date, and one for fetching a paged list of customers who are male.

You will find you'll need two queries with a huge amount of duplicate logic - the SELECT clauses, even if they're pulling the same columns, will need to be duplicated (don't forget to keep them in sync when the table changes!), because there's no reasonable way to compose the query from a common SELECT clause. The paging logic will be duplicated for the same reason. So although the queries are similar, only sorted and filtered differently, you will need to duplicate logic if you want to avoid pulling the entire data set first and performing filtering and sorting in separate modules.

These problems become significantly worse when you're talking about inserting, updating or upserting data that involves validation and business rules. These rules are not only more difficult to implement in SQL, but they change more often than the structure of data (in most cases) so the duplication becomes a huge issue.

I haven't tried this on a system that uses Postgres functions so I could be way off base here, my experience was pure sprocs in MS SQL.
"Retract the paper" not an allegation though. It is a demand / conclusion of a decision process. It doesn't allow any response/defense, and you're right, they don't seem to have been vague about not wanting any of that.
I'm also pretty bummed that I can't use the magic ARM machine yet, but this is just the beginning. Apple currently has an advantage, but I suspect its more of a market advantage than a technical advantage. Snapdragons are getting really fast too, and a lot of the difference in power comes down to a lack of demand. Now that ARM has been shown to be this good, more and similarly powered chips will be made.
It’s more relevant, but probably doesn’t tell the whole story considering she very heavily hints that she gave them a list of demands or she would resign, and Google just accepted her resignation.
I used to be very careful / strict with the lock-in. But not anymore. You have to compare the cost of an hypothetical migration to something else to the cost of not using the capability of the platform to its full capacity. I read somewhere here that accepting vendor lockin is being a fool. I would say that paying aws prices without benefiting from any of their great stuff is also not very clever.
It’s completely impossible to tell. Not really sure why it’s making the news.
I don't scale it, but then I lose the text sharpness. I would like both.
Thanks!

And that's great feedback. We built it mobile-first, for touch controls, and added clicking just to make it feel natural on a PC. Moving backwards when clicking on the previous card makes perfect sense & I'll add it to the backlog.

We tried a 1:1 mapping of mouse/finger movement to the cards and it wasn't as fluid as we'd expected. Especially on a larger screen, it could feel like you had to drag unnaturally far for the motion you wanted.
Supabase team member here. Multi-tenant is already possible with PostgreSQL RLS policies[1]. We provide a nice UI[2] to make them simpler to use.

[1]: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/ddl-rowsecurity.html

[2]: https://supabase.io/blog/2020/08/05/supabase-auth#policies
You're missing that she wasn't fired.
Honestly, DLL hell is currently only a solved problem by nix and guix and at this point onwards, I don’t see much point in not porting everything over to the nix way of maintaining packages.
Yes. It's from Contact[0] as well. Great movie.

[0] - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118884/
I use BitWarden, pretty happy.
These are great questions.

> will you make it as easy as setting up a docker container or helm chart?

Yes, likely docker-compose in the short term (for our "local emulator"), and then something more prod-friendly later. Licensing is always a tough decision - we build client libraries for every tool we use, which are MIT licensed. Tools we build ourselves (like the Realtime server), are licensed under Apache 2.0. As you point out, we've started with our hosted platform because we feel this is important (as a business). This par is not yet public (also for security) and we may have to license it with a BSD license when we do open source it.

> a subscribable DB engine that handles denormalization

One of my favourite topics, and something we've been thinking about for months. It's incredibly hard to solve, especially when you add in Row Level Security and conflict resolution. Our current thinking is some sort of client store, using CRDTs that infer types from the database. We have some ideas for this but it's very early days. I'd love to talk to Liron - I'll reach out.
You enclose the product in the wax paper and seal it closed with the slightest amount of heat.
OK, now I understand that the logs of these values are for pencil+paper addition and subtraction, not slide rules.
Have you ever used Facebook and clicked on "my friends"? Have you user browsed a page of forum posts where each user has their own picture? Have you ever looked at a slideshow on the internet? Have you ever gone on reddit or another aggregator site that shows thumbnails? These are hardly obscure use cases.
It sounds like someone said "Do X or I quit", and the management chose the latter. What exactly is wrong with that?
Your logic stumbles when you consider gold. "no one uses it" either to "buy things", and yet it is valueable and has been so for eons. Store of value is a very important function in itself.
Yeah. The flip flop, and its corresponding register version would be a DFF with enable pin. That is not actually too abnormal. The traditional implementation is taking a normal DFF and adding the enable feature either by gating the clock or by adding a mux in the input path, that uses the enable signal to select between the input or the existing output.
Her research work is well-known and has had an impact, whether you like it or not: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Timnit+gebru

Edit: And to be clear, her most cited paper (> 1000 citations) had an impact on what some companies did: https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/8/21284683/ibm-no-longer-gen...

What is disturbing here, from a researcher's point of view (even within a company!), is the lack of transparency on why a paper is being blocked from publication. The implicit understanding of being a researcher in a company like Google is that, while papers are subject to review prior to submission/publication, that the company will not wholesale reject it and instead will work with you to make modifications and changes. Clearly something different happened here that should be of concern to people considering working at Google Brain.
It seems that one of the reasons they have not produced anything of value is because, at least in this case, the work is actively suppressed. The heart of the issue here is that Timnit tried to publish a paper and was told by upper management to retract it with no further feedback.

Maybe if you’re going to hire ethics researchers, you should listen to them?
tbh I think a good chunk of that size is babel-parser, which we're looking into removing from the preact ESLint preset. Still quite a difference though.
Why is it a shit show?
The Verge published article:) I wonder why there is no comment section in it.
https://www.theverge.com/2020/12/3/22150355/google-fires-tim...
Seriously I am not American and don't work for American companies. Politicisation of companies for me is dangerous path, in my humble view meritocracy is in core of successful enterprise. This "woke" thing creates more inequality from this perspective. But I am just another cog in the system, so please give me a direction of thoughts on this subject. I am with open mind, where I am wrong in this?
Can Social Rejection Fuel Creative Thought?
This is the argument that HiDPI displays are pointless if you're not very close to the monitor, and if you've used a retina display, you know that there is absolutely a difference.
> "I'm so tired" bit

Yeah, it sort of implies that, yes, you're angry about something, but actually have no constructive advice or solutions, other than to accuse someone of being a bad person or even a racist.

The "I'm so tired" bit is similar to the "I'm not here to teach you" bit. Maybe someone can't teach you because they actually have nothing to teach.
"life isn't Twitter and you can't just go around telling everyone they are bad and wrong without consequences."

I wish this were true.
> The only thing they need to do is keep their end of the deal.

Just to be clear, their end of the deal is to justify Google's actions as ethical, not to ensure that Google's actions are ethical.
Out of curiosity, how would you answer the question?
The anger is a distraction. The allegations are most important.

"Google silences minorities/women/AI researchers" is way more interesting/important than "Google/AI researcher did/didn't misbehave."
That makes total sense. Thanks for explaining!
> AI researcher Timnit Gebru fired from Google

I think this title could be a little more descriptive. The conversation is about DEI, the fact she pointed out more accountability is necessary, the abruptness of it all, etc. I didn't know who Timnit Gebru was and almost didn't click on it because this sounded like some random researcher and I'm sure Google fires people all the time.

Once I was reading it I realized this is quite interesting after all.
PCs used to do this, before GUIs got all asynchronous on us. Try it with the old-old-old-old-style start menu (the one from NT 4 and 5).
So was it a bluff or was it a resignation?
That's not really a unique value proposition, as there are PayPal (and probably others) for many years already. And PayPal is free for private transfers, compared to BitCoin's ~$5/transaction.
You’re always locked into your infrastructure when you are at any type of scale. The cost and the risk of regressions hardly ever make it economically viable to migrate to another cloud provider.

How does avoiding “lock in” add business value either by reducing cost or increasing revenue.

Out of all the business risks that a company has, avoiding lock-in is the least of them.
>She will land on her feet.

Indeed.

I'd even go one step further and bet that her whole career plan is ML activism. If you scan the email, all the key words are in there. Textbook agitprop.

I feel sorry for the next company that will hire her.
I guess that is what is coming: M2 will be 40% faster, still be 10W but come in 1x for Air and 2x configuration for MBP 16 and desktop Macs. I think this is just the beginning of a growing wave lapping the x86 space.
Right but if you scale the 32" so you get the hidpi sharpness (and put it far away), you lose the real-estate that you could have on a 32" screen.
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At least I know I'm not wearing nostalgia goggles when I remember my early days on my Windows 95, and how fast the input responses were. It definitely feels as if input latency has degraded.
> these companies employ people and generate lots of government revenue (even if they skirt corporate taxes).

There are political and economic concerns, not judicial. The fact the company is important does nothing to remedy the fact that it exfiltrated private information to foreign intelligence agencies.
> Said hires have thus far, as far as I can tell, not produced anything of substantial value

"As far as I can tell" is doing a lot of work here.

I can confirm this is untrue. I worked with someone like Gebru (definitely an activist researcher) at a non-FAANG and AI ethics drove 3 multimillion dollar deals. Was a better business case than most I built over that time.

Besides, saying they don't drive revenue is a critique of research roles, not Gebru...
If you count that some of the most sophisticated market makers and trading shops have entered the space then yes. If you count the fact that most less sophisticated investors have not entered, then no.

But I think we could be seeing a situation in the next 5 or 10 years when the market cap of bitcoin grows somewhere between 10 and 50 fold.
Is that something that happened in the past or some plans Goldman has announced for the future?
Swedish mortality in 2020 – It’s a lot better than you might think
TBH it doesn’t matter if she is right or wrong. Her tone and angry writing is pretty harsh.

The Twitter replies read a lot like her Google message thing. She’s got a lot of good things to say but needs to work on the delivery.

I think she’s playing the victim and race card a lot more than she should. She’s got all the ammo she needs to make her arguments without the angry victim tone.
> Everyone is investing in bitcoin on the promise that its going to be so much more useful than dollars

I doubt this is true in every case, maybe even most cases. Though this sentiment does seem to become more rigid toward the core of the crypto community, a huge swath of other investors are playing price action. There are tons of technical traders in crypto, and they tend to care much more about MA deviations, gaps, pennants, and candlestick forms than what's going to replace USD.

You can also think of it as a play by (people who don't have as many concerns about the dollar) off the fears of (people who are afraid about the future of the dollar).

IMO there is a lot of room in a speculative ecosystem for non-value, non-traditional-economics, and even hugely irrational viewpoints. They can all meet with success by using their own sets of strategies.
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I actually find it quite unethical and potentially rather manipulative to share with your future employees that you fought tooth and nail for them. Essentially implying that they wouldn't be there if it weren't for you and immediately setting it up so that they feel indebted to you... it's chilling to see that tweet tbh
Or any kind of product other than plants producing edible oil. Maybe lentils and soy and wheat.
First-Person Tetris
Hmm - it's not actually specific to Preact, it's just built by the Preact team and we use Preact in the docs. We are missing a bunch of documentation that would have made this clearer though, which I apologize for. While there are some optimizations for Preact in WMR, it can be used for vanilla JavaScript / Lit / Vue / Svelte / etc just fine.
It doesn’t have to be secret, just your membership is secret.

It can have open plan offices in a cool neighborhood, pay politicians and all.

Just have centralized Emlpoyers information management system where information about employers, like salaries they pay business they do, the good and the bad to work there etc.

So when you are getting a job you apply to your not-union and they tell you what to expect and how much to ask. No more guesswork.

It’s like an HR that works for you. So it’s BR, businesses resources.
The collapse happened around 7:55AM local time, about an hour after sunrise. It happened "overnight" (before dawn) as far as most people in the continental US were concerned.
I think a lot of his frustration seems to come from people using Apple software to write off ARM hardware overall. In the M1 specifically the software may hold it back, but using that to justify claims of x86 systems being fundamentally superior.
Why should you even need doctor prescription for something like this? Week ago I just went to nearby lab and asked them to make a blood draw to verify my vitamin D levels and got results same day via email.
Hey HN,

Just launched a tool that we use to manage some (internal) projects.

The idea is to have something that can be used more easily at the project stage where things are still unstructured (as opposed to more structured tools like Trello).
We use it mostly as a 'meta' store to link to other online documents, design files, or just pieces of text (GFM supported), so that they don't get lost and are easy to find later on.

For now only a free version is available, but depending on traction we'll add a paid plan with more file storage and larger uploads per file.

Love to hear your feedback on this!
AI researcher says Google abruptly fired her, drawing industry criticism
Sorry, I was talking about the commenter you were responding to above, who described being asked to respond to allegations without being told what those were.
You managed to enumerate the potential happy path benefits without mentioning how the consumption of such hard drugs could potentially disrupt/destroy those 'potential benefits'. How will the (cocaine) tourism and local & international communities be effected when people start dying because of overdosing or potential violent behaviour under the effect of these harmful drugs? Will a potential decrease of violence in one area be surpassed by potentially increased violent behaviour due to cocaine + alcohol and other drug consumption? I am very skeptical about legalising such hard drugs, especially when people fail to mention any negative consequences...
I interpreted privilege from an HR perspective, i.e.: the privilege to dole out these mysterious HR/PR meetings.
I've been navigating the space since 2014. It's not too difficult if you know the tech. Here's some fat tony advice:

Good project/founders/devs:

- Are tightly connect to other good projects (e.g. check Twitter)

- Are shipping features/products continously (and talk about it)

- Adjust their vision/roadmap appropriately (crypto changes really quick)

- Are value-driven

- Try to improve upon difficult but possible engineering problems (e.g. we build a smart contract for a EUR stable coin compared to "we solve remittance for all the unbanked")
I really like glass growlers for beer. I can walk across the street and buy a canned 6-pack of a local beer or I can ride my bike to the brewery and have a drink while I wait for my growler to fill. It's about the same price for me.
Women hunters have a long history in the Americas
There's obviously a place for browser testing. But I'm still not convinced most of the huge effort that goes into it couldn't have been better spent building stronger unit and integration tests elsewhere in the tech stack.
"feedback" here seems to refer to feedback on the scientific paper that is being retracted, not personal performance feedback or anything like that. When I red this first, wasn't immediately clear what this was about.
Yes and AWS also built multiple database types to meet their needs. Is your company going to do the same?
I mostly agree with this. As absurd as it sounds, I think you are basically correct.

The people with money do what they can to keep propping things up because they are the ones that massively gain on it. They can afford to keep risking and risking, cashing out when it's convenient and if they take a hit? Oh well, I lost 50%.. or 500m. But you know what? I still have 500 million fucking dollars! As opposed to the normal people in which a 50% loss is devastating.

It is such insanity how much money the people pulling the strings have. And they have convinced people "hey throw all your money into our gambling pot of doom!"
Climate change is a cultural issue as much as an environmental one
The critical argument for base32 over base58 in my mind is being able to write the ids as filenames/folder names on macOS without conflicts (APFS is case-insensitive by default).