skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was a tongue-in-cheek reply of course, but there's some truths to it. Just like 4K resolution doesn't make movies better, adding raytracing or fancy shadows doesn't turn a bad game into something that's more fun than, say the Super Mario Bros. (1985, 31KByte) on NES (2KB RAM) which sold 40 million copies.

We need to question ourselves every now and then why we are adding things like cutting edge graphics to games (and adding complexity in general). Which is what this article is about.
Quirks and Quarks (podcast here https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-51-quirks-and-quarks) did an awesome 3-part series on these

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/nov-7-fast-radio-bursts-in-o...
Congrats! That looks awesome. Remember: the first million is the hardest, haha.
People not agreeing with you is not censorship, or at least not the kind anyone should worry about. Let us know if the government has restricted your speech in any way.
Is there a difference when collecting unemployment when fired vs resigning?
It does require americans to be able to identify a freedom worth dying for, which we have failed to do.
Hosted on AWS does not mean it gets wrapped up in the AWS bill. Which means we need to sign a separate contract, which is painful to make happen.
Interesting to find out the Apple music has an app on Android. They actually might be the best alternative for me I've found so far
Unfortunately that company will double down even if there's a hint of traction, and in 3 years it'll finally be decent and TimescaleDB's cloud offering will be in trouble.

They have a lot of money and a bit of time.

It is very embarrassing that Timestream was delayed for so long only to lose so badly.
Oh man. I have been using them nearly exclusively since 2010. Time to look for new strings, I guess.
There is already a crypto index 'BCGI Bloomberg Galaxy'. Info including methodology here:

https://www.bloomberg.com/professional/product/indices/bloom...
This sounds great for Industry 4.0 and Edge Automation, The Management core can do a Linux boot and partition the hetrogenous SoC and launch VMs each running with dedicated HW resources. From what I've seen Jailhouse supports the Xeon Cache partitioning so it's pretty good process isolation.
Show HN: NN-512 – Generate standalone C code for neural nets
>Our culture seems to value efficiency above too much else.

Capitalism tells us that if we're not making money, we're worthless as humans. It's not about hard work or efficiency, just look at the lack of respect for work that doesn't make money (e.g. stay-at-home parents).
It’s the “Freedom Virus” now!
When you say stock market, do you actually mean stock market or a crypto exchange? I'm not under the impression that there is any way to buy ETH via any stock market.
CSS-in-JS solves a lot of problems that people that have been writing 'real CSS' have been experiencing for a long time.

Namely?
There is a significant difference in effectiveness between cloth masks, surgical masks and n95 masks. You might want to read up on it at the CDC: https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/10/20-0948_article
Computer input latency from 1977-2017 (2017)
Of course, the scheduler can easily be told to run both benchmark threads on the two hyperthreads of a given core.

The argument to be made is that because of the resources dedicated to SMT, single thread on AMD/Intel versus single thread on Apple is not measuring the true potential performance of the whole core. In principle, some multithreaded workload over all available threads could be a better metric for whole-processor performance.
For the death toll, very soon - vaccinations are expected to start in the US next week, and nursing homes which drive almost half of the deaths in the pandemic are very high on the priority list. Hospitalization and case numbers won't be affected by vaccination so quickly, but most sources I've read expect that general vaccination will start by springtime and end the crisis by summer.
Functions can be opaque of course, but macros are worse because anything goes. I think the standard loop macro is a good example of this:

(loop repeat 10
for x = (random 100)
if (evenp x)
collect x into evens
else
collect x into odds
finally (return (values evens odds)))

This macro is actually fairly well designed, so you can guess what all of this does just by interpreting the names (assuming that you understand English well at least) but it's barely Lisp. Just figuring out what parts of this call are keywords and what part are just normal symbols is hard to figure out.

(return ...) looks like a function call, but I don't think it is(?). Is collect a loop-ism or can I replace it by any function name? I think it's the former. Is "into" just here to make grammatical sense or are there other keywords I can use here? If `evens` and `odds` already exist as variable names outside of the loop, will they be used or is it a new local binding? If it is a local binding, how do I tell it to use some existing variable name instead?

Basically it's like printf format strings, it's a language within a language, and idiomatic Common Lisp is often full of that stuff in my experience.
Super interesting from a business perspective, but can’t help but think of the personal front too. While it may be difficult to execute safely/cheaply, just the idea rolling my own personal checking account is phenomenal.
Good timing as I was just reached out to by a Facebook recruiter. No thank you!
Colombia is considering legalizing its cocaine industry
We have see again and again that people don't take common sense measures to protect themselves and others until scared by climbing death rates. Once this happens, positivity rated decrease. Then they get COVID fatigue, relax these behaivors and the numbers climb once again.
> This trick came in handy on calc 3 exams whenever I couldn't remember the silly trig identities that were required to perform integrals.

Why do people even have to memorize stuff like this? I simply don't understand what's wrong with referencing stuff you don't remember during a test. That's what we do in real life!
what do you mean? they have customers using it in prod
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellophane#Material_properties

>Cellophane is biodegradable, but highly toxic carbon disulfide is used in most cellophane production.
I'm interested in the topic complexity in and managing it, and would love to hear any suggestions/sources to read.

As for this thread, what I'm seeing is:
- the thesis of this article is that the world is getting more complex for humans to understand
- Some argue the world was always complex but now we're understanding it more
- Some say yes but we are adding our own complexity to the natural world
- Some say, it not not necessarily much more complex it just that there is a lot information out there for any individual to grasp in their lifetime.

There seems to be some truth in each of those arguments. So to sum up, the world was always complex, but recently we started to uncover this complexity, and in order effort to uncover and manipulate the physical world, we've introduced our own complexity and systems. Makes wonder, once most of human needs are met and we stabilize with the ecosystem, will the complexity we introduce to the world also stabilizes?
I think the point that the parent is making isn't that medical masks (N95) don't work, it's that the cloth masks aren't as effective as people think they are.
The “You Get One Diagram” approach to architecture documents
I'm not a frontend developer, but absent svelte, the next easiest thing to develop is a full on desktop application (easier than some other frontend web framework)?
I've put browser automation code examples in ava, cypress, jest, playwright, puppeteer, testcafe and webdriver here: https://github.com/umaar/learn-browser-testing/tree/master/1..., if ever you wish to compare them with each other.
If your company serves a smaller niche than the giants in the a16z analysis, you probably need top down sales much earlier in the growth journey. There are only so many products that get to $20M ARR without a sales team.

From personal experience, top down selling is very hard to get right. You suddenly have to learn how to make a sophisticated business value proposition rather than just saying, “here’s my stuff. It’s really great. Look who else is using it.”

It’s also hard to find good people to lead enterprise sales, particularly if you’ve been a product led founder and don’t know what good enterprise sales looks like. It’s definitely an inflection point with a lot of risk for bad execution.
At some point you can be "too woke" even for Silicon Valley, which IMHO is not woke at all, just a lot of rich people virtue signaling.
I wish Pure Data had a GUI like that. Hats off to the author.
Is mining on GPUs still something people do? Or can be done anywhere near profitable? I got the impression with ASICs that game was up.
AWS is huge, so YMMV across teams.

Some teams have operational and funding issues, so your experience there may be hellish. You could think of it another way and realize that you have your work cut out for you. I previously worked on an AWS team like this and left because I got tired of the grind.

On the other hand, a lot of teams are great places to work. Before I left AWS, I worked on a really good team with intelligent co-workers and interesting engineering challenges. It was like night and day - the team was over-funded and had very few operational issues.
Thanks for trying to spread some sense on this thread. It is filled with misinformation....
The homepage is old, hence there are no samples. But here's the one, for example: https://medium.com/@jovica/the-power-of-recursive-macros-in-...
Why is "track and trace" a challenge when this exists?
I have a few primary use cases in mind:

- developer machine (I don't game)

- server in the basement

- htpc, no gaming (maybe some retro)

In all of these (and probably more), a discrete GPU feels like a detriment. More space, more heat, more drivers, more hassle, more money.
> My bias is that the COVID-19 response in and across the United States is overblown and hysterical.

Can you say more about this? Lots of people have died; if anything my feeling is that our response has not at all been commensurate.
These are people smarter than the Onion writers and spies (except the ones that are spies). They went to Georgetown or the Harvard JFK school.
It's also a marketing ploy. It sounds much, much better when all you keep hearing is "out of stock", "sold out". It creates "fear of missing out" (FOMO). You know, like in real life when you see a long queue in front of a shop.
Yeah, I think that event in Berlin was one of the examples I had in mind as far as news-grabbing super-spreading.

Still, I can't really tell how much that crowd's attitude is indicative of the rest of Germany or even of other Berliners.
I generally just know that any trig formula can be converted to quite a few different other ones visa trig identities. Whether a certain expression is more or less complex than another is a matter of perspective and context.

If I'm stuck with a trig function I don't know what to do with, I just look on Wikipedia for a trig identity and don't worry about derivations or memorization.

This trick is good for exam settings though! My memory is terrible so I always relied on tricks like this in school
Say 25 ‘pieces’ of chocolate instead of 500 ‘grams’
we are causing numerous small problems that are adding up

Those numerous 15 minutes waiting in a deli line and waiting in a bakery line and waiting in a butchers line add up too. We value efficiency because we need it and you’ll learn the value of time efficiency once you have kids that need to be fed every day and a 9-5 job with a commute.

How did we solve this before? We deprived half the population of their right to work for a wage and had them run around doing all this waiting and cooking. That’s over now and the rest of our lives need to be more efficient.
Only Bitcoin-deniers would think that.

It's crazy to see the visceral hatred Bitcoin get on this forum. It is objectively a world changing technology that daily get ridiculed for next t being understood.

Bitcoin is a replacement for federally backed currency, it has and will continue to influence everything it touches.
Slandered, how? https://twitter.com/timnitGebru/status/1331757629996109824?s... seems to be the complaint. This seems plausible given her work to push towards less biased data/algorithms got squashed and she resigned.
It’s quite hard to produce humour that is enjoyed by everyone. To each their own.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
> The unions I know that actually work are near-universal, but you're never technically required to join

"that actually work" - what does this mean?

There are lots of functioning unions that require you to join, to work. Teacher's Unions & Screen Actor's Guild immediately spring to mind.
It's all about text rendering fidelity for me. I can fit a lot more code on my 4k screen.
In a way people are getting gouged regardless by competing for a limited quanto. Whoever gets lucky and gets their hands on a unit can just go and upsell it at a higher price

By not increasing their prices AMD is letting the after market have that surplus. Sure they don't need to get their hands dirty (and risk negative PR), but also it means they can't ship as many units or profit as much as they could have.
It's not about freedom though, it's just about discipline. By making some short term sacrifices earlier in the year, life in the US could have been back to normal by now.
Fair enough on the censorship term - no one from the government has reached out to me yet ; )
"Secure Connection Failed" damn ssl...
It's clear at this point that masks are not the panacea. Countries with mask mandates still have a big spread. Masks should be a complement to social distancing and other more effective measures.
I have no idea what you're getting at. While the memo is intended to be humorous, it still requires vast knowledge of the issues to write and/or fully understand.

Humour and professionalism are not incompatible. I know Trump liked to pretend that he is being criticised for failing to adequately play-act the sort of stiff formality his basic understanding of "being presidential" encompasses. But that was never the case.
I've said this all along - the problem is the lack of credible, consistent leadership.

From flat out denying, to "we have to quarantine, no Thanksgiving!" from mayors who are then caught at fancy dinners and restaurants! Hard to sell the "we're in this together" narrative when you think the rules don't apply to you if you're rich...it's sad.
I'll continue with my lightfield video deep-learning project.
Will this support paper checks that can be written on the spot by a client?
When People Used the Postal Service to Mail Their Children
Pretty sure she was ready to leave though, from the tone of the tweet atleast.

On the other hand, as an employer firing people this way is not very smart either. This brings a lot of attention and seems very vindictive.

Especially given the context, this reeks of fire her before she collects proof of <<insert whatever immoral thing google is doing now>> to me.
Your example isn't even bad though. The point is that why do we have to eat the personal cost of that? My work follows me home and I don't get compensated. If you aren't structuring your time around this, I do think it's often in the best interest of the company.
I agree with you but I basically filtered that as "typical Mac fanboy noise" and try to search for insightful content which I think this piece has, in spite of its "I have a shrine dedicated to Steve Jobs in my living room" tone.
That's great to hear.

Often online all you hear are the extremes at both ends. I hear that you're basically put on PIP as soon as you join, any truth to this?
Unrelated but is ACG a good learning platform?

I'm never sure with these types of platforms because I am not interested in any certifications and such, so it is hard to tell whether they just teach the stuff needed for these certifications and nothing more...
^ The metric I hope to get my hands on come January.
On topic:

While the comparison seems terrible for Timestream, as a customer who does not want to manage my databases I would love a similar GCP option, if the product had better tradeoffs.

It's also interesting that Timescale attributes this AWS product to their own licensing. They had some much discussed [0] developments on that front, and if it did in fact force AWS to build their own implementation, that seems like a win for opensource, but not so much for serverless users.

Slightly off topic:

I have a side project that generates ~10 daily metrics for ~350 entities. Around 150k readings currently (the number of metrics gathered per entity per day has increased since I started).

I'm pretty interested in these timeseries databases, but I think my use case is still on the side of using MySQL/Postgres out of the box. Not to mention that I can get by with archiving data > 1 year old.

Does anyone have any quick checklist or metrics to make decisions like this? When does it make sense to evolve from a vanilla RDB to a timeseries one?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24579905
Improving the GHES release process: release candidates
As far as manufacturing capacity goes, AMD's GPU and CPU manufacturing is incredibly constrained due to the sheer volume of console SoCs they have to pump out. I believe 80% of their N7 wafer capacity at TSMC is currently dedicated to console SoCs, the remaining 20% being dedicated to CPU and GPU dies.
yay save me from Safari Reader Mode
Is Simplicity Overrated?
I’m a fan of user centric design, whether it’s domain driven design or a UX practice. I’m a Technology person too.

One thing that is dangerous about the above is from a top down perspective, UX folks don’t always know the possibilities and capabilities of tech (or feel they don’t need to) which can hinder the design.

As well, UX doesn’t always know how users prefer to work with the data for anything beyond mild and simple use cases. Results in a lack of depth, or too much depth.

It’s far more reasonable for creators (tech), designers and UX to be at the table from the start instead of any one group trying to abstract away the other in some sort of hierarchical or structural land grab.

If this doesn’t seem realistic, imagine if tech folks can learn to work with any type of detail easier than design folks can learn to code. The power will converge in developers who can design, and designers who can develop,
Interesting, it seems their products are geo-locked. The Canadian site still shows "Request invite".
I've had good luck with https://mercury.com for business banking.
(Stepping in for Tara because she is currently dealing with a literal fire. Never a dull moment on launch day.)

We're starting the limited beta for businesses serving businesses in the U.S., but our ambitions for products are always bringing them to all appropriate users on the internet. This is one reason why we partnered with global banks to launch this.
definitely! we want to make it as easy as possible for existing Stripe Connect users to add Treasury functionality for their connected accounts. Request an invite [0] (the product team is personally monitoring this queue) and let's chat about what you're looking to do!

0. https://stripe.com/treasury#request-invite

edit: added a space
3100 people died in a single day, and your response is:

> My bias is that the COVID-19 response in and across the United States is overblown and hysterical. In other words, the juice has not been worth the squeeze.

These are the kind of statements that people in future generations will look back on in embarrassment. "How could people be so purposefully blind to what's happening right in front of them?"

Also this;

> I argue that getting sick is a human right and that no one can deny you this right.

Do you not realize the fundamental issue with this statement?

Edited to add: 3,100 deaths reported in a single day, not necessarily all dead on the same day.
It's unlikely the US will maintain strict social distancing restrictions after a vaccine rollout. There's every reason to believe that the vaccine will stop the spread, but if somehow it doesn't, I expect most laypeople will just accept the world's become a deadlier place.
That raises a good question: so, there are crypto indices now. How do you buy the index? In other words, who is going to securitize cryptocurrencies? Until there's a way for someone to login to a brokerage account and buy, say, ticker symbol CRYPT, I don't see where having an index maintained by a company is all that useful.
I honestly don't know why you're being downvoted.

I think for some people (eg my oldest brother), the iPhone is "the best." He's not a tech person - and that might be perspective that you're missing.

I tend to agree that there are great androids that seem competitive with iPhones (disclosure: I haven't really owned a flagship phone for a while; this is one of android's issues! The flagships aren't that much better than the $300-400 phones)

But I know a lot of people who think the iPhone is the premium phone experience, and if they're going to spend over a thousand dollars on a phone, it'll be an iPhone.

My point here is that for many people, the iPhone is objectively better.
The comment I replied to claimed that being professional about requesting a change to your contract can get you the requested change approved, implying that being unprofessional will get you kicked out. My question was, how to be professional in the way that will get your change more likely to be accepted. If you claim that you can not get the change approved in any way, then you are not answering me, but contradicting the comment I was replying to. Sorry if breaking it down like this seems condescending.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/
Unfortunately, Stripe is private
I mean if you are a bias/ethics researcher and your bosses ignore/limit your work then there are reasons to complain/whistleblow.
I think that this opinion is shallow. LOOP and DO are both standard operators, like while and for in C. To paraphrase: "Some people love the 'while' operator and use it everywhere, some others think it's ugly and use the equally powerfully but syntactically very different 'for' construct instead". You could make a case that some CL features are underappreciated, some are overused, and some are used chaotically by different programmers, but this example is not a good one.

If you use the term "scripting language" as an indication, that Common Lisp is interpreted (it is often used in such context) - that is not true - language can't be interpreted, its implementation could - most Common Lisp implementations feature compilers to binary. The standard even provides you with functions compile and compile-file.

Regarding communities: you've mentioned three (or four) different programming languages. Only SBCL, CLISP and ECL are common lisp implementations and they share the same community - because they implement the same standard. It is as if you had said, that there are separate cython and python communities - each implementation has its merits, but users of both are usually part of the same python community. Similar comparison would be between clang and gcc programmers. Many many Common Lisp systems work well on different implementations of that programming language (some with compatibility layers, some are simply portable programs).
The problem is really the opposite – too many organizations slavishly follow the pre-2017 NIST guidance!

Per wikipedia:

> From 2004, the “NIST Special Publication 800-63. Appendix A,”[2] advised people to use irregular capitalization, special characters, and at least one numeral. It also recommended changing passwords regularly, at least every 90 days. This was the advice that most systems followed, and was "baked into" a number of standards that businesses needed to follow.
good point, I can see value in an alphabet that omits all of them (e.g. for when you encounter an id in the wild and don't know its encoding)