skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's no need for anything so obvious as a request from the sposorship sales staff to the newsroom, or corporate sponsors asking journalists for favors. It could be an unspoken, unwritten understanding, subtle enough that the newsroom staff and journalists might honestly deny it exists. Just knowing that Amazon is a major sponsor of your employer (and hence, your job) is going to affect how you write about them, whether or not any overt favors have been requested.
It is fair to lump Linux in there. Linux is supported on pretty much every largish Arm system other than Apples, at least if you include Android Linux. No other Arm system comes close to matching the M1 in terms of performance.

I don't think that is an indictment of Linux. It is likely if the specs for the M1 were released, Linux could wring more performance out of the M1 than MacOS. At least in some workloads.
I believe you should start by gathering considering initial requirements, of which "UX requirements" is a subset. Trying to create a hierarchy or priority of requirements, to be defined in phases, is repeating the error of "waterfall" or "assembly line" thinking for software projects.
The reality is that AMD's CPUs don't yet properly support AVX-512, and Intel's CPUs provide good implementations (e.g., 3 cycle latency for the useful AVX-512 shuffle/permutes) with a big downclocking caveat

AVX-512 will be great, eventually
Can you elaborate on what do you mean by "or to hire a tax payer"? If you hire the best person overseas and bring them to the US to work via immigration process, that person becomes a tax payer to the US, no?
Good luck. I did this earlier this year and it really helped to use saved passwords in Chrome to figure out which accounts are the most important ones.
Our capability of doing simple spellcheckers has maybe improved, but our standards have risen as well. Back then it might have been amazing, nowadays it's boring and every program has it, even my Firefox browser does.

A spellchecker is only a limited solution to the task of proofreading. I've never used the grammarly product, but at least from the ads it seems it can catch many things that human proofreaders would catch. There might still be domain-specific things that requires humans.

But the grammarly product has way more logic behind it than just using a simple table of words. No idea if it's parametric or uses an ML language model, or maybe a combination, but the feature set wouldn't be possible with just a table.

So instead of a lone employee being tasked to write a spellcheker, you suddenly have an entire industry focused on NLP. That's how the growth of the computing industry looks like :).
Recycled fabric sorting startups/tech
Any sorting machines out there for recycled garments or startups working on it? Ability to automatically sort by fabric and detach attachments of recycled garment, usually done manually?

Not just scanners or identifying fabric – interested in the whole automated system.
A quantitative explanation of impostor syndrome
A policy change that sabotages an idea that Google itself gave many people just a few years ago.

Google's "Dear Sophie" ad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhPklt9nYas
Same. I've been handed over to the "where is this investor" support team a couple of times. Sometimes they are just trying to sell me additional services.

Now, I make a point of logging into all my financial accounts a couple of times every year. Easy to forget retirment/mutual fund/insurance accounts.

1. Verify balances and look for any sign of fraud.

2. Verify contact information (address / phone / email).

3. Titling: As you get older, make sure you understand how your account is titled. Individual / POD / Joint / Joint WROS / Trust / etc. Each of these has specific consequences to you.

4. Beneficiaries: Similarly, make sure you understand the significance of submitting beneficiaries on your accounts.

Example: I missed updating an older account to include my new wife.

This is a good place to start: https://store.nolo.com/products/estate-planning-basics-espn....
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Calling cocaine a ‘hard drug’ is just programming from 50+ years of the War on Drugs. And whilst it’s not the safest drug ever, the vast majority of people who do it are not dying, or have any real long term negative effects.

Of course there will always be people who do too much, or become addicted, but that’s the same as alcohol, cigarettes, food, etc. It should then be a public health issue, not a crime issue.

Prohibition has not worked, it seems like it never works. Drug use has grown exponentially since the War on Drugs started, the costs of policing it are astronomical, and the harm to communities in the supply chain is enormous.

Downstream the users are criminalised and are putting themselves at risk because the product they’re consuming doesn’t have any mandated quality control.

Everybody loses when prohibition is a strategy. Well, except the cartel bosses and the organisations paid to enforce these unenforceable laws.

Legalisation has a cost too: public healthcare and individuals who may die or suffer because of addiction. But those people exist now, there isn’t a barrier to entry here, drugs are not hard to get hold of.

My personal opinion is that prohibition is immoral. Legalisation combined with good public education and rehabilitation schemes would help the world to get out of this cycle of death and criminality.
It is a big problem that in our current political climate people with those types of built in personal issues float to the top. Gender and race should only be brought up if there is evidence that someone is being discriminated against or harassed based on those traits. I see all kinds of articles immediately pulling race and gender into the equation and it’s dangerous and dishonest because it robs credibility from situations where there is truly discrimination/harassment based on this occurring.
This presents a really unfortunate new ending to the famous "Dear Sophie Lee" commercial.
> And that it seems absurd for places like Facebook to say that when they reject so many applications from talented developers.

That's nonsense. FB pays upwards of $200K per year to fresh CS graduates. Compare that to $60K made by a chemical engg graduate. If there were plenty of talented developers why are they paying such astronomical salaries?
My pet peeve with NZ is topo maps situation. DOC really needs a free offline map app - that would save lives. Right now there's plenty of apps, some free some paid, most using DOC's maps from their web app. But the quality is variable so you can't trust it. Plus backpackers are not gonna pay $10 for maps.
Except that this is not exactly what happened, read the comments at the top.
Visa wants to enforce their duopoly by preventing others from accessing transaction data that plaid has.
> Objectively people who don’t have compassion do better in life.

Depends on your definition of "do better".

> it seems the author wants to keep one unreasonable thing (compassion) and throw out another unreasonable thing(religion)

The author is not saying we should throw out religion. She is arguing against "superstition and tradition" in areas where they have failed to solve problems that science has solved.

Nor is she advocating for compassion without reason. Compassion is not there to make you feel bad; it's there to motivate you to use your reason to fix a problem. For example, the author's compassion for the mother whose stove set fire to her apartment motivates her to advocate for stoves with smoke sensors and automatic shut-off valves. If all you do with your compassion is feel bad, you've missed the point.
Someone only "kinda wanting" to do cocaine is indicative of a non-addictive personality, therefore use of cocaine is of minimal risk for these individuals.

From my understanding, this is most people.

Addiction is the problem, not the drug itself. And it will always get channeled into something destructive; ie. gambling, sex, alcohol, sugar.

You can't ban everything, but you can treat addiction.

Removing stigma, shame and punishment encourages people with addictive personalities to seek treatment, which is the only long term solution.
I don't think it's 125% of GOOG in the Seattle area, but marginally higher. Don't know about MSFT or AAPL here. My FB offer was something like 150% of my former non-FAANG employer pay (and I think I was relatively well-compensated compared to my peers at my former employer).
Yes its funny to see this idea come back. It just needs a snappy name. MoSQL instead of NoSQL, something like that.
Sheesh ok. The H visa was created in the 1950s. Happy?
You are never done, I am just having fun now.
That is called decoration.
You don't need it.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/gabe-heininger/
stop.
You can make all the rest now.
Google is a monopolistic behemoth of a company, which spies on you and profiles you up the wazoo, sharing its information with US government agencies and who knows who else.

It also biases, manipulates and censors searches and recommendations on its main websites, in various contexts which have been reported here on HN.

So, please try to avoid using any Google services, in particular their file storage.
I do the same thing but I think it's all the same for Google, if you don't actively log into Gmail they can't know for sure that it's still being used. We'll just have to remember to log into the service once every other year.

I hope they'll bother to send a warning email at least.
The published benchmarks are mostly "meh" when it comes to anything at the prosumer level and above.

The insanely good thermals and 5mm process make M1 a great laptop, but middling performance and a lack of expansion only makes it decent mini-desktop for family use.

If the rumors of the M1x prove true, that might be the first real pro-level ARM CPU.

For pro-level performance, it's roughly matching AMD's three-year-old entry-level Ryzen 7 1700:

https://openbenchmarking.org/vs/Processor/Apple%20M1,AMD%20R...
> are people really going to collect a few dollars from everyone

If they are poor, yes. If they are rich, no one cares.

> 20 movie rental, but it feels different to go spend that at a theater

It costs a lot more than $20 for 4 people to go to the theater.
> ask Siri what color it is

Never even thought of this. That's modern day software discoverability for you
But that doesn't really make sense? Lets say that Facebook need 100 engineers with said skill, would they open up 100 PERM positions and if any of them are not filled they can keep the worker? Otherwise what if a candidate applies to the PERM position and not the normal ones, while the temp worker would be qualified for many other positions advertised by Facebook that goes unfilled?

The whole system seems very badly thought out to be honest. And no, just because you need 100 of something doesn't mean that it isn't highly skilled. People who can architect highly performant reliant systems are not that common and can fit most spots at Facebook, they need thousands of those.
Parents pay full fare for children to fly so I wouldn’t call them equivalent. Some dogs are great while others are awful. Just like children.
I would like people arguing the opposite to define "revolutionary".

The combination of the performance increase with the power and thermal efficiency in the first release for a laptop is the sort of improvement we haven't seen in a very long time.

> I'm not seeing that this makes anything fundamentally different

I guess we'll see. $1000 dollars buys a lot more laptop utility than it did a month ago, and the abrupt availability of a laptop with higher performance with far better battery life than anything else on the market has certainly gotten a lot of people's attention.

I'm not buying one[1], but I'm really curious to see the M2.

[1] I'm really torn, the atrophy of the Unix side of the OS and the increasing lockdown has frustrated me a lot. But the option of just running MacOS as a hypervisor that happens to run Photoshop may be just fine for me... I'll decide when the current machine dies.
I wish there were more options for people travelling with pets. I don't support people abusing the system, as it hurts people who genuinely need adjustments, but when the alternative is putting them in cargo, I can understand why you'd do it.
Have you seen the cookbook? It might be what you're looking for: https://lispcookbook.github.io/cl-cookbook/
- Plaid is hardly alone in its competitive space. Even if Finicity sucks and SynapseFi is mid-implosion, they don't have a corner on capabilities like this indefinitely. MX is pretty alright.

- That ignores FANG platforms that could implement similar money-moving features.

- Stripe trotted out their "Banking as a Service" APIs today.

- Let's not forget the Chinese giants that have obviated the day-to-day need for credit card networks in their country, whose strategists (and imitators) are eyeing global markets.

If Visa's approach to this competitive threat is really acquire-and-kill, I hate to break it to them but... not even they can afford it. With all the innovation and competition in the space, best case scenario is that they bought themselves a year. And it turns out that, oops, Plaid wasn't even the closest. Stripe was.

The case for monopolistic harm is slim. Even if there was monopolistic intent, it was probably incompetent.
Even better, this is a problem that is nearly 100% solved by watching with subtitles (esp at home). I mean, it may sound bad but at least you can understand it by reading.
That's a little ungenerous. Social activists may go over the line and be rude or abrasive, but unfortunately it's impossible to be a polite social activist. Activism fundamentally requires telling people that their actions should be modified, that their beliefs may be flawed, that their systems have problems. It's really hard to do that and be a likeable person.

Of course social activists may at times cross the line and be unnecessarily rude or abrasive. But I'd have more sympathy because their fundamental job is to be subversive and critical of people.
I looked in the dev settings but could not find it? What's the exact name of the option?
There's the old quip that corn is just one small step in the chain of converting oil into something people can eat.
No bikes on national parks mate
The History section of the git README explains it well, and why that design/architecture choice is a good one for the intended use case:

"The idea of TinyCheck came to me in a meeting about stalkerware with a French women's shelter. During this meeting we talked about how to easily detect easily stalkerware without installing very technical apps nor doing forensic analysis on them. The initial concept was to develop a tiny kiosk device based on Raspberry Pi which can be used by non-tech people to test their smartphones against malicious communications issued by stalkerware or any spyware."

I think it's a great idea. I'm going to check in with a friend who has to deal with stalker ware-infected phones at a womens shelter she volunteers at to see if they'd like me to build/send them one.
This is doable on practically anything. Talking about being powerful with low heat/power consumption implies heavier workloads than Netflix because otherwise the "powerful" part is irrelevant.

Of course I'm sure you can find laptops with terrible cooling design that would get uncomfortably hot watching Netflix, but there's plenty of thin and light laptops available for < $1000 that would do just fine too.
Your post got like 30 upvotes in 30 minutes (paid for) which made it rocket up to the front page. The HN mod team then manually removed it from the front page due to vote manipulation. Notice how after your paid votes ran out nobody else gave it many more additional votes - still hovering around 30.
Google's spell checker still is a major feat of software engineering ;-) It must handle every language, handle new words constantly being coined, have low enough latency and high enough throughput to run it on every web search. (Well, caching probably solves 2/3 of traffic.)
That seems pretty damning to me. Especially considering Timnit is not sharing what her demands were.

Google went through their standard process, and the paper was rejected.

If they have actually approved dozens of Timnit's papers before, then the likelihood that this rejection is due to discrimination seems low.
encomia. Well learnt a new word anyway.
> The difference is that cocaine use is only really harmful to the user

Incorrect, it harms the families of addicts and the victims of crimes perpetrated to buy more cocaine, to name a couple externalities of cocaine use. This goes for alcohol, heroin, etc. I've been an addict and seen the damage that my use caused to others.

That being said, I think cocaine/heroin/meth should be legal and cheap, with drug counseling intake services offered at places that sell them.
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Are you a paying customer?
> The complaint alleges that Visa’s CEO viewed the acquisition as an “insurance policy” to protect against a “threat to our important US debit business.”

This quote makes it sound like Visa is acting monopolistic, which is the behavior they don't want to see.

Rest of the paragraph

> This acquisition is the second-largest in Visa’s history, with an extraordinary price tag of $5.3 billion. Visa’s CEO justified the deal to Visa’s Board of Directors as a “strategic, not financial” move, and noted that in part because “our US debit business i[s] critical and we must always do what it takes to protect this business.” Unless acquired, Visa feared that Plaid “on their own or owned by a competitor [was] going to create some threat” with a “potential downside risk of $300-500M in our US debit business” by 2024. If Plaid remained free to develop its competing payment platform, then “Visa may be forced to accept lower margins or not have a competitive offering.”
But if you haven’t given it to them, is it really theirs? It’s yours with another name on it I’d think.
The US accounts for 15% of all emissions. Going 100% renewable or nuclear for all US electricity would reduce emissions by 1.5%. That's a hell of a big deal.
People are just tired of assholes who only blame the world and never take responsibility.
ok, two windows up, I know my next step. its' right in front og me in the cache.
open the file to fix the links
holy shit, thats a mess
stop.
go pla. you'll figure it out.
Microsoft’s solution is emulation, not binary translation. This is a much slower approach than Rosetta. Hopefully this gives MS the kick in the pants it needs to step up their game though.
Yet it leaves in several easily confused character pairs: 5S, and 8B.
Hmm, you could be right of course, but I had a few Dutch friends in grad school and this did not remind me of their accents at all.
In the blog post they mention that they store over 4PB of data every single day, I can't blame them try trying to rationalize this a bit.

I'm really curious to know how much data they'll be able to expunge on January 1 2023, when the 24month deadline expires. It might end up being the biggest "rm" in computer history.
The simple code examples on the websites of both Puppeteer [1] and Playwright [2] are impressive in their conciseness and power.

It's been a long time since I did browser automation but it was always much uglier than that.

These new browser drivers look (dare I say) downright fun to write stuff in. It's really tempting me to think of some browser automation side project to play with over a weekend...

[1] https://pptr.dev/
[2] https://playwright.dev/
Ralph Gorin wrote the first practical spell checker in 1970. https://web.stanford.edu/~learnest/les/spelling.htm
Ok, I'll take your word for it, I guess I was wrong about the technical skills bit. Looking at her career path I still get the impression that she's more interested in social activism within technical companies than engineering though.
"Germany did better albeit still at an undeniably high cost … bank-rolled China's solar industry" Can echo that.

The RENIXX global stock index, comprised of 30 companies in the renewables sector, shed one German company after another (only two are left in it today), while most of the index's points come from Chinese and US companies.

Renewables in Germany are reaching a glass ceiling in their electricity share, as renewables aren't capable of providing base load. Embracing nuclear could untie that gordian knot.

"Though I think many Germans are ok with financing many of the advances in renewables."

Yes, many are. And then there are those, that are a bit more cash strapped (like the 300k households cut off from electricity each year) or work in energy intensive industries fearing for their jobs.
It's possible for both the US and China/India to benefit. The US gets a massive yearly influx of extremely smart students, many (maybe most) of whom want to remain in the US. Even if they do eventually return, they work for US research labs while they're getting their degrees. China and India eventually get some of the students back, now with increased skills.

But it's not as if China and India are in control of this process. Unless they're going to take the drastic step of preventing young people from leaving, it's not up to them to say how many students go to the US. They do increasingly try to get students to return, and any increase in xenophobia or restrictions on immigration in the US will make that easier.
"So it sounds to me as if home owners are selling off space that they own (at great expense!) to contribute to the grid."

Well, the "great expense" is subsidised is the issue. So not that great an expense. Effectively their power bills should cancel out the remaining costs eventually and then the home owner should effectively get "free energy" after that.

How much free energy? Maybe none and they are ripped off! Maybe lots. Generally people are betting on at least some, or they wouldn't do it.

My point though is why not spend that money on power grid infrastructure which would benefit all of us!

In particular the economies of scale should have more environmental AND economic impact than thousands of custom roof sites installed with varying degree of expertise and maintained by home amateurs.
Most of this stuff is irrelevant once you start using a proper email client.

(except for the aggressive spam filter)
Not at the moment but probably some time next year: https://www.patreon.com/marcan
> whats your suggestion then?

A poster upthread said he would be quite willing to purchase a second seat for his pet if the airline would let him. So would I.

> I see a lot of this sentiment in the comments, comparing infants and pets. One is essential to the continuation of our species. The other is a comfort, choice and privilege.

Air travel is also a comfort, choice, and privilege. Suggesting that airlines could, for example, sell people a seat for their pet is not equating infants or children and pets. It's a business suggestion, that's all.
I don't think you can credit Tesla with changing the way we commute if that still involves loads of people driving their own car to work. If far fewer people really needed a car at all, that would be a big positive change for the environment.

That involves a long grind of unsexy stuff like urban planning, public service procurement and mapping bus and cycle routes. It does get to the front page of HN every once in a while, but it's not particularly flashy stuff.
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Yeah I really didn’t like this deal when it was first announced.

Plaid has a ton of bank account and transaction data on competitors to Visa that gives it a ridiculous advantage over its competitors.