skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Volunteering to be exploited doesn't absolve the exploiter of their wrongdoing.
> For GTA VI, Rockstar will only release a smaller sized game and instead add sizeable updates spread out over time

Sounds like Windows 10, only with microtransactions.
> First, if you add black bars on your own and don't use professional redaction features of software, you might miss the OCR text layer of the PDF, or the bar might be added as a separate object entirely which means it can also be removed later on.

Looking at you, Preview on macOS.
The not-so-hidden cost of "free"...

Compare the risk of some online "friend" you've never met not seeding vs Github being down. With your approach I'd need to seed like 5 other projects in order to stand a chance to get a better uptime vs. Github (which is free and requires no effort from my side).

I still haven't seen an explanation of why go through all this trouble rather than set up own Git server at own domain, like many OSS projects already do (example: GNU.org)
But so do you miss the point as providing a working place which an employee can get by "start your own thing" does in no way imply that it's acceptable to abuse your employee just because they depend on you.

In the end they get a reasonable wage for the normal work they do, but not if crunch is involved. Which, do to the large amount of stress and in turn health (physical+mental) and social risk it can involve doesn't seem reasonable for "any" amount of money (or at least any amount any person would be willing to pay ;=) ).
Discussing torrents:
> people were more easily able to access the things they needed without being forced to ask or pay for permission to have them.

Haha. We’re not talking about folks stealing bread to feed their family. We’re talking about people stealing entertainment.

There’s a lot wrong with big media corporations: DMCA takedown notice misuse, copyright for life of the artist + 75 years, exploitative contracts, and so on. But let’s be honest, watching movies and show you didn’t pay for is theft. Rationalize it however you want, but it still theft.
Laptops ... overheat? and people put up with this?

I'm earnestly surprised. (my only use for a laptop is as a remote terminal to an Actual Computer)
The manifest file could be generated at build time.

I believe it's more developer-friendly in the long run to be able to do configuration from in-band in the same language / environment the application is running in vs out-of-band config. Spring config has become a good bit more manageable now that it's in doable Java (or Kotlin) rather than only XML.

Both in-band and out of band could be offered, it wouldn't have to be a hard cutover anyway.
Billionaire investor Bill Ackman says the US should give every American C (cont)
I remember (at about the same time CDMA cell phones began getting popular) a standalone device with 32MB of storage, enough for like 20 songs or so. I think this was the one:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_PMP300

Yes, rock solid, but it didn't hold a candle to the ipod, with its clicky scroll wheel that eased browsing, and its much larger HDD-based capacity.
Thank your lucky stars you live in a place where you can even get your pet tested for covid. Then follow this advice:

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/daily-life-coping/...

Please note:

Based on the limited information available now, the risk of pets spreading COVID-19 to people is considered to be low. There is no reason to abandon or surrender pets that have been confirmed positive for the virus that causes COVID-19.
A Hashmap isn't "better." For example, if you need to optimize for memory, running a bubble sort on a character array will be the most compact solution.

Likewise, if you profile, there's no guarantee that a hashmap is faster or slower, or even more readable. It gets into the nitty-gritty of how memory allocation works and the overhead of maintaining a hashmap versus whatever optimized character sorting algorithms are part of your runtime.

Anyway, I've found that companies that want to ding me for those kinds of things aren't worth working for. IMO, we're better off having an industry-standard licensing board. Plenty of other industries do the same thing.

Edit: I've also spent an afternoon with a FAANG's set of practice programming challenges. I won't go into details out of respect for confidentiality, but they weren't unreasonably difficult. I only want to work with people who can solve "most" of them. (No one's perfect.)

The best analogy is like being a musician or an athlete. Anyone can learn to play an instrument or play a sport, but to be a professional musician or athlete requires something that takes more than practice. No one's excluded from those industries due to lack of talent, but the people without the talent have to take the jobs that support the musicians and athletes.
What does HR have to do with anything/?
Great comment. Complaining about the "colonization" of education is a waste of time when "education" itself is a farcical treadmill of wasted time and indoctrination.

A friend and I were chatting about the argument about whether or not "Under God" should be in the pledge, and he made the following point:

Mandatory education? Sure.
Mandatory attendance? Sure.
Governnment-approved curriculums? Sure.
Mandatory taxes to pay for the mandatory, government-approved curriculum? Sure.
Include "God" in the pledge of allegiance? Whoa there, Adolf, we don't want the government indoctrinating our kids!
Thanks @malston! We interviewed a few dozen scientists on their experience using ELNs, and came across this thesis. Glad to see that it resonates with you as well :)
I still very much enjoy my $20 fold-up tree from Walgreens with built-in lights. Just set up the stand, unfold it, and plug it in. And stores conveniently back in the original box, which even has a little plastic handle on it.
I don’t think we know that for sure yet. Firstly, Apple has access to better chip technology. That gives them extra room and extra speed for free (actually, for a lot of dollars)

Secondly, AFAIK, nobody has attempted something similar with a different CPU. It is possible (but IMHO not likely), that a similar approach as the M1 (optimize a system , not individual chips), but with x64 (or x86, or MIPS, or RISC-V) would outperform the ARM version.

“Desktop-class” is a moving target, so if that were the case, the M1 wouldn’t be called desktop class anymore.
Gatto? Is that you?
I don’t know the legalese, but I'll bet you Apple won’t disclose future processors to Nvidea. They won’t disclose current ones.

Maybe licensing the ISA, which is what Apple is doing, is while different deal.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/investigations/... (https://archive.is/gQM5Q) mentions the Forbidden Stories.
I find the "elegant" version easier to read and understand. But I think it also requires the reader to understand pointers pretty well, which, frankly, the majority of developers (who tend to work with interpreted or GC'd languages that don't have pointers / pointer arithmetic) probably don't have much familiarity with.

If a beginner C programmer reads this code, they might not understand until they have a little more experience under their belt. But I think that's ok; if we limited ourselves to writing code that beginners in the language can easily understand, we're going to miss out on a lot of important, useful techniques.

I do absolutely agree that cleverness should be avoided. We should optimize for later readers of our code. But I don't really see this as falling into the "clever" camp, at least not in way we mean "unmaintainable code".
A fan is going backward

I'm sorry but in today's age, we should build silicon that is efficient enough to handle passive cooling scenarios

Oh wait, Apple did it!

Why can't raspberry pi do it? i know, they use an inneficient and cheap chinese chip! the way to go to fight global warming

-- ok, ok, this is a bit harsh considering the price of the decive, BUT, it still is an important subject!
SlipperySlope says otherwise
Ask HN: How does shadow banning on HN work?
I submitted a marginally contentious article recently, and was surprised to see that it is only visible under New when I am logged in. When I look for it without being logged in, it's not there. It's not even flagged.
If this was just a new CPU option with a performance boost over Intel (and significantly better thermals) but a compatibility mess - I would agree.

But MBP is 500$ price drop from the Intel variant. At these price points these laptops are a far better value proposition than the competition - Intel thermal performance and power consumption is just terrible, AMD is better but not present in anything premium - in terms of value for money - anyone looking at a premium 13 inch new laptop right now should IMO get one of these devices unless they have a really good reason not to (and admittedly there are plenty of those).

I really hate this situation because Apple is not the company I want to buy hardware from - they really suck on giving options, it's all "Apple know what's best for you" from them and their cult (for example I want a laptop with a touch screen, and ideally a 360 hinge, but there is no touch on MacOS because Apple). I would pay double for X1 Yoga with M1 class CPU. But right now Intel has dragged down the x86 laptop market down for soo long, and is still the only game in town for competition, it's just sad. AMD has good chips but no good devices. Modern ultra portable laptops are throttling, overheating and die instantly or have no work performance - it's just terrible tradeoffs for professionals.
Whatever is generated needs to align with the scales’ “mode” so that each part’s i,iv,v are the same notes. Then sections of 16 bars verse, chorus, 16 bars, chorus, bridge, chorus or some variant of song structure and I’m sure this would crank out hits.
This is a circular linked list, where the ->next pointer points back to the head of the list. It's helpful for iteration tasks, since you can always walk the full list when you get access to one node.

In most cases you use a linked list like this, you don't care about the order of things, just that you can iterate over all items in the list.
> Second, if you don't use monospace text, the width of the text you are redacting will reveal information about it.

If you do use monospace text, width reveals the exact redacted character count. If you don't use monospace text, it constrains the possible contents in a more complicated way, but it leaks information either way.
Thanks for this tool, I'm already getting a ton of use from it.

For fun, I pointed a 12-core/32GB RAM 2018 MBP at a 9GB network share full of PDFs, while still using the laptop for other things (so not a benchmark, just an anecdote).

Initial cold/uncached run:

rga -j 12 testword share 1140.70s user 77.58s system 31% cpu 1:03:55.85 total

Cached:

rga -j 12 testword share 8.09s user 4.88s system 92% cpu 14.048 total

Cache after the run is 77M.
Spend some time on docker hub and you'll find thousands of Dockerfiles with RUN <150 lines of && concatentated scripts>. It's dysfunctional.
While it's a solid article otherwise, I don't think I've seen a single red illustration out in the wild before reading this.
I sell a self-hosted web analytics platform[0] and earned around $15k this year. Not really passive as I quit my job to work on it (mostly updates so far), so I hope that with some marketing in 2021 I will at least 10x that number.

[0]: https://www.usertrack.net
An anonymous person on the internet is not credible.

That's fine when the things anonymous people are posting here can be verified elsewhere, or are philosophical arguments that can be evaluated on their own merits, for example. It's not fine when it's personal accusations and gossip that can't be verified, but which people take to be true just because it seems exciting.
There are legitimate reasons to fear an uncontrolled pandemic.
Drugs at FDA APIs
Hollywood is not an "essential" business as defined for COVID restrictions, meaning that it is not automatically permitted to continue business operations during COVID lockdowns. (See https://covid19.ca.gov/essential-workforce/). Utilities, transportation workers, etc., are essential workers.

But that is also why Hollywood studios implemented such draconion covid procedures: they were necessary to get exemptions from the lockdown orders. They were the first industry to get these exemptions because of their outsized economic impact, and especially because of their importance to the LA area's finances.
Sure. I think it's only useful out of band, though, in these cases.

Because if you're pissed off about Cyberpunk 2077, and think death threats are OK... seeing an article with more news about '2077 being late, and an aside of them saying "these death threats are upsetting us" A) reinforces your belief death threats for situations like this are normal, and B) provides you with some validation/happies.

I'd wager that the kind of people who issue death threats over video game delays has a pretty big overlap with 4chan. 4chan peeps know their behavior is not normative, and having a bunch of outcry has never stopped their pursuit of the luls... and the kind of article mentioning the threats you're talking about is pretty much winning from their standpoint.
It seems the domain your submission is from has been banned years ago, so all submissions from it get autokilled.
You start getting incoherent after heavy use, even when not currently using. People who know you notice. Jewel said she left an event early because she was upset to see Tony was acting that way. It takes 4-6 days to recover from a heavy run, including getting feeling back in your nerve endings. Taking B vitamins help.
I have only one issue with the M1; I do have a M1 mini to test/play with. Apple has to get developers to actually make apps for it. Their presentation debut of the M1 was notable for the fact how many developers they had on display you had to use Google to find out who they were!

Catalina obsoleted a lot of apps that many companies did not bother to update before or after which does not bode well for Apple Silicon. The hope to hold out for is that the performance is so good that people really want the systems and that brings out the developers.

Still, you can still get acceptable Windows Laptops with SSD/Etc for half the price of a MBA and that still means a lot. That you don't have to look twice at software to know if it runs is a big deal as well
The problem with Paul Graham isn't that he's "not intellectual". It's that he pretends to be something he's not.

He's a business guy. He rolled a Natural 20 (or few) on the "where and when to be born" check... which is kind of 95% of what it takes to make money in capitalism (unless you're born rich). He's a decent technical writer. I tend to find his opinions on PL out-of-date and pedestrian— but I imagine mine are, too, because I'm a middle-aged ex-techie who left the industry in disgust.

For a contrast: Joe Rogan, whatever you think of him, doesn't pretend to be an intellectual or a brilliant guy. His schtick is that he's an average-ish guy with a lot of curiosity— not that he's a genius who has conversations with God on the regular. Jordan Peterson, on the other hand, embarrasses himself with shit takes well outside of his expertise. (His claim to fame is interpreting a reasonable Canadian law in an extremely unreasonable way.) Peterson's experiences as a therapist aren't to be discounted, but his opinions on politics and society and economics are utterly worthless.

Paul Graham's original Lisp books were very good. His "Billionaires are a Gift From God" schtick is a massive embarrassment. That's self-serving polemic, not intellectual discourse. Chomsky, he ain't.
Got it, thanks. I'll search for a better source.

Do you know if there's a list of banned domains?
I'm not concerned about not getting another interview with the particular company I applied with, they are a dime a dozen, and gambled with burning that bridge at the time.

I think what I didn't account for was the possibility of not only burning the bridge with that company, but potentially all of the tech screening company's clients as well.

I think you're missing the point.
Most would agree with you. This is not pleasant.
Yes, compared to your prior Macbook I'm sure it was a revelation. A programmer friend loves his new M1, but he's also been an Apple user for decades.

As a Windows user, testing out my friend's Macbook Air M1 was an underwhelming experience. I've had bigger performance boosts from adding more RAM or switching out HDs to SSDs, and a large part of the M1's performance "gains" can be attributed to the increased RAM on the systems currently featuring the M1.
I doubt there is a list, since it's also to a large degree an anti-spam measure, and the point of doing it as a shadowban is not telling spammers immediately that you blocked them.
I've started down the same path that Autechre has gone recently - just using Sonic Pi as the live-looper to build up a library of part-players and a conductor. Then output MIDI to a DAW to use plugins and make further arrangement and mix decisions.

The thing is, the sound design is, in a sense, the easy part. You can buy the sound you want, with the substantial exception of some acoustic and vocal performances. You can feed it into a tremendous number of processing effects and get artistically interesting results by turning the knobs. This has been commodified: you can buy up software bundles for holiday sales right now and have an absolutely vast kit of professional production tools for perhaps $500 USD; less, going to zero, if you focus just on essentials and make good use of freebies, more if you aim for high-effort multisampled instruments and certain high-end plugins. And so we have a golden age for the improvisational electronic jam session. There's no need to build your own patches, though it helps from a sound engineering perspective to have those skills.

But compositions aren't jam sessions, they're a tighter, more directed layer of structure than that. And the problem that rears its head with algorithmic approaches is that it isn't reducable to one algorithm with different values, rather, a different piece is a different algorithm, and the final result is assembled most easily by switching between layers of intentional, hand-picked sequences and automations that extend upon them.

But if you go in agnostic to the principles driving that material, as it seems the author did, the result doesn't go in any coherent direction, and so it doesn't sound musical.

Many people like the old chiptunes on the C64. One of the distinguishing features of many of them is the fact that the sequences are, in fact, algorithmic in this way. They were not composed entirely on the piano and then painstakingly input as a sequence of events. Some were, of course, but memory constraints drove many more towards compression, if only at the level of "loop this pattern", and the lengthiest tunes leaned heavily on algorithms(one example: Times of Lore). There is no requirement for algorithmic approaches to also be academic experiments and these tunes often demonstrate that.

Somehow this fact gets very little representation in the modern DAW environment. Sequences are uniformly multitrack tapes, printed scores, piano rolls, tracker grids, or lists of events. If they're particularly cheeky they might think to use divisions of a circle. But you can define an interesting sequence in a few lines of code, really: you just need to tap into a pattern that has some intrinsic chaos(predictable, but in a difficult-to-compute way - cellular automata, double pendulums, fractals or even just a polyrhythm all work) and subsequently shape it to the needs of the larger structure. It's the use of the mathematics that matters, and traditional theory is kind of burdensome in this way, because it often obscures the mathematics in trying to convert it into something that can be muscle-memory trained and called out verbally.
I mean yeah, what else would the CEO of a competitor say?
Doesn't $350 per month for a basic comment section sound pretty insane?
Depends on your definition of calculation. From what I've seen so far, the simplifications that GA makes are mostly on the symbolic side. That is, it makes the written equations more compact. But the math "under the hood" is the same. So I don't see how that would yield anything useful from a computing sense. Might make the programming easier to think about in a way similar to monads in Haskell/functional languages.
It feels like you're the one trying classify what the essay's saying in a weird way. Someone can critique a person without condemning them. One can say that PG's opinions shouldn't be taken seriously without saying that he's a 'wrongthinker.'

The internet gives a mouthpiece to many, many people; not everyone's opinion should be considered with equal weight. The essay's author uses the example, "EARTH HAS 4 CORNER SIMULTANEOUS 4-DAY TIME CUBE." It is content that someone put a lot of time and effort into. How should I use the ideas and world view found in the timecube website to forge my own?

Probably not much. That's what I equivalate with "taking seriously," and a "serious public intellectual" is someone whose opinions I would probably consider when forming my own.

I don't think the author is tearing PG down to try and oust him from his material wealth; just saying, maybe what he writes in his essays shouldn't be taken as seriously as some of us thought.
For a counter argument, I don't think M1 is going to disrupt anything. Its a great performer for sure, but its locked to a proprietary and closed ecosystem controlled by a single entity.

Its a new direction for Apple in their laptop architecture, and a solid first step, but the raw performance is not up to the fastest from AMD and Intel, and it lacks the ability to upgrade any of its components. I get it, its a laptop, but if you want to talk about performance lets put it out there: its a fast laptop.

People already in the Apple ecosystem will love M1, but it lacks a compelling reason to switch to Apple. Apple already made the best laptops, the M1 keeps that crown. People that were satisfied buying Windows laptops and Chromebooks will continue to do so because the criteria they used when making a buying decision involved other factors than "I want the best".

I expect SoC designs to fracture the CPU market in the coming years and kill AMD and Intel, but unless M1 opens up to other designers and companies its a tangent in the great CPU race.
> When it comes to politics, his opinions are poorly-thought-out, self-serving, and generally worthless.

As are 99.999% of everybody's.

Except what you're saying (ie your judgement about PG's 'poor' political thinking) is self-referentially meaningless unless you consider yourself a "native expert" in political thinking.

Why are we not to take and measure and discuss ideas a la carte?

What value is there in group-classifying the 'wrongthinkers', except to save people the exhaustion and torture of learning new and diverse ideas and for thinking for themselves?
Does this include transformers?
Oh, yes! I've been working on a paper based one - I love seeing these "rough draft" style tools which make iterating on the early stages of ideas. Thanks!