skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thoughtful article. I've had similar feelings about myself and whether or not I'm disabled. My left arm is crooked from two childhood injuries and doesn't turn over more than about 30%, it's called a Madelung deformity[1], it showed itself after my second injury when my arm was healing from a fracture when I was 10 years old.

Most of the time, it's pretty invisible for me and everyone else, but there are things in day-to-day life that are a chore if I think about it, such as cutting food with a knife, exercising, or even trying to hold something at a certain angle with my hand can be uncomfortable. It's kind of silly, but I also can't play guitar standing up, as the angle of turning my wrist over is too uncomfortable to stay in position on the fretboard. Sitting down is similar, but I can play longer as I can hold my elbow closer to my body.

[1]https://radiopaedia.org/articles/madelung-deformity?lang=us
>How often do you hear it for Airbnb?

I've heard a lot of potential hosts not do airbnb for worry of things like guests having massive parties, making drugs, destroying things, etc.
A history of supercomputers from the CDC 6600 to Fugaku
> If the people who are passionate about a language are the ones who pursue its advanced features (and therefore somehow force them on the rest of the world), who then is left to "actually build shit"?

Some people are passionate about the language itself, and programming language theory in general. Others are passionate about solving whatever particular problem their project solves.

A simple thought experiment - think about the most widely used libraries and tools across the whole developer ecosystem. How many are built in Haskell? I count maybe one, Pandoc. How many are built in terrible code bases and languages but chug along anyways? I count thousands. How many wildly successful companies have pristine code bases and how many have trash fire code bases that chug along anyways?
Gensim is #119 in the list according to your link, far behind projects with many more active contributors, so hardly a resounding success of your scoring method.

In terms of metrics, you could start by weighing projects with few contributors as more critical, not less. Specifically, gensim does appear to have had quite a few contributors, but the bulk of the code was written by the single maintainer https://github.com/RaRe-Technologies/gensim/graphs/contribut... So maybe you should add a metric "percentage of code in the past year authored by the top contributor".

If you want to go about it in a more data-driven fashion, you could go through the top projects for each language, check whether they actually need your support (e.g. find out what the development goals are, ask whether the current resources are sufficient and what they'd do with the additional resources you can provide) to get a ground-truth labeling of critical projects, then readjust your weights to match the ground truth.
emissions = economic activity.

britain got out at a good time. the eu just keeps getting more irrelevant
thanks for the informative post, the only qualm I have is that "wired" is an objective improvement. Obviously it is easier to get better quality with wired, but for many people,the benefits of wireless are a huge win over wired.

If that requires a lot of processing, so be it, but that is value added to many people.
I'd also like to know what a "face pull" is. My first thought was: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gurn
Even so, what do you do in that time? Isn't it providing some service or building a product for people... and a greater purpose? I doubt you are a hermit doing as little social interactions just to get by and only consuming without producing anything. If so... what is the meaning of it all?
> This is democracy, both side will fight and to convince other. Whoever gain the majority/power is the winner.

> Unless facebook taking sides, i don't think it harm democracy. Both side too can utilize facebook for their advantage.

The problem is, for the most part, there's harm to democracy if no compromise is ever reached, and the "fight" on every issue becomes constant and intractable.

For instance, the fight around the response to COVID has pretty thoroughly undermined the response to it. You have people refusing to wear masks for the most part to just to say "fuck you" to the other side.

This kind of over-the-top fractiousness is a clear propaganda win for authoritarianism. China, for instance, is pretty effectively using it (and their corresponding success) to reduce the appeal of democracy among its people.
I have never felt my individual productivity go up.

It feels like as I progress my individual work stays the same, but helping others eats any efficiency gains I personally make.

As if when you are new to a module, you are slow because you don’t know anything, then once you have expertise, you are slow because you know everything and are helping others.

Would be interesting to measure this somehow.
Domain-specific compilers are a bigger field, where there's more opportunity to do something interesting

Take C (or some other language) and its mature optimizing compilers as a foundation, and write a program that compiles a high-level description of a domain-specific program into C

For example, NN-512 (https://NN-512.com) is a compiler that takes as input a simple text description of a convolutional neural net inference graph and produces as output a stand-alone C implementation of that graph

GNU Bison (https://www.gnu.org/software/bison/) is another example, where the output is a parser: Bison reads a specification of a context-free language, warns about any parsing ambiguities, and generates a parser (either in C, C++, or Java) which reads sequences of tokens and decides whether the sequence conforms to the syntax specified by the grammar

Halide (https://halide-lang.org/) is a language for fast, portable computation on images and tensors, and it originally generated human-readable C++ code as output (but not anymore, now it feeds directly into LLVM)

Can anyone provide other examples? (Code generators for network packet processing?)
That would be very difficult to accomplish within existing WTO rules.
> Germans are better then this

If they're voting for the Nazis again, maybe they're not better than this.
But also due to covid, many people have relocated to temporary accommodation out of the cities - booking through Airbnb. I heard somewhere they saw record bookings in one of the past few months.
Lmao, I remember pulling sdo over thnaksgiving. Best. Shift. Ever.
Yeah you’re probably right.

Facebook’s other big disadvantage is that their platform (oculus) is separate from mobile and Apple’s platform (iOS) isn’t.

This makes it a lot easier for a Apple to leverage existing devices in laying platform groundwork (which they have now been doing for years).

It also makes it easier for them to leverage the phone computing for the glasses hardware similarly to how they did that for the watch.

FB doesn’t have this option really and I’m not sure how they’d do it without it. Try and put all the hardware in the headset itself? Seems less likely to be able to ship first or be as nice as what Apple will be able to do.
> in rust as long as you don't use a feature you don't need to know about it.

Is that not the same in C++ and in most languages?

... until someone else in your team uses it in your code base. And then you need to know about it in Rust as well.
The core issue here isn't exactly GC, though it is related. The issue is that abstraction is about hiding things, and Rust's type machinery is about exposing things. In Haskell, you have lambdas, and you have types of all of the same size data, because it's all on the heap. In Rust, each closure is a distinct type, plus the three different types of closures, plus types of different sizes...

It's not so much the GC, as it is "in a GC'd language, everything is on the heap and a lot of information (from Rust's perspective) is erased." You may be able to get rid of GC in some sense, but you'd end up with something halfway to Rust, not the whole way.
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I tend to agree with you. Imagine if a restaurant complained that they are losing money because people are making their own food at home. I think it would be clear that said restaurant isn't providing enough value to compete at that point.

What would be more likely - that everyone cooking at home is a michelin star chef, or that the restaurant(s) losing money weren't very good to begin with?

Enough with the food analogy - respected and valuable journalists and news agencies are still thriving. Facebook is not eating AP or Reuters lunch, nor the Financial Times or other specialized organizations.
British person here: I get where you're coming from, sorta, but it's a pretty bad take...

Uber has had their license revoked and returned repeatedly in London for the last few years because they have such a terrible reputation for consumer safety - instances of girls being assaulted by drivers, and insufficient protection by Uber after that.

Sure, not murder, but still pretty bad.
"it won't matter much" is your sentiment.

Presumably a parent of adult kids would retort that it's not just about the N hours of face to face, but also being proud of each milestone they hit (graduation, job, kids, etc), talking about the kids with their partner, and thinking about them.
My dad loves Sandboxie, even bought a copy.

As for me, I think that VM suggestion is a good idea. In theory I stay on the tech utopia cyberneighborhoods like Matrix forums, Fxtec forums, etc. but I figure banner ads can be found in the most unlikely places.
What algorithmic bias is there? It’s literally just a grid that maps your pointer location to a picture, no AI involved. Sounds like you’re calling the author a racist.
i wish facebook killed newspapers. then we wouldn’t have to deal with blue check marks
That's a justification for your vindictiveness (which I did not ask nor expect you to justify.) I am suggesting that you recognize your vindictiveness for what it is, not that you deny yourself feelings of vindictiveness.
Most of the time when I travel, it's the city etc. that's the experience I'm looking for, not the accommodation. I have no doubt there are, even many, AirBnBs out there that are quite nice. But I'll usually go for predictability, as well as other amenities, like being able to leave my luggage for the day after I check out.
The reality: I've never met a really wealthy COBOL programmer -- or rather, one who was wealthy because he/she knew COBOL.

The pay is at the intersection of "knows COBOL" and "knows the problem domain inside out". The problem domains are not something most people would ever have been exposed to without getting in in the first place as COBOL programmers.
TV tax it's just for the UK.
Still very common. My parents are AirBnB "super hosts" and they live in the basement due to regulatory requirements that are common in pricey American cities.
Ken Moelis Gives His Bankers Blessing to Move Wherever They Want
You know that it's only lightning on the headset side, right? That it's USB-C on the other side, though you're free to include any adapter cable you'd like.
> "Sure, but did the market reject it because it was a more open platform, or because of other considerations?"

My point was that openness didn't outweigh other considerations in the eyes of people purchasing them.

Windows Mobile smartphones were actually dominant in the market until the iPhone was introduced. IIRC from the industry data I had access to, there were over 100 different models in a variety of form factors from a couple dozen OEMs concurrently being sold at its peak. So it was at least ahead of all the alternatives before that point, which weakens the argument that it was "other considerations" that were the main culprit.
Not parent but I think there is no efficient remedy. The shift in Swedish demographics are so significant that we are basically in a new era.
2020 Was a Time Warp
The "under banked"?

You'd be amazed how many guys wives call in to these charges... Claiming "He would never!"
So what about Beats? Is that all just chopped liver?

As soon as Apple realizes they can incorporate batteries into the design, and sell different colored batteries so people can have their own custom "look", they'll suddenly be replaceable and marked up 70%.

I can't wait for the $250 AirPod Max hard travel cases to start showing up (with built in charging). But what about expensive charging stands so you don't have to put them in the purse/pouch to turn them off?

On the other hand, at least Apple has figured out how to turn commodity computing into an aspirational luxury good instead of an inevitable race to the bottom and low margins. Their recent moves are all intended to give them more control of their experience and extend that strategy out for as long as possible.
Most just swallowed the official line.

I know we're largely talking about hypothetical people, but if people were just going with the flow, I'm not sure that explains the inability to swallow the new official line.
> designer psilocybin analogues

Is that what 'dried mushrooms' means in Canada?
Might be a regional thing. I suppose in Europe, the nudity could denote innocence, but in the US, my immediate takeaway of a nude prepubescent child on the cover of an album called "Virgin Killer" would suggest that she was a victim of sexual violence before being murdered (particularly since the broken glass is right over the genitalia). So I'd probably argue it's simply in poor taste.
Indeed the less the state has to do with religion; the more religious freedom everyone has.
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A fantastic submission, very much appreciated.

I find the presentation style of subtitles with surrounding context extremely helpful. I often lose the ability to listen when concentrating; the subtitle context provides a superior recovery mechanism to the usual, try to work out what was missed. I look forward to purchasing augmented reality glasses at some point in the future which add this advantage to in-person interactions.
I encourage developers not to discuss issues with Apple via these kind of back door channels. It only encourages them to keep things locked down and inaccessible for everyone.

If Apple wants feedback from its developers, it should try actually listening to all of them, not just the ones that make enough noise on social media.

(I'm assuming the parent comment is from someone at Apple. If not, my point still stands in general.)
> Take C (or some other language) and its mature optimizing compilers as a foundation, and write a program that compiles a high-level description of a program into C.

Don't you still need many of the techniques taught in this class to build something like that? The material doesn't look inherently targeted at low-level languages or machine-code as a target.
You can self-sign binaries to run on your own machine with the entitlement. You only need the entitlement from Apple if you want to distribute applications with the entitlement to other people.
I find I get a much more real sense of the city living in one of its (non-hotel zoned) neighborhoods in a real house.
It did say that they couldn't find hard evidence of collusion, yes.

But "baseless conspiracy theory" is practically a term of art. There was sufficient evidence of election irregularities in key battleground states to at least warrant a proper investigation. The same media companies which reported Trump-Russia collusion as hard, settled facts, however, rushed to call any suggestion of fraud a "baseless conspiracy theory" and reassured us that the 2020 elections were absolutely airtight, which -- I don't know what you have to be smoking to believe that last bit.
> you can run thunderbird on linux, copy your rules over.

Now there's a good idea. Going to research how to install Thunderbirdon Linux now. I've been a windows baby duck since I first used a computer in 2000 w/ Windows 2000 and so not having familiar creature comforts like thunderbird_setup.exe or even a "Program Files" folder is taking some getting used to.
> Seems Apple have time this perfectly for their transition

Important to note that this doesn't really apply to Apple Silicon. Rosetta II isn't X86 emulation, it's a translation layer - big technical difference.
I've had a different experience. Some of my work in the bank has been Brexit/EU related, but from experience, it's nothing like the effort we put in for the Euro conversion or Y2K.

I'm more confident that any 'damage' done to London will be a consequence of remote working practices from COVID, and not current politics between Europe and the UK.
Do you have a structured course for Domain-specific compilers available online?
When it comes to wireless audio, there's always something better in five years. For the same reason these headphones are probably better than whatever you're using right now.

Though, in five years, a $60-80 battery replacement doesn't sound like a problem to me. This thread seems like roleplaying that it's a major life event.
I don't know about the restriction on emissions during car productions, but I think the OC was refering to carbon emissions limits on the cars sold in the EU.

Basically, (again, as I understand it) there is limit on average emission / distance run by your fleet ; so you can still some SUVs if you sell enough hybrids and EV.

It seems to be having an effect, at least as measure by the advertisements.

2020 seems to be, as predicted, the year when carmarkers in France realized they had to push their salespeople to actually sell those Zoe-s, otherwise they would get fined.

Maybe the "powerless UE" is having some power here - though we'll have to look at the actual sales number at the end of the year.

(And they'll probably come crying that the year was very bad because COVID. And fire more people to go build all the SUVs in Turkey. I don't know.)
Just to pick one reputable source in English

https://www.economist.com/europe/2020/11/28/why-sweden-strug...
Right. I forgot about the halt state. But yeah, 6561 (=3^8) still looks mighty hinky.
I assume most investors are smarter than that and are hoping AirBnB will build a monopoly similar to how google did with search and Wikipedia did with online encyclopedias.

A 5% monopoly tax on most rentals/hotels does give you a huge profit eventually.
We do know they're serviceable given that Apple has already published a battery service for it. For that matter, Apple has a battery service program for normal AirPods as well. It isn't a service that economically doesn't make much sense for the cheaper airpods, but it's entirely reasonable for the Max monsters.
It could also be argued that adding a generic game to the pile of a million games, built with the same tools that everyone else uses, and that doesn't challenge one in building it and doesn't add anything new to the industry is also a trap.
This is really cool. It looks like it’s free to post jobs; do you plan to monetize it?
> and a greater purpose?

This part is presumptuous. "Greater" for whom?

> If so... what is the meaning of it all?

And what is the meaning of it all in the alternative? It's up to you. Maybe you don't need one. Maybe this question is meaningless.
Hehe, true! Cubicles are much better from a privacy perspective, but the startup kids tore them down on the dubious pretext of hindering collaboration. It was only a matter of time before BigCos followed suit, if only for the obvious cost saving reasons.
Author of one of the tools you tried here. Would love to know what issues you had with it since this basically sounds like how I've been using my tool as well (just run through a cron job). Is it just the fact you need to install using cargo? Or, did you encounter some bugs?
The person you're responding to asked about assault rifles, and you responded with a link about assault weapons. They're very different things, and this has led to a lot of confusion.

Generally, when people talk about "assault weapons" they're actually thinking of automatic, military-style weapons with large magazines. Those are "assault rifles", which have been legislated at the federal level for a long time. The laws are indeed complicated, but in general these weapons are hard to get legally.

Here's an decent explainer: https://www.ajc.com/news/national/assault-weapon-assault-rif...
> To say they are "taking advantage of the commons" implies they're leaving the commons worse off

I don't agree. All it means is that they're benefiting privately from something that belongs to everyone. This is particularly glaring in this case because Nestle has a history of unethical behavior - for example, there is a plausible argument that one of the reasons why the Flint lead problem hasn't been fixed is because of profits on bottled water. Taxation is not a perfect solution because the government doesn't always use the funds ethically, particularly when it is in bed with corporations. But it's better than nothing.

> The amount of water they're pumping really isn't that significant compared to agricultural or industrial users.

Then why not have them pay a use fee that is proportionally small compared to agricultural and industrial users? If we don't charge them at all then logically why can't they just go ahead and privatize the entire water supply for the cost of $200? Natural resources shouldn't be made arbitrarily available for private profit.
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What would be some cool use cases to design your own compiler?
This is basically how I rent and I've also had great experiences.

I have rented a "non-Whole place" and I would say that was a pretty bad experience. Our room was supposed to be the only Airbnb, but two nights in, they rented out a room with a frosted glass separator next to us as "420 friendly" and the couple that moved in proceeded to have quite loud sex. We gave them pretty scathing reviews, which I am not wont to do.
I'm surprised he didn't mention anything about bluetooth pairing and general ease of use.
I have a Sony MDR-100 which is a great middle of the road (price/quality) wireless headset. The biggest gripe I have with it is pairing/connecting to my web of devices and music quality. This is one area that Apple routinely gets right. Bluetooth just works better on Apple devices.
I can connect the headset to my windows laptop, play some music, and it will come through muddled. I then switch over to my Macbook Pro and the same music will come through noticeably better. I'm not sure if the Apple Bluetooth drivers are just that much better or if the built in Windows ones are that much worse?
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I listen to audiobooks, it helps to filter boring books. And after listening to the audiobook If I feel that I missed a lot I can read a regular book.

There is a great book "how to read a book" by Mortimer J. Adler.
It teaches to filter books and understand if it worth reading
>$200 Pinebook Pro?

I think he also means it would be usable. That has neither the battery life, nor the speed, as in TFA.
I wrote an AWS Lambda for this. It’s been running for nearly two years now and I’ve never broken through the free tier.
How are you so certain it's only in the UK?

It's definitely a thing here in Germany and Austria, and a relatively expensive one at that for just possessing a TV, and I'll bet my hat it's a thing in most EU countries.
Many states offer emergency licensing to individuals with professional expertise. No coursework, etc. necessary.
You can get a free account on one, for example in Master the Mainframe.

Sure, it's not half as cool as having the machine like that guy, but you don't need to reinforce the floor in your house, so there's that.
Parental time restrictions and the cost of children: insights from a survey [pdf]