skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am all for more attempts to benchmark programming tasks. I really appreciate this article for that, and I hope we see more content like this.

However, I would note a couple of things:

- As the author acknowledges, the Ryzen CPU is last gen. The current generation of Ryzen CPUs are about 20% faster gen-over-gen.

- The memory configuration used with that Ryzen CPU is not optimal. I believe DDR4-3600 is recommended, and does have a measurable impact on performance.

That said, the M1 is still quite impressive. However the Ryzen 5 5600X (or the upcoming Ryzen 7 5800U for laptops) is a solid choice for a developer workstation.

EDIT: I would also add, the limitation of 16GB RAM max is a deal breaker for me (as MacOS, but that's a different story).
ReScript 8.4
WhatsApp hasn't been merged into FB as far as I can tell? Am I missing the point some technical point, sorry if so.
I don't really understand the point you are trying to make.

The point I was trying to make was, if there are 21 million of them, and it really becomes mainstream, having even just one of them will probably be very valuable, more so than now.
I did Amsterdam to London by bus overnight once. From memory via Rotterdam, Antwerp and Lille. It was appalling but really something to be experienced. The next day was a write off but I suppose we didn't help ourselves with pints on the ferry and arriving just in time to wait outside Wetherspoons for it to open.

I can't wait for Europe to reopen and travel in a more civilised manner!
> It will kill virility

I really wonder if it will do that. Probably not.
I was thrown off by the color scheme as well. Opposing sides are red/orange, green/blue and yellow/white. Ultimately the colors are meaningless, but it feels off, similar to how opposing sides of dice always add to the same number.
But good luck getting money out of a student without actually getting a judgement. They'd basically be limited to reporting it to credit agencies and just asking them to pay.

A arbitration agreement isn't enough to get a bank or an employer to hand over any money from the student.
Reeder on Mac and iOS is good, been using it for years. You used to need a third party service like Feedly to sync across devices but the latest version has iCloud syncing which is pretty handy.
My company is currently trialing this with the Open API Spec. The workflow at a high level:

1) Make code changes to a specific microservice.
(note: The Open API Spec also lives in code.)

2) CI/CD pipelines get triggered.

3) New microservice is built.

4) Call every REST endpoint defined in the microservice's Open API Spec and validate it using the example requests/responses.

5) If successful, regenerate the API documentation from the Open API Spec.

This ensures that our documentation and services will stay inline with each other.
Amount of money raised by Plantagon is reported to be: 120 million SEK, or $14M. Most of this likely tax money in some form.

Denmark: Please watch out.
"Mueller report concluded no collusion". "Mueller can't be trusted."

You said both of these things. Please explain how they can both be true.
Could not agree, only trick is : Get yourself some earplugs.
I seem to remember the only software that would copy any disk you pointed it at, was in fact the source code listed in the official Acorn DFS manual. With the drawback that it copied one sector at a time, so without a double drive, that was a lot of swapping for a 40 track disk, let alone an 80 track one.
Sure, if the DB is down. Or if somebody else deleted the data that your test relied on. It'll happen often enough that you'll stop paying attention to failing "unit" tests.
Instead of editing...

Differentiating life span and health span is worthwhile here. It might not be great to live to 100. But if your quality years (health span) are increased it will be. That is the primary promise of genomics, secondary is life span.
> 4) The lack of collective immunity to viral forms of political disinformation on new media platforms, the speed with which such disinformation spreads

humans are predilected towards that... this type of "media" preys on our insticts like sugar and oil (junk food)

if we really want to take this head-on, we would should be motivated to improve education to help students (who then become adults) to learn logic, reason and argumentation to better deal with this stuff
I think you are speaking of der8auer and this video in particular: https://youtu.be/1kQUXpZpLXI?t=716
...Massive kudos for actually checking them out and comparing. You point out that you are outside the US and that's also potentially a big factor. All these companies are American and so their focus starts from there and moves out. It's totally believable to me they're not as good elsewhere!

HERE is based in Chicago, so it's possible I have a drastically better experience with this than average. I probably get their best as a local resident. As for who they are: They got bought up by a big auto conglomerate, you'll find their software on a lot of car nav systems. (EDIT: It's actually based in the Netherlands, but there's a pretty big Chicago team. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Here_Technologies and https://www.builtinchicago.org/company/here-technologies)

I'd be pretty surprised if Bing Maps doesn't support Android, given that's Microsoft's recommended mobile platform. I haven't used an Android in years though.

I use Apple when I use Maps these days, but that's because it's already on my phone and it's been good enough every rare occasion I've needed it.
I once worked with a financial product that used CORBA for distributed processing. One chapter of the dev guide had examples of use that were... Let's say not possible with CORBA... I opened a ticket with the vendor, because of course we were paying a large purchase percentage maint fee. I was not part of vendor selection. The official response from the vendor was "please remove that chapter from the dev guide.". Beautiful!

Before you hate on CORBA I submit that my masters thesis was based on CORBA for distributed processing and that, "horror of horrors" it had solutions for many of today's issues.. albeit implemented with tooling that was lacking. Anyone for a game of what vendors RPC implementation this is based on packet dumps?
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Yes, I have never been much into the whole streaming thing, but for some reason, for now at least, RPAN seems to be hitting just the right amateurish tone to keep me engaged.

Though I dread the day when the people who made the new front page UI turn their attention to RPAN...
>it just means "our own variety of X".

I don't buy it. Can you find any instances where it's used like that? According to that definition, you could also say "SpiderMonkey is Mozilla's proprietary javascript engine", which is obviously absurd.

Furthermore, the definitions listed on wiktionary and merriam-webster both seem to incorporate some sort of exclusivity. Just because it's your own variation doesn't make it proprietary.
"Move fast and break things" has a human cost, always, and at times the human cost can be tremendous. Ignoring that human cost is always a little sinister.
I get that you are using algorithm as a short-hand here; but can you elaborate and describe what type of algorithms you suggest be opt-outable?

Algorithm is a super general term, but everyone uses it to describe something super-specific. I feel like everyone sorta has their own personal definition. I am in favor, at least in principal, of legislation that would curb some of the more abusive uses of datascience; but the idea of trying to legislate "algorithms" seems... fraught.
Oh Teams on the Mac is a tyre-fire too, don’t worry.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiqDZlAZygU
Since you know the phrase "horseshoe theory" I'm a bit surprised you don't know that no one actually on the "far left" in USA proposes censorship. Instead it is a particular flavor of centrist identitarians who couldn't care less about freedom or class consciousness. They're just striving for a bit of attention like everyone else. If you accused them of leftism they would probably take offense.

I'm not saying the far left don't have it in them, because obviously they did USSR etc. But that was in that context, in which by some miracle they controlled the murderous tools of a nation-state. In USA they know very well that they're in line for censorship (or whatever, really) immediately behind the pornographers. No one who appears on cable news is part of the "far left", no matter how loudly they shriek.
It's a bit easier to chill and wait now that we've seen the same boom and bust cycle repeat a handful of times.
> Also causes people to procrastinate instead of engaging in intellectual activities, especially school or work, so the cost to society might be enormous.

I doubt it. Before social media, people were playing solitaire on their computers. Before that, they were standing around the water cooler gossiping. Slacking off and procrastinating are nothing new.
That's at least a principled stance, which I can appreciate.

I still disagree, though. It seems like the only logical way to get out of your thought process would be to create software and then never update or change anything. Either that or have every user sign a waiver saying that the product could change in the future and that might impact them psychologically.

After all, why is it different when you're making a change without A/B testing it? Surely every change has some hypothesis attached to it. Does it only matter to you when developers observe the metrics changing?
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Not everyone who questions something is a paid shill.
That (bad UI/UX, though I would not call all parts of it bad or horrible) has been the case for quite a while, IMO. And yes, it includes UX.
so these convoluted hiring hazing quizzes realy don't help " I'm shocked, shocked "
That's pretty typical in C# land (another is service->repo->data access with DI/interfaces for each). Very likely the dev had that pattern down as a reflex. There was no consideration on their part because they already knew a solution that worked. They could move on to the other problems or requirements.

As another poster elsewhere said, the annoying thing is only the single implementation for the interfaces, and no real code that makes use of the abstraction. It only really alleviates other devs from asking "where are the interfaces for these classes?"
They stopped service on many routes in the last 10 to 15 years, this news is about rolling back that policy. 9 hours is kind of the ideal length for a night train journey, e.g. board at 11 pm, arrive at 8 am.
Before the EU you had the border inspection on departure/before going to sleep/
They also didn't rule out non-lawful access ;)
Is that different to you than, for example, releasing a change to a product to everyone and observing the change in metrics?
While I'm not sure I find the fractal metaphor clarifying (fractals are absolute _last_ kinds of structures I want to see anywhere near my infrastructure definitions), I do sympathize with the "false advertising" of infrastructure-as-code when it's merely checked in. As the age old saying goes, programming in XML (or JSON, or ...) is hell when you really want to reach for a proper programming language.

This is part of the issue with CloudFormation. I've seen monstrosities like an entire lambda function source code definition written into a plaintext key in a YAML file, and worse yet, seen this described as normal. Yes. Normal in hell is what it is.

So with all of this said, I think developments like the AWS CDK are very cool. CDK takes the approach of a high level SDK over programming in YAML or anything like it. I like it a lot. It's higher level than something like `boto` which is just raw function calls, but not so high level that you're trying to write deployment logic in YAML. You get a nice in between which is written to behave in whatever language you use it in. I believe this approach was spearheaded by AWS internally after seeing how CFN become something widely considered a failure.
I wonder what the opposite of that is. Is there text that’s so well written that it’s like looking at silk flowin through the air?
My favorite one is the spiral tracks on the Apple II, which were possible because all phases of the stepper motor were directly accessible on the controller, so you could move the stepper motor in quarter tracks.

Impossible to copy unless you reproduce the head movements at the right time.
What? Any statement inside a while loop could mutate the loop variable and then all bets are off.

You have to check every line of a while loop to know what’s going on. Heck, another thread could hold a pointer aliasing the loop variable and then mutate it, causing the loop to terminate for no obvious reason.
> The reverse of nose-blindness.

I had the pleasure to experience this in Paris during the first lockdown which
was pretty strict.
With the lack of cars on the streets the pale brown smog went away and for the
first time in probably a century another smell became perceptible: sulfur.

Always nice to know that behind the fumes there's another thing ruining your
lungs, this one was attributed to agricultural pollution.
That's exactly how public student loans work in the US too (public loans account for 90%+ of student loan disbursements).

For some reason this isn't widely known on HN.
tokio support just landed https://github.com/mattsse/chromiumoxide
oh wow that's disgusting, why would someone design something like this.
Perhaps for you. I joined in 2013, and wouldn't know half of what I do if it weren't for conversations on r/webdev and r/web_design. Such topics would have been shut down on StackOverflow because it broke some cardinal rule that nobody except people that spend all day on SO would know about.

That's just for work related things. In terms of having conversations about relationships, or sports, or new phones and tablets, I wouldn't even think of having these anywhere but Reddit.

Granted, I don't spend time on r/pics, or r/teenagers or whatever is on the front page. But I don't click the "Trending" tab on Youtube either.
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I think there are a lot of assumptions in here about _why_ certain products and services were created. It is much harder for us to figure this out, looking from the outside.

For Apple Fitness+, it might sell more watches, but the reason it requires a watch is because the product includes sensors that read useful data during the fitness experience that other devices simply don't have.

Given Tim Cook has stated publicly that what Apple wants to be most known for when looking back on the company is improvements to people's health, I don't think Fitness+ was spun up to sell watches. It was created out of a genuine priority for the company to have a certain impact on the world.

I also don't believe the purpose of Apple TV+ and Arcade was to create Apple One. It seems like they genuinely are trying to come up with a unique service for these two areas. Apple One is just a bundling. They are also responses to growing problems. Apple Arcade is an answer to the growing problem of in app purchases and advertising. They want to create a pure, fun gaming experience that you can put in front of your kids and not worry about it. I think Apple TV+ is more about business deals required to build the Apple TV app itself. You aren't going to have a seat at the table if you aren't serious about buying and delivering content.
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They aren't forced to do anything, if a small enough minority of users goto old.reddit.com they will willingly deprecate it due to the cost reduction. Sometimes a small hit is beneficial even if it harms your customers because of the reduced operational cost. Simplifiers allow you to do a lot of things faster.
The emissions of trains are always many times less.

For a quantitative comparison:

https://www.seat61.com/CO2flights.htm

For example:

London to Nice

Plane: 4 hours, 250 Kg CO2

Train: 8 hours by Eurostar+TGV, 36 Kg CO2

85% less

Traveling short to medium distances by plane is simply indefensible if you care about climate change. For an average European, it can easily make up one third of their total yearly carbon emissions, more than 1500kg, or even more.

(BTW this site, seat61.com, is a great and very useful web site, if one likes train travel or wants to travel by train in Europe, one should seriously have a look!)
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Hey everybody,

I’m planning on writing a longer blog post about my 5 years work experience at a company that used employee monitoring features, but I’m not sure if it would be of any interest.

Would you think it’s worth it?
Fish can smell anywhere from basically nothing (freshly killed fish), to absolutely putrid (surströmming). I don't think there's anything intrinsic in the human condition that we should be used to the smell of rotting fish.
This remembered me when I had a ZX Spectrum +3 as child. At some point, a belt broken and my father replaced with a different belt. So, it can't read anymore my old floppies. I can only use the floppies if I formatted again.
Why is life in the richest nation the world has ever seen so fucking miserable that people have to drink themselves to death to cope with it?

The only way... the only way... to solve a problem is by eliminating the root cause.
thank you, what your view for ARK as first investment ?
> Or if somebody else deleted the data that your test relied on

If you're relying on a shared database you're already not really testing effectively. I don't really think this is a scenario to worry about (meaning, if you're in this scenario, you have bigger things to worry about).

> if the DB is down.

An interesting suggestion.
The notion of being passionate without being derisive just isn't an option, I guess?
As someone who moved to Fastmail from Gmail (after a scare with Gmail access), you won't regret your choice. I strongly recommend using a custom domain and always running IMAP backups.
> If you heat with electric (including heat pumps!), keeping the house a consistent temperature makes you use an even amount of heat all day, and so your house can be better supplied by renewable energy. If many people turn the heat up when (or just before) they get home at 5pm - the renewable power available isn't enough and the power company will have to turn on fossil fuel plants to make up the difference.

It also depends on what kind of renewable. A lot of people set their thermostat lower at night, which aligns well with solar power, which is only available during the day. But turning it down during the day and turning it up in the evening doesn't align as well (especially in the winter when the sun goes down early).
Very cool! The weight rankings over time and performance views you have are awesome. I actually just started git-scraping [1] Ark's EOD holdings a few weeks ago [2] (although I'm not scraping trades out of emails since I couldn't find a trivial way to integrate them into my scraper)

I wanted to be able to justify to a friend that despite 10% of their entire portfolio oftentimes being TSLA they ARE selling shares as it goes up so it's not their ONLY holding :D

[1] Git Scraping Article that inspired me https://simonwillison.net/2020/Oct/9/git-scraping/

[2] My ark holdings scraper (and the data) https://github.com/tigger0jk/ark-invest-scraper
Payments.

Seriously. Banking by smartphone between other people with smartphones.

+= gigs
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+= search (matching gigs to available workers)
There are a few city pairs that are linked by Amtrak overnight, for example Pittsburgh->Chicago, Buffalo->Chicago, Omaha->Denver, Flagstaff->LA, Salt Lake City -> Reno.
I agree with a sibling comment written by vkou, but I also want to add that Trump's social media strategy is to make people believe that they are smarter than him. He leverages this strategy to get consistently free advertising on pretty much all of the news agencies of the US. News agencies leverage him as a cash cow, because people love to read about stupid things done/said by public people, hence more ad revenue.
And yet that's almost certainly what people were describing by mocking the notion of psychological safety in the workplace.
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Of course it's a matter of personal preference, but I love the clack-clack noise. I think trains are second only to coastal ferries for a comfortable night sleep.
ok, that makes sense, but I think that describes such a general idea. I am incapable of imagining a single thing everyone on the entire planet is capable of agreeing on; so inherently, any action anyone could possibly ever take would be subject to mutually exclusive opinions.
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#2 is speculation. Seems possible that there's an unrelated bug causing checksum errors. In any event, it's not a good look right now.
They've said that 33k customers were potentially exposed but only 18k actually downloaded that update.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/sec-filings-solarwinds-says-18...
Picture Manhattan over several centuries. Odoriferous streets strewn with garbage, and excrement, and carcasses. Feeding masses of free-roaming pigs. Winters were colder then, so waste accumulated over the winter, frozen solid. Now imagine the weeks, after the spring thaw, until the pigs caught up with their sanitation backlog. Even for people of the time, it was thought remarkable.
Obviously I do, and I note several replies here that strongly suggest that's how other people took it as well.
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I have zero skin in the game either way, but this is such a sad and dismissive response. At the surface polite and accepting critique, but underneath that putting all the blame on the student that paid a ridiculous 30k for this. Generalised 'most did like/benefit from this' to discredit the specific critique while not engaging with the issue of why the issues weren't fixed. Supposedly a 1:10 teacher:student ratio but no one fixed the problems mentioned by op or in the Reddit thread. Do they all only work 1h a month?

This post tells me all I ever needed to know about lambda. Clearly an irresponsible organisation more focused on image than value and with no respect for their supposed students.
Public student loans (90%+ of loan disbursements) work like this as well.

The max you will have to pay is 10% of your discretionary income (10% of income above 1.5x the poverty level).
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You'd be surprised honestly
1. Who gets to decide who does or does not have merit? What criteria would you use?
2. "Rein", not "reign," and "virality", not "virility."
Any closure on this? Did FB ever make amends? Surely there are some FB security employees on HN.
IMHO even if fragmentation happens (quite likely as RISC-V gains traction), this will force developers to actually take cross platform compatibility AND performance seriously.