skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was building a similar solution 4 years ago [1] but got stuck with integration to Webpack. I’m very glad someone succeeded to do so.
[1]: https://github.com/iddan/stylesheet
The duration of copyright protection was much shorter when I bound childhood expectations. It was a copyright extension act of congress that monetized all the commercial art in my childhood into my adulthood. My parents did not suffer this legal abuse.
accurate, though connected by lobbyists and beneficiaries
Seems to have been removed. Archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20210102041634/https://ex-apple-...
You kidding, working at raytheon or BAE sounds must more engaging and impactful (puns intented) than running web apps.
I believe spacemanmatt was referring to the popular culture that was a part of their childhood.
In 2004-2007 as a teenager I accidentally created Poland's largest science forum
The "hairdrier" was probably a joke or slang, as in a "heatgun is a big hairdrier". "Фен" doesn't mean "regular fan", it's "hairdrier", despite sounding very similar.
At the root of this I think there is a strong difference in worldview between people who are let's say very optimistic about the potential of technology, and those who are less optimistic.

People get into these discussions of specific predictions with their worldviews motivating the evaluation of the predictions. That's why you have strong disagreements about what ostensibly would be a fairly objective measures. Because people see the world in radically different ways.

There are different variations of views towards technology but at the extremes you have "true believers" and what I would call "haters".
In Rust, shadowing is when you "declare a new variable with the same name as a previous variable" [1] -- even in the same scope. It seems it "fell out" of how the original compiler was implemented, and there was more support to retain it than not. See: https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/history-of-shadowing-in-ru...

[1] The "Rust book" has a good explanation of shadowing, which contains a nearly identical example. See: https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ch03-01-variables-and-mutabil...
I suppose we can now put (2020) in submission titles. :P
Matthew+19:23-30+NKJV+–+With+God+All+Things+Are+Possible+|+Gospel+Of+GOD
One category of comment I find particularly interesting are personal reflections on career experiences. Here are three:

“... As I became more senior and had junior employees working alongside me, I could see how quickly they would get frustrated when they couldn’t perform at my level. ...”

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23861738

“... I spent years at a time not working or even thinking about how to make money. ... I can tell you that for me personally I don't think it was ideal. ...”

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23947858

“... I knew years before finishing [my Ph.D.] that I was just not cut out for a life in academia, and positioned myself in the best way I knew how for a life in industry, but I did not anticipate just how truly painful the experience would be. ...”

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25446582
Scepticism is healthy. That said, aging affects 100% of population and is lethal. The amount of funding & effort should be orders of magnitude larger than for any of diseases you mentioned.

I'm reading through Sinclair's book "Lifespan - Why We Age and Why We Don’t Have To" and I find it fascinating (especially the chapter on origins of life and proto-genes of aging). When Sinclair talks about time-scales, he makes comparison to cancer. During last 50 years medicine went from fighting symptoms to actually addressing source for some cancer types. The quote that stood out: "From looks of it aging is not going to be that hard to treat, far easier than curing cancer". Book's predictions may feel too optimistic to me, but I don't have any qualifications to make such claim against leading researcher in field.
A long time ago I wrote my résumé in PostScript. The text was in an abstract representation, to which an internal typesetting system applied paragraph and page filling and converted it into drawing commands, and could output to plain text for emailing, and HTML, script to mail itself, etc. I thought for sure Adobe would give me a job, but I don't think anyone ever saw it, because who would ever look inside a such a thing? It became thouroughly irrelevant when everything became PDF. I'm not sure I even sent it to Adobe.

So if you do such a thing, realize you might only be doing it for your own enjoyment.
That is misleading, in my opinion. "100% faster" implies that runtime for a given workload is reduced by 100%, taking zero time. I think what you mean to say is either that it's 50% faster or that throughput is increased by 100%.
How’s that comment is political?
Next time you see Jony Ive, tell him that it was his fault that I had to work in a hellhole when Apple told me that our team were "guinea pigs" for the new spaceship building. That was all his work. They took my office away and replaced it with a panopticon prison-style environment where everything was glass, with no curtains for the external windows, a black globe surveillence camera right above/next to me. Every 2 minutes someone would walk by, distracting me. I couldn't see my screens because of the windows behind me with no curtains, so I was being blinded by the sun. They didn't even provide a bookshelf for my programming-related books. AND they never once asked me about my experience in that "office." I found three (sorry, but OBESE/UGLY) individuals constantly walking around and pointing at things - I followed them around and those were Ive's employees examining the horrible workplace they were creating. That was all Ive's fault. Then they forced us to be in the "office" every day instead of working remotely like I had for years. In his words, "And I know how we work and you don't!" RIGHT. Well, I left that job after 15 years while in that crap environnment. That's when I lost all respect for Jony Ive.
A 2kw hair dryer might be good for warming engine blocks and other frozen components.
> "Upvotes aren't your friend"... one way to look at it is your balance of upvotes is your reputation capital, once you have enough, you can afford to spend some posting against the prevailing wisdom when you judge you should, without being silenced.

Compensating for the downvotes, you mean.

Good point. HN downvotes used to be annoying but now I chalk it to the silent revolt of the intellectually incurious. And others.

It’s not specific to HN, but to most groups that seem to consider themselves ‘intellectual’. The downvoting of certain subjects(I have a list. It’s very predictable.) is a subconscious upvote to their ego. That’s why it’s anonymous.

Also: I agree with the initial point re being anonymous, I don’t think that’s possible on HN because the YC applications are tied to user handle. So there is some form of self censoring going on. Because. Image.
Koan: A word2vec negative sampling implementation with correct CBOW update
half-hours is only the compilation time.
I think the more savvy term for it is cloud kitchens.
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Text is also searchable. Can't stress enough how important that is.
I'm guessing the code snippets are skewing the estimate.
PDP-10 was an architecture, and there were many operating systems running on them. You may be thinking of TOPS-20, which indeed used filename.ext, where the extension was limited to 3 characters.

There was also ITS, which was one of the famous operating systems on the PDP-10. On ITS, filenames consisted of two parts, rach being 6 characters separated with a space. So you could have a file named "abc def". The second half was often used in the same way we use extensions today, but executable files were named "ts name", where name was the name of the command.

I'm not sure what format filenames had on TENEX and TOPS-10.
Like Hitler!
You compile C to « js ». Then pdf readers being able to execute js, you can basically execute C.
This is an interesting surprise about good old word vectors. From the README:

> Although continuous bag of word (CBOW) embeddings can be trained more quickly than skipgram (SG) embeddings, it is a common belief that SG embeddings tend to perform better in practice. This was observed by the original authors of Word2Vec [1] and also in subsequent work [2]. However, we found that popular implementations of word2vec with negative sampling such as word2vec and gensim do not implement the CBOW update correctly, thus potentially leading to misconceptions about the performance of CBOW embeddings when trained correctly.

The upshot is that they get similar results with CBOW while training three times faster than skipgram.

Given the popularity of Transformers, and that Fasttext exists, I'm curious as to what inspired them to even try this, but it's certainly an interesting result. There's so much word vector research that relies on quirks of the word2vec implementation.
I vouched for this comment, because a quick Google suggests it’s happened once, at least:

“ShotSpotter system records tragic plane crash”
https://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2010/02/19/shotspotter-s...
Huge discussion, still on the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25605211

This backup link has already been posted in that discussion.
Ask HN: What are you planning to unlearn in 2021?
some habit/skill you thought was a great idea to put time and energy, but hasn't quite given you the outcomes that you wanted. Why do you think it didn't work out?
Everyone started out like that, so don’t get discouraged.

The key is to excercise the estimation muscle.

Keep logs about your estimations and how long it actually took.

Then think through periodically what caused the big differences.

This way in the long run you’ll be able to precisely estimate tasks you’ve sort of already done in the past, and can estimate a reasonable low/high time range to finish tasks which you’ve never done before.
Thanks. Obviously didn’t do my research. Based this on the information from the IDP has use.
Maybe I don't understand the issue correctly, but several services exist in .cz that you call, tell them „I need X from shop Y“ (any shop, incl. food) and they will go there, buy it and deliver it. I don't think this should be forbidden (yes, I get potential quality complains mistakenly directed to the restaurant, but you already have the same problem with any external delivery service or reseller...).

Example of such service (they even have an English website): https://idodo.cz/en/products/dodo-courier/

(of course the impersonating issue is different)
wow, this is the first time it was pointed out to me that I shouldn't be running my new fat tires at 120 PSI anymore. (face palm).
Actually, I just realized I can't relate to this concern. I've never had a situation when someone asked me to work extra. In every job I've ever had I was expected to get things done, and no one ever cared when I do it as long as I do it by a deadline, or by a sprint review, or by a demo day, etc. More often than not it was me who were setting those deadlines for myself, just because I'm ambitious, and I like to impress others, and I like being promoted. Besides, I could never work 9-5. I usually accomplish little in terms of actual work during those hours. Occasionally I get into the zone late at night, without any distractions. That's when I feel most productive, and that's when I do most of the work. Another thing is, I either work on something I love, or I work for a very decent salary. In both cases, I feel fine working extra hours.
Perhaps you've understated Unix as well.
It's called artists impression in building architecture. good enough to give you an impression of what it will become, without the suggestion of 100% correctness. You can see the same technique being used in UX, but it also works for IT architecture drawings.

Powerpoint comes with an option to draw sketched lines, i have large decks drawn in this way. See: https://pptcrafter.wordpress.com/2019/09/24/hand-drawn-style...
> Egor Gaidar [1] is an excellent source

This is published in English as [1] Yegor Gaidar, "Collapse of an Empire: Lessons for Modern Russia".

TLDR is maybe this [2] write-up of a talk, 8 pages, very interesting.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Collapse-Empire-Lessons-Modern-Russia...

[1] https://www.aei.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/20070419_Gaid...
I actually think those are the cases where they do have an agreement with a restaurant owner. Usually it's a made-up restaurant name for marketing, since the concrete implementation is a different restaurant's kitchen or a ghost kitchen.

Like I'll search for "salad" and the address is listed as some pizza place, but it comes in a special bag that matches the online restaurant name.
Up to 40% of the tanks that fought on the Russian side in these battles were supplied by the British. UK provided a huge amount of war material to the USSR that helped keep it in the war.
might have been the one on reversing pixelation?
Can you please comment on the advantages and the effect on your programming?

Do you think these advantages are common among those who have (mech/electrical/chem/etc.) engineering education and training who move into software development?
CHI has a lot of subcategories, each subcategory has a best paper award!
Is there any way to get a hold of the originals for titles like Rhapsody in Blue?
Well, in the long run we’ve learned that maintaining a large and complex UI’s CSS by hand is very tedious and error-prone. A miss configured style that, for example, makes the Airbnb “Book It” unreadable for some % of the population can lose millions of dollars, but never throw a stack trace.

So, engineers working on UI toolkits often reach for CSS code generation to ease maintenance. At first it was all PHP templates. Then it was Sass (206), is a popular purpose-built language for generating CSS which saw a lot of use in the Rails community. Sass is very good at its job because it handles a lot of CSS niceties in nice ways, but it’s a lot of extremely domain specific complexity. A whole new Turing-complete language JUST for CSS? Not ideal.

The next step is to move all the UI definition into a single place, i
using a single language that abstracts the underlying HTML/CSS/JS files & semantics. We do that by writing JS, and having a compiler program extract the CSS bits. This gets us ideal performance & ideal maintainability at the cost of build complexity. This is a worth while trade, because in the long run the compiler will get so good that the cost becomes minimal; compare to other ecosystems, for example the Kotlin compiler is quite complex, but I never think about x86 assembly when writing Kotlin.
TSMC purchases their lithography machines from ASML.

https://semiengineering.com/euv-challenges-and-unknowns-at-3...
Meh. My opinion is that they (China) should abandon this approach.

This was planned back in the early 2010s, before the rise of Trump and MAGA.

The reality and situation on the ground has changed. Now, the powers that be of America, is pursuing persecution and containment of all Chinese advancements in technology.

China should abandon Intel x86 and all software from Microsoft. In fact, they should ban it and make it illegal to use.

They should instead focus on Huawei’s new Harmony OS and a new RISC-V processor instruction set architecture.

They must also abandon ARM, since that’s under western control, and nVidia is trying to acquire it, which means it’ll also be under American control.

America played its card. They are willing to use sanctions for everything. The only way for China to counter, is to not play America’s game. And instead, to make their own game.

The benefit to this is multipronged. It allows domestic manufacturers to build expertise in software and hardware systems for operating systems, databases, application software, and hardware components.

But first, they must crack the photolithography barrier, and build a domestic competitor to ASML.

For Americans, you don’t have to worry about using Chinese technology, since you’re not the target market for this. You can’t anyways, since Huawei has been banned in America. So you don’t have to worry about China mysteriously spying on your Facebook posts (as if you’re really that important to them anyways).
sounds more like an intentional backdoor
>> maintain some level of underdog cachet

> ???????

They were clear underdogs in the 90s, and it's maybe only in the last decade or so that they've been in dominant mega-corp territory. I'm sure a lot of people still carry associations from that older time that haven't been completely extinguished.
He is a great teacher. One of the most digestible functional programming sites.
No rational person should want to live forever knowing the progressive deterioration of biological bodies.
Why not? Most of what we take in, goes through there. Another point would be the bladder, and associated drainage systems. Liver and kidney slightly less so.
why not do something like civil forfeiture? liquidate it n keep the money
> survival of the fittest

I often hear that about capitalism, but then the caricatural opposite is the survival of the unfit. It is quite visible when swathes of our economy that are not put on any kind of competitiveness (the DMV) end up dropping standards beyond bottom.

We need a balance in between, and we are living in this balance: We are not on either extreme side of this spectrum, the reality is more mild than all-or-nothing, and the non-fittest can still work for a less performing company and be happy with their life. It is just the temptation of big corporations with big incentives that makes some engineers too eager to work for a bad company.
Do not underestimate the power of the word 'cheap', especially in the enterprise where some division buys the hardware for the other divisions and is only reviewed on cost.
The one big progression is that application development is becoming more democtritized. And maybe this time the "nocode" / "lowcode" meta apps will stick...
It was also famously rudderless and on the verge of death. Not sure this is a great point to make lol
> Thus, The Satanic Temple claims that the obstacle course of abortion restrictions that states impose on the procedure should not apply to its members because doing so violates their sincerely-held religious beliefs.

This sounds just as logical as the Mayan Temple claiming that restrictions on child sacrifices "violates their sincerely-held religious beliefs".
Well for one, natural sweeteners interfere with the bodies insulin response. I.e. it will overproduce in anticipation, but then your blood sugar drops into oblivion, because well, you didn't actually eat sugar. Is this bad? Probably not if you don't overuse them.

Besides that? I can tell you my body is very sensitive and artificial sweeteners (I literally tried all different kinds) make hell break lose in it, much worse than sugar could ever be. So perhaps they aren't such a great replacement after all? This usually applies to everything humans try to lazily swap out in foods. Oh so I am vegan? Keep these meat replicas coming, only they are like 100 times worse for your health than the real thing...
Well they should hurry up then!
You’d be looking for public domain scans, of which there seem to be several from 1924 at https://imslp.org/wiki/Rhapsody_in_Blue_(Gershwin%2C_George)
> I don't believe it's hard to pick up a heart attack using a wearable. But I don't think many heart attacks are picked up with wearables.

> Record everything, if something is different see a doctor should both meet this requirement and be highly beneficial.

Cue massive amounts of false alarms.
If ASML is the only company that can do what they do and anyone else would need decades to catch up, how are they not the most profitable company in the world?

All of the world's most profitable companies depend dearly on chips. If they are literally the only company that can provide this critical part of the chip production, why aren't they taking a larger portion of the profit?
Persistence, Perseverance
Fun, thanks! BTW, the word "represents" is misspelled in the WHO section.
Sounds like a spreadsheet.
What was wrong again with runtime CSS? By the smell of it seems to be performance, so: can somebody point to performance comparisons, or give a brief of the advantages?
> A lot of them are arbitrary nonsense and not based on any actual academic study at all.

Yet most of the measures are intuitively a step in the right direction when thinking about an airborne pandemic.

What I think is even more unacademic, irrational and wishful thinking than the measures against the pandemic are the exceptions made in those measures. E.g. how schools are handled in most western nations ("There are no infections in schools, the scientific papers which say otherwise have to vanish in some drawer").

A lot of pandemic response is about reducing contact. What surprised me about the people in my vicinity at the start of the pandemic was how many (otherwise intelligent) people where like: "If a measure isn't 100% scientifically sound or 100% effective than it ahouldn't be rolled out". When I asked these people what they would do instead they didn't have an answer. They all didn't understand that the measures where about reducing contacts (as opposed to 100% preventing) and tried to do so while leaving some individual freedoms. That the resulting rulesets will have a ton of counterintuitive edge cases is pretty unsurprising: teatchers that are expected to work with each other in school aren't allowed to meet outside of school etc.

I think rules are one thing, but the local mentality has a much stronger influence. If you e.g. observe how each of the nations in Europe is doing even when the rules are comparable, any person who knows the local mentalities isn't surprised by which nations fare well and which don't. Just like that it didn't surprise me that asian nations like Taiwan or South Korea dealt well with the virus while a Trump lead US didn't (and let's face it, even a US lead by pandemic experts wouldn't have fared well, due to local mentality).

Egoistic individualism is deadly in a pandemic. Doing as if everybody exists in isolation of each other (and therefore has to deal with problems themselves) is deadly in a pandemic. Not realizing we are part of society is deadly in a pandemic.
I don't think it was KDE 3 -> 4 transition that killed khtml.

I was only around in the last year or two but KHTML [0] was mostly developed by a single volunteer on his spare time (Hi SadEagle in case you're reading this). There were occasional commits by other people but the majority of KHTML's development was done by him.

You see, Konqueror as a web browser didn't even have a single full time developer. That was the beginning of browser wars when Apple and Google were both funding Safari and Chrome with millions of dollars.

It was not really feasible for KHTML to compete with so many new specs being introduced to the web.

It's still fascinating what they achieved though. At the time KHTML was the first to pass ACID2 test and beat competition performance-wise in many aspects.

This is all what I can recall so don't consider it 100% accurate but I'm pretty much sure about the main point, which is that it simply was not viable to develop khtml from a practical standpoint.

[0] Quick note that Konqueror itself was created and maintained by David Faure, who maintained KDELibs (Before it became KDE Frameworks). David was a sponsored full time developer but he wasn't doing a lot of work on KHTML and KJS (The browser aspects of Konqueror)
I guess the control is pretty wall tuned classical control loops but I've seen a paper on the trajectory optimisation to get down to earth while experiencing perturbation and land using minimal fuel and achieving zero velocity in 6DoF etc. Can't find the paper now unfortunately.