skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, if that is the reason, but not if their work is rejected merely if it is YEC.

I recently saw a paper get accepted by a biology journal, and then rejected because the editors found out the authors were associated with intelligent design. That is inappropriate in my opinion.
I don't think Python releases following 3.6 introduced any changes that render any of the information in my article outdated.
The first part of the article keeps focusing in Gebru firing, the second part is a mix of topics which is hard to follow exactly on any action items. When someone wants to fight racism and keep bringing up how "white male" is evil is hard to take them seriously.
And easily diff-able!
In the age of countless amounts of information, where every click counts for compensation, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war abounds, for differentiation...

Ta-Da-Di-La-Lall...
DrDisrespect doesn't have 200 viewers. Multiply the numbers and see all donations going to amazon.
I've favourited the article. It's a good complement to the Rust Book, which has more detail. This kind of summary doc is great for discovery, you skim it and you find something that you could have written differently, or you realise there's an idiom you weren't using.

No substiture for the book, though.
> is California better off with Alabama or without?

It would almost certainly be better off without.
Why do you think EU is behind in tech? As pointed out elsewhere in this thread, the lithography machines used by all state of the art IC nodes is designed in Europe. It’s one of the most complex machines on the planet.

Then there’s mega projects like LHC and ITER (international projects, but it’s not pure chance that they’re located in Europe) and Wendelstein 7-X.

My pet example is Nordic Semiconductor, which has an insanely good position in the Bluetooth LE device market. What’s also interesting is that two of the major competitors also design their chips in Norway. Although those companies do illustrate one problem in Norway (and perhaps Europe in general): the lack of capital at certain stages. In the IC businesses it seems most companies are acquired by US companies eventually.

Let’s look at EVs. Europe doesn’t have Tesla. But seems like most European car makers are doing OK with EVs. Arguably better than US incumbent car makers. VWs new platform is one of the most promising right now, although this project has shown that VW has a problem with software engineering. But so does most other older car companies in the world. There are also some interesting start ups that’s more focused on designing/supplying components, such as Rimac and Kreisel. Rimac seems to go toe-to-toe with Tesla on extreme performance.

I believe a lot of robots used in advanced manufacturing is German as well?

In general I have the impression that Europe is very strong in designing/making components and manufacturing machines and such. Things that the end consumer never hears about. Very few have heard about ASML, but everyone has heard about Intel. So maybe that contributes to the impression that EU is behind on tech.

Europe has also been ahead of the US in adopting tech on the consumer side in several areas. The US was in the stone age for a long time when it came to banking and payment for instance.

How do you measure being behind/ahead in tech?
You are also assuming that being a hateful place to work in is what made it successful.
There's a lot of technical problems to doing this. We're still not great at getting heart rate or blood oxygen. Sure, you get a decent reading but that's with lots of averaging and the temporal resolution is decently low. Just because it's hard to maintain a good monitoring position when active let alone adjusting for things like skin tone/optical transparency.
When making predictions you’re either RIGHT or WRONG in my opinion. If your prediction cannot be clearly assessed then it is WRONG.

Otherwise, you’re in the realms of prophecy or horoscopes where most of the heavy lifting is done by the reader after the fact.

Edited to add my own surprising-but-useless prediction: “Computers as we know them today will be largely abandoned by the year 2050”.
It will happen far sooner than you expect. In five hundred years.
Deleted by author? Any other copies?
> It's theoretically possible that many over-ear headphones have the same condensation issues, but users simply aren't able to see them due to the pads being fixed in place.

This isn't the first time people talk about the magnetic pad attachment as if it's something new or innovative or even useful. I've seen magnetic attachments for 5-10 years, and non-magnetic ones that require you to rotate aren't even bad, they're slightly better.
Perhaps, although I see people claim the latter when it seems they are more rejecting a position or conclusion merely because they already disagree with it, or are worried about implications of the argument.
Even if it's not practical to re-run all of the computation, in many cases it would be nice to have the output data stored in the document in a form where you can interact with it rather than just having static pixels.
Arthur Jafa’s Radical Alienation
Idyll – toolkit for creating data-driven stories and explorable explanations
Not sure about that. It’s a clever trick alright but it adds a possibly unnecessary layer of leaky abstraction and makes code reuse more difficult when working with “vanilla” Terraform. If you really want to use a full programming language with infra as code, I’d suggest looking into Pulumi. Or, if you want to (or need to) stick to Terraform, try the official CDK.
As I type this, bitcoin's market cap is a little over $554 billion.
He seemed to have removed the page. Here is the backup:
https://web.archive.org/web/20210102002234/https://ex-apple-...
you are out of touch with reality. people are expendable, not pleasant but true - get a grip :) Also, try describing the "right engineering culture"
Reminded me of 'Stuff Made Here' on Youtube.

I always thought that companies in that industry had specialized teams (software team, hardware team, mechanics team etc etc.) and that it's impossible for a person to possess all skills. But Stuff Made Here has shown me that I was wrong. It's awe-inspiring to say the least.
> Most of the images are found footage, taken from YouTube. Their emotional impact comes from the way Jafa has put them together, shifting and editing and choreographing to create a flow of deeply resonant juxtapositions...

As I read the article, I couldn’t help but to think what a beautiful reason for tools like youtube-dl to exist.

I haven’t found an official video source, only this bootleg copy:

Arthur Jafa: “Love is the Message, the Message is Death”

https://youtu.be/lKWmx0JNmqY
Because often time to market is more important that R&D costs or tech debt for the success of a company. If you win the market, the profits will compensate for the additional R&D costs, and you can release increments to address the tech debt. Customers actually appreciate this, as they are constantly looking for better, newer versions of the product.

Time to market trumps everything.
> I don’t think the promise of genomics is even possible

It is possible, but building a whole-organism model requires huge amounts of data for each individual, which isn’t economically feasible at the moment. The 1000$ genome is there, but we need to bring it down to 10$ or less.

That is one of the reasons why modern bioinformatics is relying on mechanistic statistical models so much. You have to be incredibly smart with your models since there’s so few samples to work with.
Well, if the goal is to produce an example of how one might train a language model, I think it's fine to ignore algorithmic bias issues.

But when people are talking about making e.g. AI chatbots to help teach in classes, or customer service bots, I think it's perfectly reasonable to imagine that research effort is useful to ensure the bot isn't acting like Tay did...

(And more broadly, if you're trying to use an ML model to e.g. screen candidates for hiring, you better be damn sure it's not causing discriminatory hiring practices.)
Now we need some Perl scripts to generate the Python scripts.
The last changelog entry is from 2012.
We are indeed evolved to die. Our bodies actively kill us, they don't just "degrade" (do you degrade between 10 and 18?). Quite logical also, when you think of it.
> (now... how would you do this without TabFS? I honestly have no idea, off the top of my head. like, how do you even get the titles of tabs? how do you tell the browser to close them?)

chrome-cli
thanks a lot for sharing! There is a new tool which includes the principles of your method: www.remonade.io, it's a daily task management tool for remote teams. It's free until 5 users, you could use it for yourself only.
Maybe quick decision making _is_ what being sceptical is for?

Way too many times leaders and people wanted quick decisions in 2020 when what scepticism may help us do is slow us down to be more thoughtful, critical and careful.
This is all complaining about the insignificant problems of programming. Syntax is something you get over after you're out of school. A good Java programmer will also be a good Common Lisp or C or APL programmer within months of first seeing that language.

The complexity of programming lies in coming up with abstract models for real-life problems, and in encoding those models in sufficient details for a machine to execute them. It also lies in knowing the details of how the machine functions to be able to achieve performance or other goals (e.g. avoid parallelism pitfalls). Until we have AGI, none of these problems are even in principle solvable with better tools to the point that someone who hasn't invested in learning how to program for a few years will be able to do anything that isn't trivial. The best possible visual PL can't change this one iota.

What could be doable is creating more DSLs for laypeople to learn, rather than trying to do very complex things through a GUI. One of the few areas where there has been tremendous success in having non-programmers actually do some programming is in stuff like Excel. That is a very purpose-built system, with clear feedback on the steps of computation, very limitted in what you can actually program, but comprehensive enough for its intended domain, and is probably by far the most utilized programming environment, dwarfing something like vim by an order of magnitude.
Terraform added a lot of these procedural functions natively in the time since this was created.

At any rate if you want to stick with Python, I'd say Pulumi would be a safer choice these days.
In God We Trusted
Yeah, I think the hopes of using it as a currency are pretty much dead tbh. This is evidenced by the fact that the most newsworthy stories are about the value of Bitcoin in U.S. dollars.
You have actually addressed the actual issue here but from wrong perspective.

Culture is the issue here. EU tries to live, USA tries to earn. If the only thing that interests you is money then yes, probably USA is the right direction. Of all the people that I know that went working outside of their country, they were mostly going to EU companies (or USA companies in Europe), sometimes to the Asia. None left for USA. On the other side I know a CTO that left USA for Europe and bought a small property in France where he lives with whole family.

This shows very well in environmental laws, gdpr, protection of workers, actually having friends, nature, having hill-climbing organizations that aren't only lobist groups to be actually allowed to climb the mountains, public transport, able to drink spring water in center of capital city, most people working 40h/week max, actually do use their vacations in one piece, free education, maternity leave measured in years not months (yes under a year too but not month or two),...

So it depends on the personal cultural preference. Some people just love the money and things they can buy with it, maybe even power that it brings and surely a lot of such people are also in EU. The difference is in the percentage of population although Hollywood did great job at exporting the view of world trough money glasses.

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Regarding the topic. EU was quite satisfied with buying processors from the States, it was also happy with using Windows, Android, Apple thing. The problem is, as in every other thing, USA corporations became vampires that wants to eat you alive from pure greed and systemic addiction to blood (endless growth).

It has become imperative to produce our own processors as you can no longer trust USA or China to not shovel inside some spying equipment. Well the times have changed and it is no longer an option to buy it from USA/China, so EU has moved forward and dont worry, we will have our own chips our own phones and operating system (linux, sailfish or something else...).

EU is an elephant and it needs a lot of coordination of muscles to move its legs but once it starts moving...

I am sorry, I would love to just use the USA/China products and not re-develop hardware (based on what we know now, maybe not dragging 40 years old anchor of previous development with me), not having a need for GDPR, but they have both just screwed everything up from pure greed. Now we need to fix it and a lot of time and resources will have to go that way. But we will eventually fix it.
Yah, well. Try parts of Alaska? Same terrain & climate.
That's like calling books intelligent. At some point information is gathered. Making a decision is what counts, not being an encyclopedia.
Someone explain me how this will not stir the wrath of copyright echelons, especially American ones? Or once I get PhD I can torrent movies again?
If you create a model that outputs text, and that output contains opinions you disagree with, people are still going to act as if you agree, because it was you who created it.

So often "we can't use Reddit because lots of stuff on Reddit is offensive to somebody" does make sense.
What do ".zip" or ".exe" mean to someone who doesn't already know the answer?
At some point their customers will stop worrying about using 7nm and go back to double-digit nanometres. CPU tech from the 2000s is adequate for most workloads, let alone stuff from 2010.

I'm sure there is a lot of stuff where 7nm is necessary to get certain outcomes, but it is a small market compared to what could be reasonably done with older process technologies.
That’s a marvel which is ubiquitous in developed counties. However, there’s been too much hype around the wearables. Manufactures have foreseen that progress in smartphones will inevitably stall and promised wearables as the next big thing. And, as it turns out, “smart watch” is still dumb as hell, at least when it comes to health.
I don't use venv and other tools (I use docker for this)
But here some points I found interesting comparing vanilla pip to npm (and tools listed in the article fixes it):

1. You have to manually freeze packages (instead of automatic package-lock.json)

2. Each time your install/remove package, dependant packages are not removed from freeze. You have to do it manually. (interesting link: https://github.com/jazzband/pip-tools)

3. Freeze is flat list (npm can restore tree structure)
I think this is the main thing, which is that the quality of the discussion really depends on the topic. As a post-doc in astronomy, I'm happy to report that the quality of HN discussion on astro-related submissions tends to be quite good[1]. The top level posts tend to be either be broad-level questions that get some good replies or "fun facts". This probably has to do with most folks being interested in space but not really having strong opinions, leading to cordial comment sections and a decent supply of actual astronomy experts on HN.

Now, for things like finance, markets, politics, etc. like you're getting at, those are a different store. I've been baffled that some political and finance posts have devolved to threads worse than Reddit... Maybe some subs have become homogeneous enough that they don't generate quite the same conflict?

[1] About once a year there's a Dark Matter related post that usually brings out a very critical set of responses. That and Dark Energy are just things you need a lot of investigation into the evidence of because, like Quantum Mechanics, they are just weird and don't make sense to the uninitiated.
German Automakers Are Charged Up and Ready to Take on Tesla
Some principles:

1. Code that looks right should be right, code that looks wrong should be wrong. (I know this sounds trite, but there are many examples.)

2. When a program self-detects a fault in its logic, it must stop immediately, as it no longer will be in a known state. (It's still common practice to imagine one can recover from an assertion failure. I've spent many, many hours trying to convince other programmers of this.)

3. Better education will not prevent programming bugs. Better process and mechanical checking will. (This notion has been gaining a lot of momentum.)

4. Reliable systems can be built from unreliable components.
https://www.digitalmars.com/articles/b39.html

> Do you think these advantages are common among those who have (mech/electrical/chem/etc.) engineering education and training who move into software development?

Heck, they haven't even trickled into the nuclear power industry (Fukushima), the oil business (Deepwater Horizon), or the automobile industry (Toyota surging problem). Those disasters taught lessons learned by the aviation industry decades earlier.

See also:

https://www.slideshare.net/dcacm/patterns-of-human-error

Perhaps I should amend my earlier statement that it's experience in the aviation business that I've taken over to software. My engineering training was mostly about math, not cutting metal and the nut behind the wheel.
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Very funny video
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IMHO an extension for existing browsers seems like a better idea than creating a new browser.

Why did you choose the latter approach?
Wow ... now that I think back - this statement and its converse have been consistently true for me as well over many jobs. Not that frequent 1:1 is a silver bullet... but not having it at all never helps!
Have also been using Linaria on a side project recently, enjoying it a lot so far. I skipped most of the other css-in-js solutions when I saw they where using runtime js to manipulate styling which intuitively just feels unnecessary for 99% of the pages style. Very happy with Linaria so far.
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> Most fast food restaurant franchisees probably don’t have margins much above 5%

If we follow your train of thought, we shouldn't see employers paying minimum wage with higher margins because those higher margins would have transpired to lower prices for consumers.

McDonalds corporate profit margin is 20%! People might say, "Well most margin comes from franchise fees and McDonalds doesn't directly own most restaurants or own that cost base" - but while some franchisees earn 12%+ profit, they don't even have a mechanism where they are even ALLOWED to reduce prices so how exactly are higher profits supposed to get passed back as lower prices?

The reality is that if a companies goal is to profit-maximise, "cost plus margin" is not a particularly effective strategy. From an economics perspective, you would work out what your demand curve is, plot that against your cost base to produce a profit figure for each point on the demand curve, and pick where maximises profit. In reality this will be less of a formal process, but this is the microeconomic theory.
Because human language is not specific enough. Code isn't complicated, it's unambiguous. You can always alias ls but that doesnt change the model much does it?
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comparable gains in bioengineered antiviral treatments

If I was a pedant, I’d point out that the mRNA vaccines are not antiviral treatments, and this prediction was WRONG; the balance of power clearly lies with potential attackers right now.

I am a pedant.
Hey this is gold. I've been meaning to learn stuff I would have learned if I'd done Maths instead of Engineering, and it's quite useful to have the early courses. Have you got more? Book names welcome too, I'm sure I can find them.
if old people (and therefore, old ideas, old prejudices) never die then there is no room for new.

This is a profoundly ageist viewpoint that sadly is very common in our industry. That’s why 40-somethings are laid off so 20-somethings can reinvent the wheel yet again in the shitty “framework” that’s fashionable this week. In every other industry, medicine, law, science you name it, experience is prized.
The article links to a Google+ post for some reason and I can't find any other info. Isn't Foxit proprietary? I haven't used Chrome or Chromium in a while, but last time I did, they seemed to use the same PDF viewer. How could they include it in Chromium?
I don't believe so. Just incremental improvements, no breakthrough. As for HN popularity, that is often a matter of chance. If a submission gets a few early upvotes and makes it to frontpage, it snowballs from there, often regardless of anything particularly noteworthy.
I actually disagree, but think your analogy is perfect here. Most programmers (even good ones) don't really know how a computer works, but they have notions of how it does. As such, they have a good idea of what they think should work, but can still often be surprised by behavior that falls outside that expectation. There's a lot of computer behavior that's "weird" due to low-level quirks.
The F# compiler seems to be written in F#. Therefore, you need to already have an F# compiler to build it. That GitHub repo mentions that "You will also need the latest .NET 5 SDK", which looks like it includes F#. (Presumably, when the language was first written, there existed a compiler written in some other language. However, that compiler is almost certainly not maintained anymore, so it wouldn't be able to compile today's compiler, which probably uses language features added since then.)
The Journey to Replace Python's Parser [audio]
Cloud kitchens are actual commercial kitchens run by corporations. Indie chefs just cook out of their own homes.
en.wiktionary.org might be good for this. It’s free and marks some words as vulgar.
The Battle Between Unsupervised and Supervised AI
Debatable. See https://www.bbc.com/news/business-54370056

Though I have to confess to like their chicken teriyaki thing from time to time, customized to extra hot ;-)
drupal. it is horrible.
I've seen claims that McDonald's makes more on owning prime real estate than on selling food for pennies.
It won't be a market, but it will be a living. Netflix can pay people a contract or a salary to produce content.
Cyrillic is at least partly derived from the Greek alphabet, yes.

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

> Cyrillic is derived from the Greek uncial script, augmented by letters from the older Glagolitic alphabet, including some ligatures.