skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This rings true so hard that it's painful.

I previously worked for a large consulting firm and in the Australian side the software arm was seen as 'just another billable unit' even though we built software primarily for internal engineers to use, this has some nasty side-effects
(wasted time/money on busywork, inability to do useful work without 'proving usefulness' first).

The London arm was much more of a 'startup' focus, billing time was second to doing good work and delighting clients (internal or not).

I'm now at a London startup that 'gets it' and when I inevitably move back to Australia I'll be taking these learnings back with me and hopefully be Senior enough to try and encourage change in whichever company I end up in (assuming it is needed).
That's fair, but I also think that JQuery is often judged much more harshly than other libraries that have a significantly higher learning curve.

I know plenty of developers who would view inclusion of JQuery as some cardinal sin due to reasons like the ones you state, but don't apply the same logic to React, Redux, or other more modern, significantly more complex libraries.
How to Define and Improve Your Well-Being in the Middle of Pandemic
In germany, a common method is using dead-mans package stations from DHL using stolen one-time credentials to pick up the package.
> poor default account practices

Understatement of the year. Secret account is exactly what people call "a backdoor".
I want a FOSS knowledge management application that supports quick-linking, backlink browsing, a graph visualisation, and tagging. I'm yet to find something that doesn't leave one of these features out, or has some other deal breaker (not FOSS, can't backup, no markdown support, not cross platform, etc).

This looks like it might fill that void, but I don't like that it's based on tying together VSCode extensions. I want something standalone, dependable, and usable purely off-line if need be.
And that's why it has only reached adoption inside a very particular demographic, which may or may not be a selling point for you as a user (customer?) but definitely has an impact on the community and the usage of the tool.
"Utilitarianism, without a theory of value – a way of saying what is regarded as the desirable end, and why – is an empty and useless game."

Utilitarianism, if I've read Mill correctly, does state that minimising suffering and maximising happiness is doing good. So it has its theory of value right there, built in. Stating that "X without Y is just a Z" isn't very insightful. A brush without bristles is just a stick. Ok, So what?

Furthermore, the "and why" part of the statement implies that there exist universally acceptable reasons why anything should be worthwhile which is arguably nonsense. I'd say it is an "empty and useless game" regardless of any theory of value, but we choose to play it anyway.
Parler’s New Serverless Architecture
And i don't disagree that we should always be seeking. There may be new methods that we don't yet know, new threats, new risks. Science is after all not Math, and does not have the type of rigorous 100% proven answers that math enjoys, nothing is ever 100% settled.

But we still live in the real world, and have to take action based on imperfect knowledge. The line between "this appears safe, we should make consumer products out of it" and "this appears questionable, we should hold off on it" has to be drawn somewhere. In my view the anti-5g crowd seems to be holding 5g to a different standard than pretty much everything else in the world. If they claimed that 5g lacked sufficient safety data, and foreswore 5g along with everything else that had a similar level of safety data, i would be able to respect that. But that generally does not seem to be the case.

As you say, in a very technical sense, this is not a question of science. Science can help us place bounds on the risk and inform the decision making. The actual decision making is a normative question. It is a question of values: what level of risk is appropriate? Science can't tell you what you should do, just at most what is likely to happen for a given choice. Fundamentally my objection to the anti-5g crowd is it seems to want to take a significantly lower risk tolerance for 5g relative to pretty much anything else, without a compelling argument for why a different standard should be in place for just this technology.
As others have pointed out, people don't actually want "a nice car, a big house with a view on the ocean, 100% organic food and access to top level healthcare and education." all at once. They want a "good enough solution". Some of them are fine with an apartment with a view on the ocean. Some of them are fine with a house without a view on the ocean. Some of them want organic food, a lot of people eat junk food or processed food and like it.

This is basically a strawman that you built so that you can easily defeat it.

Think of the most extreme possible scenario. An economy where no human workers are needed and only capital is needed to build robots that are equally good workers as humans. The rich will own a lot of robots and no longer be dependent on human workers. Here is the problem. Since everyone else is unemployed, nobody can afford to buy your products. It is actually possible to get wealthier by giving to those who have nothing in this scenario because although the rich own robots, the robots are effectively worthless if they don't do any work. You don't even have to give that money away for free, you can just lend it out.

Lending doesn't work in existing economies because it is very difficult to get access to capital if you have no money to begin with. It's also a chicken and egg situation because you need money in consumer hands to drive demand which then drives more loans. If you spend your loans wastefully then the money will arrive in consumer hands by mere chance. So in theory if you just print an infinite amount of money some of it will trickle down eventually. That's the idiotic policy central banks around the world are following instead of giving out just (emphasis on just) enough money to get everyone back to work.

>Giving more money to everyone is easy, everyone was a billionaire in Zimbabwe few years back. That did not make them "rich".

There is an easy indicator for when to stop. You can stop handing out money once you have reached the 2% inflation goal.
What a fun interpretation
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Lisp and Erlang also do this.

My C sometimes looks like Lispy Erlangish weirdness, and my Java often looks like my C. Certain languages just have certain ways of worming their way into your brain and improving the way you think, much to the dismay of everyone who can't think that way yet because the idiom isn't native to that language (yet).
the default firmware is very good. I skimmed the various functions and it's definitely another league when compared to usual routers.

I just skimmed it though, because i bought that router with the explicit intent of installing openwrt.

to me the biggest advantage is that the underlying linux kernel and functionalities are not hidden at all.

then there's a pretty huge selection of packages that you can install (wireguard, openvpn, asterisk, node_exporter, 6rd to name a few).

it just more comprehensive as a solution.

in my opinion, for a geek/nerd/control-freak router it's either this or a pfsense-based box (which doesn't do wireless very well sadly).
Myth or not, it's memory bandwidth is amazing, so I guess that helps.
I would argue that the BB keyboards was bad, its just that contemporary alternatives like T9 and the first touchscreens were even worse.

I would say that a modern swipe keyboard after training by far beats old style BB keyboards (not real computer keybords where you can use up to 10 fingers).
“the two ideas gave birth to the if statement that we know today:

if (input less than waterleve) {
turn motor on
} else if (input less than waterleve) {
turn motor off
} else {
...

“

And to the classical copy-paste bug ;-)
Well, directly there are no negative implications, but indirectly very many.

I do not want to finance health insurance for drug addicts, for example. And yes, I agree, also smoking should be banned and the health insurance limited.

Sorry, but not sorry for having a conservative stand. You _must_ accept my opinion instead of downvoting... I thought that Pluralism of Opinions is a valued concept in democracies...
Post can be sent relatively anonymously. Receiving is problematic but for small amounts of weed most drug users dont care.
They're being trendy and trying to impress their friends and colleagues. Don't read too much into it.
> In the top tier cities in western EU countries, buying even a modest apartment that will house a small family will be a challenge on €100k (pre-tax!). It is certainly doable, but you will not be able to afford any other luxuries.

I would consider Paris a top-tier city, and while none of my friends make more than 100k, half of us bought our house already (we're all late 20s, early 30s, with a few kids starting to pop-up).

If you make 80k€[1] pre-tax in Paris (that's a good salary for SWE here), you can borrow more than 300k€. For a couple, that means buying a 700k€ flat/house, you can even live in the middle of Paris for that price! And we're talking about one of the most expensive city in Europe, with a massive housing bubble since 2000 (where the price was 2.74 times lower, adjusted for the evolution of salaries[2]).

In Europe, you are affluent with less than 100k€.

[1]: I'm talking about «super brut», which is how much money you cost to your employer, not the «brut» which appears on your working contract (which would be around 57k€ in this example)

[2] https://stymaar.fr/net/Capture%20du%202021-01-14%2012-11-55...., source Jacques Friggit (http://www.cgedd.developpement-durable.gouv.fr/prix-immobili...)
I think it's a bit weird to associate "ambition" with the propensity to switch jobs. I'm in a "traditional" industry so product and project cycles last decades, not just moths or years. It takes a couple of years for a new hire to be really productive. I can't compare it to some other places I have worked where half the staff would change every year and a large project would ship in 6 months.
For my workload (optical flow) I was honestly surprised to see that the Google Cloud V100 was not faster than my local GTX 1080. So I guess that varies a lot by how you're training, too.

For many of my AI training workloads, already the 1080 is "fast enough" and the CPU or SSDs are the bottleneck. In that case, GPU doesn't really matter that much.
Though if the seller is the police, the buyer is exposed.
Entrant's Guide to the Automotive Industry
So I've been reading everybody's comments as this comes up about five times a day now and did a little research [1] and the following is what I've come up with for these platforms:

- They must censor what's illegal

- They may censor what violates TOS

- They may not censor what is not illegal and does not violate TOS

I think breaking these rules would automatically convert you from a platform to a publisher and you'd have to follow whatever those rules are. Spam handling would have to be part of the TOS. I'm looking for feedback. What would be the problem with this? Doesn't it seem fair?

I haven't thought about it much but I wonder if this would also work for cancelling contracts/refusal of service but that's a whole other topic.

1. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/freedom-speech/
Instead of flipping a coin, my default choice is to go for the cheapest, even if it is just one cent. Not that I can't afford the more expensive option, but it is an arbitrary criteria that has the side effect of possibly saving money.
I would imagine the percentage of front end projects that have a build chain sophisticated enough that tree shaking is important and where 30 KB has a significant impact on their bundle size is vanishingly small.
I'm not sure there's ever been a Mac where you couldn't boot your own OS. Maybe the very, very early ones, but Linux for the later M68k and PPC Macs was definitely a thing.
Freedom of Speech (2019)
Strange question, how about: Are wave or particle appropiate concepts to describe light at any scale?

Even I might behave like a wave, it's just extremely unlikely :)
This is exactly what I was thinking.

This is an immense amount of cash to manage, and management is not as trivial as it might seem, especially since it has to be kept liquid.

And accepting $2bn of new inflow in just one week, given how frequently and strongly crypto has been connected to illegitimate business (Silk Road, etc.) is borderline unbelievable.
Whether humans like it or not and whether we want to admit it or not, wars do end up with mostly the fittest (not just in terms of physical ability, but also intelligence, cunning, etc.) surviving.
> The V100 only gets 14 TFLOPS because it lacks the dedicated TensorRT accelerator hardware.

V100 has both vec2 hfma (i.e. fp16 multiply-add is twice the rate of fp32), getting ~30 TFLOPS, and tensor cores which can achieve up to 4x that for matrix multiplications.
> People claim that once you learn Forth, you start programming Forth-style in other languages like C, Python etc.

Sounds very much like my experience with LISPs. Probably just need to dive in and try it. Thanks for the detailed response.
I suspected something along these lines when I saw Library Genesis was down two days ago : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25750184 These are weird days.
Are you using windows git, or linux git inside WSL? The latter seems a lot more reliable in my experience.
In my experience, the share of employers with culture like 'Employer 1' who pay like 'Employer 2' is much higher than the amount of all-around 'Employer 2's.
My fear is that Apple will now make the design decision to make these services more unreliable if blocked. Like I experienced, others too have noticed similar behaviour:

> It’s worth noting that Big Sur and its predecessors are built to assume that they can talk to Apple at any time, but when we don’t allow it, a few unwanted side effects pop up. For example, the keyboard sometimes takes longer to wake up from sleep mode. Or, in certain situations, the Mullvad app takes longer to detect that the computer is online.

- https://mullvad.net/en/blog/2020/11/16/big-no-big-sur-mullva...

(Ofcourse, as a developer, I can sympathize with the Apple developers - when you design a product to use the internet, you don't really think hard about all kinds of use cases where internet access is deliberately denied).
Most of Western/Westernized world is going to shit. Western Europe and Japan in particular have terrible demographics, which means that, unless some miracle happens (like a massive influx of immigrants who integrate well and become productive members of society), that less and less working people will have to maintain more and more non-working population. Obviously, it will lead to radical decrease of standard of living and gutting of the welfare programs across the board. Just watch it happen across the next 30-40 years.

There was even a leaked secret recording of heads of banks, where they basically agree that the party is coming to an end for Western Europe (due to demographics) and admire Merkel and Holland for hinting that to the population, as opposed to ignoring the problem altogether.
This is the wrong mode of thinking.

>I expect most of the additional pay will end up in higher housing prices.

It will _justify_ existing house prices. If inflation picks up the interest rate will rise and the cost of housing will stop growing. The increased wages can still afford the same housing price, but not a cent more.
If you dislike promises, what do you prefer? Callbacks? Why?
Theseus joins Redox in pursuit of safer, more resilient systems
Kavitha Srinivasan on Federated GraphQL Adoption, Performance Considerations
Related is Andy Wingo's blog on inline caches in guile (and some JS engines): https://wingolog.org/archives/2018/02/07/design-notes-on-inl...
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I personally know someone who turned down a payrise for this reason.
Ask HN: Who Are Palantir's Competitors?
Which processes should I block? I prefer to share less.
Tbh I like both the erlang style and the Elixir style and don't see a _tremendous_ amount of difference, e.g.

foo(X) ->
Y = maybe_function(X),
final_function(Y).

Both, in my eyes, yield a declarative flow without mutations and overwriting variables
I haven't seen anything on my servers (Amsterdam).
Answer: Yes.
I always have to look at the buttons unless its something I use all the tíme like the blinkers.
Perhaps, perhaps not — but I see no reason to attack the auctor personally on speculative character traits, when the article itself is already so easily attacked.
> So if OP is seeing "loads" of sexualized content, it's because they spent enough time watching sexualized content before swiping for TikTok to think that's what they want to see, and ensure they see more of it.

Even if the picture you are painting of the previous poster is accurate, being horny once in a while is by no means justification for an endless stream of sexualized content.

That's not a neutral quality of the system, but a deliberate feedback loop establishing an addictive behavior. We already know the shortcomings of the human condition and should ask for less footguns, not more.
Makes sense. I have a ZX Spectrum on my workbench and a copy of Sinclair Forth somewhere, maybe it will click for me in a more restricted environment.
Could you please provide some resources on how the unified memory model supposedly works? Why is it a "myth"?
I think they are referring to loading it from a global CDN.
Again, I agree, but only in context.

On Hacker News, I totally agree that downvoting debatable views that are expressed poorly is totally unnecessary. If it isn't a statement that is outright dangerous or intentionally hurtful, my bar for downvoting here is very high. I would trust the audience to discern for themselves.

On Stack overflow, you are essentially there to teach people something. "Don't ever do X" is not going to teach something. Unpopular ideas (and even some popular ones) should be backed up with cogent reasoning, and I think downvoting (with an explanation) is the best way to tell future visitors "this is (probably) not the answer you are looking for".
Not anymore. You're welcome! :D
>but nevertheless it's like they kill at least one of those markets a month.

This isn't the case, it's been a loong time since the last big market takedown. LE takedowns are rare, exit scams are not.
Median wage pre-tax in London is £736 a week, or £38k a year. It can't be that expensive if half the people live on that.

Median rent for a 2 bed in London is $1976 a month

Average rent for a 2 bed in San Francisco is $3772 a month

[0] https://www.london.gov.uk/what-we-do/housing-and-land/improv...

[1] https://www.rentjungle.com/average-rent-in-san-francisco-ren...
Such an amazing technology.

I don't understand why they sell it as a full 'tablet' product, that I expect to be the basic tablet crap, instead of selling the screen itself to all manufacturer of devices that could be interested.
Counter point: Parler was intentionally set up badly in order to certainly be breached in the near future.
They are, however, informed by experiences in uniform.
How do you integrate with a HG community that doesn't care about you or, even worse, kills you and eats you? It's not only about "required work" but also about serious life-threatening risks involved. Whereas if you were born as a HG, those risks aren't there.
Perhaps the most embarrassing thing about Parler besides the fact it was deplatformed so easily is that it was built on WordPress. And don't get me wrong, I love and use WordPress often, but to build such a large social media platform on-top of it? That just reeks of amateur.
I feel like this question is like asking a hexagon if it's a circle or a square.

Let me summon the annoying physicist take on this by Sabine:

https://youtu.be/kSG4Rfc9YIw?t=179
Arch Linux announces a new man pages indexing service
I categorize this as an exploration of how to benchmark desktop/workstation NPUs [1] similar to the exploration Daniel Lemire started with SIMD. Mobile SoC NPUs are used to deploy inference models on smartphones and IoT devices while discreet NPUs like Nvidia A100/V100 target cloud clusters.

We don’t have apples-to-apples benchmarks like SPECint/SPECfp for the SoC accelerators in the M1 (GPU, NPU, etc.) so these early attempts are both facile and critical as we try to categorize and compare the trade-offs between the SoC/discreet and performance/perf-per-watt options available.

Power efficient SoC for desktops is new and we are learning as we go.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_accelerator
Maybe a nit, but these aren't equivalent. The jQuery version will apply it to all elements that match your selector, where the ES6 version will only apply to the first matching element.

Equivalent code in ES6 would be (maybe there's a terser way but this is what I'd do at first glance):

[...document.querySelectorAll('.className')].forEach(el => el.classList.add('darktheme'));

Not a whole lot extra in terms of actual code, but I'd argue it's not super intuitive (having to cast a NodeList to an array is a pretty big beginner footgun), and as you get into more complex scenarios, the jQuery architectural pattern of operating against collections of nodes really shines.
Yup, this is likely indeed the correct answer.

The real question then becomes: how do other countries cultivate highly-profitable tech companies (similar to the ones in the US)?
Or maybe this is handled like the CEO's securities fraud deal with the SEC - by tweeting that SEC = Suck Elon's Cock.
Create and manage RemoteApps hosted on Windows 7, 8, 10, XP and Server
I have to confess this freaked me out well played!
Your undergraduate physics education is a series of approximations. Every so often, you will go to a new class and the professor will say, "Okay, that was nice, but that was an approximation. You were wading in the shallow end of the pool. Let's go a little deeper. Throw away what you thought you knew and how you previously modeled things, it isn't as accurate as this ..." and then you're on to the next thing.

QM is one of those transitions and the jump bothers many.
I know, I'm just thinking in today's day and age an architecture change isn't that hard anymore. We're already paying for all these abstractions, why not use them.
But note that all those statement are about the amount of harm in an environment where alcohol is legal, cheaply available in every supermarket, widely advertized, and its consumption socially accepted, even expected.

Can you really say in good conscience that other drugs wouldn't be worse if they became equally ubiquitous?
It can be difficult for shareholders to earn money if there is high CPI inflation.

If the previous year over year ROI is 7% and inflation grows by 3% then you have to increase your ROI to 10% just to catch up with inflation. This means only the most productive companies will actually maintain their existing growth.

Compare that to a deflationary environment where every warm body with a big bank account can get 7% ROI without even trying or even do annoying things like employ workers.
WhatsApp Status to convince your family and friends to switch to Signal
> to be frank, I’d be extremely cautious to work with anyone who raised such a concern as a serious consideration in the first place.

He seems to say that vendor lock-in isn't worth having concerns about. Did I understand this correctly?
Spending 4 weeks as my first long break