skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The way I've always heard this is:

If it's important, it needs to have a URL.

Your issue tracker works, assuming you're not constantly changing your tracker. SharePoint may work but is super clunky for this purpose. Confluence or Notion or something work just fine.

Email doesn't work by itself. With some mailing-list interface on top it may, but that seems like you're stretching a bit. IM/IRC/Slack/whatever chat also don't work for this purpose.

I always think: if I want to put a link to this project's design docs, maybe some meeting notes, so new hires can come up to speed on what we're trying to do, I want it to be a URL that makes some kind of human sense, and I want the format to be conducive to communicating the right details.
> architechture

The architectural problem can sort of be resolved by holding one's nose and maintaining a parallel (fast) algorithm, the problem is that this is expensive and bug prone. The algorithms that lead to optimal behaviour often don't easily have a sliding scale of performance vs. quality. If TCC had to support VLIW it would be a lot more complicated and slower
Their VM is for testing and they have docker for production.

I believe they've VM for testing before docker was known.
Check out "xwax"[0], if you haven't seen it already.

[0] https://xwax.org/
Yeesh, Greenwald has become a full on shill for the hard right just because he is so sore against Democrats after the 2016 DNC leaks.

This is like watching someone with dementia slowly morph into a completely different person.

No aspect of what made early journalist Greenwald a champion for democracy is recognizable in this whatsoever.

It’s full on Republicanized befuddlement.
I’m going to chime in despite being a broke college student. I’ve been using ledger for about 2 years now, and daily reconciliation of what I actually spent is more helpful to me than having a budget, or anything else, it forces me to acknowledge how much I spent, and on what. Personally, it short circuits the easy swiping of plastic that leads to a ton of unnecessary spending, kinda like using cash.

Ledger has budgeting features, allows me to use multiple commodities (I even wrote a script to get stock prices and help ledger value them). I can’t comment on bigger things, but for my use case, I really enjoy it.
> Their service is not criminal in nature

They are getting kicked off AWS because of content that is absolutely criminal in nature, and their inability and inaction in moderating it.
Then flip flop when it's "their side" a few months later..

...or 4 years later, as the case may be.
Feels pretty surreal reading these comments. I’m an accountant by day and toy with tech after hours.

I have absolutely zero interest in tracking my finances via ledger - unlike the programmers here apparently. Mirror opposite in a way
They aren't talking about internal chat. The article suggests trying out several third party SaaS discussion forums like Discourse/Carrot/Basecamp. It's unlikely most orgs have internal servers for these services. GP is pointing out that using these third party SaaS discussions forums is usually a nonstarter unless its first been pre-approved by legal (whereas email is almost certainly already approved).
Elon Musk Rips Big Tech Censorship of Conservatives
I'm curious how many of the new commercial home wifi mesh systems out there use 802.11s.

A couple of years, I'd been under the impression that many folk in wifi mesh land were using BATMAN or Babel or one of the two dozen other routing protocols[1]. OLPC was the last big 802.11s user that I knew of, and I never heard glowing reviews, but that was a decade ago. I'm curious how things are shaping up these days.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_mesh_network#Routing_...
Already well established: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bremermann%27s_limit
> I thought the typical goal of hackers and startups was to "change the world" and "make a difference".

That sounds like the goal of a non-profit, not a startup. What a founder says at a TED talk (which I admit can often sound like the former) shouldn't be conflated with the nuts and bolt conversations they have with their closest lieutenants and investors. Assuming we mean venture funded by "startup" the definition has always been growth oriented, highly risky and innovative through disruption.

> It's also kind of indicative of how small startup ambitions have become. Acquisition has become a measure of success, not failure.

Really? I'm surprised you think that acquisition is either a measure of success or failure in a vacuum. Wouldn't the terms and the specific deal be important than how a company exits? After all, there's a world of difference between an acquihire and a strategic merger.
Great Expectations: data testing, documentation, and profiling
Great Expectations: data testing, documentation, and profiling - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25745272
"Why would lower-population states reduce their own representation power?"
To do the right thing, that is why. Not doing it implies that they know that have an over-representation and would only be against it to maintain that over-representation for their own selfish goals.
When does an insurrectionist turn into a revolutionary?

In the 1770s George Washington and ilk were insurrectionists. Now we look at them as revolutionaries. Do people who fight for change only become revolutionary when it’s an argument you agree with? Are you an insurrectionist if you fight the government to the death (literally) for what you believe in?

Obvious disclaimer: I don’t hold a candle to this fight in either direction but can empathize with both sides
There are quite a few things I don't agree with tptacek about. But this is just the latest of a long series of hijack attempts for this namespace (the Internet's DNS hierarchy) and it's about time people learned that can't work.

Successful namespace hijacks rely on overwhelming numbers. You need to have so many people using your hijacked namespace that you've got way more people who do not even know that it's a hijack but are using it anyway than the existing administrators had total engagement so that it's pointless to argue with you.

Handshake can't get there from here, most of the world now uses the DNS hierarchy. This was a fool's errand. Carving themselves out a niche might have been possible, if they had been content with a niche but it's clear that their financial motives dictated they try for the impossible instead.
great picture of the crowd descending on area 51.

oh snap, its actually burning man. close enough.
You can to a degree that left-leaning users were generally banned as soon as they were identified, as the site was primarily to collect data/demographics on right-leaning voters to target for fundraising and organising. Follow the money...
Did they filter for Parler users who were legitimately in the Capital building, such as Ted Cruz?
Ehh, why don't you go ahead and post proof. A single example will be sufficient for me: show me a single example of something Amazon asked Parler to remove that Parler didn't remove. It's okay, I'll wait...
I really hope the word e-mail is replaced with something else (like 'memo') and a new paradigm is introduced around the concept of offline discussions, like forum board or stack-overflow.

The purpose of such a system would be to save discussions and understandings in discussions for a long term.

I read Stack Overflow threads now and have a pretty good idea about the thought process from problem -> approaches -> solution, including solutions or approaches that were rejected.

Real-time chat is not a replacement of a meeting, because meetings have substantial outcomes and key decisions taken, that are usually recorded as Minutes of Meeting / Meeting notes.
The problem is that Nacha is building these APIs on top of ACH. There needs to be a universal realtime payment and account-validation network, not a file FTP'd to the Fed that's sent out three times a day.
What’s interesting is that even when emulating x86 they outperform AMD/Intel. That means the decoder improvements of doing a bunch of decodes in parallel (which x86 can’t do due to being CISC) aren’t the whole story. It could be that Apple just translates x86 code into fixed width to work around this or it could be other architectural improvements.
iGPU performance is primary constrainedby RAM bandwidth. I believe your laptop has DDR4-2666 or LPDDR3-2133 (it's bad) max. This X1 Carbon has LPDDR4X so at least 3200 or 4266 best, it makes significant improvement. Intel also improved Xe GPU core. Is it enough for 4K on your use case is different story.

Edit: AT argues that X1C uses LPDDR4X-4267, looks great.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/16392/ces-2021-lenovo-thinkpa...
Er, I'm a bit confused about this:

It is important to note that it is very dangerous to try to use this method to disinfect surfaces inside homes. To be fully effective, a system must be designed so that a person is not directly exposed to the light.

Does this mean that the proposed system should be used for only situations where no people are present? Say, a bus/train at a terminus rather than in transit, or a hospital ward emptied for the purpose of such disinfection?

I am probably misremembering things, but I'd long thought that if you irradiated quite a few things intensely enough, they'd just die off - whether with UV or something harsher. How is this different, other than delivery via (cheaper?) LEDs?
It's even another level down from that. I haven't heard about their landlord kicking them out of whatever office they have. That would have its own real world knock-on effects like the storage of valuables and confidential material.

Arguably web hosting is more important to Parler but that makes their lack of prior communication with their vendors like Amazon that much more inexplicable. There are (or were, last I checked) plenty of hosting providers that cater to controversial websites. They charge a premium for not doing this kind of thing. Seems like they tried to pinch pennies in the wrong place.

It happens to everyone in business at some point.
That is true, through we do have historical evidence during the colonial times where large shipping companies were large enough to rival nations and had their own laws and enforcement. Later we also have large mining companies with their own towns, laws and enforcement.

As far as I remember my history, companies that are larger than nation with their own laws and enforcement have not much nice things written about them.
Please stop post it. Plain text accounting is incredible as anything dead simple and plaintext but basically unusable. It's cool as idea, not as a tool.
What part of Trump's policies are extremist? I ask this question honestly. None of his policies are extremist in the slightest. Even the mob on the sixth are just crazy supporters. Trump instructed them to be peaceful repeatedly, even while they were doing it. I understand that he is brusque and has a brash personality, but I cannot understand what it is about him that makes him more extreme than any other previous US president. I just do not understand.

This is an incredibly honest question. I typically ask it, people give me examples, and then I think back to previous presidents in my lifetime (none of whom I've supported, mind you), and can recall pretty much equivalent situations. Then the person I speak with gets angry and walks away really mad at me for what feels like simply remembering things that have happened in my life. I cannot understand it, and frankly, the simple refusal of people to actively engage has made me go from not liking Trump for his personality, to honestly finding him a hero. Please, will someone calmly explain to me what is extreme about Trump's policies?

I don't label Democrat policies as extreme despite no longer being part of that party and not agreeing with any of them. I don't understand the hyperbole.
I agree that it's possible to compromise too much, but it's not 1979 any more, and I don't think you should be encouraging any side to "get tough" and unilaterally rewrite the Constitution. Also, you're going to need to add a lot more new states than just DC to get a two-thirds majority in the senate.
The answer is surge pricing.
> You would need more than just a pre-travel testing requirement. You would also have needed an arrival quarantine and post-arrival testing.

Some of this is now present in parts of the US, such as New York state: https://coronavirus.health.ny.gov/covid-19-travel-advisory

But indeed this wasn't in place at the start of the pandemic, and New York's ability to enforce it is quite weak.

Do we know if the new US federal order will allow the unreliable rapid tests to meet the requirement? Canada's similar requirement, added last Thursday, insists on either a PCR test or an RT-LAMP test. Edit: the wording in the CDC's FAQ requires a "viral test (NAAT or antigen)". I guess that does include the unreliable rapid kind.
Oh got it, the endgame is to downvote me into oblivion! How incredibly, incredibly childish. This country really needs to improve at the most basic human levels.
Off topic but what's wrong with using auto-increment?
I'm sure many rural voters will strongly feel that way, but when you look into it, this will give equal voice to rural voters of CA central valley (who have basically zero voices now), while reducing the voice of overwhelmingly liberal Philadelphia, PA and Milwaukee, WI as much as anyone else.
either way we need a law so this can be adjudicated and argued, and a legal process. not just the whims of the biggest corporation and oligarch in the world.
The Emperor’s New Clothes: CyberSecurity Maturity Model Cert Accreditation Body
The electoral college was arguably mooted by the events of this cycle.
You can allow IAM roles in your account (which simply just has the permissions defined, with no keys or other credentials associated) to be assumed by identities in another account. Vantage would then be responsible for securing credentials for the target identity in their account, but there would be no transfer of keys involved whatsoever from one party to another.
I would miss wmii’s layout model the most, specifically how the screen is divided into columns and each column is either stacked or collapsed. Perhaps there are other tiling window managers that work this way but I haven’t found one.

I would also miss wmii’s tagging which is incredibly flexible. I often have one window on multiple named tags (which are roughly like workspaces).
You're assuming government regulation is the only solution.

When Facebook or Comcast or Google start censoring opinions they don't like, I want to hear about it on other places like hackernews so that I and my friends can use them less.
What year was this? Nobody cared about censorship when Teamspeak was in its prime. Many definitely do now.
That is certainly the most optimistic version I've ever read of how regulation comes into existence. Nothing about this origin story rehabilitates regulations as a whole, however. Even if it were actually 100% true, it would still be possible for most regulations to be bad based on misunderstandings, the calculation problem, and other forms of unintended consequences. Clearly, there also exist examples of regulations enacted for less enlightened reasons.
> IANAL, but... I expect the hackers to be subject to federal crimes.

Only if they’re in the USA based on their IP address or online testimony.
Microsoft Patch Tuesday, January 2021 Edition
Signal: Brian Acton on exploding growth, monetization, WhatsApp outrage
I don't think this is true, and Plaid makes pretty explicit claims that they do not do this, i.e.:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18655417

- https://plaid.com/how-we-handle-data/
What happened to glenn greenwald?

I considered him a respected journalist, but this article doesn't seem like it's either balanced or fact-checked.

Has there been something going on with him? is he alright?
That's not what's going on though. Clang's not slow because LLVM is using additional optimizatons, it's slow because Clang is spending a ton of time in the frontend mostly lexing and keeping track of source locations for macro tokens.

(I literally just looked at a perf record of a whole build of the linux kernel with Clang; and know more about the subject than...anyone).

ToT LLVM, linux-next x86_64 defconfig: https://photos.app.goo.gl/hNwwy2K1Gh7Uc2D67 (yes, I know about disabling kptr_restrict)

Our next big project is to look into lazy parsing.
We do have laws. Parler has taken AWS to court. We'll see how good the contract AWS had with Parler is.
If two seats fits your needs, this might be the ultimate category-buster car.

It's going to be a fairly spirited drive because it's so incredibly light, while also being the ultimate commuter car and also the ultimate road trip car... while also being able to off-road to some extent!?

Unlike with internal combustion engines, where extreme efficiency brings tradeoffs, the Aptera benefits in all ways from its singular focus on efficiency.
>there are still ~6x the number of viruses out there causing colds

The variety of viruses is totally irrelevant to the original question of what are one's odds of having COVID based on having cold symptoms. The only piece of information that matters for that are the aggregate numbers and aggregate numbers from previous years are misleading.
Simulating Fluid Dynamics with Cellular Automata (1986) [pdf]
I won't name names, you can Google them, but these people are ethical for optics. These are the same people supporting Modi, who's arguably worse than trump, a man who was banned from flying into America.

Same capitalist who have injected a significant amount of capital to Indian Oligarchs like Ambani, to fund JIO and aggregate a billion users. Under the covers you'll find corruption in the deepest levels. 250M , yes Million, protested these same Oligarchs - and I'm surprised this isn't getting connected up the chain. Maybe a matter of time?
Ask HN: If you don't use social media, how do you get your news/updates?
I worry it sets a dangerous precedent if a country can start dissallowing citizens to return to their home country.
As a US-based software developer, the concept of a credential that anyone cares about being issued by a school is a strange one. :D
I think the challenge here is that there aren't easy to use solutions for this. For donations there's Patreon, GitHub Sponsors, etc; but for invoices I'm not sure if there's an equivalent that makes sense.
We really need to stop using the term Nazi so flippantly. Nazism represented a systematic process of genocide. Literally treating the death of an entire ethnic group as something you use CI techniques to improve efficiency.

The US saw some cosplay that went way too far. Is it dangerous? Yes. Is it toxic? Yes. Could it lead to something akin to Nazism? Yes. Is it Nazism? No.

Don't minimize what happened under Nazism by using it as an idle insult
Web scraping is not illegal per se. Though it may be against the specific terms of service of the site you are scraping.
>a nice bonus on top of the government hacker salary.

The current narrative is that they aren't on payroll or under orders, but instead individuals or groups within the collective (cozy bear) act on their own initiative to win putin's favor.
The performance is basically neck and neck (GCC can be measured to be faster at a few SPEC benchmarks, but they can be contrived and the kernel is often hyper-optimized so the difference may not be down to the optimizer).

GCC in this case gives you equal or as-near-as-makes-no-difference up or down performance in less compilation.

Some rigs are now posting 17s Kernel build times, reasons to be cheerful
Yeah, Samsung doesn't restrict itself to lucrative industries. So many of its ventures are in markets where marginal cost ≈ marginal revenue, and they're big enough and competent enough to get rich doing so.

The smartphone business is maybe not the best example though, since the brand reputation that having the second biggest name in smartphones confers surely pays dividends across their consumer product lines.
So much more over and above that.
You are guaranteed a minimum of 30 days to contest an ACH charge. 2 days for businesses.
Florida state rep requests gov divest from Amazon, Twitter, Apple, Google and FB
> If a single worker is 10 times more productive he can ask for 10 times the salary.

This is only true if very few workers are 10 times more productive. If many workers are 10 times more productive, then the supply of labor has increased 10x and unless there is a corresponding increase in the buyers of labor, the price of the labor will go down. Which is what has happened in real life.

Low income jobs pay low income because the buyers of that labor are not willing to pay much and the supply of labor is high for that type of work.

I believe the rest of your comment does not apply to state and city governments in the US, since only the federal government can print money. For state and city governments, their tax base and therefore potential economic growth/future tax income can move away.
> and clang's previous performance advantages were actually due to the lack of various optimization techniques and other features?

Not lack of optimization techniques; LLVM is relatively fast compared to Clang for builds of the Linux kernel. Is it all of the compiler diagnostics and semantic analysis, or just unoptimized code? WIP to find out.

(I literally just went over a perf record of a linux kernel build with a teammate that's going to look into this more; I organized the LLVM miniconf at plumbers which is the video linked in the phoronix article in the grand parent post; my summer intern did the initial profiling work).

ToT LLVM, linux-next x86_64 defconfig: https://photos.app.goo.gl/hNwwy2K1Gh7Uc2D67 (yes, I know about disabling kptr_restrict)

Our next big project is to look into lazy parsing.
This is truth, but not the whole truth. Beside money, you need somebody with a right vision at helm.

Look at the direction modern Gnome goes. They have the money from Red Hat and Canonical. BTW systemd too was developed by salaried employees of Red Hat. Money makes things happen, but not always the nicest things.
That is certainly what they're worried about.

Here's a less flattering angle on the same worry. Europe is caught pants-down. They are realizing how weak they are in tech and scrambling to fix it. The facts:

- None of the 20 most valuable companies in the world are European. Most are US or China based, and many are tech.

- A tiny number of successful startups are European. I think their biggest in the last 20 years is Spotify...

- This is a sad showing for a continent with a $20t GDP and 500 million citizens (EU + UK).

- Software is eating the world. This was a lukewarm take when pmarca wrote that famous essay a decade ago, now you could almost restate it past-tense.

Europe is simply not participating in that process meaningfully. Sure, there have been vast shifts in many aspects of life--Europeans spend just as much time on their iPhones as we do, on Twitter, no FB, on Insta, on Gmail. But they neither invented nor control the development of any of those things.

So yes, European world leaders are belatedly realizing that a guy in SF with a footlong beard could ban them from Twitter at will. But that is the tip of the iceberg. They have developed deep dependency on US tech in all kinds of ways. If GSuite or O365 went down tomorrow, how many EU governments would be able to get any work done?

This situation mirrors the (more extensively discussed) military situation. Europe has complacently decided that the US can manage it for them, and are now experiencing a rude awakening.
Tech companies aren't deciding what viewpoints are allowed. They are exercising their right of freedom of association.

Parler's moderation policies caused their own problems. They decided they wanted to be a platform friendly to violent extremists. Their noted lack of moderation of violent rhetoric, calls to violence, and planning of violence made them a pariah.

Amazon is free to associate with whoever they want. They don't owe service to Parler or anyone else.