skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I did something similar for emacs here:

https://twitter.com/hagmonk/status/1338965551775764481

and got similar looking improvements. I also benchmarked Leiningen startup times:

https://gist.github.com/hagmonk/ee5eaa8c07e245422ec384737cb4...

Basically, it's not uncommon to find things running 1.5x faster on M1. Even outside of benchmarks, everything is perceptibly - dare I say it - snappier.
I recall watching a group of kids who figured out that they could increase their speed on the slide by about 4x by riding down it while sitting on a plastic food tray.

I don’t know who had more fun - the kids or me watching them.
On the other hand, if the mail carrier looked at the content of the message and through some algorithm decided that everyone on your street might want to see it (or more accurately, that if everyone on your street saw it, it might boost their advertising revenue) and put it in every mailbox they could, I think they would shoulder some blame.
Did Henry II call on anyone to kill Thomas Becket?

https://www.nbcnews.com/video/trump-encourages-those-at-his-...

They went straight from his rally to Capitol hill. Ultimately his MO is edging very close to unacceptable and saying the right things to the right people to please his ego.

IMO he should've been banned from Twitter on the spot after he retweeted a video of a gut shouting white power at a bunch of black people
Yeah Bernie took the young and dumb crowd.
This makes economic sense. If an invasive test is not useful, it will no longer be performed.
The author makes a huge number of claims but includes no citations or references to back up his science.
Probably the Z pinch responsible for the formation of stars.
S is for Science: The making of 3-2-1 Contact
As far as my experience goes, managers make about the same, or less, as an engineer at a similar experience level. They may end up at a higher compensation level if far enough in the career ladder, but I don't think it's significant in the bigger picture. The average CEO earnings in the Netherlands, including bonuses, is only 5x-6x the average engineer salary.
We can all come by and ritually kick Parler and its suppoerts when they're down.

PUNT #BONK# !BOOT!

Bear in mind that, for all the accusations of Hitlerhood by the Adolphology experts, the conservatives aren't the ones nuking anyone's voices.

Just keep that in mind as this French Revolution picks up angular momentum.
Is it to its detriment? What's really at stake here? Elixir's pipe operator takes a stance, and I love that. It enforces consistency. I feel it's a lot better than having the "sometimes first, sometimes last" that Erlang and Clojure have.
> But most responses will be able to articulate what the risk is, whether it’s relevant to your position or to someone else.

Not my experience at all. Most responses to the question as phrased would be "huh?"

I would claim that most processes are not born of an intent to mitigate risk; in my experience there's rarely an intent at all, people cargo-cult the idea that they should have processes without understanding why or even conceptualising that there should be a why.
Denmark and the Netherlands have the highest income tax bracket at 52/53%. Germany is 43%. However they are stacked taxes.

In Germany (where I reside), the first €9744 (2021) is untaxed, then 14% until a certain amount (can't find it atm) and max 43%. However, if you do your tax returns your effective tax rate will drop significantly.
I'd wager that most pay around 25% in total income taxes, excluding things like the health insurance and other taxes.

However, we indeed do not worry about saving up money to put our kids through school.

Earning 65k which what most companies in the tech scene now offer to lure them in as a SWE in Germany is a great salary realistically, considering for example an architect with a masters degree will earn around 55k and no real improvement in sight.

Also don't forget to factor in that the concept of being fired for PROPER reason is nearly impossible in most European countries. Even if an employer hits hard times they cannot just lay off an entire department to quickly green out the numbers in the books, there needs to be proper grounds. I currently need to give my employer 3 months notice before I can even leave, same goes for them to me.
Statistically US police to seem to be trigger-happy thugs compared to just about anywhere else in the West.

Asking for an end to qualified immunity isn't indicting all police officers.

I find the ACAB movement unhelpful, to be clear.
Senior NASA scientist pleads guilty om China ties
I think they're using vscode here as an application platform of sorts.
This explanation does a great job of describing what I've seen in Australia. I moved here from San Francisco after working at several startups including a long stint at Airbnb. I've been consistently stunned by how peripheral software is to businesses here. In the bay area organizations are structured around how they build technology and see it as a key point of competition. Here it's viewed as a cost center and usually outsourced to consulting firms who integrate some semi-generalized third party solution.

This isn't universal, there are startups here that "get it". But it's ubiquitous in large companies that have money, and that drives the salary market.

It seems inevitable that this will change in time either by the old guard catching up or new companies displacing them. I think one of the key driving forces behind this could be the return home of people with experience from SV style companies. As they join companies or start their own they are likely to advocate for approaches that more strongly couple the organization to its technology.

In the Canadian startup circles I once inhabited this was a broadly accepted idea. Seeing people move to the US for high paying tech jobs was generally celebrated, because there was an expectation that many of them would eventually return and be a boost to the overall ecosystem.
Did you view it on a larger screen? I viewed it in mobile, I appreciate the design, but I do find it hard to read with only a few words fitting on a single line. I wonder if the poster you replied to also viewed it on mobile.

Even when I hold my phone sideways, reading such short lines fatigues my eyes quickly.
Just as often, the disillusioned are perfectly open-minded. Especially in cases where the dissent from former colleagues centers around the very issue of open-mindedness, as it does with Greenwald. In general and in this case it behooves us to ask what caused the disillusionment. Sometimes the people on your side betray the principles you thought you all had in common, for example. Which is what happened with Greenwald's former colleagues at The Intercept (which ironically he founded) and I would say is happening with the Democratic party in big ways, ever since Bill Clinton's time. When the "left" started cozying up to big money and selling out poor working people, it ceased being on the "left," and you could have predicted today's political climate and events without much effort.

You're right about the scope of section 230, and given that Parler is not considered a publisher or speaker (which I think is appropriate), there is currently nothing else to consider holding them liable for, so I was using shorthand. I'm actually mostly talking about each person's individual opinion. Personally "holding them liable" for anything at this point depends on a guilt-by-association argument.
By that metric, I can point to many statements by many democrats, including the incoming Vice President, that 'directly incited' violence. This is a ridiculous standard. The double think is insane.
>> And to achieve that you're going to force businesses to host content that hurts their bottom line (the loss of income from the advertisers that will pull out from working with a company that hosts such content).

NYT makes more money from subscriptions than from ads (60% vs 30%), and as a (formerly) paying subscriber I'd like to think it lends them some independence. That aside, many other news sources would find Sen. Cotton's opinions pretty mainstream (certainly these opinions may have even had majority across the general public) and publish such views just fine, without advertisers pulling out.

>> In the country where you live all news organizations are forced to publish everything a politician says?

Of course not. They publish on their own accord, and extremists get an outsized exposure because they are interesting to read (just like click baits, right?). It's how I'd have expected most news organizations to work, you know: reporting on the unusual and unexpected.
For me, NYT stopped being a news organization the moment it decided some opinions are forbidden from being published: not because they are fringe (a significant part of the American public agreed with Cotton), not because they come from fringe sources (he's a Senator after all), but because they are contrarian.
In this case I don't see how regular functions would do. It's a way of giving a module specific behavior in a way that fits in with the application structure Phoenix enforces. That aspect of it is very Railsy, but the way it's implemented is totally different. Elixir macros are much closer to Lisp macros than Ruby macros, because they are not object oriented. I personally find them much easier to read and understand as a result. Here's __using__ in Phoenix.LiveView: https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix_live_view/blob/v...

I think LiveView is a very compelling technology and I'm not sure we would have it if Elixir didn't exist, because Elixir brought a whole raft of different perspectives into the Erlang community. Erlang and Elixir are about as close as two languages can get, and I find complaints from either camp about the other silly. It reminds me of Python vs Ruby flame wars.

Maybe it's just because I'm used to C# and F# and the way they feel in the .NET world, but Elixir and Erlang both feel like different syntaxes over the exact same underlying language concepts.
You think it's a mistake to compare death threats to violence? Or a mistake to compare organizing terrorist attacks against the government to violence?
The interface matters a lot. I am using https://timeular.com/ (along with their neat physical tracker widget) and it has become the tracker interface to beat, as the UX is really solid. I use it every day and find it extremely productive in ensuring that I spent time coding/learning etc instead of too many meetings or other activities that can hijack your day.

Having said that, this is a good effort. I really like the continuing trend of useful software coming via Open Source, via a vibrant tech community.
It's a great technique. I've been doing it since the 90s. Also to break others out of indecision.

But side note: I've found TED really disappointing. For a good talk save yourself the time and read the 5 sentences above. Most aren't that good.

Anyone take issue with that?
Here it's the opposite. The cowburgers are pronto. The fish burgers take forever. I asked why this is so, puzzled why the healthier alternative is saddled with the time penalty.

Freshness, she said. The fish burgers have the shortest shelf life so they make each one to order.

That's the price I pay for not eating next to a large elementary school in Hong Kong at lunch time.
Important to note that this problem was massively magnified by the approach that the whole industry (following Tesla's lead) has taken: treating EVs as a "cellphone with wheels".

There's one big huge modern CPUs, everything is software running on the CPU, and you don't worry about what happens when the big CPU encounters trouble because the CPU is the car. There might be two big CPUs, but if there are then (like this situation with Tesla) they're so intertwined that you effectively need both of them to drive properly. The "entertainment CPU" has become entwined with the "powertrain CPU", so it's really not appropriate to use those terms anymore. You can't remove the entertainment system without bricking the drivetrain. If the entertainment system wants to spy on you, tough luck.

I don't want a cell phone with wheels. I want an EV that's like my 2000s vehicles were: two microcontrollers (one for engine control, one for ABS), and no over-the-air firmware updates so software upgrades are painfully expensive for the manufacturer. If there are any other CPUs in the vehicle it should still drive from point A to point B even if I physically rip those out. This isn't asking a lot: even 20-year-old internal combustion engine powertrains are way more complex than any EV powertrain.

The original Tesla Roadster worked like this. I am seriously considering paying the insane price it costs to buy one that still runs. I would love to buy a still-in-production highway-safe car (not a glorified go-kart) with this property. Suggestions welcome, please.
Keep in mind that SGX is not as secure as advertised[1][2].

Also whole security dangles on Intel to be trusted to not give its private keys to anyone. Which is a big ask for any company. NSA/CIA likely can get those keys legally via FISA court order or illegaly via hacking and/or insider.

[1] - https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/03/hacke...

[2] - https://www.theregister.com/2020/06/10/intel_patches_sgx_aga...
Convince Keller to go back to Intel too and I'll think there could be a chance. (not likely to happen, of course)
I wouldn't say, like the author, that Erlang has "prettier syntax". At first glance, Elixir's syntax is much nicer and prettier (whatever that means). However, Erlang's syntax is both more terse and consistent. It has much fewer special cases, syntactic sugar and all. It is the syntax, once you know and understand it it's simple.

That is really my main issue with Elixir. And I can understand if I'm in the minority, but I'm more comfortable typing a bit more for a consistent and predictable syntax.
Yes, you can earn $200k in EU. But usually on very senior role/as contractor while in US you can get that kind of offer from FANG just out of university.
I would assume that people who can get $200k in EU could get a ton more in US
The important fact that this community is lost on, is the fact that it doesn't really matter what Facebook, Google or Twitter are actually responsible for.

The fact that Silicon Valley overwhelmingly supports the Democratic Party - at North Korean Levels of popular support (search twitter on the fec.gov [1]) - and the Democratic Party is now responsible for regulating Silicon Valley makes it chilling when the demands for censorship by the Democratic Party are followed.

The Democrats have the power now and they will use it to suppress any opinion they disagree with.

[1] https://www.fec.gov/introduction-campaign-finance/how-to-res...
> there is always a conspiracy against them

Given that they are referred to as Fascists/Nazis, along with the notion that punching Nazis is ok; Seems to me there is a conspiracy, a pretty open/explicit one.
That is extremely obnoxious. The more I learn about the German legal system, the less I like.

On the weird and semi-related flip side, our gym voluntarily cancelled ours (I planned to keep it going because it's a family business and I wasn't suffering financially) because it was cheaper for them to cancel their SaaS that they had used to track & bill members.
As an aside, on mobile your site has ads on top and bottom of the browser window, leaving a bit of room in the middle to read the content which is just as often ads as your own words.

Reading that article was a distinctly unpleasant experience.
> she's proven to have theories about people that take months to play out but end up playing out.

All mothers have that - but they're different theories...
He could be referring to how Facebook was used in the Rohingya genocide, which they admitted to over two years ago:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/06/technology/myanmar-facebo...
> They may not want to impeach (and I am not sure what is the point of impeaching a president after he left office)

Trump has already been impeached the second time (it didn’t happen after he left office.)

Conviction after he left office would be limited to a lifetime bar on future office (assuming it is legal at all, but I suspect that were it challenged it would be found to be), but the main purpose would arguably not be the actual disability to Trump, but drawing a line of accountability for Presidents in general. (Politically, it would also be an opportunity for some Republicans to concretely distance themselves from Trump, which they may see as beneficial for future elections.)
> What's the functional benefit of using containers over EC2 images for a database? I can't see why anyone would reasonably consider trying such a thing.

Version upgrade speed.
> University degrees are totally doable without going to lectures, or attending any classrooms at all.

Nevertheless universities require you to attend about 90% or fuck off.

In my opinion examination/certification should be done by an independent institution and require no prerequisites. So people could get the knowledge from anywhere they prefer (YouTube, books, private educators, paid or free lectures, commercial companies, experience) at any pace they feel comfortable then just come to pass a standardized exam and get a diploma.
It's too bad that Republicans can't change their platform at all to become more popular so that Democrats have competition.

Republicans have a duty to their nation to provide a counter balance of power and they cannot use dogmatism as an excuse for staying put.
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Like that Windows XP key I have burnt in my memory, “WRT54G” is etched there forever.
HN just isn't a racist or sexist system.

That's debatable, but there's probably nothing to be gained by debating it here and now.

It is the least worst thing I know in that regard, which is one of the reasons I hang here.

But my firsthand experience over the course of more than 11 years suggests that, yes, sexism is an issue here, though it certainly isn't overt. The fact that it is subtler than usual actually makes it harder to root out.

Another reason I hang here is "I'm too truthful to be good." and people here are willing to tolerate that personality defect. Unlike Metafilter and some other forums, I haven't (yet) been banned for sometimes pointing out what I see when I'm sufficiently fed up and cranky and having a bad day and unable to keep erring on the side of giving people credit for their many virtues and I, thus, feel compelled to say something like "...and, yet, I remain dirt fucking poor and no amount of virtue on my part of adding value or some shit -- like people say I should -- ever seems to remedy that."

To be clear, I count it as a tremendous virtue that so many people here are willing to tolerate my presence in spite of me being too truthful to be good. It gives me hope that HN will be the space in which the internet figures out how to do things better, in spite of all of us being human and having inherited so much awful crap from the past and the inherent challenges involved in redressing large-scale social injustices.

I don't really care to discuss this further at the moment. I hope you have a great day in spite of making the egregious mistake of having spoken to me.
We need to get to a fully trustless routing mechanism on global networks
I like the ones that just say "Made You Look".
> They went straight from his rally to Capitol hill

They went straight from his rally, where he asked them to 'cheer on the brave congressmen' fighting for them.

https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/2021/01/06/dc-protest...

I'm so done. If I cannot live in a country where a politician, of any background, cannot call on their supporters to protest, I will do like my parents did and emigrate.

I cannot believe this is going on in America. This is exactly why my parents left their country to come here. They thought people were free to talk and believe here, independent of the actions of others in their group. This is insanity at every level. I cannot believe I'm seeing Americans go along with it, and there's only one politician in the opposition party (Tulsi Gabbard) with any gumption to downright criticize it.

> IMO he should've been banned from Twitter on the spot after he retweeted a video of a gut shouting white power at a bunch of black people

Oh my goodness, this is such a farce. I remember that video, and you have to have super hearing to even decipher that. Without the transcript, I wouldn't even have heard it. He also took it down once people brought it up.

In conclusion, I am stunned. Throughout his entire term and his entire 2016 campaign, he has not once called for violence, and yet I hear continuously how evil he is. Meanwhile, Kamala Harris calls for an uprising, Maxine waters to confront people wherever they go and not leave them in peace, Pelosi denies there is any rioting at all and refuses to condemn it, etc, and I am to believe that Donald Trump told people to vandalize the US capitol. Unlike all the politicians I mentioned above, the moment Trump heard about the violent breakins, he immediately told people to go home. That puts him on a wholly different moral playing field than Harris and Biden who took many days or weeks to even acknowledge the violence over the summer. I cannot believe this. I thought political speech was allowed in America.
Start by defining your rate. Find out how much you cost to your current employer (including any additional costs and taxes your employment incurs which you never get to see), add at least 10% for shifting risk towards yourself (e.g. when you get ill the employer doesn't need to pay, cheap to fire you, etc.). Try to read up on some taxation basics and try to understand what your net income would be.

Don't worry about not being good enough for freelancing, there's a market for juniors as well, it's all reflected in the rate.

Start looking for contracts: e.g. just search for "reactjs contract london". You'll find some stuff, but keep in mind most contracts never even get published as the recruiters also have people on call. See how the rates align with what you have in mind, note which skills you know are in high demand, make a list of companies that are involved, contact their recruiters through linkedin by sending your CV and rate, say you're a starting contractor so you need a bit of time to set things up. They will understand, everybody has to start. Things move pretty quickly in that world, once you have a contract, contact an accountant and set up your business and off you go.

You might want to be a bit more flexible (e.g. in terms of location) in the beginning just so you can get started. Once you're up and running, things move by themselves. Keep in mind you'll probably be poor during the first year because you have to upfront taxes and things like that.

Don't let them push your rate down too much, rates are negotiable but keep in mind the customer will probably be paying an already agreed upon rate and you're just giving the recruiters more rent for doing nothing.

If you become a tax hacker you can _really_ optimize your income, don't expect accountants to do an exceptional job for you. Tax systems aren't that different from a quirky legacy code base you can hack around in. Talking to people who are also interested in that might help as well, some people are real tax nerds.
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Every decision to increase platform spread should be justified in detail, as the implementation and support overhead is essentially unbounded. Be careful you don't buy a pig in a poke.