skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I vacationed in Barbados, and when then cruise ships would pull into Bridgetown it was remarkable. They towered over the town like a skyscraper over a suburban apartment. The area around the docks, full of hawkers and stalls selling terrible cheap food, pulsed with tourists like a vein throbbing in a forehead. A few hours later they would be gone and the ship would depart, leaving eerie silence behind. We quickly learned to stay well away if anything was docked.
It could be something environmental that we haven’t identified yet.
That was also my introduction to A*. Say, does anyone have insights into optimizing path finding for speed, as the map gets larger and number of entities increases?
Link to the actual apology:

https://github.blog/2021-01-17-update-on-an-employee-matter/

Unusually for a corporate missive, they actually use the phrase "we sincerely apologize" instead of the usual non-apology (e.g., "mistakes were made.")
I knew two kids adopted as infants who were born addicted to drugs.

The family that adopted them was wealthy. They poured enormous amounts of time and resources into raising those kids. One turned it all around and works for Google, the other ram away and hasn’t been heard from in 20 years.

Same birth mother, born two years apart, she was an addict.
two large previous threads yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25812655

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25815452
I think that's it. It was viewed as an insult and someone invoked Godwin's Law against him. Only it turns out he was speaking correctly and accurately.
To be clear, I agree with you.

My point is that the people who created this project didn't have the same goals as you or I would have, and their goals have probably been accomplished.
My takeaway from all that research was the same. Almost everyone benefits from universal coverage but the system has to incentivize patients to shop around for the optimal balance of price, quality, and convenience. This can be accomplished with an annual deductible of a few thousand dollars perhaps capped at a % of income. Without this incentive, costs skyrocket. Price transparency is a pre-requisite without which consumers can't easily shop around, so this law is a giant leap forward in the right direction.

That is the #1 most effective thing that Americans can do to reduce health care costs. #2 would be to change the standard American diet and eat healthier to reduce rates of obesity and diabetes. Almost every other proposed structural change or intervention we looked at was minimal by comparison.
Pick any country without an extradition treaty with the US and buy rack space there.

Parler was easily nuked because its tech was amateur hour not because US cloud providers rule the internet.
Undercutting Taiwan/China labor costs eh?
For me, not being a native English speaker, it "feels" much easier to listen to music with English lyrics while working effectively on other cognitive tasks like coding, compared to listening to music with vocals in my native language.

On the other hand, there are several other factors, like how tired I am, how hard the foreground task is etc., so it is hard to pin-point it specifically to the lyrics language.
Looks like they ran out of geocoding quota.
Ultimately, this will come down to public vs. private rights. If infrastructure, no matter how vital, is privately funded, what rights are there vs infrastructure that is publicly funded. Further complications are infrastructure that is a mix of the two.

Personally, I lean toward private infrastructure being able to set their own rules and if it’s public, then the public sets the rules. I am not sure when it gets to be a mix of the two.
That's what the NYT and admirers of central planning want us to believe.
If you work with a lot of data, Julia is already a 10-100x improvement over Python.

Being able to iterate and mangle huge columns with real lambdas and without having to marshal arguments to/from C++ is a huge advantage.

Where I used to spend hours in aggregate searching through docs for pandas/numpy, for stupid shit like "how do I shift but also skip NaNs", now I just write a for-loop in a couple minutes and get on with my work.

There's a whole subclass of tasks in R/pandas to work around the interpreter that just aren't needed in Julia.

For me at least it's well worth the syntactical warts and slow interpreter.
This is in the works! We hope to implement this as soon as we've cross-referenced all the plans across providers.
This "Julia marketing conspiracy theory" that many people on HN seem to believe is so bizarre. What big tech company do you think is behind this incredible, shrewd and presumably well-funded marketing campaign? Julia is the only new major programming language of the last decade that doesn't have a major tech giant backing it. Adoption and development are pretty much entirely grass roots. If you see a lot of enthusiastic posts about Julia on HN, that's because there are a lot of actual people out there using Julia who love it and write posts about it.
These are all well documented:

https://www.indy100.com/news/donald-trump-bad-things-list-b1...

There are 55 things on the list. There’s a mixture of things he said and things he did. As president, his words have real consequences, so drawing the line at “things he said” is strange.
In all the years I’ve been using them they’ve never hit 10 minutes for my orders. Usually > 4 hours and < 6 hours though on AX and other “standard specification” boxes.

On PX where you can specify NVME and other configuration, more like 2-3 days (particularly if the order was placed on a weekend).
Yeah this is my big gripe with LED bulbs - it's hard to find compact 200W equivalents.
I don't believe any medical professional in Germany has wage exceeding 150k EUR yearly after taxes - doctors in the US sometimes have multiples of that, coincidentally 5x to 10x more is not unusual.
Discovered this via: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25823125

I’ve never seen a US hospital with price transparency before, so I was really surprised. Thought it was noteable and interesting enough that others might want to see.
Creeping Featuritis
Batching things into 'contexts' is the premise of Getting Things Done by David Allen. It was popular in the early 2000s. My guess is that the older engineer that told the author to batch things was referencing it [1]. It's a business book based on aggressively making and prioritizing todo lists and then working on them in contexts like 'email', 'phone calls', etc.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getting_Things_Done
It's probably some tax dodge or something.
GNU Radio 3.9
Capitalists are expensive.
> is there a language that’s as high-level as Python but AOT-compiled?

Common Lisp, Ocaml for example.
This is not true. Not even close.
Those are beautiful slides.
Crispr and the Splice to Survive
But that is exactly the problem: how do you separate the two? Once someone figures out a way to profit from "free speech" the profit motive takes over and infects the whole system. I don't see any way around that without compromising freedom.
LEDs don't handle incandescent dimmers very well. The way it chops up the incoming electricity has harmful effects on the power supply. You should just replace the dimmer with a normal light switch or get a LED PWM dimmer.
Since that debate:

* Linux has taken over the server world and is the biggest mobile OS (Android is modified Linux).

* MINIX 3 is likely the most widely used OS on x86/AMD64 processors since 2015. (It's inside Intel Management Engine ME11 so it should run in more system than than Windows, Linux, or macOS).
I’m sure German doctors don’t have oodles of student debt too.
I have flexible panels on the bus. Three years ago, I paid $110 for 100 watt flexible mono panels. I can't even find that deal now, let alone cheaper.
I was far from stable and far from happy. It wasn't until later that I realized the benefits that the people around me provided. With that said-- with some exceptions of course-- none of the kids want to be foster children. Especially those that understand that they are disposable. Kids are smart and know when they will just be shuffled around or placed in a group home. When I was fortunate enough to placed with my brother, we would act out -- looking back it was almost as a way to confirm that nobody really cared. It's easier to shit on everyone around you when you think everything is a temporary situation.
There has been a sustained, multi-decade governmental, social, and cultural effort to reduce birth rates to deal with overpopulation. It's a very strong foot on the brake. (My dad was closely involved in this effort in Bangladesh as a public health expert.)
That’s a US practice.

In Japan this isn’t really a problem, since the forests are clearly able to breed if they are growing denser, and the streets are mostly not wide enough to have trees except maybe on major roads.
Yeah, I know those services are out there. I thought most of them were physically located outside North America though, is that not true?
Yeah, that is a great mental heuristic: the majority is always fair and right. I am sure the Jews thought that back in 1930’s Germany. And the Christians in Rome, the Kolacks in Russia, the intellectuals in Mao's China, the wealthy Cubans when Castro took over and blacks in the US before the civil rights movement.
I call bollocks on this. Everyone whose business goes against the terms of service of the major three cloud providers (in the case of Parler, serving as a platform for calls to violence and sedition, which are criminal offenses) still has the freedom to go to any of the literally hundreds of "bullet-proof hosting" providers, to rent rack space and a fiber uplink somewhere and to place one's own bare metal hardware there.

The only thing Parler lost is the convenience that cloud providers offer, but there's no constitutional right to convenience.
Why conflate over/unnecessary treatment with availability and evaluation of markers? I guess if neither the patient nor the health care practitioner are uninterested in careful consideration of the data, then why bother I suppose. But then why bother at all with seat-belts, environmental laws, or dental visits if there's no value to prevention? We can just react after its too late, for everything.

/s in some of this, perhaps all
I'm afraid I have to concur - in the face of mass communication, the marketplace of ideas that underpins free-speech idealism has failed.

Better ideas do not push out worse ones. And no, I'm not even talking about political viewpoints here - we see ideas based on fantasy, utter unreality, repeatedly winning substantial support and spreading amongst people.

Conversely whenever platforms do allow totally 'free' speech, we see that they degenerate into hives of hate and moderate voices tend to leave entirely.

I don't know what the answer is, but just having public forums made to allow everything, and screeching about free speech when they take a stand, is demonstrably not working.
> Iran would be a middle-income or even wealthy country if it wasn't embargoed almost entirely

Let's assume this is true.

Nearly all of that hypothetical wealth would be amassed at the very top of the power structure, just like we see in other resource-rich mafia states.

Iran is a major energy producer, and it would make sense for electricity to be provided "below cost" when that cost is theoretical and pegged to the market price of fuel (ie, opportunity cost), rather than the true production cost of electricity.

On face, I strongly doubt the narrative that crypto mining is the cause for any kind of grid failure. The regime in Iran defaults to lies and disinformation when covering up its own miserable failures. Remember when they initially denied that Iran's military had downed the Ukrainian plane? Same deal; they lie until they are cornered. I am more inclined to believe Ziya Sadr.

For Americans who don't understand Iran's regime, compare it to Trump's cries of election fraud; the claim is intended to point a finger that distracts from the actual problem (him losing the election fair and square). The blame in Iran is always placed as far from the leadership as possible, even for centrally managed utilities like the power grid.
anything with purely USB won't work in BIOS or recovery system etc where a matching driver for whatever USB-graphics thing it is using isn't loaded.

If your server has HDMI out, you can use a cheap HDMI-USB-capture dongle with a laptop, smartphone or tablet. (small portable HDMI screens are also available, but for occasional use buying one is overkill). VGA capture modules are more expensive, but should also exist.

Otherwise a traditional way is a serial console, which again would need a serial adapter for whatever device you use with it - again depends if your hardware has a serial port and (if BIOS is relevant) if the BIOS talks over it.
Examples: Basic, C (both Basic and C, to a degree), Visual Basic, PHP, Javascript, Python. I'm probably missing some. These displaced older languages just by being adopted by newbies.
They get this suggestion a lot. There's a section in their FAQ that explains why it's infeasible.

https://github.com/EleutherAI/info
Mammalian Aggression
Bots? Neat site BTW.
I see Facebook getting right on that.
It can make use of JIT caches (if it doesn't already), not every JIT compiler starts from zero.
Here's a neat website that captures this: https://www.r-graph-gallery.com/

If you click into any of the plots and scroll down you can see how little code is needed for most of these plots.

For example: https://www.r-graph-gallery.com/135-stacked-density-graph.ht...
Kind of ironic when the party in question is trying to cancel one of the laws that allows providers to be neutral in the first place
Freedom is not absolute and boundless.
I moved to usa from a poor country to work at a hospital. I was shocked by how awesome, clean and luxurious everything looked. Top end fancy hotel in my country would look like a slum dwelling compared to a hospital in USA.
Yeah, that for sure.
Not everyone thinks they are horrible, and for the many that do they are relying on the media saying that they played a part in the Capitol riots. I haven't actually seen any data showing what was posted on Parler or what evidence was used to justify shutting them down.

Don't forget...just because everyone thinks something is good, doesn't mean that everyone isn't wrong. Hitler was Time magazine's man of the year...less than a year before he started WW2.
A great question. I'm partially-grizzled (only 20 years experience) and looking for the same thing. Some sort of Principle Software Engineer with technical focus and no direct people management responsibilities. Searching LinkedIn brings back plenty of job hits...but it's mostly MegaCorp jobs like you mention.
This Econtalk interview with the founder is very enlightening:

https://www.econtalk.org/keith-smith-on-free-market-health-c...
I was surprised at how short the Ikea dimmable LEDs lasted (not the smart ones) - but it's surprisingly hard to find E14's that are bright enough (60w equivalent), dimmable, and warm. The Osram's i gave in and tried (albeit at 40w equivalent and dimmable) had a green/yellow-ish tint that i despised.

Recently accidentally picked up ikea's tradfris (zigbee bulbs, dimmable (but not with dimmer), multi-white) and have gone on a zigbee spree after that. I hope they last.
Almost certainly not PCI Compliant.

The fact that they don't mention that on main page makes me wonder if they even know what it is.

Use extreme caution.
Can we agree to not take things related to Bitcoin and generalize it as the whole space for crypto? Lightning is not the only layer-2 solution there is (just as an example: Ethereum already has zk rollup-based solutions) and even if it were there is a growing number of people that are using it successfully.

> People have been trying and failing to implement proof of stake for years and years.

People have been trying and failing to implement heavier-than-air flight machines for years and years. So?
GPT-3 does not fit in any one GPU that exists at present. It's already spread out across multiple GPUs.
I imagine it's on account of all the administration and intermediaries.
Sorry but that experience is absolutely incomparable. It was more like buying software on CD except you got a file. That's not what App Store is.
This isn't politics. This is existential. It's only politics when all voices are heard. When a contingent are trying to upend democracy and denigrate entire demographics, then it's no longer an opinion worth respecting and has to be shut down. There has been ample evidence of Nazis and other hate groups in the Capitol riot as there has been in the Trump movement since the start. You've certainly already seen it and are choosing to ignore.
Any ALGOL language user (or derived ones) will feel right at home with those issues.
Sure, but frequently whole netblocks we blocked because spammers or IP ranges hosting + sending content undesired by the larger community.

Peering ISPs would frequently drop routes + messages from whole data centers that would blatantly ignore spam complaints, which would force their hand to kick the offending customers off their platforms that caused harm to their other non-offending customers.
> Parler has hosted content no worse than Twitter or Facebook or thousands of other sites.

Nonsense.

Parler was created because Twitter and Facebook were moderating content. If Twitter and Facebook hadn't been moderating hate speech, Parler would not exist. Posting voices and content which is banned on Twitter and Facebook is the single unique "Feature" of Parler.

Over the months, Amazon has been in contact with Parler's management about moderating violent content and speech.

Facebook and Twitter have hosted content which incites violence and hate speech, but it's far less common and they make (often grudging and half assed) efforts to remove it. On Parler, it's accepted, arguably encouraged.
Very few people are hand-wringing over the nonavailability of large child pornography sites and such. The problem is that not everyone has to believe you're horrible to get you booted off the internet - you just have to become sufficiently vile to a narrow, highly-polarized elite strata of society.

The NYT did not apologize for printing Tom Cotton's op-ed because it was outside of a broad Overton Window, but because it's a captured institution. A lot of tech firms face similar issues, whereby trying to hobble the speech channels of political enemies (even those with very broad support) is not only seen as acceptable but morally necessary.
Wait, how do you reduce iron ore back into h2o ?
Don't generalize across Europe when you aren't certain.

At least in Denmark, it's not a requirement to register a SIM. Anonymous SIMs are available from vending machines at the airport, kiosks and by post.
This makes no sense. "Strong norms in favor of marriage and strong taboos against divorce" do not fix these issues.

I grew up with my parents married. They were married before I was born and are still married now. That didn't and doesn't stop the abuse, the mistreatment, the violent rages, the substance abuse, the mental illness, or the cruelty. I wished every day State authorities would come take us away because the alternative couldn't possibly be worse than this. They never came and I never had the courage to tell anyone. I just had to suffer.

The system failed me badly, but it would have failed me worse if the authorities did come and said "well your parents are married and you have food to eat and a bed to sleep in. Looks good."
With Open-AI being corporate controlled and not really 'Open'. Is Neo a nod at 'The Matrix'?
According to the CEO of Parler, banks and payment vendors, law firms, text and mail services also cancelled on them. This is why Parler also motivates discussion of alternative currency.
I can sympathize, when I was young and naive I was also befriended by my manager who used our conversations about project and about one of my coworkers to get rid of him. He was a bit erratic but he was honest and good programmer.
He must have been a 'handful' to a manager so he got rid of him.

I realized what happened years after and to this day I feel shitty that I took part in it.
I can offer no defense of the opposing point of view right now in regards to purely anonymous distributed unstoppable peer-to-peer communication.

I can offer this review of what was wrong with Parler in particular: https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/a-simple-thing-biden-can-...

"In other words, we have what should be an illegal product barred in a way that should also be illegal, a sort of ‘two wrongs make a right’ situation."

I think this is why so many of our choices seem tough right now: We made the wrong decision to get to present state, now any decision we make also looks wrong.

We need to go back and rethink some things...
I think free speech ends at specific threats or calls to violence. Call me the n word all you want. But if you threaten my life you should be stopped. Either by the police or by me.

I think free speech is necessary, but not free speech to harass or threaten violence. Free speech including the vile and negative won't make the world a better place. Arguing against the bad ideas will. But I do not think it's the burden of society to court speech that falls in the category or harassment or threats of violence.
“A nation’s greatness is measured by how it treats its weakest members.” ~ Mahatma Ghandi

I think that says it all. Despite all the propaganda/cultural brainwashing, convincing many Americans that their country/culture is somehow better than others.
"Edit: I have to be honest, I enjoyed the work."

And that makes it _perfect_ -- too rare in actual life. Wonderful. Buy yourself a pint! :-)
You forgot Pascal. :)
Primus inter pares – David Albrecht
Show HN: I'm making public my collection of assets and tools for development
Why IoT Is Difficult (audio)
As it happens, I'm working on an app to help people find alternatives to technosolutionism! :)
Just make sure you dont use proprietary stuff (e.g Google datastore/firebase etc) and at least you have the chance to go the old fashion way(co-location, smaller hosta etc)
No worries. I am actually into the machines at the moment, so a lot of it is spooled up, reasonably fresh.

The blink implementation will work when video does. Pretty much independent of CPU state. That whole circuit works on phase 2 of the 6502 bus clock and is basically transparent to the CPU.

That kind of thing normally takes wait cycles, or multi port RAM.

Bonus points: Doubles as RAM refresh.

The only impact is a slightly longer cycle every 63 (I think) cycles to make the video line up with the clock to allow for the artifact color hack to work consistently.

To the CPU, there are no waits and it runs at full speed. In physical time, that long cycle takes a bit longer than the other ones which can complicate things like bit banging audio, if not done on a long cycle multiple.
Strictly speaking every living thing needs oxygen atoms (for example from water), because they are a necessary constituent of the RNA/DNA machinery.
Yandex Cloud, Alibaba, CloudSigma, Hetzner....maywhen it comes to US politics, any non-US country allows more free speech than US itself.
Fetch All Fields in SOQL Query – Spring 21 New Feature
If you ever worked with SQL or any other query language before, you probably familiar with Select * from ..., right? This is the way to fetch all fields from a particular table in other(mostly all) query languages. But in the Salesforce world, we were not having this feature. In SOQL, there is nothing with which we can fetch all the fields unless we specifically mention all the field names in the query.

But now in Spring 21, Salesforce is bringing a function through which we can fetch all fields in SOQL Query. This blog post will cover how you can use this function, limitations, best practices.

http://bit.ly/3qvaN5Q