skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I’m getting a bit tired of these overhyped cherry-picked samples with seemingly nothing solid to ever back it up.

Most of the times a "fantastic GPT-3 result" is shown, you have to dig a bit and then you'll find out how it was primed[0] and how many different texts they had it generate. Then the one(s) carrying out the experiment go on and pick the most shocking writings. If you read all of the outputs (there are a few articles around that show you 5 or 6 different outputs) you'll see the variations that it took duing those. I understand that 5 or 6 is actually small, to get shocking results they usually go into de dozens of tries.

[0] usually the priming phrases are given, but depending on how much of a snake-oil-salesman the person writing/giving a talk is, they may even hide this part
> farming, fishing, foraging, fighting, and _fmining_

This little easter egg really got me. Well done.

I've never played, but having seen some of the community interaction [1] that goes on with the developer (@ConcernedApe)[2], it occupies a strange little heartwarming place in my head.

[1] https://twitter.com/ConcernedApe/status/1341187588082683905
[2] https://twitter.com/ConcernedApe
You're severely underestimating the Chinese government's ability to sanction nvidia and softbank if they went forward without their approval.
So you just need to put salt in it I guess.
HelloTalk and HiNative have been the best “free” resources that I have found for learning Japanese from Japanese natives, and exchanging your own language with them in turn.

For paid resources iTalki has worked well for me.
Does MSVC finally support C99?
I saw that comment, and I think it misses the point. The author was not claiming that everyone lives in harmony and no one is prejudiced against those anyone else.

The point is that, if you look at official stats and see "98% Japanese", that ignores the fact that many of those people aren't ethnically Japanese, because the stats talk about citizenship, not ethnicity.

I think that comment actually proves the author's point, that there are many categories outside ethnically Japanese, and people there disagree on what it means to "be Japanese", lending credence to the idea that Japan is not a homogeneous society.
Don't these and Stadia use RDP under the hood?
I like to convert to DNG for future proofing. As a standardised file format, I have a lot more confidence that I'll be able to open DNG files in 10 or 20 years, compared to proprietary RAW formats.
Adherence to (imo) bad linting rules have forced the early crystallisation of architecture as arbitrary abstractions simply to please the static analysis gods.

Code style is fine to keep consistent but sometimes concepts just aren’t battle tested enough to warrant their own abstractions yet and committing to one to please a cyclomatic complexity / line count score is actually just creating more work for some future engineer who is tasked with the job of re-engineering the solution.
The US can raise antitrust objections to EU companies acquired by other EU companies.

Legally, nobody need to obey the objections, but if the merge still happens, the new company might discover doing business in the US has suddenly become much harder :-)
MouSTer Brings USB to Retro Computers
Here is a public incident that the exchange I work for was involved in https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_flash_crash

It lasted half an hour, caused a trillion dollars to be wiped off the US economy and was followed by investigations and a congressional hearing.

If you think Twitter has a problem with adversarial clients connected to its network I think you don’t understand the modern financial market.
Agreed. I prefer to keep the wines off the table until they have opened up properly since there is a tendency for them to disappear quickly once the tasting starts. It also allows you to keep them a bit cooler for serving which has a huge impact on the experience.
Federal Highway subsidies.
Federal Mortgage & insurance rules.
Tax structures.
Federal building guidelines for FHA / HUD programs.
Destroying dense mixed use black neighborhoods to build highway interchanges.
Federally funded highways and interstates that enable suburban living to be convenient.

The built environment of the United States was a choice. "Forced" through top down "market" incentives.

Not to mention oil subsidies etc

From American Conservative:
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/urbs/we-have-always-...

https://marketurbanism.com/2017/09/05/subsidizing-suburbia-a...
> open source languages have to put up with this

Not sure what any of this has to do with open source languages, mind clarifying?
A few years ago, my good friend used to say that the first two main duties of a financial quant library are string manipulation and memory allocation.
That doesn't really help them all that much, at least not for the reasons why owning ARM could be useful: the IP.
How do you manage to get into fights anywhere?
VAT is pretty straight forward, it has to be collected on sale (so the sale price must reflect the price + VAT for that country), and then given back to the country (periodically, which usually is every 3 months).

What was happening was that collection was being done by the customs, and only a small fraction of the goods were being flagged for not having VAT, then they had to collect it, and then proceed to return it. This puts an extra layer of work on customs, and many goods are sold at a price that can't be matched by EU businesses because they have to collect VAT.

So EU now demands businesses that want to do business in the EU to do what every EU business does: collect VAT on sale and return it.
Well there's sites like https://www.3dhubs.com/ where you can upload a design file and they will make it for you/farm it out to people with the requisite machines to make it.

It's the same zero capital investment but higher incremental cost per customer as with serverless deployments.
> 90% – maybe 93% – of project managers, could probably disappear tomorrow to either no effect or a net gain in efficiency.

I can't agree enough.
Collected takeaways from “The Man Who Solved the Market” - a (good) book about Jim Simons and RenTec that ring plausible to me at https://twoquants.com/decoding-rentec/.
A good Simons interview (by Numberphile) is https://youtu.be/QNznD9hMEh0.
in which way? china seems more like a toothless tiger in this regard
I don't think a group setting out to deceive the public would be:

a) planting stories 8 years before the crisis, warning about the far-reaching effects of the Community Reinvestment Act

b) recruiting Democrat/Wall-Street/public-sector darling Krugman to plant a story in the NYT 6 years before the crisis, urging the Federal Reserve to "create a housing bubble" via low interest rates (which is exactly what the Fed did)

>>And for what it’s worth, that Krugman quote is out of context.

It seems pretty clear to me he is strongly endorsing a bubble in that quote, and that's when looked at in context too.

Krugman is a major believer in Keynes' demand-side economic theories.

Keynes argued that the government planting banknotes in the ground during a recession would be net-positive, because people expending resources to dig them up would create economic activity that would get money circulating:

"If the Treasury were to fill old bottles with banknotes, bury them at suitable depths in disused coalmines which are then filled up to the surface with town rubbish, and leave it to private enterprise on well-tried principles of laissez-faire to dig the notes up again… the note-bearing territory), there need be no more unemployment and, with the help of the repercussions, the real income of the community, and its capital wealth also, would probably become a good deal greater than it actually is. It would, indeed, be more sensible to build houses and the like; but if there are political and practical difficulties in the way of this, the above would be better than nothing."

Krugman argued something similar, when arguing that an announcing a non-existent alien attack would be economically beneficial, for the same reasons Keynes gave:

https://business.time.com/2011/08/16/paul-krugman-an-alien-i...

When looked at in this context, it's obvious why he'd think a bubble during a recession would be a good policy.

But now of course the historical revisionism starts, and Krugman's clear endorsement of a bubble is reintepreted as prediction, so that the public-sector/Democrats' chief economic spokesman is not discredited.
Why should we try and change a word's meaning?

EDIT: Original title was: "How long should we cling to a word's original meaning? (2011)"
> arcane and bizarre command-line syntax

It is not arcane, you just have to read docs, like for every command line tool. Different cli applications have different syntaxes usually influenced by their domains, eg compare find, tcpdump, iptables, cut, docker.
Sure, but there are other, much more politically tenable ways to keep Intel under US ownership than nationalizing the company.
This is really, really terrible.

But he should not have compared it to Anne Frank in the attic.

In nuanced conversation, it should be possible to believe both of the preceding two sentences at the same time.
How are you currently tracking against your KPIs/targets? Have they also dropped as well?
> Suburbs were invented with one goal: survive and win an all-out nuclear war

This seems historically illiterate, because suburbs came before the Cold War.
> In any case that is not really the way western governments handle strategic companies.

Except for in Scandinavia where that is how they do (more so in the past than now.)
> I this is highly subjective and depends on how social you are

I am incredibly anti-social. I can't stand working from home.
Node 0.12, Java 6 and 8, PHP 4 - there's been plenty of examples of "sticky" versions in the past that had to be pushed away for other languages
Bottom line is that they ruin the quality of search and create a tremendous amount of churn that requires search engines to constantly refine their algo.
Show HN: Relar – an open source music hosting and streaming service
And this is why the server is in Amsterdam, even though I have had good experiences with Hetzner in the past.

I was quite sad to read about the case in 2018, and it is unfortunate that it is still not resolved.
Yeah, "Move to EU to avoid Brexit costs, firms told by officials" or something would have been a much better title.
Please do not disrespect the cubicles! For people working in open spaces, they are a vision of heaven.

But of course, remote work allows you to choose your own room / cubicle / beach / whatever you like most.
I dont know of any place of worship (christianity in particular) that is unwelcome to atheists.

unitarians simply take the parts they like from every religion to form another.
We build static code analysis tools, used by companies building safety critical stuff (planes, cars,...). If you're failure mode is "there might be fatalities" over "the app crashes", this becomes really valuable.

Code quality is already quite nice, and metrics like e.g. MISRA are supported by many analyzers; but proving(!) the absence if various error classes can be handy as well.

(Disclaimer: I work on the binary analyses, not on the source code analyses; so my detail knowledge on that front is not too deep).

+1 for linting. If the code looks "the same" I find reviews much easier since I can focus in what it actually does (or fails to do), not on "decoding" it. Though nobody should freak out on minor variations.
>I often hear advocates of remote work talk about "presenteeism" and how managers need to just focus more on outputs. This is fine, but if they can do that why not sack everyone and just hire contractors and pay for the outputs?

Why not do that anyway? The same reasons apply.

>If they are at work, and can't slack off, then they will use this discretion to create value for the company in ways that the managers don't always have time to exactly specify.

I've never been in a work environment where everyone is working at 100% all the time. Never. Have you?

Pure anecdote - while working remotely I've found that my team is bout the same productivity level, maybe slightly more productive; we've had people build internal tools in their spare time, people are focused on the task rather than wasting time and we've hired carefully and built a culture where people know they are trusted and needed to get the job done.

Yes, it doesn't work the same way in-person works all the time. You have to allow for more asynchronicity, but you can counter that in part by having the opportunity for scheduled check-ins.

In your example, by the way, the staffer has gained no favor from the manager by directly going against what they said to do. They might solve this bug and be a hero but they'll be likely to gain a reputation for not being able to listen to directions.
According to this[1] 30% of Nvidia's sales are in China. Arm's numbers are similar. If China banned the sale of Nvidia GPUs or added some punitive tariff that'd hurt quite a bit.

[1] https://www.thestreet.com/investing/stocks/nvidia-diversifyi...
It sounds like you're playing this as you would code at work. Optimize, maximize, automate. Stardew valley is not factorio :p
Switzerland, Norway and others not in EU, do profit from the "Special Relationship", with the big difference that it was organized from the beginning and their governments actually had a plan.
There is no “we” trying to change. Individual people just start doing it, then it catches on, and then the meaning has already changed for a lot of people.
I’d imagine that a Chinese sanction on ARM chips would cause quite some trouble for all the manufacturing of electronic devices that’s happening in China, and that’s even without considering the large consumer market that China is.
Tesla and Apple did everything /s

This giants are building on the back of research done in Universities all over the world and Tesla benefited by government money (so how the f** Tesla gets the praises and the government gets the reverse m the exact funcking thing with God, you get ill blame it on the Devil or yourself, you get saved by doctors and science then go thank God because of the miracle he did)
"Not gathering racial statistics is the norm in continental Europe. It's mostly Anglo-Saxon people (us, uk) and their love for the idea of "race" that is the exception."

In the UK, statistics are collected on the ethnic origin of people in order to provide insights into important issues. For example, the COVID-19 pandemic has revealed that deaths from COVID-19 are higher among black and South Asian groups. Without these statistics we might not back have identified that these communities are more vulnerable to COVID-19.

Another example: statistics have identified that South Asians have a much higher incidence of diabetes. That insight means health professionals can research why the risk is higher in those communities.

Statistics that capture ethnic origin can also provide insight into issues of inequality, health, employment, housing and more. In my view, capturing this data is important and helpful. Without it, insight and analysis will be incomplete.
Omnicore CodeGuide IDE was much better.
You are missing the point, Brexit was sold as a "Britania would rule the waves, Singapore on Thames selling into Europe, rah rah" to the public.

However that's not what happened as it was never realistic or possible, and now the 46% of UK goods exports that go to EU27 are in a very tough spot, thousands of businesses and jobs at risk, direct and indirect. Not to say anything of services which are of course not included in tarrif free trade deal UK now has.

anyways purpose of Brexit was not "sovereignity" or whatever other lies were told, the purpose was to distract from decades of mismanagement by political elites in what is a fundamentally undemoratic system (Monarchy with hereditary head of state, vs presidential republic, upper house made of lords vs elected senators, lower house composed of Etonian elites, no constitution, centralisation of power at expense of Scotland, Wales, N. England, well basically everywhere outside the M25)
There's a scene in Major Payne:

===

[Marine has been wounded]

Marine Private: AHHHH my arm, my arm!

Major Payne: Want me to show you a little trick to take your mind off that arm?

[Marine nods and Payne grabs the private's pinky finger]

Major Payne: Now you might feel a little pressure.

[Major Payne breaks the Marine's pinky]

Marine Private: AUGGGGH! My finger, my finger!

Major Payne: Works every time.

====

That's kind of how I feel about Docker. Before, you had a problem. With Docker, you have a new, bigger problem (and most of your old problem hasn't gone away; it's just been masked for a while).

(And yes, I know I'm in the minority here)
UK represents only 18% of the post brexit EU market. The problem is that that the Uk now is a completely seperate market, so is in direct competition for attention with other non-EU markets. Why should a EU company focus on the UK when e.g. China is a much larger market and growing much faster? Or Japan? Or Brazil?

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.CD?location...
I think, it's mostly a question of education.

Universities taught SQL for years, so everyone knows it and its edge cases.

NoSQL databases are all different AND they weren't all taught for decades.

If you put real effort into learning a specific NoSQL database and it is suited for your problem things work out pretty well.
> Python 2.x isn’t going anywhere, so I think Pip will ultimately have to keep and “freeze” support for Python 2.x, rather than not supporting it.

More likely, enterprise vendors like Red Hat will maintain Python 2 + pip for a long time.

The upstream project has no reason to do so and made the right decision to stop supporting legacy stuff.
If you read the article it appears that the Chinese authorities have considerable powers.
Dental Bleaching
How about work in social services? Not the LCSW kind; the "volunteer to be of Service to society" kind.

WFM. YMMV.
Pay wall
Envy (Smaltalk versioning system for objects) cost an arm and a leg, I was fortunate enough to have a license - it was a fantastic system and the missing key bit to use Smalltalk for serious applications in larger teams and not just for prototyping. Key reasons why Smalltalk lost so quickly:

IBM buying and redirecting OTI to Java yielding eventually Eclipse at the same time boosted Java and pulled the rug from under Smalltalk.

IBM starting to hire Smalltalk programmers from universities and redirecting them to Java.

IBM providing networking stack parts to Java to interoperate in the banking industry.

It all happened over a relatively short period of time. Java was not just cheaper but thanks to IBM the tooling and networking - still way behind the combo of Smalltalk/Envy - was starting to be good enough.
>Security static analysis on the other hand is pretty overrated most of the time unless you work really hard to make it fit in your context.

I think the "unless" part is key here. If used correctly, it's crazy what these tools can find, and they give you a baseline of issues to analyze/fix before digging deeper.

But yes, running them blindly just to tick a box isn't very helpful.
I love it when engineers admit changed opinions!

here's a recent thread from charity majors: https://twitter.com/mipsytipsy/status/1349262816239263747?s=...

and from me: https://twitter.com/swyx/status/1349279194446876673?s=20

basically (things I no longer strongly believe or in fact did a full 180 on)

- "Time travel debugging is only for showing off in demos"

- "HSL is better than RGB because you can control hue, saturation and lightness as independent variables."

- "We should move all errors to compile time, the earlier we catch them the more productive we are"

- "React/Preact is the best paradigm to code websites."

- "Monorepos trade off contributor/bug reporter experience for maintainer convenience."

- "If you can support dark mode you might as well support infinite themes"
> How about older talent?

Just guessing: older talent is less willing to work overtime and weekends, because they have a family waiting for them at home?
Separating text and byte strings was the reason for Python 3. The other changes were just taking advantage of the compatibility break.
The EU didn't want to give up on UK market, it was the UK that gave up on EU, but they simply couldn't give them the same benefits every other member has just because it is valuable - that would defeat the perks of being a EU member.

I can give you an example, a lot of people I know that did ecommerce and sold on PAN EU Amazon used UK as a hub for imports - not anymore of course.

Maybe things will improve on customs processes because there might be a big volume of bureaucracy that wasn't there before, but it will always be a bottleneck. Such bottleneck makes sense because the EU must guarantee that the block businesses aren't being penalized by UK businesses.
Digital Ocean would get my vote, long time customer and I love their services.

However they don't provide as much as AWS - But if you're after the basics compute/database/storage/load-balance, then they've got you covered.
For a public facing CRUD system, there are three types of users:

1. Viewers

2. Writers/Editors

3. Maintainers

Technology tools are just means to an end.

I am sure there are people from https://www.usds.gov reading this. And I hope they would cherish the great opportunity of a green field to build a secure, robust public service system that are enjoyable to use for all types of users.

Wish them the Best.
Maybe using human corpses as compost might not be the most sanitary thing.
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Yet decades after it got a new meaning, we can't use "master" as a branch name because it had a different meaning in 1800.
It feels like we are living in Atlas Shrugged.
Do you have any insight into why these commercial corners disappeared and if they were really common across the whole USA? The population density is still roughly the same in suburbs, so the only thing I can think of is consolidation into bigger stores and malls.
Interesting idea, but most cities I’ve lived in have even closer compulsory relationships via homeowners associations. Even if you rent it’s hard to get away from your neighbors if you want that.
OTOH PHP managed to migrate 4→5→7, and knew when to back out of v6. JS managed to migrate to ES6.

I think Python's failure is unique. It needlessly broke too much back-compat at once, provided too little benefits to make up for it, and let everyone drag their feet for a decade with the upgrade.
I really miss the daily commute which counts as physical exercise, a mental switch from family mode to work mode, and a work environment where like minded people get together in physical space, able to share and communicate easily.

While I'm sure some work and some appointments can (and remain) be done remotely, and I am glad its good for the environment, the current way of life (although it is necessary) is not my cup of tea.
No, you can still and should still use master and slave in the non-human slave contexts because that's how you hold the line against irrationality - and not coddle that unreasonable crowd.
The US even subdues foreign governments to get out of contracts with the companies the US doesn’t like.
Also, in practice the EU is arguably less of a single market than it appears to be on paper anyway. Different countries not only have different languages but also different regulations in a surprising number of areas, and shipping between EU states isn't particularly cheap or fast from what I've heard.
Having grown up in the Unitarian church, It’s more that Unitarians don’t tell anyone what to believe and everyone in a UU church might have different ideas.