skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looks like instutional investors goals are 2 fold:
- Asap: Get public (media coverage) to sell GME to lower price and reduce squeeze.
- Long term: Discredit and diminish WSB.

I think some serious unintended consequences will occur today.
Sure, but the dichotomy being offered here is: "instead of listening to our users, we just had to listen to our own good taste." The original "41 shades of blue at Google" A/B rant is a tale of designer disenfranchisement. And of course a former Apple designer would latch onto that -- its carefully curated brand identity is 'good design.'

Ken goes on to point out that instead Apple relies on exec demos (true); yet zero mention of consumer focus groups. Unless your idea of a good product focus group is one slightly egocentric billionaire.

And really, the entire argument comes down to: "we don't have enough hours in the day to consider every detail, so we just focus on the stuff execs see." When Ken brags about not consulting data in building his software, I view it as equal parts damnation and praise. If he didn't consult any user metrics in designing the software keyboard autocorrect[1], we now know why its reputation with users sucked for years.

[1]: https://qz.com/1380188/ken-kocienda-qa/
I would also find it off-putting. IMO one should feel embarrassed to disclose that the company they recruit employees for makes a habit of burning those employees out and then tossing them for more new hires.
A 3 day work week.
The carrier f-35 can hover. You can just line it up by sight.
they're so generous, they didn't even finish the project!
And i haven't lived in the uk in a while but Ocado is still doing all the deliveries itself I believe, which restricts it in terms of coverage and availability slots, doesn't it? A British friend was complaining that during lockdown there were never any available slots.
Plenty of languages with significant-whitespace have multiline anonymous functions, like Haskell, Standard ML, Ocaml, etc. Maybe it's no possible in Python for a student reason, but the reason is not that the syntax is bad on indentation.
Hating this is like hating a primer-painted part for being grey: you denounce the propose and existence of primer and claim that it should have been painted with the finishing coat from the start.

I'm sorry you think the dull finish is ugly, but looking pretty is not its purpose. Its purpose is to bind strongly to the substrate it's on and provide a better surface for that shiny coat you so desire to adhere onto. Primer and language bindings alike.
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This might be an inconsequential niggle, but I kind of dislike the Microsoft's approach to naming. Like calling this "rust for windows" makes it sound somewhat grandiose, and maybe as if Rust is somehow endorsing or expanding support for Windows, when it appears to be just a crate which auto-generates wrappers for windows API's.

The same applies to "Windows Subsystem for Linux" - maybe I'm alone but to me this sounds more like Linux was getting a bit windows embedded inside it rather than the other way around.

Also I find it a bit arrogant that VSCode wants to name-squat the very general term "code" in my PATH. vscode is already quite short and clear, and would have made a perfectly suitable cli name.
This is quite true. Right now we are working to move our $(msg queue software) from $(one of its market leaders) to AWS's in-house offering, because the network transfer cost is twice the cost of our subscription on the $(one of its market leaders).
Or the mapping info for your process is shared with that coprocessor (the OS just keeps this around in RAM anyway). Heck, you could have an OS-provided code that needs to be loaded so that it can properly resolve that mapping (which is what the TLB does by the way - it has a well-defined structure and when it’s missing from the cache if I recall correctly it’ll fetch some info directly from RAM until it gets to a point where it has to generate a page fault).

I don’t disagree that the memory model becomes more complex. For one CPU cache invalidation becomes really tricky. So do memory coherence rules.

I’m less clear how mmap matters here. That’s just a mechanism the OS uses to hand out views into the page cache to the process - if you’ve solve the virtual-physical mapping (which you have to do) then mmap is not relevant.

You’re spot on though that the particular design decisions are critical for this to be successful - pick the wrong point on the complexity/cost/perf curve and your solution will definitely be DOA.
Dirty secret when it comes to current PCIe 4 drives: they have optimised sequential RW speed too much that they have forgotten random RW speed (which is the main driver in databases).
FTA, about James Dolan :

> He often cited the Iraq War as his inspiration for wanting to help journalists and whistleblowers; it made him realize governments needed to be much more transparent and accountable.
Yes, but if you plant milkweed, please consider planting one that is native to your area.

A list of CA native milkweeds: https://calscape.org/loc-California/Milkweed%20(all)/vw-list....
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This is a huge bummer. I remember seeing monarch butterflies everywhere when i was a kid in northwest PA. It’s been years since I’ve seen one in the wild, although i did find some wild milkweed last year, might look into planting some along the woods on our land.
Very interesting.

I'm also planning on moving from London to Vancouver, but I'll be using IEC (working holiday visa) as it seems to give more flexibility at the beginning since you don't need an employer. The downside is you have to pay for your own health insurance for the entire time you're on the working holiday visa.

I was initially planning to move in June 2020 but obviously the pandemic stopped that. They have painlessly extended the date of my visa three times since then and it seems like they're now extending IEC visas again until June 30th 2020.

May I ask how you find the job market in Vancouver compared to London? I'm primarily a front end developer, and to be honest it's almost embarrassing how much I get paid in London. It's one of the only things that make me question if the move is a good idea.
Part of me wants to create a fake gearbox and clutch kit for an automatic car that does absolutely nothing, but looks convincing to driving examiners. You can just change "gears" when you feel like it without any actual effect and the clutch is just a dumb pedal.
Be careful that it is the correct milkweed.

Some species of milkweed don't have enough caloric content to feed the butterflies sufficiently for their migration and they die partway through the trip.
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... and even if you somehow solved that, the law of physics hits you hard. Latency can be a real performance killer generally and is doubly true in database-type computing.
Fun fact you can approximate hourly rate to yearly salary roughly just by multiplying by two. $45/hr roughly 90k ish
https://investorplace.com/2021/01/novs-stock-why-novus-capit... : I have been following AppHarvest after news of their SPAC merger with Novus Capital
Don't all electric cars do this? I know all Teslas have this option (you can disable it in settings if you wish).
Maybe you’ve used the “muted words” setting sometime in the last to hide the hashtag?
I have seen these MAP people, but I don't consider that child pornography

The lawsuit in the article asserts that Twitter refused to remove an video of two extorted 13 year olds being sexual together. That seems unambiguously child pornography
> I just realized both the previous and the new name of his blog is an anagram of his name.

Well, you have to call it something . What would you think of a composer writing the initials of their name into their works, I wonder?
Oh wow, GetRight... I don't know if it's just nostalgia, but the UI of those apps was much better than today's UI. Back then everything had a standard UI and you could count on menus and elements being Alt-accessible, nowadays everything is a hodgepodge of web apps and nothing works the same way as anything else.
This is Anchoring, a cognitive bias where an individual depends too heavily on an initial piece of information offered to make subsequent judgments during decision making.
How about a Julia-like syntax for Clojure?
I’ve read his blog since 2008 (back when he was posting on LiveJournal). That doesn’t describe him at all. Anyone with more than a passing familiarity with Scott knows your accusations to be false.
The IntelliJ line of projects are fantastic for this.

I can make the jumps around in multiple files and libraries to follow the flow.

I can easily setup debugging, set breakpoints, and watch what values poorly named variables carry.

It spots unused imports and variables in the code as well, which makes it easier to clean out cruft.

I have heard good things about Visual Studio Code as well, but IntelliJ gets my money every time.
Design arrogance of Apple is misplaced and frankly, annoying. Sottsass, Dieter Rams, Bob Noorda, Paul Rand, etc would not invite Apple designers to their parties. I don't think Apple designers have good taste. They're just fashionable half baked designers with a sense of minimalism with no idea about pragmatism and functionalism. Using premium materials doesn't necessarily make good Design. In the Design circles, we call those things - luxury goods.
I don't think their intention is to Embrace, Extend, Extinguish, but I also think it's a side affect of being such a behemoth with a much better offering.

I can't think of a way to offer an OSS product and make money in the "traditional" means of support when Amazon is around. You just can't compete with them because you're right: They are a MUCH better product.

Not because they understand the software better than you (although I'm not saying they don't either), they just have more resources.

Why can't we work together instead of being in direct competition, you know? There must be a way to do that
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25855745 : I posted this yesterday. It’s from 2019 but still very enlightening.
Rack space ain’t free
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That looks pretty good! Too bad it's not part of the standard library.
Some UK GPs are salaried. I don't know the proportions.

Paid a salary by the private practice they work for, again just like a junior lawyer would be.
If KGB can not do assasinations effectively ...
There are a lot of people falling from high buildings but they seem not to attract too much attention.
I really think that they don't want him dead. If they really wanted him dead he wouldn'n let go to Germany.
That was the argument against the GPL, and yet Linux beat BSD. The tension exists, but it's not such a simple trade-off, and the dynamic is highly context dependent. The complexity is in identifying and achieving the best business model.

Like with the GPL 20 years ago, the intuition today seems to be that licenses like the AGPL are simply anathema to adoption (because "viral", etc) and therefore market capture, and if you can't capture the market you can't monetize your investment. It's something of a self-fulfilling prophecy, but eventually more people (authors, users, etc) will begin to explore the space commercially and, hopefully, disprove the conventional wisdom.
Users who don’t spend are almost worthless to the advertisers. So google most likely will not receive any meaningful amount of money from countries with data coverage but without the customer base willing to pay for products advertised.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25789336
In another context I'd find such oblique references to violence crass and offensive. I don't particularly enjoy them here, either.
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Why is this thread marked as a dupe, despite having many more comments than any other submission / not being merged? And where is a link to this dupe?

Now it's just going to be buried.
If you're talking about thumbnails, I think they made the right choice. Just the top part of the homepage already contains 5MB of image assets. Scrolling down a few times quickly ups that to 15MB and more. I'd rather have reasonably sized and optimized images throughout the site - with high resolutions ones as downloads - and a very speedy browsing experience, then the other way around.

However, I would expect the online tiled image viewer to show the full, high quality image - at least, when zoomed in.
Loon can (could) handle normal LTE mobile phones. Starlink requires a phased array antenna the size of a pizza box which, to my understanding, cannot be fully miniaturized. That's not to say they aren't somewhat competing against each other, but Starlink doesn't strictly dominate as you imply.
I’m thinking more of something like a GC mark and sweep. You don’t care about how long the mark (or even sweep) operations take as long as they finish eventually. Those operations would be the easiest to write an algorithm you could offload to run directly inside a memory controller. These would avoid GC pauses (if using a concurrent GC) while also avoiding any CPU cycles doing anything but a trivial amount of small operations.

What stood out to me with this article is that the fancy “intelligent” columnar indices were actually performing worse than a naive brute traversal of the data. This is because there is a limit to your ability to predict whether a brute solution is faster or slower ahead of time than one using a fancy data structure. So a HW-offload is nice because in theory it should have less of an impact and you can run memory-intensive operations concurrently with CPU-intensive operations with no costs (+ the memory heavy operations might run faster due to living closer to the memory and thus having faster interconnects and lower latency).

Additionally, such HW can take advantage of the peculiarities of how RAM works for even added benefit. Your memory allocator could mark a block as unused (in the simplest v0 of what such Hw code do). The HW can then avoid refreshing those rows reducing power usage slightly, improving latency (since refresh is a stop-the-world operation) if you can get fine-grained enough and it’s not $ prohibitive. Garbage collection would certainly be a lot more attractive of a solution for this kind of design which would drastically change the SW economics (ie Rust/C/C++ suddenly lose a whole lot of the practical perf wins they hold over other languages).
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Awesome! Although note thay printf is indeed extensible, at least with glibc. https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Customizi...
Its not a matter of Private Enterprise vs. Government. Government. As anyone that has worked in Big Corp or Too big to Fail Bank can attest - such a as yours truly - or any Cyberpunk novel about a world run by Megacorps at war, it’s the size that matters.

Bureaucracy, empire building, mimetism of the incompetent, fear and PTSD are what ossify these orgs into useless - nay, damaging - lumps of humanity.
out of curiosity, how many employees were working on this outdated idea?
> Amazon is blatantly misleading people here

I'm not so sure I agree about that, presuming you're talking about the open source comments. If not, you can ignore the rest of the comment (except the last paragraph, pertinent question for you)

The SSPL is not an open source license [0], and that's all there is to it.

There must be a better version of it out there somewhere. Something to the tune of "use our software as you wish, however you may not offer it as a hosted solution without a license from us. This license entitles you to direct support and other goodies to justify such a stance".

I can't think of those "other" goodies but that's why I'm not a business type :D

I don't think I'm making a crazy statement here, am I? Maybe I'm just being young and naive. Can you shed some light on your experience with trying to work with Amazon to address the problems? I imagine they didn't listen (they're just too big to care it seems), but I'd like some first-hand experience to gauge with.

[0]: https://opensource.org/node/1099
This goes for most things. We buy Dell laptops, and the price drops like 20-40% easy.
> You hear this all the time on message boards

To be clear, the norm I am describing has nothing to do with "message boards" or even with the Internet. It has to do with the stated justification for journalists publishing information about people that they would rather keep secret. That justification is "the public's right to know". That has always been the stated justification, for as long as there have been journalists. And in cases where that justification did not apply, journalists were supposed to not publish that kind of information. That is not something that Internet message boards invented.

Alexander's point is basically that the mere fact of him writing a blog, even a blog that got popular, did not mean the public had a right to know personal information about him that he chose to keep secret. (Yes, I know it wasn't actually secret, but it was still, as he notes in the article, quite a bit more secret than it would have been once published in the NYT. More on that below.) I agree with him.

> it's at times been an article of faith around here that reference checks aren't OK, unless they're directed specifically to people candidates provide as references

I agree there is no such "rule" in reality, but this has nothing whatever to do with journalism or journalistic norms, which is what is involved in Alexander's case, so it's irrelevant to this discussion.

> In reality, people can share unfavorable information about you for their own reasons and, as long as that information isn't false, there really isn't much you can do about it. Nor should you be able to! You can't coerce random people into not sharing true things about you.

In terms of what people can do, yes, you are absolutely right. People can do these things, and there isn't much one can do to stop them.

But that in no way means they should do these things just because they can.

> You italicize "blog", like there's some important norm of "blogging" that was violated here

No, I italicized "blog" to make the point that it's not a big deal. It's just stuff that someone wrote about stuff that interested him. It's not nuclear weapons secrets or diplomatic communications or official pronouncements whose provenance needs to be verified. In short, it wasn't the kind of thing where "the public's right to know" was even involved.

> Alexander wrote that blog for years under his own name

No, he wrote a different blog, which, as he explains explicitly in the article (and as you note), he took down when he realized that having it under his own name was causing issues. The blog of his that the NYT wanted to write about was not the one he wrote under his own name, and had no visible connection with that older blog of his; what's more, the NYT article had nothing to do with that older blog of his, and as far as I can tell, the NYT wasn't even aware of it. So the fact of its existence is irrelevant to any judgment about what the NYT did.

> where's the line between me and Alexander?

Simple: Alexander wasn't running for office. Or doing anything else that would imply "the public's right to know". He was just writing stuff.
I can only imagine things when I feel safe and relaxed. Otherwise it's just dark there.
As a child, I tried to develop my imagination and it worked. Never tried later :)
Will a site like HackerNews not be subject to the same ridiculous legislation?
The roadster is supposed to clock at 8.9s quarter mile and 250+ MPH at a minimum. We'll see if they actually deliver.

As for top speed - I think the main issue with earlier gen tesla model S issues was that the speed was capped in software at 155MPH, even for the "P" models. There wasn't really any reason other than liability/testing that they couldn't go faster (700+ horsepower and ridiculous drag coefficients would imply that the real peak would be higher).
Alright, well I will fix the original claim.

Imagine if the power company, that provides the electricity for those data centers decided to stop working with them, tommorow.

Surely, you could recognize the issues with doing this? (Lets ignore common carrier laws for a moment, because it is not relevant to the main thrust of the argument, which is that this would be bad)
Google has no leverage. Zero.

There is another revolutionary search company coming along that works in a completely different way and is not dependent on collecting user data. And they're not built on top of bing or google.

I'm waiting for them to come out, but they're getting ready and they'll do a Show HN a few weeks later.
if Twitter is under the standard TOS, they’ll be subject to the same reactive enforcement and quick cancellation as anyone els

Twitter literally provides a soapbox for the leadership of Iran to call for the total destruction of Israel. It provided the platform for organising the summer of rioting the US has just seen.

AWS cancelling Parler is purely about domestic US politics.
I don't necessarily think all people who follow this line came up with it spontaneously. I'm sure there's a lot of propaganda to this effect swirling in conservative media

Now that's motivated reasoning. You are choosing to dehumanize those who disagree with you, because that's more comfortable than acknowledging that they might have a legitimate grievance somewhere beneath all the ruckus around the election results.

It's logical to conclude that there will be blowback from a coordinated campaign to shut down the largest platform favored by "the other side".
Thanks - I'll check it out although it seems to only use one microphone.
One thing worthy of study about Stack Overflow/Wikipedia/HN etc is the Reward System - or specifically their experiments at answering the question within a community or a society of who/what gets propped up and who/what gets kicked out. They haven't produced polarization, radicalization, scams, privacy issues like Facebook, Youtube or Twitter.

In the news/social media the reliance on Like/Follower/Click/View/Upvote counts as the basis for a reward/ranking system was not just that it raked in the cash or successfully captured attention, but that it was the easiest thing to implement. Back then it was just hard to do language understanding. NLP tech was pretty hopeless and so we got page rank and the Like/upvote count as half baked substitutes to work out who/what is interesting. With human moderation filling the gap.

But its obvious the human moderation on Wikipedia/Stackoverflow/HN etc have produced very different outcomes from what Twitter/Facebook/Youtube have.

So I just wish more of the debates on privacy, echo chambers, disinfo, polarization etc focused on Reward System. But most of the time debates on central/distributed, crypto, scaling, privacy, radicalization etc etc dont touch much on the Reward system and its role.