skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Adobe/Macromedia Flash: Thank You for Your Service
Where I am (NYC) you absolutely can get a haircut. Both you and the barber wear masks. But I know other places are locked down tighter.

> Why can't barbershops switch to an appointment based system where they only have one person in the shop at the time?

There can’t be only one person in the shop at a time, there must be at least one customer and one barber. And even if the barber only has one customer at a time they still represent a notable infection risk, if they are contagious they could infect a dozen people a day.
Exactly! One of my preferred scenes in The Martian is when he repairs his blown airlock with duct tape, a thin tarp and a tension belt.
The point is, an average IT professional in the US can easily afford it.
Because it's legal doesn't mean you can't make noise about it.
> This means you can just put your pen section in a cup of water and wait until all water turns transparent again. Then rinse under the tap, let it dry and re-fill. It's this easy.

AFAIK this is only good advice if your tap water isn't too hard as apparently this can damage the nib.
I think this is quite a rose colored view of the past. Rendering with many graphics techniques was out of reach for hobbyists for a long time for example.
I think you have neglected to consider the power Facebook has over people's lives - 2/7 of the world's population is on it. All of your family and friends are on there, as well as social organizations, your employer, your pictures, and your messages. The network effect generated by this is irresistibly strong and difficult to run from. Now, you were saying that a company that has such a huge hand in the lives of everyone around you doesn't have to respect its users' accounts and data? That just sounds tone-deaf and irresponsible to me, and has over and over been shown to have damaging consequences for users' lives and endeavors.
Indeed, most people understand that Slack is not guaranteed timely delivery and knows that unless you get a reply the message may not have been received. Usually we just tap the thumb emoji to acknowledge we read and understood the request.
Same goes for Scala and Case Classes. Alas the type astronauts went crazy with Scala, scaring some folks off.
I agree. I've been training on 2x3090s connected via NVLink and they're really fast for training language models. I am actually tempted to try and replicate the OP's GPT2 replication using Huggingface, DeepSpeed, and OpenWebText, but the GPUs are occupied right now training a GPT2-774M C language model...
This isn’t my definition, it’s the literal dictionary definition.
Just a couple

https://v.redd.it/ybbshl1ujia61

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJOgGsC0G9U
And just recently made a change to pipe all that data back into Facebook haha
> In other words, the sender deliberately wants a synchronous instead of asynchronous convo.

"Hello" is a pretty bad negotiation protocol for that. At best, the person is online and can initiate synchronous communication (but has to sit around and wait before they can start thinking about your desired context), at worst you get stuck in an endless loop of "Sure, you there?" Furthermore, what if the person wasn't available right now? Do they simply ignore your "Hello?" That would seem more rude. In addition, and ultimately, if the sync communication negotiation fails, you're probably going to have to fall back to async; so you may as well leave the door open to that.

"Hey, just want to chat quickly about that thing, if you're not around I'll ask Alice." That contains the full description of what you want, is concise, and will allow the recipient to not waste their time.

The way I see IM is that every conversation starts with what would be a subject line in an email if a longer conversation is required (whether sync or async). This gets everyone thinking about the context right away and improves your ability to search for that conversation in the log.
This is a common issue, but should be solved by software. The app just shouldn't notify you several times in less than X seconds. Then it wouldn't be a problem at all.
The cable can be cut with $30 Bolt Cutters, and sold to the scrappers for its weight in copper. Multiply by the number of cars charging that night on one street. Faster, cleaner and tons more profitable than cutting catalyst converters from under the cars.
This is disrespectful of the time of the person you're talking to. Taking the time to write a good question is important. This is true in synchronous and asynchronous conversation.

A class of problem as big as the "No Hello" problem is asking questions that are way too specific, like "How do I get a list of which windows are on which desktops" when the actual question is "How should I move a window to another desktop" and the person asking the question is too deep into what they assume is the right path.

The person answering your question is doing you a favor; please be respectful of them.
As a bootstrapped SaaS founder myself: congratulations! This is an unbelievable growth rate for a bootstrapped SaaS. It usually takes many years to reach these numbers. Very happy to see people build sustainable businesses this way — venture funding is not the only way to go!

I'd be very interested to learn more, things like: is it a B2B or B2C SaaS? What is your ARPU and LTV, are you spending on marketing, and if so, what is your CAC? (I do realize you might not want to share these numbers, just saying that this is what I'd love to know :))
Similar with job interviews these days. We decided not to move forward, but we can't provide any feedback or tell you why.

Looking forward to the day that Google, FB and Twitter are classified as public-utilities
I'd argue as a general rule that there are no important websites that require Facebook to access your account. Also, you can typically use an e-mail to recover access to an account that you used social media to authenticate with.
I must admit I have never understood how to really use the ssh fingerprint visualizations. They look just like a random mess to me and I'd guess I'd never notice some smaller mismatch.

I did not know the drunken bishop story, but even knowing it now does not seem to help. As the author writes, the visualization of density does not seem to work very well.
Put a Montblanc rollerball cartridge in a Pilot G2.
I remember it as a ponderous resource hog.
> This is quite false, generics RFE was top 3 in the java bug parade since 1.2.

True. Also, Odersky and Wadler's Pizza language [1] was available as early as 1996 and the language designers at Sun were well aware of it and keen on adding it to Java. Odersky mentions this here[2]:

Bill Venners: How did Scala come about? What is its history?

Martin Odersky: Towards the end of my stay in Zurich, around 1988/89,
I became very fond of functional programming. So I stayed in research
and eventually became a university professor in Karlsruhe, Germany.
I initially worked on the more theoretical side of programming, on
things like call-by-need lambda calculus. That work was done together
with Phil Wadler, who at the time was at the University of Glasgow.
One day, Phil told me that a wired-in assistant in his group had heard
that there was a new language coming out, still in alpha stage, called
Java. This assistant told Phil: "Look at this Java thing. It's portable.
It has bytecode. It runs on the web. It has garbage collection. This
thing is going to bury you. What are you going to do about it?" Phil
said, well, maybe he's got a point there.

The answer was that Phil Wadler and I decided take some of the ideas from
functional programming and move them into the Java space. That effort became
a language called Pizza, which had three features from functional programming:
generics, higher-order functions, and pattern matching. Pizza's initial
distribution was in 1996, a year after Java came out. It was moderately
successful in that it showed that one could implement functional language
features on the JVM platform.

Then we got in contact with Gilad Bracha and David Stoutamire from the Sun
core developer team. They said, "We're really interested in the generics stuff
you've been doing; let's do a new project that does just that." And that became
GJ (Generic Java). So we developed GJ in 1997/98, and six years later it became
the generics in Java 5, with some additions that we didn't do at the time. In
particular, the wildcards in Java generics were developed later independently
by Gilad Bracha and people at Aarhus university.

Although our generics extensions were put on hold for six years, Sun developed a
much keener interest in the compiler I had written for GJ. It proved to be more
stable and maintainable than their first Java compiler. So they decided to make
the GJ compiler the standard javac compiler from their 1.3 release on, which came
out in 2000.

[1]: http://pizzacompiler.sourceforge.net/index.html

[2]: https://www.artima.com/scalazine/articles/origins_of_scala.h...
Those are ancillary. This is what happened to the important ones https://9to5google.com/2017/07/10/project-loon-patents/
AXPbox 1.0.0 released – open-source Alpha emulator
Deploy full fledged K3s private clusters with Terraform
How to Pass a Variadic Pack as a First Argument of a Function in C++
> If you didn't, then I'll be forced to assume it's not important. At least you clearly didn't care enough to put in a tiny amount of effort.

That's your prerogative, but it also exposes you to corporate risk if it in fact was a sensitive matter with urgency and it's deemed that the necessary communication attempts were made.

Deciding right off the top that communication isn't urgent takes precedent. If it's the first time they're messaging you, best not to chance the urgency until they have a track record with you.
They should totally invent a new port. USB-C is just too standard.
If you read it as a systemic commentary rather than an individual commentary it makes more sense. Journalists as a system might have a behavior that most journalists done engage in. Nobody consciously thinks “let’s be authoritarian” but they create systems and structures that lead that way anyways. The same way any attack of “group X is Y” could be read as a massive oversimplification painting a huge diverse group with a broad brush. The individuals can create and enable a system of Y entirely unconsciously.

And yeah he totally lacks nuance, but at this point I can’t really care. I’m personally sick of unnuanced comments from “our” side benefitting from reading between the lines while near identical comments from Others with an equal lack of nuance get attacked for it. It would be great if we all were nuanced, but that appears impossible so reading things you disagree with charitably is just a necessity now. This comes to mind https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/bad-things
It would be interesting to see a more technically oriented report on exactly how Julia made a difference for them.
mbasic.facebook.com <- (you can use messages feature w/o app)
> Life happens, focus on work happens, bathroom breaks happen... Almost no one is available "immediately" all the time. But if you regularly show yourself as online and cannot respond within a reasonable amount of time (a couple of hours?) to questions/concerns that coworkers send to you, then why are you "Online"?

I think you're actually somewhat agreeing with the above poster.

To me, being online means I will respond to your concern as soon as I can context switch to your problem cheaply - usually within 30 minutes, or maybe even instantly if you caught me coming off of a lunch/bathroom break.

> Is it difficult to close the app, change your status, or simply respond with "Hey, super busy today. I'll get back to you on this tomorrow", simply for the sake of building good team interactions?

I think it's a good habit to build. For example if it's nearing the end of the work day, and you have enough work to do, setting yourself to busy should indicate people not to expect your response until the next day.
Absolutely incorrect: http://wiki.c2.com/?AlanKayOnMessaging
A lot of them are "start pushing for" or signing executive orders, things that have little to no variance in their estimate or likelihood.

That isn't to say the dashboard isn't useful! But looking at the raw number doesn't tell you much, esp at this point.
> Mike doesn't need to share the details. He just needs to tell me what it's about and ask when I'm free. I'll be happy to carve out time in my schedule and offer up, say, 30 minutes at 2pm. If he needs to talk sooner than that, he can make a counter proposal and say "this is really urgent, can you talk sooner?" and I will weigh it accordingly

I think this thread has reached its apex.

Not every message's contents ("what it's about") can be conveyed asynchronously, but I'm failing to communicate this, so I think I'll bow out.

Thanks for working with me on this.
Revisiting the Chrysler Turbine Car (1989)
Linux containers are containers, not VMs. They are more like docker (although, lxd/lxc typically are used more like jails/VMs - a "full" user land, rather than just an application binary, like with a docker container wrapping a service implemented in go).

Technically, docker/lxc uses kernel namespaces to isolate a process tree - firecracker starts up a virtual machine.
This was what I was looking for too!
> Even in that case, "Are you around for a call?" gets the point across far better than "Hey, are you there?"

Can I ask the difference between these two in practical terms?

Edit:

> the only times someone's been worried about talking over discoverable mediums they've been considering something that's anticompetitive or potentially illegal.

Interesting. In my case, it's without fail been circumstances where message control (specifically anti-forwarding) was paramount. I suppose it boils down to differences in our roles.
Looks to be some sort of vaporware, there is no example code, no links to the book, documentation, or SDK, or if it is proprietary, contact information for licensing or whatever.

I feel like it's supposed to be a joke but I don't get it.

The Twitter is pretty much abandoned, just a few tweets spread from 2010~2016.
Thanks very much for explaining!
It is truly amazing that so many people do not understand that free speech is a principle that exists beyond, and in fact existed before, the 1st Amendment to the United States Constitution.
I really like this model and want it to take over the world. It would solve two problems: compensating people for building open-source software, and replacing the notion of IP for software with something more sustainable. More people should stand up and say, "I made this, I want to make the world better, and I will add this to the commons that everyone can benefit from after I extract $X of value from it."

A social norm of requiring people to "call their shot" in advance feels like a powerful counter-force to greed.
I suppose it's licensed under a non open source license until it's released to the public. If so, you can prosecute such individuals who break the license.
I remember in the earlier days of Dart there was an initial push to ship a Dart VM natively inside browsers.

I so often wish that idea actually ended up getting some real traction because I think it could have moved web development in general forward by several years overnight.
Yes, prior versions were insanely buggy. 1.0.2 was pretty stable as they fixed most of the problems by then, although Java 1.1 was when companies started to really use it for stability. Problems happened with the windows fork which was pinned to 1.1.3 but it went up to 1.1.8 IIRC.
At this point it’s best not to bet against Elon.

I’d bet his timelines are off, that’s always been the case. But his army of engineers know what they’re doing.
In addition, the semantic consistency of the frameworks combined with the verbosity encouraged by the language makes it easy to jump into a new-to-you part of a 25+ year old codebase and start making useful changes very quickly.

This is much more difficult when you have to be careful about what every single operator dispatches to, or when more than just the receiver’s type determines the method that’s called. You can look at code in isolation and get a pretty good idea of its intent and the routes that its implementation will take, both of which are necessary to start making changes.
Does this actually exist? Page was updated in 2019, and the SDK is "coming soon". There is supposedly a book, but with no information about how to get it.
The Enduring Mysteries of Zorthian Ranch (2014)
I interviewed Mike Milinkovic who led that team and who became Eclipse's executive director back in 2013, if you're interested in a trip down memory lane:

https://www.infoq.com/interviews/Milinkovich-past-present-fu...
Tesla is the only participant that has a true path to self driving technology. Legacy car makers are Goliaths set in the past. They're stuck to the annual release cycle and can't even over the air updates and a touch screen on par with an iPad from 8 years ago.

Legacy automakers have failed to deliver on electric cars for decades. Musk talked about this. There was nothing special about the time he entered the market with Tesla. Any one of the auto makers could (and still theoretically can) develop an appealing electric car. They're simpler, cleaner and more efficient. But not a single one has been able to deliver a reasonable product. They're subsidizing the price of electric and losing 7-10k per [0] and still cannot produce a compelling product.

The legacy car companies are basically blackberry, as someone has finally shown there exists a way to create and produce a compelling car outside of the legacy participants.

Tesla actually has a path forward on self driving. They have the infrastructure, real driver data, and millions of cars on the road that can accept over the air updates. Waymo has a few Taxis in a few cities.

[0] https://insideevs.com/news/336213/moodys-says-automakers-los...
Keep in mind that variant 2 takes an exorbitant amount of effort compared to variant 1.

If you're multitasking and have other responsibilities, it's not always prudent to give every task such detailed attention, especially if it requires you to context switch.

It may work in the army, where you don't really have much creative/deep work going on, but I've seen those expectations fail in the workplace.
If everyone stopped using Facebook then the problems with Facebook would stop
JRR Tolkien and the OED (2012)
Very true, some will be low hanging fruit type problems, others more protracted and as always, time will tell.

What would be handy is an indication of status in a more granular way, like indicating hold-ups and enough information to discern what is holding some actions up. That is the detail that is the devil in politics.
If anything I wouldn't be surprised to hear Facebook funding them. Can't be a monopoly if you've got a "competitor"

Like how Google gave duck.com to DuckDuckGo and funds Mozilla
That is really misleading, in one of Satoshi's last public messages he wrote:

> Bitcoin users might get increasingly tyrannical about limiting the size of the chain so it's easy for lots of users and small devices.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1790.msg28917#msg289...

There has always been a challenging trade-off here, which is presumably why he limited the size in the first place.

This trade-off was widely acknowledged in the community going back essentially as far as records do.

And as time has gone on we've only learned more about how some ideas don't work. For example, Satoshi believed businesses would run nodes to verify their own transactions-- but we've found in practice few do, instead outsourcing it to centralized third parties often with dubious security practices.
My frustrations with roller balls is that they seem to break very easily. Writing in on a single sheet of paper on a hard surface seems to break mine without fail. I'm currently using a Lamy Swift with the medium refill.
The website itself mentions lost productivity, I was responding to that.

So despite best intentions, you're actually just making the other person wait for you to phrase your question, which is lost productivity
The "ego in heaven" stuff is in the washed down religion for mass appeal, the actual mystical practices, whether islam christian or hindu/buddhist are overcoming attachment to your identity on earth, to identify your 'self' with the infinite unfolding of the universe so you know that 'you' never die, you just stop looking out this window.
> No, the bullshit copout is showing that you are available when you are not, to give the illusion that you are working

Sounds like your idea of how to use Slack is about 180 degrees out from mine. For my team, people put things on Slack and reply when they have time/ energy or holes in their flow. Sometimes you get an immediate reply, often its not for 10 minutes or an hour.

I'm curious what kind of job allows you to fool people into thinking you are working be being available in Slack? Certainly software developers can't get away with that. Regardless of what your Slack hours are, you need to deliver bug fixes and new code.
What you say seems to make sense. but the reality tends to be more:

10:15: Them: Hello
10:!5: Me: Hey! What's up.
10:34: Them: Can I ask you a question
10:34: Me: Sure, what's up?
12:15: Them: I'm having a problem with [insert software]
12:15: Me: What's the problem?
12:45: Them: It's not working.
.....
5 hours later...
18:41: Them: Do you think it's because i didn't fill out this field marked required?
The bias you try to point out is not present within me. I also have no proof that big oil is behind this. It's only a guess.

I also agree with your thinking. I'm guessing green energy companies are likely running digital propaganda campaigns trying to sway people away from oil.
Have a look at:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/23436613/how-can-i-conve...

Or "slim":
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20182141

Typically, a docker filesystem doesn't include a proper unit (docker will inject "tiny init") - so you would probably have to add a kernel, and init, somehow.

I think I'd prefer to just create a vm, rather than re-use the pre-built docker.
Yeah it was surprisingly polished and usable - I used it first around 1999 and there wasn’t anything close to it at the time.
What language is that? One of the tags says llvm-ir. Well, I know what LLVM is and I guess IR is its intermediate representation between frontend and backend.

Would one program in that manually? Why? Because it can be done or some better reason?

Or has been generated from something?
Not if it claims GCC compatibility, which it does. Though I believe the frontend is licensed from EDG anyway.
The dispute is typically over the practical implications of it, not the pure physics of "the average global temperature will rise as long as this trend continues". And this is a topic where disinformation comes from both sides - I pretty regularly run into people who've been convinced that climate change means the planet will become uninhabitable.
I don’t think a restriction to midsized cars is fair, since you can’t get an electric car that weighs less than the 3,500 lb range. It’s impossible for me to go out and buy an electric car that isn’t a heavy car.
Whats the alternative to Facebook? I find it weird that they still don't have any real competitors. Sure other platforms have similar features, but nothing with the entire combination (groups, events, messaging, marketplace) that makes facebook so lethal. I think the closest thing might have been Google+, but we all know how that went.
As far as I know to get a V100 you need Colab Pro? Did this change recently?