skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or get 'made redundant', burn out or move in to a different industry vowing never to do a release crunch ever again...
Can you find any examples of HN comments that have suggested Black people are too low IQ on average and will be disruptive? I really doubt such a thing exists.
Just having the technical data doesn't ensure that another contractor can actually build compatible parts.
Sigh. It was a work of fiction.
It's full time. Fortunately, it's very flexible, so if I need to go do some chores for an hour in the middle of the day, I can make it up later. Goat pics also help with team bonding.
Maybe you should uhhh.. calm down?
This guy has built a lot of the future judging from his bio.
You can buy Volta GPUs on laptops. There are just none that are as weak as the GPU in an M1, because it's an awful niche where you're neither fast enough to really start using the GPU, nor slow enough to do away with it entirely. There are GPUs with that amount of performance/watt available. There are even some in really thin laptops. Go looking, PCs have evolved since 2012, Thinkpads and Macbooks aren't the only thing that exist anymore.

They are much better than what Macs used to be. That makes them middling. There is no real performance advantage of M1 Macs - least of all in GPU performance - over the current AMD/NVidia standard, and quite a few disadvantages.

What it really is, is Apple making their own processors to be able to lock down their Mac platform really harshly and have total control over it, without offering any performance advantage over their competition, and people spinning it as actually a good thing because Apple had the good sense of making their previous generation of laptops worse than it had to be to make modern hardware feel revolutionary.
I thought the concerns were valid. Especially the point about managers who view themselves as opposed to "the business".

My only suggestion would be to reframe as something other than red flags. Hiring is rarely a matter of binary yes/no evaluations.

In my experience, it's better to approach these as concerns that need further exploration during the interview process, or something to be flagged for additional coaching if the person is eventually hired.
Not at all unreasonable. You could very rightly consider any other arrangement ‘overengineered’
It is ridiculous if you associate pay with degree/profession, but it is not if you associate pay with the offer and demand equilibrium. If there are no revenues to be taken or no demands for a professional, there’s no reason to pay them more. Degree does mean someone deserves to make more.
Presumably Apple will build new data centers using Apple Silicon. This would be most disruptive to Intel but deeply affects Microsoft and Amazon.

Given what we know about compute to power consumption in the M1 and Apple’s track record of performance gains, how could Amazon or Microsoft compute not be under serious threat?

Apple wouldn’t sell server hardware to these companies.

While Amazon has been working on Gravitron2 from what I understand, the cores seriously underperform what is shipping in M1, and there is no evidence of serious work in this area from Microsoft.
Because developers only want to work with their favorite language/frameworks and managers don't want 7 different teams.
We did manage to wipe them out once.
Nah. There's so little moat around the SAML/OAuth thing that there are already a half dozen startups working in the space, not to mention the offerings from the big cloud providers.

I've just completed an Okta integration, and there simply isn't much "there" there. It doesn't even really have much of a network effect. They will be one player among 5 in the space in a couple years.
Half the top pages on Google are now AMP links - which are hosted on Google. So no Google doesn't need to track you across websites because you never leave Google.
I like js, warts and all. Particularly its statically typed variants.
Agree with this sentiment. I had a short stint at a large tech company and the sort of attitude you describe is what turned me off from working there longer.

“Not my job” people tend to be the most frustrating folks to work with. While I understand wanting to mainly do the work you were hired for, there are always going to be times where you have to roll up your sleeves and do something different.

I wish I was the kind of person who would thrive in that environment because it sounds nice, but I’m not wired that way.
idk about your "anti-labor" strawman here. promoting wholly unqualified internal people who have never managed anyone before and expecting them to take over a high performing team is not a good plan, nor is it "anti-labor". think about the people on the team who have to suffer as this internal candidate learns things that anyone with schooling or training in management would already know. at least send them to a course first or something. "historical context" and "product insight" don't count for anything in an engineering manager. they're not a product designer. that engineering manager should manage engineers, not plan the product. if they want to plan product, pick a C-level position where they can do that and hire a _manager_ externally.
I love the format of this blog post. Perfect length. Perfect detail. You don't waste words. A good number of images.
oh good point, I also want my hoverboard, flying car and robot friend.

they told me the future was going to be cool, so let's make it cool!

(I was joking with the Jurassic Park thing, I genuinely really want to see them bring back extinct animals).
Visual Studio for D Language 1.1.0
There's still plenty of earth we could be learning to survive on without going all the way to Mars. Why not build a self-sustaining colony in Antarctica or under the ocean or something first? Or hell, just a biodome do-over. All of those places are still a hell of a lot more habitable than Mars and have much easier rescue options.
This would make more sense as a narrative if there were any prominent examples of short sellers materially harming the operations of a company, but I can't find any. In theory short sellers could help push a company into insolvency, but so could a lot of other vicious cycles for a failing company- worse terms from suppliers, worse credit terms, less trust from customers.

The Wikipedia page on "bear raid" mentions a single example, from 1609. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bear_raid
> Factorio

Never played this, but it seems to be designed just to be a fun game. From their pricing model, there doesn't seem to be any incentive for them to keep you addicted. Unlike some of the mobile games with microtransactions.

Being addicted to video games, any kind, is overall a bad thing.
How are Walmart shoppers treated like criminals?
just posting that i love this comment and thank you
No M1 Mac has replaced any Mac with a discrete GPU. Not yet anyway. The Mini, 13" MacBook Pro and MacBook Air never have had discrete GPUs.
@system variables: Protecting data for memory safety in unsafe code
It's one of the first known species that humans caused the extinction off. Starting here seems fitting.
Sloths are a tough one. No preserved DNA, and no closely related surviving species.
I am not pirating games (not since 2012 and then back in 2008 anyway). I am also a programmer, not quite the gray neckbeard but I've seen my fair share of Windows MFC and Java Swing back in the day (since we're talking about desktop GUI programs as well as games).

And we all want to be paid for our work.

But apparently people think software must be free. And I've known people making $30,000+ a month who pirated games. I've known lawyers and high-profile accountants begging on forums for a $150 program (paid once for a lifetime license) to be cracked. Those people made at least $10,000 a month in a third-world country. Basically one level below the millionaires. WTF, right?

I've read enough history to notice that the vested interests are always fighting a losing battle (only long-term and in retrospect anyway). So maybe we need another approach because rebelling against reality gets us nowhere IMO.

Sorry if this is too philosophical but I thought I should offer you a point of view that doesn't involve a work life which is comprised of a constant game of tug of war. At one point we all should accept the world as it is and try to work around its flaws.

One example: there are games that can detect that you are running a pirated version and they deliberately hide part of the in-game content from you (I think Witcher 3?). That alone was enough for a guy I knew to begrudgingly buy the game (he wasn't poor either). As said in another comment also in reply to you: if piracy ushers in inconvenience then they'll buy.

We can never get rid of piracy. There's a ton of extremely sharp reverse engineers out there. But we can make it hard enough for the users of our pirated products so they just give up. I've seen it applied successfully but I'll admit that it's a hard thing to pull off.

Or ultimately, if that constant arms race tires us, we should branch out to other (sub-)careers. I myself am seriously considering exiting web programming, I am sick of it already, for many reasons.
Kind of interesting, as this is essentially the plot for the universe of Battletech.
My hang up is basically this:

If I want the animal to have a good life, why do I/should I get to (or even want to) decide when and why that life should end? It seems very contradictory to me and necessitates a need for the taking of the thing I’m apparently attaching value to.

Also I know I don’t physically kill these animals on a stop watch, but I vote for their death with my wallet. I don’t see a significant difference. Actually, I think it’s somewhat worse than it I carried it out myself. That’s why I generally try to only eat seafood that I selectively harvest while diving. I can guarantee the final moments were as brief as humanly possible and the rest of its life were as nature intended.

So, I really struggle with this one part where I decide the animal has worth and should therefor have a good existence. However, I’m also deciding it should only have that until I decide I want to deep fry its muscles or something. So it must be that I’m deciding to be a benevolent killer or something, which is certainly better than a ruthless one, but leaves me a uncomfortable nonetheless. I need to justify my own need or desire to continue killing, or at least profiting from the killing.

That’s the part I can’t do so far. Do I actually need to eat them? No, so far I really don’t. My health is still good after quite a while and the initial cravings have subsided. Do I want to eat them? No, not anymore, although I do miss it from a culinary perspective. Does that justify killing them? Well, would it justify killing someone’s dog if I thought dogs were delicious? Or any dog? No, never - the notion is absurd.

Well. I suppose some people eat dogs. This has a significant cultural element to it.

Nonetheless I really can’t bring myself to convince myself that I have any good reason to eat animals. Though admittedly I make an exception for fish and shellfish. I feel strange about that. I mean, when I get in the water those fish are arguably smarter than I am. One thing I justify the action by is that at least in the water they have a natural chance and environmental advantage. It isn’t a relationship of control and systematic murder from birth to death.

In time I suspect I’ll stop eating fish too. I don’t know.

The more I think about it the more it becomes an existential matter to be honest.
Every time this comes up, people seem to be missing the reason tax codes are as complicated and loophole-filled as they are, because they approach the problem from the wrong place. The tax codes of all modern nations are not about revenue. They're about control. The entire purpose of the machinery is to punish some behaviours and incentivise others without having to go through all the trouble and checks and balances of passing specific new laws. The overall income from taxes isn't how the government funds their spending, it's simply a means to control (but never enough to eliminate) inflation.
Sorry, but judging from neighboring Germany the rents in Vienna ARE incredibly low.

The measure I would apply is whether middle class people can live in the city, and that's definitely the case, in contrast to e.g. Munich.
const readFileP = (...a) => new Promise((res,rej)=>readFile(...a, (e,r)=>e?rej(e):res(r)));

This is a one-line implementation and is probably way faster. I would totally just use this one-liner anyway.
Get a remote job in the US.
Would that there were consequences for trafficking in brittle priggish & minatory social denunciation, for the purpose of demonstrating one's devotion to the zeitgeist.
There are example factorizations around page 11 if I'm reading this correctly. Haven't run them through yet because I'm refreshing my atrophied linear algebra knowledge and walking through some of the source papers, so some work is in there.
That's very interesting in light of the facts that

1) This announcement seems to claim that Flutter 2 apps can be deployed as web apps as well as mobile apps, yet

2) This very morning I received an email from Google stating that pay.google.com is going away and the service can only be used via the mobile app going forward.
End of Year: Pay Report 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIuGfXp-Ok8

Helicopter blades have been proposed and tested, but apparently Roton, an early space company, did not have nearly enough money. Also they pursued a SSTO platform that they didn't have the efficiency margins to pull off.
Ask HN: Why would Apple make a car?
That's helpful feedback, thanks. I'll adjust the wording.
It's not just about building special experiences. I want to be able to browse normal websites in VR -- VR and uncommon user agents introduce a new set of user inputs that Flutter will need to handle if it doesn't want its websites to just break if someone loads them up in a headset.

Currently as a web dev, if I want my website to be usable by a voice assistant, I don't have to do anything. If I want my website to be usable in VR, I don't have to think about it -- that's Chrome's problem, not mine, I just expose the exact same controls I've always used. If someone is building a user agent that interacts with my site in a novel way, as long as I've built my site well everything just kind of works, because of how the web is architectured.

But if you're rebuilding all of the controls from scratch, suddenly you can't think that way anymore. You have to think about the controls and gestures that every medium exposes, or else you have a website that just randomly breaks depending on what OS/platform a user accesses it from.

> and it's usually addressed by allowing native hooks

Not on the web though. I mean, for obvious reasons on the web we can't just expose native OS methods for websites to call. Flutter doesn't have a choice on that front, Google, Mozilla, and Apple realistically aren't going to break browser sandboxing just so the devs have an easier time.
Why should the remarks on the 6th be relevant or considered separate?

Seems clear the President could have stayed back in the White House that day, as he’d made enough remarks for weeks and months to get folks to show up loaded for bear. It’s not like they went shopping after the speech started...

No idea why the remarks that day are seen as the thing as if in a vacuum.
May you please upload a screenshot of the tweet? I can’t see the tweet as I don’t have an account. It appears as though the user has blocked all non-Twitter users from viewing their posts.

Edit - I found an archive of the tweet https://archive.md/VpYl2
That's very possible, but I think in gaming there is this idea that maybe men can't make games that attract females? So at least possibly the creative team would need to be mostly female to be successful.

I don't know if that's true, but it could be either men don't understand as well what attracts female gamers, or they're not interested in making those kind of games.
> Google Pay switched to Flutter a few months ago for their flagship mobile app, and they already achieved major gains in productivity and quality.

I'm not sure about the quality. I'm bullish on Flutter but the iOS reviews for the app are awful.
It's interesting how the hacking of Gab, just like countless other crimes against right-leaning individuals is accepted even in the Hackernews community.
> And not associating the act of placing pipe bombs with a riot that occurred the next day is naive.

Exactly. We don't prosecute based on whims, but tangible evidence. You'd be wise to do the same.
It's probably a whole lot better than getting a contractor to reverse engineer the technical data and then building the compatible parts.
I agree -- and I'd venture to say that the sentiment could be alluding to the fact that mistakes and things overlooked in software development are inevitable.

Don't take this for defending him, but it's in the realm of possibilities ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
> exponentiation distributes over multiplication

things that irks me

a**b * a**c == a**(b + c) != a**(b * c)

for exponentiation to distribute over multiplication, it must become addition, thus reinforcing the multiplication IS repeated addition?
There's a similar bug with the age of consent laws where I live. General gist of things is that the age of consent is 17, however if both participants are under 17 and the age gap is small (typically less than 1 year), there's an exception clause (I believe this is known as a "Romeo & Juliet" clause).

This leads to the odd scenario where someone born 16y364d ago can get it on with someone born 16y363d ago, then the very next day it becomes illegal, and the day after that it becomes legal again.
They also pull out this trick in reverse to defend vile centrists like Neera Tanden where they use her identity and record of having received federal benefits to pose her as someone that would defend them rather than someone dedicated to destroying those programs, who attacked an employee, who outed an employee who was sexually assaulted, and suggested stealing Libya's oil to pay for bombing them.

She might not be getting her nomination, but it's a great example of the tactic in action.
I use LispWorks proprietary UI library CAPI, otherwise all of my code is portable.

SBCL and Emacs are great, use them often, also.
This was linked downthread and it's pretty good: https://thegrayzone.com/2021/02/18/us-media-reports-chinese-...
I think it only takes a handful of humorless people to make it not worth keeping it up. He wants to write a game engine, not be a comedy writer.
Good thing we're on HackerNews and not a court of law then. Cool air of superiority too.

Besides, who placed the bomb, again, does not influence the heinousness of the act. Placing pipe bombs at political party headquarters is an atrocious thing to do, and relevant agencies in DC are right to be on edge about this kind of behaviour. That is not "maximising", it is a prudent course of action.
> standard library functions to include algorithmic complexity as part of the standard documentation.

it would be acceptable to have a graph of the input size vs time, and this graph could be autogenerated using a testbed that is also used by unit testing! two birds one stone!
Eminently reasonable: dispensing with memory management (allocate/gc) for an embedded real-time missile guidance system. It may have even had static memory layout which likely further improves performance.
Depends on whether you agree with what the people in charge define as a 'good thing'.

In a democratic government, you might like how a powerful tool is being wielded when your people are in charge, and be terrified when the 'other' is in charge.
Whatever was the cheapest I'd guess. Flour sounds like a good candidate.
I think a better moral is "don't roll your own parser unless your core competency/product is the parser". Especially in a corporate situation.
Sure you’ve been watching the actual reviews? All the ones I could find show 15-20m for sport mode, 10-12m for manual mode averaging >140km/h. It’s one of the key selling points over kits really.
Do anything with a file where you actually have to touch every byte (e.g. parsing), it is pretty impressive to get anything to go faster than 100MB/s. 500MB/s is blindly fast, IMHO.
I'm with you that 32x feels insane, but these are crazy times and Okta presumably had to pay a premium to take Auth0 off the market. With those stats and a compelling story (developer tools) they were probably expecting a great IPO in this market. Assuming a 20% premium to take them off the market, 32x doesn't seem that crazy with many public companies trading at 25x or more.

But yeah... it does feel a little bit like that moment where you go over the top of a roller coaster...
Can a goat in the swarm catch a random virus from the Web? What's your policy on replacing dead instances and replication?
Shouldn’t we just come clean and admit to ourselves that there is no such thing as the C standard? There is a collection of loosely related languages that look similar and that collectively we call C, but really they’re all completely different and share almost no interoperability or common characteristics. And those standards that do exist provide almost no ability to reason about your code including things like ordering of statements.
Perusing what's presently successful in online comics, I note how CAREFUL they are.

Survivor bias, no doubt.
IMO the Capitol riot (and arguably some other aspects of Trump's movement) are symptoms of underlying problems in addition to being standalone events. So while I agree it's possible to make too much of the danger posed by specific events (no, there was never a serious chance for them to overthrow the government), I think the case is much stronger for the symptom-of-underlying-problem part and it makes some of the alarmism seem more reasonable in that context.

In this specific case, I think the major underlying thing is the narrative pushed by Trump that the Democrats have just overtly dumped millions of votes to steal the election, and the courts, the legislature, and even others in his own political faction have failed us (and so, democracy has just de-facto collapsed in the US).

Now, Trump says a lot of stuff, and almost no one takes everything he says seriously, so it's worth looking at the data. But polls indicate that about 12% of Trump voters see Biden as the legitimate winner, and 73% view the election as stolen [1], so it's taken pretty well (in fact, so well that other Republicans can't effectively push back on it without jeopardizing their own political survival, but their equivocation just reinforces the narrative and causes them to lose further ground to the Trump faction).

Of course, most people won't take any action even if they feel a sinister faction has undermined democracy is this country, but it wouldn't be totally surprising if a tiny percentage are thinking about it (which in this case could add up to a substantial number), so the idea that law enforcement is seeing info that leads them to be concerned seems at least plausible. I wouldn't automatically write it off as only political.

As an anecdote I have a close relative in the midwest who is so polarized that they openly express desire for a right wing dictatorship (and they don't even view the election as stolen). Just one data point so not worth much, but I guess it makes the idea that extreme feelings are increasing and could boil over for a few people already on the edge feel more plausible to me.

[1] https://docs.cdn.yougov.com/imdk8zumh5/econTabReport.pdf
https://codeblog.app/ redirects to https://webthing.co/ which is broken?
Latino – open-source programming language in Spanish written in C
You make it sound as we’re talking about someone who merely holds an opinion. Not someone who acts on those opinions. That’s a bit disingenuous.
At least you got the pizza demo to work at all. All I got was a large Qt logo with the message: Application exit (TypeError: undefined is not an object (evaluating 'handle[name]'))