skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not everyone's cup of tea, but on Linux gobject-introspection allows for automatic or semi-automatic generation of bindings for X languages.

.NET also -- and this is only my interpretation -- is following that path.
Another way of thinking about this is absolute returns vs risk-adjusted returns. Maybe as a specialist you’d have higher absolute returns, but the probability that your speciality dies may mean your risk adjusted returns are higher for generalists.
And as I explained on a different comment, performance of many different language / compilers for this particular benchmark are almost same "If" they use the same technique ( C, C++, Java, Swift, Javascript and Dart.)

But the argument here started as "Hey look language A is faster than language B" , while pointing out completely different implementations, which is, absurd.
Apple M1 latencies, throughput and iops
Sed isn't part of the coreutils, though, so this would be outside of the scope of at least this project.

There is https://github.com/chmln/sd written in Rust, but it's far from a sed replacement – it's reducing it to search and replace for fixed strings, as far as I can tell.
> All three Signal apps (at the time of writing this comment) use E2EE with minimal metadata leakage.

Three most important metadata of a message is sender, receiver, time. AFAIK all three are available to Signal server (while sender, receiver identified at least by IP address).
The most powerful supercomputer is now up and running
Red only works if you have color vision. It shouldn't be relied on. (Traffic lights, for example, have a consistent order with red on top.)
It most certainly is both.
As an aside, I understand your argument. I simply disagree.
Nobody here is Nigerian or saying they are.
(but yes, I am being a bit pedantic)
Credentials inside public GitHub repos increase 20% (State of Secret Sprawl)
Like what, "door dasher"? "uber driver"?

The economy is developing in the wrong direction. We are not on track for happy automation.
To some degree they are similar. The one difference is perhaps that BTC mining income is effectively guaranteed, ie if you join a mining pool and invest enough money, you will get a return of known quantity. In contrast, you could invest a virtually unlimited amount of money in a gold mining operation but not get anything back.
Yes, we are both saying "use a library when possible". I am mystified by the need to write or read such an article. It seems akin to "don't use an airplane to go to the corner store for a dozen eggs".
Our biggest differentiator is our strong focus on image segmentation: we've put a lot of effort in creating a labeling interface that is optimized to speed up segmentation labeling, a task that is notoriously slow and expensive. Another thing we do differently is that we allow unlimited labeling for free in public datasets.

Acquarium is focused more on exploring and curating your data. It integrates with external labeling providers, like us.
Thanks man, can feel you!

Completely agree with the brutally efficient part. Having kids makes me much more efficient and less a victim to procrastination. If I can finish my work of the day before 5pm then I have some extra time for my project. If I call the hospital NOW at 8am I don't need to wait for an hour at 2pm. Time suddenly becomes a lot more valuable to me.
Will Amazon just close the warehouse if it votes to unionize?
This is definitely how it works with the IEC - I can't imagine the ISO are any different.
Only on the FOSS world, because it is the only way to force devs to pay.

There is another alternative universe where commercial software, including libraries, gets sold.
No, it wouldn't be, because without wage labor there would be no food, shelter and technological progress. Even in a post scarcity world we would still need people who at least develop new product ideas.
The people being interviewed are the ones selling their courses to others. Of course they’re going to claim it’s very lucrative. If someone was losing money from something they’re trying to sell, they wouldn’t go on record with a newspaper proclaiming their losses to the world.
Pretty often, they do enjoy people who act like the whole thing was pleasant. If you force them into long chat they will dislike it, but if you smile, are nice to them, thank and say one socially appropriate thing, they tend to like it.
The understanding of financial markets is almost non existent in general population in Africa.

At least in western countries we have some regulation to require to warn individual investors that there is risk associated with investing.

I see offering this to people who are desperate to make living but are oblivious to the risk as exploitation.
So 5 developers don't need a tester and business analyst? WTF.
Good advice. I will take a modular monolith over a frontend that consumes a series of services any day. Black boxes are fun until funny things start to happen inside them.
So is making the UNSAFE FOR ALL, instead of unsafe for few?

Defaults matter.

P.D: Think if web browser were not fixed or improved because maybe somebody is using Win95. Its the same. The path to better is stop using what is proven to be bad (C/C++ is proven to be very bad!). The path to make sure niche platforms are covered is turn what is better in something more popular until it replace the old... and niche platforms use it...

This is called progress. Is how its done.
> (Amazon founder and chief executive Jeff Bezos owns The Washington Post.)

Every Post article about Amazon includes that disclaimer.
Yes! I work in Blender[0] when I have the free time, and do photography when I travel. Recently I've been too busy with research to do either, but at least my research is tangentially related to art+tech.

[0]: https://www.instagram.com/p/CECTJaZHHOD/

[1]: http://wizaga.com/thewoods.html
This article is absurd. I can't help but be reminded of the story about the libertarian police department:

https://www.reddit.com/r/copypasta/comments/7iqxko/libertari...
Apple hit by privacy complaint by leading French tech association
Bruh, I get the exact same type of ads in Austria on instagram from some German dude.

These fake millionaire lifestyle gurus are everywhere.
To your point, Apple Developer does not require the $100/year Apple Developer Program fee to load software on your iPhone, but does by default require a weekly cert refresh.

However, the $100 is less a permission slip, and more buys you access to Apple services infrastructure that is largely worth the money so you don’t have to do it yourself and so your users can trust a single brand experience.

(For example, notifications before Apple’s notification service were insane, the app “Growl” made a lot of money just trying to tame the dozens of different ways confounded users’ expectations with notifications. Similarly, updating apps was crazy-making for users, then there was Sparkle, now you get the app hosting and distribution included in the $8/month.)

Just these few services are well worth $8 a month if you compare what you get to any other SaaS we’re buying all the time from HackerNews startups:

- App discovery, hosting, distribution, updates
- CloudKit, iCloud Documents, iCloud K/V Store
- Push Notifications
- Sign-in with Apple
- etc. (NFC is also in the list)

See this link for detailed differences between free Apple Developer and paid Apple Developer Program (also compares Enterprise distribution):

https://help.apple.com/developer-account/#/dev21218dfd6

Since you specifically mention push notifications which of course require an infrastructure to run reliably for you 24/7, there’s a good value for the $8/month. The systems behind making these “just work” for users are complex and expensive.
I'm enjoying the speed of checkout at Walmart with Walmart+. With a little bit of care, checkout takes almost no time. The little bit of care is going at a time when it is not so crowded that there is a line to get to a self-checkout station.

The way it works is that you scan the bar codes with the Walmart app on your smartphone as you add items to your shopping cart. The scan function is very fast. If you are adding more than one of an item, you can either scan them separately or scan once and then set the quantity.

To checkout, you just go to an open self-checkout station, hit the "check out" button in the app, scan the QR code that is on the home screen of the terminal, tell it how many bags you are using (default is zero), hit "pay", and about two seconds later a confirmation appears in the app, and you can leave.

The confirmation can be shown to the person at the exit to show that you have paid, although usually they don't ask.

If you are buying anything sold be weight, it tells you when you add it to your cart that you'll have to weigh it at checkout. At checkout, it prompts you to put each such item on the scale, weighs it, and adds it in.

It is literally 10-15 seconds from the time I enter the self-checkout area to the time I'm pushing my cart toward the exit. (I don't bag in-store. I have my reusable bags and some boxes in my car trunk, and do my bagging and/or boxing at my car).

This has been great for pandemic shopping. It is fairly easy to avoid spending more than a few passing seconds around any given other shopper while going around gathering items, but when scanning and bagging a full cart of groceries at self-checkout, you might be around the same other shoppers for several minutes, some within 2 meters.
You mentioned red is identified as danger in nature and that made me think... I'm assuming red is danger because blood is red? If so, I bet if we were to visit an alien civilization on another planet who has a different biological process, they may have different colored blood and their warning buttons may instead be blue or green even. Interesting to think about!
I like that theory. It may explain why the Google Workspace (/G Suite/Google Apps) icons are now so indistinguishable. If one looks nice, why not make the others look just as nice?
I don't know why that's strange, it's basically the same as GME was over here
Took 2 years to finally launch on Product Hunt
I wonder why I took so long. I just couldn't focus on it. First MVP was created two years ago.

I am really excited. It would be very helpful if you can check it out and give your feedback: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/socialbu
I used to work for an underwater robotics company.

I fucked right off when they smelled military contract $$$ and pivoted to become an ISO 9000 compliant house of drudgery and boredom where one was more likely to work on Word documents speccing a hypothetical robot than build the damn robot.

This is the kind of application I would've pulled every string I could to work on while I was there.
That strikes me as a bad thing. A bug that is easy to fix is a bug that could have been fixed sooner. That's exactly the kind of bug that causes the worst issues. Bugs that are hard to fix but readily identified are at least possible to work around.
> and in this case Nigerians

Once again, Zimbabwe is a different country than Nigeria.

https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Zimbabwe/nigeria/@-4.3437998...
If the same class of problems need to get solved on a regular basis, could the guessing algorithm get smarter with each iteration using ML techniques?

Seems like if the algorithm is applied to a particular domain, there could be efficiencies gained from optimizing what guesses to rule out.

Not very knowledgeable about the subject though.
>An ordinary workbench, about 3 feet high, is satisfactory, or use a kitchen table. Cover the top with sheet asbestos, or preferably asbestos board, and at the back provide a rack for holding your stock of glass tubing in various sizes.

Ummm . . . no thanks
On the Sony, Nintendo, Microsoft, Apple and Google developer ecosystems there are plenty of shops selling libraries.

Basically where most devs selling commercial software live on.
You are aware that trading is a zero-sum game and that for every winner there's a loser who took the other side of the bet?
What do you think makes for an engaging road? One thing that comes to mind is road width. A narrower road forces a driver to pay more attention.
> I wonder what _else_ all those peer reviewers let slide or didn't know when reviewing other papers?

Peer-review is only one layer for identifying errors. Some things will pass through it. Then there will be retractions if the paper proves to be flawed, but, for that to happen, someone needs to identify the flaw and reach out to the authors.

It's a slow process.
Apple makes money. It will pay you off the value of the investment in about 20-30 years depending on how well the business goes. If you get that money as dividend, stock buyback or someone else wanting the stock doesn't really matter much besides liquidity which is always a nice to have.
I’m working on GCP mostly using Python and I agree that it would be nice to share a library across services instead of having yet another service.

However, practically speaking:

- I don’t think it is possible to create a Python library that is not publicly available through pypi/pip, but can be installed in cloud functions

- if the library is a service, I only need to update one service to add a new function or fix a bug

- a service can be called by other non Python services.

With that being said it is much, much easier writing code that import a library than call out to a service. And it is also much, much easier to test.
Making an eBook that people want to read
What's a Merge Queue and what is it good for?
There are a few examples with primary sources outlined here:

https://web.archive.org/web/20210223203303/https://moonofala...
I don't think there is even a security guard there.
Here in the UK some stores offer a handheld wireless scanner at the entrance to the store (and some chains offer an app so you can use your phone too)

You then scan items as you pick them off the shelf - if you're really prepared you put the item directly into a bag you brought with you.

Payment is then a case of walking up to the till - human or machine - and scanning one final barcode. Your order is presented to you for a final review then you tap your card and leave.

Arriving at the till and paying instantly means my entire queuing experience is over within 5-10 seconds

(Unless you get subjected to an infrequent random poll of your items but these are worth the occasional hassle)

Hopefully you get something similar implemented!
When moving day comes around, I'm guessing you have to offer more than just beer & pizza when it comes to moving a 43' table.
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Don't underestimate the satisfaction of a job where you don't have to prostitute your brain and where you can send a smile to people a couple of times a day.
I think part of that is the "nobody got fired for buying IBM/Cisco/etc". You're somewhat more insulated from accusations of cringe or racism because you can't accuse someone of those things for how they view their own culture. It's a touchy area, nobody wants to be in the news because their recruiting event turned racist. Reactions are harsh, I don't think "We did research and tried to put on a tastefully themed event, but failed to consider this particular viewpoint" is going to get you out of the news.

I also always took the "ambassador" to be an external facing thing. They speak for their culture at that company; the places I've seen it I was never given the impression that they were meant to be an ambassador for their entire culture. Maybe I was misreading it, though.
This felt like something I would’ve wrote in an alternate life, several good observations woven into a hate piece that itself feels like an intellectual VC piece of a different era.

I feel the article proved Paul Graham’s point in a way, about people insulting his essays. I wonder what drives people to do this.
i wont use this because the author sucks up all justfiles files with no way for a user to opt out and isnt fully clear on this. use it on some private or company thing that accidentally goes public, oops he has your file now in his repo.

if it was opt-in to him monitoring i might be more open. maybe i should fork and change the filename to keep this from happening
Did you see any of the permanent staining that is mentioned in a sister comment's aappublications link (https://www.aappublications.org/news/2016/08/05/SilverDiamin...)?
This sounds interesting. Do you mean you are trying to simulate social activities for those random NPC? I know many games try to do that but none of what I saw did it really good.

Yeah 4h of intensive programming is going to smash the brain hard enough. Even Carmack says he has to switch between tasks to make a super efficient 13-hour day.
> I want a computer that can be completely autonomous when I want it to be, but which can also be used to communicate securely with anyone on the planet without being observed by a third party.

I think this is the rub of the problem, because it's a contradiction: "I want secure software with no vulnerabilities, but don't you dare force me to update". This kinda sorta worked in the early 90's because most people weren't on the internet and few were actively thinking of exploiting anything -- it was a time of plaintext protocols and unauthenticated commands. The world has moved on, and our tradeoffs balance in a different place today.
For example gamedev middleware is an example of that - be it individual library, for example audio: fmod, criware, wwise, miles, etc., or full blown game enines (unity, unreal, etc.). Just few examples.
I've been wondering something like this lately in relation to apparent species die-offs - we view and catalogue numbers in a timeframe that makes sense on an immediate human scale.

What if species have always gone through collapse/regrowth cycles and we happen to be viewing things through a too finely-focused lens that skews interpretation?

I'm not trying to make light of Humankind's horrific environmental impact, rather checking that we're not simply missing a fundamental natural law and so misinterpreting things.

This came to the fore of my mind particularly recently, listening to a podcast wherein part was talking about a rebound in the population of Peregrine Falcons, with them taking up homes across London.

- ed lol at me - 'taking up homes across London' sounds like the falcons are gentrifying. I meant, obviously, 'their populations are growing across London'.
I think the irony might be lost here that life in China had returned largely to normal since summer 2020 because of 'CCP dystopian bullshit' which managed to effectively curtail the spread of the virus, in contrast to the paragons of freedom in the West, where everyone has been in periodic lockdowns for over a year.

Almost ever major crisis that has plagued Western democracies over the last two decades can largely be traced back to weakness, not strength of states, yet people seem to be constantly afraid of 'totalitarianism' rather than dysfunction.
This one gets me every time. I’ve only ever seen a couple super markets or stores implement this for human-operated check out stations. Ross has this, and Best Buy used to during the holidays.
https://github.com/Michael-F-Bryan/mdbook-epub is experimental
Your definition of complete backup exceeds even the definition the parent is using for IOS. There are some things like downloaded files that don't get backed up to the cloud. (Some of them probably do get backed up via iTunes backups, but even there, I'm quite certain that not quite everything gets backed up. Instead it contains nearly everything that an non-jailbroken user might care about.)

Things like the set of apps, settings (both app and system level), game progress, the set of open tabs, etc can be backed up, and IOS is even able to restore old app versions specified in the backup by downloading them from the store.

All that said, both IOS backup options are more comprehensive than the built-in android options.
It seems like there's a lot of potential for domain specific optimization if we can improve the guessing algorithms.
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What if you had deaf friends and could wear glasses that would translate sign language for you? What if you were deaf and had a robotic assistant? What if you wanted to do translations for a hearing audience?
Well I was talking about tromp's assumption of unbounded money. Of course with finite money the strategy makes no sense.
*Most who sell licenses seem to be moving their old stuff/cash-cow-behemoths/etc to saas as quickly (slowly) as possible.

-certainly there are exceptions. Exceptions seem more likely with smaller older companies with different priorities.
I have a data point from South Africa. My younger brother and our cousin, have nagged me in the past years to teach them 'how to trade'. Normally they would mean the process itself + some technical analysis.

Our cousin is 2 years ahead of my younger brother. He makes enough to find his side-lifestyle (he also works).
My younger brother is still looking for work, and I was pleasantly surprised to see how much he's learn from YouTube, and that he turned a small profit.

Many of the bigger lifestyle focused people run scams. Some have been arrested, assets confiscated.

There's however a boom in the younger generation in their 20s, armed with $100 starting accounts, making money.
You are probably right, I just know the administrator for the google and Amazon insurance were always super helpful and even though I have had some massive claims I never had to fight with the insurance company. Like I said many times I believe in any decent paying job in the U.S. healthcare is taken care of.

I still pay a portion of my paycheck for insurance too, and the amount varies depending on which insurance you want. I think the highest I have seen is still less than $500/month for whole family coverage.
Sign language is not a way to speak English using your hands -- it is a distinct language with distinct grammar and distinct vocabulary.

If you are born Deaf, you will not have the opportunity to natively acquire a spoken language. Our brains are not designed to acquire spoken language through writing -- and our spoken languages are designed to be acquired through listening, not reading.

It's easy to think that a Deaf signer living in America is a native speaker of English, but they very well may not be, having never heard the sounds and therefore been unable to internalize all of the many, many necessary grammatical and morphological rules of the language.

Expecting all Deaf people to simply use written English when dealing with a computer is like expecting all Americans to use Spanish to interact with their computers -- technically possible (Spanish is a perfectly good language, and relatively accessible starting even from grade school here), but ignores the human reality that people want (need) to speak their own language.

There are not yet standard ways to write sign languages. Partly this is because of difficulties in translating the medium to text -- unlike speech, sign language production is not entirely linear, in addition to the fact that your hands can be articulated comprehensibly in much more sophisticated ways than your mouth can.
Solidarity with all those who are voting to unionize. Hopefully they can all vote without threats or interference from Amazon.
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Well its closed source so thats a shame.
Right on. A “computer I own” seems to presuppose that this computer does all these millions of things, many of which (I fear) can’t be provided practically for less than a compromise in ownership.

You can build (and own) the Apple I but you can’t reasonably write a Chrome-compatible browser for it, if Google aren’t interested.

Thus I find asking for a “computer you own, like any other tool” is a bit nonchalant wrt. the scope of the request.
There's also https://iex.ec/ - marketplace for applications, TEE-protected (yeah, yeah I know) compute to execute them, and data sources.