skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems like the pitchforkers are the bottleneck. Probably could be solved with a tractor towing a harrow or plough, provided the dogs know to avoid getting ploughed themselves ;)
I see what you're saying that the authenticity and the connection have some value. That value is intrinsic to the object itself though. NFT is asking us to pretend that that "intangible connection" can be parceled out for speculators as collectible magic numbers while the real lightsaber hopefully sits in Lucasfilm's warehouse.
Diagnosed asperg here; would probably be autistic if I got diagnosed today.

If I appear scrupulously kind to you, it is because I am compensating. If I appear emotionally intelligent to you, it is because I had to learn what is literally instinct to most people. At least for me, I am able to compensate effectively and pass in most social situations, but it is exhausting.

When I read RMS's writing that lead to the conflict in question, it struck me as an entirely reasonable piece. When I read the responses to it, the message I got, loud and clear, was "my thought patterns are not welcome here"
They're halting database traffic for 15-30 minutes. I'm confused how this won't mean they have downtime? The application can queue transactions but how is the application handling reads after those queued trsnactions and what if 2 queued transactions conflict?
You can stand by a friend without minimizing the harm they cause.
Russia, China Must Move Away from Using Dollar – Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov
The inclusion of Facebook tracking was intentional:

https://twitter.com/backblaze/status/1373751015594356739

Not sure if they intended to send file names and sizes to FB, but in any case this doesn't look good. I'm currently looking for alternatives.
I'd have thought the set of people who use B2 and people who haven't blocked Facebook trackers would be pretty small. Still a WTF, though.
You sound like you have no more than a handful of years of professional (i.e., taxed paid FT) work experience (if any).

As you get older, jobs aren’t as interchangeable.

Consider at least:
- compensation
- scope
- niche fields
- culture
- work life balance, family policies
- location
- golden handcuffs
- network

I can (and have) found new high paying (at least they were for me at the time) jobs within 1-2 weeks of deciding to look to jump and signing an offer. But as I’ve grown older, that doesn’t fly anymore. If I’m taking a new role, I require certain compensation levels, and that comes with certain output/WLB expectations, which means I need to find it interesting, and my family needs to be ok with the value proposition.

All of those things narrow the search space down quite a bit. Then as you’re more and more senior, and if you can command a large compensation package, it’s usually no longer a 1-2 week ordeal (after initial phone interviews, I had 10 interview sessions over 3 weeks for my current role).

You’re also no longer being interviewed by random engineers and PMs, but higher ups with busier schedules that means it’s no longer a concise 4-5 hour thing.

You might eventually hit a stage in your career where as a candidate, you get to pick a panel for you to interview for a second on-site. These things take time to coordinate and schedule.
Are they? I'm not familiar with John Cleese's finances, but his well-established fame is probably driving prices up

Not to mention that Jack guy who NFT'd his first tweet. Pretty sure he isn't hurting for cash
Same with Firefox on Ubuntu 18.04. Completely different tech stack, same result. Must be standards-compliant jittering!
This is already a business though? Not high visibility, but there are companies that hire people to take packages on international flights. Of course it’s all above board, everything is declared, duty is paid, etc.
jesus calm down
Can someone tell me the reason of all loans only student loans are non bankrupt able?
Swift has tried to address this by making specialization an optimization. When it compiles a generic function, it emits a single boxed implementation, like Java. But the optimizer may also choose to specialize it for concrete types, like C++ or Rust does.

It sounds nice, but there's a huge performance difference between boxed and specialized. When you make a function generic, the compiler boxes values, conservatively emit retain/release, others.

The difference is so large, it justifies giving the programmer levers to control specialization. Swift team has added "@_specialize" as a hint. I think they should go further.

What I don't know is how specialized generics can participate in library evolution. If a dynamic library provides a sort routine, and you specialize it, what happens when the library changes? This is where a JIT or the .NET model (compile at install time) can pay off. Apple has laid some groundwork for this (bitcode, Rosetta 2) so they can certainly get there if they choose to.

Anyways I think the real dilemma is whether generics are meant to be a performance optimization (C++, Rust) or just for typechecking (Java, C#). The cost of saying yes to performance is library evolution.
I would think if some of these companies really had cracked some kind of method to double the productive output of their employees that they would have a massive advantange on their competition and grow to be some of the biggest companies in the world.

The other aspect is that the lower the value of an employees time the more the business will be happy to have them undertake repetative tasks as the cost of them doing it is lower than the cost of the work to automate.
yeah, nah. I still use master / slave and whitelist / blacklist, I'll continue to do so as long as this Orwellian policing of language continues.
The Right Amount of Stress Is Called Stimulation
I doubt it’s intentional, but companies should seriously consider if the benefits of integrating things like Facebook Analytics tools outweighs the negatives. It seems like considering their audience they would not use Facebook of all things.
...Because not wanting to expose kids to COVID at the height of the pandemic is so very uncaring of children?
I don't think so, engineers than earn over 500k/year are in the top 1%, do they all have wealth managers?

Just because you are in the top 1% doesn't mean you have people aggressively managing your finances and investments.
You’re making the claim. Prove it. Don’t give me an editorial. Don’t give me a wikipedia page. Link to the controlled studies, showing the widespread damage that you’ve claimed.

You can’t, because they don’t exist. You linked to the best there is, and it doesn’t rise to any reasonable standards of scientific evidence. Self-reported data is almost worthless. Uncontrolled, self-reported data is worthless.

I’m perfectly willing to believe you, but editorials won’t convince me.
How much of this pork can be carved up by companies like SpaceX?

What about drones, missiles, fighter planes, etc.?
If you told people in March, 2020, that this would still be going on over a year from now, and likely 18+ months from now, what do you think the reaction would be? "You're crazy"???

Trump was talking about "reopening" things for Easter last year. He should've said Easter, 2022.

I was looking back at some old texts from a friend, last year around this time... "I hope this isn't going on 6 months from now."

People want to be optimistic. We need to prepare people for reality.
Well, she's kind of right. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Bennett
> Bound by communality, sperm-whale culture expresses a collective individuality: “We” and “us” may be more important than “I” and “me”. If that isn’t a lesson for their Homo sapiens cousins, I don’t know what is.

For better or worse, people are individuals, not members of a collective. Collectives of people don't work, and it isn't for a lack of trying. People aren't whales or bees in a beehive.

That doesn't mean, however, that people can't organize. Under free markets, people organize well and effectively, but they still organize based on self interest, not self sacrifice.
Chip-starved automakers shudder at Renesas plant's 1-month halt
So I'm not sure there are any "heinous crimes" here, so what we're talking about is hypothetical, not this situation.

If you believe your friend has committed a heinous crime (assuming this isn't just a quote "crime" but actually involves heinous harm to others), the right thing to do is support your friend as a human being and support and encourage them to take accountability for the harm they've done and try to repair it, and either way support what is necessary for them to be taken out of a position where they can continue to do harm, while trying to make sure your friend is okay too (as far as still having a roof over their head and food to eat and emotional support and dignity etc).

I know this isn't the way our society works right now. It is the right thing to do.

Come to think of it, it's the right thing to do even if the harm is less heinous.

Part of the problem is that our society has taught us that the only choices are a) total abandonment of someone, throw them away completely or b) that "supporting" them means helping them deny the harm they've caused avoid any consequences and continue to do harm.

Neither one will work to reduce the amount of harm done or build a culture where we can be human.
"Write about those lessons as you learn them. If at all possible, publish what you write. Even if it is published to an audience of no one, you will be able to point people back to it later."

I think everyone unemployed or employed should be building side projects and just putting things out there. Companies are slowly embracing it too, I've been surprised how lax companies are in making exceptions for IP clauses. Almost as if its in fear of the employee leaving otherwise.

Also tucked in here, a great negotiation tip: "That way, if they say 'No side projects', you'll say 'OK, in lieu of the side projects, I'll need more money.'"
That's the goal on paper. In practise it seems like it's mostly a 'make the problem go away' facility as people going in don't generally come out 'better'. And once you've been, you're tainted for life. So does it make anything better? Does it 'reform' anyone? So far it seems to be mostly punishment and control and nothing else.
So why pressure other countries to drop Huawei too? The UK and EU countries previously thought Huawei's presence in their 5G infrastructure was a manageable security risk, until the US pressured them. By all means, it appears to be a "starve the beast" campaign to delay or deny China technological primacy in 5th-gen telecoms, and hinder the "China 2025" agenda in general.
Chinese Wedding Door Games
Deus Ex: Human Revolution, love to see it.
My College roommate had a friend as his partner in his circuits design class. His partner did less and less work on the group projects as the semester went on. On the final project my roommate did the whole project (And elevator control circuit with a little spinning disk). He was exhausted. They had to demo to the professor, who asked who did what on the project. "Dave did most of the work." "What did you do?" the prof asked.. "Actually Dave did all the work."" The friendship was salvaged, but the freeloader had to take the class again.
My experience is that replicating papers is actually nontrivial. For example someone announced they had replicated gpt2 some time back but when evals were run it turned about to be the equivalent of a much smaller model.
Good. Congratulations to Richard and all the members of the FSF. Hopefully, he can help them fix the damage they did while he was gone.
Some apps pin their certs, which may break them with Man-In-The-Middle proxy this tool uses.

Author: please consider adding a blurb about that on your page.
I don't recall Yang making that specific point; I'm interested in a link if you have one handy.

It seems awful to me to give the state an even greater incentive to enslave people, and also deeply inequitable to incarcerated folks, given that so few even had a trial.
Me and Galvin Belson have a combined net worth of a billion dollars.

"for" and "with or for" are different words.
Plenty of trade secrets in medicine in general (not just US). Parents need to lay out the process, but for some products (biological) the details matter immensely. That’s why even though some biologic drugs went off patent back in 2015 they are only launching the past year or two.
RAPTOR: A flowchart-based programming environment
Joyce, Finnegan's wake: "building supra building..." one could go on but it would never end...
Async vs blocking functions aren't a thing in Erlang and Elixir because everything (almost) is non-blocking.
Do you notice how many of your real world identities are linked to an entry in a database? How much of your assets are entries in a database.

What is missing is centralization and consensus of validity, db entries linking to the real world is done everyday.
Ask HN: What's the best example of a company going above and beyond to help you?
There are so many examples of companies that seems to have 0 zero for their customers e.g. long-waits for call centres, setting appointments for times during the day when the customer would be at work etc.

What are some examples of companies that don't treat their customers like dogpoo?
I read them this in light of his past statements here, which seem to cast the statements he made around Minsky differently. In particular,

"I am skeptical of the claim that voluntarily pedophilia harms children. The arguments that it causes harm seem to be based on cases which aren't voluntary, which are then stretched by parents who are horrified by the idea that their little baby is maturing."

https://stallman.org/archives/2006-mar-jun.html
> Canvases painted a single color, and other forms of abstract and conceptual art, remain a major part of recent art history and can sell for tens of millions.

I don't think anyone's under the impression that people paying lots of money for extremely stupid things is a recent phenomenon. I deride those buying single-colour canvasses for 8 figure price tags just the same as I deride anyone buying into the litany of crypto pyramid schemes.
If you do unsexy work you will get paid unsexy money. If you have a passion for something thats great but if you want to earn a lot of money you will need to play the game.
For all the reasons I cited above, we are not going to “stop this strain”.

Covid is endemic. It is not going away. It doesn’t meet any of the standards set up by the WHO for eradication, and even if it did, it would take decades of intensive work, on par with what we’ve been doing for polio.
I was too. :-D Which team were you on?
Forests could become sources of CO2 emissions due to climate change
Perseverance has plenty of sub-contracted parts.

For example, Maxar built several components: https://blog.maxar.com/space-infrastructure/2021/inside-pers...
I didn't argue that there wouldn't be mental health consequences or that they wouldn't continue past covid. Just that "no mental health consequences" wasn't an option on the table, and not having lockdowns leaves you with 10s millions dead on top of probably worse mental health consequences.
Has RMS ever been formally diagnosed as autistic, or is it just the perception/defense of armchair physicians?
> We have already established that sentimental value + proof of provenance suffices to yield basically any market price.

Those are some of the means by which we arrive at price.

> Take this concept to its logical conclusion, and you get NFTs

Mistake this concept for an end by itself and you get NFT.
She's not.
> The honest students get the knowledge and connections with their peers.

A lot of the honest students are too young and naive to realize the weight and importance of this though. Sometimes it takes a while before the harsh reality of how the world works sets in. When you've done well thus far just being a smart, honest, hard worker I suspect many believe that he world just continues to function in the way it has since they we're high-achieving children. Once the veil is lifted you end up with a lot of jaded adults.

Not saying they don't bear any responsibility for thinking the world is one giant meritocracy, and not being more skeptical of society. But still, it can be a bit sad to see some genuinely good people get torn down as they grow up and get pushed aside despite following what they were thought 'the right path' was.
I am now using main branch instead of master branch for all my new projects.
I think they meant get from the government (unless you believe in an extreme collectivist view of the economy and think all wealth fundamentally belongs to the government, not the person who received it through voluntary transactions with other people).
You started at so complicated that tax avoidance happens by accident and now you're talking about finances so simple you could drop it off at HR Block.
The “logistical” and “political” problems being that they’re endemic in countries with major political and economic instability, where the locals have a bad tendency to kill the people doing the vaccinations.

It isn’t a trivial problem. And oh yeah: Covid is in those countries now, too.
So, I didn’t get a chance to post this last night due to being rate limited, but I’ll post it today due to my conviction that Dan Abaramov is dangerous to the JavaScript community:

I appreciate the effort and technical prowess involved, but quite frankly Redux is bad design to begin with. Dan Abramov is a smart guy but does not think clearly enough to be allowed to design APIs.

Not saying MobX or the like are any better, but we need clearer heads approaching this problem with solutions that border on one-liners. We are storing some stuff in a global for Christ sakes, can’t we simplify all of this out of the reducer/observer pattern?

I’m depressed the marketplace of ideas has not jettisoned Dan Abramov’s ideas (the reducer pattern ended up in core React).

We are all better than this.
> If you create a contract with intent to mislead people

The guy didn't intend to mislead. He didn't even advertise the thing besides publishing it on the blockchain. People bought it from him without auditing it. I sincerely hope this would be a difficult fraud case to make.

The part of contract law you're citing is used to prevent e.g. predatory lending. I understand that it exists and what the precedent means, and I disagree that this is the same thing.
Sorry! Dang vowels. https://www.softr.io/
slimy, dickhead move for a paid service

It is just a dumb mistake.
How do you collect the data? How do you validate it? How do you make sure your treated and control arm are balanced?
Force.com/Salesforce - literally the reason I pushed our business unit to purchase a couple dozen Force.com-only licenses was we had teams that needed really simple apps to store and track data and my team (internal development) did not have the bandwidth to make them with our traditional stacks.

Had something up within 48 hours, still working and worth it to this day.
Definitely above the mean drive, resolve, conviction.

There are, at any given time, few people who walk this world rating so highly on these scales.
According to John's Hopkins a bi-pap is a type of ventilator:
https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/treatment-tests-and-t...

And the hospital seems to think they were useful. And even if it was a complete failure, at least they tried, which is more than most companies.
I would suspect the company that designed the software for your local power plant is either a huge mega corporation or their name is on the front of the building or both. It’s not like their work is niche to the point of being esoteric. It’s just not FAANG. Also not targeted to consumers.
Zac and Jessica would swiftly fire anybody who didn’t validate them. Any counsel they’d hire would have to tell them what they want to hear. They were also comfortable lying, so there’s that too
The results sound a lot like the techno that Wishmountain (aka Matthew Herbert) was making with household objects a few years back

Wishmountain - Radio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aM1mN91YDgw

Wishmountain - Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2CV8m4u16E
I think there are a few factors.

The other side never tires, and it always offers something new. This novelty is different to a conversation with a real (or virtual) human that will tire or run out of new content which leads to natural boredom.

The effort is also smaller. Bite size interactions are easy to digest and "just one more" whereas starting a new movie or TV show has a larger mental hurdle.

It also has elements of gambling. What's in the news feed mystery box this time? Refresh and see. It does not have to be good every time. Intermittent reinforcement takes care of that. In this respect it has a lot in common with many video games.
Are you referring to gauging interest by setting up fake service pages?

If so I suspect most people can see there is a gulf of difference between offering a service on a website and saying its currently unavailable when people hit 'buy' vs "securities fraud, conspiracy to commit health care fraud and money laundering."
No way.

Humans are long distance champions (ymmv).

As long as we can track
an animal, we can run run them down to exhaustion.
I mean... they did collect the poop and test it. The fraud was allegedly in double-billing samples, lying to investors about the riskiness of the business and forging the credentials of doctors to get more samples to test.
Also very confused by this. I was waiting for a part that explained how data was being accessed and managed during that window.

I wouldn't really want a different, likely subpar system responsible for queuing and serving requests during that window.

I can only think they are directing it to a different cluster.
Collectives of people don't work

The existence of armies and corporations suggests otherwise. I think you may be over-stretching the meaning of the term here to suggest some sort of entity that displaces individual cognition.
Yes. "Fake it til you make it" and "Do things that don't scale" are common advice in Silicon Valley and often cross into the realm of fraud.

It's common in the industry in general to sell software you haven't built yet. Even IBM did it with Watson Health.
It 100% voluntary: https://twitter.com/backblaze/status/1373751015594356739
So you are really trying to portray that top earners don't pay their fair share because "figuring it all out is super difficult"?

You are being disingenuous and a distraction from the actual conversation.
Seems I was completely wrong. I've learned something new today - thanks.
It’s not obvious what grades have to do with anything. I’m referring to the idea that if you are teaching people you know enough about them to recognize what they’ve written.
post hoc distinction
https://postgresqlco.nf/doc/en/param/ is a pretty good additional resource on these kind of things by the way, e.g. https://postgresqlco.nf/doc/en/param/random_page_cost/
PRC is probably the one, and only state which may survive a full scale nuclear exchange.

Americans not taking it seriously is reflecting on the overall direction, and quality of their military decision making.
Well worth reading. Lucid, clear. Didnt make me like Stallman more, but articulated some of the issues well.

On the whole, I think the cancel/trigger thing has got out of hand. People need to be accountable for what they say, not what people believe they think.
I am an incredibly neurodivergent person and through focused effort, driven by caring about how other people feel, I've picked up on many social cues. I am comfortable excluding people who use their neurodivergence as an excuse to be unkind to other people.