skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Wait, that doesn't make sense now, does it?

Yes, it does.

> Deflation means precisely that money will be worth more in the future than it is now

Deflation means that $X in the future will have more purchasing power in the future than $X has now.

It does not mean that the money will be worth more in the future than it is worth now; these are different concepts. You'll note that my comment says "the same amount of purchasing power is worth less in the future than it is right now". By the same token, more purchasing power in the future may still be worth less than less purchasing power right now.

People like to slam the intrinsic value of gold by saying "you can't eat gold". But even in the sense in which you can eat gold, you can't eat gold you don't have. The uncertainty of the future is one reason why money in the future is worth less than money in the present, but the bigger reason is option value. You can hold present money and spend it in the future. You cannot pre-realize future money and spend it in the present.
Thank you. Does anyone understand the difference between this and Simpson's paradox?
This looks pretty slick! Can you give any sort of average number of seconds your pre-trained models run for? Just curious approximately how many API calls one could make on each tier given the per second usage pricing.
Happy to see the IPO and the general success of the company. Digital Ocean does a great job and I'm looking forward to them competing with AWS, GCP, Azure, etc
I use a dynamic `import()` in the login form submit handler with an initialization flag. Code splitting is handled by the bundler
My #1 I take with this post is that Free ≠ Open.

Software need to be open! If it was meant to be free it would be called Freesource not Opoensource.
This cipher is pure security-through obscurity and it held up well.
Just got back from 3 weeks there, which was awesome. I found my spot so far that I would definitely chill at for at least a month or two.

I find Tamarindo to have all the amenities, but also crowded and basic. Santa Theresa super overrated imo. Pretty sure they keep the roads dusty and rocky there to cultivate a certain vibe. Manuel Antonio mad touristy. Want to hit more Osa and Pavones next time.

My favorite spot was between there and Jaco.

How’s the pacific side? I heard the most party hardy crew is there.

San Jose was great, went to brunch in the Escalares or whatever. Good vibes, low key, girls looked nice and friendly, fairly safe, and fairly reasonable prices.
Suez Canal blocked by traffic jam after container ship runs aground
You missed what Waston was named after.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-history/silicon-revolution/bu...

S/360 was/is a big deal in history.
WireGuard bounces off FreeBSD–for now
Assuming the OpenAI model is similar to DeepMind's AlphaStar model, the model is static.

And a few games of being exploited is nowhere near enough data for the AI to be re-trained.
> Downs syndrome is a horrible condition that greatly impacts your quality of life.

People with DS frequently report greater life satisfaction that people without DS. The problem isn't DS, it's how people with DS get treated by the rest of society that's a problem.
If the first thing Gelsinger does in the new role is to lie about progress, his credibility will be ruined.

Conversely, if he were to say "it's worse than I feared," he won't personally be blamed because the problem preceded his return to Intel.

So I think the claim can be viewed with a greater sense of honesty than before.
I want to be able to set Super+C/V to copy/paste in Linux, including the terminals rather than different key configurations depending on the context. Is this now available in Gnome?
There’s an economic concept called “psychic profits”, and it encapsulates exactly those non monetary gains one gets from volunteering like power, recognition, respect, status, and so on
Yes, and every officer since then has been drilled not to do such mistakes. The military fucks up like this sometimes, but that's one event out of millions of miles steamed.

Not defending this event, those sailors should have been court martialed, but your snarky comment didn't add anything.
Sex trafficing is not a real thing. It's more common to be trafficed as a low-wage worker, sometimes partially with your own participation, eg as a servant or working at an extended family restaurant.

Sex trafficing is just something police like to bring up at press conferences when they arrest women for prostitution. Often they don't actually charge anyone with it though, it just sounds cool to say so they do it.
This innate intuition comes from the familiarity of the research. Much of science in this realm is essentially conjecture, useful for securing funding dollars and keeping bright minds entertained.

Comedians such as Carlin were highly intelligent, part of what made their genius. His jokes are typically funny because they contain much truth that otherwise few others would say.
> Just like 'Qt' is "cue-tee".

How else would you want to pronounce it?
Looks like you got downvoted for this, but honestly, I wonder how much INTC gets dinged in the stock market because of this.

No idea how to measure the impact, but I'm sure it's in the tens of billions.

It doesn't even matter if it's right or wrong - it matters because the headline of 7nm vs 5nm sucks for INTC stock.

I think Intel could easily put some marketing language about shifting to an "industry standard measurement practice" or something similar (remember, it's not for techies, but the people who buy INTC stock).
Clearly this isn't an issue that people care about enough to do anything about, otherwise someone would have gone and implemented it.
similarly to your experience, I'm using Brave browser (based on chromium) since recently (after watching https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krB0enBeSiE), mostly attracted by the built-in adblocker
There's "passion" and there's "professionalism". I would categorise many of the activities you mention under the latter. Passion isn't the only reason to try to be good at what you do and get ahead. Pride, ambition, a sense of responsibility, etc. are all good reasons too, and it's easier to associate them with surgeons and judges. "Passion" is just a bit of a weird word to use when it comes to such work, maybe because it's often associated with creative endeavours.
Three responses up though someone is just suggesting that a sailor with a shotgun could take down one of the drones that was hovering close over the helipad.

That negates the possibility of misidentifying a plane as a drone, or hitting anything unintended, or of any risk of taking down a plane at all.

There's a wide gulf of responses between that and firing off an anti-aircraft missile in a "using a bazooka as a flyswatter" kind of application.
I would imagine that some DoD plan states that all those fabs in Taiwan get blown up upon invasion.
> MBA hate here is ridiculous.

It indeed is. Just the other day, when the news came out that Backblaze is sending private info to Facebook, the top comments on HN were along the lines of "I guess some MBA decided it was going to make more money, so they did it."

It really takes a special level of blind hatered to blame an MBA (where there is no evidence one was involved) for sending one's information to a company founded and lead by a Harvard computer science major. But yes, let's blame all ills in this world on MBAs.

EDIT: Another example I remember was that commenters here started the usual MBA-bashing on an article about how GE's financial engineering became their downfall, until other pointed out the person behind it was GE's former CEO, whose BSc, MSc, and PhD are all in chemical engineering.
Amazon drivers have to consent to AI surveillance inside vans or lose their jobs
That might be what some MBA programs do for some graduates but I can at least give you a data point that the MBA program I attended spends a lot of time focusing on how that type of extraction is bad for long-term business.

There are some cases where it actually is perfectly ok to extract value from a business before winding it down. But that doesn't mean that all of a sudden anybody with an MBA degree is some sort of ruthless capitalist.

I got an MBA because I wanted to learn more about business, network, and hopefully adjust my own personal career path.

I can say for Fisher (Ohio State) we spent a lot of time focusing on not just great ways to make money or improve a business, but on people too. At least that was my experience. I'd guess if you spend a lot of time around "ruthless MBAs" you should take a look at what universities they're coming from and see if they have anything in common.
I would have thought that artificial opioids like fentanyl would have wrecked the poppy market already.
It appears that reddit prefers that people believe it is the original author's words when they edit someone's post:

> "I messed with the “f*** u/spez” comments, replacing "spez" with r/the_donald mods for about an hour," Huffman said, indicating that the only thing he secretly altered was the target of the insults.

https://www.theverge.com/2016/11/23/13739026/reddit-ceo-stev...
Just commented on your last post so copying here:

This looks pretty slick! Can you give any sort of average number of seconds your pre-trained models run for? Just curious approximately how many API calls one could make on each tier given the per second usage pricing.
Another positive experience with Auth0, if a little finicky in my usecase (using it as a SAML IDP for testing).

They have recently been bought out by Okta... Which by some accounts might not be a good move.
Hello hodder, thanks for reporting this. I have no idea what is the cause of this...
I lived in the Bernal Heights house that the author heard about second-hand (confirmed by a mutual friend), and we've joked how he got this take very wrong. We were living the bohemian techno-hippie lifestyle because we wanted to (right out of college), not because of some ultra-frugality. That, more than the tech jobs, is what enticed our personalities to SF in the first place (we met at school in SoCal). We've split up from that house years ago now but all stayed in the region (SF, Pacifica, Oakland) and do have plenty of personal ties.

Great blog otherwise, I must say.
This is a lot of words to defend someone when you -as you say - don't know what he said nor what he meant.

The fact that many people in open source don't care about Stallman's defence of eugenics says a lot.
Building a Whole Cell in 3D
Yes you can, and here's why.

The high unemployment rate during the pandemic was(and still is) mostly formed of people working in the service industry, travel, minimum wage earners and people with little to no skills and those people were having a rough time even before the pandemic so they were never on the automakers' radar of customers would buy a new car, not in a million years. Those people can only afford to buy used.

On the other hand, the typical new car buyer, the middle classer and above, saw little unemployment, on the contrary, many have seen their best years yet, which is why the demand for new cars (among other things) exploded.
This is probably it, even between branches there are major differences, the Navy and Air Force both tend to be more educated than the ground forces which tend to attract soldiers and Marines who want to play Battlefield games in real life.
Great concrete comparisons in this article.

I no longer use React in my projects and only use Svelte and it feels great. I'm very happy with it.
Text rendering still looks awful, and it's only getting worse with newer displays at higher resolutions that use scaling.
Node has worker threads and shared memory buffers to share data between them.
I think GTK4 is in Gnome 40 Weather App.
Yes, that's an excellent one too!
For those that can't be bothered to read beyond the headline.

"global shortage of shipping containers that’s upended the food trade."

Shipping container shortage.
No I'm talking about the same thing. Herbivore men don't care about marriage and committed relationships, that is different from not caring about their basic sexual needs which they do. As asexuality is not very common, they still need to satisfy basic biological impulses. Tube sites can replace sex as the primary way to satisfy sexual needs in the same way laptops replace desktops as the primary way to satisfy computing needs, or the way Soylent replaces cooked food as the primary way to satisfy hunger. Tube sites allow men who don't care about marriage and committed relationships to avoid pursuing sex through courtship & relationships the way their biology compels them to.
you can access it from object.__doc__, and there is tooling in ide's like pycharm to quick view them to see what a function does, auto generated documentation

prior to mypy/type hints it allowed you to document the types of a function
You could use an extension like uBlock origin to write your own filter that removes embedded tweets from any and all sites, e.g. something like:

##.embed-twitter

badsite.com##.embed-twitter
Bravo. Reminiscent of the so-called Richards controller.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richards_controller
Australia's population shrinks since WWI as Covid turns off immigration tap
High IQs are associated with mental and physical disorders
Again, that does not seem to have been the case here.

Again? Not sure where you said it. But the copyright holders in question are the authors of shared-mime-info, and they certainly never gave permission for their work to be used by Rails in the way that it was.

It depends where you are, which jurisdiction gets applied. Might explain the different expectation.

I'm in the USA. But I'm pretty sure that what I said is generically true.

It'd be the gem author that created an unlicensed derivative work, not anyone else directly.

Copyright is triggered by downloading unlicensed copies. And lots of people other than the gem author did that.

An unlicensed derivative was created by anyone who used Rails and wrote code that did mime detection - for example they were handling uploaded files.

It is an open question whether these cases are worth litigating, and what would be decided in court. They might well decide that there isn't enough creative work in the compilation for the file in question to have copyright protection at all. But in the meantime it would be a generally good idea to treat the issue seriously, and to accept that lots of people are potentially liable here. (Even if, in all probability, none will suffer more than a temporary inconvenience as the dependency is removed.)
They are the same. It's a matter of style.

For that matter, you could also write:

onMount(listenForAuthChanges)

which is technically simpler -- you're not constructing a new anonymous function. But if you wanted to extend the code (to say, add a console.log), you'd need to do the top version, which already has the braces.

It's up to your judgment of what's clearer and likely to be more maintainable.
> Like, everyone does realize that the tech giants just found a way to make the community work for them and to make money off the backs of it right?

People are starting to realize this, but to understand it it's important to disambiguate "free" and "open source" software.

See https://www.boringcactus.com/2020/08/13/post-open-source.htm... for one perspective.
One thing I saw was someone logging all system calls their software generated and comparing that between runs. They'd been bitten by some minor library upgrade that had changed directory scanning which caused huge multiples of normal latency which on an SDD wasn't noticeable but on an HDD went from trivial to insane.

That was handy because it didn't actually involve testing on a slow device but mostly showed what we needed to know.

There are tools like https://github.com/schoentoon/slowpokefs which try to make your fast storage act like a HDD which could be better for black-box testing.
The latter appears when analyzing subgroups gives a different result than analyzing the pooled data.

The former is about correlations that appear in samples which are not representative of the general population, due to the way that those samples are selected.
Python is pretty great for rapidly putting together prototypes. You ever give that a shot?
Do you have more information on this? I remember looking into it a couple months ago, and being told the jit wasn’t going to be developed further. Thanks!
Why have staging if it doesn't catch all issues? I dunno, why have airbags in your car if it doesn't stop all injuries?
Our take-home obviously isn't a trade secret, so we have three trivial problems in ours:

1. Write code that takes in a rectangle, coordinate, and distance, and tells if that coordinate is within the distance of the rectangle.

2. Determine whether a string has permutations which are palindromes. (I'm of the opinion this one is too simple, but it's been fascinating seeing what mental gymnastics some developers will go through to solve this problem)

3. Write a CLI dice game (we provide the rules) in which the computer player wins 70% of the time. Make the method by which the computer cheats undetectable (of course this is impossible, but candidates just give it a best shot and we talk about their approach in the interview).

Assuming the test passes muster, we have three interviews right now, I think. One with managers to talk about the role, one with senior devs outside the team to perform the technical interview, and one with the devs in the team to talk shop.

In the technical interview, we primarily go through their test solutions (we do no whiteboard coding aside from reviewing the test and even that's very loose - not actual code). We have hired candidates before who have failed some of these tasks (mainly our candidates have trouble with #1) but who showed a capacity for being able to think on their feet and correct their mistakes during the interview. Of course a candidate who aces the test is going to have an advantage, but absent having the right answers, quick thinking/adaptability is probably the #2 trait we look for that seems to be a good predictor for developer success.

Every candidate we've hired through our process has been a success (which could be dumb luck, since none of us are super experienced/knowledgeable interviewers either, but we wing it best we can) and the take-home (and, equally importantly, the technical interview) has absolutely helped us weed out candidates with impressive CVs whose test results did not measure up.
Not Toyota, but I don't know how large their mitigation buffer was set to. Seems like they took the logistical risk analysis more seriously than other makers.

https://www.autoblog.com/2021/03/09/toyota-how-it-avoided-se...
anyone agreeing with the parent may find earplugs effective for focus in short (4 hour span) periods of work. After 6+ it gets eerily uncomfortable.
It's hard to analyse devices like this. It's clearly not Turing complete but it isn't a Turing machine. It can clearly compute any output for any given input (like a programmable logic array) but it can do a bit more given it can have several bits of internal state.
For using open source stuff while working on your machine there are often pre approved licenses. But for production use and even more for software being distributed any serious place I have seen, there is paperwork. (Sometimes of better quality, sometimes more of a rubber stamp process)
Thanks for the clear summary. I'm still not particularly convinced by Mozilla and Apple's reasoning, though.

Firstly, there are many use-cases where the content signer does not care whether an attacker has managed to steal their private key. For example, sites that just host static content (like cat pictures). There are even some hosts who don't see the point in TLS at all, as they don't believe they are hosting anything that an attacker would want to interfere with.

Secondly, this is an opt-in feature and not something that would apply to all TLS certificates, so entities who considered it a genuine risk could just not use the technology. (They might also have to keep an eye on certificate transparency logs to make sure that an attacker hasn't requested such a certificate for their domain by controlling their DNS, but hosts should be doing these checks anyway, and if an attacker is in control of your DNS and has received a TLS certificate for your domain then you have bigger problems than Signed Exchanges. In any case, such certificates can be revoked once the legitimate owner has control over their domain again).

Thirdly, hosts which do opt in to using Signed Exchanges can choose to include code in their signed content which sends a background HTTP request to their servers, as a way to "phone home". That wouldn't be able to detect when a key had been stolen, and it probably wouldn't reveal where the content had actually been served from (unless the specification were altered to allow signers to require that) but it would at least give signers visibility of which content was still being served.

Finally, the biggest risk to websites is not that "the host serving the web package has access to plain text", because these are publicly served files which everyone has access to. The biggest risk is phishing, where a victim believes they are visiting a certain site but they're actually visiting a site with a similar-looking name, which TLS doesn't prevent and Signed Exchanges doesn't make any easier.
Has anyone been harmed by losing money in GameStop meme investing? It seems like everyone more or less got what they paid for in entertainment.
I suppose there is a continuum. And yet, "fire people who tweeted something politically incorrect" seems to me like overreaction, and "don't let pedophile-friendly people moderate web forums for minors" seems quite reasonable. Yeah, we could find an example somewhere in the middle of these two, and then I perhaps wouldn't have a strong opinion.
Why not just use a license that explicitly says you won't use legal recourse, like the Unlicense or 0BSD, ie. release it to the public domain?

If you use MIT even you are saying "I will litigate you if you do not comply with my demand that you include this license when you use this software."
Ask HN: What are your thoughts on nearshore outsourcing?
Hello!

I guess this question could be answered by any of you, from people who work where the headquarters of the company are and those who work nearshore, to those who are not directly linked to this practice but have an opinion on it.

There seems to be clear advantages (cost, ideally similar time zones, access to a broader pool of talent) and disadvantages (different cultures, potential language barrier) from the business perspective. According to the few related posts I found on HN, there's some extra flexibility to be gained on the employee side (proximity to family and friends, potential of better pay due to devalued currency at home), but doesn't this come at the cost of access to the company's culture and maybe even some serendipity? Well, pre-pandemic at least.

What are your thoughts on it?
A100 uses such "single part" power supply sitting right next to the package.

I believe such chips can be easily unsoldered relatively easily, and reused.

And by the way, refurbished, and recycles parts, and even passives ARE a thing, it's just the part of the industry you never see in manufacturing of goods going to first world countries, but in China you can buy 2nd hand electronics components quite easily.
Thank you for the kind words! I am also quite excited about the new points in game design space that RL will unlock and am planning write another blogpost on that topic.

I quite like https://karpathy.github.io/2016/05/31/rl/ as an introduction to some of the ideas behind modern RL. Beyond that, I just recently found out about https://github.com/andyljones/reinforcement-learning-discord... which lists a lot of other high-quality resources.

CodeCraft is a programming game which you can "play" by writing a Scala/Java program that controls the game units. It's not actively developed anymore but still functional: http://codecraftgame.org/