skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My impression (it's been a very long time since my compilers class) was that it didn't spend too much time on parsing; rather, it spent too much time on how to implement parser generators. I've spent a lot of time parsing things in my life, but rather much less on the details of LR parsers.
NFTPedia lets you do a quick search for NFTs
> Maybe album cover art is just less meaningful in the year 2021.

Maybe cover art is less meaningful *to you*. FTFY. To the author it is meaningful.

Today UX/UI teams are making decisions for everyone and not allowing anyone to deviate from those decisions. Less and less apps offer users a choice via a settings UI. To me the fix is simple allow users to customize their UI.
You can still add (under Library) Composer as one of the selection options, click Edit in the top right.

However, my problem was (was it in iOS 9?) when they moved Downloaded from a permanently set toggle switch to a folder you selected. Which brought you to the exact same view as Library but with only the music on your device. And if you leave the app you may or may not end up in that same view when you return. It made more sense as a setting that you had to deliberately set or unset, not as a "view" of your content where the default was to use more bandwidth and play things you'd deliberately deleted.
Nit: it's parts per billion, million - only OSHA benzene exposure limits are measured in the millions and that's for industries working with benzene (and only for a short exposures).

The kinetics of benzene in drinking water are very different than in hand sanitizer. Carcinogens in general have different risk profiles than other toxins like heavy metals or poisons because localized concentrations can be just as dangerous since a tumor can form and metastasize pretty much anywhere. Asbestos, for example, is much less dangerous in drinking water than in the air because the lubrication provided by water significantly reduces the physical damage caused by the fibers.

Benzene (probably [1]) bioaccumulates in skin far more readily than in the digestive tract where the water is a diluting agent that reduces the probability of the benzene sticking around in the body. Since there is a lot less volume of blood flow in the tiny capillaries near the skin and hand sanitizer is designed to evaporate, there's a far higher risk of carcinogenic concentrations of benzene building up, especially around cuts or lesions.

It's very plausible that a few mL of sanitizer with ppb concentrations of benzene can accumulate in small microliter pockets of tissue with concentrations in the 10s or 100s of ppm if continually applied throughout the day for months on end. Throw in the rapid pace of reproduction of skin cells and that's a legitimate cause for concern.

[1] last I looked, it wasn't well studied in humans, but since benzene is a solvent and known to accumulate in leaves and bark, it strongly implies it has the same effect up and down the food chain.
Interesting! thanks :)
Soundjam MP was great stuff on my Twentieth Anniversary Mac back in the day. iTunes is nearly unusable.
Wow that blog is awesome, mostly random short posts like this.
FYI, GlobalLogic is not bad at all.

I have worked with both GlobalLogic and InfoSys developers. In my experience, they can't be compared: for me globallogic wins. However,... they are both freaking huge companies, so you never know what you get.
It's not an unreasonable assumption that innovation, specifically, thrives in a face-to-face environment, because the opportunities for random circumstantial collisions of ideas are higher by default. That would explain the emphasis on office-based work without appealing to the terribleness of management. For most companies, most of the time, though, that's not what matters, no matter how much they might wax lyrical about it.

What most companies need most of is competent execution of ideas they already have, and that's perfectly possible in a fully-remote setting in a large proportion of orgs.
If you have not already, try to get the vaccine. It might help.
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/03/31/9827994...
It was successful - just painful. And we found really great investors in the end. Will drop you a note!
Interesting to contrast it with the other big Seattle tech employer's, Microsoft, view on this. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/worklab/work-trend-index/hyb...

Disclosure: I'm a current MSFT employee very happy with their approach.
I'd say it heavily depends where you are. When I was in CA, it was ~$300/mo for Caltrain+gas, ~3 hours of my time per day, plus neither lunch nor coffee was free, so ~$60/wk for that. The pandemic would have been a net benefit to the wallet there, I think.

As it was, I moved before the pandemic, because I got tired of fighting that very commute, tired of fighting to get CA to see the light on housing. So my commute was ~2 hours and ~$80/mo and lunch and coffee was paid prior to the pandemic, and I'm definitely in your bucket, since the loss of lunch significantly outweighs not paying for the commute. (And my commute was optionally biking, and I miss getting that in as much, too.)
Your reply sound like a straw man, sorry.

Bitcoin is a relatively new asset. What I think he's saying is that some of the price increases are attributable to the loss of value of 1 USD and some to geniune BTC price discovery.
I was listening to James Hetfield on the Joe Rogan Experience a few months back and he highlighted an experienced I completely forgot existed: buying albums solely based on album art.

I remember as a kid walking through the aisles of albums, floating around certain genres, and deciding on what to purchase purely because of an album cover. Band I had never heard of, well, look at that cover!
If you want to appreciate the album art then purchase the LP. A tiny JPEG on AM or Spotify UI is never going to cut it for anybody who is interested in inspecting the cover art. These tools are designed for background listening
I started regularly lifting weights a few years ago. After a few weeks, all the muscle and joint pain in my body disappeared completely.
Is DNA intelligent? What about virus? Ants? Dolphins? A corporation?
And whenever you quit Apple Music, it will delete all your playlists, even if they only had music you owned and created before you signed up.
It's a pricing issue too. Asana may have over-invested relative to what people were really willing to pay for those features. However VC backing makes price-based competition irrelevant, because your competitors pricing isn't real.
> Maybe album cover art is just less meaningful in the year 2021

This might be too broad of a generalization. I find a lot of cover art quite interesting, and I hope it remains prominent. I think a (dis)like for cover art might just be a personal preference.
I agree. I love a great album, which is more than just a collection of songs. Also, I suck at making playlists, so I would rather just let the artist tell my how their songs should be heard.
My last full-time job in a corporation involved managing many EPAM developers and after working with offshore developers on multiple continents I can tell you they were the strongest technically that I had encountered. I had never heard of EPAM until my boss told me we were bringing them on board to help us scale our app dev efforts! We had IT consultants from a Big 4 firm who felt more like the model of hire undergrads and teach them a few technical things to throw jargon around in front of the client. I realize in both cases it can be luck of the draw but I feel like firms such as EPAM are focused on bringing serious technical skills and experience to the table rather than a general consultant demeanor.
Includes iPhone 5s (first released late 2013). Happy to see security updates being offered, though I’m unclear how many security issues are being fixed for the unsupported phones since they don’t receive updates every time there’s an iOS 14 update.
Exercise. Also works for back pain. Try gym + running.

A small improvement without exercise can be had by always wearing warm long sleeve shirts, which improves the blood flow or similar
That‘s why I use the sleevenote app, which defaults to showing only the cover as large as possible. They even plan to build a square-screen music player :-D
Are there legal avenues to Nvidia maintaining ARM as an independent, wholly owned subsidiary that would indeed put it out of reach?

From a financial perspective, this is a large market that was suddenly removed from the income statements of TSMC, ARM, and likely many other Western industries.
You're right about commuting but could skip the ageism. Members of the Silent Generation and Boomers invented online collaboration and the Internet.
I suspect spending a few minutes near a gas station may expose you to more benzene than a year of using this stuff...
Albums are so last-cen. In the Apple ecosystem, the unit of sale is the song.
A cell is alive.

Some things move because they're alive. Some living things don't move. Some non-living things move, too.

Movement is not conclusive evidence of life. These videos - setting aside the legitimacy of 4chan for a moment - demonstrate "if you put the fiber in water, it moves", not "these fibers are alive".
I liked iTunes back in the Steve Jobs days when, if album art wasn’t available, in its place it would display the album info on the diagonal against a white background, as if it were an old bootleg with stamped info on a white record sleeve. As a collector/listener of bootlegs I appreciated that little bit of skeuomorphism.
So if I understand well, approach 1 is mindshare. Approach 2 is sales team, and approach 3 is bottom-up but self-serve.

So definitely approach 1. Will be focusing on the open-source edition for the next year or more. Doing that will help us being deployed in a lot of companies. And we hope this will help the sales team close the deals. So it would be a mix of 2 and 3. Makes sense?

Anyways, that's what we have in mind. And we'll learn by doing!
>So in the mid 1900s a calculator that is able to do arithmetic was considered "AI"

Is this true? The citation you link doesn't seem to clearly state that.

I see the linked page says:

>A simple electronic calculator performs calculations much faster than the human brain, and almost never makes a mistake.[4] Is a calculator intelligent?

But I don't see where it says anyone in the mid 1900s thought a calculator was AI.

I am no historian, but I can think of numerous examples of AI in science fiction throughout the 1900s and perhaps earlier. Metropolis, Rossum's Universal Robots, 2001: A Space Odyssey. Heck, one could probably even draw the line all the way back to Frankenstein.

Maybe the lower bound for what gets called AI to sell stuff has changed over time, but it seems like there's been a pretty clear and consistent (if poorly defined) goal of human-like intelligence.
Show HN: Bugout.dev – Crash and usage reports for developer tools
Hello everyone, I’m Sophia, founder of Bugout.dev.

I started off as a professional ballerina, and entered technology later in my working life - through the OpenAI Scholars program. My co-founder, Neeraj (zomglings on HN), is a mathematician and now programmer.

When I was learning how to code I kept running into issues. I found Stackoverflow and GitHub issues hard to navigate, often leading me to outdated solutions to the problems I was experiencing. That experience made me want a product that would collect crashes and immediately let the creators of the software I was using know about the issue. And when they or their community had fixed the issue, they could notify me about that and direct me to a public site detailing the solution.

Over time, this idea evolved and resulted in Bugout.dev. Bugout makes it easy for creators of developer tools to collect usage metrics and crash reports from their users. This applies equally well to libraries, command line utilities, and APIs.

We're advocates of ethical data collection, and all reports are collected with clear user consent. Maintainers can also comply with GDPR requests for access and deletion with a single API call each.

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> Especially especially true for Korean giants.

As supporting evidence... about 10 years ago I was staying at a hostel in Seoul, I went to buy a bar of soap at a convenience shop. I realized as I was getting ready to shower that the soap itself was made by LG!

Probably completely banal for Koreans but to me it was equivalent to Tesla manufacturing basketball shoes, completely left field.
I would honestly love to read a write up from somebody closer to the source, what the hell do all these companies do?

I’ve been in tech and tech-adjacent companies for over a decade. And not once have I or anyone around me ever thought “we really need some IBM/Hitachi/Avanade products now”.

What value proposition do firms like this actually fill? I’m genuinely curious.
That's interesting. I visited Iceland in early September and the Golden Circle tour bus was only about half full. I certainly didn't have the place to myself, but it was quiet enough. At that time of year it was definitely chilly but not awful.

This was 2013. I wonder if a few years made a difference.
> Still much underappreciated and I think underestimated technology by CF. Very hyped..

I think much of Cloudflare's capabilities are underappreciated and underestimated.

I do analytics work for an agency, and had one multi-national client that had their sites behind a traditional "bigco" networking stack such as F5 load balancers, Imperva web application firewalls, etc. Due to the particular setup they had for one site, third party scripts loading on the site (not tracking scripts, but libraries from third party services providing user-visible functionality on the site).

The setup also completely broke any sort of analytics scripts as well, due to the way traffic was intercepted/analyzed by the web application firewall.

This had been the state of things for years before I came on, because it simply wasn't resolvable within the constraints of their enterprise networking policies and infrastructure. Cloudflare web workers had just come out, and I was able to hash out a proof of concept that

1) Left all of the pre-existing legacy networking infrastructure as-is without undermining the intent behind any of it, and therefore required minimal internal red tape nor one-off exceptions. While

2) Handling all of the jankiness introduced by it within the web worker itself, ultimately serving a "proper" response to the client that completely mitigated all of the issues that had been introduced.

It fixed the analytics stuff that was my headache, and made me happy. It fixed the constant breakage on other stuff, which made the devs happy. It left the legacy infrastructure in place, which made enterprise IT happy. It provided a legitimate business justification to introduce Cloudflare in a minor and targeted manner to this stodgy environment, which made the enterprise networking team I had to work with excited and collaborative. It was minimally invasive and cheap, making the entire process legitimately feasible vs. a dead in the water pipedream. It solved all kinds of "unsolvable" problems that had plagued that site for years, which made the marketing client with power over our agency contract happy.

After the fact, it was interesting to absorb and appreciate the entire thing. At the end of the day it was an elegant but ultimately minor bit of technical work. But it was only achievable because of the availability, flexibility, and ease of use of web workers by Cloudflare. The end result could have been achieved by any number of things, but only this solution checked all the right boxes to be able to slither from hair-brained scheme while cursing my analytics data, past the numerous barriers and objections, all the way to POC and production implementation. With a bonus of planting a seed in a massive, technically-stodgy bigco for the use of Cloudflare in their enterprise architecture.
Yes, but not the income so taxed, beyond the foreign earned income exclusion, which is relatively low.
Why can't you flag the post? I can flag your posts.
I've been waiting for over a decade for IKEA to get in on the action with an IKEArcology!

They already have model apartments with the square footage listed. They just need to establish different SKUs, and then instead of going to the warehouse to get your flat pack, you get a key card for the elevator and go up to your apartment! Though I think if the Swedish Meatballs became my staple diet, and I were exposed to their desert display daily, I'd die an early death.

I've had those books on Space Colonization by TA Heppenheimer, and some of the illustrations inside have a definite IKEA-ish vibe.
lineup -> lingua :(
> Zig isn't actually a small or simple language, after all, that's just marketing bullshit. Manual, mostly unassisted memory management isn't simple, and compile time evaluation & reflection isn't small. It keeps making claims about being simpler because it doesn't have macros or metaprogramming, but that's incredibly deceptive at best since it does have compile-time code generation (aka, metaprogramming).

As VP of marketing bullshit I recommend you double check your source of information as we never claimed that Zig has no metaprogramming, in fact comptime is mentioned on the front page of the official Zig website and the codesample on the right of it shows comptime metaprogramming too.

That said, is you need something stable today, then Rust is undoubtedly the better choice.
We like their model indeed!
Which is a shame. I can think of an handful of records that sound exactly like their cover art and I believe that detail helps tie the record together
Those gaps keep getting smaller and smaller though, don't they?
hwayne's Learn TLA+ [0] is a very approachable introduction and survey. Lamport's TLA+ course [1] is an excellent follow on after going through Hillel's course. That link also includes the book itself.

[0] https://learntla.com/introduction/

[1] https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/tla/learning.html
“I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both; and I believe they both get paid in the end; but the fools first.”

― Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped
I think this all ties back to listening habits. I find individuals who share this opinion are typically stream-primary listeners who mostly listen to playlists, singles, and generated "radio" stations (which is entirely valid! Not to mention that's the way most people listen to music, nowadays.)

However, there are nonetheless lots of people like myself that primarily listen to albums, maintain their own digital libraries, and use streaming platforms as a glorified "trial" platform for new music. I find those who tend to listen to music like I do really care about high resolution album art (and by extension the quality and accuracy of track metadata).

Frankly, since both needs are so widely different, I'm not sure there's any one solution for both. Goodness knows Apple Music tries, but to OP's point, it's clearly not succeeding in this effort.
Hitachi Data Systems has been in IT since 1989, and their history in the market goes back in to 60's or 70's. Now rebranded Hitachi Vantara, most of their revenue was competition was in the same space as EMC (now owned by Dell) for enterprise data storage. They are a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, which you can think of like GE or something, they are in everything. The market for enterprise software and hardware is massive and often completely under the radar for an audience like HN.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitachi_Data_Systems
It's the new "nano-."
Samsung Surpasses Apple – Becomes the Biggest Smartphone Maker
My pet peeve about album cover art is digital music distributors padding non-square covers with white margins. They look like shit in almost all the UIs that don't have a white background.
Ok, we've put funding in the title above.
Used to work for GL, they treat employees well.
I do not believe there is any systematic suppression of the Uighurs in Xinjiang (where they are a majority), this is not consistent with Chinese history. As far as I can make out, a very small minority of people are being held for anti-extremism purposes; but generally the Uighur population and culture are thriving in Xinjiang - there are lots of primary sources on this, search "life in xinjiang" on youtube for example.

The media is certainly currently waging a disinformation war against China, blowing the reality up into "genocide", "cultural suppression", "sterilisation", etc - this is all inconsistent with the masses of primary sources, and the cheap propaganda tactics are disgusting and shameful. The few concrete individual reports that we do have, many of them have also been debunked or are obviously inconsistent (e.g. changing stories multiple times).

The camps may not be great compared to regular life in a first-world country, but compared to what the US did in the middle east - killing 100ks-millions of muslims - Xinjiang is probably the best result that a country has achieved in the world (so far) in fighting terrorism, and that's why most muslim-majority countries in fact support China on this issue. Of course, everyone can strive to do better, but that's not how western media is portraying it.
Replacing the built-in Notepad app with Notepad2 with code folding is one of the first things I do when setting up a new Windows box. It's a tiny app that starts instantly and for viewing text/code files and small- to medium-sized edits it has almost everything - multi-cursor editing is the one thing I'm so used to now that I notice its lack, truly a first-world developer problem ;)

F12 opens a file in Notepad2 in Directory Opus and `e FILE` does the same from Bash or PS, can't think of a time where I'd need someone more than Notepad2 but less than Sublime Text, or VS Code today. I've installed Notepad++ several times over the years and just never wanted to have to use it.
Physicists Learn to Superfreeze Antimatter
I don't. I've tried it, it just doesn't "click in" for me. I love types and (i.e. I love Rust's type system), but not on Python.
Well, spinning discs put to various uses?
Awesome, thanks! Don't hesitate to join our Slack - https://slack.airbyte.io - (800+ members).

We only have this public Slack workspace for the team, so the whole team is there and is pretty responsive!
> Months in, I finally figured out that other engineers were just self-reviewing: you can add yourself as a reviewer and just click merge. So I started doing that too.

Where? This certainly isn't possible in google3 (and wasn't possible in 2015 either).

That said, there are now some changes made to make, in general, the code review process for people without readability and without teammates who have readability more streamlined.
Wouldn’t adding your domain to cloudflare help with reducing latency?
The world has changed @amazon. We've moved on. We want options.
Someone always misses the memo in a large organization.

We have had two cases where a system was replaced with company-wide announcements and we received questions about where its predecessor went over a year later.
Sounds like they're building an annotated dataset, whilst at the same time claiming the space and testing market fit / appetance.

Sure, the risk is that they can't make it work in the medium term. But without knowing much about the complexity of the orders / domain, that doesn't sound like a huge risk, given the current SoTA