skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was perusing my copy of Penguin's Dictionary of Mathematics (David Nelson, editor) -- a wonderful book, btw -- in the bathroom [yes:)] and having randomly opened the book to Youden Square decided to take a closer look on the web.

Wikipedia search for the term brings up the page on Combinatorial design. This is an interesting case of a general terminology having a very narrow technical meaning. The "design" here means design of experiments. And apparently constructs like the Youden Square are used to design experiment that are conducted to determine causation.

The following link provides a relatively accessible introduction:

Basic Experiment Design
http://www.math.unm.edu/~fletcher/SUPER/chap17.pdf

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https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6362666-the-penguin-dict...
There's pro, and then there's Steven Wittens. Open the console on his site.

http://acko.net/
I'm below $100/1Gbps 95% with more than one provider as a small player
Please don't post unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments here. Perhaps you don't owe $BigCo better, but you owe this community better if you're participating in it.

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You can choose not to use google (it's hard but possible - my default search is DDG on all my machines - amusingly that uses MS Bing for the most part).

However, if you want a non-Mac PC, your choices are slim to none to avoid Windows.

Microsoft a convicted monopolist, DoJ has acted twice already against them. Google isn's there yet.
Salesforce to reopen S.F. headquarters in May, starting with vaccinated workers
Not just another social network
Please don't post in the flamewar style to HN. It's not what this site is for.

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We don't write tests
The fact that wallet IDs are visible in the blockchain breaks it completely for me. I do NOT want an immortal record of every penny I spent and to whom I gave it. Fuuuuuuuck that. Today I have a choice, but with many cryptocurrencices (ETH, BTC) that is a "feature" not a "bug".

Monero and Ravencoin have transparent and shielded entries. I believe the node is encrypted with an ECDH shared secret, so the payer and the payee know each other's wallets, but no one else does.
To be honest this trend of borrowing against your crypto is specifically something that makes me very suspicious about the current state of the cryptocurrency world. If crypto crashes 30-50% again all these loans for which collateral is going to be sold would crash the whole market (or am I missing something?). Also it seems way too popular to borrow against crypto and then use that money to invest in crypto as well, creating significant leverage in the market, worsening the problem I mentioned before and inflating the price of crypto compared to its “true” value.
Autonomous vehicles...for agriculture...

https://thinkingagriculture.io/the-agriculture-unicorn-hidin...
If you short the most expensive CEOs, you will do very well. I have been doing this for a long time. Weak CEOs are a prime source of alpha because the irrational behaviour that leads to them becoming CEOs (like thinking you need to pay 2x to get 2x output) is structual.

Also, your view is based on one of the great lies that CEOs tell shareholders. CEOs do better when they are fully invested, and (the argument goes) big pay aligns incentives. It doesn't. Most CEOs cash out their options, buy a McMansion, and waste all their money. If you want to do well: you buy businesses that don't rely on CEO skill (if you rely on a skilled CEO, you are done for...you aren't getting one), and you align incentives (i.e. no option cashing, the CEO has 99% of their wealth invested permanently).
First time was with someone behind the official GrapheneOS twitter account, and second time was with Daniel Micay, both times about the hardware supposedly preventing the ability to update the firmware even when running alternative software.

In reality, the only thing that prevents the firmware from being upgraded is the default software not implementing such features (because PureOS does not and will not distribute non-free software or firmware). A user who wants to do that can reflash everything without modifying the hardware in any way or even opening the case. Both WiFi flash and the M4 core-based solution described in https://puri.sm/posts/librem5-solving-the-first-fsf-ryf-hurd... can be bypassed completely to load the firmware from rootfs just by using a different kernel and bootloader, and disabling SPI flash read-only protection is a single line of code change in the device tree.
Yay, something that wasn't software related!

-A Software Engineer
Why Brave Disables FLoC
America Needs More Luxury Housing, Not Less
This seems to contradict his analogy between 2020 to, say, 1890. Instead of a bunch of people starting small local businesses and gaining moderate wealth, we have winner-take-all dynamics.
Yep. I have. RandomX and ECDH ledgers are a big plus.
Designing but not yet selling Qualcomm / Nuvia?
Here's a guide on learning physics, aptly titled "So You Want to Learn Physics...": https://www.susanjfowler.com/blog/2016/8/13/so-you-want-to-l...

Here are some old HN discussions about it as well:

8 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24088985

2 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18374994

5 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12691963
> tossing a rock across the river

Rivers can be miles wide. That's actually the norm in a lot of people's experiences.

Where I am from, "tossing a rock across the river" would be taken to mean something that's impossible.
Israel invaded and tried annex southern Lebanon during the Lebanese civil war. Before Hezbollah existed. Hezbollah whole purpose was to kick the Israeli's out. Which they did. They are the reason Israel wasn't able to do to Southern Lebanon what they did in the west bank.

The complaint seems to be that Hezbollah shots rockets into Northern Israel occasionally in response to Israeli attacks on Hezbollah. Solution is for Israel to keep their fighters inside their own airspace.
Please don't be snarky. It's against the site guidelines because it's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

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See my peer comment.
Since search is your domain expertise, I'll take your word for it :-)

As for GitSense, checkout the impact section and sort contributors by "First Commit". With this, you'll get a very good idea of the developer's expertise level.
That's a good call, although if it becomes widely used outside of google, won't it be possible for a community to just fork it when google loses interest?
i bet this will only really work in AWS. :D
I imagine at a baseline, they have to be paying customers but I generally agree. I've signed up for a few sites that have reached out based purely on my email address. I think I once signed up for HERE Maps who kept calling me. I had to explain that I was using it in a personal, non-commercial capacity and had just happened to accidentally use my work email.
This headline is clickbait nonsense. The result that I'm not even going to click the link. If you want to actually engage with Weinstein's ideas to see if they have merit, start at https://pullthatupjamie.com
not much new here.
Please don't post in the flamewar style to HN, or use the site for ideological battle. We're trying for something else here.

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I would suggest putting the description of what PMS is at the top of the page rather than the very bottom. My pet peeve is homepages of products that don't actually tell what the product is in concise terms. This looks like a great project but I almost ignored it due to not seeing the description at first.

EDIT: Also, you have a typo in "Powered by Symfony and Typscript"... missing the "e" in "Typescript".
Earlier discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26779152
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26776510
Faster to parse as a developer. I can't speak to whether computationally it is faster.

Additionally, doesn't this somewhat also bring in the methodology of dealing with the error cases first?
> people that have worked with/for him that have tried and failed for years and years to resolve issues privately

Is this about Thomas Bushnell? Because I feel this is about Thomas Bushnell[1].

Bushnell is currently a friar in a religious order and works for google, and there is nothing wrong with that[2].

I can easily work with devout religious people and respect and accept them for their superior knowledge of the matter at hand (say, Don Knuth), but there's nothing wrong with politely declining their opinions when it comes to "issues" or how to become a "better" person.

Again, no disrespect to Bushnell, who I'm sure did a fine job, but I'm not willing to take his assessment of the personality of an avouched atheist at face value.

[1]https://medium.com/@thomas.bushnell/a-reflection-on-the-depa...

[2] well, working for Google can be debatable depending on what you do there.
To flip this a bit, how much of bitcoin usage is non-speculative, and for legal purposes?

I actually think the speculative issue is a bigger concern for the fed, then the legality. It's an commodity w/ very little utility, but a high degree of poorly regulated investing. In addition its used to funnel payments for illegal activity.
It's only wrong if it doesn't work -- but it does. Economists aren't 100% sure why, but it does.

The fact is while the debt has exploded, the total cost to service that debt has collapsed. The US is now paying less interest on its sovereign debt than before the COVID stimuli. Explain to me how it's stupid not to take advantage of this?

The reality is when you take on debt, the only thing that matters is what you choose to do with it. If you use it to generate economic activity - and hence revenue - that's a good investment. If you don't, that's a bad investment.

Now, you can "circumvent" this by investing your money like you're supposed to in literally anything.
big win for the Swedish startup Minut for getting endorsed by Airbnb this way.
had the same idea, but I do so as well and link is exactly the same.

edit: it doesn't really matter I guess. HN has some mechanisms which aren't public afaik. How downvoting works exactly, how flagging works, who can, what the algorithms are for sorting. This account I'm using hadn't a successful submission before, but it's not that I spam submissions either. Four submissions in total and the account is 8 months old. But I guess it's just some automatic behavior of the site, well... shrug.
> DeFi's main value proposition is the automation of money.

That's a potential value proposition of any currency which can be manipulated digitally. Whether it's distributed or not is an implementation detail.
> top athletes getting contracts paying them millions of dollars whether or not they continue to win games.

I know in the NFL, a lot of those contracts have clauses big enough to drive a dump truck through. Many of those million dollar football contracts are back loaded to only pay out if the athlete competes the full term [0]. Winning and losing games is definitely tied to whether they stay or are cut.

Unlike a CEO, a poor performing athlete has no golden parachute to fall back to.

[0] https://www.pff.com/news/nfl-salary-cap-terms-tricks-to-know...
https://darklang.com/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20985429

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20394166

I think it's inevitable that darklang's vision will be achieved eventually, at least in part, whether by darklang or by other projects. We are already at the stage where you can define your infrastructure in code, and execute functions on managed "serverless" runtimes. It's not too much further to the point that cloud providers will build tightly integrated developer experiences that allow a developer to "just code" while handling all of the complexity that comes after. Within some large software companies, there is something close to this experience, but it hasn't yet been wrapped up and sold to the public.
All: please don't post snarky and/or unsubstantive comments and please don't post in the flamewar style. None of that is what HN is for. It's tedious, and it leads to repetitive, lower-quality threads.

Perhaps you don't owe $BigCo better, but you owe this community better if you're participating in it.

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Public Funding of Presidential Elections
IMO the reason is still stock-based compensation. Companies are run lean these days, and it's simply inefficient to reserve a pile of cash for paying people vs. using it for business purposes. Why do that when you can pay with stock? But at the same time you (as an exec) want to maintain control of the company. So you only give it to people who aren't going to just turn around and sell it on the public market. This excludes all of your low-level workers, who have bills to pay.

There are a bunch of business realities that get in the way if you want to pay a huge cash salary. For example, you may be a recently IPO-ed tech unicorn who doesn't actually make money, and the investors aren't too keen on the CEO paying themselves with their cash. But take all your comp in stock and all of a sudden you're a selfless hero aligned with business success.
Yes, the US can still raise funds other ways. It would still be preferable if they were more transparent about it.

> Even if you convince the US government to switch to BTC

There's no need for that. It would be enough for some people to switch to BTC. I.e., not store their money or denominate their salaries in USD.

As things stand, most wealthy people already store their money in things other than USD that are somewhat less easy to manipulate, like stocks and commodities. It would be nice if this strategy were more accessible to people worldwide.
yeah I am doing more research on p2p and things like merkle trees. https://www.codementor.io/blog/merkle-trees-5h9arzd3n8

I am pretty excited about Ethereum and related ecosystem.
Spoiler: King Kong outlives Godzilla.
Score!

Yeah that would have been the obvious place to look, huh.

I encourage anyone who is skeptical about "what if $app but Rust" to look at the crates here. Ecosystem quality is very important and Rust has good ones.

Consider that wiring together such an app in plain-old-C means inheriting the buffer overflows, memory leaks, thread unsafety, and data races, associated with each and every such library.
I disagree, I think you have to really contort your thinking and selectively quote the deposition to say this isn't an accusation.
I realize this is, at least most directly, a 'me' problem, but I can't remember the last time I had so much trouble trying to get a website to work with uMatrix. I've given up twice now, to be honest.
In my experience, projects like NativeScript are ideal for prototyping but they start to show their warts pretty quickly once you build anything more than that or a basic CRUD app.

I personally enjoyed NativeScript when I used it a couple of years ago but, then again, I really was only using it for building prototypes.
If you were CEO that was worth $50m/year why would you work for anyone else?

I have met almost no CEOs who were actually skilled AND were happy working for someone else. If you are worth $50m/year to the company, you are worth substantially more if you take that money and started your own company (the reason why most CEOs don't, and all the good ones do is because most CEOs are terrible).
A lot of companies do. Microsoft has generated 20,000+ millionaires or more from its employees.
Get a meat and cheese burrito with fries. Then unwrap the burrito and put the fries inside.
And can depend on where in a city you are. And sometimes the different treatment systems are still mained to eachother so shifting demand and supply can change which water you’re drinking from.

Toronto has chlorine plants and ozone plants.
Nvidia Gives Arm a Second Shot of Acceleration
Developer Certificates of Origin don't solve the problem of copyright termination after the death of the author. See (https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/203). You can attest the origin but your estate retains the right to terminate the usage rights after your death.
yah, seems like the premise is flawed, same like how countries are compared to each other regardless of their respective sizes.
Google's profit in 2019 was 90 billion dollars. The amount of money they spent on employees in total compensation was 13 billion.

There isn't really much to squeeze out by firing employees.
Liquidity, in a word.
Sure, it's a fair argument that gold + paypal may be superior to bitcoin.
I just opened a pull request to fix a few typos in the README. They are requiring a Developer's Certificate of Origin.
AFAIK the crisis in psychology applies generally, but this is just QC? Are there other physics-based reproducibility issues?
I totally agree with the core of your argument (aarch64 decoding is inherently simpler and more power efficient than x86), but I'll throw out there that it's not quite as bad as you say on x86 as there's some nonobvious efficiencies (I've been writing a parallel x86 decoder).

What nearly everyone uses is a 16 byte buffer aligned to the program counter being fed into the first stage decode. This first stage, yes has to look at each byte offset as if it could be a new instruction, but doesn't have to do full decode. It only finds instruction length information. From there you feed this length information in and do full decode on the byte offsets that represent actual instruction boundaries. That's how you end up with x86 cores with '4 wide decode' despite needing to initially look at each byte.

Now for the efficiencies. Each length decoder for each byte offset isn't symmetric. Only the length decoder at offset 0 in the buffer has to handle everything, and the other length decoders can simply flag "I can't handle this", and the buffer won't be shifted down past where they were on the next cycle and the byte 0 decoder can fix up any goofiness. Because of this, they can

* be stripped out of instructions that aren't really used much anymore if that helps them

* can be stripped of weird cases like handling crazy usages of prefix bytes

* don't have to handle instructions bigger than their portion of the decode buffer. For instance a length decoder starting at byte 12 can't handle more than a 4 byte instruction anyway, so that can simplify it's logic considerably. That means that the simpler length decoders end up feeding into the higher stack up full decoder selection, so some of the overhead cancels out in a nice way.

On top of that, I think that 5% includes pieces like the microcode ROMs. Modern ARM cores almost certainly have (albeit much smaller) microcode ROMs as well to handle the more complex state transitions.

Once again, totally agreed with your main point, but it's closer than what the general public consensus says.
I'm sure ARM already took over x86 if you have a wider definition of personal computers. And a lot of people already gave up access to 3 decades of Windows software by using their phone or tablet as their main device.

Plus, most of the last decade software is software that runs on some sort of VM or another (be it JVM, CLR, a Javascript engine or even LLVM).

Soon (in years), x86 will only be needed by professionals that are tied to really old software. And those particular needs will probably be satisfied by decent emulation.
Can not remember where I heard this theory but it goes something like this. As more music is created the value of existing music goes down. Basically the idea is adding 1 more song to the pool of millions of others has little value no mater how good/bad that particular song is. As lets say it is the most amazing song ever. I still have a library of millions of other songs to pick from. It is an interesting economic theory.

The other problem for music is 4 fold. 1) many people use 'radio' basically spotify or some streaming service like it. 2) Most people buy songs not albums 3) many times people 'age out'. 4) I can choose from a catalog that is decades old all of the previous years of top 100s and get something good to listen to.

Now there are exceptions where there are collectors in that they must buy everything. But most people are not collectors they are renters or listeners. Many people just want that one song they like and maybe a couple of others. So you can not make 10-15 off them, you make maybe 1-2 dollars, and depending on your contract much less. Also people 'age out'. For example most of the artists I like most are 'done'. They have either disbanded or just not making anything new and going on concert sales. I also have little interest in newer stuff (because I no longer have the inclination or time to devote to it that I used to). Sure I buy a bit here and there or listen to something from streaming but nothing like what I used to do and own hundreds of CDs.
That would be a great idea, especially for people (like me) who are struggling to understand what this is, and why it could be useful.
The reason we don't have fractional ownership of pop songs is because that's a bad idea, not because we can't figure out how to organize it.
PG is wrong about this. In the past it probably was easier to get rich (> $10mm) by starting what he will not call a startup than it is now. Lots of people used to get rich this way starting small businesses serving the automotive industry (making airbag assemblies and other important things) or providing specialized services to the Oil and Gas industry, etc. These are just examples, there are obviously tons of things like this. And while these opportunities still exist they are much rarer than they used to be.

There are many reasons these opportunities are fewer, but I think the main ones are

1. Increased firm size means it is harder to compete since you don't have economies of scale.

2. High labor costs in the US mean many things are not profitable to do in the US, so no small US businesses can engage in them (they have to be big enough to engage overseas manufacturers or savvy enough to negotiate that environment as a small business... again, it can/has been done but it's harder).

3. Higher cost of living in the more dynamic parts of the country make it harder to start a business without getting VC funding, especially if that business requires some amount of R&D before generating revenue.
I see people quoting him occasionally. They're always mocking him and this site though.
With Gigs Canceled and No Relief, Musicians Form a Nationwide Union
Literally it means to lose something through a sexual act.
You get what you incentivize. We incentivize quantity of papers and gaming the citation system, and that's going to drive down quality.
Patreon seems like a very libertarian environment to me. I'm not sure how I could see it any differently.
https://www.schrodinger.com/careers

There are many others.
A bit orthogonal to the post but I find it somewhat funny that in trying to create the ultimate cross-platform UI SDK, Google ended up accidentally creating a rather decent (2D) game proto-framework/engine.

I wonder if we'll see any indie titles use it in the coming years. I certainly find it pleasant enough to play around with.
FSF Statement on Election of Richard Stallman
What the hell am I reading? Two people discussing whether to seriously tackle Zeno's Paradox or not?

And their conclusion is... don't bother? Ok awesome. These two people can go about not bothering... and other people will try to figure it out. Why am I reading this?