skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a level of this that is reasonable, which is that what is presented in the writing be factual and not sensationalized. I imagine The Dispatch believes they meet this bar (I have no idea, I just heard of them now).

But there is a level of this that is impossible, which is avoiding prioritizing some aspects and not others. Merely choosing what to put in a headline vs first paragraph vs 5th paragraph is making a subjective decision about what is most important.

Even more subjective is choice of words for complex phenomena that defy simple summary. For example, were the activities of last summer protests, or were they riots? Most people have an opinion on which word is a better fit, but there is no way to deny that both have a basis in objective fact. So, writers choose one or the other depending on their own biases and what they want to emphasize.

Finally, there is the "file drawer" source of bias, which is simply not covering some things that you don't think are important. You're not lying or misinforming anyone, but you are making a subjective decision about what people should be thinking about.

I personally think it's best if a publication is open about how it's going to be making these various subjective decisions. And I think it's dishonest for someone to claim their news reporting can be purely objective.
Here are the main reasons to make open source software:

To provide something for free, public use

To get the world to help you maintain your software

A reason to not make open source software:

You want the exclusive right to offer that software as part of a paid service

This is not the first instance of a company not understanding the last point there, and it won't be the last.
I agree with the concept that many industries still rely on old technology that with a 10% improvement could already surpass current "advanced" implementations. A good example being the Besides Tool Import Wizard that can scrape PDF data with way more ease and simplicity than a manual implementation with say Python. And that tool has been around for 20+ years!!
What worries me is that, apparently, there are many people with a lot of web dev experience who haven't moved on. Why haven't they moved on? I don't understand it.

I have yet to see a mid-level engineer using the same method when debugging C# code.

Despite all that, I try to refrain from strong statements about technologies. Just throwing around ideas.
OpenTTD (FOSS Game): Solving Version Fragmentation by Moving to Steam
I tend to find that if there is a software idea, there are good odds that someone once had it before and probably made some code/prototype/paper/blog post/newspaper article on it.

However usually these systems didn't take off because they were "before their time". There were cloud services in the 80s - but PCs got faster and cheaper than internet speeds could keep up. Client side apps looked better than cloud apps. Similarly modern data centers, and cloud computing primitives didn't exist so reliability was more miss than hit.

Now the economics have turned and people need data shared across multiple devices. Cloud services are the defacto method of developing applications.
There is no logical leap. This is a direct quote:

"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."
NativeScript is way better than flutter/dart. NS embraces open web technologies.

As you mentioned, NS has all the substance it needs but like any framework has some rough edges. What NS lacks is the PR army like the one flutter has.
If you think about what something like CPython is doing, you are maximally pessimizing the way the implementation works by adding integers together. You get all the dynamic type manipulation and management that is occurring all the time, but then when it comes time to do the 'payload' of the operation it is doing, it's a simple ADD operation that can complete in (amortized) less than one cycle. It's the worst case for something like CPython. All that work a dynamic language is doing has much better performance characteristics when you get to a "payload" that is like running C code to find a substring match in a string, or something else non-trivial that helps to amortize all the bookkeeping with more real work.

As for why Node runs quickly, adding integers (or floats or whatever) is easy mode for a JIT. This is basically why you see JIT numbers like speeding up the original implementation by factors of literally over 100x, yet you can't expect that multiplier against "real code", for essentially the same reason only now on the other end; the JIT can very successfully cut out all that work CPython or similar implementatiors are doing if you have completely stable types that it can infer (especially something as simple as a single int or float), but now the "payload" is preventing the JIT from posting big numbers in improvement when you have more complicated operations because the JIT isn't going to be able to improve something like a substring search. If you get something like NumPy where you can feasibly write a program that will spend 99+% of its time in highly optimized matrix code, a JIT can't help much with that, because even if it reduced the bookkeeping to zero, you've still got to do all that matrix work.

Statically-typed compiled languages basically bypass the whole "do lots of expensive bookkeeping to permit very flexble coding styles, then write a JIT that figures out how to bypass that expensive bookkeeping as often as possible" to simply constrain you to write in the fast subset in the first place.
> He must be in some world where all labor gets rich on RSUs

He's even out of touch with that kind of labor.

Even in RSU land, most don't get "rich" (meaning enough $ to work electively) from them. Companies have increasingly been shifting regular pay to things like RSUs.

Many people at RSU granting companies are using the proceeds to pay their mortgages or for childcare.
Oh cool! Yeah I was using whatever the beta model was in December or so.
There's a lot that I don't understand in this post:

First, a mantra that I see repeated on Hacker News posts, is "pick boring technology." I don't understand why they kept with NativeScript so long with all of it's problems; and I don't understand why they didn't learn their lesson and just do a boring (but reliable) Java app.

But more importantly, why did the author stay so long in that job? I've been in a situation where I was forced to work in ^$#%^ stacks, and I left for a different job. Life is too short to waste time in a job like the author describes.

Finally: It's so important to "fail fast" with technology. There are so many tools, frameworks, kits, that just don't live up to their promises.
I should be clearer. I don't mean corporate taxes, I mean capital gains. Ghanaian engineers will produce intellectual capital for Twitter, whose value will be primarily sent back to the United States.
That's sounds like a great deal: you're paying less than half of Hurricane's advertised minimum price. And I had understood HE were a mid/low price carrier.

Can I ask, are you in a data center? US or Europe?
Not the most technical of narrations of the Buran but it details the trek which they make mid-winter at night to avoid patrols https://youtu.be/5HebeCZwo08
Yes there are saner things to do with 100k, but GP was just comparing the 2 options, and you asked "Hows that better than a bank account?" and I answered...
It's very interesting to me that the people who get paid frankly obscene amounts of money to build tech are suddenly full of concern when people in the developing world also have a chance to make said obscene amounts of money.

Suddenly everyone is an expert on colonialism and international relations.
> You're describing an inflated, luxury lifestyle.

Exactly. I consider a "comfortable" lifestyle to be a 3BR house in a safe neighborhood, 2 reliable cars, 2 week+ domestic vacations/year, plus saving enough to give a nice cushion in case of emergencies / retirement.

I'm terrible with budgeting / saving and I was doing this working for a startup on a $120k/year salary. Granted, this was 10 years ago and housing has appreciated significantly since then, but still. $200k would be more than enough to enjoy this sort of comfortable lifestyle.
These are accurate summaries of the point I was trying to make.
Dr. Alex. Gouaillard has passed away
Many socialist-adjacent philosophies are anticapitalist. Hence, the irony.

Yes, yes, I know that it's not hypocrisy for anticapitalists to use money. I also know that not all socialists are anticapitalist. Still ironic.
I don’t buy an apology after it blows up in His face when it is behavior that has been demonstrated, tolerated, and covered up for 20+ years.
Related: Is Quantum Computing bullshit? https://www.wired.com/story/revolt-scientists-say-theyre-sic...

I thought this was pretty hilarious.
Hopper was already reserved for an Nvidia GPU: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopper_(microarchitecture)
+1 to the dart part.
Broadly speaking the tools of monetary policy available to reduce inflation are:

(1) Increasing reserve rates for lending. This causes the circulating supply of currency to go down.

(2) Increasing interest rates for lending. This reduces the demand for borrowing, which is largely fractional reserve. This also causes the circulating supply of currency to go down.

(3) The Fed unwinding its balance sheet by selling bonds. They collect the cash and remove it from circulation. They can increase the circulating supply by buying bonds.

Taxation doesn't change inflation, to the best of my knowledge, as before and after taxation the same amount of money exists in the circulating supply. Taxation is fiscal policy.

The government doesn't print money per se, the government can borrow money by selling bonds. This just reallocates the existing money supply. The overwhelming majority of US government debt is held domestically by US persons. This doesn't change the money supply either, unless the Fed steps in.
I use IBKR margin, but didn't realize it was tax deductible!? Thanks for the tip!
"Good artists copy, great artists steal".

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof_of_space
One big one comes to mind... nobody else has an LHC. It's not hard to imagine a systematic issue in an experiment producing a wrong "5 sigma" result that isn't caught until the world has an equivalent / higher energy beam to play with.

This particular issue seems to be of a similar nature. You've got a research group who made and tested a device, and nobody else has duplicated that (not sure -- but if there's patents covering their fab, there could be Problems for anybody seeking to reproduce the result).
The real vendor lock-in for ES (and now AWS OS) is the REST query API; if Solr implemented ES's API, I bet $1 a lot more people would have moved or at least considered moving over

IIRC Solr also has some weird stuff about schemaless indices, whereas ES took the very Mongo-y approach of "yeah, just throw content at the index, don't worry about it" but then separately the approach of "I am angry with your new conflicting field in that document" and throws an exception; so you don't have to worry about the schema right up until you do have to worry about it
Lifecycles vary but that's probably a reasonable description for a lot of events. Certainly, once an event is very corporate there are a lot of forces acting to keep it going long past its sell-by date.

That said, long-lived events can stay volunteer efforts.
You can automate the communication by writing good documentation and api reference with examples.
there's always a fork.
I'm only talking about driver/license locks, not different ram types.
I wonder if dormando who sometimes comes around would care to run memcache with the same traces as are used in this paper, which are available at https://github.com/twitter/cache-trace. I'm not sure I care about a cache that can scale to 24 cores, as in my experience I usually end up with hundreds of caches each with a few cores rather than fewer, bigger cache servers, but it still would be interesting to see what memcached can do.
Are people actually required to use ELK? What are your use cases?

The interface is completely cluttered and it takes loads of resource and it feels like it's waiting to be replaced with lighter and more focused products.

Graylog (though it uses Elasticsearch internally) does a decent job at log handling and creating all the visual items out of logs and Grafana/Loki can do quite good at it as well with a very small memory footprint.

Besides, most of the "business intelligences" aren't actionable but just some visual arts you wouldn't need but to stare at when you're bored.
Yeah, I deleted mine. IDK what is it about Twitter that goads me into speaking Snarkish. Distrust WRT their intentions? The general atmosphere of the place?

Around 2009 (the failed Iranian Green Revolution), social networks felt on the side of freedom. Nowadays they fill me with negativity.
"Sick of the hype" is not equivalent to "it is bullshit".
For someone in a leadership role, it could be considered an inability to perform basic job responsibilities.
Ah, my bad. I thought you meant not being able to run linux based images in docker when run with wsl2. There is also a significant difference between the vmware like implementation and wsl2. Spinning up a linux machine in VMware and running docker on that, as mentioned in the article, is quite a different ballpark. Especially when considering the limited CPU and ram resources.
You don't think that CEOs also have a lot of performance related clauses? Stock options are, for example.
Did pythagoreans have notions of chromatic scales ? I worry that without it you're losing a huge emotional space. I'll look your book at once.
Having worked with more than one of those member companies in that foundation, the one thing I've learned about conspiracy theorists is that what they really lack is imagination and vision.
[I assume you mean "for-profit" rather than "private". These companies aren't generally private and neither is their money, but...]

Exactly?!

People in this thread and elsewhere say this is inevitable because of "globalization" or "automation" or "increasing scale of operations" or "increasing concentration of authority" or similar things that apply equally to the US military.

The actual reason for this compensation disparity, which exists in large for-profit companies, and doesn't exist in one of the biggest organizations on earth, measured by budget, is capitalism and the market. The fact that the US military is not a for-profit company is the point.

If you view this disparity as a bad thing, then you have to accept that the corollary: you might, just maybe, have a problem with free market capitalism. Welcome to the club! :)
People downvoted you, but you actually engaged my question in good faith.
You make some excellent points.

I’d argue that being in a leadership position, RMS should have practiced more professionalism, but in a simple way, the way I asked the question, you are correct.
A 4+4 core M1 is 16 billion transistors. Some of that is the little cores, GPU, etc, but its not clear to me its practical to get, say 8x larger. That would be 128 billion transistors. As a point of comparison, NVIDIA's RTX 3090 is 28B transistors, and thats a huge, expensive chip.
France bans air travel that could be done by train in under 2.5 hours
What will this mean for Apple? Aside for Siri, Nuance voice is used for the Mac TTS engine, which I use quite heavily.

In English, there are quite a few contenders for TTS, eg. Amazon. Apple can find another vendor. But in some languages it is Google voice or Nuance and there are no other games in town.
> start listening to the people who are actually there.

I'd love to, if only these people who are so aggrieved would properly write down their experiences instead of "I didn't like him anyway" after-the-fact tweets.

> Correction: _Last_ it was the Epstein connection, a straw on a pile of many straws.

Yes, quite enough to build a strawperson as an effigy, and now you're doing it, because there was no Epstein connection. In all of MIT, the only person you can trust not to have any sort of connection to Epstein would be rms, but yeah, let's blame him and the dead guy, and take it from there.
Can Azure offer an OpenSearch service? Probably.

So the idea is you can move from AWS to Azure if you wanted to with open source services underneath.
What you are missing is that the resources in the world that matter are bounded. So if a minority is creating most of the value at scale, they will be able to redirect most of the resources to themselves. This drives the increase in inequality.

That is why thinking purely in financial terms is misleading. It's not because everyone has more $$$ in the bank that everyone is better off.
Plank length was found because it fixed equations.

I don’t think any equivalent has been found for time units. Not that can be experimentally proven yet.

Would love to see time proven one way or the other.
Athletes aren't comparable to the CEO in this situation.

Athlete pay (at least for athletes who are paid by an owner and not mostly from prize money) isn't really tied to winning or losing, but is largely defined by collectively bargained negotiations, based on how much the league brings in. You also have guys like Bryce Harper who, even when he goes 0-for-3, will earn their keep in other ways, like getting people to watch games on TV which increases rights fees & ad rates, selling tickets to games where people spend money on parking and beer or jersey sales: https://www.mlb.com/news/bryce-harper-sets-pro-sports-jersey...

In short, athletes get paid a lot because they know how much money their bosses are making from their labor and have collectively bargained to get their fair share.
Calling it a bubble is essentially an unfalsifiable statement, there's no way to really disprove it. Many would very much disagree that it is non useful, especially on a forward looking basis (the same way a money losing unicorn is still worth a billion dollars). At what point is it no longer a bubble?
PMS is, to me, pre-menstrual syndrome.
The acronym choice was probably not the best.
If Google could get their act together with Stadia they could really capture a nice chunk of the casual gamer market. Games are becoming the next streaming wars, having to switch between several services to get what you want is becoming a pain.
To me it's always seemed like money grows from the barrel of a gun. Detaching money from military power sounds wonderful but it makes no sense to me. It seems to defy the very basis of what money is. Tokens handed out by warlords. Only stretched out over such a long time that it isn't obvious any more.

Obviously I am neither an economist nor a political theorist.
The guardian article and the commenter I replied to are pointing out the difference between 1965 and 2020 as if it's a problem.

A problem is defined as something that has a negative impact on people. My analysis points out that the only people that modern CEO pay has a negative impact on is the shareholders.

I illustrated that it makes literally no difference to your average floor worker whether the CEO gets $0 or $20 million in stock comp.
Embargoed countries can end it whenever they feel like: simply get a democratic government in place.
How do you short companies for a long time? To exploit a correlation between CEO compensation and stock-market returns, you surely need to hold a short position for years? I just can't see how to do that profitably given the high costs of shorting individual companies.
even on trains? amtrak specifically questions people about cash?

This seems weird -- compared to traveling by air amtrak has approx 0 security, no TSA equivalent, bag scan, etc(unless you check maybe).
Avoid Performance Regressions on PR
Twitter infects Africa.
Misinformation in and about Science
If you'd like to visit Lagos, shoot me an email (me at [username] dot com) and I can send you some tips/places you might be interested in.

(I think the weirdest tip I have about Lagos is that it's actually a decent whale-watching spot. We get humpback whales in particular from May-ish to September-ish, much more in the latter months.)
>Meetings are mostly not-full focus events. That's not to say that VR couldn't have a role in, say, an in-depth review of a hardware design. But, the typical meeting? People are turning their cameras on and off and are probably spending about 50% attention depending upon how relevant the current topic is to them.

This is true, at least in part, because Zoom meetings allow this, not necessarily because this is the behavior that an employer views as ideal. If VR technology was well-developed, I think its likely that many employers would hold VR meetings for the very reason that employees would be forced to give 100% of their attention. Certainly this is true when it comes to schools, which have done everything possible to ensure that students are paying 100% attention all the time, aren't using supplemental materials during tests (cheating), ect.

>When North Carolina A&T State University junior Arielle G. Brown took her International Marketing exam in September, a cheating-detection program analyzed her behavior through a computer webcam the entire time. After the test, her associate professor fired off a furious email ripping into her class for some “negative behavior” the software had flagged.

>“A STUDENT IN 6 MINUTES HAD 776 HEAD AND EYE MOVEMENTS,” she wrote, adding later, “I would hate to have to write you up.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/11/12/test-mo...

We may not all end up choosing (or be forced) to hold VR meetings in cyberspace, but to seems virtually (pun intended) certain to me that many will.
I don't know what the point of your comment is.

There is a need to have a medium of exchange for trade. Barter has its limitations. For all of history, people have created new forms of money for exchange. The primary characteristics you would need is scarcity, clear ownership, transferability and fungibility. Gold serves this purpose, and Bitcoin even more so.

The fact that gold is a shiny pebble is not adding anything meaningful to the conversation.
> taken from the average employee cut of the profits

There's never been any such thing. In the US, salaries have always been determined by the supply and demand of skills, they've never been linked to profitability or some share of it.

And stock options and stock grants are relatively new (not really a thing in 1960), so if anything the actual employee share of profits -- since the value of stock is future profits discounted -- has gone up.

The idea that CEO compensation is somehow "at the expense of" employee compensation is a pure myth. If CEO's were paid less, the extra money would flow to shareholders, not employees.
Like CentOS?
as i understand it's compute, just not cpu compute, those cpu are designed to be good enough for cuda servers