skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Except this is about llvm and not clang. C++ features don't come into play with llvm since it's the middle step between the high-level compilation of the language and the writing actual machine code for the target architecture.
This looks great! Would have been helpful when I was bootstrapping my Mac for internet access.

Speaking of which, does anyone know of a Raspberry Pi setup that will emulate a modem and bridge an internet connection? I've been using SLiRP/PPP, but it's been a little flakey.
Modern shaders[1] do a lot, but you'll never mistake them for anything but minecraft. They don't quite get to where this paper is demonstrating.

[1] https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/best-minecraft-shaders
They're also working on some kind of recommendations engine: https://github.com/Open-Book-Genome-Project/TheBestBookOn.co...

I don't quite know how it works -- I've been meaning to spend some time exploring it, but haven't gotten around to it yet.
I'd be curious to know more, since 'top' means different things to different folks. Is 'top' 1480 SAT or 1580? If your child is at the top of an IB high school, that is certainly impressive in its own right.

One thing I would note is that some schools 'manage' their acceptances in order to keep their yield numbers looking good. That is, they may have determined that your child was overqualified for their school and very unlikely to come. They'd rather reject/wait-list applicants like this because then their yield numbers (percent of accepted students who matriculate) look better.
LLVM has a project called mca which reused the machine description files used for instruction scheduling to model the throughout of a basic block in steady state.

Sounds cool, is cool - word of warning: it can be a little optimistic sometimes.
I guess misinformation isn't the right term. It's not _wrong_, it just feels like it gets a disproportionate amount of attention.
The article said they were trying to combat dengue, and that it affected about 60 people.
I'm just a bit biased (I work for Replicated), but yeah, this is exactly what Replicated does.

https://www.replicated.com/

I don't want to get all salesy here, but I'm happy to answer any questions you have, or connect you with folks for a demo, etc.
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My understanding is that it is quite difficult for a disease to be spread by mosquitoes. There's an aspect of co-evolution that limits significant spread to particular species. Of thousands of species of mosquito, there are just a handful that cause the vast majority of suffering.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosquito-borne_disease
Yes, this is what every very smart person who underperforms or behaves illogically in a study says. Well, actually, I didn't choose wrong, I was testing the experiment. I chose to eat the marshmallow because I wanted to force them to reveal what would happen next, and then they told me the experiment was over, exactly as I predicted. I win again.
Well, it does considerably more things than a hello world python app. So at least compare it to Python’s full blown backend server with ORM and the like.
> The number of good jobs is not a function of the number of college grads. If there are fewer college grads, employers will have to broaden the search. Let high school graduates apply to entry level positions that aren't manual labor.

Again most if not all good jobs require skills - skills that must be taught. What is this hypothetical "good job" that requires no training? You're seriously not living in reality, this is 2021, not 1950.

No matter what, if the people with more skills are going to college, employers will make college a requirement, even if a college education is not strictly necessary to do the job. This isn't some hypothetical, it's already happened.

No one is forced to go to college, they do so because the opportunities are there and employers want college educated employees. Conversely, employers need not hire exclusively college graduates, but it turns out that people who don't go to college generally do not perform (of course there are exceptions).

> I'm saying that people who are going to college to get a degree so they can get an entry level job should not be in college. They should just be able to apply to those jobs out of high school.

They already can, they will just likely be rejected.
I do empathise, but only because I remember how things were for me as a kid (just as FB was rising to prominence). My parents did not let me on the site until I was 13, but pretty much everyone else was there since at least the middle of primary school.

I was really introverted and socially awkward at that age, so I found it difficult to be excluded in this way. When I did finally get access to social platforms in general, my social wellbeing was an order of magnitude better, started making more friends, not being left out of events because I didn't have an account (this happened even with some family as well). Until then I would never hear about things until right before they were happening, and people asked if I was going.

So while FB is an overgrown monster today, it's far more than large marketing departments gone mad. There is a real social cost to not being on these platforms.

(Also, good on you for not giving in. Because regardless of how I felt at the time, I'm glad my parents did force me to wait. It's probably not healthy to plug children into gigantic ML manipulation engines.)
"Don't mess with markets" is easy to understand. That said people are perfectly willing to mess with them in ways both large and small. Sometimes they have a guiding maxim and sometimes they just say it's a self-evident action that will outweigh any downside.

I suspect the truth is that in both cases it comes down to who is going to benefit - with it more likely to happen if the "who" is either a large number or a small number with a lot of influence and the "benefit" is something that's immediately apparent to the winners and not immediately apparent to the people who lose in the intervention.
wow, you're not kidding. what are the chances they are going to bite their main investments and key donor class?

"About 98% of political contributions from internet companies this cycle went to Democrats"

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/02/tech-billionaire-2020-electi...

https://observer.com/2020/11/big-tech-2020-presidential-elec...

https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/10/30/21540616/silicon-valle...
> A project of the scale of Python, that is so central, so essential, should not break on me more than once in a decade, at least willingly.

They have been unambiguous about their breaking changes policy for twelve years: you get at least two major versions of warning (i.e. two to three years), possibly more. And old major versions are supported (bugfixes, security fixes, and occasional non-breaking backports) for five years.

If that's not what you're looking for (which is totally fine!) then python is probably not a good fit for your use case.
I don't really see any evidence that there is mispricing. Pricing is complicated and sure if you raise prices, maybe you make more money or maybe you kill your LTV while exposing yourself to potential undercutting from competitors.

In a growth business, raising prices is usually the last thing you want to do to make more money. If pricing is broken, the costs only accumulate until you fix it while if you build value for users (and increase retention), you get returns on that in perpetuity.

Obviously any advice is meaningless without full context but focusing on pricing is usually a sign of a business that can't find any other way to grow. Or that the unit economics were wrong. Unit economics are usually not a problem with SAAS businesses with a $0 marginal cost.
Ban/tax coal. So long as coal is cheap, people will use it for something.

There's lots of ways to turn energy into money besides bitcoin mining. Gotta make carbon intensive energy not worth it.
Housing can't be simultaneously an investment and affordable.

For current homeowners, one good way to preserve and grow the value of your home is to support policies that reduce new supply from coming on the market.

New supply is prevented from coming on the market through high costs and ever expanding rules and regulations.

Persistent low housing supply is the expected outcome when housing is treated as an investment.
I hate it when authors use "we" in this context when they mean "you" - ("we should move away from the GPL").

There was an article about spiritual teachers doing the same, and how their speech changes if it's reformulated. Interesting read.[0]

[0] https://matthewremski.medium.com/editing-spiritual-teachers-...
I have read from another article that Mexico is one of the biggest consumers of Coca-cola in the universe.

They should trim down consuming junk foods and sugary drinks as it will lead to health complications later in your life.

This war against obesity is a good move for Mexico, doing something favorable for its citizens. I hope this movement will become a role model for other countries to follow.
For an increasing number of product lines, Walgreens is selling only their house brand.

Last time I needed one, I was unable to buy an effective bandage wrap in person, I had to order online. My local Walgreens only had their own house brand "self stick" type that doesn't really stick at all.

Went to buy some wrist braces, again, only their house brand. Many styles of wrist braces exist, they sold one type, the type I didn't want.

For some house brands, such as Costco, they provide a huge competitive force in the marketplace. An example is Costco Diapers, which are rated really well, and basically establish a price at which other "name brands" have to complete. There is a possibility that they are creating a downwards pressure on the price of diapers overall. (Or that they are colluding to ensure prices don't fall too far, huh, never thought of that angle before!)

My local grocery store's brand is generally untrustworthy. I hate it when they are the only option for buying something. The 3 times I have tried their yogurt coated pretzels I have gotten an upset stomach, and I normally have an iron stomach that allows me to eat street food around the world with aplomb.

Funny enough their house brand "sweetened flavored sparking water" is really my preferred brand, so they get it right some of the time.

But from one perspective, isn't this argument hypocritical of us? If I go to a baker, I kinda expect everything in the bakery to be "store brand", and in fact many bakeries been scandalized for not selling their own goods! Heck if I go to my local farmer's market I expect what the farmer sells what they grew, and again if they are just reselling produce, social media scandal!

This entire idea of stores being a "marketplace" for multiple brands is only a recent aberration.

So maybe what are seeing is just things are just slowly returning to a world where everything is "store branded".
I'm not sure what kind of data you would use to drive it. A lot of the most important aspects of education aren't readily measurable: the ability to write, the network connections you make (to fellow students, professors, alumni, donors, etc), capacity to work in teams, and so on. You risk the same things you get with tech firms using leetcode and puzzles to select... well, to select those who are good at leetcode and puzzles.

You can measure it in terms of career success, but even there it's very hard to deal with the selection bias. Those who succeed are those who succeed.

I'm a big fan of Signum University, which is an online-only university dedicated to the soft skills that have to be taught personally, rather than a MOOC. It can't develop connections like Harvard and Stanford but it can develop those skills that make the hard-to-measure differences between those who succeed and those who are merely very good at taking tests. It remains, however, impossible to factor out those connections, which seem to make the biggest difference.
Oddly enough, three of my favorites are all written by Davids.

1. "Object Thinking" by David West (http://davewest.us/product/object-thinking/)

2. "Introduction to Computing" by David Evans (free PDF available: https://computingbook.org/)

3. "Data Model Patterns: Conventions of Thought" by David Hay (https://www.amazon.com/Data-Model-Patterns-David-Hay/dp/0932...). He also gives a great talk about this here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLFXewSpltw
Effective Java (taught me way, way more than just java)
Even with 25 times as many „artificial“ mosquitoes, the 0.02% females remaining are probably still a tiny amount compared to the naturally occurring ones.
I didn’t realize this was a totally separate product. I’m mixed in that probably many kids are already using Instagram as is… I guess I go back to parent responsibility (although we probably all lose through the tragedy of the commons).
I don't think it is possible to "accidentally" decline the number of predators without it rippling into a potential ecological collapse.
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This is completely missing the point. The teacher is doing the moderation and curating a curriculum. Youtube is simply the medium by which they are sharing the video which contains the content.

YouTube is the most convenient solution to upload because of he simplicity of uploading since it is integrated into pretty much every hardware device.

This idea that parents now need to be moderating YouTube is asnine. Most are struggling to simply help their kids do their math homework and now we are going to require them to moderate google??

Right now the tech companies have more information on what my kids are viewing than me, unless we want a world where parents are literally approving every single thing that reaches their eyeballs, let's hold the platforms a accountable for what they are serving up.
The housing prices that are spiraling out of control are those which are being driven up by the increasing wealth of the upper-1% to 10%. The price of housing in Krupp, WA isn't inflating at all. The price of housing where software developers and people in finance and business and industry, and the places where people like to buy second homes is inflating.

And it is just supply and demand, and you've addressed supply but what is driving so much demand, and why do participants in that market have so much more money to be bidding up prices.

And looking at inflation in different targets of money is something that economists do all the time when they divide inflation up between CPI and core CPI ex-volatile commodities. This is just looking at the things that rich people buy and the inflation in those things versus the inflation in the broader economy. We know the rich are getting richer, the gini coefficient keeps on getting more skewed, and the things that rich people buy are getting more and more expensive. You can't call this "inflation" though because economists object because they invented that term and they'd prefer to call it asset bubbles. But cantillon effects describes it a bit better. They're capturing more of the gold and prices are rising in the things that they use it on creating skewed effects in the rise of prices in the economy.
I see. I would retract my statement if HN let me edit.
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> The claim is that the bytes are either non-accounted, or motivated by technical choices specific to Go.

That's not what it says; with "70% of a couple hundred megabytes are copied around for no good reason" written in bold no less:

> That’s right! More than two thirds of the file on disk is taken by… bits of dubious value to the software product.
>
> Moreover, consider that these executable files fly around as container images, and/or are copied between VMs in the cloud, thousands of times per day! Every time, 70% of a couple hundred megabytes are copied around for no good reason and someone needs to pay ingress/egress networking costs for these file copies. That is quite some money being burned for no good reason!
To be fair: German employee protection is so strong, it's almost impossible for anyone to get fired from any company bigger than 10 employees for reasons other than committing crimes or felonies, as long as the company cannot prove that they have to let people go due to bad overall business. Even then, as an employer, you cannot simply fire the underachievers, but you have to negotiate with the works council to be able to keep the youngest, highest performers, because they have the least protection and have to fired first...
Is javadoc any better these days?
Yeah exactly what I've been saying, as devils advocate. How do you transact btc for something physical safely? There's no legal recourse after the fact. At least with a car-cash exchange there is.
A whitelist would work better than a blacklist, as with most other cases in dev ;)
> "Productivity" is notoriously hard to measure in software.

We can look at history and results. In these terms, C (and perhaps C++ to some extent) is, I believe, the only productive programming language for making the low level parts of non-experimental kernels.

As far as it can be publically measured, Rust so far has proven itself for application programming in a certain niche and not much more. It would be cool if it could prove itself in kernel space too -- we certainly need less system crashes caused by bad kernel-level code. Curiously though, it has been a very long time since I've last bumped into such a thing in Linux. This makes me suspect that Rust is trying to fix a problem here that's already been fixed in another way.

As for ease of coding, C seems like a massively easier language to learn than Rust. But I might be wrong there. Any data about that, I wonder?
Well, that looks at first like a pretty comprehensive list of possible problems in a scientific studies, but the correct reaction on reading it should be "wait, what about the really serious problems?". I mean, (ab)using Google Surveys or experimenter demand effects is one kind of problem that indeed probably deserves a lot of nuance about criticizing it. But it's also not really where the biggest problems are or where the attention should be focused.

We're in an environment where people routinely discover flat out academic fraud, as in, scientists just made whole tables of data up out of thin air. Someone notices, informs the journal, and with 95% likelihood nothing happens. Or maybe the researcher is allowed to 'correct' their made up data. We're in an environment where you literally cannot take any number in a COVID-related paper at face value, even when there are multiple citations for it, because on checking citations routinely turn out to be fraudulent e.g. the cited paper doesn't actually contain the claimed data anywhere in it, or explicitly states the opposite of what's being claimed, or the number turns out to have been a hypothetical scenario but is being cited as a "widely believed" empirical fact, etc. We're in an environment where literature reviews argue that whilst very few public health models can ever be validated against reality, that's not a big deal and they should be used anyway.

Gwern criticises people who learn about logical fallacies and then go around over-criticising people for engaging in them. Yeah, sure, if you claim someone is taking bribes and they actually are then it's technically an ad hominem but still correct to say. Granted. But we are not suffering from an over-abundance of nitpicky fallacy-criticizers. Where are these people when you need them? COVID related research frequently contains or is completely built on circular logic! That's a pretty basic fallacy yet papers that engage in it manage to be written by teams of 20, sail through multiple peer reviews and appear in Nature or the BMJ. As far as I can tell the scientific institutions cannot reliably detect logical fallacies even when papers are dealing with things that should be entirely logical like data, maths, code, study design.

The notion that scientific criticism should be refined to focus on what really matters sounds completely reasonable in the abstract, and is probably an important discussion to have in some very specific fields (maybe genetics is one). But I'd worry that if people are arguing about p-hacking or lack of negative results, that means they're not arguing about the apparently legion researchers making "mistakes" that cannot plausibly be actual mistakes. Stuff that should be actually criminal needs to be fixed first, before worrying about mere low standards.
Experimental antiviral for Covid-19 effective in hamster study
I highly doubt the progressively slower development claim.
Mosquitos can transmit diseases that can negatively affect other animals. Perhaps we would have more biodiversity without mosquitoes.
Education is actually much more important than wealth. So is city and community infrastructure, a positive family environment, etiquette / upbringing, values passed down, positive / helpful relations, mentorship, trauma free environments/mental health, and good social practice. Wealth is a very small part of stability.
Bitcoin is leading with a 50% market share. So big but not really a monopoly.
Teachers can learn how to use youtube-dl.
"The drug is in Phase 2 and 3 human clinical studies."
Ask HN: Why work so hard when you can just retire on GME and Dogecoin?
The whole economy is super speculative, just makes you wonder why am I working so hard at my job while investing in something boring like index funds hoping to have a nice retirement by 65?

There is a whole generation who just knows about 1000% return on these speculative gamble that really has no real values. FOMO into them worked.

All these are very sobering to an old soul like myself.

And wonder what the world will be for my kids.
Garbage headline. Nobody had assisted cruise control and lane keep assist for $35k in 2010. Tesla owners have that and better every day, and they use it every day, accruing billions of miles to train the algorithm. Tesla Autopilot directly pushed the rest of the industry into adopting assisted cruise control, lane keep assist, departure warning, front and back proximity sensors, etc. (not to mention pouring R&D into dashboards and center consoles, which are still mostly bad and nowhere near the smoothness of an iPad, but at least they're trying).

> Urmson predicted to Bloomberg that Aurora would be the first company to deploy self-driving technology for long-haul trucking routes at a "meaningful" commercial scale.

Tesla could do this tomorrow with Tesla Semi. Their hold-up is manufacturing and deploying a new electric vehicle, not developing self driving software which they already have. This is opposed to every other self driving startup in the space which has no practical driving experience and no commercial product to deploy on.

To say that meaningful advances in the space have not been made in the last decade is kind of weird. We are still far away from L5, but closer than we were before.
I'd say portraying people as doing work for virtuous reasons when in fact its because they need cash has tended to result in abuse, be that prostitutes, or soldiers or whatever.
> Julia has first-class support for GPU programming

"First-class" is a steep claim. Does it support the nvidia perf tools? Those are very important for taking a kernel from (in my experience) ~20% theoretical perf to ~90% theoretical perf.
You're taking a joke too serious :-)
The 'trend' is that as an open source clone, Calendso doesn't have a marketing team behind it, so it's entirely true to point out that their landing page doesn't have the polish we've come to expect of a VC-backed unicorn company with a time-proven, expensive marketing firm taking pictures and writing website copy, and that it could do better.

What I think some are reacting to is that it's also unfair to expect that. The person looking for an "open-source Calendly alternative" knows they've found that because that's going to be what, by brand name, what they're looking for and will know they've found something that addresses that need, with those three words.
How is DBpedia for books? Could it play a role in bootstrapping your database?