skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The reality is that most big tech companies want to get all the benefits of "going digital", while shifting all the costs or downsides of that move to the consumers. This is not accidental. This is a long-term strategy backed by an elaborate PR campaign. The campaign was so successful that most people aren't even aware of how bizarre the whole idea of "renting" digital content really is. You're "renting" something that can be effortlessly replicated ad infinitum.

How much of what you pay for "digital rentals" goes to creators and towards running the actual infrastructure to download/consume media? This is a questions a lot of companies don't want you to be thinking about.

More generally, it all comes down to the questions brilliantly formulated by Neal Postman:

https://strawdogs.wordpress.com/2009/08/16/neil-postmans-6-q...
Out of curiosity, study where humans are deceived about the fact that they are research subjects can be justified in general ? (to me seems like correct answer no)

Some relevant cases; the Facebook case[0] suggests it is justified because of EULA, and court determination test[1] is complicated for me to comprehend (to be honest), but seems like most relevant to this discussion.

[0] https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/06/every...

[1] https://casetext.com/case/sandvig-v-barr
https://shiftnudge.com/ is very good, but unfortunately doesn’t open for enrollment for a few more months
It's hard to make things louder when your loudest section tops out.

Compression is an optimization for making the song sound better at louder volume
Experience is multi-faceted and I think often over-valued (I say this as someone who would benefit a lot if experience was highly valued).

Plenty of engineers effectively have 1 year of experience 12 times.
Hey everyone,
I wanted to build a tool like this to clearly illustrate how 'code is just data' - something a lot of students in a class I TA'd struggled to grasp. Everything in CUTE centers around a memory array with disassembly overlay, and each word being editable.
It's still a little rough around the edges (e.g - the assembler doesn't catch many syntactic errors which aren't hard to detect), but I wanted to get some early feedback!
What's the problem with this ? I'm not familiar with accounting.
Sure a rental price determined by what the value of renting was according to the customer. Which, seeing as they opted to purchase, might reasonably be zero.
I would say that they are "negative", with scare quotes... There's really nothing negative in that book. I don't know about other sources about Feynman's life, but his own autobiography does not really speak ill of him, at least if that information is taken at face value. The quotes that appear in TFA with much fanfare are only descriptions of thought processes, not of actions.

So, young Feynman was not particularly good at flirting, and then he received advice from other people which he thereby tried to apply. This process and its mixed results are therefore described with comic detail. Then he also drew some naked women with a pencil. If that is the best case against Feynman, he's still safe. Really, the only legitimate negative thing that you can extract from that book is that he was a bit obsessed with positive attention when young, which may have made him be a bit insufferable. But who isn't at 20. And that's it.
This is a very good point. I did not find anything objectionable about that experiment when I first read about it. And if the companies experimented upon had complained like the kernel maintainers did, I would have dismissed it as them covering up their bad process. This is actually making me consider that the submitters of the bad patches shouldn't be treated differently than the job application researchers.
This is really interesting. This especially applies to tech companies!
"What is different in India – a country with a fragile health system and even weaker surveillance"
This line left a bad taste in my mouth, as if a weak surveillance state is a negative trait of a country
For some reason the first time I do something I always over engineer it... it took me a lot of self growth to take feedback like yours seriously and not get defensive of my “what-if” thought patterns.
One thing I've been thinking about in C++ land is that just how much the idiomatic usage of RAII actually prevents the compiler from doing it's own tail call optimization. Any object instantiated in automatic storage with a non-trivial destructor is basically guaranteeing the compiler _can't_ emit a tailcall. It's rather unfortunate, but perhaps worth it if the traideoff is well understood. Example: https://godbolt.org/z/9WcYnc8YT
Strictly already illegal in NYC.
Summary: There are several ways to concatenate strings in Rust. The method listed (using the format! macro) is one of the slowest but also most flexible, it will cheerfully concatenate any things that either are, or present an ability to be expressed as, strings.

The very fastest "method" is to just tell Rust you're quite confident that it will be OK to assume all these strings happen to be contiguous in memory anyway and so it can just go ahead and assemble that memory into one string. Rust won't let you pretend it said this was safe, and sure enough in practice it will almost invariably break, but this is often what equivalent C code is trying for, it genuinely is fast, and if you really are confident you can arrange for the assumption to be true Rust lets you express that in an unsafe block so you get that same performance as C.
>into the vacuum rushed Russia and China, who began currying favor around the world by distributing their own vaccines—of possibly dubious quality

Oh American arrogance, you can't mention China/Russia without trash-talking them. Trials show the vaccines are safe and effective: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...
Sorry for the late response. You can try Google advanced image search to find image files of a particular format. I have used it in the past to find SVGs.

To exclude giphy and friends, you can just type:

-giphy ...

at the end of the search query.
I think about dying in cars every time I put on my seatbelt.
Children of Chernobyl cleanup crew don’t have excess mutations
I am still not exactly sure what Snowden did that was so beneficial to us. He broke secrecy laws and went about whistleblowing in the worst possible way. I cannot say if I will ever look at him as anything more than a traitor. I’m still deeply suspicious he’s not a Kim Philly of sorts.
China is an authoritarian state, so they can do any number of things that are strategic without worrying about popularity.

In the US, at the federal level at least, rail has a serious popularity problem which makes it politically difficult to sustain. That problem is largely driven by the fact that outside of the northeast our rail service is a joke.

If we want to have good quality rail across the country — which I would like to have, fwiw — I think we’d get there faster by focusing on serving just a few places with very high quality rail that everyone else would actually want. Then we could gradually expand the system with concentrated investments that hit that quality bar. After a generation of that, we could have broadly popular rail with a high quality of service. Perhaps that could even include highly subsidized service to rural areas, in the same way we have intensely subsidized highway and postal services to such places today.

But I think if we want to get there we need to start with a smaller goal of regional networks that are GOOD, so that people’s perception of rail changes.
That’s certainly possible. But if folks on this site don’t know how ToyStory or JurassicPark were rendered back in the day, let alone like almost every movie with CG in it since, that would be a little surprising. But maybe?
I also didn't enjoy Surely Joking, for the exactly the same reasons.

In part this is in Feynman, in part this is on society being more accepting of this behavior back then. People pick behavior by immitating what's around them.

I for one am glad that expectations for conduct, but also available role models are at a higher standard today.
Sounds like information that you could act on by finding a new job.
Could probably set it up to do checks on departure. End up in the wrong country without your passport? Just take the next train back to the last destination in the other country.

Would likely need a special treaty in place so Americans traveling from Chicago to NY can travel through without a passport (just ID). Alternatively if we’re talking diplomatic solutions, the US and Canada could move towards a Schengen-style free transit zone without cross country border checks.
Doing this as you program is also fun, as you must find standard library functions that act similarly to your daily functions, but still with analogous output. I did this a long ago, writing a program in C that avoids any inclusion of ';'.

(Also, wow it is hard to avoid 'e', just for this post, though I found that I couldn't bypass that limitation for "semicolon". Doing so for a full book would bring about total insanity.)
>It makes the company's salary ranges public, which little startups will use to create comparison websites, driving even more candidates away from smaller companies to the tech giants and monopolies who can afford to pay above market in order to kill their competition.

This may not always be the case. If startup funding sources know that salaries are more transparent and there's more competition, they know they need to offer more to the companies to be able to hire the talent to actually ship. I personally have no qualms about increasing funding amounts that go directly into developers' pockets.
> I came across a reference to another writer's work where he wrote 5 medium-length pieces where the only vowels were A, E, I, O and U.

That’s probably Christian Bök’s “Eunoia”.
Ask HN: Are there any standard monochrome low resolution resolutions?
I have a rad idea for a low resolution one color pixel display. For example, 20x80 would be very challenging but probably totally worth it.

The thing is I'm going to need to display stuff on it so I need character glyphs and little graphics and stuff like that. Are there any standard glyphs or libraries for resolutions that small?
Is that standard practice on physical products which have warranties? If not, then I do not see why it would be necessary here.
From the CBC: The latest on the coronavirus outbreak for April 20 [1]

> New Toronto field hospital prepares to accept patients as ICUs overflow

> Greater Toronto Area hospitals are so overwhelmed due to record COVID-19 admissions that some patients are being transferred to health-care centres outside the region.

[1] https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/coronavirus-newsletter-april-...
Why would you expect your manager to “address” the point that you think one of your peers is overpaid?
And Playboy should stick to pictures of... Playboys? Nonsense. They have a very good point here.
Lol, no. They understand exactly how in demand developers are. But they also understand that most people are reluctant to switch jobs because of the effort, the uncertainty, and the bad feeling of letting your teammates down.

You can save a lot of budget by not giving competitive raises.
There’s no point continuing this “discussion” as you’re only trying to spin the words to fit your agenda and ignore actual arguments.
To give you an example, rustc has an AST, and a high-level intermediate representation tree called the HIR. The former can encode anything that is syntactically valid (and some things that aren't), while the HIR only encodes things that are valid and transforms things like `if foo {} else {}` to `match foo { true => {} false => {}}`. That makes this internal representation more fundamental, there are fewer constructs to care about, and allows unifying some validations that would otherwise have to be written for all the alternative user visible constructs. It also makes later stages of the compiler not have to care about how code was written, just about this higher level representation.
> This hypocrisy from the folks arguing to reinstate this deduction is staggering.

The deduction still exists. The current limit on the deduction was adopted fairly openly as way for the federal government to artificially incentivize state tax cuts.

The effort to eliminate that limit isn’t an effort to ”save the rich”, its an effort to save the state taxes that support the state services that are part of the recipe for economic success in states on which the federal government disproportionately relies for tax revenues. Limiting the SALT deduction wasn’t about raising taxes on the rich, it was about increasing federal extraction from certain successful states in the short term, strangling those state governments in the medium term, and—in easily forseeable effect if perhaps not actual intent—torpedoing the national economy and tax base in the long term.)
How Vice is preparing for life after the third-party cookie (2020)
I think in the end it's worse for the simple fact that our income is way lower than the ones in the UK. Like, maybe the avg middle class family in the UK can easily buy a house in Portugal bellow the market value of the UK, while the avg portuguese middle class family can't do that in Portugal, let alone the buying an house in the UK lol.

This is one of those things the fuel the extremes in politics - a lot of people that I know are starting to become outraged that we can't afford houses in our own country.

It's like our solution is to start to look for house in the north of Africa (it's a bad and sad joke), or to go to other EU country (or the UK), work there for a decade +, and return to buy an house in Portugal.

If nothing is done, and a lot of people keep parking money in Portugal housing market (some as imigrants, like your friends or others from UK/richer European countries, or people just buying golden visas through realstate to get a EU passports), then I'm afraid nothing good will come out of this.

A lot of people thought it was the migrant crisis that might start the fire for the for extreme-right in Portugal, I think the end will be hyper inflation and the housing market - all because people just want to live in dignity where they were born, and they're being squeezed out.
There are plenty of cases where a factor of two or more difference could be reasonable depending on the candidate and their fit for the position. If someone sees a role posted as $200K-$400K and balks if offered less than $400K, I hope they have other $375K+ offers in their back pocket.
May be you want things that are not possible anymore ? I mean you have a balanced life. You are 30. perhaps your heart is telling you that it is ok to just code for a living even if you don't enjoy it as much as you used to when you were 11-12 ? May be you just need to find ways to do other things more and enjoying finer things in life that your good balanced life may provide ? I thought to share a totally different answer here.
It's more like Presenting and Serving Models using Javascript for Data Science.
SciCity
I was under the impression that Renderman was just an internal tool. I didn’t realize they sold it.
Simulating Constraints: Using Simulations to Optimize Business Processes
>modern lens

the drawing displayed in the article is from 1975. i'm sure there are plenty of people on this very forum born well before 1975. we're not talking about judging someone from ancient mesopotamia here...

i think the dude was socially and politically average for his generation but his generation is still around (though petering out).

>This rewriting of history is sickening.

really? did you throw up after reading the article? this is hyperbolic and reactionary. what's happening here is a reexamination of things up until recently taken for granted (boys will be boys). i don't see anything wrong with revisiting things and reassessing. in this case especially because feynman's strip club antics are very often trotted out as some kind of wonderful thing he did that made him more relatable than other science luminaries.
Agreed.

However, I think there is another issue in the US: last mile transit.

Even if the US magically have the rail system similar to China today, using it in cities like Houston etc. that has poor public transit would still be a pain in the ass in practice.
The article is not clear about whether this is in the companies interest or in the work forces interest. In some parts it sounds like it's better for the company, but an actual argument for that is missing. Most of the article demands it though so that women, people of color and other disadvantaged groups are less disadvantaged. It would have been more honest to be clear about it.

And it's not really honest either to just put the blame on the company. "I’m unlikely to bring up the topic of salary with a potential boss." Well, then change that. Before demanding something from a company that you would like to work for, start demanding something from yourself. It's basically the attitude "I have a problem, I could directly contribute to the solution, but I prefer ranting about that somebody else is not doing that for me."
Imagine these scenarios:
People want to build a park

Either
1) A local government increases taxes to build a park

2) The federal government increases taxes to build a park

And Either
A) A SALT deduction exists

B) A SALT deduction doesn't exist

And independent of this, the federal government collects tax on income to do whatever it currently does.

1A)
people end up paying: (income - income.(park tax)).tax - income.(park tax) -for-> park + std_services

2A)
people end up paying: (income).(tax + park tax) -for-> park + std_services

1B)
people end up paying: (income).tax - income.park_tax -for-> park + std_services

2B)
people end up paying: (income).(tax + park tax) -for-> park + std_services

Note 1A, 2A and 2B are all equivalent.
In 1B people pay more overall tax to get the same services.

So under B, any reasonable person given the choice between 'should the local government build the park (1B), or should the federal government build the park (2B)', should logically choose 'federal (2B)'.

IE the local government's ability to do build parks is weakened by the lack of a SALT exemption.
Well, I didn't know until now.
How does this differ from just sharing &str?
In the U.S. it varies by region, but mid-quality panels are usually quoted at $2.50 to $3.00 per watt installed (before subsidies). Tesla Solar is advertising $2.00/watt nationwide but there are some questions about their responsiveness in actually getting anything installed in a timely manner. Outside of CA most people are only paying $0.10-$0.13/KWh making payback rough unless you have a large state or local subsidy on top of the federal 26% tax credit.
Why would Nashville to Atlanta have a huge ridership?
New tooling, new technology and the ability to design it all out from scratch. The Fremont factory was a retrofit of a Toyota factory iirc. It also has been the workhorse for most Tesla cars so it's hard to do any extended updates to it while they didnt have other factories to pick up slack.

Not that I expect the Austin factory to solve all their fit and finish issues, but I am delaying my Model Y purchase till it comes online.
One possibility: they have said on several occasions that it’s very difficult to change how a factory is working when it’s working flat out. And of course, with the huge pressure on Tesla to deliver the numbers, they can’t afford to slow down or have outages for days or weeks while they change the production line.

As a result, meaningful changes or innovations seem to be limited to the design/opening of new factories.
Good point. Still, once it's known it speaks to how desperate they are too keep the talent they have. Turn over usually has significant costs.
Why is it person A’s business what anyone else is paid? IMO, they’re only getting cheated if they’re being paid worse than as agreed.
String concatenation isn't expensive in Rust. Since the + operator consumes the first argument it will reuse the buffer and allocate quadratically. The only possible performance downside is that it can't count all of the lengths in advance and do a single allocation.
It's a good observation.

What this is proving is that consumer behaviour is shifting rapidly with us wanting eye catching food with that ow so fuzzy feeling of something being delivered to you without the need to talk to anyone.

Consumers have a higher perceptual need to satisfy their food desires knowing that cooking for themselves might not make the mark.

And with the rise of evergrowing distractions cooking for yourself is a chore now easily avoidable.

Albeit I'll skip trying to rationalise our habits of overindulgence with something that's convenient and satisfying even if it's short-lived...
A Cryptographic Solution to a Game Theoretic Problem
Very interesting thank you. This seems to have only partial compliance so far. If I do a search on a random location specific job board I'm seeing some companies with salary bands and some without. Datadog, for example, does not have the band listed where Xero and Snapdocs do.

https://www.builtincolorado.com/jobs/dev-engineering
People have that feeling of disgust towards JP.
Amazon at least here in Germany offers either to rent or to buy. Now whatever their ToS say, there is a certain expectation to the word "buy" and I'm fairly optimistic that courts here would take a dim view on clauses in ToS allowing a one sided revocation. Even if it is only a license to stream it is a property right. In B2B one may put some twisted clauses into contracts but in B2C such attempts are regularly reigned in.
Sure. I just wonder if there is some sort of middle ground? Does it have to be zero sum here between tenured and non-tenured in this regard? I'm not sure what the answer is but other setups are possible unless you consider this one optimal (perhaps some do!).
I think this article was well thought out and insightful.

I believe that part of the reason security is so unpleasant to people is because it is so inconsistent. We are told we must be diligent at all times because we don't know where a threat will come from. We may take great strides to keep our Facebook secure, and neglect to maintain our Twitter. So our Twitter is compromised and we feel like we failed and security is pointless. Or we secure all of our platforms as best we can and then someone like Parler leaks all our personal data anyway. So we feel security is fruitless.

We jump through hoops to protect ourselves, and then our employer gets hacked and loses our SSN. Or a merchant gets hacked and loses our credit card info. So we feel slighted. We see these obstacles purporting to keep us safe, and when they fail we feel like they are a waste of time.

In life there is fault and consequence. Sometimes we must deal with the consequences of choices we are not at fault for. This is frustrating and makes the whole act of security sometimes feel not worthwhile. Like it is someone offloading responsibility onto us instead of taking responsibility or accepting liability themselves. We must protect ourselves because our benefactors cannot be bothered to do so.
AXI Direct Memory Access
The Kennels of an estate I used to work at also did knackering work. Its not the faint of heart, I know of at least one stable hand who hung herself there.
WSPR May Hold the Key to MH370 Final Position
I usually just have a `type Text = std::sync::Arc<str>` at the root, specifically during prototyping :)
you're wrong on all counts but i'm going to be the one to correct you.
I haven't been in NYC for close to a couple years at this point. Some of the renovation work around the LIRR entrances was done but not anything else. I'll definitely check out next time I'm there. The drawings for the continuing renovation look quite nice too.
Another article from Techcrunch: https://techcrunch.com/2021/04/24/india-orders-twitter-to-ta...