skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can basically do anything with an Apache 2.0 licensed project and that's the point of this entire industry revolt. AWS is basically picking up prominent projects and hosting them for profit with little to no interaction with the entity that created it. Years of R&D and capital go into building these things from the ground up. For AWS at their scale to just lift it and contribute nothing back is a slap in the face. So yes with Pixie, similar possibilities, but New Relic is not stupid. They know this and are likely working directly with AWS on some sort of deal. I know Microsoft has done a better job in this avenue especially with the likes of Hashicorp. AWS actually has no choice but to do better given their lawsuit with Elastic.
A fringe Japanese religion built a pro-Trump social media empire
I think Clubhouse is great in many ways. It’s initial rawness and authenticity and the lack of gatekeepers. They failed to come out with an Android version in over a year after so much funding, and now in their iOS markets they are battling the return to normalcy with vaccinations and the opening up of societies.
X220 is technically 9 years old, that gives you USB3, two SSDs, and a whopping 16GB RAM.

The exactly ten years old X201 is limited to 8GB RAM, but you can retrofit USB3 with an ExpressCard adapter and it can take one SSD. Two with the optional docking station.
Engineers building unethical things is wildly different than lawyers defending rapists, because a lawyer defending a rapist is behaving ethically according to their career path.

Software engineers agreeing to build awful shit is more like mechanical engineers building weapons. They should know what they are doing is going to cause harm and if they choose to do it anyways I have no issue calling them unethical.
I set nightshift mode to automatically turn on in the evenings on my computer. I basically don't even notice it - unless I play a (certain) game at night that does not seem to honor the amber shift, and it seems very blue and very bright. Additionally, I will occasionally read my Kindle at night, and after using the computer in nightshift mode, the Kindle does seem extra blue and extra bright. I got a kindle OASIS for that reason, since it has a warm light mode, and it definitely makes reading more comfortable.
Apparnently you don't know what "entirely" means.
Ask HN: What Developer problem do you wish someone would solve?
Something that you experience at work way too often or maybe a certain Developer tool, infrastructure, etc.. doesn't cut it anymore
This is true from a technical perspective, and this is probably why the web is still not perfectly sound from an engineering point of view.

But from a business perspective, there is huge value in dumb clients (not for the end-user)
> one of the things that's wrong with North Americans

Why do you have to make this about something being wrong with a group of people?
That's a slow change. That's not so bad. What's happening today seems to be deliberate change to recast ideas (and people) in a particular light for the purposes of persuasion or even deceit.
Is science a pyramid scheme? Correlation between an author’s position and output [pdf]
Compile that same app with graalvm native and you'll get near instant hello world

If you don't want to have to manually compile your app then you can use https://babashka.org/

How many platforms do you think Clojure has?
Show HN: Create webpages using a command-line like interface
I guess once Corium melts through that it becomes more glass than sand.
Good question, we talked about it a tiny bit in our previous blog post and are planning on doing more in-depth blog posts in the future. I added a very brief summary to the github readme:

- A very-low-overhead JIT using DynASM

- Quickening

- Aggressive attribute caching

- General CPython optimizations

- Build process improvements
>but news outlets who lie to you, will also only show video that supports their point.

Oh absolutely. I was thinking more of citizen journalist videos which are typically uncut. One example I know of is when the news video has a hard cut, they're trying to manipulate it. This is pretty common, and they use it often when showing videos of people speaking.
But this model is the reason something like Trump and Russian/Chinese medelling happens. Why not reject the advertising model and the payment model until something better comes along? Businesses aren't people. They'll just work out how to make money eventually.
Really the safest means of disposal is to bury it, but that is fraught with its own problems.
Let us see how long it takes for HN to start praising nuclear power and shrug of any risks in this thread! :)
Unlikely I'm afraid. We used to have an ML style syntax but once we switched to a more mainstream syntax we had a big surge in popularity and interest.

I am very fond of the ML syntax, but I think it is the semantics and type system that really matter, so I am very happy to sacrifice syntax in order to make Gleam more widely accessible.
I agree; especially when you combine a possibility like cognition-altering gas exposure (CO, etc), the brain can do some weird shit; connecting disparate strands of thought between movies you've seen, things you've heard, etc. When a fighter pilot says "both myself and my copilot saw it"... you're breathing the same air, right? Ate the same meal four hours ago? Touching the same control surfaces?

There are certainly some reports that stand up beyond this level of scrutiny.

I don't understand the assertion that "aliens are more likely than (a laundry list of other supernatural things)". The most significant point against modern day alien contact isn't really that "aliens don't exist"; that seems foolish to think. Its that space is insanely vast, and a civilization would need faster-than-light travel to travel across it in any decent amount of time; faster than light travel is roughly on the same level of "physically possible by our understanding of physics" as Time Travel or Dimensional Travel.

So, its a stretch to think its aliens, but you might as well also believe it could be any of those other things. In fact, I could envision a far-out argument for time travel being more likely; if they're both pretty incomprehensible from a physics standpoint, maybe we flipped their improbability. Maybe time travel is actually more possible than FTL travel. And here's one absolute certainty; across the four dimensions, the dimensionally nearest form of advanced, sentient life is You, ten seconds from now.
I mean, you seem to be asking in earnest, so I'll answer. Still, the question is silly. Of course research is being done on this. Google is your friend.
In many cases it is very useful. In this case does it really matter who? It could apply to almost all cryto projects.
You're right. Prominent unicorn competitors to WeWork filed for bankruptcy during the pandemic. One example below

https://techcrunch.com/2021/02/05/a-look-at-how-proptech-sta...
It feels like the people saying that have a stake in the existing vaccine manufacturers.

There is a pharmaceutical industry in India that is not being given the opportunity to get in this fight and some people say they could help and others say they can’t.

So give them a chance and test if they can!
It's also important to realize that with ads, you also pay with your money, when you later buy some product (whether due to the ad or not). Your attention and personal data are only valuable in this context as a way to access your money. The amount of money you pay with is unclear and varies from person to person, but you still do pay.
No it is not. People still reach out from stack when a dependency has updates and it's not in stack yet.

Nobody cares if it compiles together. The point is if a new feature or a bug fix is introduced in a breaking way you cannot bump your dependency and start using it, or progressively move to the new API.
really depends on the context. Embedded software has its own fun challenges, but for a simple web app, the last thing I want to worry about is controlling allocations
How many times do I have to hide rooms about “Worship and Prayer” or “Manifest Infinite Wealth” before clubhouse will get the hint?
Let's not kid ourselves, this thin-client re-package is a marketing effort to push forward a paradigm shift that allows companies to grab more power and control of our 1's and 0's

... whatever value proposition it is packaged up in is just marketing and propaganda ... even if they charge money for it.
Should also be pointed out that there are probably two or three orders of magnitude more men at the bottom than there are men at the top. It's asymmetric. Your odds of failure are much higher than your odds of incredible success.
tbh that part about the 600 kids hit me hard enough even without explicit graphics
>4. An IT/corporate security department that is okay with them sending all of their keystrokes, login info, and browser data to a 3rd party service

Or just an IT/security department that is blissfully unaware of the shenanigans that some of its users are up to. Especially if people are accessing this from outside of the corporate network to start with.
...replicated or surpassed with 5 minutes of effort on any other browser.

You're pretending like this 5 minutes of effort won't have to repeated in the future.

Other viable add-on options are certainly available but in my experience, I have not found these to surpass the speed and ease of maintenance I get built-in with Brave.
Into the sun would be fine.

Launches would be risky, though, and it's easier to send off to deep space instead. An out-of-the-solar-system orbit is cheaper energy wise than an into-the-sun one.
> Did the Norwegian fishing (salmon farming) industry have a big part in the EU vs EEA decision?

We definitely have to split the Norwegian fisheries industry into two: Norway has, and has for a long time had, a sizable wild fishing industry. The fish farming industry is a much newer one.

I was a kid last time we had a referendum on membership (1994), so I'm not sure, but I believe the fish farming industry wasn't even a major thing back then. The classical fisheries industry definitely was a big part of the reasoning. Today, I would wager that opponents of full membership are mostly riding on the same vague of opaque euroskepticism that brought us Brexit, combined with the sickening idea that Norwegians are somehow magically special and exceptionally good at things. Granted, my personal views on the matter definitely color this take.

> From what I’ve seen lately about Norwegian Salmon farming I wonder if it would get past the EU regulations, if they even have any related to fish farming.

I doubt that would be an issue.

> Some documentaries even call it the worlds most toxic food.

I really wish people would stop spreading this unsubstantiated bullshit. I have no connection with or investments in fish farming, but this claim was making the rounds a few years back, and as far as I can tell it's a completely unsubstantiated smear. It keeps getting repeated, but trying to actually get to the source just reveals a tangled web of self-referential claims.

There's plenty of problems with fish farming without having to make up shit about "toxic food". The two biggest being the horrid effect the escaped farmed fish have on the natural populations (they carry different diseases and parasites that can wipe out whole rivers of salmon, for instance), and the effect of over-feeding on the nearby ecosystem (you dump enormous amounts of feed into a relatively small volume of water, and far from all of it is actually consumed by the farmed fish). In addition to this, the feed often comes from just as unsustainable sources as the worst of the "Amazon beef". Hopefully the latter can be fixed with transparancy and regulations, though.

Plenty of problems with fish farming without needing to fabricate new ones. But then again, it may be the only solution to prevent overfishing (if we want to keep eating fish, which is certainly better overall than eating beef).
Sadly Alpaca development has stopped. One of the reasons I started Gleam is that I was working on the Alpaca standard library and realised that the bugs I was reporting were not getting fixed.
I foresee micropayments being extremely common place in the future. Something like a digital wallet browser extension. And instead of paying 5p to watch a video, you will instead pay 5p to skip 3 minute ads.
Kinda off topic, there were like 3 submissions from sciencemag.org making the front page in the last 48 hours?

While I don't remember seeing the site that often in the past.

Someone's back reading the entire site and posting the interesting bits? :)
The 'debunk the debunkers' videos I've seen are hilariously, worst fringe of flat earth level wrong headed.

They very much reminded me of the attempts to 'debunk' SpaceX rocket landing videos as fake, all of which died out when they landed multiple rockets in daylight in front of tens of thousands of people.

IIRC one of the air force videos couldn't be readily explained, but that was just because there wasn't enough information in the video to calculate scale or relative motion, so it could have been anything. The other two were definitively explained.
WeWork’s S1 has distorted my ability to detect satire apparently.
https://github.com/pyston/pyston/wiki/Semantic-changes
> ignores the actual ethical problems (e.g. large-scale collection of personal information)

I find it ironic to see this brought up as the first example of problems, when this is exactly what Google's FLoC intends to solve. The same FLoC that has so vocally been rejected by HN recently.
The online ad business generally mystifies me. While an awful lot of the internet, especially the surveillance advertising part, looks to be the greatest misallocation of engineering (and other) talent in the history of the world, ya gotta ask about the efficacy.

The only reasonably accurate targeting I've ever run into is the occasional ad for something I just browsed on Amazon. I've never clicked on an internet ad. Youtube advertising might as well be targeted to an alien race. What in the hell keeps this whole business afloat at it's current level? Am I being programmed to buy that mechanic's vise because they threw up an after-the-browse ad?

No doubt there's some sort of backend telemetry that proves the value of all this trouble, but I just don't see it. Maybe the emperor really is nekkid.

edit: It may well be that the real marketing genius in the advertising industry is not it's value in increasing sales, whether it's old school print media/OTA/tradeshows or the newfangled spying-on-you internet variety, but in convincing it's customers of advertising's value. Anything beyond pushing you up a search engine's ranking strikes me as a sketchy proposition.
I didn't feel like hunting through my network for an invite, so I'm still waiting for my sms to sign up. They should have scaled their inviting quicker if they didn't want alienate people and lose them.
The paper where they introduce subsumption is "Michael Codish, Luís Cruz-Filipe, Michael Frank, and Peter Schneider-Kamp. 2016. Sorting nine inputs requires twenty-five comparisons. Journal of Computer and System Sciences 82, 3 (May 2016), 551–563." and I just realized that I lost the actual citation while editing my blog post, fixed that now.
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It is slightly more complicated than that unfortuantely...although the current nomenclature is more cargo cult than meaningful.

I could produce a physically smaller transistor, with a smaller gate, source, and drain. However, depending on the limitations of my process changes for scaling I may not actually be able to pack transistors more tightly. Notionally, the smaller transistor could use less energy which improves the chip design, but not be packed more tightly.

There is more than one way to improve a semiconductor at the feature, device, and chip level.

The node naming is a useful convention for the industry because saying something like '10nm' efficiently communicates historical context, likely technological changes, timelines, and other things that have nothing to do with the physical size of the devices on the chips.

It's basically a form of controlled vocabulary.
Since you brought it up, no, Chernobyl is not a good example of the risks of modern nuclear technology.
"Crazy new ideas"? A VC, Graham, is praising crazy new ideas?

After I sent some hundreds of emails to Silicon Valley, NY, and Boston venture capital firms with nearly no positive feedback and nearly no feedback at all, I concluded several points:

(1) VCs won't invest in, consider, look at, or pay attention to crazy new ideas. Might guess that one reason can be that when the ideas are deep technically the VCs don't have the expertise to evaluate them, but the VC rarely seek evaluations from technical experts either. Net, VCs don't want to invest in crazy new ideas and hardly value ideas at all.

(2) My best guess is that most of all VCs like to invest in traction already significant and growing rapidly. The traction most desired is after tax earnings, but also good enough can be pre-tax earnings, revenue, or just Web site traffic.

(3) VCs also like the traction to be in a big market.

(4) VCs also like a team of several founders: Maybe the VCs are afraid that a sole, solo founder would get into human relationship problems as their company grew, and the team of several founders helps alleviate that fear. Also with several founders, if the VCs don't like the CEO, then the VCs can fire the CEO and promote one of the other founders to CEO.

E.g., I have had at least two crazy new ideas for new businesses:

The first idea was new and much better than anything else for real-time monitoring of health and wellness of servers and networks. I had running code and some quite good results on a variety of real data. The idea would not have had the potential of building a company worth $10 billion but might have built one worth $500 million and, maybe, with more advanced versions of the product, continued to grow. I gave a talk at the main NASDAQ site in Trumbull, CT, but apparently no VC had any interest at all. So, I went ahead and published the work; so, at least it was good enough to pass peer review!

Second I have an idea, and 100,000 lines of .NET code apparently ready for at least initial production, for a huge market and that, if people like it at all, and there is various evidence they will, should be worth $10 billion, maybe 200 times that if I further develop the work and people around the world like it a lot, and there is some evidence they might.

The idea makes powerful uses of some poorly known and understood advanced pure math (maybe understood by fewer than 10 computer science professors in the whole world, and only a tiny fraction of pure math professors will look for or see the connection with computing or business) and some original applied math I derived likely beyond over 90% of computer scientists.

But apparently no VC in the country is interested at all. Same for YC, the NSF IIP, etc. But, and really I designed this project this way, I don't really need funding now and won't if the traction grows. I've had some delays from unpredictable outside interruptions but am about to return to the work.

I can believe: The $500 million is too small for VCs to care, and the 200 times $10 billion is too big for them to believe.
> Electronic viewfinders are fundamentally inferior in terms of the viewing experience [...]

I respectfully disagree with that. Current generation viewfinders have excellent resolution and very little lag, and while that will never be as perfect as an optical viewfinder, they do have the great benefit of being able to show you the image as it would be after exposure (so you can see which parts would be over or underexposed for example), and can overlay much more useful information.
How about making an open source benchmark chip. It could have sram, logic, io, etc. As part of releasing a node, manufacturers would port the benchmark chip.
> it's endlessly frustrating that there's no HN-like forum

There are communities like this, such as the crypto dev discord, the daily gwei discord, ethereum cat herders discord, etc. You're just in the wrong communities. That's like spending time on 4chan and saying "the internet sucks, it's filled with horrible people and no thoughtful discussions."
>But it is a reason to leave the company because you can easily get 10% or more switching jobs.

Depends on the company. Mine is 100% remote since COVID, has generous benefits, a strict 9-5 M-F culture, and plenty of interesting work to do as much (or as little) as I have an appetite for. I make maybe 10% under market rate, but it would take at least a 50% raise to get me to leave. That's never happening, as it would be well over what anyone short of FAANG would pay for a senior dev, so there are definitely intangibles about a work environment that are worth more to me than another $15-$20k a year.
Sane, rational people see things that aren’t really there all the time. I want proof, or else I’m positive that the answer is a) honest mistakes.

I mean, there are how many cell phones in the world now? And how many unambiguous pictures of aliens or ufo’s?
> were never supposed to be able to afford a house on that.

Cost of living isn't just "buying a house". It's housing, transportation, clothing, food, etc.

> your numbers are a touch high.

Nope. I just got a flier that mentioned that the average home price for a townhouse in Belgrade (a "suburb" of Bozeman (which itself only has roughly a 50k population), for those not local) is $765k.
I always wondered how you go from a thriving city to an 'ancient ruin'. A lot of cities in India have been continuously occupied for over 2000 years (Kalyan, Ujjain, Bharuch, Patna). A lot of them don't have any obvious ruins from that era (most old buildings tend to be from the medieval era or rock cut caves/temples/monasteries that were forgotten about in later eras) compared to a place like Hampi or Angkor (although both cities were abandoned in the medieval era).

My guess is that for a city to have relatively well preserved ruins, it has to be completely abandoned due to some calamity. If a city is continuously occupied, old buildings get incrementally replaced by newer buildings, and very few old buildings get preserved.

Even with Rome, my theory checks out. We have a lot of Roman ruins because Rome was heavily depopulated after the Roman empire collapsed. A lot of buildings were probably abandoned and then buried by dirt over time (like the Roman Forum). The only other preserved ruins were buildings that were repurpose d (Agrippa's Pantheon, Colessium, aqueducts, etc).
Fund and have a legacy devices and architecture team that takes over support when things become too rare or obsolete. Legacy that can build on or with stable or mainline without impacting current development. Vintage computing or even moderately-recent computing shouldn't be thrown under the bus to chase consumerism only.
Fair point. As we've seen there is due process and concerns as seen with some vaccines.
Biden would 100% be against it if it was an American company that held the patents. He'd say that we shouldn't throw the company that worked so hard to provide us with a vaccine under the buss just to save money.

Removing the patent doesn't save more people, just as many vaccines would get produced, it just shifts money from the company to the state that pays for the vaccine.
That founder naïveté, however, is also what often leads to founders winning. Building Stripe really seems like a schlep if you’ve built a payments company before - so much so that you might not want to do it. It’s hard, and annoying, and has all sorts of regulatory hurdles.

But if you don’t know any of that, you build it anyway, because schleps are really just long collections of much smaller problems, and naive founders can solve much smaller problems at a rapid succession, whereas “conservative industry experts” simply wouldn’t even start because it’s too hard.