skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> they gave each language a different Cyrillic orthography than the rest to fragment them even further

That doesn't seem correct to me. Different languages require different orthographies because they have different phonetics. Compare the Latin script when used for English to German to Vietnamese to Turkish. Same thing with the Arabic script with Persian and Urdu. When tailored orthographies aren't used, the written representation becomes a poor representation of speech. Though even then it might not have been a perfect fit in the first place, requiring digraphs or diacritics. Or the spoken language can diverge.
Oh man I was an intern at a defense contractor, and that ITAR training is no joke. I'm surprised stuff like this still happens after all of those videos they force feed you.
Computer science is nowhere near its maturity as a whole. It needs more people with ethics and empathy. We've seen what has happened without that factored in; we're living in it.

Innovation as a goal sounds noble initially, but in my experience it's like chasing the wind. Faithfully doing what is already known to be good seems better for everyone. It might even be the quicker road to innovation.
Some things are better, some worse. Highlights for unused code or imports is imho worse in vscode/metals and refactoring isn't as easy. But running tests for me has always been much faster. Not sure if you can use bloop with intelij but incremental compilation is much better in vscode.
Twitter will let you give someone money as a 'tip' for their tweets
When I was about 17, I worked with a chartered surveyor (aka géomètre) on digitizing the whole path from Lille to Paris (france) and use the "computer" to split the polygons that were digitized by a team of people using "cadastres" (official, high definition paper maps).

The polygons were entered by a team of people, from the map into a small serial-to-file program, and that file was then fed to a Hypercard stack that did the polygon intersection...

...To was to be the path of the Eurostar Lille<->Paris. The land in the middle was expropriated, sometime leaving landowner with bit of land they could not reach as the next "bridge" back to it was 20 miles away!

Anyway, I used hypercard back then for a multitude of reasons at the time. It had "plugins" to read/write stuff, it had pretty good interface, it allowed code to very easily detect errors in the digitizer input, and allowed a very, very rough preview of what the "cut" would look like.

I did quite a few cool projects in my career, but every time I drive at 300km/h on the eurostar to paris, I take a little extra pride into thinking I "did" that :-)
What a horrible article - the tech startup world is booming and ML, amongst other things, will create vast opportunities. This is the same drek I heard back in the early 2000s after the dot com bust. Literally heard people say, "I think all the great ideas in tech have already happened."

Most of the time when someone is saying something that amounts to "I can't imagine what else we could make", it's a failure of their imagination that's the problem.
I don't believe that's correct.

The hair cells in our inner ear are activated in response to specific frequencies, virtually identical to how an FFT operates.

There is then further processing attached to that, in the same way that we perceive colors rather than cones directly in our vision. With audio, we need to collapse entire series of overtones into a fundamental frequency with a timbre (color).

And specifically in the experiment linked, it's showing how the ear intelligently restores the missing fundamental.

But I don't believe there's any biological/neurological evidence to support that the ear detects periodic repetitions of an overall waveform, and that this explains the missing fundamental. To the contrary, how our hearing works biologically suggests that we are indeed performing something like FFT, but then applying sophisticated pattern recognition on it -- on the "FFT", not on the waveform.
> Alpha’s loosey-goosey memory model makes multithreaded code on SMP systems more challenging.

I thought Alpha and ARM were the same with respect to that.

ARM had some fairly nasty to track down XFS file system corruption bugs for quite a while for exactly this reason.

The issue has always been that x86 goes out of its way to generally be more forgiving than the spec.
This is a cool idea! I downloaded it. I didn’t realize it’s kind of a mystery of who can call. Seems fun.

1.One thing that stopped me from continuing was making an account. I want to login with my phone number, and preferably use Google Voice

2. My biggest gripe is that I have to invite my friends.
Also, it should be stressed that being forced to be immersed in "office culture" is something that is not in the interests of some employees (somewhere between "most" and "all"?)

I mean, who really cares about all-hands and fireside chats and musings from a random higher-up regarding random facts? Are they better than being close to your loved ones or your pets or wear slippers or even vaccum a room? Get a camera and post them in your blog. Don't force a small army of people to sit around being force-fed whatever thing you have to say.
Signals two day outage with zero explanation killed a lot of their momentum at least with my contacts. Few months later 80% are back on whatsapp.

Honestly after what Signal pulled with hiding their server code for a year to implement mobilcoin and still not releasing some parts of their code, Im fine with WhatsApp
One obvious synergy that comes to mind (if the base stations won't have to be geographically fixed) is to stream raw video from all cameras from all Teslas.

Both for sentry mode (antitheft) and autonomy training.

Of course it would be regulatory nightmare.
Apparently I am not alone in having this reaction: https://www.thedailybeast.com/washingtonian-ceo-catherine-me...
How to use Matrix:

1) Download app
2) Sign in

How to use Signal:

1) Download app
2) Sign in
Kinematics wise, the J20 and Su-57 are already better in every single way to the F35.

Where they lag behind isn't range or power, but (maybe for the J20) in stealth.
Well, you make some good points, but obviously there has to be a line somewhere, right? GPS and Weather sattelites are very different because of their positioning in space and there's far fewer of them. It's just the sheer scale of Starlink that's concerning - 42k satellites in maximum configuration!

So of course it isn't about not allowing any global externalities - but this one feels incredibly lopsided. GPS benefits everyone, at a very low externality cost. Starlink benefits the lucky wealthy few(and I am talking about the subscribers here, not just the owners), at an absolutely huge externality cost. Is it worth it? You say that it is, I don't - I don't know where the line is here, but I don't think it's where Elon Musk thinks it is.
Fuzzing High-Level Synthesis Tools
Hmm, the richest country in the world just failed to build an app where you can schedule appointments. Tech might be easy for some people, but there is still a lot of room for innovation in this field.
I love Amazon as much as the next guy but I do think they are doing something....just the other day I got one of those "free 5G" phones from T-Mobile and thought about getting a case for it...well I got a $5 case on Amazon and when the item arrived it had the nice little card about "leave a 5 star review; we mail you a $5 Amazon Gift Card"...well cheap ass me tried to provide my review (I had already installed the case) but the site did not allow me to submit a review for the first 2 days after I received it...so I guess this is some sort of deterrent right? It did the trick for me, I'm happy with the case but I haven't bothered to try to submit a review again
Not the poster you were replying to, but I’ve come to the same conclusion and here’s my not-particularly-rigorous reasoning:

It seems to be equal parts users stuck in a local maxima of computing skill and how that enables lax software engineering standards.

When’s the last time you’ve sat down with a user who isn’t remotely interested in tech and watch them work/use a computer? Most of the population’s mental model of a computer is starkly different to the average hacker news reader. You can still hear the same complaints about how computers “don’t do what i want it to do” that i remember my parents generation saying, and they were experiencing the first waves of computerisation in their offices.

The story became that the older generation just couldn’t understand the new generation, but kids are amazing with computers because they’re growing up with them. Well, some of those kids are just as hopeless. It’s partly an education problem (hard to learn computing from a teacher who doesn’t understand it themselves), and partly because UI design trended to simplifying everything as much as possible so that users who don’t understand computing can still enjoy and use their devices. Now there’s not a great incentive to learn more than you need to just use the UI you’re given, and computing skill tends to get stuck in this local maxima.

I won’t go on about my other point in detail as it’s a perennial favourite for hacker news discussion. But hardware gets faster so quickly, but our software is so hastily thrown together that it eats up all the gains. Users don’t notice that software they’re using is crap because their mental model of computing isn’t developed enough to know what’s happening. Instead we get this casting of devices as somewhat malevolent entities (“ugh, my stupid computer keeps losing my stuff. I need to buy a new one that isn’t so dumb”)

We use to think this would be resolved with time and generational change, but it seems like there’s just a more-or-less static percentage of the population that just doesn’t get computers. (Which is completely understandable, people have different interests, it’s hard to inculcate an appreciation of something in your entire population, look at peoples relationships with mathematics)
And yet the only possibilities you managed to generate were variants of "but it definitely somehow escaped from a lab".

You're not taking a logical position, you're starting from one conclusion "it was a Chinese lab!" and iterating around that, for the sole reason that the only reason the lab is being considered was the usual suspects of conspiracy theory began pushing "Chinese bioweapon" from the outset (and we all know bioweapons require labs, so one had to be found).
Not Google Glass level AR, but this is posted upthread:

https://james.darpinian.com/satellites/?special=starlink
You are of course completely correct. I downplayed the network effect that drives the ability of these companies to say "screw you peon...accept whatever crap we shovel on you or your grandma's IMs get it".
The "in your state" bit in the blurb sounds like the author might be suffering from a misunderstanding:

Licensed attorneys in other states can act as in house council in California: https://www.courts.ca.gov/cms/rules/index.cfm?title=nine&lin... They have to register with the state.

Depending on your origination is doing and what services the attorney is providing this might be completely reasonable.
You might be forgetting the F-22... and only one of the three F-35 variants has VTOL capability.
>> The app store is just wget and an install command.

> This is absurdly false.

Forgive me, it's wget, a checksum check, and then install command.
It /did/ used to be provided by communities. Funerals are traditionally handled by the church, an arrangement which seemed to work for a long time and doesn't contain the dilemma of impersonal and potentially exploitative interactions that entail commercial transactions. Communities have specialisations too. Unfortunately the community seems to be dying with the secularisation of society which only leaves government and business to tackle things.
The F-22 is not in production anymore, clearly the US decided its advantages are not that important.

That being said, it might surprise you to learn the J20 is more powerful than the F22 with a slightly longer range and an almost identical dry weight.

All of the F35 variants are hampered by the necessity for vertical takeoff. Commonality between the three planes is incredibly high and tradeoffs crossfeed.
Twitter says "This is not available to you." Was this deleted, or does Twitter just not let the public see anything at all anymore?
Material Bank Raises $100M to Source Architectural and Construction Products
The article skips over the sadder part of Kagi going abruptly out of business, setting app authors scrambling to find another payment provider with no advance warning, and, I think, ultimately paying them less than they were owed for the last 1-2 months of Kagi's existence.

https://tidbits.com/2016/08/04/kagi-shuts-down-after-falling...
I really ought to reread my comments during the edit window... That second paragraph...
No remote positions :/ That's a shame. Would have loved to apply.
> Funerals are traditionally handled by the church,

You're somehow assuming that a religious organization does not operate as a corporation, even down to the invoices.
‘It’s Not Quite Like Riding a Bike’: Pilots Get Ready to Fly Again
I’ve read that data + power can share a wire at 48v, powered Ethernet.
Which is an excellent article. I just fail to see how you think it's inconsistent with the numbers in the IHME story above or their methodology. Lots of these confounding factors are expressly enumerated. I mean, do experts like the authors of that OWiD article find the same fault with IHME that you do? Can you cite some making similar criticisms?

Again, I get the distinct feeling that you're arguing with methodology here not because there's anything particularly suspicious with IHME at all, but because the conclusion (that the US is approaching 1M covid deaths, something that should surprise no one) is politically inconvenient.
Just onboarding a skilled/experience new team member has been painful all around. There is so much you can get in a traditional in person whiteboarding session, or that one has developed the skills to teach in person. I think much of the issue comes from communication limitations or lack of skills in remote communication. That could be as simple as a senior member with 30 years of xpeirence teaching someone in person and can read body language to understand when to slow down or go over a topic again. Without that feedback source they lose a major component of their effective teaching style. Even checking work or notes can take 2-5x the time, swapping presenters or losing side by side comparison from two different views. Anecdotally, I've found it easy to get lost in what I'm presenting and forget to slow my sentences for clarity over an often poor call or connection and some of the people I work with are not even able to view meetings at home due to poor internet access.

To your point, I hope students today are learning how to learn/communicate/perform at home and building the skills required to do so in the field or these issues will be compounded after graduation. It's super easy to slip under the radar or just get by, in many cases it was like that before the pandemic. I think there will soon be lists of interview questions related to how one coped with the challenges of learning/working from home, what difficulties thy overcame, and how they did so as an individual/team/company. It's not like I'll be at a vendor conference to compare those notes with other people any time soon.
My late-nineties elementary school computer class was mostly devoted to learning about and building a project in Hypercard on the school's Mac Classic fleet. The project was to build a "house" of our own design with each room being a card or collection of cards - and to allow movement between them by clicking on doors, windows, etc. like a LucasArts adventure game.

It wasn't expected that your house be based in reality, so some people went further with this than others by adding animations or hidden-object like game elements. I remember it being a lot of fun and something that seemed accessible to everyone regardless of experience with computers.

I hadn't put it together until right now, but I wonder how much that experience influenced my eventual educational and career path (among many other factors). It really was my first experience with creating something interactive on the computer, not quite programming in the way I do now but getting those same gears turning.
I've heard both go in both directions. Hell, I've said both depending on the diagram I'm pointing at when I say it. It's not that universal
This sounds similar to something I had for years. I would get a left side migraine every couple months for 3-4 days. Other times I would have a regular headache in various areas, like behind the left eye. The occasional nausea was a symptom too.

I would also get pin prick pain somewhere on my face, usually cheek or nose. It ended up being one of the cervical vertebrae were out of place, and once it was put back I never had an issue again. So I wouldn't be surprised if it's a pinched nerve or similar neck issue in your case.
The design and colors of the Compass keyboard would make an excellent model for a reproduction keycap set.
It's 2021. You have a petabyte drive on your keychain... (2011)
> we're on a mission to disrupt the currently siloed Silicon industry

What's your FLOPS target?
Rich people getting upset lol
It's not the most advanced IDE but it's good enough that I almost always use it when writing in Racket. Pretty much everything in the editor is set up so that languages implemented in Racket automatically get to take advantage of it which is really cool.

The repl is about on par with readline but with fancier output. Stuff like images and what racket calls "snips" are directly displayed in the repl. Snips implement their own rendering and interaction handling so you can do stuff like animation, plot charts, display an interactive map, etc. What I feel like it's missing is a way to collapse output/results like the console in firefox/chrome does and a way to reference the previous results (beyond just hitting the ctrl+up keybind) like in ipython.

There's a solid debugger and a tool to show each step of macro expansion if you need that while writing macros. Package manager is integrated into the editor. Autocomplete, syntax highlighting, auto indent/reinvent are all present and are fine.

It's got a bunch of little nice things like when you mouse over an identifier it draws an arrow to the where it was bound or required from a module. The reverse works too so you mouse over a binding/require and get arrows showing all the occurences. Another little thing is that it will automatically input the correct closing paren depending on context so if you're typing "(foo [bar (baz" and you then type ")" three times it'll input ")])".
I remember that Ygdrassil Linux Bible. That and Slackware floppies was how I first installed Linux. The book was mostly a compilation of free howtos and books but still useful in printed form.
In a world where you rent computers by CPU time and RAM usage, enterprises that grow large enough find significant cost savings by implementing high-volume services in more resource-efficient ways.

Users in this space also appreciate Rust's reliability properties. They say things like "It's never my Rust services that set off my pager, and that makes me happy."
Historically Canada didn't really protect itself against foreign adversaries performing IP Theft. They might be based there due to the lax immigration system. [0] [1]

[0] https://globalnews.ca/news/7275588/inside-the-chinese-milita...

[1] https://www.blogto.com/city/2013/01/that_time_toronto_went_s...
To me it seems like protocol buffers are a serialisation format while Smithy is just an idl used to describe services.

The services are free to serialize the data in any way be it json, XML or even protocol buffers.

So Smithy is more comparable to OpenApi than Protocal buffers.
I would argue against the statement that all 'truly high talented people' (whatever that may mean) will leave Europe because the salaries are too low. At least in Academia I know plenty of smart people happily working away in Europe. I suppose it may well be different outside of academia, but not every (smart/talented) person in the world has a high salary as their #1 priority. To me, and to many of my friends/acquaintances, quality of life is also extremely important. I would rather, in the long term, live in a economically and politically stable country with good public (health) services and receive mediocre payment, than to receive high payment but with poor quality of life.
Well...when fire's everywhere, I'd get out of dodge too... (I write this from Utah which also catches fire frequently...but what do I know, lol).
So the initial corporate customers we talked to just want something that plays 1080p videos and is passable at 3D
graphics. Currently, the GPGPU hits at around 25GFLOPS peak performance on an ARIA FPGA. We're targeting GF12nm - some
back of the envelope calculation put us at 125GFLOPS for actual silicon implementations.
True, but not just direct, it's comparatively instant. You might spend years or even a decade bringing a medication or medical device to market, but you can create many types of software in months, or see a return on investments in a short time too.
Yeah, RSE is probably the term you’ll see in job ads
Gödel's Solutions to Einstein's Field Equations
The more people I meet the less I sure I am how to teach.
Charging money does not make something a corporation. Though I'm aware of the financialised nature of some American churches, I'm talking from a British perspective where that isn't the case (as far as I am aware, I don't personally attend church).

Either way, I don't think there's as much moral hazard if you're charging someone at cost as part of a communal service, compared to trying to squeeze as much profit as possible out of grieving families.
Again - we're not going for 3070GTX performance levels here.
We plan to disrupt industry by being the first production grade open source GPU implementation ever.
What type of doc found that ? And was it found with an MRI or X-Ray, or just by feel?

I had an MRI that showed nothing unusual. I've never seen a chiropractor.

If someone found something out of place and put it back, and solved my issue, I would be the happiest person on Earth for a while.
You misspelled "IRC"
Are you on mobile? I find that twitter can be quite uncooperative to those who aren't logged in on mobile.
California, land of the homeless and over-taxed. Spending will not go down even though companies are leaving the state.
Redis vs. Memcached – 2021 Comparison (Infographic)
> I predict that HN is no better at predicting success than average

I can't fully agree on this. In a fair game (coin toss) your chances are just that, average. In a game where your experience, network and wealth can influence the outcome, things can be different. This is common in the enterprise market.

In the consumer market (which isn't more fair, but just works differently), that model fails miserably, that's where we start seeing the failures of the predictions and bets made.

What I see happening, is the vested parties (VC, Founders, investors) trying to cherry pick data points (from both markets), and then bragging about how they are good at predicting in both markets, but when you add in more data you see, that is not the case.