skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You give devs more RAM and more cycles and they'll find a way to use them with inefficient languages, suboptimal code and shiny UI.

I'd go as far as saying that most devs do not want to use inefficient languages, write suboptimal code or program that new shiny UI. Quite to the contrary, but users and management demand most of those things just with other names.
Well, I can't speak for the person you are replying to, but think about a company like this (in general) - has something changed such that the new price (usually a drop) makes sense?

Take Amazon - down 15% or something. The virus is there yet, but is Amazon really worth 15% less? Won't people shop online? There's no way Amazon is going bankrupt, and there's no way that the U.S. would let companies like this fail over the virus, so is it really worth 15% less?

You don't have to time the exact moment of the bottom, you just find it once you see double digit loses in extremely good and valuable companies who are pulled down with the market. Airlines? Yea probably wouldn't have been an ideal buy, though if you waited long enough you've rebounded on them. But it seemed pretty safe to buy the big tech companies, Berkshire, etc. when they were experiencing double-digit percentage market losses over a likely temporary phenomenon.

Now, was it possible that things would have gotten much, much worse? Yea. So OP and myself could have been wrong, but instances like this are a bit of informed gambling, if you will.
I agree. A couple of years ago I answered an SO question about how to style a <meter> tag cross browser[1]. It is kind of ridiculous the amount of vendor prefix one must use to achieve this. At this point I would even just settle on a standard so that I could have autoprefixer do this for me.

Also both <progress> and <meter> would be an order of magnitute more usable if non-linear functions (such as sin(), cos(), pow(), exp(), etc.) were allowed as values in CSS transformation matrices so that I could use <meter> instead of <svg> when my designer wants the meter bar to look like a speedometer (which is a quite common, and a valid design choice).

1: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8094835/how-to-style-htm...
I don't buy this Sawmill BS/Supply side shortage. This industry is controlled by a handful of big players that used lobbying/tariffs to raise prices because they could, the pandemic is just an excuse. Timber is still being cut and arriving at sawmills, still being processed and shipped. Housing starts in the US and Canada are down, RENO's in Canada are up (because you can't afford to sell and buy). You can also attribute some of the rising cost to Inflation, it's coming at us in a big way. Look to see where the money is going and you'll find the folks who orchestrated this.
> The world is far larger than any one mind can handle.

^^ Never heard it phrased this way, but I like it.

Also see: "For with much wisdom comes much sorrow; the more knowledge, the more grief."

Ecclesiastes 1:18
>Any EU citizen in our out of country has their PII protected by EU law, regardless of who processes that data.

No, that's wrong.

First of all, the GDPR does not take in to consideration citizenship, at all. The Regulation targets location rather than nationality. In other words, if either the data subject or data controller are in the EU/EEA then the GDPR applies, even if the other party is not in the EU/EEA (The UK GDPR is the same, but replace "EU/EEA" with "UK").

Secondly, the GDPR regulates the use of Personal Data, not PII. PII is a US legal term and has multiple definitions. Personal data is a broader concept than PII.
IIRC they have the same artificial limit making them not all that useful. Redshift (or gammastep for wlroots waylanders) can go all the way red.
Biggest mind shift: Instead of asking why it wouldn't work, ask what would it take for it to work
The problem I immediately see is that you have to qualify your domain experts. If it's someone you personally know, perhaps it would apply - otherwise you're opening yourself pretty wide to domain experts out to scam you.
I'm always surprised that someone would go through the trouble of justifying their involvement in something prima facie unethical -- in writing, no less -- and fail to address the actual ethical issue. As other have noted in comments, the problem is not with advertising in general, but with the specific way in which Google advertises.

I have a hard time believing the author is unaware of this, so I'm left wondering: why? What was the point of this exercise? The result is closer to a self-indictment than an apology.
You might be interested in the second half of the post, starting with "But the biggest issue I see people raising is the privacy impact of targeted ads..."? Browsers are getting rid of third-party cookies, and Safari, Edge, and Chrome all have proposals for how ads can do many of the same things they do today without cross-site tracking.
The Cloud Native Glossary
Is GPGPU feasible on WebGL? Cpu mining isn't really profitable even if you have a big network of "users".
I'd argue Clojure has all 3

Stability - one of Clojure's core tenets.

Low language complexity - not much more than EDN and everything is an expression, plus a few extras like destructuring. Certainly simpler than any other language I have used.

Extensibility - again, one of Clojure's strong points with macros.

As for "Type systems removing the value of a repl" again, I disagree. Repl driven development is as much about exploring the problem than it is writing code.
BC is blocking off traffic from AB
Imagine not having to think about cross browser comparability. Customer wants to use internet explorer? Just head to ie.example.com, for a mighty version of a given website.
Depends how you define "solar system". I was taxing a maximal definition of the outermost region where the sun's gravity has a meaningful effect; but also, it wouldnt be 1000 light years, I agree.

A more relevant number would just be distance to nearest system with planets of a relevant type. Or, likewise, the distance between this and the nearest galaxy (25k light years).

Space is "big"; much much bigger than its maximal speed. Light is only fast "around here". Traversable space is tiny for everything; and minute for living things.
I think the key difference between a pytorch model and your browser is that you’re actively using and manipulating your browser and a pytorch model is a long running process without the need for second by second interaction.

And as you note the need for more power goes beyond a browser, IDEs, gaming, rendering, Bitcoin mining. Why just do it for the browser? You can, and some people do, remote into a more powerful machine for all of their work. This was the norm when terminals were true terminals. We could go back to this, but having your own computer historically had much larger benefits for people.
Nassim could argue that its a "greater fool machine", but its literally not a ponzi.
This is great. Companies should fear GDPR and should consider disabling data collection by default. Mission accomplished.
I generally agree. One thing to watch for though is that you are now competing against other developers that have lower cost of living and are willing to take lower pay.

As an example, you could live extremely comfortably on $100k in rural Appalachia as compared to some people on here complaining that $200k is low. Why wouldn't the company hire a similar developer from that area for basically half the cost? It's similar to companies outsourcing to lower cost countries.
maybe all the rioters will go back to flipping burgers and bagging groceries now.
Sibling comments already gave legal advice, but what I'd ask is: why would you want to?

If you are transparent about what tracking you do and don't do stuff that people don't want, all that's left is including some boilerplate text like "you have rights X, Y and Z and you can contact us at our@email" and you're GDPR compliant.

To me at least, 95% of GDPR compliance is just acting ethically.
Historically parodied as "One day the world will understand my true genius. And then you'll all be sorry!"

It's trivially easy to disprove. Just read some vintage issues of Byte to see an impressive number of not entirely crazy novel ideas from established domain experts which crashed and burned.

Of course some of these ideas - a minority - turned out to be successful. But a little digging shows success was not about the quality of the tech, and more the quality of the marketing, with some occasional monopolist strong-arming.

In fact this is very much the US model. Take an okay to good idea, hype it into the stratosphere with a massive marketing and brand recognition campaign, and sell it at an inflated price.

If you're lucky you can pitch it as a B2C Veblen lifestyle good or a B2B strategic corporate necessity. Win.

That's very different to debating the tech itself purely on intrinsic technical merits.

In a very literal sense it's a different argument happening in a different space. It's neither helpful nor clarifying to imply it isn't.
- Clojure without clj-kondo

- PHP without phpstan/psalm/phan

All bad ideas, modern tooling can detect errors in your code before you finish your code expression, but you do need to go out of your way to setup it up

Most people do not
and then complain about types instead of talking about static analysis

If you are ever coding Clojure you should be following this:
https://github.com/clj-kondo/clj-kondo/blob/master/doc/edito...
IBM 2nm chip breakthrough claims more power with less energy
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I don't think that is possible to be honest. I'd love it, but most sub optimal choices require extensive refactorings to work around. I'd love to be proven wrong though.
Not really since we do have DNA sequencing of prehistoric humans.

Whilst we don’t understand the correlation between genetics and intelligence on a sufficient level there aren’t that many genetic differences in fact you can’t necessarily distinguish the age of the sample that easily either unless you are looking at very specific groups.

And as far as modern hunter gatherers go we know that they aren’t less intelligent than urban humans.
* Tracking without consent

* Wasting large amounts of resources

* Potential security risks (js ads with malware is a thing)

* Potentially gathers a lot of data that could be abused by others

Contextual ads aren't _that_ bad, assuming they're simple enough to not run actual code on the client devices, and the clients can spare the bandwidth/resources in their end. Until that's universally true ads are a nuisance at best and actively hostile at worst.
Prices in Canada are just as high.
It would be better if you invested it in a way that made scarce things less scarce.
You are being unfair, its not any better then most HN articles, fits here just fine if you ask me
The most important thing is probably having that network in the first place, not just to offer referrals but to get good gigs yourself.

I know a few very experienced people who have looked into contracting or freelancing over the past year either for the first time or for the first round in many years. They have good skills and the aptitude to pick up whatever else they need, but without the broad network that comes with years of doing short term gigs, they've found the market very tough to break into. I doubt they would recognise the talk of a seller's market and ever-increasing rates that we see on sites like HN!

If you don't have that network and people actively seeking you out, you get stuck with looking via agencies (= ghosted often if you don't already have exactly the right buzzwords) or the online marketplaces (= low rates, poor quality clients and high risk of problems with the marketplace itself). And even if you do, I've seen more than one person whose whole network basically all fell apart around the same time because whole industries were hit by COVID.

Today even more than usual, it is about who you know as much as what you know.
Put 1 year worth of living expenses in a savings account for emergencies, and don't touch it unless you have an emergency or lose your source of income. Make sure you're maxing out your 401k and other long term savings vehicles, and then, spend your extra money on investments, that is, things that will earn you more money with less work.
Sometimes they really don't care. My favourite is a corp which always pays on the last possible date - they managed to miscalculate holidays one day and get one of their large office buildings disconnected from the grid for non-payment - possibly offsetting all the money they gained on delays with that lost productivity.
Russias' New Tactic to Deter Dissent: CCTV and a 'Knock on the Door,' Days Later
The point of this is to have a simple heuristic to look at when filtering what might be become big in the future. There is no way to measure luck.

Timing would be hard, but I could think of some general ideas (behavior changes when theres a pandemic, assuming certain trends will go forward, etc)
Crypto has no social value? I'm not in the space, but I think crypto has immense social value.
I don't have a theory - I was pointing out our lack of concrete insight into the processes that drive performance. Literally, we do not know how cognition works, so any concept we have regarding its management is based on a set of assumptions and approximations.

Going to the same school and having the same parentage does not mean you have the same experience. Heck, you could be twins, raised identically at identical schools and with absolute equity, and you'd have differing experiences (leading to differences in perspective and subsequently differences in thinking).

To be clear: I am not saying I know either way, but I also reject any notion based on the assumption that we have a strong grasp on how minds work. As such, it would behoove us to implement strategies that are not subject to strong feedback loops - that might have an amplifying effect on the initial conditions of a human life.
Czarist Russia had what amounted to slaves -serfs, who had very few rights and were bound to their lords.
Similar issues are in play, but exceptions are generally more difficult to judge.

Arguing that the limit for arsenic in drinking water should be lowered is very different than arguing the limit should be removed. The first needs a detailed analysis to judge, where the second comes down to more fundamental ideas.

Further, if the power is limited to removing legislation then similar rules can be added if it becomes obvious their needed.
Damn... I was planning to build a deck this summer and was optimistically hoping/assuming composite prices didn’t go up too. Thanks for sharing this.
No, it isn't simple at all.

You described yourself as extremely self-centered and you didn't seem to notice that you did so. I'm wondering if you are one of those people who seem to only ever use the left side of their brain. You can function in the role of a father in this mode but don't expect your kids to take care of you when you're old if you never respect their opinions and desires. I'm reaching out to you because what you wrote seem tragic to me.

Applying human sensibilities to the result of an evolutionary process is not going to capture all its intricacies because evolution re-uses systems with no regard to taxonomy. Because of this you are for example unable to tell the difference between anxiety and gas trapped in your stomach, or tension in your neck and stress from work. There is no duality which lets us separate mind and body, and apparently people can get so out of tune with their own body, mind and emotions that physical numbness results.
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Well, not never.

Slavery absolutely existed in mainland France under the Romans. The coronation of Charlemagne made the popes feel empowered to order Christians to stop enslaving other Christians or selling the latter outside Europe. Believe it or not, Venetian slave traders used to kidnap civilians in Rome and sell them to the Arabs. The growing influence of the papacy lead to the gradual replacement of chattel slavery by serfdom around the tenth century. Finally, in 1315, bonded labor was abolished in France by Louis X, proclaiming that "France means freedom".

A similar process transpired in England, with slavery abolished by William the Conqueror and serfdom dying out in the fifteenth century as courts refused to enforce the contracts.

Unfortunately, all of this brilliant progress was undone in a desperate Europe facing a massive Ottoman invasion at the dawn of American colonization which led Popes and Emperors to authorize horrific measures, that ultimately corrupted the European conscience and led to a new era of slavery and genocide.

The Ottomans cannot carry all the blame, but remembering that "we" (qua the West) built our system of racism from a position of weakness may help persuade some people to let it go away. I think. Who knows?
Seems like the privacy implications of this are not worth it for any serious company.

I was watching Rudy Giuliani yesterday on youtube, talk about how the FBI accessed and monitored his iCloud account for over a year. Which included his privileged lawyer/client information. If they can do that to a president's lawyer, while he's defending the president. They can do it to anyone.
5 year old enterprise hardware is only now leaving its warranty cycle.

10 year old laptops can take either 8 or 16 GB RAM and have at least 2 cores + hyperthreading. It'll not just run perfectly, but it'll run even the most bloated Linux distributions or Win 10 just fine.
Those are interesting questions! For example generating and looking at all networks of optimal size which have distinct circuits (assuming unlabeled inputs, so that rearranging those doesn't count as distinct) is something I still want to do at some point. Extending my search to produce this wouldn't be too complicated... but I haven't found the time for this so far.
In Kerala the all-cause mortality decreased from 2019-2020[0] - something you could observe in Germany as well. Kerala is said to be more advanced than other states in India, however it lends some credence to the official numbers.

[0]: https://health.kerala.gov.in/pdf/Technical-paper-All-Cause-M...
Hong Kong activists handed jail terms over banned Tiananmen Massacre vigil
Same effect: As a bike it is dangerous to go at the green light. If there is a gap, going at the red light makes that you can ensure all dangers are addressed; At the green light you are in the middle of the traffic, cars are turning right without seeing you, or go straight but squeeze their right, or you end up between two lanes.
Common Lisp is my go-to language, but I also like Haskell and Clojure. To me, Haskell is a Lisp, and supports REPL driven development.
Explaining ullage volume collapse (2015)
In other words, all of the provinces are getting it equally, but most of the demand is in the big cities, esp. the GTA area where like 40% of Canadians live.
I have to agree, I suspect the culture of mandatory 8 hours a day 5 days a week leads to a massive amount of wasted work hours put in just to fill the time (when considered across everyone in society who works under such conditions). It's a net loss for society as a whole.
I believe Glassdoor has a market rate calculator. Plug in your numbers in SF, compare to your current pay resulting in percent higher or lower. Then plug in the numbers for Miami and adjust accordingly. That should give a rough idea.

Of course you may want to ask your company for a figure before moving to see what they come up with. After all, that's the number that will matter.
Complexity, Problem Solving, and Sustainable Societies (1996)
Tangentially related (satire):
http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/

>"Good design is as little design as possible."- some German motherfucker
> the threat of death or injury (deactivating the airbag) is being used as a motivator to lower default rates.

Come on, man, that is unreasonably hyperbolic and simply not true. They do exactly the opposite of that and design the product and ensure the buyer that accidental injury/death is not possible unless they’re not paying and willfully ignoring payment notifications and willfully ignoring the power-on state of the vest. The financing model is that you can have the thing if you pay for it, like all other products including all other safety products in the world.

> Financing is dealt with by a bank

Aren’t most car and motorcycle financing plans executed at the dealership by the dealer? (Just looked it up, and yes, two thirds of new cars are dealer financed... also called “captive financing”) Maybe I should, but I’ve never actually gone to a bank first before buying a car.

> invasive tracking [...] personal items tracked

Looks like the goal posts have just moved pretty far. Sure, I’m worried about tracking too. This isn’t what we were talking about, and tracking doesn’t compromise safety. Tracking isn’t new and isn’t related to the financing model of this airbag vest, right? It feels like you’re rationalizing now.
I don’t disagree it amounts to answering a question, and it’s easy to say it’s not a burden.

But on the ground it can be a tremendous burden, we are talking about people who may be avoiding calls because it’s creditors, we are talking about people who don’t have a phone (it’s impossible for most in power to even acknowledge there are people without a phone or even the continuity of continuous phone service - they point to a FCC pledge carriers signed not to do that, but the carriers have do it anyway).

There are many reasons this larger demographic of hidden workforce is not included in the BLS surveys to any meaningful degree, certainly the homeless are not, which I don’t believe in the homeless numbers either, or maybe more diplomatically I should say I believe they are political numbers.

Just as a example, early on we heard politicians discussing mortgages and rent, evictions protections, but once the lawmakers passed the stimulus have you heard any meaningful discussion about any of that? Pre pandemic there were 1M student loans defaulted per year, a long standing trend of adults living at home with parents in record numbers.

Before any of it can be addressed it needs to be acknowledged, it doesn’t help when both sides of the two party political system have consistently taken credit for record unemployment and record stock markets, or eviction protections or FCC pledges to waive late fees and not cut of service, it’s not all fake but it is fake to a meaningful degree. Again we saw something similar with the 2008 bank bailouts and the HAMP and HARP programs, I worked for a law firm briefly that tried to help people and we did to an extent, but for the most part maybe 80% it was banks saying you didn’t submit the paper work, we don’t have it, for months while simultaneously forging ahead in foreclosure cases often with fraudulent documents. To this day politicians champion those programs pointing to a return of the loans with interest, not once addressing the very real systemic problems, fraud and human costs.
1. Good points. There is no better alternative available.

2. There are worst jobs to have like working for the auto industry.

3. He's definitely a better person than I am with better values. Who gives 50% earned to charity?
He has a different essay explaining the Stripe founders were not experts at all when they started. I think there's multiple paths to success and change