skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The benefit is scoped everything (styles, JS, templates). So that when your site grows, and you start erasing functionality because you created something better, you can actually erase the entire functionality with confidence, and not have some stuff hanging around because nobody is sure what it's used for.

I have personally not built anything for the web using components, so I don't know how much they satisfy that promise in reality. But that's the promise.
>A better approach is to remove subsidies from their dirtier competitors.

I see this argued a lot for many industries, has it ever actually happened for any of them? It doesn't seem realistic, but I'd love to be wrong.
The thing is I'm sure the story of Queen would've been interesting enough without slightly exaggerated things like dramatizing how they came up with We Will Rock You in the space of about 20 seconds. We came out of the cinema chuckling and were dumbfounded when it got awards.
Something that isn’t PTSD inducing would be better lol
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Having and acting on "Pet Peeves" in the workplace is about as unprofessional as one can get.
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"Inspired by the real world": The writer has heard some stories and made up another interesting one. That is definitely the weakest one, and the default that doesn't need to be stated usually.
It’s not an easy migration.

1. Banks and other stakeholders subscribe to binary formats of price data. Making this change means forcing everyone to update. And those subscribers are paying customers who will likely be against this change.

2. These are old codebases with likely many uses of 32 bit prices, and if written in C/C++, conversion from int is particularly hard because those languages like to automatically cast to int without a warning (so you can’t rely on compiler errors to tell you what you have left to fix).

3. These are performance critical systems. Adding an extra 32 bits of all zeros (or, all zeros 99% of the time) means you slow everything down for one special case.

I’m not saying it cannot be done, but I can see being very pissed at any company who makes you do tons of work for their marketing trick. (Surely a 200k stock is just as out of reach from the average person?)
Two weeks ago you said:

> Sorry to repost. This was up for 20 mins last week then got taken down by the moderators (I think because there was a waitlist). We've removed the waitlist and would be grateful for feedback.

But it looks like the waitlist is back...
Despite the sarcasm, I think your comment makes a really good point. People have lenses and biases that really make it difficult to objectively evaluate the actions of politicians/administrations independent of their like for the individuals in charge and other unrelated actions said politicians may have done.
Half a million fewer children? The coming Covid baby bust
This is not unusual.

It also complies with law as long as the entire staff have access to the same perks as the doctor.

Morally ambiguous, but certainly within the law.

I can tell you most rank and file really love this
It's a fair point, and I too have a tendency to get annoyed at politically motivated language drift. But it's a thing that happens, and it's been happening since the dawn of time, and I'm personally pessimistic that there's much that can be done about it. Might as well curse a puddle for being muddy.

There's a lesson to be learned here. I wasn't there, of course, but, based on reading this article, it seems that arguing semantics was possibly Singer's single biggest tactical error in that meeting. There were much more pressing issues at play, and choosing such a banal hill to die on sent a strong message to at least some portion of the staff. Perhaps not one that he would have wanted to send if he had taken the time to count to ten before opening his mouth.

It's like in that Hacker News commenting guideline: "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."
Nuclear + Solar + Wind + Storage + Hydrogen + Biogas + Small hydro. Subsidize all of the above to the point that they are on an even playing field of coal and O&G (who are heavily subsidized).

To everyone's point removing subsidies is politically challenging (especially as this is almost a red / blue state issue) - however subsidizing something else so that it has a competitive advantage is essentially the same thing albeit the money flow is a bit different.

Edit: Why is this getting downvoted so much without any negative comments? weird...
If it's a 1950s-1960s design, it's probably best to let it close, or be retrofitted.
Yup, I end all my searches with either reddit or stackoverflow/stackexchange. Google has become worthless. Any query like "best xxx" doesn't return anything meaningful.
Maybe on Facebook but Twitter will suspend your account if you post verbatim statements from Trump as they consider it circumventing their ban: https://www.politico.com/news/2021/05/04/trump-website-faceb...

> A Twitter spokesperson told POLITICO in a statement Tuesday that sharing content from Trump's new site — "From the Desk of Donald J. Trump" — generally "is permitted as long as the material does not otherwise violate the Twitter Rules."

> But, the spokesperson said, sharing posts from the site will break Twitter's rules against ban evasions if users try to imitate Trump's account and their "sole intent is to replace a suspended account."

So they're effectively saying you can only link to it if you disagree with it.
Cars can already be stopped when stolen, it has been available for many years I think, it's not about Tesla or self-driving.

The new thing with some current and most future cars is that everything will be controlled by a computer that has software that is connected to internet and even Wi-Fi, which makes it prone to "computer hacks" we know so well.

From that point, the problems being faced come from both worlds: car world (stealing, accident, ...) and computer world (access to location or cameras, ransomware, ...).
> If you can memory-hole a president of the United States

So whilst I understand your point of view, I think there is wider context that needs to be factored in here.

That aside, A network provider needs to enforce its own terms of services equally. In practice nobody does this, but Twitter and facebooks inaction for clear violations of their terms of service undermines their points operating fairly.

Facebook failed to act when Trump and others (of all political styles) decided to lie about voting, the mechanics of voting, and validity of voting. That is a clear violation of its community guidelines. It turns out that there are secret rules for politicians (basically they can do what they like.) This is wrong

Twitter failed to uphold it's ToS when allowing trump to issue threats to use nuclear weapons on north korea.

Had the ToS been applied equally, lots of politicians and pundits would have been kicked off years ago.

The issue is fairness. We accept the law, because on the face of it, its applied equally. As soon as that facade drops, people begin to reject it.

> It turns out that the people who moderate the network wield unimaginable power.

Yes, and this is nothing new. Just look at the power that news barons had. before that pamphleteers. In reality freedom of speech in the broadcast sense only applies to the rich, or the friends of the rich.
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It's not your fault, and besides, I received a more recent reply to one. These are heated topics that likely won't be resolved on HN comments sections.

Edit: I read your edit. It appears that in your mind, comments that disagree with you resemble a Twitter flame war, and comments agreeing with you are well articulated and thoughtful. In reality, your comments are just as negative and one-sided as the others you disparage.
It seems obvious that AWS simply doesn't want you as a customer if you need to implement spending limits. We've all talked about having customers that were too much trouble for the value they bring. Customers with hard spending limits are those customers for Amazon.
Having been a teen not that long ago, I've definitely seen camera photos of 100+ mph on a physical speedometer posted to social media. I don't see the difference here.
Or how politicians pass bills, then get $7M in "speaking fees" for delivering a talk for the group that benefits most from the bill.
> But I don't begrudge their ability to get word out for their product or service

I do because in 99% of cases it's a deliberate waste of my time and attention.

> Everyone who says anything has that same conflict of interest.

I don't think so. The information I receive from friends and peers is far more trustworthy. With marketing, I get selective truths at best.

Lots and lots of people on this site admit to adding "reddit" to their searches when looking for product reviews. Why? Because they don't trust marketers. We want real information from real people with real experiences, not some paid-for narrative. We especially want to know the risks, the negatives and the cons, precisely the kind of information marketers want to bury.
Does this make him a better or worse con man?
What supports your belief that China are pushing this to become normal, as opposed to not being already the norm?

A closer look at some of the large objects which has re-entered[1] as well as a few cases of incidents[2] and their origins, suggests the USA together with USSR then Russia normalised this practice decades ago.

Edit: A natural consequence of them being the first and largest players in the game of slinging large objects into orbit.

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[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_reentering_space_debri...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_debris#On_Earth
So a typical linear algebra courses wouldn't cover solution methods (outside of a few basic ones like Gaussian decomposition or LU factorization) because those methods are usually covered in courses with names like "numerical computation" or "scientific computation". These courses go into depth on solutions for Ax = b, including the Moore-Penrose pseudoinverse, among others. Turns out computing solutions for Ax = b is a deep subject.

Just a note for others listening in that the Moore-Penrose pseudoinverse is rarely computed in practice because computing inverses is rarely done in practice, as you've astutely noted [1] -- one almost never tries to calculate x = inv(A)*B except for very small systems. Also at first glance one can reuse inv(A) for solving other b's, but turns out this isn't the best approach either (see linked article above).

Instead, the general strategy is to cast it into Ax=b and figure out what properties of A to exploit. This almost always results in a more efficient computation strategy than computing the inverse. For instance, if A is positive definite, one might try a Cholesky. If A is sparse, one can use any number of sparse methods. If A has special structure (symmetric, bandedness, circulant, triangular, etc.), one can use specific algorithms to exploit the structure. If A is ill-conditioned (underdetermined), one might try a power-method like NIPALS if one is only interested in preserving the higher singular values. Or if one doesn't know anything about A, even a simple LU decomposition would outperform an inverse computation.

In Matlab, x = A\b [2] is often recommended over x = pinv(A)*b or x = inv(A)*b. The former uses a decision tree to figure out which algorithm to use to solve the system.

Just adding a bit of context.

[1] Don't invert that matrix
https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2010/01/19/dont-invert-that-m...

[2] https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/mldivide.html
If you are interested in a real imposter who succeeded multiple times in working as a physician without any training at all and who was nearly made a professor, look at Gert Postel [0]. If you understand German, there is also a great documentary about him on YouTube [1].

A former postal employee, he named himself "Dr. med. Dr. phil. Clemens Bartholdy" and first worked as a public health officer in Flensburg.

> When asked about his dissertation's subject, he reportedly replied "On pseudologia phantastica [with regard to] the example of the character Felix Krull from the homonymous novel by Thomas Mann and cognitively induced distortions in stereotypical judgment".

Later, he worked as a surgeon major in the German armed forced, and several years as a senior physician in a psychiatric hospital, also giving lectures.

> By chance, a co-worker recognised him on July 10, 1997, forcing him to go into hiding. At that time, an appointment was already set for an interview with Hans Geisler, then Saxony's Minister of State for social affairs, health and family, on the occasion of Postel's appointment to a professorship and to the position of chief of medicine at Saxony's hospital for psychiatry and neurology at Arnsdorf near Dresden.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gert_Postel

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2JqKLpEa4A
when you hear the word democracy do you think "give undesirables a say in our government"?
Birvie – find live or recent drone video on a map on iOS
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I think it depends on type of project. If a project is complex and delivers a large no of feature. Feature development would take more time.

Products features are generally made available as its more clear, while the problem comes in setting up the platform to deliver the product to end users.
This. The safety improvement from successive features is logarithmic or close to it. Seatbelts win you the overwhelming majority of the safety. Bucket seats with headrests get you most of what's left. Stiff passenger cabin (i.e. the difference between a car from 1981 and 2001) gets you most of the remainder.

Airbags, crumple zones, belt pre-tensioners and all the other high tech stuff that the internet worships are basically a rounding error compared to "a strong cabin and some basic stuff to keep the occupants in the right place inside it".
Internal developer portals are an anti-pattern
I was very much for hydro until I joined a wildlife society in college and saw how incredibly destructive it is to habitats.
I think the idea is that if you wanted to spice up a marriage with an affair, you could use this to "cheat" on your spouse with your spouse. Both parties would be consenting the whole time. One would just think they are cheating.
For me the difference is in the main utility of the app. If all it does is measure, there's no issue IMO, but Snapchat is specifically for sharing content with others. It'd be like having a speedometer or depth meter with a load of 'share your speed/depth to twitter/fb/etc buttons. I would see that as just as bad.
In the U.S. at least, I think the FTC is already looking to overreach in this department. See FTC vs LabMD.

You mean like a FISA court but for AI use? Look at how even FISA courts turned/are turning out. In a perfect world I would like to see the 3 laws of robotics to take precedent.

I overheard someone at DefCon one year say that it isn't companies we should be afraid of but the guy that is on his 5th Red Bull of the night and is about to flick the switch to on.
I don't think that is a fair reading of danluu's post. It is titled "the good parts", after all. And did you read the closing paragraphs?

> "[...] Having flamebait drop off the front page quickly is significant, but it doesn’t seem sufficient to explain why there are so many more well-informed comments on HN than on other forums with roughly similar traffic."

> "Maybe the answer is that people come to HN for the same reason people come to Silicon Valley -- despite all the downsides, there’s a relatively large concentration of experts there across a wide variety of CS-related disciplines. If that’s true, and it’s a combination of path dependence on network effects, that’s pretty depressing since that’s not replicable."

So he does consider HN successful, he is merely pointing out that the gems are infrequent (though more frequent than on, say, Reddit), and that most comments are uninformed or wrong.

If you read anything from danluu's site, you'll see he is not really an "echo chamber" kind of guy.

PS: I've seen plenty of illogical, flat-out wrong and anecdotical comments on HN to know they are the norm rather than the exception. This doesn't preclude the existence of real gems, like danluu points out.
The subsidy is that they get to emit CO2 for free.
Honestly wasn't expecting this to work, but this is actually pretty good. The emails seem to be more creative than most other AI tools I've used, and often on first try. I'm assuming this is GPT-3 so what makes other people just not copy this?
Love timescaledb. Scaled several postgres instances for time data successfully with it.
Time used to implement all of these things is time not spent working on more 'useful' things. Like, from a comment up-thread, languages and scripts that people use in their daily lives:

* https://modelviewculture.com/pieces/i-can-text-you-a-pile-of...
We've been calling it Cinder internally for years, long before we thought about opening it up. If we wanted to make it a big branded thing, we'd work on finding a unique name for that, but we aren't trying to do that, we're just opening the code to make it easier to share work with upstream and other people working on CPython performance. We hope libcinder keeps the mindshare around the "cinder" name.
I'm not american, I'm African but I find the black toned emojis to be ideal for me, I wish all face emoji's were available in other skin tones.
Please read a book about communism before you go around calling countries Communist. It makes it difficult to take anything you say seriously.
> I assume rest of the people on that committee are ideologically biased.

but you haven't actually checked have you? There is _actually_ a reasonable diversity of thought on that panel.

For there to be a range of thought, there needs to exist people who's world outlook is different and or abhorrent to yours. thats how we represent diversity of thought.
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Interesting! I had not considered that.

I don't suppose you know if there's any performance impact there—e.g. even if it's not downloading it, is there overhead from processing the file once per component?
There is a paywall on the WSJ article linked from this:
https://archive.is/uvaPg

It is amazing how even simple things can become difficult when you lose an ability. I recently had a hand injury and it became almost impossible to open packaging and jars: things you take for granted. Same thing with everything becoming touch screens: a lot of people tend to remember things spatially (especially as they age) and it becomes tough to learn where and what to do when buttons are replaced with changing screens.
>I honestly wonder if there might be room in the market for a paid-membership search engine that included only a curated set of sites.

I know basically nothing of the mechanics of search, although I expect that a boutique search engine would have trouble accessing the guts of third party sites as they don't want to get hammered by the world.

I did just think of an interesting specialty engine. If you had fast access to the full library on libgen or sci-hub, a person could produce a pretty interesting set of abilities.
I don’t understand what’s hard about iterators in Go after reading that article. I’ve written a lot of Python and Go (15 and 10 years respectively) as well as a bit of Rust and while iterators are certainly simpler in Python and Rust since Go lacks generics, most of the “challenges” presented in the article seem petty (complaints about for loops). The easiest way to write an iterator in Go is the closure/generator method and you can use it in a for loop like so:

for x := next(); x != nil; x = next() { ... }

Not as nice as a for/range but not a real problem. With generics we can have libraries that operate on iterators like map, filter, reduce although I also think people make way too big a deal about a tiny bit of for loop boilerplate (there are legitimate reasons for generics but I don’t think small amounts of boilerplate are among them).
Unity launches synthetic datasets for computer vision AI
That's true. Do you know of prominent cases where law-enforcement abused the ability to remotely stop a car?
> VC firms designate a few winner and lots of loser startups. The losers are then milked, "placing" executives who then spend on designated services.

This explains so much.

The new things must be cloud, auth, and HR platforms.
I would assume it is because neither of you are viewed as actually contributing the the conversation.
This should not happen without a long term plan for where are they are going to put the waste.
Try running a practice with a disfunctional customer service team, insurances that make you do cartwheels to get paid, a billing team that keeps their performance measurement secret, ever changing regulations, random audits at all levels and from all directions, and patients skipping on their portion of the bill.

It should not be surprising that doctors choose the path of least resistance: they go with the salesperson that came to meet them for lunch
`.map().filter().find(x)` is significantly more simple and readable than for-looping for every small thing in Go.
Can I lurk for free? I would like to see how the community looks like before paying to participate.
I'm saying organisations are making me sign liability waivers when they knowingly promote something dangerous. I wouldn't be surprised if someone sued an individual who promoted dangerous stuff and did not absolve self from liability, be it via virtual challenge or other means.
I'm not really a Go expert, but I've dabbled a little bit in it and I like it a lot. Why do you believe generics specifically would cause fragmentation? Isn't it more of a standard library issue?

Probably I'm looking at it the wrong way, but it looks to me like it's a relatively harmless language extension with the added bonus of correctly typing stuff normally cast as interface{}.
I'm not suggesting it's impossible. I'm saying you don't know what you claim to know, and to my knowledge nobody has tried to know it. People, such as yourself, assume that because this feature is used, it's desired. This is not at all warranted, given what we know about how people use computers.
Check out theseus! It's exploring some of these ideas.
https://github.com/theseus-os/Theseus
In other Prion news, there's a prion disease, Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD), affecting populations of wild Deer, Elk, etc. in North America and other chunks of the world. It's not yet known to infect people, but please be careful when eating wild game. [1]

My mind first went to this issue when I read the headline, though upon reading the article it's probably something else, as CWD isn't really a thing in that region [it's more of a Mountain state kind of thing thing]. And, of course, I'm not a prion expert, so I only vaguely know what I'm writing about.

[1] https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/food-nutriti...
Fantastic, simple tool! Definitely saving it to my notes for future reference.

Note: the min & max size settings... I don't quite understand.

- What are the units?

- does it refer to the min / max of a particular grid box, or the screen?

- Once I start messing with min & max, the UI of the grid drag & drop gets buggy.

But, still, a great looking tool for quickly setting up basic css grids without having to fiddle with code.