skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks! I agree: it definitely is a long time! The main reasons are:

1. The data from big customers was something we didn't expect. Tens of thousands of blog entries and referring domains. Measuring tractino for all of them was a no-go. It's was a usability problem (and a scalability prlbem for us).

2. We had to make a pivot. The first version wasn't as exciting as we wanted it to be. This one is, at least according to the user feedback.

3. This was mostly done as a side project. Only the past six months have been two people full time.
Are FOSS "donations" for on-going or past work, though? I'd lean towards a mixture of both.

However, by that measure the original creator should also be compensated for their past work, given that they wrote about an order of magnitude more code than the second most prolific contributor, at least in the main babel repository.[0]

(I have no way to easily measure other equally important contributions, such as shepherding other contributors, dealing with issues and PRs, so I'm ignoring them.)

[0] https://github.com/babel/babel/graphs/contributors
What is Babel?
Interesting, and the video is informative (though a bit short) but we always want to know the caveats

- Why hasn't this been built before? Yes, minor hydrofoil ships have been built but why not cargo ones? (Constructor conservatism? Some issues that others have run into? Lack of technology before that)

- How does this fare in a marine thunderstorm?

- How many customers are time sensitive (but not much) so as to fit their window?

- What kind of problems can going 4x the speed on an open ocean can create?

- Is the actual cost 4x less once you factor everything in?

My bet is that this makes sense for shorter routes (like multiple ferry routes in Europe), maaaybe for "shorter" cargo routes, not so sure for the longer routes (though China-LA is not "too long")
So she was popular and so - that probably was true for many, many people throughout history.

Not saying she wasn't a formidable thinker, but many people were and are. Only a few become famous because their inventions have long lasting effects.
I don't feel great about any of these.

I never cared about using third party apps for banking, it's useless - obviously only the most basic operations are supported; and I never wanted to use my "dumb" phone for banking at all, I wanted seamless internet payments - but now I am required to have Android/iOS phone connected to the internet on hand to even log in into online banking interface - great!

News sites aren't the only victim of GDPR, it's also SaaS apps and other services, especially financial services. I used to be able to have American brokerage accounts, now that's gone - great!

How about you stop talking about what's good for me? This is exactly the problem with EU, it feels like it knows perfectly what's good for all 450 million people - well it doesn't, and it's not the same for all.
Because these days it's critical for "basic computer literacy" :

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27094663

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27104860

(You'll also notice that caring about not wasting the 8th bit with ASCII has lead us into all sorts of issues... and why care so much about it when as soon as data density becomes important, we can use compression which AFAIK easily rids us of padding ?)
Because such books have an agenda behind them, unfortunately.
That's... what I said. I mentioned the unsubscribe link for solicited marketing mails, where that is in fact relevant. Unsolicited email would be pretty damn illegal in my home country to begin with (and a GDPR violation).
I'm pretty sure they just pay for health insurance premiums instead of the health care. Deductible followed by a percentage of everything until you reach your out of pocket coupled with poor paid leave if you get paid leave at all is a significant cost to health care. This is combined with a culture that glorifies not missing a day of work for any reason, which can't help folks use the health care provided.
I have a Dragonfly install as part of my "pet" test farm. The build environment is similar to the other BSD, but from time to time it triggers strange portability bugs in my codes that I love to fix.
The shoddy state of US infrastructure does not condemn the entire system of taxation into the dustbin of history. Perhaps it condemns the US's way of taxation, which I agree with.
VueJS and Nuxt are also massively underfunded and are likely some of the highest-impact projects you can fund: https://vuejs.org/support-vuejs/
It's a large company: these things are not accidental (was home insurance btw). I know French law enforces cheques validity as legal tender, but it's a supremely asshole move to give them out to foreigners/people abroad. They did mail them abroad to me in the end! This is where someone's grandmother came in, but she couldn't cash them either, even with a letter authorising her. Out of all the countries I've lived in Europe, France is the only one where I ever saw cheques in actual usage!

In NL, cheques went out of fashion in the 80ies, and banks haven't had the infrastructure to process them for decades now.
Netflix don’t hire grads do they?

Also this is specific to the Bay Area - they don’t pay these rates internationally or even everywhere within the US. And finally, it’s not every grad & stocks massively inflate this number.

I’m sure some people reading this will have done it - it’s not ‘common’ and definitely isn’t the pay of the top decile of developers in the world, the West, or I bet even in the US.
I'm sorry, I'm not sure that I understand ?
Under the OSIs definition of open-source, and under the definition of free software, anyone can buy your software and redistribute it to others for free. This effectively limits you to earning money only off the labor of your work, not the work itself, and makes your business model effectively useless. This is such a huge difference yet the FSF, as always, confuse people (maybe even intentionally) by saying that free software can be commercial. No, it cannot. The services you provide can be, the labor you provide can be, but the software - no.

You can remove that freedom to the user. After all, the source is available, it can still be tested for malware, but your work won't be open-source.
<a href="https://www.techhypes.com/top-5-best-gaming-keyboards-in-may... article, just to add a certain something: restrictive branches can truly play with the compiler's capacity to enhance, particularly the capacity to auto-vectorize. So regardless of whether a never-taken branch is pretty much free when the CPU executes it, simply having it there may have brought about substantially less proficient codegen. Simply something more to remember with this issue.</a>
You are mistaken that I am devaluing the article by labeling the author as feminist. I'm fine with the author being a feminist. I'm just pointing out that feminists are more likely than other academics to write books like this. That's a statement of the obvious.
Taxing them would be the best of both worlds.

Ultimately, proof-of-work is actually a proof of faith. How much resources are you ready to waste in order to prove your faith, and have a chance at discovering the next block?

Now, a (globally enforced) tax would raise the bar for every miner. The same amount of resources would be wasted by the miners: their resources and faith remain unchanged. But now, a portion of the miner waste would go into community resources. A 99% tax would be great!

The only problem is enforcement; if someone doesn't pay their taxes, they have a much greater proof.

Maybe it can be enforced by the blockchain? Lets say a blockchain recognizes a "government" entity -with a magic address-; a consensus rule could be that 99% of the reward goes to it?
I only know it as Biontech-Pfizer vaccine.
Source: trust me bro
It's not just that the third book is what takes off, but that sales of book 1 and 2 rarely takes off before book 3 is out because people hold off and might sign up to your mailing list etc. but won't read until they know there's more coming.

I do certainly think the market is massively geared towards a tiny number of best-sellers, but there are a number of people who still have success with modest sales of individual books simply by focusing more on building a back catalogue and marketing to a fan base more likely to want to buy "everything". You can afford to spend quite a lot more on ads if a single sale might lead to 20 more than if one book is all you have.

But that require you to think about it as a business, and a lot of writers don't want to deal with that bit.
GNU Guile can do that easily, as probably many other languages. The ecosystem is what makes people stick to Python, especially in areas like data science. Ecosystems are generally difficult to compete with, because they rely a lot on mind share. Mind share is a bit like gravity, in that clumps of matter will collect more matter. It takes very motivated people to implement solutions anew in another language, piece by piece getting an ecosystem up to speed. Or a lot of money.
This is a perfect place to mention Ben Frys distellamap project https://benfry.com/distellamap/

It creates stunning visualizations of vcs game code.
Street view in space? I think you might be underestimating just how empty the solar system is.
Well, that is where the line of solicited and unsolicited mails fall, spammers are generally unsolicited (so no previous mail address confirmation), their unsubscribe links won't work and >90% of them are plaintext with the remainder having bad or illformed HTML. 99.8% of marketing mails I get have an unsubscribe link that works because it forgot to uncheck the newsletter when signing up, those are not an issue. And those are usually HTML mails with well formed formatting.
> despite the fact that electronics should be better in almost every regard for safer driving.

Maybe in the future. For now electronics are still handicapped by AI that is not anywhere even remotely close to humans.

"AIs" ability to reason about traffic situations and, by extension, planning are laughable and even if that properly worked it would still be handicapped by image recognition I wouldn't trust to tell a trashcan from a car.

At this point it's pretty obvious that until better AI comes along we're stuck with terrible. Certainly just pouring ever more resources into "current gen" NNs won't get us anywhere.
Why should users of babel feel enttitled not to pay anything at all in contrast with other professions?
#5: introduce a subscription fee for 'premium' tier or hosting. That works best by far in my opinion.
> Every day around the world, hundreds (1000s?) of people are killed in standard car accidents

Hundreds? Lol. In India alone 150,000 people die in road accidents every year. That is almost 500 a day for 1 country. So over the world it must be well into multiple 1000s.
There's a very real risk that half-assed "AI" driving just leads to worse human drivers that stop paying enough attention to driving normally. Sensors are definitely better than humans at reacting to collisions though.
Having bias but being open to change one's mind is a correct application of the Bayes' theorem, isn't it?

(I agree the root comment was a bit... weird, let's put it that way, but the author themselves acknowledged that)
It could be a good market for AMD. There a tons of companies designing their own ARM processors, but who don't have the resources to also create a GPU. Nvidia is completely absent from that market, at least currently, so it might be a easy way for AMD to push their GPU design.
> If you do something day in day out for 20 years there’s no surprise if it works.

The Japanese inter-related concepts of Kaizen, Muri, Muda, Mura, Hansei, and Ikigai are relevant here, I believe. Except for the most mundane, immediately-automatable "something", I have always found an area for improvement and thus, delight. Though Feynman commented there is plenty of room at the bottom about the physical world, considering his life history I believe he would also concur about the cognitive world.
CDC Limits Review of Vaccinated but Infected
If you want to make a living out of devtools, sell them for corporations, no freebies.
I laid out why I thought this book might be overclaiming for the status of its subject. I said "I might be wrong", and then gave evidence from the fact that the achievements mentioned in the review don't seem huge. This is a "dog didn't bark in the night" argument: if Lady R had amazing achievements, the review would have mentioned them. But again, maybe I'm wrong! Feel free to read the book, or other sources, and rebut me with evidence. I'll happily hold my hands up. That would be a much more effective argument than accusing me of bias.
It's hard to reliably reproduce a cross-platform benchmark. They use different compilers, different compiler flags and do not show profiles. Also some compilers tend to be quite conservative in less-known environments.

http://www.brendangregg.com/ActiveBenchmarking/bonnie++.html provides an example how "the same benchmark" can measure a different thing on a different platform.
You have made assumptions a plenty about me but i'll stick to your anectodal point. Progressive taxation and safety nets helps people like you describe - would you rather your mother be in a group home or on the streets freezing to death? People being 'lazy' is a far superior alternative to simply abandoning people. The problem comes when people are only given material support but no mental health support etc. This support is given out in the US and UK (where I am from) but it is woefully underfunded to the point that people blame the negative effects of underfunding on the idea it's self.
Why is India, the world’s largest vaccine producer, running short of vaccines?
The Gaia probe is doing something a little like this to create a full 3D star map. It rotates as it goes and uses parallax to measure the distance and motion between stars exactly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaia_(spacecraft)
Sometimes plain text alternative is so bad that one forced to use HTML version anyway. I've tried plain text emails in Atlassian Jira settings - emails it sends are badly formatted and have lots of empty lines, likely they make plaintext version from HTML one with something like `lynx --dump`.
TFA cites speed as a constraining factor for their particular needs: "attractive for the “tugboat” flavor of pleasure boats. Which is perfectly OK unless you want to cover some distance and get there fast."
>"Many of the users believe that the most important metrics are missing from government-released data."

>"One user wrote: 'Coding data is a big deal—and those definitions should be offered transparently by every state. Without a national guideline—we are left with this mess'."

I really missed those things during the whole pandemic, it seems like measures and consensus around measures just switches without being explained what is the actual data and experimental thresholds that would make us re-think a particular measure.

Like it should be pretty simple to show a few graphs comparing metrics in different regions, and analyzing which regions should apply more restrictive measures and why, and which regions could relax measures slightly because of the progressions, but I never see anything like that in official communications, everything is fuzzy and not transparent at all.
I'm not surprised if Tesla bought a lot of Dogecoin right after he called it "hustle". He can easily influence the market for profit.

My speculation is that Elon is worried about EV competition, and he is trying to make it up with cryptocurrency.
> one of the key underpinnings of the reform is research showing that the status quo tracked approach adversely impact learning for students across the various tracks.

And so they're rearranging the deck chairs. Again. And ignoring the obvious elephants in the room. Again.

I wish people would start to recognize:

1) Math is hard to learn and requires time and work

2) Math is hard to teach and requires time and work

3) Math builds so falling out gets harder to correct with time

4) College admissions provides a non-negotiable time constraint

The problem is that if you accept those propositions, you have to start allocating more teachers, spending more to get better teachers, and spending more time with smaller class sizes to keep students from falling out.

To be fair, THIS ISN'T LIMITED TO MATH. I find it ironic that everybody is so upset about math when "good at writing/bad at writing" also tracks from this age and nobody seems to get upset over something that is possibly way more important to overall success in life.
You'd need to blacklist a lot of the internet. BGP hijackings, accidental and probably not-so-accidental, have happened all over the place.
…where?
I think there is no real way to measure it, but I suspect we would be surprised to see how many smart people is there who just inspire other famous people to do something and are not so much famous themselves.

It really depends on your worldview, whether it is more individualist, or collectivist, if you want to count their accomplishments.
> (Once you're willing to spend $2000, you might as well just get a 3970 and have twice as many cores, if you can tolerate higher latency in exchange for higher throughput. I have a 3970 and definitely benefit from the throughput more than I would benefit from lower latency, even if it's quite noticeable. For example, some games are bottlenecked by the CPU, which is annoying. But, if you want consistent 360 fps in every game, you're spending an infinite amount of money for no financial gain anyway, so the cost-based reasoning goes out the window.)

I also love my 3970X, but this really depends how much of what you do is limited by single-thread speed and how much can actually make use of > 32 threads for sustained periods of time. Remember the 5950X is 20-30% faster in single-thread benchmarks.
Oh, cool
What is the invention? Honest question, not familiar with this stuff. Comments make it hard for non-experts to follow the discussion.
Yes, if they raise minimum wage we can finally automate most work :)
A sailboat is the original "carbon free" way of propulsion for boats and ships. No, it is not as fast as a hydrofoil, but it also won't run out of power except under rare weather conditions (utterly becalmed).

Not that boats don't do a lot of environmental damage in other ways. Bilge tanks, anti-fouling paint flaking off, etc.
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Ideal: Flutter development
https://babeljs.io/

In short: you can write latest JS and have it work on old browsers because Babel will take the input and fill in with functions defined for your target version.

Recently, they complained about their funding situation https://babeljs.io/blog/2021/05/10/funding-update

OP seems to indicate that one of these paid devs isn't contributing. I didn't check GitHub myself but if you check this blog post and the tweet, you can figure out who it is.
Homer didn't need rich text to write the Trojan War. Neither did Shakespeare, nor Ovid for their writing. My emails are way less ambitioned and are fine written in poor text.
> Everyone who has tried to build a new complex system from scratch has failed.

Has anyone tried to design an economic system recently, based on tools from the information age?
You're a little late. This game already became a twitch hype going by the name GarticPhone.
Author of the tweet is the creator of Babel.js
I absolutely have to disagree with you on this.

Laptops are certainly not overrated, and from my experience laptops have been the standard form factor for office work for over a decade, and longer in some sectors.

People constantly on the go have been using them for even longer than that, and unless you have very specific workloads that have to run locally and cannot be pushed to a powerful server (CAD/CAM, 3D modeling, video editing), there are absolutely no drawbacks to using a laptop with a docking station, which lets you take your work with you meetings, presentations, conferences, anywhere a white collar worker needs to go.

(Blue collar workers and others with a need to use a computer out in the "real world" have obviously always used portable machines, since the very earliest ones. Toughbooks exist for a reason.)

It's just a lot more flexible and makes it easier to collaborate with others. Modern docks can run multiple 4K displays, so the need for dedicated desktop PCs has become smaller and smaller.
I know at least a few that will not buy any book in a series until it is completed, due to the number of book series that simply have petered out part-way though.
> can't come close

Maybe, but that's comparing real market dollars vs. government spending dollars. When you're not spending 20k on a hammer and 30k on a toilet seat, prices go down. Half of the people will waste their UBI money, yes, but the government is going to waste half the dollars they spend.

Ask your friends if they want to send a check to Bill Gates every month. You'll find that most people on the left don't actually believe in UBI. It's a great talking point because a politician says it and people imagine whatever they want (yours was a great breakdown of potential disagreement points). But the people around you are imagining very different things.
From its homepage this appears to be a Mathcad competitor. For a freeware yet very good imitator (not clone) check SMath Studio.
Workplace Wellbeing Is a Scam?
A lot of the worst writing will also often circulate to many places because nobody takes it off the market...
For a while I toyed with writing an extensible spreadsheet engine/app that would allow extensions to do that kind of thing - maybe I should dust that idea off again! ;-)
UMass Amherst Students Suspended for Not Wearing Masks Off-Campus
Hah, I thought you meant worse drivers outside of the Tesla. I guess if I wanted to be an ass, I can cut off most Teslas because they have the auto-brake feature. (Well most modern cars have it).
Carl Hewitt's Actors:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actor_model
Found the dude who fucked up borland.
Same reason everybody went with Bootstrap, Stripe included.
I never heard about the KPMG theme song before. Now it feels like a parody of "Corporate Music - How to Compose with no Soul" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIxY_Y9TGWI
Same for the Janssen vaccine (from the Netherlands), which is called Johnson & Johnson vaccine everywhere.
Many universities are moving to Python for their engineering education.

I believe there are two reasons: 1. the popularity of Python for ML in particular, many students want to learn general skills that are relevant beyond a narrow "engineering domain". 2. Somewhat surprisingly a push from industry, where licences make up a significant chunk of the budget. I know several R&D engineers who switched over to Python, because they got annoyed that licences where not available when they wanted to work. This has changed the overall perception of Python in these companies (who previously regarded Python as a "hobby" project).

Regarding the toolboxes, in my experience quite a few are of extremely poor quality despite significant costs. To give you one example, the instrumentation toolbox is so buggy, that we essentially have to open and close instruments every time we want to send commands (otherwise we would get random freezes which often could only be fixed with a complete computer restart). This adds significant time, when we moved from matlab to python for our instrument control measurement time for a single measurement (of which we would often need >100 in one experiment) went from >5min to less than 30s.
If amazon is so bad (and my experience agrees that it is), why hasn't anyone stepped up to offer a viable alternative? The closest competitor I know of is walmart, but given the items they carry in their stores, it's hard to convince myself to visit their website when I want to get something quality.