skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> major browsers had already done away with those before the rollout of FLoC

No, not really - ETP only blocks the most technically literal meaning of "third-party cookie" while still allowing plenty of tracking scripts to work with shared first-party data.

Chrome has well over 50% of the desktop browser market share, which by some measurements makes it the only major browser, and FLoC is definitely a prerequisite to Chrome disabling third-party cookie support.
we are making a big assumption here: that neurons have tasks and are responsible for X.

What if a neuron (actually a cortical column) could learn thousands of X and fire only when specific environmental conditions are met? What if you constantly wire and rewire the connections between neurons? What if multiple areas can do some thing and they arrive at a conclusion through consensus? what if your brain can predict a lot of things and just discards sensory input when it matches the expected prediction?
Averages are extremely misleading here, on the human side you're lumping drunk drivers (that could be precluded from driving by the simple mandatory adoption of interlock system), commercial drivers, people driving in really bad weather, across all types of roads and with cars in variable state of maintanance. Remove all those factors (specially DUI) on the human side, then add all those conditions were self-driving doesn't even attempt to try, and the sheer superiority of the human visual cortex alone is indisputable.
JDK 17: The new features in Java 17
> Greece has deflation and Japan is very close to deflation. Are those countries examples to look up to? I don't think so.

As though the defining characteristic of those two countries is near deflation. Under the veil of ignorance I would choose to live in a low/deflationary country than a high inflation country. Every single time

> Inflation is an incentive to invest your money, as otherwise it would sit in your bank account and do nothing except cause unemployment, which causes the productivity of the country to go down.

What about those that are living paycheck to paycheck? What about those that are retired or near retirement?

> As inflation is a percentage it affects people proportional to their savings, billionaires lose the most and are forced to invest their money for the benefit of the rest of the economy.

According to the IMF and world bank this is wrong. Just look at countries that have high inflation. Inflation hurts the poor the most

IMF: High inflation tends to lower the share of the bottom quintile and the real minimum wage -and tends to increase poverty

https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/bitstream/handle/10986/1...
Yup, it's literally just "being bearish". If you want to see people "being bearish" or "being bullish" just flip on the CNBC or something and listen.

You either claim that the interest rate (or various risk premia) are too low, or that the estimates of future profits (for whatever reason, higher COGS, higher cost of labor, higher taxes, under-measured depreciation and higher capex, natural calamities, lower GDP and thus lower revenues, or really any other reason) are too high.
I agree with you about the value of anonymity.

For me, though, I use my real name everywhere because I don't want to be able to hide behind an anonymous identity, and the reason for that is that it's easier to be like the jerks that were mean to this writer when you're anonymous.

Not being anonymous means that I think more carefully about what I am going to say and try, in every instance, to be nice, even if I disagree.
I dunno, you don’t need FSD like you need boots - it’s a luxury. I don’t think this is a bad idea at all. I consider in many ways VW to be the only real competition to Tesla (vertical integration, fully modular powertrain, etc), so it’s fantastic they are considering offering FSD under a different pricing model.

Whether they actually have the deep technical expertise to implement a FSD worth paying 8/hour for remains to be seen. They seem to also be copying Musk’s aggressive timelines.
I never heard of the 1-in-5 thing.
The runway concept was something my dad used to talk about.
Aside from asking you should be exploring, probing, reviewing anything you have access to. Clues are everywhere and relying only on others to teach you will be a difficult strategy. If documentation is missing identify and get the docs fixed, opportunities can exist.

I have never interned. Maybe you expect that. I usually get thrown into the deepend of some codebase and asked to figure it out. My advise would be to get use to it and get good at it.
Unless they're fairly near to a city in the desert.

Of course, you could argue that cities shouldn't be in deserts.
Unfortunately that demand is sticky. In North America, we have built our entire societies around plentiful fossil fuels. We cannot just turn that ship around on a dime.
this is a feature not a bug.
Found it when their first ep was posted here on HN a few months ago. Had seen array langs before but never dared to sit down with them. Their pod made me take the plunge. These langs are fascinating. As someone who likes func programming normally it feels related but with reduce on steroids.
That actually sounds like something is working within AdTech! How can that possibly be?
I guess they "distribute wealth" in the sense that they first extract it, then concentrate it and finally distribute it to a very limited audience. It's not usually the primary or emphasized act though...
yes, but even the smallest ryzen sucks down more power and the system is physically bigger.

but its way more powerful so can do more stuff.
I agree it's odd. I could see some kind of legitimate rationale if it were specified clearly, depending on the rationale, but there's some sort of fuzz going on that makes it sketchy. I'm also not sure where the 1635 date comes from -- that implies something meaningful but not necessarily, and what exactly I don't know.
The food apps are so bad that I typically uninstall them when they send me a spammy notification, and then re-install them when I need to use them again.

The natural outcome of this is that the first app which does NOT send me spam will be the one on my phone when I want to order food, and will be the one I actually use.
The issue with price discrimination (economic terminology) is that it not only brings the lower end down, but also the higher end up. Think of economy-class airline travel, where how much you pay is essentially determined by how much mental resources you’re willing to spend on planning.

That is assuming businesses are content with only getting the same revenue in the new pricing model and before you factor in issues like “people can’t count money” and “pretty much anything can get gradually normalized, and an undercutter’s market pretty much everything will”. For example, I honestly don’t know what I’d do if I wanted to buy a TV right now... Probably buy a normal underpriced surveillance node and spend the time to isolate it from public networks, but still, that’s depressing.
I've always found Raganwald Braithwaite's JavaScript Allongé to be a wonderful demonstration and application of the kind of idiomatic classless JavaScript you get when you understand the language's OO properties.
Leaving aside the reliability of the 4000 gal/lb for meat, it take 10,000 litres per kg to make almonds (a major californian crop, 2000gallons to the pound? I can't make these weird units work! ). I wonder how many hogsheads of almond milk you get per shackle of almonds?

So why pick on meat? Why not stop subsidising all water users?

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1470160X1...
Apple has made changes in the upcoming iOS 15 where apps have to categorize their notifications into categories like “marketing” and functional categories. Users can then use the more granular controls to block notification categories either for all apps or app by app. This can also be mapped into the new Focus modes where users can setup different modes such a “work”, “sleep”, “driving”, etc. Different apps can be allowed or blocked in different focus modes.

https://techcrunch.com/2021/06/07/apple-refines-ios-15-notif...

https://9to5mac.com/2021/06/09/how-to-use-iphone-focus-mode-...

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The original comment did not claim that ZFS specifically needs ECC to run correctly.

Quote the OP,

> With ZFS allowing for very robust data integrity on disk, the weak point in most budget NAS setups these days is going to be memory errors.

You see, it didn't say "no ECC, no ZFS." It merely says: if your goal is to eliminate data corruption, once you've removed filesystem errors from the equation by using ZFS, the next term to eliminate is memory errors - which is entirely correct.
The beginning and then ongoing World War I (1914-1918) might have had an influence. There is also a dip during the American Civil War for example.
That's because of the Precautionary Principle. Also, as viruses mutate, they tend to get less dangerous.
I think the comparison is made over the entire range of situations.

If we can get rid of, or vastly reduce, the problems of inattention, exhaustion, rage, chemical impairments and the like, we have a huge improvement. I think that improvement is vastly more, cost measured in human life, than the problems we see with computer control in odd situations.

So yes. They do drive better than humans. The fact that their failings are wack-doodle to us (you drove _right_ into that truck??) is swallowed in the fact that their failings are profoundly fewer than ours.
> No country that has gone to a fiat currency system at any time in world history has lasted.

I think this is one of those correlation-and-causation issues.

An awful lot of countries on commodity-based currency also didn't last. Most of them, in fact.
The actual image is linked from https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/nud0y0/if_there_we... if you are frustrated with the tiny images in the Big Think article.
I think I'd rather have them in the backyard on some sort of human-accessible bracketry.
Thanks for sharing!

A question I had with APL was how do you actually type it in, and it turns out you just use a back-tick as a prefix, like a leader key in vim. Conor walked my through solving something with TryAPL in this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lG-CcPb7ggU
This is a similar mentality of people who get very upset over incentives sales gets and/or "company provided trips".

We all forget, at least in a for profit company, that we are all employed by selling things. Like it or not without the good salespeople, some of us don't have jobs.
Decentralised naming for wallets, websites, & more
This features in Bo Burnham's latest comedy special (though with Burnham, maybe comedy belongs in scare-quotes, since his last two specials have leaned much harder on wry commentary than actual laugh-out-loud humor) produced largely on his own and filmed almost entirely in what looks to be a one-room guest house of his. It's on Netflix and I'm sure the part with that song is on YouTube somewhere (hahaha).
From the authors imagination.
Unsurprisingly they will try to capture as much value created as possible, hopefully competition is enforced and they aren't able to collude with other Automaker to price fix...

Are they expecting people to buy/lease cars and then pay a $8.50/hr service fee? With self-driving, ownership is a lot less desirable, compared to summoning one on demand.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Knight#University_of_Oreg...
Would you why summarizing why it “makes no sense at all”?

I was aware that there was a trilogy, chose to dig into “Pattern” first, and got a lot out of it.
I've run ZFS on 2/4/8 & 16 gig machines. Yes, more ram makes things a bit faster, as you get a bigger arc cache.

however as you point out, 4gigs is more than enough to surface a 1gig connection. Especially on a bunch of SSDs
Strangely prescient...
https://youtu.be/zf2QE3ZEmDM?t=80
For home NAS?

USB3 connected enclosure and/or an internal SSD is a pretty great solution.

IMO, if you’re building more than that, it’s kind of silly to limit it to Pi-like price point.
> The lead developer handled communication with the IT Director about project status; and that wasn't very often.

I think depending on the organizational context, and how much external communication a project needs to succeed, this can mean that the lead developer becomes a manager in responsibility but not in resources. This can harm the project and its participants both because the lead developer's attention may be siphoned off towards management-related activities, and because their advocate to upper-management is less equipped.

E.g. Can the lead developer recognize that the project needs a person with a skillset not already present, write a JD and oversee the search for a suitable candidate? Or will the organization say "tech leads don't hire; managers hire"? Does the lead developer have the same access to the decision-making process of the larger org that a manager would, or will they be denied access to certain meetings, documents and resources? ("Sorry, we keep that personnel info in the same place we keep compensation info, which only managers should see").

I think the article makes the point that the problems preventing an org from making good products or decisions extends all the way up to the CEO, and I agree. And in the many organizations, software managers are a necessary evil to try to compensate for those broader dysfunctions.
Just based on a bit of googling, the parent commenter might have been meant to refer to this: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2785.The_Old_Way_of_Seei...
What the Heck Happened to the Internet? Fastly’s Hard Fall and Quick Recovery
One interesting thing to note..

Historically, 1-1.5lbs of silver bought you a sheep and it’s the same for today (Rome -> 1500 -> Today).

I’d be interested to see what 2021 brings..
This is a distant ideal with today's GPU drivers. Browsers go to heroic lengths to rewrite graphics API calls and recompile potentially hostile code originating from WebGL to avoid tipping over crashy GPU drivers.

What normally happens with native GPU intensive apps is that devs change their code to work around driver and OS crashes, and if the app becomes popular, GPU vendors will react to frequent crashes from that app with driver fixes.
Google even tried to go without managers. They backpedaled pretty quickly. https://www.inc.com/scott-mautz/google-tried-to-prove-manage...
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Writing good documentation takes time! There's no way around it other than practice.
This might be unpopular, but I don't think libraries should ever break backwards compatibility, at least not with enough regularity to require all of this. Sure if there is a major security thing, or something outside of your control then you might have to. But if you just want to change a function's signature, or return value, because you think it will help "clean things up" could you please just make a new function, or make it work both ways if your language allows it. I understand the desire to tear out a messy bit of code and make it beautiful, but it always leads to a bunch of headaches for little gain.
It's not like the lisp runtime is going to notice that you won't be using specific values anymore and start chopping them out of the middle of your lists, or the Java runtime is going to do that with specific fields in a live object.
I want to be that guy that document everything, because I have seen the need for system to be completely documented. however, every time I start to document some system or code the info change or I'm away from it for a small while and the documentation and the system drifts apart.
Because they are strongly associated with all known examples of generalized intelligence. Why wouldn’t they be relevant?
The ability to calculate the physics of driving dynamics has been solved for decades. But, if you feed garbage data to your physics models, you will get a garbage result. Computers are still very very awful at image processing as compared to humans.
The problem with looking at Manhattan's value inflation is that nobody at the time knew what Manhattan would become.

What was the going rate for similarly occupied land that didn't become Manhattan further north or south? What's that land worth today?
I mean I think it's reasonable to expect that brains function in an evolved way that should minimize energy use when not outweighed by some other benefit. I think it's very valid to wonder what the benefit is for 90% or more of the neurons involved in experiencing a specific, simple stimuli changing over a relatively short time.
I've written an open source version of q: http://www.timestored.com/jq/
It's implemented in java. You idea is interesting. Allowing q and java intermixed... combining it inside java like linq and C# would be interesting.
In genetics it’s very common to say that things are designed a certain way without invoking a creator.
This thread has loads of people talking about roofs lasting 50-100 years https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5575330/when...
Around 30 years ago (five years before advent of Javascript), I built a successful company around a distributed network programming framework that used prototype based objects. Objects in object oriented systems usually share some behavior via common methods, and they share some structure for their data members; the methods and structure are described by the object's class. Classes are language constructs with their own complex behaviors.

A class is like a blueprint used by the language compiler and runtime to build (allocate) objects. In languages like Python, Ruby, Smalltalk, or Common Lisp these classes are present in some form at runtime controlling the memory allocation of objects, the initialization of member fields, the dispatching of generic or virtual functions and so forth. Since the classes are present in some shadowy form at runtime, they themselves have behaviors controlled by meta-classes which in some languages can be manipulated at runtime (e.g. monkey-patching).

Prototype based object systems don't use classes to accomplish this sharing of behavior and structure. Such systems have a conceptually simpler set of primitives to accomplish the sharing and classes aren't needed. In prototype based systems one can clone an existing object, even an empty object. After cloning an object one can add fields to the object.

Structural sharing is easy with prototypes. If a program would like to make use of objects representing screen coordinates, first construct a prototype:

Coordinate2D = clone(empty_object)
Coordinate2D.add_field(x).add_field(y)

Like fields, methods can be added to the prototype:

Coordinate2D.add_method(clear)
Coordinate2D.clear = {self.x = 0; self.y = 0}

Next to create an object of type coordinate just clone the prototype:

location = clone(Coordinate2D)
location.x = 10
location.y = 16

Prototype based systems are appealing because of the underlying language semantics and runtime implementation are very simple.

Smalltalk, CLU, Common Lisp's CLOS (The Art of the Meta-Object Protocol), and Self all inspired design decisions that went into the Tivoli Systems distributed programming framework.
Sadly, Apollo is spyware. :(
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Still zero because the dollar didn't exist. The American army was paid in various currencies, some of which (the continental dollar) went to zero before being offered a conversion rate to the new dollar in the 1790s.
I completely agree with you. ZFS has led the way in data integrity and ergonomics, and it's time we got it in a small form factor with reliable RAM.

Many commenters have stated that it would be better to go with a Ryzen/ECC or some server-grade Atom board. While that may be true from a performance standpoint, it is not true if your priorities are low power usage and saving space.

I have several big beefy servers to run ZFS on my network. What I am missing is something tiny and quiet that can do the same job at a small scale just as well while the big machines are turned off.

I am not concerned about maintaining fast I/O or running some RAM-hogging zraid6. I just want 4 separate SSDs running 4 separate spools that I can read/write to anytime and later sync with the big machines when they're online. The even the 4GB RPi would perform that fine - I just don't see a point if the RAM is not ECC.
Cool. Did you use read-only nodes, by any chance?

https://github.com/rqlite/rqlite/blob/master/DOC/READ_ONLY_N...
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It's amazing how attractive of an ecommerce website you can create with free Shopify templates and good-quality photos. You can make something that's incredibly slick and looks very professional for a template that's <$200 along with good-quality photos.

If you're building a software product, just use Wordpress and a nice template for the marketing pages. It's basically never worth your time to build them yourself.
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I've only had the luxury of working for one company that had BAs.

But it was absolutely wonderful.

They would communicate with the stakeholders and users and other groups to flesh out the specification.

And they would bring the specification to the developers almost fully formed with what we had to do.

So from there we just were able to just engineer! Which is really what our specialty is.

It was heavenly to me, because I find the most painful part of this career is trying to squeeze, schmooze, and cajole a coherent specifications out of stakeholders and users.

I firmly believe a good project manager can be the difference between a projects success and failure.