skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You have the right to refuse a meeting or to step away from it if you feel like it will be unproductive because of other people's laziness.

Tangentially related, if someone asks a question, refer them to the documentation - finding the right docs can be harder than reading them. Teach a man to fish etc.
This topic is outside the realm of my knowledge, but at the language level, we do have that (compacting GCs), and I think we do have it at the OS level as well due to virtual memory (but hardware accelerated TLB).
Tech Companies Want to Make Holograms Part of Routine Office Life
Apple is not in biz of selling phone or laptop. They sell complete ecosystem. If you own an iPhone, airpod are magical, AirTag/iCloud makes sense. Why not also buy Macbook to tinker with own apps and an iPad when you need pencil/touch. And not just current, you also capture all future innovation, so you can charge for digital downloads. You can make new rules to charge for all digital transactions across all apps.

What you are suggesting is to allow 3rd party to join in the ecosystem.

If IBM had been smarter and launched PC as a closed platform it would have been a 10/100 trillion dollar enterprise.
In the more advanced cities, self-driving taxis are here.[1] Shenzhen, where else? Watch it make an unprotected left turn through an intersection cluttered with motorcycles, tuk-tuks, cars, and a mobile crane.

WeRide has many videos of their self-driving cars. The production ones have no driver and are used on major roads. The experimental ones have a safety driver and struggle through urban villages with people, bikes, and cars all over the street.

[1] https://youtu.be/O69YEWpSacU
Documentation is there to help you understand your project now. If you’re using documentation only as a historical reference then you’re using it wrong.
This exact technique (putting wolbachia in mosquitoes to combat dengue fever) was also covered in the excellent book “I Contain Multitudes.” Highly recommended — super well written, deeply researched and interesting.
At what point do we need to start worrying about Apple holding too much power over their closed ecosystem and can potentially abuse it?
I think if you've had Covid, you'd disagree that its symptoms are similar to other common diseases. It feels quite different from any cold/flu I've ever had - unlike most flus I've experienced, there was no bronchitis, no throat pain, no sinus congestion, only a mild intermittent cough, little snot/phlem, etc.

But it has some distinct features: high fever/temperature which lasts < 24 hours, changes in taste (foods which I normally enjoy tasting bitter and disgusting, toothpaste tasting like bitter chemicals, etc), severe fatigue, mild-to-moderate nausea, shortness of breath, and muscle and joint pains. Some of these symptoms lingered for quite a few weeks.
> Younger generations don't feel like these features are hidden at all

From watching the younger generation, I disagree.

There is no app discoverability or consistency at all. The first thing they do is go watch the video about how to do X in the app.

Sure, being younger, they can triple tap and multi-finger rotate better than older people. That doesn't make the GUI better.

I would love to see circular menus in GUI interaction on tablets. Sadly, only games seem to think they're a good idea.
I may be really only speaking for myself here but I have very sincere doubts that anyone who has done any moderately serious work on "AI" and wrangled with the nitty gritty details of it all is really having any huge expectations for AGI. I mean if it comes during my lifetime, hurrah! But personally I'm not gonna sit around waiting for it or depend on it for anything. That being said, is the current AI tech as we have it useless? Of course not. Things like protein folding and alphago are still huge leaps forward in tech, it'd be kind of silly to treat AGI as the only thing worth achieving
Ok, it has the title, but its an awful medium of exchange by any objective measures. Giving it the title doesn't suddenly make it fit for purpose. To borrow a turn of phrase, if my Grandmother had wheels she would have been a bike. [1]

Bitcoin being negative sum has nothing to do with its title and everything to do with its intrinsic characteristics. I believe a study showed its PoW model extracts as much welfare from the system as a ~55% rate of inflation.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-RfHC91Ewc
I'm similarly in a bit of a rut; my codebase is in decent shape, my backlog could use a lot of work but eh, and there's enough work and job security at my current job to last me years if I want to.

I mean I don't, and I won't see this product be finished unless we suddenly get a lot more people to work on, but still.
Could be decent for people who only want to use autonomous driving on occasion, not with every commute.

Keep in mind this is a German taking to a German magazine, US business model might be different (But probably not)
In practice they'd simply flag you as a sharp and ban your account before you made them broke
If I understood correctly, I think I agree with your loose analogy. I've tried combining some error correction with ongoing re-learning. It stabilizes things against drift, but not indefinitely. This is all in an extremely preliminary cartoon sketch of a model. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.03.08.433413v1....
I agree, and I also found the "no rollover" rule in Germany quite helpful. You have your very nice vacation allotment and you must take it or you will lose it and your manager may get a talking-to.

In many companies you are even required to take at least two vacations of at least one week each in any given year: the whole point of the vacation is to prevent you burning out.
Yeah I liked a lot the idea when working in a small startup as the ops team we removed was way slower than us, but now that I work in a company making actual money relying on actual regulatory deadline, I find myself wishing they'd reinstate the ops team they also removed to stop us from having to learn all the details on the gigantic infrastructure that can fail, from routers in another continent to red hat bugs to hedge fund client complaints...

This move to make the dev team all-doing isn't really working as efficiently as the cost reduction made it appear.
How can you do that with over 50% of the population fully vaccinated?
it is very market driven. Big salary in tech industry is the main drive for this. Many people retire young. Before tech industry, there were financial industry, working crazy hours and make big bucks, retire on beach.
But if your primary email provider reports an empty mailbox for the synced mailbox, the backup mailbox will be cleared too?

I mean the idea is great but wouldnt you need a backup mailbox provider allowing you to restore daily snapshots?
I shared this with HN because it is a relatively new project that is not easily found when searching for instrument samples.

Pianobook's main focus is radically different from commercial, high quality virtual instruments: creating something unique and embracing any of its imperfections:

- Instrument is broken or out of tune

- Recording with a lousy smartphone

- Environment is not an ideal studio

- Using less samples that gain character from pitch shifting

- Processing with unconventional effects

Take a listen to the "King's Cross London Underground":
https://soundcloud.com/kelan-rooney/kings-cross
https://www.pianobook.co.uk/library/kings-cross-london-under...

This one madlad sampled a piano in the middle of a busy metro station, letting all crowd noises and train squeaks scream in the background. Using his smartphone. And it sounds incredible.

You absolutely do not have to sample every key of a piano individually to recreate an instrument with incredible character. Using LESS samples sounds different, but can sometimes sound BETTER if you do clever tricks. See this video:
https://youtu.be/YbbBGYKucHY?t=50

You can probably tell that I'm enthusiastic about this. Whoops.
> you're paying for ongoing access to a service with continuous improvements and a cost to the company to continue providing you

Why wouldn’t this apply to an autonomous driving service?
They will find a way. Especcialy if they can charge extra.
Talking to AI – User Story
The link between parental age and autism, explained (2017/2020*)
> But we mostly have one memory model today - one big flat memory space, because C.

This is not what is meant by 'memory model'. What is really specifies is how memory operations can ordered and when a write made by one thread is seen by another, acquire, release, relaxed etc.

For example: https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/atomic/memory_order
Working for the competition.
Oh no, you’re straw man of libertarian ideals has proven easy to defeat!

Libertarians don’t want non-existent governments as the highest priority. The key priority is using markets to determine prices and a critical part of that is being able to enforce property rights. A big government focused on enforcing those rights is completely supported by libertarians.
The problem here as with most of the devops literature is that it's only really applicable for the rare usecase of where an entire company's worth of resources is put behind a single website/app deployment, where as the far more normal practice of having small implementation and operations teams manage a large back catalog of projects/deployment that's supposed to run stable with little need for day to day improvements/interventions, and which are often based on products that were oversold by some consultant/salesdrone 5 years ago as virtually maintenance free.

And when it comes to big systemic problems with security/stability that plagues the IT industry it's usually this back catalog that's the real cause and the problem that gets the least attention.
Atomic radius of helium is smaller than hydrogen 31 vs 53 pm. Hydrogen gas is also typically in the form H2, which is much larger. At the same time ofc oil pipelines will still be too leaky.
I think it's a big win if developers and operators are the same team - sit next to each other, do the same teambuilding exercises, have responsibility for the same set of products, pair-program together where appropriate. Slice your teams vertically rather than horizontally. I'm not convinced that it's worth going all the way to having every developer be an operator and vice versa.
>Nope, although the fake currency transfer rates that are the big obstacle here are structurally similar in their economic impact to prohibitively-high export tariffs, they aren't actually taxes; they don't go to the Treasury but to the Central Bank, and so they don't pay for social services but rather to subsidize imports, further hollowing out the Argentine economy and destroying our competitiveness. But the evidence suggests that, even if I'm willing to take the 38% haircut, TransferWise and PayPal simply don't work. They just don't have service here.

As I said on my previous post, you are circumventing local laws and taxes while living in Argentina by using Bitcoin. TransferWise and Paypal may not work in Argentina (I'm pretty sure TW works but just doesn't offer you a favorable exchange rate), but you could still receive a normal bank transaction from abroad and sell your dollars cheaper as stipulated by the laws in the country you choose to live in.

>Argentina does have a little bit of income tax, which I'm not allowed to pay (I tried, but the tax office turned me away because they don't accept income taxes from illegal immigrants), but most of the tax revenue here comes from the VAT, which I pay just like everyone else, because it's included in the price of everything. Exports of information technology services, which is what I do, are exempt from VAT. In fact, when I had a company here, before I was an illegal immigrant, I had to pay a lot of extra VAT that was supposed to get refunded, but it never was, because following that aspect of the law is too inconvenient to the government. (Because all my revenue came from exports, you see.) One accountant suggested that I bill a friend's domestic company for fake services in order to get the refund. I refused.

Not true. Illegal immigrants can be registered as autonomous workers, and since you earn in dollars you probably would fall in the 'Responsable Inscripto' category and have to pay autonomous worker fees + 35% of what you earn. You are just choosing not to. Also, the VAT is not the lion's share of tax collection in Argentina, but income taxes.

>I understand that if you've lived in a country all your life with a more or less reasonable government, all of this sounds ridiculously implausible.

I'm Argentinian. I simply chose to migrate away to a country without stupid taxes or laws rather than having an unfair advantage over my countrymen by avoiding them abusing the low-attachment-to-where-I-work-from nature of my career. The local tech scene in Argentina is filled with guys like you who avoid as many taxes as they can (except VAT, of course) using crypto or offshore accounts and then goad on the internet about it. You are lucky tax evasion is not a jail-able offence in Argentina, probably because the corrupt politicians are cut from the same cloth.

Sorry if I come across as too harsh on my opinion on tax evasion. I think it's an understandable crime in Argentina, but it somehow rubs me the wrong way when people openly discuss it like this on the internet.
> Unless you were proposing the email server should download and proxy ALL images, even before the email is delivered.

That is precisely what the OP proposed, and which you then stated is the way that gmail works.

I then pointed out that gmail does not work that way. And you have now confirmed that.

> giving an email sender the signal that you are eagerly reading all of their emails may produce unintended consequences.

That's the whole point of this. The moment the big providers implement "fetch on delivery", there is no signal any more. The spammers wont suddenly think, "oh look, our spam campagain is going swimmingly. 100% of our gmail, hotmail and yahoo recipients are now opening our email", and then continue along oblivious of this new major change from all the main email providers, thinking that all of their email is being opened.
It is entirely not necessary for an AGI to be able to drive a car.

Frankly, after seeing AlphaZero and AlphaFold I'm surprised they didn't declare AGI right there and then.

People assume that when AGI happens, computers can suddenly outsmart humans in every way and solve every problem imaginable. The reality is just that it could in theory given enough time and resources.

It is like quantum computing. In theory it can instantly factor and break our nice cryptographic primes. In reality the largest number it factored is 21.
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I don't think it is that expensive for what it is.
> It's as if they want the vaccine to be the only thing that helps stop COVID

Our immune system didn't evolve to cope with living in incredibly tight spaces surrounded by millions of people. Our immune system also isn't good at dealing with infections as we age: it's simply unnatural to survive past 70. We need to keep vaccinating, to create a collective immunity that protects the vulnerable.
I think this is great. Hopefully someone at Apple is reading.
Has anyone else tried the app "Friendly"? For a while I've wanted to stop using Facebook, but quite a few community groups I'm involved with use it as their only method of communication. Friendly is an augmented wrapper for the mobile web versions of Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn and a few of the other time-sappers.

I find it works really well. I still get to use an app to access the information in an convenient way, but without the bells and whistles that make hours pass like minutes, and without having to give the platforms access to my phone's metadata. Downside: it is clunkier than the respective apps, but then that's the point.
Occasionally needing? As in, one year they are needed and another year not? Because I can't see this argument working otherwise - heated seats cost 100$ a year, period.
When I stopped being an SRE at Google, my most immediate thought was relief that I would never, ever, have to deal with BCL/GCL again.

After 6 months outside Google, I desperately wished for BCL/GCL to be everywhere, because all other config languages were just plain broken. And more annoyingly, there's no better way to describe it than "I have seen better, just trust me".

CUE seems to be a step forward. Flabbergast looked like it might have been a contender. The latter is DEFINITELY inspired by BCL/GCL.

At some point, I will have to sit down with CUE and try to re-implement the "perfect little horror" in it (it should be impossible IFF CUE is not Turing-complete, but it actually turns out that there are edge cases of configuration where you want that Turing-completeness).
Also they increased sugar content. They may be smaller but they are deadlier.
Imagine the learning of new skills, as a travelling circus, traversing a road through a land covered in towns.
Now those towns, depending on usefulness, will put up resistance to the circus reshaping them and the area they depend upon.

And the circus must travel on, for it leaves towns in its wake.

So what one watches as the learning happens in pre-disposed sensory input classification areas, i imagine, is the newly created towns moving away from the circus so to speak.

Im sorry for the lack of expression and cohesion.
Your solution has been around since the dawn of Facebook and has had no affect on the majority of Facebook users. The proposed solution actually could. Sometimes, it turns out that the best solutions are in fact complicated.
The post makes some good points, although I unironically liked the hand-drawn stick figure doodle better than the generic corporate art at the top of the page -- maybe I just don't have a designer's eye :P

I'll definitely take some mental notes for when I set up my new landing page in a month or too!
Any references to this architecture? The only finagle I aware of is http://twitter.github.io/finagle/ but it's a asynchronous RPC framework and it's not clear to me how it applies to Actix web.
Or to further extend that, I've not seen any people like visual changes. Even though the science is there that the new design is better, people don't like change.
Why so? Or are you mixing up asymptomatic with presymptomatic, as many do? It is clear that latter do indeed play a big role in spreading infection, but the science is not so clear on the former. Likely that asymptomatic do not spread it.
You do, but I've found that some countries don't really want you, and they'll slam you with onerous KYC requirements to drive you to leave. I currently need to fill out 30 pages of documentation and have "a Skype call" with my bank "for verification".
A 32-bit CPU with MMU is not a prerequisite for multitasking. The Amiga (and others) managed preemptive multitasking on a Motorola 68000.

For designs that wanted an MMU, you could use an external one. Sun had external MMUs in their early workstations. Even Apple had their own MMU in the Macintosh II line before they switched over to the 68030.
2021 is the best year to be a founder in Europe. (DE)
>trust me any sensible business will want to keep a staff member who massively improved their team's productivity

Whether sensible or not a lot of companies do not do this.

It is difficult to measure productivity increases at the best of times. Increasing your teams productivity doubly so. Increasing their productivity may even be net negative for you as it makes them look more effective compared to you.

This may be counterproductive for the company in question and seem idiotic but that doesn't stop it from being common. It's common precisely because it's a template for how most workers are treated. If you see programmers as individual resources not markedly different to Uber drivers (and SO many do) this way of thinking is completely natural.

>Turning yourself into a silo like this is practically blackmailing your employer into keeping you. They might keep you employed because they need to keep their systems online, but they will also not think twice about replacing you as soon as an opportunity is presented.

Right. But how else do you deal with a company that demonstrates repeatedly that they wouldn't think twice about replacing you no matter what? Starting from that assumption along with the restriction that you cannot easily hop jobs - what else are you supposed to do?

Plenty of tech is egalitarian and productive and not like this, but a larger unfashionable un-talked about underbelly of the industry most certainly is. The bimodal salary distribution also comes attached to bimodal working conditions.
Hammering the dark forest with bio-weapons in pre-emptive strikes.
I love puzzle hunts and escape rooms but I never got into ARGs. How do people find out about them? And are there any interesting ones going on right now?

This also reminded me of another long article on this topic but I can't find it again. Only thing I remember was that it had elaborate puzzle rooms filled with fancy practical effects that ate up a few millions in funding? It also had cult-like exclusivity and was invite only. Does anyone know what I am talking about? I am pretty sure I saw it on HN but it might've been a few years ago.
Me before reading the article: is it wolbachia?

Me after reading the article: it's wolbachia.

We've been using these here in Singapore for a while now (looking at it since about 2016 [0]), and it's not like it was a secret [1], hell even the BBC has reported on wolbachia before (by the same James Gallagher!) [2], so it's a bit surprising that it is presented in this BBC article as something "miraculous" and new.

What's curious to me is that the information presented in the BBC articles is slightly different from what has been reported here in Singapore. The BBC articles say that the wolbachia infection is passed on. Our reporting has been that male mosquitos infected with wolbachia that mate with females will not produce viable eggs, but otherwise, infected females will pass the wolbachia infection on. I wonder what the details are.

[0] https://www.nea.gov.sg/corporate-functions/resources/researc...

[1] https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/wolbachia-mos...

[2] https://www.bbc.com/news/health-50487724
We should. What I'm saying is that we still have that, and more. The suggestion is mostly the opposite, from comments like yours. That we should have less things like the Apple ecosystem, which has been fundamental in creating an entire generation of creative tinkerers, exactly because of its opinionated and broadly simplified nature.
The problem is the kid will be given the iPhone and not the breadboard.
I know some people who got COVID and said they felt fine, except for a stuffy nose. Almost everyone I know that had COVID said that the flu was worse. All the symptoms that you mentioned apply to the flu as well. There might have been one day where they felt really worn out, but that was it. I felt the same way after taking the vaccine. Change in taste can be attributed to blocked nose which radiacally changes the taste of food. This has happened to me with bad colds and bad allergy attacks too.

I only know 1 person who almost died from it, my friend's mother who had to be put on a ventilator, but she survived.