skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is such a fantastic article. When I was doing my undergraduate thesis on lock-free and wait-free data structures, it was so difficult to find resources that explained these things in a straightforward way (or indeed in any way at all). I look forward to the future instalments!
Here in central Kansas the dewpoint went over 80F two or three weeks ago.
My Dad’s Last Tour de France
Democrats have a chance at overhauling the Patent system tomorrow, the pathetic nature of these thieves is hated across the entire political spectrum and it would pass with an overwhelming support if voted on by itself.
IBM is a consulting company. Only IBM Research and their mainframe division do anything interesting in tech. And their research division seems to be mainly there for marketing/image purposes (helping consultants sell overpriced “solutions” to clueless top management).
Shit... yea, we should make hay while the sun is shining and maybe become preppers to brace for the inevitable revolution by the < 99.99%.
key point: in mice
> If they’d be unreasonable, they’d do so from the start.

It sounds like a sentence about programs, not people. Consider people tend to make mistakes and being flexible in their intentions.
Didn't take a hot second for that, to nobody's surprise.
Relevant AMA from IBM developers which some questions didn't go as well as they expected:

> What is the worst piece of software you've worked on and why is it Lotus Notes?

> Why does Lotus Notes always crash? And why does IBM package Lotus Notes with utilities to terminate and clean up Lotus Notes, instead of just fixing Lotus Notes in the first place?

> "Why is Lotus Notes still a thing? Seriously though, as someone who works for your "competition" in that field the product just seems like an embarrassment." to which they replied: "Actually... I rarely use Lotus Notes... I've been using Verse. All my email is in my browser now! - Richard."

https://old.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/3ilzey/were_a_bunch_o...
Probably to pay an accountant to do it right the first time, then just adjust what they did going forward, ceteris paribus.
Flying car completes 35-minute test flight between cities
That's great. Reminds me of the warez stashes on public ftp sites. A directory named with null characters or three periods were conventional places to stash pirated software.
What random number generator do they use to choose these fines?
I have felt for awhile that fees for Trademarks, and Patents should be tied to 1040 income level.

A wealthy corporation (person) should pay more than the poor, or little enterprise.

I looked into a patent a few years ago, and couldn't justify even the fee at the time. When I had disposable income I was ready to patent, but I was too late. A corporation with over 60 patents beat me to it.
Yeah, it’s tough out there. I think the capital cost might be around $15 to $40 a month depending on how generous the lender is.

Evaporative is interesting too, but solar isn’t too bad to maintain. Most of the maintenance would probably be keeping the filters, pumps and membranes in working order.
This is not like car insurance. Car insurance is required so that if I misuse my car, and some sues, they will be able to recover damages.

The risk of an individual being sued over their use of firearms is negligible, because of the strong legal protections firearms have. It’s impossible for anyone to sue anyone over a firearm used in a crime.

The insurance here is for the city of San Jose.

That would be like requiring car owners to purchase insurance to fund the police department.

That’s simply not how insurance works. Citizens don’t purchase insurance insulate tax payers against the cost of funding the government.
Poll taxes are forbidden by the Constitution - paying insurance isn't. And the Venn diagram of gun owners and people who believe there should be a mandatory ID requirement for voting - a poll tax by another name - deeply overlaps, so that's a disingenuous argument.
You are totally confused. Robinhood is free trading and you are not a paying customer. Robinhood’s incredibly sketchy business model is being paid by Citadel for order flow. So it’s very similar to Facebook in that the consumer is the product, not the customer.

Robinhood is an awful company that’s a net negative on the world. Their biggest innovation is creating a Candy Crush UI for complex derivatives trading and making it accessible to people who failed high school math. Their CEO has been consistently dishonest and fraudulent.

If you want a solid mobile trading app for stocks and options Thinkorswim is light years superior in every dimension but looking like a Vegas slot machine.
NATO are supposed to spend ~2% of GDP on their militaries. We're at least 2x that. That doesn't align with peacetime spending. We should be about half the spending we do now.
Why would I care about spending as percent of GDP? The absolute spending still went up. This is like saying your rent didn’t go up because now you are making more money so you can afford it more easily. This might be true, but it still went up. Moreover, after end of Cold War, it should have went down a lot not just in percentage terms, but also in absolute ones.
This is definitely good move. Maybe it's a their response for right to repair?
Your condescending responses are infuriating. Of course I have used terser, and before it uglifyJs, and am familiar with all the intricacies of mangling, compression, and other minifying techniques. I've also maintained many bundler configurations across different bundler solutions.

I'm not looking for a mentor to explain the basics of bundler technologies or asset compression. I'm asking if HTTP/2 reduces the advantages of these techniques to the inflection point where the complexity of using bundlers is no longer worth the squeeze.

"more bundle bytes means more optimal compression" - this alludes to a single bundled file taking better advantage of the compression dictionary than many small files, who can't share dictionaries when compressed.

"shaking out functions within a module" - this is another form of tree shaking as opposed to file-based tree shaking (import dependency analysis). Unbundling could compete with the file-based case, but not with a deeper analysis of unused functions _within_ files.

These were the remaining advantages I could think of, I'm sure there's more. It sounds like you think bundling is still the way to go, and I probably agree, but it doesn't make any less interesting a discussion about its remaining merits and if we can iterate to close the gap. Bundlers, minifiers, sourcemaps, are all complicated build tools that require a hand on the wheel to maintain in the long term. We should not settle for them as defacto js ecosystem techniques.
I'm sorry you feel so unsafe. Hopefully you never feel you have to use your gun, and if you do I hope you don't inadvertently hit an innocent bystander given you live in such a densely populated area.

For the record, I mentioned where I live because I actually feel far less safe here than in the "bad" parts of San Francisco, Seattle, or Spokane.

ETA:

> worry about yourself

I am worried about myself! Specifically around people who make their identities all about guns, and wear shirts espousing hatred and violence and fear, and attend rallies where they think they're mercenaries being called to start the next civil war.
Note that, I, um, don't think that the Internet Archive actually has permission to distribute this. And while downloading abandonware is 100% okay in my book, I do think I'd rather it was distributed by a less socially indispensable resource than the Internet Archive...
Bottlerocket AMI for Amazon ECS Is Now GA
TLA+: a high-level language for modeling programs and systems
Migration from Lotus Notes is always horrible. In 2011 I worked on many migrations to Google Apps for Business (GSuite, Google for Work etc) and there was only one person in all of Google who understood Lotus Notes and could maintain the migration tool he had created.
Associations between BMI and Covid-19 severity in 6·9 M people in England
They're not going to decrease them unless they have competitive. As it stands, every decrease is just more margin. As long as they keep winning contracts by being slightly cheaper than the competition, they can just pocket the benefits.

Look, they've flown block 5 boosters 10 times with minimal refurbishment. Given the cost of Merlin engines, it's obvious they're saving money over expendable designs.
I’m going to guess that very few illegal guns in San Jose originate from citizens of San Jose.

They probably are imported from Mountain View or something ;)
> I just tried this and got "Install failed with error: Update not found".

Sorry, the option requires Catalina or higher. Just tested under Big Sur:

% softwareupdate --fetch-full-installer --full-installer-version 10.14.6
Scanning for 10.14.6 installer
Installing: 16.0%
Thank you for this beautiful post.
You laugh now. Wait till tomorrow's HN rage-thread about how Windows 11 doesn't run on Raspberry Pi 3.
And yet when they limit their new version of Windows specifically to devices that cant have rootkits installed, everyone freaks out.

...maybe they know that people are installing root kits... because they see first hand what the "good" guys are doing routinely.
I would accept as proof whatever evidence/studies climatologists suggest prove that this heat wave is a result of climate change.

Earth science should not be treated as religion.
Yeah. I read that and said "Why would I ever hire a consulting company that can't even properly time and prioritize their own upgrades?"

This is literally what people pay them for!
You think the _legal department_ understands the whole business better than anyone? Where have you been working?
Its funny how differently people probably perceive them based on what tech they work with. At work, I use their IBM i / AS400 on the daily. At school, I work with IBM Q for research. I would contend that IBM is one of the most important players in QC / NISQ today, and still notable for their mainframes and things like zOS. And what about RHEL?

According to their Q4-FY2020 earnings report, they did $2.5bn in revenue from their systems segment last year (which includes IBM Z, Power, and OS's). But their most important segments are Global Technology Services ($6.6bn revenue) and "Cloud & Cognitive Software Segment" ($6.8bn revenue). GTS is cloud infrastructure + support, while C&CSS includes "Cloud & Data Platforms", "Cognitive Applications", and transactions processing platforms...

I'm not sure what exposure the commenter has had to IBM, but it's a bit of a culture shock to hear someone saying they're not important.
Market competition sets prices. Marginal cost = price only when you have competitive. Otherwise, you cannot use the advertised mission prices to determine their costs.

They could invent a rocket that does $500/kg to LEO and it wouldn't matter one iota to their actual costs if 1) demand doesn't go up and 2) competition doesn't exist.
Intellivision Thumb

It was a thing, caused by the stupid disk.
Not really relevant to the Child Tax Credit, but I found a great free Canadian tax software https://www.genutax.ca has a pay what you want model. Great piece of software.
I know of a lot of highly agent children that are creators, influencers, eSports winners.

Encouraging their passion and enabling them to succeed at whatever it may be, is paramount.
>we’re on our way to +2°C in ~1 century.

Strange then that the number of hot days and average maximum temperature in the US has dropped sharply in the last century. But I'm sure you're right and the sun has fuck all to do with earth's temperature.
Ok then, have fun living under a rock and being stuck in the legacy 1970s, whilst we move on from that and use modern operating systems like Fuchsia.
Windows 11 Insider Preview New and Improved Feature List
I waited a long time for that to be published and oh boy was it amazing. Anyone interested in origins of computing will find it fascinating.
Copilot has an obvious security bug on its landing page code example
"Nobody will ever need more than K64." - Robo-Gates
> For subjects where there is little social monitoring and strong personal penalties for incorrect beliefs, we expect the functional role of beliefs to dominate. Beliefs about military missions or engineering projects come to mind. But for subjects with high social interest and little personal penalty for mistakes, we expect the social role of beliefs to dominate.

Why are there so many stories about Japan on the front page today?
Yeah, that's a better way of saying what I meant by managing the data. Mentally projecting data through, massaging said data, and building reproducible pipelines rather than manually tweaking the learned weights after the fact.
If you yield to a patent troll and agree to give them some percentage of your earnings, and later that patent gets invalidated - you still have to keep paying.

This broke my brain. How does this make any sense whatsoever??!!
Suicides aren't externalities? Unless the dead person was never going to contribute to society, abrupt deaths do represent a net negative externality.

Otherwise, let's perform a little experiment. There's assume the suicide rate increases by a factor of 100. This has no impact on the economy? On society?
Especially when money is so cheap and has been for a decade, and getting cheaper.
5 yrs of what? Not working with a specific tool? Not learning anything new, somehow? Not working in tech at all?
Very interesting table in the appendix, linked to in the "Supplementary" section [0]. The table is "Supplemental Table 2. Attributable risks and fractions in risk of severe COVID-19 outcomes associated with BMI across age groups" on page 5.

The main datapoint is that for a BMI of 23, there is very little risk.

[0] https://www.thelancet.com/cms/10.1016/S2213-8587(21)00089-9/...
Yes, but you presumably hire people who are good at their jobs.

IBM hires... bodies.

And I'd imagine internal IBM IT is... anyone they can't use to bill a customer with.

Ouch.
I wonder how good GPT-3 is at generating really, really, really lengthy legal responses. You just have to embed something in the middle of it that's a bit more "real".
What do you use for automation? My first instinct is cron jobs running youtube-dl scripts against a set of playlist URLs, but I'd be interested to hear more.
We can no longer play the most influential game of the 2000s, FarmVille.
> key point: in mice

Yes. Mice don't get endogenous Lewy Body disease. The mouse model in the study is derived by injecting α-Syn preformed fibrils into the striatum. Whether SAK3 application will translate into human LBD treatments might depend on other aspects of the human disease process. With that understanding, the next step is to give it a go in human trials.

I'm sure they'll have no shortage of volunteers. It's the only game in town, and LBD patients have nothing to lose.
Article mentions anti malarial drugs, but not which ones.

Hydroxychloroquine or a stronger variation is a typical malaria drug. Something you take when traveling to hotspots.
Turtle Ship
During college in 1976 I typed in Star Trek: APL using an IBM APL terminal with an APL Selectronic ball. I had a printout I think I paid $5 for and typed it character by character for some time (a couple weeks I think - this was my first experience with an APL hard copy terminal).

Boy I played that for a long time. Glad I didn't get billed for the paper I used. So much matrix math. 8-)
The BBC have no clue about anything Japanese.
These stories are not conflicting at all, in fact they complement each other very well.
Sure there’s incentives for devs to police themselves. I’d rather catch problems early than have a to deal with a shitstorm from pissed off product owners and VPs when bugs are found in production. But our QA person is on another team. I’d much rather have them on my team.
I read through it and really enjoyed the way it was both a tour of the landscape, but also went into real distinctive attributes of why the 10 different X (message formats, pubsub architectures, etc) exist and what each one gains and loses by the choices it made.

For a more prestigious review:

“This book is awesome. It bridges the huge gap between distributed systems theory and practical engineering. I wish it had existed a decade ago, so I could have read it then and saved myself all the mistakes along the way.”

— Jay Kreps, Creator of Apache Kafka and CEO of Confluent
I can choose my clothes but I can't choose my beliefs
not OP - agree it's not actually esoteric - but it is esoteric to people who have only been presented with pop christianity or pop strawman revisionist christianity, like the article here...
There's a little bit of an insane assumption in this pitch that PMs should be writing tests because they are the ones that "care a about quality."

With my engineering hat on, I hate this idea because the message that devs don't care about quality (but PMs do) is not how I want to operate.

With my PM hat on, I hate this because having the PM do test automation has got to be the lowest value activity you can ask the PM to do. That is, whatever the PM doesn't get to do because he's writing tests is almost certainly more valuable.

So yeah this pitch is nuts. If your system makes it easy to define tests with no code, awesome and that should be useful by the teams that do testing today. Weird that it isn't their angle.
Middle school computers had an unlocked down version of Oregon Trail where you could type anything you wanted on the recurring dead player graves. In HS the windows network had a backdoor to a dos prompt in Office that could be used to access network resources and launch uncensored web browsers.
yep, hopefully something good comes out of it
Some of the comments report training themselves to produce closed-eye visuals, which I could believe with enough practice. I don't think that has anything to do with aphantasia, though, and I'm in the same box you are.
More succinctly:

Furious activity is no substitute for understanding. - H. H. Williams

... via https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup
This article resonated with me, as someone who felt the fixed tracks of school often held me back and wasted my time with busy work like random craft projects or homework that didn't further my understanding. It's all lost time that I'll never get back, that I could have spent in some alternate way. Hell, even just spending more time with my parents living our life together would have been great. Instead, childhood flies by with much of that time taken by force seemingly, or as the article puts it, with a lack of agency.

This particular line is something I foresee as a future problem:

> I suspect the downplaying of agency in childhood not only creates fewer opportunities for great people, it must also create more marginal people

The less agency, and corresponding personal responsibility is given out, the more likely it is that we will condition future generations to expect things to be provided. After all, they are used to diminished choice and lesser agency, and removing those training wheels can be intimidating. That's not only a risk, but it is also sad, because I think it will have some indirect impact on the creativity of future generations and the intangibles of life.

This article is focused on childhood and schooling. Maybe those are addressable via concepts like school choice (vouchers). But I would argue that problems of agency extend to adulthood as well. Agency is something that needs to be defended through our policies and laws. For example, I foresee future policies that are hostile towards car ownership as eroding agency. I see the practical need for continuous work history (no gaps in employment) as eroding agency. I see the 5-day work week as eroding agency. I'm sure other HN folks will have their own set of examples and desires for greater agency that are very different from mine. I feel like it'll be harder to solve for all of it except to err on the side of individual freedoms when possible.
Prof. Hewitt himself!
An intrepid YouTuber created a handheld that runs macOS Big Sur
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cdsdrqA-50&t=305s
From one viewpoint computer science is a branch of math and is universal and eternal.

Aliens live under the ice on under a moon somewhere and they have their Alan Turing who proved they can’t solve the halting problem.

Another aspect of it is random and ephemeral; how you use ‘extern’ in both the .h and the .c file, the use of base 2 exponents in floating point numbers despite writing them in base 10 (e.g. ‘0.2’ doesn’t exist in your computer)

Mistakes like that last a long time, and new and better things face an uphill battle.

Thus is it always changing but stays mostly the same.
CJD is extremely rare in humans, so it's easy to understand why AD and LBD would be priorities. But CJD does manifest endogenously in sheep, so they could give it a go in vitro and in vivo. That might be more informative than the mouse disease models, which are not true analogs of the human disease forms.
Some of QA is technical needlessly; we think that's a common issue with tooling today. QA today is just not accessible to folks that think about and manage change to the product, namely product folks.

Why don't you think it should be part of product?

Love that your department is called "Quality", implies more metrics-less-feeling before reading the doc.
> ...~2% of GDP on their militaries. We're at least 2x that.

US defense spending was 3.4% of GDP in 2019. Quite possibly it jumped in 2020 as GDP dropped, but over 4% seems unlikely. (Still, in the ballpark and good context, I think your comment added to the discussion.)
The IP from CDC must have passed down to whatever companies purchased the company. I bet Illinois would slap down people also - nothing a university likes more than asserting their IP.
well put - except for:

> Strange article.

since it's actually a completely predictable article within the genre of "poorly formulated revisionist history used to spin supporting arguments for my particular 'modern' outlook" ...
Well it’s hard to say at the scope of world powers. Maybe small, local governments there’s less. But let’s be honest here, and consider the atrocities of yesteryear. They span the gamut, and they span democracy through authoritarian regimes. The only difference is how it’s conveyed/portrayed to citizens, and how quickly /easily it is for any single party to gain control of a nation.

I agree that some systems are better than others, and there is still hope for better ones to come. But let’s not kid ourselves into believing China has done anything terrible that the USA has not already done in spades.
Ask HN: How much equity to give board members of a startup?
Say you've created a fresh startup at the beginning.

You feel you'd benefit from having a board of directors who contribute their expertise and have some stake in success.

How much equity to give them, if any?
The Secret 3-Step Master Plan to Cure Healthcare
Apparently this individual works on AWS and won a Amazon's Cliff Stoll Award:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/srwilliams
Why not just kill patent trolls? That should solve this problem real quick.
Lol. I have never been able to use the EZ version. I have always for a variety of reason used the 1040.

It is in the interests of Intuit to make the tax forms seem so so scary.

In reality, most spots get a 0 entered. Very simple math is involved.

Before you made this comment, did you actually try looking at the 1040 form?

* print out the pdfs
* fill out
* mail

Takes less time and effort than installing magic software and trying to figure out "wizards"
Nice !!!!
I wonder what its like being a developer advocate for a company and what are some skill this requires

I would love to hear your experience
The same group also published this paper on SAK# with Alzheimer's Disease in 2019

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3060144/
> Who could blame young adults for thinking that work is fake and meaningless if we proscribe fake and meaningless work for the first two decades of their existence?

"Proscribe" means forbid; not sure this is what the author meant here.