skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
well I prefer some high level "unit-tests" (ofc they are not unit tests strictly speaking).

or perhaps I should name them "demo cases" or the like. Currently I am deeply sceptical about formats different from source code. "demo cases" require the dev to update them when they fail where as docs tend to get stale- (nearly) always.
I had a struggle with my bookmarks not being synced between browsers. My main browser is Firefox, but I use Brave for some specific things e.g. Google Meet. Finding the correct link on Brave, or copy pasting it from Firefox to Brave was a hassle, so I started developing a syncing software that will automatically keep my bookmarks up to date between browsers. I.e. when I add/modify/delete a bookmark in Firefox, I want it to automatically update in Brave, and vice versa.

Easier said than done, the current status of the application is that both importing and exporting has to be done manually from the clip.so website, but end goal is to get syncing unobtrusive to the user.
> IBM-er here.

What do you think that it is the level of competence of people at IBM? For what I read here in Hacker News, it would seem that you have very incompetent colleagues.

I am old enough to remember IBM with certain sympathy/nostalgia and I hope that the situation is not so dire.
Not just noise..most modern routers allocate more bandwidth to 5ghz. So it is, in a literal sense, faster.
Reading that article makes me not want to open a business in the USA, and I really want to open a business in the USA...
The ticket would probably just say “this thing doesn’t load correctly sometimes”, my description was for the code review
Yagni Exceptions
I recall doing this kind of thing in electrical engineering lab sessions using QBASIC (a BASIC that came with MS-DOS). Fun stuff.
Your post is all sorts of wrong.

- It’s nationalistic to defend the income of your fellow Americans? If it is, then everyone should be a nationalist.

- Geo diversity improves the company? How come? Language barriers, cultural barriers, time zone barriers, in person location barriers, the list goes on.

You just threw in some buzz words without any substance.
You're making some very large assumptions about the reader's circumstances and motivations:

>you have 150k in the bank

>no one is stopping you

>the only reason you don't...

Overall I think your response is not convincing. The problems of materialism are systemic because materialism is baked into the culture and institutions of the US. People are thus motivated to blame the system.
SpaceX doesn't have to hit those price targets in order to be successful, they just have to have the cheapest per-rocket costs versus their competitors.

They also don't have to pass all those costs savings to their customers: they can charge exorbitant prices and people will still happily pay if it's the best deal around. I'm sure many people at NASA and JPL are aware that SpaceX has some pretty good fallback positions if their marketing materials turn out to be inaccurate predictions of the future and that their bargaining position against SpaceX is weak up until they have multiple vendors and competitive bidding.
The data about patent filing does not support your claim about innovation.

IBM literally optimizes for the patent filing metric (and others generally do not), and that metric is not at all correlated to "innovation".

Most people would also likely argue that data would not support your claim about robustness either.

The graph of IBM's revenue over the past few decades does not tell a happy story:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/265003/ibms-revenue-sinc...

It doesn't get better if you go further back. IBM has the same revenue now that it did in 1996.

Robust usually means strong and vigorous. I think it would be a challenge to find someone who believes the past decade at IBM has been that, particularly the Rometty era (IE 22 consecutive quarters of revenue decline)
Unfortunely the Apple envy doesn't go as far as providing proper C++ tooling instead of NDK pain, modern 3D frameworks with GPGPU debugging instead of cloning Vulkan github repos, SIMD frameworks instead of low level neon intrisics + NDK pain, a modern language that actually supports value types (they don't care about Java anyway), a proper real audio API that is part of the NDK instead of yet another github repo to clone, a mostly useless watchOS, .....

Yep Apple envy could do some good to the development experience on Android.
I know there was a warning in the beginning, but with my laptop the text was so small that it rendered the whole thing useless. Zooming didn't help either.

I am sure this is great work but I just cannot access it.
The US does produce the best devs in the world already; of course many of those devs are students of the top American universities from other countries. Furthermore, many of those students are not poor in their home countries and come from privileged backgrounds.
Physicists observationally confirm Hawking’s black hole theorem for first time
Their quality dropped a long, long time ago. I would never buy anything there now. I'm wearing a plain white Gap t shirt today - only 5 years old and not worn much, but the fabric is very thin and has stretched comically.
After SafetyNet, unlockable bootloaders are quite useless, you instantly lose access to a bunch of apps. It's a no-go for many.
Ask HN: How Spammers Earn Money?
Just this morning, I cleared my Spam folders, and I get thousands of spam emails, and after many years of using email and seeing how persistent spammers are, I wonder, is spamming profitable? how much do they earn?
Want to fight that? Unless you're part of the donor class and can contribute to one or both of the dominant US political parties, don't bother with protectionism.

Globalization did not end US manufacturing. It Just made it easy to move low-skilled (and dirty) jobs to other countries. The manufacturing sector here in America is highly specialized and thriving now. Try turning software into real engineering to get the same benefit.

Not donor class and not up to being an engineer? Well even non-engineers can organize. Unionize your workplace.

Don't like those ideas? The mere fact that there are more responses than mere protectionism suggests that there may even be more possibilities.
Tremendous amount if you want your app to work well and properly on newer Android versions.
They keep changing the narrative on that. It depends who benefits and where they can move their money and industry.
1000^n is only really used by HDD manufacturers to make their storage look larger. Everyone else uses 1024^n. XiB was invented to solve the confusion of everyone using XB but adoption was low and personally I think XiB is more confusing anyways (given people naturally assume XB is 1024^n).

I think what confuses consumers more is byte vs bit, or more specifically, that the capitalisation of the ‘B’ matters.
From my experience, web developers don’t recognize their mistakes, they dig deeper and deeper holes for themselves.
I've used that remote control from the Linux app.
Sounds nice until your menus have pop-unders and you need adblock to order food.
We are not connected to the family of Alan Turing in any way. I'll refer you to our blog post [1], where we talk about why we take inspiration from Turing.

[1] https://blog.turingcollege.com/turing-college-and-the-man-be...
Hello,
The product seems great, congrats to the team!
I'm wondering what is the projected pricing model?
Thanks!
In the past year my diastolic BP declined from 90 to 60, which seems miraculous. I can't credit exercise or diet; all I can think of is that, commuting less, I sleep more.

Lately we have learned that both dietary saturated fat and cholesterol are absolutely harmless, and that all the harm blamed on them turns out to be caused by trans fats and sugar; and that all this was already known even 50 years ago.

You can't buy a bag of dextrose/glucose at the supermarket; the closest you get is corn syrup, so I have to order it online. I have discovered that hot cocoa made with dextrose tastes not quite right until you add just a pinch of cane sugar. It drives home how how sucrose is more a drug than a food.
https://simonsapin.github.io/wtf-8/ (which I think you’ve found).

People had occasionally used the label before for mojibake of various kinds, but the term was never popular under that meaning. Simon’s work is now a vastly more popular meaning.
I would not be surprised if Google force-monetised apps like they did with YouTube videos.
It seems pretty clear how something like this comes about.

Merchants dealing in precious goods would travel with their own set of weights. Either party to a transaction would use their own weights, if the eyeball test suggested the other party was low or high balling the weight.

End result is that everyone in trading radius has standardized on the same size, within the precision of visual inspection and the beam balances in use at the time. Chunks of bronze and silver in that standard weight co-evolved to also be the medium of exchange.

So if someone wanted to buy 10 shekels of peppercorn, or was receiving 10 shekels of silver for a lamb, it's the same thing: if the weights/money look light you can check them against your reference set. Pressing them into disks with writing and a face came later.

The human drive toward standardized goods for exchange is truly ancient. Rare shells of a consistent size, with a hole for threading, have been used as money by many peoples well into historical times, and have been found as grave goods as much as 80,000 years ago.
Furthermore, wouldn't a Markdown document be a bit better as opposed to Word? That way, you or anyone else could easily search through its contents alongside the rest of the codebase, were it to be included in the repository, whereas that wouldn't work with Word, because it's a proprietary and binary format (unless you open that file in particular).
And, let's be clear, Google's ability to enact change is a result of their pervasive influence over the internet.

It took _years_ for XMLHTTPRequest to become a dominant influence on site design. Google can push new standard changes in fraction of the time because _their services demand it_.

> Even webapps, which are more sensitive to browser environments due to their heavy use of JS, should not stop working on an older browser just because a newer version appeared

Those are vendor-bound apps.

They're Google Chrome Apps, not web apps.
it would be cool if just one of those smaller browser projects was based on firefox/gecko
Cheeses (mostly processed cheese) are pretty common food (at least than funazushi) in Japan everywhere at least for 20 years. It seems that lactose in cheese isn't much high.
You are right. In 5G, data packets goes through less tunneling than it was before. Although there is less tunneling, 1ms latency for "end to end" or from user device to the Internet doesn't sound realistic. I have no real life measurements but if I would have to guess, it should be around 5~10 ms.
I see. We should not believe everything we read on Google, even more so if it's about Google :-)
The very fact that we're talking about remote work undercuts the comparison to deindustrialization. When a factory closed in a U.S. town and a new one opened in China, those displaced workers had no option to compete for those jobs at the new factory. They were lucky if they could compete for any related jobs without moving across the country. To work in a factory you simply have to live next to the factory; there's no way around that.

Whereas in software, the very mechanism that opens the job market to people in other countries ensures that it stays open for people in the U.S. We're not going to see a gutting, we're going to see a balancing. The door won't be shut on the way out. If cost of living makes it hard for U.S. workers to compete, it will probably also come down quite a bit, seeing as tech workers have been one of the huge drivers of its recent increase in the first place.
The timbres of almost all (pleasant) physical instruments, including the human voice, make octaves and fifths (1/2 and 1/3 frequency ratios) important (and pleasant) intervals (the clarinet is a rare exception where the twelfth is the important interval, but even then that's an octave plus a fifth - music intervals use 1-based indexing which is definitely historical legacy).

The circle of fifths and equal-temperament tuning is a kludge, and there are alternatives (and you can go back to baroque times and hear pieces written for different tunings), but no approach is perfect; fundamentally 2^x will never equal 3^y so you have to compromise somewhere.

7-note scales are not the only one possible - a pentatonic scale produces pleasant sounds, as do the various medieval modes - but you can't go much finer without things sounding unpleasant (and eventually with microtone tuning you reach a point where people will hear beats instead of distinct tones). A 7-note scale also fits conveniently with the circle of fifths to allow you to have a single instrument that can play in multiple keys.

Fundamentally you do want to be able to write runs up and down the scale, so a notation of 7 points with sharps/flats is a lot more convenient than a notation of 12 points where a run would have seemingly-arbitrary gaps and off-scale notes look the same as on-scale notes.

If you're actually interested, I'd highly recommend doing some practical musicmaking and/or conventional academic study rather than trying to theorise everything from first principles yourself. After all, many of these principles were refined over centuries of trial and error, while the fundamental physical underpinnings were only discovered very recently.
I don't think I'd call git "data (science) engineering tool"
The choice of best-before dates does not only depend on actual spoiling of goods but are also chosen to include factors like how a product looks or if the texture is still "acceptable". That is a product can still be perfectly edible at that point but the date was chosen because e.g. chocolate does no longer look good after that time.
You're cleverly ignoring the main use of signing, knowing the app wasn't tampered with before installation.

You're also incorrect, if people have apps signed with your signing key then you must provide it to Google.
NPR asked why taxes are so complicated. Ted might want to have a chat with his libertarian friends at Americans for Tax Reform (Grover Norquist).

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2019/04/03/709656642/epis...
I just applied for a regular job. Because to be honest, it’s gonna be pretty sweet having a fat bank account, even if it’ll take till I’m 50 to have FU money.

You will never have FU money working a regular job.
For the top groups, Spam is extremely profitable.

A lot of them were commissioned to spam knockoff viagra pills, or other pharmaceuticals and they take a % of all conversions. Hundreds of millions in total/yearly.

Other spam is outright scams as well or efforts by cybercrime groups to recruite money mules etc.

So I suppose it depends what type of spam you're referring to but as an whole in cybercrime its one of the oldest and most profitable.
Before The Brexit vote, the UK prime minister David Cameron went to Europe to get a "better deal" for the UK. What he came back with didn't answer the people's problems with sudden mass migration.

What should have been proposed was a unified Europe border force. Where each member state takes its share and also send resources to help manage the southern border.

Leaving the problem to Spain, Italy and Greece is the worst approach. The 1 million migrants in 2015 really was a dry run for what will happen when Africa is too hot.

The EU needs to plan now for receiving these people, because you can't send them back.
What did you see that felt wrong to use GitOps?
Temporal Fusion Transformers look very cool: accepts timeseries vectors but also categoricals and numerical features, outputs distribution using quintile regression.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1912.09363v2.pdf

Available as pytorch implementation:

https://pytorch-forecasting.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.h...
What this doesn't address is that networks allocate more bandwidth to newer technologies, which means the older ones get slower over time.

The speed you'll get on 3G (and probably even 4G) today is much slower than you used to get when those technologies were new.
You cannot have sanity while handling international text as solely UTF-8 bytesequences (or any other encoding that treats sequences of unicode codepoints as always equivalent). Sooner or later you will have to deal with text that contains both Chinese and Japanese characters, so you will need a richer representation.
I was just about to suggest that rather than contract out for an end-user application that the IRS create a webservice and let people build front-ends for it. Too bad it's SOAP, but its not the end of the world. If you make you're app open source I'd contribute.
“People have been worried about this since the 90s. But it hasn't stopped compensation from increasing dramatically.”

Software devs a few years out of university in places like Atlanta and Boston made 100k 20 years ago. How much more do they make now? Not much more. You must be thinking like a myopic Silicon Valley FAANG fan.
Best thing I’ve read today, and the first time I’d seen it too. Thanks!
Not to mention vaccination reduces the opportunity for the virus to mutate.
Coding a snippet is not different in kind from designing a Kernel? It's the difference between tactics and strategy.
Maybe not quite that extreme. Something like a few days or a week with highs like 32 - 38 °C is not that unusual in much of southern Canada, including that part of BC. Still a solid ten degrees hotter than what would be considered very hot normally.
> allocate more bandwidth

Do you mean the channel width? Quite possible, but whether that matters depends on whether your internet is faster than your wifi.

If you mean allocating portions of your internet bandwidth, that shouldn't happen should it? Any connection method should have access to all of it.
Last time I used a QtWebKit browser, I could get around this easily by user agent spoofing. Not sure if the experience was totally perfect, but there were no glaring problems.

Doesn't change the fact that it's been deprecated/removed upstream, though, unfortunately.
Sorry about that! Getting this into a really amazing responsive state was beyond my abilities. Plus I developed it on 4K display, so I probably accidentally made things challenging on smaller displays. I’m definitely going to take mobile into consideration from the beginning on my next project.
Reminds me of the work of Studs Terkel [1] who focused on interviewing everyday Americans. Some of his recordings from the 1970s [2] can be found with commentary as a part of this NPR podcast episode [3] which I have enjoyed coming back to recently.

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

[2] https://www.npr.org/2016/09/30/494742224/meet-some-of-the-vo...

[3] https://www.npr.org/2019/09/13/760632634/episode-939-the-wor...
I can only guess that publishing this as a PDF “paper” is some kind of a meta-joke to rub the reader's nose in the state of toolchains.
Murder is wrong. Reported.
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til, also found this where he apologizes for hijacking it https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9613971
AsciiDoc and ReStructuredText are big names missing, but also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_document_markup_langua...
I'd rather someone explain if/why they're wrong than downvote them please.
Yes, though Goldman still runs a lot of their compute grid on public clouds.
It'll just push the alcohol industry to invent synthehol.
Google's Wing launches free drone flyer app, OpenSky, to simplify airspace
Why depression is not a useful or reasonable phenotype for medical research
Personally I find there is one important factor, and one factor alone.

Context.

Seasonality is the context that there's a seasonal driver at play.

The context of a public holiday can explain a decrease in sales on that day.
The context of a football match can explain a spike in transport demand near a stadium.
The context of the presence of a heat dome predicted by pressure data can explain record temperature figures in Canada.
The context of reopening of schools explains a spike in Covid cases after months of decreases.

The algorithm, is ultimately, not the deciding factor. The choice of what context you feed the algorithm as inputs is the real secret. Which leads to domain knowledge and an underfit linear regression beats a fancy algorithm trained on historical data of a single variable every time. Because the domain knowledge tells you what context to feed the model in the first place which is 90% of the battle.
For anyone curious, this exists in a modern form as well these days. One popular producer is https://squareoffnow.com/ (I have no affiliation)
Never knew this! Thanks for sharing.
GLSL is a fun environment for image analysis. You get a sense of being close to the metal as in the good old days. Horrible code to debug though.

By the way. For me, monochrome == binary.
I’ve used page.js and some other generic ones. It’s up to you, svelte is not bound to anything in particular.
I suspect that's why bombcar suggested spear-phishing, not regular mass-phishing?
There will never be so much as a single erg of commercially competitive power generated by Tokamak fusion. The only way to understand the current state of government-backed fusion research is purely as a way to keep hot-neutron physicists and contractors employed between weapons projects.

Other approaches may be useful for, e.g., spacecraft propulsion, but Tokamak is burning up the budget. It will need to be jettisoned before we can get much progress on the others.

But right now, every cent that diverted into fusion from building out solar, wind, and storage for them pushes us closer to imminent worldwide disaster.
Erlang/Elixir and kdb+/q full-time developer here.

I didn't had difficulty learning kdb+/q. But that's maybe because I had an early exposure to APL (I read a chapter on it in a book as a kid).

Also I had a previous work experience in HPC, data-parallel computations and vectorization/SIMD using the array-programming languages such as Matlab, Octave, R, Julia, etc. And GPU Compute using CUDA/OpenCL.

The really hard to learn part of the kdb is a proprietary frameworks around it. You need them in order to develop a production-grade systems.
Looks like a pretty cool product. To play devil's advocate I'd like to poke holes at two things:

Product team caring about quality: Devs need to balance quality with speed, and feel appropriately ashamed when something breaks on prod. To the extent that devs optimise for speed, I don't see why product would be any different. The product team has a large backlog and many important deals blocked by certain features. The incentive to optimise for speed is just as strong. The tension you get between a dedicated QA team and a dev team arises precisely because the QA team cares _only_ about quality. So by moving the responsibility to product you'll either see more corner cutting due to product optimising for speed, or more tension due to product optimising for quality. I don't think you can have your cake and eat it too.

Feasibility of no-code testing: having your browser interact with the page in the way you would like is a good fit for a no-code approach. But most of the effort in writing tests, I've found, is setting up the data (e.g. with factories or fixtures). I'm not so sure that you can no-code that side of QA as easily. If I'm right about that, it means product will end up dependent on devs to write the tests.
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Disagree. More Americanization and consumption spread to the rest of the world will devastate the environment.