skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What was the error? It's working now and nobody in the comments so far seems to have mentioned what happened when they visited the product page.
That is a common talking point, but I don't know of any data actually backing that up.
It just sounds nice like "they hate freedom". No, nobody does, try again.
This is funny / not funny because when I had to do this is was on top of my regular sprint, so it's like having two jobs.
> At the very least you'll have the same issues as everyone else, so you won't get blamed.

IME, the corollary of this is even more important:
They'll have solutions ready-at-hand.
> I studied CS over 40 years ago. I think I'm still deficient, at the end of my career. CS is hard.

Name one system you worked on in your career that was “abstracted well” and built to the quality uncle bob thinks is good. I bet you can’t. Because they don’t exist. Not in the framework that this industry now measures “abstract well” in.

It’s a square peg in a round hole. Writing software is more like composing music than it is an engineering or maths discipline no matter how much people really want it to be. (Hardware is a different story)

Come at me bro :)
But -O3 is suppose to do that. The problem is that there will almost always be bug.

The flag that may allow things to break is -Ofast.
> and how this leads to disproportionately one-sided arrest and conviction rates whenever ethnic violence occurs in these neighborhoods.

Nope, we have surveillance cameras everywhere now, and thus we know the one-sided arrest and conviction rates are driven by the one-sided crime rates.

> put the estimated number of looted businesses at

But you deserve to live in a city where people don't riot when kid gets hit by a car, and you deserve to live in a city where 0% of storefronts are looted, and where the looters would actually get prosecuted and serve time.
> The author wrote a 9,401 word blog post and you think it's possible they were vague with that one aspect of the story for anything other than concealing the truth?

Yes. For starters, it's referencing a conversation that occurred a decade prior. Maybe your memory is better than mine, but I definitely can't remember anything except the absolute vaguest of details from conversations I had in 2011.

> That, and [...] it is not reasonable to think asking an apple store employee "can I install software on your computers" would get a yes.

I have personal experience from that era in getting distributed computing clients set up on dozens or hundreds of computers in various institutes (schools, universities, gaming cafes, etc), and it was usually a fairly frictionless process. Times have definitely changed, and I suspect it would be way harder to do that now (and outright impossible at an Apple store), but that concept isn't at all unbelievable to me.
The Pyramid of Stakeholders
What about candidate.can_work_in_a_team? Or follows_requirements_instead_of_doing_their_own_thing? It's a huge problem and there are so many difficult personalities out there that one has to look at "culture" and personality.
That would make matters worse.
I thought NeoVim would fix the "dozens of different package managers" problem, but apparently not.
How does amazon.com build the product pages ?
Sad to hear.

The times I had an issue with an HP business laptop I called them and either a technician came to my office and replaced the part (a screen in that case) or they sent a spare after confirming I was capable to change it myself.
General interests are probably one of the best ways to start! There might be some potential in stylometry and other profiling tools, too. Email & Twitter are in my profile, feel free to reach out if you want to talk more.
Probably the most productive comment of the thread! Plan is to screen every candidate before they ever talk to an elderly person. Based on feedback in this thread I’ll plan to personally listen in to all the first calls that callers have to make sure they deliver a quality experience. Will adjust the site to show this as part of the package. Appreciate a lot of your comments here tonight Matt!
The critical part is discerning truthiness from truth.

Usually a truthy sounding statement will have a set of heavy underlying assumptions. Typical examples include ideologies and economics.

There's also a class of statements that cannot be reasonably verified, mostly pertaining to society and social organization. There, truth really does not exist unless someone (or nature) runs an experiment.
Most ways of organizing society are valid, though some are mean/evil. Then again, some other ways are clearly hypocritical, illogical or demonstrably highly inefficient.
Could the index (discovery) be decentralised. Cold hosting a discovery be treated as separate problems. Or must they be controlled by the same entity, a company with a monopoly on search, promoting its own hosting service, funded by billions in ad sales and condicting mass data collection about its users, with the costs of transferring data to Google paid for by the user. Is there more than one way to do it.

Does this even have to be a business for every single person who participates. P2P is funded by people paying for internet service. Some folks might just want to share video with a small audience, and not for profit. Friends, family, colleagues, etc. Is every single internet user desperate for traffic. Does every internet user have to imagine themselves as a "tech" company, serving ads or charging cryptocurrency, and collecting data about other people.
> Facebook and Amazon are now the two biggest corporate lobbying spenders in the country.[9]

> Big Tech has eclipsed yesterday’s big lobbying spenders, Big Oil and Big Tobacco. In 2020, Amazon and Facebook spent nearly twice as much as Exxon and Philip Morris on lobbying.

> Big Tech’s lobbyists are not just numerous, they are also among the most influential in Washington. Among the 10 lobbyists who were the biggest contributors to the 2020 election cycle, half lobby on behalf of at least one of the four Big Tech companies. Together, just these five lobbyists contributed over $2 million to the 2020 elections.

https://www.citizen.org/article/big-tech-lobbying-update/
These are all mostly non-issues outside of the US where virtually all countries have implemented some form of universal healthcare. The US is really unique in this respect, being so affluent and having an almost unbridled capitalism with a huge influence on politics.

It's always strange to me to read discussions about healthcare on somewhat 'global' forums like this, because this is a US specific issue. It's healthcare system is such a deviation from what is the norm globally.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care_systems_by_country...

There is, of course, 'Big Pharma' everywhere. However I think in the eyes of non-US public it's rather about large corporations wielding a disproportionate power. A power that is incentivized by profit motivates which don't necessarily align with the public health interest.
I’ve been a fan of increasing tax credits for medical R&D in exchange for price limits along, or simply, with a limit on the ratio a drug can be sold domestically versus overseas.
If it is indecipherable, I've always subscribed to the theory that it was a scam.

Someone crafted the book to make it seem mystical, which they could then use to influence someone somehow.

Probably not for money. It seems like it was created by a wealthy educated individual who didn't need money. More likely for political reasons; to manipulate and gain power.
There was another HN post[0] on the front page which showed the error: https://twitter.com/DRLynam/status/1414420344144728064/photo...

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27806471
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Social forces are not like natural forces, they're a result of an aggregate of many decisions, especially historical ones, of powerful people.

One does not have to bend to that, if they have enough power. (Can even defy laws, sometimes, which are decisions codified.) That's how society changed in the past and changes today.

Yes, masses can also wield power to defy social order.
Well, maybe that gives it the general shape that it has, and you make more than you need to convince the client, because it doubles as practice,
Given what we know about the latest flaws in CPUs, such as Spectre and Meltdown, maybe we need to rethink hardware testing using perspectives from the world of software instead.
I’ve set up https://news.python.sc but it lost some traction recently
It reminds me of the ISIS puzzle orb, an expensive 3D puzzle that seemed to exist just to collect the personal information of people willing to spend lots of money on luxury goods.

http://blog.rongarret.info/2009/12/worst-puzzle-ever.html
I just want something with the flexibility of Flash again. Even Adobe Animate misses the mark for me.
Jeff leaves and sh-t hits the fan!. Good luck to em.
You are off by a factor 10. The 1 billion is in total over all the time needed to produce the drug (about 10 years), while ads are per year.
There also was an earlier HN thread about a research group involved with defining specs for a digital Euro:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26409174
Actually I didn't bother to read this particular article, because I've read about this hypothesis maby years ago. It was as silly then as it is now.
here [1] they say that Kamala Harris is seen as a friend of big tech and silicon valley, that would imply she is a friend of big tech corporations. Does this step signify a rift between Biden and Harris, or is that not the case?

[1] http://web.archive.org/web/20210206212101/https://www.nytime...
I thought compilers ignored those words when optimizations are turned on, compilers reorganize and rewrite your code.

Using an interpreter seems to be the best option to abstract away the CPU. Write the interpreter once, get enough eyeballs onto it, test it 'till death and use it for predictability.

Even if you write assembly these days, there is all sorts of ambiguity around. Even the underlying hardware we use can fail.

I used to believe that computers did as they're told, they could do no mistakes, all mistakes were human-made. Now I see that there is no such thing as error-free. We are basically living on chance, much is uncertain.

I trust my eyes and ears more and more instead of the machine.
I'm amazed at how teaching isn't a core competency of universities.
I made https://hnreplies.com/ some years ago to send you an email when someone replies to one of your comments. It helps with noticing those late replies.
You're forced to use Windows due to multiple reasons.
What's the best way to contact you?

We could have an interesting conversation since we've been working on very similar things.

edit: email and socials are in my profile
Australia's super is a good idea and other countries, eg Sweden, have very similar systems.

Unfortunately and unsurprisingly the industry is fleecing everyone, but the idea itself isn't bad.

I agree that rather than a blanket 10% for everyone, it would be better if there was some redistribution involved, such that parts of the super from higher earners was redistributed to lower earners and helped grow their balance.

Economists universally agree that super gains shouldn't be taxed at all, for very good reason. If you want to tax rich people, tax rich people. Don't harm everyone else by imposing taxes on them (which, as you point out, disproportionately affect them vs the already wealthy)
Yes, aquariums, aquatic plants, fishes, hydroponics, computers hobby goes hand in hand. :)
Scalable but Wasteful, or why fast replication protocols are slow
To be clear, everybody who had the opportunity back in the day "installed software" on computers in public stores:

10 PRINT "Hello"
20 GOTO 10
Hey late reply but thanks for taking some time for a thoughtful response. I'm going to dig back into research on this topic and see if I do indeed need to update my views.

The article does bring up another key point that has also bothered me about the ghg/carbon debate, and I'm curious if you also have an opinion on it: Adding co2 also ends up adding a significant multiple of water vapor ghg to the atmosphere, which is a more potent ghg, since water vapor increases as a function of temp. If you then remove that co2, how would it end up removing that same multiple of water vapor that got released? Our fossil fuel global warming problem actually just because a much larger water vapor warming problem. The solution then is how to also remove the water vapor, arguably a bigger more urgent problem than the carbon.
I thought sociopaths were the people who don't care what other people feel. By your definition, I'm afraid, I always wanted to become a sociopath.
But if you look around across all the industries, it is not very hard to realize that most big names that you can easily recognize were created by few giants. Giants is the norm.

A real hero knows when to resist the fear and borrow the power from the giants.
> If we’re so in demand… why is the treatment so poor?

Negative manipulation tactics are an accepted best practice in management.

Obviously not the only (or even a good) way, but it's definitely just how many people "lead" and "manage."
Efficient and Reliable Compute Cluster Management at Scale
Well, google does it also and i think they wouldn't do anything illegal (like stealing user data in blatant violation of GDPR for example).
> Once the declared period has passed, yes, it’ll be open source

No, it's open source software on day 1. It becomes FOSS after the allotted time.

And the post you were commenting on also mentioned the need to find a solution to let FOSS become economically feasible in the age of oppressive copyright law. I too am looking for a solution to this as a proponent of FOSS, while also doing the best I can politically to declaw copyright law in my region.
It's an NYSlimes article.
My understanding is that Fastly has a lot more edge locations than AWS, so using their image CDN results in lower latencies for many users than they could achieve with Cloudfront alone.
I encourage you to look up evergreening. Pharmaceuticals are playing every (legal and illegal) trick to extend patent protection. The purpose of the new formulations is often only to extend patent protection. Together with extensive advertisement campaigns to get doctors to use the new formula not all.
Careful, there's some dangerous splinters out there. Fortunately I almost never work with wood.

And if I don't know that something is cold, I don't assume it's cold.
ok, so 65 drugs in development, with 6.5 drugs released per year? does that seem plausible for the entire pharma industry?
Depends on a person. Many will change their views if it opportunistically benefits them. Hypocrisy is rule rather than exception.

Even more people in power are not slaves to PR, just use it where needed.

Conformity and publicity are only a leaky barrier.
also, in 'cat's cradle' - ice nine and the whole RAMJAC corporation in 'jailbird' ?
If you come to my house, you'll get recorded on my Nest cam. Perfectly legal situation.

If you come to my house and secretly installed a Nest cam to record me and my guests, that would be illegal. More to the point, if you come to my house and installed spyware on my computer to take pictures of me, that would be illegal.

The author is in the second situation. Kroger is in the first. Do you understand the gigantic difference here?
That’s possible but the article is a year old. This past year and a half I think if you polled the HN crowd you would even see a dramatic shift in perspective on proper policy for big tech antitrust legislation.

It is not unreasonable to assume those same realizations are happening or being expressed by government officials as well.
Ask HN: What are some favorite books that provide insight into other industries?
One of my favorites:

Hard Landing: The Epic Contest for Power and Profits That Plunged the Airlines into Chaos

https://www.amazon.com/Hard-Landing-Contest-Profits-Airlines/dp/0812928350/ref=nodl_
199% agree
I cant live in sydney, I nearly died from asthma when I moved there as a child to live with my father. every time i visited he would have to rent a nebulizer, i have asthma but not that terrible, that place is horrid. I believe its the pollen as well as the cars.

Coastal regions are way better for asthmatics. the dry salty air. gold coast/sunshine coast.
I still believe arrest adtech made websites free for so many years. ( I mean literally not paying hard cash access it).

Not everyone in the world has equal financial power as a US citizen.
Hard sciences are under attack around the world
> Or it was a code change

Probably not; I don't know specifically for Amazon, but most places avoid weekend code changes.
How quickly did the agricultural revolution happen? Probably much more slowly and we still call that a revolution.
> "Especially for the price you are paying by the way."

> Customer - Sir, there is cow shit in my burger instead of meat

> Chef - you should be happy for the price!

> Its their job to set the price, and they dont offer a premium subscribtion for $50 or whatever. I don't want a burger with shit even if it's free.

Did the chef force you to eat it ? No. The shit burger is on the menu and you decided to take one anyway. It's on you.

Are you complaining because there are shows you don't like on Netflix ? Aka the the shit in a burger ? What could you reasonably expect Netflix to do about that O_o ? Remove content you don't like ?

It's getting ridiculous but this takes the cake:

> I don't want a burger with shit even if it's free.

You are literally whining about a metaphorical free burger that no one is forcing you to touch.
Ask HN: How do you use internet to enrich your life while avoiding the pitfalls?
Nervous System Manipulation by Electromagnetic Fields from Monitors
Aesthetic revulsion at software bloat is the intuitively derived conclusion of logically derived facticity.
The C++ example is incredibly unsafe as it's not doing any bounds checking so the comparison isn't even fair. You wouldn't write code that way in C++ unless you have some kind of absolute trust in the caller and the slice was of known fixed size and it was impossible that refactoring would never change the size.

Here's a fair comparison with C++:

https://godbolt.org/z/qh5n49Y69 https://godbolt.org/z/rdET7aT5d

As you can see the Rust version is faster (the only major difference is Rust embeds more information about the panic locations rather than having a single shared message for the exception).

In either case though I wouldn't write the Rust or C++ that way, I'd write a single expression that filled in all the values at once rather than doing them line by line after checking the size a single time. Rust can then elide the bounds check if it knows that you already checked. In Rust and C++ you would should use iterators via for-each loops or a single statement initializer.

(If you want, you can use unsafe and get identical performance to the C++ version using .get_unchecked())
Is this some meme I didn't hear about?
I remember one time on sixth street. It's midnight. Frazzled lady asking if I'll trade food stamps for a couple of slices of pizza.
Functions from Python in JavaScript
Your caricature of a typical (or at least prevalent) person who has objections to the dominant Covid narratives suggests your depth of inquiry into the subject is limited to a few sources as well. In fairness, it may be that a lot of the more "out-there" people are more willing to discuss their views; since rational people will see it's pretty much a losing proposition to be open about such things in the current climate. Personally it's the only climate-change i'm hoping for.
Bjarne is an exception.
This is ice diving with people doing a rather tricky job of walking upside down on the ice. It is much harder than it look.

Imagine where the center of gravity is when there are a pair of lungs with air (expanding and contracting), and a bunch of weights where the tanks are. Inside the suit there is also free moving air that want to rush down to the feet, and air tramped by very heavy clothes inside the suit. On top you are standing on the very even and slippery waterside of the ice. The gear is also designed towards being weighted so you get a nice trimmed horizontal profile, and so it really want to tip over when you are doing something like this.
It’s funny, because the reason van gogh’s work is held in such high regard likely has a lot more to do with politics than the particular merits of his work.
I’ve seen this claim made a few times.

If this is true then surely it would be in the US’s interest to stop doing it! Stop us freeloaders from mooching off your drug development!

Personally I’m doubtful that this claim is broadly true though. I think it should at least be backed by some decent analysis.
> At least now we can wear masks.

I sure hope this remains socially acceptable, but the way things are going, I don't think this will last in the US. I am aware that the first SARS outbreak left a mask wearing culture in parts of Asia, but American culture is pretty different. I was optimistic mask wearing would remain in American culture, but the last month or so has changed my mind. Mask usage in my area has been rapidly dropping and the trend appears to be accelerating.

The one things that may keep mask wearing alive (at least in my area) are the wild fires.

I have really enjoyed the relative privacy and not worrying about getting sick that mask wearing has provided me. I think this may be the only 1.5 year long stretch of time I haven't gotten sick. It has also really helped with my allergies.
Yes, but it depends if the node.js app has the option of generating a fully static site. But it will also need to generate relative links for the browser to be able to directlyy load the site
I don't see a major functional difference between installing the spyware and taking the pictures with an open browser tab, a Facetime call to yourself, or a long lens from outside the store.

It's hard for me to see those things as rising to the level of criminality on a publicly accessible computer in a public space, so it's hard for me to be offended just because installed software was used to achieve the same ends. Maybe if the intention was malicious it would be more offensive to me.

The legal(?) surveillance both in stores and throughout our lives used for manipulative purposes by Apple et al. that the project was at least partially intended to highlight is significantly more offensive and wrong to me than the project itself.
Indian state Bihar in fudging row as Covid death toll jumps by 72% after recount
I'd rather donate to w10privacy, ameliorated, and such windows fixing scripts.
Doing the right thing is a cost with few benefits, apparently.

If it were free or obviously short term beneficial to them, they would be doing it after all.

This includes LGBT issues, global warming, racism, elitism and so on.
I find it fascinating that the HN crowd complains about doctors being too expensive. I mean what is the comparative value that software developers add to society compared to doctors that justify their salaries (which are often on the same level or higher)?
Since it happened on a weekend, either someone did something stupid on a weekend, a routine operational task went wrong, something bumped into a limit, or there was a complex interaction of systems (all the best outages involve a complex interaction where it's actually hard to assign blame). I'd rally only be worried in the first case.
CloudFront (and fastly) is a CDN which is very different than a reverse proxy or load-balancer.
Right, but Windows drivers are (all?) out of tree and have been for decades; they'll never get every vendor to change that.