skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When does a HN thread ever have a fruitful end? Most threads I read here on the topic end the same way: One side is convincing, the other is not. This topic in particular is important because it concerns an specific document, and the facts therein, rather than a more subjective interpretation of events. Whenever these claims are made, references (from the memo) are requested, and never/rarely supplied.

I agree this is repetitive, but so is the repeated lie of sexism. Since "a lie oft repeated becomes truth" - the boring repetition is simply a means to prevent this.
Most of the population voted for this. Our public broadcaster is running a very succesful series ( Mocro Maffia, https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8810204/ ) on it.

And most of those progressive voters live in the areas which are affected ( Amsterdam, Randstad in general ).

And if they did not vote 'progressive', they voted VVD ( neoliberal, keep slashing funding until it is bare functional : our police ).
Interesting to see the angry comments about how Digital TV fails more than Analog.

I don't watch TV so I dunno how is the situation in my country, but I did noticed when seeing broadcasts on public TVs (for example in bars and restaurants showing sports) that compression issues happen, decoding issues happen, and the whole thing is laggy, most obvious when you are seeing sports, during analog TV times, I would hear the cheers and fireworks after goals, victories and so on, all at same time, now I hear it staggered, with seemly poorer people cheering first, I assume because they have analog TVs and radios.
He Built a $2.5B Business by Turning Apartments into Hotels
Are you seriously implying that "people finding a use for it" is somehow proof for doing good?

Like, that's such a giant leap I struggle to even call it leap. If someone would give the perpetually drugged up guys in front of my local McDonald's a bunch of Semtex-H, I am sure they would find it quite useful, but I also doubt that the world will become a better place.
This is definitely true.

I was given assertiveness training when I was a young boy- I had a troubled time and was put through the training with other trouble makers.

It really changed me, I went from being an anxious and shy person to being a generally motivated and quite confident person.

Which, is strange given that assertiveness training is mostly identifying assertive behaviour as it differs from aggressive or non-direct behaviour. It doesn’t (or didn’t) force you to be assertive, but identifying it leads you to understanding that you can _be_ assertive.
I post this in the spirit of being corrected if I am wrong, the Internet's core skill.

If I'm reading this correctly, the competition for this technology isn't CPUs, it's GPUs. If that's the case, it seems like they'd be able to show a lot of artificially inflated numbers vs. CPUs simply by running already-known-GPU-heavy workloads on their hardware vs. CPUs and show massive performance gains vs. the CPUs... but what about an optimal GPU algorithm?

Traditionally, making the hardware that can support reconfigurability at a highly granular level (FPGAs, for instance) has never been able to catch up with conventional silicon, because the you can't recover the quite significant costs of all that reconfigurability with improved architecture. The conventional silicon will still beat you with much faster speeds even if you take a penalty vs. some theoretical maximum they could have achieved with some other architecture.

Plus, again, GPUs really cut into the whole space of "things CPU can't do well". They haven't claimed the whole space, but they certainly put their marker down on the second-most profitable segment of that space. Between a strong CPU and a strong GPU you've got quite a lot of computing power across a very wide set of possible computation tasks.

I am not an expert in this space, but it seems like the only algorithms I've seen lately people proposing custom hardware for at scale are neural network evaluation. By "at scale", I mean, there's always "inner loop" sorts of places where someone has some specific task they need an ASIC for, encryption being one of the classic examples of something that has swung back and forth between being done in CPUs and being done in ASICs for decades now. But those problems aren't really a candidate for this sort of tech because they are so in need of hyperoptimization that they do in fact go straight to ASICs. It doesn't seem to me like there's a huge middle ground here anymore between stuff worth dedicating the effort to make ASICs for (which almost by definition will outperform anything else), and the stuff covered by some combination of CPU & GPU.

So... how am I misreading this, oh great and mightily contentious Internet?
No, yeah, you're right. Clumsy joke
Generally, Github Issues are used as a bug tracker, not a community FAQ. Asking a maintainer to compare and contrast their project with another project or git feature seems a bit demanding.
This will become much more common. The accelerated adoption of surveillance tech in the past 20 years is terrifying. We are trending towards total surveillance, ML decision-making, centrally-controlled digital currency, domestic passports, and social credit systems. The solutions at this point, if any exist, are political. People need to reject the totalitarian techno-state through law. Leviathan won't/can't restrain itself.
I've seen 2 people fired for running consulting businesses from their desks.

Made me feel kind of lazy, you know, for only doing my job.
Eventually House Atreides will arrive for the spice harvesting.
> Overall car ownership will most likely take a large dip

It many cases it's not possible for people to do away with their cars.

So the political reality is that governments needs to ensure that people can afford to switch to EV (and that the infrastructure follows) or face riots if they make car-ownership impossible.
Interactive Python course with AI feedback
Hahaha that's awesome. Thanks for sharing!
Interesting. Why do you think they are refusing the COVID-19 vaccine given that they have been vaccinated before?
> We cannot and will not ever tolerate this in the Netherlands. This act of cowardice can't go unpunished.

The Netherlands have turned into the European Version of a narco state: Clean streets without turf wars on the surface, but an increase of bought-off politicians and civil servants in the background, creeping into the foundations of the Dutch state.

> I'm not worried about the drug trade [...] I'm worried what happens if they loose that income stream"

That's why you have to worry about the drug trade in the first place. You've already lost the argument
The problem is that large codebases tend to have a huge footprint if you need to clone the whole repo. Git as-is does not allow you to only pull a subset, i.e. specific paths representing a sub project. That's what josh is trying to solve: a "virtual" repo that behaves like a real git repo but behind the scenes seemlessly integrates with the big monorepo.
You would if your extraction costs were greater than $650M. But that's not what the comment I replied to was suggesting, they were suggesting offering $750M to keep it in the ground.
> We could not end Earth's ability to support life even if we tried our best at it

We’re within a few decades of a global superpower being able to deflect a large asteroid which would, after millennia or even centuries, impact the Earth with enough energy to melt the crust several kilometres down.
The only aspect of this story which surprises me is that 25% of iOS users opted in to tracking.
It's all like that. Dogecoin isn't different from any other crypto in any meaningful way
SK-1 has 4 note polyphony
If they take your signature and attach it to a different document, that's called fraud. Of course you'd have to prove it.

First, start actually printing out contracts to execute them. It's old fashioned, and you probably don't have a printer (Staples does). But it preserves your right to cross things out and makes it clear that there is an authoritative "wet ink" copy that you specifically agreed to, not some vague digital assent to whatever they sent.

Also get in the habit of initialing each page of a contract, regardless of whether there is a space asking you to or not. A lack of initials then becomes evidence that a given page is not from a contract you signed.

And you need to keep a copy of what you've executed for your own long-term records. It's ultimately your word against theirs. Yes, this is another pain in the ass for the average 20-something, but if you care about preserving your rights you have to play their shitty game.

Relatedly, I'd love to find (or design) some "legalhash" algorithm that would canonicalize typeset documents into a reliable digital hash. I'm imagining a small set of characters, all whitespace folded into a single space, etc. This would capture the legal intent but leave everything else behind (wouldn't work for contracts with diagrams etc). You'd then put the hash of the whole document on the signature/notarization page, to authenticate the prior pages.
> Or, to put it in Gulag/private prisons terms: "on the advice of AI we decreased calory intake of our prisoners by 30%" sounds much better than "kill prisoners by overworking and strvation".

The executive decision made by a human "we should optimize prisoner calorie intake" is separate from the AI advice "30% is the amount of calorie reduction that prisoners can withstand"

Right now AIs are good for optimizing and calculating things that we specify they should optimize and calculate. If we develop an AI that can independently decide to optimize human calorie intake without anyone doing work to make it an option, then we should be worried. Right now that is pure fiction.

Pre-AI equivalent: These prisoners seem like they're eating too much, so let's cut their food portions. One third reduction seems reasonable.
I wouldn't even agree that it's not an issue. It's something the README doesn't cover.
The Netherlands has a MAJOR drug problem, in the sense that a lot of the (synthetic) drugs used in Europe are produced here. This shooting is related to one influential criminal, Redoan Taghi, who has also ordered a hit on a lawyer (Derk Wiersum) and reportedly is trying to hire people to escape him from prison.

Police are understaffed and seemingly really can't keep up. They make a lot of mistakes in the process, accidentally publishing the identity of key witnesses etc...

Anyways, the "legal" drug system is broken to it's core. The way it currently works is that Marijuana can be bought legally at a coffeeshop, but it cannot be produced for sale legally. It is the best possible outcome for drug producing criminals, as they can access the largest possible resale market through the coffeeshops, so its easy to distribute big volume, and there is little competition (only from other criminals).

I suspect this broken legal system is bankrolling these criminals and setting them up for the more profitable stuff such as cocaine.
Not even say for $500k+ TC per year (not unreasonable today from faang)? Copyright for all pre-existing stuff stays with you, the question is just who gets IP rights by default to all the new stuff (including commits to existing projects) that you do while on that fat paycheck.
DeFi is groundbreaking.

My wife and I paid off our student loan debts with a 0% interest loan and no need to go through a bank. Our position is well over-collateralized and interest generated from other DeFi lending positions will pay off the loan in full.

Not to mention, Ethereum as a settlement layer for stablecoins is gaining exponential adoption. There's a non-insignificant chance it disrupts the traditional banking rails (i.e. ACH, wire, SWIFT, etc.).
How do you seed & grow the network? How do you identify and vet the engineers on whose recommendations you rely?
This is an essential skill for everyone to learn. The article lightly touches on how to learn to be more assertive. If you want a more thorough guide I highly recommend the book, When I Say No I Feel Guilty.
When they say "kill instruction sets", do they mean "abandon trying to replicate the instruction sets of other manufacturers"?

I don't grok how a processor could not have instructions; I thought an instruction set was simply the set of instructions implemented by some processor model. I read the article because I was intrigued at the idea of a processor with no instructions. Or perhaps, with some kind of fluid instruction set, or loadable instruction set.

But that doesn't seem to be what it's about; the article says that what they want to abandon is "deep pipelines".
I've got a 60MP camera (Sony a7R4), and I could see the point of a 100MP: extreme crops while still having acceptable image quality in the result. Doing bird photography after a certain point the size and weight of the lens becomes an effectively insurmountable issue (somewhere around the 600-800mm range, depending on maximum aperture) and the only way to get more "reach" is to be able to crop the resulting photo. So I'd never use the full 100MP, but I might discard 75% of it to get a nice print-quality bird image of reasonable size.

Of course you also need a really good, sharp lens to take advantage of such a high-res sensor. Any flaws in the lens or your technique or settings will show up more dramatically in a deep crop. So it's not going to save you money on a shorter focal length lens, it's just going to save weight.
Google 'ondermijning'. Crime has a lot of influence on the 'bovenwereld'. If you can't see how this affects you, then that's pretty short sighted.
I doubt most of it was on purpose
Please correct me if I'm wrong. My understanding is that the primary economic interest driving the Amazon's deforestation is (wealthy) cattle ranchers and to a lesser extent loggers. The loggers make money off a tract of land once, the ranchers make money off it for years. Neither of those groups employ a particularly large share of Brazil's poor, nor do they exert a price effect that particularly benefits the poor.
At least in the US, the Biden Administration recently called for a ban on non-competes; I submitted a link to the story the other day:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27817290
This is a rewrite of a story already on the front page and adds no new info: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27842648
This seems to provide the same functionality as using Git Sub Modules[1].

Am I getting the correct impression?

[1] https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Tools-Submodules
They could still have paid him the $100K as part of the R&D of the App.
> The actual question is why Google or Apple's App Store is special? Why can a bank pick and choose who they give loans to but the app walled gardens are in the wrong. I think we probably have the same general idea about this question, but I don't have a really solid answer.

Because they have spent untold millions since 2008 buying ads telling consumers that apps are the only way. Flash is dangerous. PWAs are dangerous. Never mind that our app uses Facebook SDK, requires GPS, mic and camera access for 'essential services'.
When I did med trials, I was told -- where you are in a menstrual cycle matters for measuring the half-life of a given med. Men, lacking those cycles, are easier to wrangle than trying to select for a group of women who fit the study criteria and also happen to be at the same point on their cycle.
Honestly, I think the voters are plain stupid because there is no better explanation for it. For example. The greens in Germany want to make the CO2 tax revenue neutral. You then get people complaining that getting their tax payments back is unfair because there is that one millionaire who spent hundreds of thousands of euros on being CO2 neutral and thus pays nothing in CO2 taxes and gets a whopping 75€ per year back from the state.

The benefit from the reduction in CO2 emissions (from average to 0) is already worth more than 75€ so the state is getting a bargain. Imagine that for every 1€ you spend someone else spends 1000€ in reducing their CO2 emissions. Where else can you get a 100000% ROI on this planet?

Of course this is where that fictional scenario breaks down. Those people are the exception. There are maybe 100000 of them in Germany. The vast majority of people that receive money back are going to be average people who emitted an average amount of CO2.
Thanks Java :(
Any mobile dev can just setup firebase remote config and get a "dynamic feature flag" setup for free, with no backend experience required. Then add a few if statements, turn it off during your review period and back on when done.

Go one small step further and disable the offending feature during review only for the next build version and you don't even disrupt existing users.
Most popular does not equate best quality. It means just exactly what it states: most popular (within a target audience). All too often, something less popular is better in one way or another but does not gain traction. For example, because if network effect or because of monopoly abuse.

FWIW, I can do everything I need with LibreOffice. It even runs stable on my Mac. However, on Citrix, my employer does not have LibreOffice, so I gotta resort to MS Office. I gotta work with the tool which is tge default, my choice of preference be damned. Which is rather standard. And students learn to use MS Office because if massive discounts. Bail 'em in when young, and you get lifetime customer. How I ended up staying with my bank post student years.
> he was pretty liberal with his conclusions he claimed were derived from data

Well, ok, fair enough, but if that's the case then the correct response was, "I can see why you think that, but have you considered..." not immediate banishment.
Fwiw this is the core concept behind React, and it is approached in a nice way there as far as my opinion goes. I'm unclear about general purpose programming languages but seems like other comments have good suggestions
> "You can believe that 99% of crypto is bullshit while also believing that the 1% that isn't will change the world"

Is this a quote from someone?

Because you can believe anything, believes are not a good method to find what is truth. But it is part of the pump and dump strategy, make people believe that something is valuable and them dump on them all your worthless assets.
I would call it a huge success
Oh? Why isn't the same consideration given to people hit by "cancel culture"?
AFAICT the big benefit of Pharo is on-the-fly introspection and the tooling to support dynamic introspection.

quick q: I can see the benefit for creating developer tools like the IDE and maybe for creating domain specific languages (DSLs)... but what "regular" applications benefit from this?

in particular, I can see (widespread use of...) introspection making it difficult for a developer of one large Pharo codebase to understand and maintain a different Pharo codebase...

also, Python has (arguably) "good enough" introspection and DSL support and mindshare/marketshare of millions of developers. When is python not good enough?

(asking innocently - please don't shoot)
Surely, as it would mean less corruption actually.
> Most of the population voted for this.

Ok, I think you've just disqualified yourself from further discussion. I'm not going to cross the HN guidelines to tell you off.
You are correct that the republic is designed to balance against a tyranny of the majority and for good reason: the rights of minority factions are threatened in such a state.

>The executive branch has so much power that it is in fact a monarchic republic

That is not true. The executive does not hold power for life, rule is not hereditary. Also, the executive branch is not a republic. What would that even mean? The executive branch is more like a dictatorship within government that is held accountable by congress, the judiciary, and the people. And the executive is ultimately held accountable by the people via the election of representatives.

To your point that democratic republics fight popular movements such as the protesting of slavery, every state has the capability to do bad. This is not surprising in the least. This is about as surprising as saying ‘humans are capable of doing bad’. The good news to my mind is that the democratic republic is the least bad option and has performed fairly well over time in response to changing social mores.
And eventually replace the battery which is expensive and wipes out all the previous savings. EV batteries still need to become more durable and more repairable.

And sometimes EV manufacturers don't try very hard to do right by their customers:

https://www.thedrive.com/news/41493/teslas-16000-quote-for-a...
Apps are allowed to load remote resources.

Your app can be rejected for talking about off-app payment, but how is a reviewer going to find that if it's talked about in a helpdesk document that's fetched via a HTTP call to a remote server and is temporarily edited to remove that paragraph?
NeverTheSameColor won't be missed
I agree with you, lots of companies are hypocritical and they ask for open source work from candidates, yet they make it either impossible/illegal, or at least very very hard for employees (jump through 5 approval steps that take months and force you to work overtime for publishing) to actually contribute to open source.

Another annoying thing is when a company doesn't even have any open source work published under their name, yet they expect the same from candidates.

When a company like that asks whether I do open-source, I pretend I misunderstood the question and just say:

> "I didn't know open-source is important for this company, I didn't find anything published by the company. Could you share the company's GitHub account? Maybe I mistook it with a different account. I'd love to see how company X contributes to the community."
>
> "But anyway, yes, I'd love to contribute to open source as part of my day job".

It's always funny to see them squirm, and clarify that they want to see my open source stuff, but they never did anything in that arena.

Usually, that's also the time I decide to stop the interviewing process. I don't care if you don't do open source, but then don't make it a requirement for candidates.

I actually do have some open source projects, so it's not like I couldn't talk about stuff at an interview, but I still hate it when companies ask for open source when they themselves have nothing to show for.

Another thing to mention here is that having a better-than-average open source portfolio helped me a lot at me career, so I definitely recommend it, for example at the company I work for, they skipped the entire coding challenge during the hiring process, and I got a better offer, too.
Well the real answer is large-scale political action. But the (American) political system is designed on the assumption that a tendency to do nothing is safer than a tendency towards action/change.
Unfortunately doing nothing isn't the safe choice now, and even worse many of the checks and balances intended to be brakes now just act as a stick through the spokes.

Not helped by how many people are blatantly propagandized into objectively false positions by Fox News & similar.
Where does the name “Emacs” come from?
Just want to clarify that it had been on the Play Store for 3 to 4 years before they did this and had reached a couple dozen thousand downloads
Had my Leaf for 4 years, it's time to buy some new windscreen wipers. Apart from tyres, that's been it.
I'm not disputing that it's made some people rich by allowing them to place big bets, but I don't think that's world changing. So did Bernie Madoff if you were lucky enough to get out early.
Probably just people mashing "ok" without paying attention.
Facebook: “We believe that personalized ads and user privacy can coexist.”

No-one else does.