skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Would this benefit from the galloping optimization Tim Peter's was talking about on Hn recently?

If one side is bigger than the other, try to find how many elements you can add from that side and advance that far.
Like the Jogging Baboon from Bojack Horseman says: "Every day it gets a little easier… But you gotta do it every day — that’s the hard part. But it does get easier."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2_Mn-qRKjA
I would appreciate some clarification here.

First, capitalism doesn't necessarily require breaking the law, and capitalists use the banking system to a great extent.

Second, many cryptocurrency transactions are logged and more discoverable ("observed") than bank transfers.

How do you fight capitalism by avoiding wire transfers?
Companies act on the will of shareholders.
False narratives should be challenged.
We can't quit oil & gas overnight, the world will come to a standstill. But if Twitter were to disappear overnight, it would have zero effect on humanity, isn't it? In other words, he could have joined any number of good companies making good products, he chose to join Twitter. That is interesting to note.
i saw one where you had to click "manage my preferences", and then they put the reject all button at the top, unlike all the other buttons (like accept all). i thought that was kind of clever in an evil way
I look at it that I spent $100 on this book, and got a $20K payrise. At that order of magnitude, the difference between spending $10 and $100 didn't matter.
That is really the shocking thing at this point.

1984 has just been lapped by reality.

I think it is already a lost cause. We had the chance a decade ago to collectively show companies doing this is bad business. Instead we collectively did the opposite. You don't get a do over with this.

Maybe it is even related to this nonsense statistical thinking that has infected our group mind. Even when it doesn't apply at all, everything is a random draw from the urn.

"We just got unlucky on this draw from the urn with surveillance". Maybe next time we will have better luck even though there is no urn, draws or next time.
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All this would work much better with simple old fashioned money.

OSS isn't decentralized at all, there's always at least some group of core devs who hold the commit rights and who make releases. And they will want to control their funding.
Seems to have been on apps only, not on the web.
Yeah, sure, you can always write raw SQL queries, but that has nothing to do with your ORM, does it?

I was talking about ORMs in general, not about the programmer in particular. So yes, you are right that if you have enough engineering resources you can support everything. But most ORMs don't help you with this, so it is not a feature of ORMs. You can always bypass it though.

The comparison with JS doesn't fit realy well, because JS is the tool you have to use. You don't have to use ORMs, plain SQL works fine as well.
Executive level meaning C suite and it's political and military equivalent

The idea that an AI is going to decide we should first-strike another nation and top brass say "well the AI has never been wrong so let's do it" is laughable.
I have never had to decide which exact Maven version (Java build tool) to use in team and on CI server when developing in Java. Most of the times you can safely use any version of Java that is higher than currently required in project.

My team wasted a lot of time finding version of node/npm/yarn that works on CI and on all developer machines. Purging whole node_modules and installing everything again used to be weekly occurrence. It is much better now but poor design of JS ecosystem still makes me nervous when I have to update node, npm or bigger dependency.
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Exactly. I'm talking about the "select 5000 rows, serialize them to JSON, and send them over HTTP to the browser, only to render them in a table that never changes" type code.
Many British houses have very small rooms that are too small, but there is a happy medium where separate rooms can allow for a group of people to watch a game, and another group to cook, and another to do something else, rather than all of that happening in one space with voices getting louder and louder to compete with each other and the echoes.

One space is not a problem with a 4 to 6 person gathering, but it can get untenable after that.
"have already seen a decrease in effectiveness of their ads"
I take it rather they cannot tell anymore what's going on. Maybe the ads are less effective but maybe they are more effective. They just can't reliably tell anymore.
Folks at Stripe recommend this internally and get a lot of people up and running doing analytics (even some lawyers...). It's pretty good.
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You're ignoring GP's "busting their ass" observation, which is probably key to this. No-one is going to hire someone to write or direct a movie based on their having a degree from some institution. It's either going to be because of their track record in the industry (because they busted their ass at the start of their career and had some lucky breaks) or because they have the right connections (so, nepotism). So I'd say GP's observation is right on the nose. Some successful filmmakers may have an undergraduate or postgraduate degree in a relevant subject, but their success in the industry has almost nothing to do with that qualification. Which raises the question of why anyone in their right mind would pay Columbia six figures to get such a degree, especially since their own faculty appear to be industry failures.
Also, noisier video will probably compress worse.
We all know a ‘Lennie’ from ‘Of Mice and Men’.
The API is something we're exploring alongside the all-in-one HR & payroll product.

With the API you get much higher volumes for a lower price. It's mice vs. whales! See here for what I'm on about: http://christophjanz.blogspot.com/2019/04/five-years-later-f...

As far as how well financially one model turns out to be vs the other, I think a lot of that depends on market size. I do wonder how big the market is for a payroll API. Though we've come across some interesting applications (employer of record companies, accounting firms, hr products etc).

The cool thing that I've always liked about API businesses, is that it's like building really fertile ground for new things to arise that don't even exist yet.

Interesting to think about what new modals could bloom over a fully-featured payroll API
In many ways Google is on the same playbook as Microsoft's Embrace/Extend strategy, but perhaps in slightly more creative and net positive way.

Google embraced search, and they're basically the only one left.

They embraced email and their free offering distorted the market to enough extent to make most other providers also-rans, except a few key players.

Youtube is the only viable player left in the video sharing field. RSS readers are recovering but it also was a blood bath. I could go on for long, Google coming and leaving(or not) markets has huge negative impacts that I don't see Twitter having in general.
Also, most photos look like mountain areas. Not sure how a hay packing machine fares on those slopes.

The plains have proper mechanized agriculture for the most part.
These are known all over the world. Not sure why they are called 'Romanian' now. It's like people just make things up and call it 'country' + whatever and that's it. Next step is to register them as EU 'heritage'.
I suspected I was wrong but I didn't have my copies to hand, thank you for catching it!
Great, Switzerland is about to buy 36 of these and are being hoodwinked into thinking they are getting them at a bargain price. Somehow the F35 went from the most expensive compared to its previous generation competitors to the cheapest. There are accounting shenanigans going on here.
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Well, renaming allows removing false dependencies due to reuse of registers (for example allowing multiple iterations of a loop to partially overlap or even execute in parallel), but in this case it is a true dependency: the iteration variables depends on the values loaded off it, which prevent out of order execution.

Branch prediction would break the dependency, but the misprediction rate here is high enough for this specific algorithm to be usually a net negative.
You're talking about fixed or restricted-supply cryptocurrencies, which do indeed almost always have some Ponzi aspect. These might represent a majority of the current cryptocurrency landscape, but isn't close to being a fundamental truth.

Algorithmic stablecoins like RAI[1] don't have a Ponzi component to them, for instance. You use the dApp and that's it.

[1] https://reflexer.finance
is there anything like this for Bittorrent DHT crawling?
You can have a global package cache today with Berry (Yarn 2/3) although there are still a few tools (say, serverless package) that break without node_modules where they expect it to be. It's gotten a lot better though over the last few months.
Yes, both the tone and the words on paper were sexist. I would give it another look and try and read it in the most empathic light you can, you might reflect on it.
Definitely not worth it to let it affect your life now.
"Charges"?
I never said YouTube is all or even mostly bad — I use it every day and find it hugely valuable. That said, is the question “which platform’s features go against my desire for rich, informative, interest-driven content?” or “which platform provides a more potent means of spreading disinformation through a mixture of algorithmic enticement and rich, engaging, interest-driven content?” I ask because it seems like you think we’re talking about question #1 and I’m talking about question #2.
Why wait for Blazor when Qt is a thing?

I really hope Microsoft realises the only place for Blazor are PWAs.
That sense of entitlement makes me sick.

Tracking users is necessary, otherwise we would have to spend way too much on ads. Tracking users is necessary, otherwise my small business can not survive. Tracking users is necessary, otherwise we can not understand who our customers are. Tracking users is necessary, otherwise we can not identify new customers. Tracking users is necessary, otherwise we can not evaluate the effectiveness of our ads.

If your business success relies on tracking everyone all the time, then you have no fucking business and should go out of business.
The edge case is not the rule!

Unless you happen to have a coal seam in your yard or live on a peat bog it's overwhelmingly more likely that it'll run out of fuel before it hurts anything.

People have been digging fire pits (or building up the ground to the same effect) for millennia because it makes fires more controllable.
Right, essentially loop unrolling through the renamed registers (if I remember my lessons on Hennessey and Patterson 25+ years ago).
One of my favorite tweet/relies with co-creator Billy Markus:

> @TerrysFishyTips: Billy when you made #doge coin did you try to consider energy usage or was that not something you thought about? How can the dev community make doge more efficient?

> @BillyM2K: i made doge in like 2 hours i didn't consider anything

[edit] So with this in mind, no, I don't find their position hypocritical. I quite enjoy following Billy's twitter. It's one of the most friendly/positive in the space, he's clearly trying to uh, do only good everyday if you will.

[1] https://twitter.com/BillyM2k/status/1392952014854778883?s=20
The blog post[1] by the author about ORMs was what convinced me to purchase the book. I've had too many discussions with colleagues and tech friends struggling with N+1 problems and processing too much stuff in the application when they use mainstream ORMs to think it is a good idea. ORMs make the regular CRUD stuff simpler, but seem to make some more complex queries and transactions harder. There also seems to be an impedance mismatch between SQLs relational model and the OOP object relationship model.

Edit: I know there are ways to avoid N+1 problems with ORMs, but it seems to more easily sneak into code when your SQL queries look just like your application level code and you could easily enumerate over some SQL result, perform some action, and think that it builds an efficient query.

I've recently been working with a hobby project where I use the Clojure HoneySQL[2] library which essentially lets you build SQL queries as you normally would, but in Clojure's EDN syntax. It treats SQL queries as data. You can super easily evaluate them to get the resulting raw SQL query strings. There is no magic behind it and it encourages you to use the full power of your db.

[1] https://theartofpostgresql.com/blog/2019-09-the-r-in-orm/
[2] https://github.com/seancorfield/honeysql
When I lived in Japan, I was really surprised what the average Japanese person thought about Arcades. There are Sega-, Taito-, Konami- and other branded Arcades in the bigger cities, but "normal" people wouldn't go near them, because they are run by the Yakuza or Yakuza-owned front businesses.
With the ongoing rumours that Konami itself is a Yakuza company (see the news around the Hideo Kojima firing scandal) and Nintendo having started as a supplier for Yakuza gambling parlours, I wonder if video game arcades in Japan are simply the modern version of those gambling parlours.
So if there are rigged arcade machines, I am not surprised.
Yes, there was, several over time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Postal_Union#Termina... will interest you. I quote the part that is perhaps most intersting to you:

«In 2010, the United States was a net sender because it was mailing goods to other countries. That year, the United States Postal Service made a $275 million surplus on international mail. In addition, the UPU system was only available to state-run postal services. Low terminal dues gave the United States Postal Service an advantage over private postal services such as DHL and FedEx. To protect its profits on sending international mail, the United States voted with the developing countries to keep terminal dues low. […] However, the low terminal dues backfired on the United States due to shifts in mail flows. With the growth of e-commerce, the United States began to import more goods through the mail. In 2015, the United States Postal Service made a net deficit on international mail for the first time. The deficits increased to $80 million in 2017. The UPU established a new remuneration system in 2016, a move that the United States Department of State said would "dramatically improv[e] USPS's cost coverage […]»

The fee structure was changed only one year after the USPS stopped profiting. As I see it, "developing" has little to do with the UPU fee system.
Which is unfortunate - there is a futility feeling in that takeaway / summary, which I agree is often said; you can also use Stoicism as a way to remember to prioritize and focus on what you can actually control… that’s the important takeaway to me… can you control that your landlord is going to try to raise rent next year - no, not generally. Can you look and have many options? Maybe… that kind of concept
It's been on my list and we've made some progress but to be completely transparent, I've been extremely overloaded and it's been hard to set aside time for it.

So, I'll try to get to it eventually but no promises on timeline.
I am in.

But you need a certain emotion sensing robot too.
Something doesn’t have to be revolutionary to be a good product. They don’t claim it’s a research result!
yes, at least with GCC, it is very hard to get it to reliably generate a cmov (or prevent it from doing it).

Flag tricks are a bit more reliable.
Individual OSS projects aren't decentralized, but the process of building and distributing OSS mostly is (leaving GitHub is relatively low barrier). See iOS for a centralized ecosystem.

If there was a central entity controlling OSS funding they could for example prevent forked projects from succeeding.
That is abuse of the monopolistic control the state exerts over the land within its jurisdiction. It would be equally abusive if the state used it to prohibit homosexual intercourse, marijuana usage or atheism-promoting speech.

>>Completely free capitalism brings the kind of aberrations that we can already see destroying the livelihood of millions of people in the USA

The idea that the US has "completely free capitalism" is the Big Lie promoted by the state's unionized activist bureaucracy. The US, along with the rest of advanced nations, has rapidly moved away from being a free society with economic liberty, toward one that has a significant amount of centralized control over the private actions of its citizens:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/social-spending-oecd-long...
For the all-in-one HR & payroll product, we're targeting startups in the 0-50 person range. Part of that is pragmatism: as a young company smaller startups tend to be discerning early adopters who we can easily relate to as a small startup ourselves.

Initially we did wonder if we could sell it back to Monzo, but I think that's a way off - supplier onboarding requirements alone make it hard for a new player to sell to a large company (especially banks, which typically are demanding with supplier onboarding).

Thanks for the thoughts on the API!
Ummmm what? They have a whole lesson on security https://github.com/microsoft/IoT-For-Beginners/blob/main/2-f...

Why do you need to secure IoT devices?
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> He helped make Dogecoin in 15 minutes

It is literally a fork of Bitcoin with extra tweaks and a famous internet meme. Any Joe, Jane and, Jimbob can do just that in 15 minutes, hence the reason why the cryptocurrency market is still in its infantile stage and very unregulated.

8 years later its gotten easier for the retail investors signing up at major exchanges to buy it right now. The whales who accumulated however...
> I would love to hear of analogues from other cultures.

In German it's pretty much just the literal translation of the English phrase and its variations: "(Wie) die Nadel im Heuhaufen suchen" - (like) looking for the needle in the haystack, etc.
Fair enough, it was an interesting comment the way I read it though; makes me think about all the things I complain about where I am complaining about “the rules of the game” - like in a job or something.

I picked to play that game, if the rules are whatever playing that game are using, then if I am frustrated by the rules, am I not the one who should look in the mirror and say “hmm, maybe I shouldn’t play this specific game”
It seems to me the author's divergence of views may be due to his increasing focus on politics, with a particular orientation that explicitly shows through the comics. It may just be a reflection of what's happening at scale in Silicon Valley's tech world, a movement which Twitter, which the author joined most likely not coincidentally, is at the forefront of.
Comparing the launch costs:

> "The average launch cost for Atlas was about $225 million per lift," Bruno told FLORIDA TODAY this week. "Where Atlas V is at today is almost half of that just by virtue of all the changes we have done in this business."

from [1], so around 100Mio per launch.

The same article cites 50-60Mio per Falcon 9 launch.

[2] says the payload mass to LEO is between 9.5 and 18.5 metric tonnes for the Atlas V (depending on the configuration, mostly how many boosters you attach), and 16.8T for a reusable Falcon 9.

So I'd say Amazon pays at least twice as much as Starlink, measured by mass in LEO.

[1]: https://eu.floridatoday.com/story/tech/science/space/2020/11...
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_orbital_launch_s...
> American surveillance agencies even hired people with backgrounds in poetry to be spies and code breakers because of their skills in close reading, language analysis and critical thinking.

Or, more likely, because declaring a major in poetry at a high-tuition private university correlates with having access to inherited money. Or at the very least, with not urgently needing money upon graduation.

It's not a class thing. Spy agencies (very rationally) prefer staff who are as unsusceptible to bribery as possible.
Depends a lot. You need to consider the requirements more in detail, and especially if we are considering reads vs writes, and also what are the methods to write the data that needs scalable reads.
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Sorry, but what are you talking about? How does this "insurance" solve a problem, with or without crypto?
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You absolutely should have a good life with minimum wage. Every wage should be able to provide decent housing and healthcare. Everything else is bullshit and failure of society.
It's Russian Nesting Ponzis.

Reflexer is collateralized by ETH which is traded 65% of the time against USDT which is backed by chewing gum and hope. This USDT trading determines the price of ETH which in turn determines the collateralization rate of RAI.
Netflix developed a game-like branching video about developing a virtual reality video game about a branching novel (Bandersnatch).

They might also publish live videos of real people playing actual video games (Twitch).
I recently watched a video made by an indy game dev (a field I'm currently also trying out). He spoke about his day, but then dropped a comment that some days he only worked 2-3 hours.

But currently here in South Africa things are a little dicey, it's the middle of winter and I'm probably sleeping more than I should.

Even so I'm trying to work as many hours as possible on my own project, but some days that turns out to be only 2-3. At the very least I'm tracking my hours and expected release dates, so I have some idea of the scope involved.
and would it be posible for me to sell the domain there?
Yeah... Makes sense for corporate use. But for a personal computer - fuuuuuuuuck no.
If they do manage to be their own boss then that’s a huge success. Worth the effort it it pays off.
I would personally not agree to tracking, but who should be and shouldn't be in business based on tracking is not for you (or me, or anyone) to decide. If there are people who are fine with tracking in exchange for services, then they should be able to make that exchange.
So what does the Android OS do here exactly if the opt out is selected, anyone know for a fact?
Different ways of handling things get different results according to the situation. Few things are "evil" under all conditions.

And the different schemes can be fluid, for example, a development branch that is continually rebased against its upstream, but only applied there when it is done. It's still "evil"?

The best articles just lay out their situation and findings about what worked and what didn't, and we can use this info to find out how we feel about them for our situations. We don't need overreaching clickbait conclusions.
I read the DDIA book in my own time and bought it myself. It probably would be possible to get these kinds of books bought by the company and read them on company time if there is some important enough thing to learn. But I never made use of it. The way I read books you can tell I read them because they have marks everywhere.
We do have initiatives to learn from each other, but the days are already filled with too much unplanned work and meetings.