skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been pondering the word "deserve". I translate it as "something the speaker expects and wants" but it pretends to be a reason. I wonder if it reveals which opinions the speaker has which they haven't yet bothered to find reasons for.

I've removed it from my vocabulary hoping to do a better job asking myself "why do I expect that?" and "why would that be good?"
Emulation can technically have some frustrating difference quirks - which suggests a "stupid but works" source of consistency by using emulated environments from day one.
FWIW, this is the same list Facebook told[0] businesses “not” (wink, wink) to add their domain to after Apple announced all the tracking restrictions.

[0] https://www.facebook.com/business/help/331612538028890
Let's take a look at your data room and talk
Same for the portrait shown on the lower right at the end of the article. Hover your mouse over it.
You missed the reference: Sonoma has a famous race track; hence car enthusiasts already know about Sonoma and its location in California wine country.
A while back I bought a Casio F-91W to use at the gym.
No less a person than the Chairman of the joint chiefs is said to have thought otherwise. You may find this historical comparison of interest: https://johnganz.substack.com/p/feb-6-1934jan-6-2021
The former IBM fabs are producing military parts. The US government needs them to stay in operation and they don't need to be on cutting edge processes since that presents problems in extreme conditions.
it seems that some people disagree with the analogy. could you explain why?
> I open an app and it's transparently run from a remote server

Windows Server has a feature like that called RemoteApp, it's pretty cool!
RoseTTAFold: Accurate prediction of protein structures and interactions
I see an interesting geometric similarity between the two models, namely the attention mechanism that learns relationships between structure in embedded reference frames (i.e. 1D,2D embeddings in RoseTTaFold or "local" frames in Alphafold) and the true structure of the intrinsic space reference frames (3D coordinates in RoseTTaFold and "global" frames in Alphafold)
Why not get rid of the minimum wage altogether?
I love Valve.
I am so tired of these articles.

It's easy click-bait, but maybe a news organization and do some reporting on the actual living conditions for minimum wage workers since they're clearly living somewhere.
> Minimum wage is a ridiculous concept. Why make it illegal to accept wages below certain levels? The only thing it does is increase unemployment.

I'm not very strong on economics so mine is likely a foolish perspective, but I always thought minimum wage existed to prevent a race to the bottom where the bottom is asymptotic? Since there are companies getting away with paying minimum wage now, doesn't this indicate that they're fine paying as little as possible but also aren't lacking in employees? Corporations already have such one-sided power over job seekers (I know that I as a dev am guilty of forgetting this from time to time), I find it very difficult to believe that without a mandated minimum, there would be no shortage of companies eager to get away with paying even less. They're doing it now and being successful, why wouldn't they do it then and be successful?

And we can say all day and all night how "the market will correct this, no one will work for them!" but clearly since there are people working for the absolute minimum right now, there would be people working for the absolute minimum then too; the only difference is that the current minimum is set by the government and this theoretical minimum would be set by each individual corporation. I may not have a lot of faith in the government, but I sure know which of those two I'd rather rely on in this case.

But again, I have no formal econ education, so I'll confess I don't know anything about anything. Genuine question: how does minimum wage increase unemployment? Sure, if Alice was earning minimum wage, her boss could hire Bob at half minimum wage if Alice took a 50% pay cut, but how does that actually help Alice or Bob? Yeah, unemployment drops, but welfare claims and poverty levels skyrocket as Alice joins Bob in the welfare system. I just don't see it, but I'm clearly missing something.
Before you begin to make use of the PSL, consider some of its problems: https://github.com/sleevi/psl-problems

FWIW, the link above successfully convinced me and a coworker not to use the PSL.
And we can ALWAYS create some artificial distinction between business to justify obvious consolidation. Following parent's idea we would never have too few companies if at least two are left remaining.
The requirements and financial penalties for failing to perform the duties specified in the contract are spelled out... in the contract. The biggest one is the government could neither give you a pile of money nor give you the opportunity to earn more piles of money in the future.

There is no way you could do your job badly enough for it to be treason nor as far as I know subject one to a military tribunal.
IKEAs response is a bit disappointing, though.

They could've come out much more strongly against the FSC and the allegations ie. something like "we're taking the Earthlink report very seriously and will be working with the FSC to have a full investigation performed on the origin of the wood sourced for these product lines". Instead they denied any wrongdoing (not the point, IKEA) and quietly dropped the supplier.

Based on what I read in this article, to me it seems like IKEA is just covering their own ass as much as possible while not asking for any accountability from their suppliers in the process. Maybe they are worried about what further scrutiny of their suppliers might uncover. Don't ask, don't tell.
In theory, if adequate attention is spent on both maintaining the implementation as well as the tests, this is perfectly valid. In practice, this trade-off between expedience and verification goes towards the former when it comes to rapid development.
FYI, this article was written in 2016.
Excellent explanation. We can get a little quantitative if we remember that the fundamental frequency of a vibrating string is sqrt(T/μ)/(2L), where T is the tension, μ is the linear density, and L is the length. So if we make the string twice as long, (T/μ) has to be increased by a factor of four; if we keep the tension the same we can use a string with 1/4 the linear density, which I guess would decrease the inharmonicity significantly.

The square root magnifies the effect of increasing the length, so you get a lot from making the piano a bit longer. The project is a wonderful idea.
That makes plenty of sense, thank you for the explanation!
this technology has been around for a while: Webservices (WSDL+SOAP all based on XML)
I had not thought of that. I'd still rather see it on a local billboard, but as the sibling post says, my opinion is irrelevant anyway.
Nobody mentioning, the guy was 16 when he started the build? Just W.O.W.!
Not the successful ones ;)
*than the iMac, I meant to say in para 2, apologies!
Main industry for kdb+/q is finance, specifically sell-side or very large buy-side firms.

I wouldn't call it "common", but it's pretty well known.

kdb+/q devs certainly have good job security, heh.
Some other cool Ink & Switch projects:

Cambria [1], "isolated software layer that translates data between schemas on demand"

Diesis [2], a browser plugin that locally finds connections between the pages you've visited

[1] https://www.inkandswitch.com/cambria.html
[2] https://github.com/inkandswitch/ksp-browser
Nice comment! Some nits.

> Any division by Foo is equivalent to multiplying by (1/Foo), which might be faster

that's not just a weird property you can use for performance, standard grade-school division doesn't work in fields because the results are outside of the field.

So division is redefined using the modular inverse-- which has a natural definition the modular inverse a of element x is the value that makes the product ax equal the identity.

The "cool optimization" though is that since modular inverses are kinda expensive, you can rewrite your arithmetic to keep things in fractional form as long as possible and get a big speed-up.

[This also applies to ordinary numbers with division: E.g. use newton's method to compute square roots but don't do any division, keep everything as fractions -- with that trick you can compute pretty accurate square roots in your head! ... seems people don't get taught this kind of thing any more because of access to calculator :) ]

> And again, this is most important for GF(2^32), aka the 32-bit number field that's common on today's computers.

This makes it sound like you're saying that regular computer arithmetic is GF(2^32). :)

In my experience GF(2^32) arithmetic is fairly uncommon! Work in GF(2^8) is extremely common, e.g. it's used all over in error correcting codes. The field size is common because it's perfectly reasonable to implement multiplication using a log and inverse log table.

For 2^32 you really want a CLMUL instruction if you want high performance. Though once you have one you can easily go to 64-bits if it's useful for your application.

You won't find a lot of binary extension field (GF(2^n)) stuff in crypto these days except sometimes hidden deep inside a block cipher (like the AES sbox) because the extensions create a lot of additional and surprising algebraic structure. E.g. in these fields (x + y)^2 == (x^2 + y^2)! ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freshman%27s_dream ) Unless you're doing something where the structure is useful, it's better to not have it.

Error correcting codes, CRCs, hashes, and related stuff-- however, has lots of it.
> You can't field-update software which has to pass a hardware-enforced integrity check. This is by design, and is very much a feature (for further reading, look into anti-tamper).

The suggested notion that anti-tamper integration exists on arbitrary whathaveyou weapon systems is, at best, misinformed. Field updating of operational software at the box level over e.g. 1553, or ARINC 429 via 615, or even vanilla RS-485 PHY via bespoke protocol, is very much a thing and almost de facto mandatory capability for most systems. If we broaden the scope of the term "field" to include intermediate-level maintenance in forward-operating labs staffed by uniformed personnel, then even firmware updates of cherry-picked circuit card assemblies can be a thing (although much simpler isolation to a replaceable circuit card or modular assembly is a lot more typical; CCA-level firmware updating is usually reserved for depot or OEM activity).

> In general, military (electronic) gear is designed to be difficult to repair because repair and reverse-engineer are pretty similar.

Bullshit. In fact the exact opposite is almost always boilerplate baked into acquisition performance objectives, sometimes even down to defining explicit MTTR targets. Certain systems even modularize the anti-tamper crypto applique portion to enable repair of everything else that isn't anywhere near as sensitive and much more probable to fail based on analysis.

The real meta is an adversarial one where private defense contractors are intentionally exploiting a complex process with the objective intent of locking in the ever so lucrative OEM sole source sustainment dependency, and the corrupt influence on DFARS statutory language as it relates to technical data rights is a critical part of that game.
Tipped workers take some liberties with the income math. I spent a decade in the restaurant industry and front of house made considerably more than the back of the house while also paying less tax even though they were "only paid $2.75 an hour". Generally speaking cash tips are not reported and tax free, a server will make in excess of $20 an hour in a moderately successful resturant. The back of the house jobs now start around $13 an hour for unskilled labor in a hot and dangerous kitchen, every cent of it subject to tax. In addition by under reporting income, tipped workers often gain access to social programs that their true income would disqualify them from.

I don't know what the deal is with your university in particular, but your local Amazon warehouse is paying $15 an hour as that is their national minimum. Walmart just recently announced they are moving to $15 nationally as well I believe.
duplicates:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27841355

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27850918
The jobs people are being paid minimum wage to do don't suddenly go away if the people doing them move away.

The solution clearly involves building sufficient housing and/or raising the minimum wage.
Also how much time can be wasted by not being alerted of the common pitfalls.
Come on, “dumping”? We can visit Facebook for hyperbolic and paranoid cynicism.

Pragmatically speaking, it’s the only vaccine (that Canada has access to) that can be stored and transported in a regular fridge. Logistically it’s the best choice for donating to poorer, undeveloped countries.

Sure, it’s slightly higher risk than the others, but it’s a thousand times better than nothing.

On a personal note, my 69 year old mother got it and had no problems. The odds of developing problems are astronomically low.
RAII is very obviously a bad idea, and I'm shocked that more people can't see this. it's "fine" until it isn't, and when it bites you, it crushes your arm. you are unlikely to ever forget this after it happens. it's like driving a car fast while blindfolded; you will crash, and it will hurt, it's just a matter of when.
> it may well become trivial for an underage user to pretend to be those spiders therefore bypassing the age protection.

I don't think so; forging a reverse DNS so your IP address looks like you're a spider connecting from google.com is not trivial. The other aspects of the connection can be easily faked, of course, but that means nothing if the site is validating on IP block or domain.

(There will likely be trivial ways to defeat the age checks, just not by way of the route of successfully pretending to be the Google spider.)
I don't know if they updated it in response to your comment, or you overlooked the <h1>World’s Most Flexible Enterprise Robotic Process Automation Platform</h1> but: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robotic_Process_Automation
> ... this creates a second place where a project would need to express dependencies between modules.

You're right, but from my experience with using josh it really hasn't been a pain point. This, however, is coming from the context of having a build system which (appropriately) checks out all relevant josh workspaces as part of the monorepo verification build, and builds all of those workspaces along with building the relevant parts of the monorepo. Thus, if someone adds a new dependency in a workspace project build, the main monorepo verifier build will stop them from committing that change without also making sure the dependency is added to the workspace file, because the associated workspace build part of the verifier will fail (due to the missing dependency).

Additionally, if you're working in a workspace and you add a new dependency, your own local checkout build will fail due to that missing dependency until you add it to the workspace file (and then get that new dependency). As long as you have builds and tests covering your workspace, it's pretty easy to figure out if you forget to add the dependency to the workspace file.

Lastly, at least from my experience, it's overall been a pretty inconsequential price to pay, as new dependencies aren't added frequently after a project finishes its initial start-up phase.
Restoring your privacy costs money, which makes it a marker of class
Wow what an email. Scathing indeed. If it means anything, it looks like that email wasn't referring to the author of the blog posts (which I've been consuming and appreciating quite regularly).
If the government starts taking homes from one person and giving them to another, there will be war. This is not Germany 1933, i’m not saying that’s what you’re talking about, but it sounds like it. Taking from one and giving to the other is not a solution.
I used to work for a defense contractor in the late 80's, and my job was to build "spares kits" for our products -- every component in the system had one or more spares that were packaged up and sent along with the equipment so it could be repaired in the field. I assumed all military procurements still worked this way, with enough spares and/or documentation to do field repairs.

Though this product was relatively easy to repair, it was mostly discrete circuit boards plugged into a backplane. Most of the components were socketed and could be easily replaced if needed.
A better link is to their history page: https://paradoxgameconverters.com/history.html
I'm probably super boring but I like .NET. Although I do that for work and have no complaints because it's like a better version of Java. Then just standard Javascript and jQuery for the frontend. Gets the job done and is super easy to understand.

I think it's "fun" because I have I don't have to deal with "how" something works. My perspective instead is "how" I can implement it. Chances are there is also a nuget package, dll, or some api out there for the same boring CRUD app we're doing so it helps expose me to more things even easier.

That all being said, when things don't work, it can be a royal PITA.
> I often feel that people take "unit" test too literal

Perhaps. And this is where I think a useful distinction can be made between the "unit" (usually a function, or sometimes a single file, e.g., a C-style compilation unit) and a "system" (a collection of functions that perform complementing tasks, sometimes also a unit).

> You need to attack the "business end" of your unit (or small groups of units)

It's worth noting here, that sometimes the business logic extends all the way to the "unit". This is usually in very technical domains. Like say, writing a maths helper library for consumption by other programmers (either internally or externally) would often have a clearly specified outcomes at the unit level.
This has nothing to do with anything being discussed here. Stay on topic.
2-8hours.

If it can do low-resource gaming for 8 hours, its not lie. And honestly, thats not something too far-fetch.

The only one lying here is you, since its not even released yet for you to test the claim. Not to mention how you conveniently left out "2-" from the battery life range

What? Did you expect to run Cyberpunk 2027 for 8 hours on single charge this machine?
Wonder if this will go under Intel Federal since GlobalFoundries is the only US foundry able to do some DoD work.
A different article about the pitfalls of intelligence is "The Outsiders"[0], which provides actual data.

[0]: https://prometheussociety.org/wp/articles/the-outsiders/
Please stop repeating falsehoods. This simply isn’t true.
Yeah, while it's disheartening to see that this research may have been fabricated a sizable amount, it also appears that places that may have leant on this information to justify using ivermectin look to now have a strong correlation between its rollout time and a reduction in cases and deaths from covid19.

India Graph - https://covid19criticalcare.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/A...

Mexico Graph - https://covid19criticalcare.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/C...

Slovakia Graph - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/JQ-dev/FLCCC_charts/main/T...

Full link containing the above.
https://covid19criticalcare.com/ivermectin-in-covid-19/epide...
This isn't the 60s. Most LGBT in western democracies are out.

But, yeah, there are exceptions and corner cases to everything. I believe the fundamental idea is that "real" life didn't used to be like that, nor is it today. You just don't see the stuff you see online happening at the corner store. And the difference is that it's people you might see again, or can call the police on, or just recognise as fellow humans.

The problem of anonymity sometimes being required also isn't entirely new. There have long been guarantees (or attempts at such) of anonymity for situations where the need for it was generally acknowledged. In one such case, the organisation even adopted it as their name: Alcoholics Anonymous.
The problem is that we've conflated knowledgeable with intelligent.

Knowing a lot of things is not the same as being intelligent. People think intelligence is something that expresses itself on its own. It doesn't, which is why it's hard to define.

IIRC, if you have an IQ of about 125, you can handle any mental task set before you. If you want to become a world-class X, you can, with enough work.

The thing is, intelligence is more like a multiplying force. It doesn't do anything on its own. What's 1 times 0? Zero. What's 1000 times 0? Still zero. Now, what if we multiply by 2 instead of 0? Or 3?

So someone with a higher intelligence would need to put in less time to get good at a mental task, but they still need to actually put in the time. They need the knowledge.

I think you get it on an intuitive level. Because you say from your "perspective that the number of actually smart people is vanishingly small". That's likely true. Because intelligence isn't measured in degrees or being able to rattle off trivia, it's in being able to make the connections and work out the logic better, faster, and with fewer details than someone else.
Which parts are untrue?
I was waiting for one of these responses to arrive. And just like clockwork...

So let's dig in:

>>the 4th of July supposedly celebrates independence for only part of the population

>Umm yeah, that declaration was for land owning, white men. Native Americans didn't get theirs until 1965. We celebrated it but we knew it wasn't "for us"

Using this illogic, you shouldn't celebrate or support the Democratic party, they're the party of slavery, secession, Jim Crow, and segregation.

>So a country that is built on racism, which the US was, it tends to be everywhere, just not in expressed in objective terms and concepts you'd be familiar with.

So a political party that is built on racism, which the Democratic Party was, it tends to be everywhere, just not in expressed in objective terms and concepts you'd be familiar with.

Btw, I'm sorry for you other people have a different experience from you, and that makes you feel uncomfortable.
> our housing policies make home ownership a highly-leveraged, government-backed investment that's guaranteed to appreciate exponentially forever

It's not appreciating, it's pacing real inflation, if you're lucky.

You can tell by comparing it to other significant $USD priced items over decades: gold, oil, healthcare, education, cost of a new car.

Housing isn't even outrunning the price inflation on new cars (a purely capital eating monster). In 2000 the average price of a new car was $21,000; today it's $41,000 (no joke). In 2000 the average home sale price (not new homes, any homes), was ~$205,000; today it's a bit over $400,000.

Most people get their asses handed to them in real terms on their home 'investments.' Inflation alone is enough to ensure they don't earn a real return. And then once you add in maintenance, repairs, interest, insurance and property taxes, forget about it. Housing as a good investment is one of the greatest financial frauds ever sold to the masses. It only works on average in fantasy if someone drops context of the total cost across 30 or 50 years. For the average person it becomes a very mediocre form of savings.

China's cheap manufacturing spared the US a significant cost of living beating over the past 20 years, by supplying a vast deflationary push down on US consumer prices. That shielded households from some of the currency destruction (inflationary) hit that is more widely reflected in the prior mentioned USD priced items.
We memorized pi to 7 decimal places... a few memorized it to 20+
Why does smoke from a soldering iron ALWAYS go towards your face
I’d say that Apple has done an amazing job combating this and Google has made some strides.

This last WWDC shocked me with how tasteful it was in making devices more personal and respectful