skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He sounds like he has no concept of the book market at all, and like most people, vastly overestimates what his collection is worth. I guarantee you he will pay someone to haul those books away.
56 keywords in OCaml, 99 total if you count the character sequences. Maybe a better metric would be "keywords uses regularly"?. https://ocaml.org/manual/lex.html#sss:keywords
Most viruses evolve to be less deadly over time, since a dead host won't spread the virus as much.

Vaccines change that dynamic.
What is it that you think he did? He was accused of 'jigsaw identification' but, to my knowledge, no-offending words have been produced.

In contrast, several newspapers have reported information which revealed the identity of one or more accusers, but were not prosecuted.
> System/software/hardware engineering is one of the most highly-compensated and least-regulated careers out there

Not saying this is the case with most engineers today, at least yet, but do you think mistreatment would be OK as long as the compensation is high enough? In other words, can compensation ever be the singular metric of welfare?

Second issue is proportionality. Being compensated well doesn’t mean they are compensated proportionally. This is certainly the case for high tech if you look at per employee profit numbers. Doesn’t mean profit has to be distributed uniformly but it means it is not distributed proportionally for a non-zero number of employees.

You have to understand that a company is by definition organized around its interests, they don’t miss opportunities because managers can’t coordinate every year on how much to change the compensation. But employees by default are not in a state of organization; thus have a 1-to-n relationship to the company. This asymmetry in the degree of organization makes it combinatorially more difficult for employees to represent their interests.
Given the massive energy required to do experiments like these and the microscopic scale in both physical and time dimensions I think we're centuries away from doing something practical with the particle itself. It may be the missing piece of some future technology we can't even imagine yet.

I think the more immediate motivation is to help either validate our current understanding of how the universe works, or to break the model in an interesting way.
Sorry I didn’t address it directly; It’s a valid view in isolation, but you can’t complain about Amazon’s ecommerce monopoly and put forward Apple’s own restrictive solution as a counter to that. Both aim at keeping you captive in their ecosystem, neither are healthy by your standard.
What are examples of frivolous things ?
I second this. For a long time the title was a turn off for me but I finally decided to give it a chance and it’s was awesome!!

It is not as manipulative as the book title suggests. It’s more like “what actually IS being _nice_”
In essence, they're employed by the queen
> …the next State level paradigm shift….

I’d be interested to hear your thoughts on this point.
Nope, it is - unless you think "loading html pages from a remote web server" is also not static.

The point is there's no computation going on on the server, behind the scenes; your browser is doing all the work of knowing what to fetch, NOT the remote end, with the magic of range requests.
Web "means" it's portable and sandboxed, so theoretically you can run untrusted from the web and it only has access to what you expose.

This stacks with DOM sandboxed APIs so you get same level of isolation in the browser as JS but better perf and a memory model more suitable to other languages.

Outside of browser you still get sandboxed low level VM suitable for running C and other low level languages. Eg. you could compile a C module for say node and ship it compiled as WASM
"facial expression software — which nearly eliminates possible bias"

...and this is why we shouldn't let PR people write about ML.
But do they stake something of significant value on those beliefs or just say them on the internet and it's you who is incorrectly believing their claims of their beliefs to be true? People often willingly enjoy false beliefs for emotional reasons and wouldn't actually act on them if the outcome was going to materially affect them.

I used to have a conversation with a crank who kept almost inventing perpetual motion machines. But every time he had nearly finished one, he somehow didn't quite do the last few steps. He talked like he believed they would work but somebody who actually believed that would be chomping at the bit to finish one and prove it working. They'd be richer than God. It seems like some part of him knew it wouldn't and he preferred to enjoy the fantasy of being an unrecognized genius. Does that kind of thinking count as a belief or not? I don't think it's really clear cut. You see a similar inconsistency with religious people who "believe" they'll go to heaven when they die but they still try not to die.
Make low key contact with a journalist you trust from one of the big agencies or papers, i. e. Reuters/AP/NYT/CNN, maybe Spiegel.

When the shit hits the fan, they'll be interested in even mundane are-the-shops-still-stocked / what-do-people-think etc. information. After it's over, they'll come and need "stringers", driving them around, translating, arranging interview partners, etc.

They have no trouble paying a few hundred $ per day (for the full-time role), and it can lead to something more permanent, abroad, whatever.

But, of course, be absolutely sure you're safe. The risk isn't so much zero-day exploits used to get into your phone, but your good friend selling you out, or someone fining some notes you threw away.

That's only if any of the parties actually object to the international press, which is relatively rare–domestic news is dangerous, international is PR. For 35 years, every time the US has bombed some country, there were CNN journalist on the ground. And while it has on occasion gone wrong, STDs have been more of a risk than the host countries.

Edit: just saw that you are a journalist, so this fits. I'd probably tend to prefer to appear to be as boring as possible. So unless you're already known anyway, driving a taxi may be preferable to running around with a notepad. And while encryption is better than plain text for anything that matters, having no data whatsoever is preferable to having encrypted data.

Also, nobody here knows what they're talking about. If in doubt, trust your instincts.
From the first page:

"a tourist .. is reviewing a menu .. in italian .. paid a quarter for the translation"

Why would anyone pay money for the services which are widely available for free? You can get weather for free, and translation, and many billboards are free too (you just need to supply your own paper + pen). I can see the advantage for the place owners -- they get the money -- but why would users choose a paid version when there is a free one?
I recently fell into the rabbit hole of Aleister Crowley... it just keeps going and going. I wonder what he and the world might be like had he been born in the bay area in the 70's.
But they are in need of a place to live. One of the consequences of the current housing market in vancouver is that housing is unaffordable even as a renter. Those vacant homes, if they were available for rent would drive down rents for everyone and help house some of those unhoused people.
Searched for "porn" -- got this: http://static.wiki/en/Progressive_outer_retinal_necrosis
> Just because we haven't experienced a black-swan event doesn't mean that it's not possible.

That’s going to be true for any kind of economic system. No reasonable person would argue that a black swan event wouldn’t be possible.
How? If the workforce isn't local, then there's no citizens involved which US law applies too.
They did communicate and collaborate at least a bit. I remember reading about the reasons why Ruby didn't go with the sorbet approach, but unfortunately I don't remember now. I did find this but it doesn't fully answer: https://sorbet.org/blog/2020/07/30/ruby-3-rbs-sorbet

I would love to read more if anybody can find it.
Another source: https://youtu.be/kJVj3vp-lho
Texas Instruments’ new calculator incorporates Python programming language
Even so, I love you!
If you're using the types from Sorbet to compile, that means you must trust them. Does that mean that soundness is mandatory in Sorbet, and more significantly, that sound interop with untyped is always checked in Sorbet?
Yagi antenna, some faraway open wifi, tor browser.
DALL·E mini – AI for generating images from a text prompt
A lot of guesses that it was slashdot in 1998 or 1999.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18671747
It is far better for them to offer $15, rather than employees demand $20. Their actions are strategic. Enough to keep the heat off from Union and Labor representatives, but not enough to affect their bottom line.
Beavis and Butthead was the best show ever! It will be interesting to see if they are able to maintain their humor with the current PC cancel culture on the reboot.
LOS is still an issue for them and always will be. You can't ignore physics.

Curvature of the Earth, buildings, mountains, hills, valleys, canyons. The way that radio waves actually move around and through an area. You can only get a tower to see so far.

https://www.verizon.com/coverage-map/ - that's their coverage map

Note that there are still a lot of uncovered areas. The cost of getting towers into those areas and providing full coverage is massive. Remember, as I said in my previous comment, it's also not just towers and antenna. You need fiber running to every single one of them.
What do lose by not considering farm workers?
For a moment, I was expecting a different country...not to worry, we'll get it back.
I don't really have one, but you can find a bunch of repositories of individual people's solutions if you search for "LeetCode" using HN search.

Simply Googling around brought me to this, which seems as good as anything else: https://seanprashad.com/leetcode-patterns/
I did this to a girl at school. It ended up moving all of her singer, and iTunes found them "again", so half of her songs would show an error "can't find this file", because it was pointing to the old location.

It was the prank that kept on giving.
The Beatles never performed any songs from Sgt. Pepper live in any form. Paul and Ringo did so separately in later decades.
See also: Walmart and its standard practice onboarding employees by signing them up to food stamps.
What's the worst that can happen if I put it on a wart?
Yes. Anecdote: An Eastern European friend went to America. Her parents brought her little sister, something like age five, to the pool. The child wore no top. Never occurred to them. Americans were aghast and demanded that she wear some kind of little bikini thing to cover up. The Europeans were confused: "But that just sexualizes her! It suggests she has breasts, which she does not!" Not that they fought it. When in Rome.
There’s so many variable costs associated with contractors.

Things like:
- Variable space + material price and quality
- Contractors that subcontract out
- People lying about their qualifications
- Working multiple jobs at once
- Breaking things in your house, discovering other problems, follow ups with broken stuff and I could go on.

We bought an absolute lemon of a house and have had everything fixed and while I would love a fixed price service, I just don’t see how it’s possible without at the very least a professional assessing the project virtually ahead of time.

I would love to be wrong and I would pay hundreds per month just for a dedicated solution with fixed rate pricing. I hope you succeed.
It is a dead dog of an argument. We have vaccines now, which are proven to save lives.

> The fine doctor/professor, and his 2 juniors have not actually recounted much of the medical literature on COVID 19 treatments except ones that prove their point.

Or maybe they have and refuse to believe everything written on paper should be taken as fact?

The lead author has a twitter account, I'm sure you can reach out to him to figure out if he is in fact qualified to make a claim. Let me know what you find out.
I buy all my sneakers from Ebay (new, not used) and they never cost more than the price you mentioned. There are definitely alternatives.
Sure, there will be some downward pressure on rents (not necessarily an actual decrease) but that's not an argument that empty homes are a major contributor to the high prices. It might not even be discernable above the noise. The argument of counting homeless people and empty homes is disingenuous because it seems superficially like that's the whole problem when it's surely not.
I'll just leave this here:

https://schwal10.github.io/lunatic-fringe/
Long ago, there were 2 companies - one welcomed unions and the other stopped unions. The one which welcomed unions lost it's profit margin and the other "predatory" company kept it's profit margins and grew more aggressively and put the "good" company out of business.

After that entrepreneurs learned that you need to be ruthless to win in capitalism. Don't get me wrong, I support fair wages for all employees, no matter what they do. But in real life capitalism, only the most ruthless companies win (FB, AMZN), unless they have an amazing product (e.g. GOOGL)
This is a great question! I've written up an internal blog post at Stripe about this, and now that the beans are spilled I might port it over to my personal blog or the Sorbet blog. The tl;dr:

- The Sorbet types are hints for optimizations in the Compiler. The compiler doesn't blindly trust them, but rather it checks whether they're correct and if so does something faster.

- The Sorbet compiler can frequently check types much faster than the interpreter could because it can look directly at the object representation, rather than having to fall back to calling a full-blown method like .is_a? or .nil?. Many common type checks are a single assembly instruction, so type checks are actually fast most of the time.

- Sorbet is and has always been designed to have runtime type checks.[1] These have been a part of Sorbet since even before we open sourced the typechecker. Every method already does runtime signature checking, when interpreted, and this is no different when compiled.

- The power of LLVM means that a lot of these type tests end up coalescing. For example, if a signature says "this method accepts ints" and then the compiler sees "if this is an int, I can do something faster," that's frequently only one type test, because the power of LLVM magically coalesces the checks.

[1] https://sorbet.org/docs/runtime
Not really. It's only a matter of time until each and every right is removed...end game for the left has no end.
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“The models are so similar—they almost all use the same techniques with minor tweaks, the same inputs—and they all make the same mistakes,” says Wynants. “If all these people making new models instead tested models that were already available, maybe we’d have something that could really help in the clinic by now.”

Sounds about right.
Mastodon now has an official iPhone app
Better Business Intelligence in Elixir with Livebook
In my case I’d go for embedded Lua with all the business logic in Lua and all the infra code in the host language (Go, Rust, etc…)

What I have found with this approach is that sometimes it can be difficult to draw a clear line between business logic code and infrastructure code.

Traversing through a list of customers to make a report… do you call a dedicated function or do it on the scripting language? If you need a slightly different report format (including address + phone number) do you write a new function on the host lang or implement it as business logic?
> Most Amazon warehouse employees will attest to how much you're tracked in terms of performance numbers

What is the turnover rate? Because if you hate your job every single day no amount of money will make you stay.
Was it an overzealous reviewer reacting to the name “Malwarebytes”?
Yeah, I'm old enough to remember that era, too.

My first encounter with a microwave was at far Bob's in Pasadena. Finals had just ended at Cal Tech and I walked to far Bob's to decompress. I had no knowledge of microwave ovens.

I ordered a piece of cherry pie. Waitress decided to warm it without telling me, using their then-new microwave oven.

The plate was ice cold when she passed it to me. When I bit into a piece of the pie, I burned the bejesus out of my mouth. I yelped and the waitress came running.

She showed me this magic box, which made sense as I'd just finished E&M. She comped me the pie and since it was a slow night (around 2am), we spent an hour testing different foods in the microwave. Bacon layered in paper towels was the clear winner.
People are doing interesting things with mesh networks.
> One solution can be for a union, government, Amazon etc, is to put aside money for a fund that will invest in training these employees so they could one day not depend on these kind of low-leverage jobs.

Unions have negotiated with companies that outsource or automate its members' jobs to secure compensation for the workers who were affected.

However, I think this is a problem that requires a larger solution. There needs to be compensation plans for workers as they're automated away or outsourced. Perhaps it can be a buyout, or a shared ownership scheme where workers get shares in the company or the automation itself that pay dividends. Or a tax on automation or outsourcing that gets returned to workers.

We're heading towards a world where most work is done by machines, and only a handful of people will own, control and profit from them. I think a tax and a shared ownership model would help prevent a world where workers and their progeny are relegated to peasantry.
Some good advice here...it's not a matter of if, it's a matter of when...another black Swan event, coming soon.
The sophons aren’t particularly powerful, though. They interfere with particle physics experiments by actually interacting with the particle beam, but they can’t do much else. It’s mentioned at some point that the humans are worried they could interfere with computers, but clearly they can’t even do that (if they could, Lou Ji’s plan probably wouldn’t work).
Even if it were true, should the producers throw some money her way? It sounds like the right thing to do, doesn't it?
Show HN: Syslab – A central hub to manage microservices ownership
I've had a few contact me outside of HN, but I've made it simple - I use the same username on Twitter, Gmail, etc as I use here (and stated as much in my profile)
I used to be a pretty ardent defender of Apple's right to control their platform. Then, recently, I submitted an app to the App Store and experienced the process first hand.

Kafkaesque is an overused term, but I've not been able to think of a better description. One of my rejections had the following text:

> Your app uses a third-party login service, but does not offer Sign in with Apple. Apps that use a third-party login service for account identification need to offer Sign in with Apple... Please see the attached screenshot for details.

This was the screenshot they mentioned: https://i.imgur.com/7QGLE6J.png

Amusingly, almost everyone I've shown this to is like "So Apple's AI is messed up, huh? Were you able to get in touch with a human?"
One of the reasons I really like Yarn 3, is the really good support for linking local dependencies. The whole “@internal/mypackage”: “workspace:*”.

That, and the plugin system.

Because it meant I could build on top of yarn a build/test system much like Bazel, Buck and Pants. But without the overhead of those tools.

Honestly, being able to build functionality into tooling like this is really awesome. Especially when it’s aware dependency graph.

I often have polyglot repos, with a heap of typescript, and some golang, and other stuff.

I spent a couple of weeks last year hacking away on a plugin, that can look at the whole dependency tree defined in yarn - and develop a build graph that can build everything in the required order, taking advantage of every cpu thread available. While keeping track of what’s previously been built.

From that, I extended the support to testing to do the same thing.

I wrapped it all up into a nice package and published it to:

https://yarn.build

Can be installed with this command

yarn plugin import https://yarn.build/latest

Then it’s just `yarn build` which runs `package.json#scripts.build`, and `yarn test` which runs `package.json#scripts.test`.

—

Since then, there’s been plenty of development. I added a bundle command. You tell it which local package to bundle up, and it copies your repo to a temporary folder, removes everything that package doesn’t need (useful in a giant monorepo), leaves the other packages it depends on. Finally it adds a file `entrypoint.js` which sets up pnp for you, and re-exports the `main` file from your target package.

Then it zips it up for you ready for AWS Lambda (my use case), but also Docker and any other node runtime.

And recently I hacked another interesting plugin that yarn and pnp enabled. A really neat plugin that lets you write package.yaml instead of package.json.

If you replace package.json with package.yaml (or .yml), it will appear to yarn as a normal package.json. Everything works fine (with yarn, unsure about some node tooling), and you even get comments.

It’s a completely separate plugin (because it’s pretty out there), and it only has an effect if you don’t have a package.json in your package folder.

I’m using it on the golang packages in monorepo’s, because those developers are often a bit upset by seeing build tooling in a json file.

The package.yaml plugin can be installed with the following command:

yarn plugin import https://yarn.build/yaml

It’s still a bit experimental, but works pretty well.

—

It’s all open source on GitHub, if you have any issues using it feel free to post a bug report.

https://github.com/ojkelly/yarn.build
It's useful to keep in mind that article authors generally don't write their own headlines on news sites; the article itself doesn't ever claim MTV's animation "disrupted cable," whatever that means, but instead claims that they were a laboratory "for animators who wanted to work outside of TV conventions at the time," which is a pretty defensible claim.

(Also, remember that headlines often get changed after publication; the headline as I'm writing this actually says "Here's How Beavis, Butt-Head And Daria Upended TV Animation". Due to the quirks of many CMSes, the `<title>` tags often retain the original headline.)
How do you know your follows are from your HN profile?
The wealth of the US comes from a few people being extraordinarily wealthy.

The p20 of wealth isn't great in the US
> no-BS return policy

also no fee - the fact i can buy worry free knowing if its not as described/trash/broken i can just send it back at no cost is why i use them. don't know any other online store like that
To anyone doing this; please stop. Cold-contact unsolicited outreach for sales is spam. It is not appreciated. The only thing worse than adding me to some newsletter are the ones who keep nagging when I don't reply.
Given the number of extra-judicial murders and beatings carried out by United States police, I'm not sure this is the selling point you think it is.
$7000.00? How can they afford it?
I understand if we hoped antitrust action on Kindle (since they fought dirty and illegal against Barnes and Noble.)

But both AMZN "bazaar" and AWS are novel concepts invented by AMZN, and they have worked really hard to make them reality on such unbelievable scales.

Nobody thought of AWS for decades, until AMZN faced the systems problem and came up with cloud computing via AWS.

I understand taking action on AMZN acquisitions since they are reducing competition illegally. But AWS is an absolutely novel idea by them, and in my opinion, we have no right to take any action there. Also there is a LOT of competition in cloud computing by AZURE and GCP