skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
* They support many platforms (windows, Linux,macOS, android, iOS).

* There are server side components (bookmark sync for instance)

* They need infrastructure to run the tests, do the builds, handle the bug reports, etc...

I don't know where you got your 20% overhead, but from what I heard it's wayyyy off.
Hasn’t the meta in OW been double shield for a while? One of the worst ones?
I was speaking about Economy of the Soviet Union not about particular industrial projects or particular state firms. Free market forces are supply and demand coupled with private ownership and private entrepreneurship.
More valuable discussion can be had by engaging with the first point.

Neither of you are likely to affect each other's viewpoint on the latter.
I've been thinking of a software development methodology where any and all development is done through documented users/customers needs and by that I mean that no code or design work is even allowed if it isn't rooted in an feature request, bug report or similar documentation.

Your UI still hasn't a dark theme? Users need to voice it.

There is a super popular third party tool that you should support? Users need to voice it.

New x.0 update breaks backwards compatibility? Users need to voice it.

An upstream provider has a severe security bug that's now affecting your code? Users need to voice it.

It probably wouldn't work for many software products, especially those with less knowledgeable users (e.g. apps for kids) but I suspect that for the proper use cases, user satisfaction would skyrocket and lots of pressure and anxiety would disappear from the dev team when almost all dev change is actively driven by users.
It’s literally a baby sitting as a service.
In Australia, it is.

As a Melburnian who lived 4 months last year under the world's most severe form of lockdown (outside Wuhan), we know that lockdowns work and they save lives.
This is a necessary and an important position to fill, as now-days every dev wants to push for Lambda / Kinesis / SQS and other tech architectures that mainly look cool on their CVs and add nothing to the product (except for risks down the road).
Companies need someone who understands the trade-offs, knows which use cases are right for this architecture and save the company (and future devs working on these systems) a lot of headache.
Or maybe those women are now single mothers because they were able to escape their abusers. You would have to compare data across decades, and adjust for people being more/less willing to disclose abuse.
He says it took him 7 years to feel literate. Does that seem quick to you?
As the company grows the types of people that are attracted and unattracted by the company change, as do those that are accepted and rejected by it. For example, risk averse people are attracted to mature companies, and they don't like risk takers.

One of the consequences is that companies become more specialized and lose deep expertise. To put it bluntly, its because they no longer have people with deep expertise, and even when they do they are ignored by management who tend to be less interested and knowledgeable about the subject matter.

I don't know of any company that has tried to prevent this. It's a general force that permeates everything, including recruiters, HR, their job postings, etc. So even companies that think they're preventing it probably still walk right into it regardless.

Of course, specialization is not necessarily good or bad. In a very competitive environment the company may not have a choice.
It is not so rare to find 100% cotton clothing, most websites have an option to filter on the fabric.
In physical stores this becomes harder though.
But what if you have low latency requirements? Redis is order of magnitude faster compared to Postgres, because of disk IO
The hunch that asbestos is really bad for human health is very old. The Greek geographer Strabo and the Roman naturalist Pliny the Elder both reported a sickness of the lungs in the slaves who wove asbestos into cloth.
Literally every single corporate media has been consistently wrong on almost every issue - from COVID lab leak, russiagate, russian bounty hoax, the Syrian gas attacks, COVID, WMDs in Iraq and so on. If YouTube really wants to go after "old videos", maybe they should look at the 95% of the rest of media too which aligns with their own political viewpoints.

Recent example - The current White House press secretary claims vaccines have gone through FDA approval when none of them have:

> "This is what they’re — what the information — some of this misinformation is doing — and misleads the public by falsely alleging that mRNA vaccines are untested and, thus, risky, even though many of them are approved and have gone through the gold standard of the FDA approval process."

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/press-briefings/202...

Or another recent example from the President's CNN Townhall where he claimed those who are vaccinated can't get covid which is easily false since:

> CDC study shows 74% of people infected in Massachusetts Covid outbreak were fully vaccinated
> Among five Covid patients who were hospitalized, four were fully vaccinated, according to the agency.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/30/cdc-study-shows-74percent-of...

The people who talk about misinformation are often the biggest source of misinformation.
Last paragraph of the article for some reason: “The CDC also said the report is “insufficient” to draw conclusions about the effectiveness of the authorized vaccines against Covid, including the delta variant, during this outbreak.”
Git kind of feels this way when I’m using it properly.
What if I intended to shoot you in the shoulder but missed and hit your head?
You probably should ask someone who was born in the 1920s. If you asked a middle class woman in the 50s to choose between a car and a washing machine, I would bet she would pick the washing machine.
I did not say that it needs to be first hand knowledge, I said that they claimed first-hand knowledge.

Why did they claim first-hand knowledge? because immediacy feels more convincing. A story in first person is more visceral. Why did they feel the need to "make it more convincing" like that? it's a tell.
Does anyone know why sky news UK seems, at least on the surface, far from a right wing rag compared to the Australian version?

Edit : something to do with UK broadcasting rules?
A tiny example how design decisions affect the implementation
This would be true for [anyone except Sky]. There is absolutely nothing neutral about their reporting.
Is this comment chain supposed to be related to the story about the teacher who couldn’t read? Seems like a software bug.
Thanks and yes it is. The model is in fact an extrapolation of Microsoft's Solution Framework from the '90s. On the problem solving side I was far more impressed by a book from Betty Vandenbosch (Designing Solutions for Your Business Problems: A Structured Process for Managers and Consultants) than I was by Prince.
> Wack described his images as a visual narrative of Xinjiang’s “abrupt descent into an Orwellian dystopia” over the past five years.

I believe the preferred nomenclature of the Party is "Orwellian dystopia with Chinese characteristics"
I once worked with a Chef that couldn't read. He made it through culinary school, had his own catering company at one point and owned two residential properties. He was a charismatic guy but very cunning and deceptive. I figured it out after a couple of weeks working with him. I tried to offer him help but he just brushed it off and said that he was dyslexic. Smart phones have many features that make it easy for illiterate people to survive.
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Random nitpick from the middle of a good writeup of tracking down a hardware bug, but 'SMC' in this context doesn't stand for 'Secure Memory Controller'. It's the Arm instruction that lets normal-world (kernel) code call into secure world code (firmware). Just like the SVC insn lets userspace call the kernel, SMC lets the kernel call the trusted firmware. PSCI is a standardized API that the firmware implements with functions like 'power CPU on/off' and 'reset system'. The PSCI spec is public so you can get the function ID values and argument values from there rather than guessing them from source code. PSCI is the preferred mechanism for reset, cpu hotplug, etc on 64-bit Arm (it abstracts the details of prodding reset controller hardware and so on away and lets the firmware deal with it.)
New in Git: switch and restore
For all the Libertarians here down voting Aussies detesting Murdoch because they don't believe in censorship, you're on the same level as Libertarians (which I am too) supporting central banks printing money.

tl;dr: Murdoch is currently the world's biggest central bank for media. Stop supporting his freedom of speech but not YouTube's which has every right to protect its platform.
7100 times is quite a lot. If used once a day, that would mean approx. 20 years of use.

When I grew up behind the Iron Curtain, we mostly had cotton shopping bags for everyday use. Nicely printed, colorful plastic bags were a bit of a luxury. But our cotton shopping bags rarely lasted more than two or three years. The wear and tear was significant. A lot of food comes in edg-y or point-y packaging, which is not friendly towards the bags.
Github -

https://github.com/davjhan/paper-trader-game

Built using -

Svelte Kit

Tailwind CSS (JIT) (CSS framework)

Netlify (Hosting)

Chart.js (Charting library)

Plausible analytics (cookie-less Analytics)
Hippie bullshit, mostly.
My recent realisation has been these shops fall in a category of what I call "rating agency" all of which share common characteristics. For example; Moody's, Gartner, Michelin Stars.

1. Stripped of all the paraphernalia these are yellow pages ranked by popularity in their domains.

2. They are in the business of selling customers to the said businesses. So their primary customers are businesses; restaurants, mutual funds etc.,

3. They need to maintain authenticity of impartiality so it's not easy to find out how they make money.

4. Their secondary audience is decision makers; CIOs, money managers etc., Think of -- "no one got fired for picking at the 1st ranked software from Gartner's list", "But Moody's rated it AAA, how was I supposed to know that fund would tank". It's a terrific CYA tool.

5. I'd say about 80% of the times they do a decent job of stack ranking. But there is an element of virtuous cycle there. The top rated "things" are popular because they are ranked to be so by these rating companies. Once a critical mass adopts then that tech/restaurant/etc indeed becomes numerically popular.
> Which will ultimately backfire on themselves, which make it unlikely to be their (at least the senator's) endgame..

Will it? Are you sure? US media is now so polarised that the various echo-chambers almost never intersect. The US right anti-covid train has been going for an appallingly long time, why would it stop now due to mere facts. There have been facts all long, that hasn't made a difference. To that topic or others that I could name.

> Also, why is there no fact check that "debunks" the whole thing?

Are you sure that there isn't? Have you looked? I linked to an article "debunking" the same character, upthread. I know their name and their position, but I do not follow all their antics: Circus clowns gonna circus clown. It's not on me to research a debunking of that specific performance.
John von Neumann wrote an essay on the topic titled The computer and the brain, which is quite a good comparison between the two types of systems, even though knowledge of the two was pretty primitive at the time. The basic idea is that computers are multiple orders of magnitude faster at serial calculations, but brains offset this difference by the sheer number of “dumb” processing units, with insane number of interconnections. Also, I don’t think that comparing the training of a neural network to the brain is fair from an energy usage point of view - compare the usage of the final NN with it.

As for how optimized is the human brain, well good question. I think not even a single biological cell is close to efficient, at most it is at a local minima. The reason is perhaps that “worse is better” in terms of novel functionality. But I don’t think there was a big evolutionary pressure on sufficient intelligence once it emerged - it is sort of a first past the post wins all.
A combination of cheating, life hacks, folks enabling him, and being labeled as a bad - and then good - student, which diverted people's attention away from his lack of reading.

And to be fair: Some of this was the time period. We catch a few more learning disabilities now (not enough, though) and have more tools to help. We just didn't screen so much in the 50s.
I work with one of very large companies and I'm unfortunate to witness work of mulesoft as well, I don't know if this whole platform is simply so shit or the team "doesn't hold it right" but I would not surprise me if the sole problem in linked article is just that - mulesoft. Maybe it's programming-by-filling-in-wizards or something else - I don't know and don't care, judging from the output I see, they don't deserve to be called "system integration" by any standards, my recommendation is - avoid.
Isn't it common to use multiple anchors? Kind of happens automatically in the process of climbing in a team of two. That's not to say that an anchor failing is a pleasant experience...
This. It was hard, but we managed to go back to zero cases. And we've done it multiple times, and currently down to 4 cases today since the last outbreak.

Meanwhile, Sky News advocating no lockdowns, which NSW took to heart, and is currently at 240 cases today. Looking at the graph, they are following the exponential curve.

Lockdowns work!
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Potentially not secure is not the same as definitely not secure. OSS is also potentially not secure. I don't understand these comments. They seem like they were written by semi-literate adolescents.
What's untrue? The main goal being punishment instead of rehabilitation is pretty widely known to be true. Solitary confinement is torture. The death penalty is still legal and carried out in several states. Even if there are rehabilitation programs in place, the off-the-record treatment of prisoners and prison violence don't make for an environment conducive to rehabilitation.

I wasn't implying there's some big conspiracy where the State _wants_ more prisoners because it's profitable. According to this[1] the average cost of incarceration is around $35k/y, much higher than the $6-14k that can be generated from each inmate, according to the article I linked above. Still, the incarceration cost is covered by taxpayers, and there is a lot of private and side business that also benefits. The bail bond system alone reeks of corruption, where the wealthy can walk away while those unable to pay get to wait for trial in jail. And let's not forget the racial and ethnic discriminations, "war on drugs" and similar farces...

It's a complex topic and we can argue about the details, but there's not much worth defending about the current US prison system. Disclaimer: I'm speaking as an outsider with layman familiarity, but please include links to backup any counter arguments.

[1]: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2018/04/30/2018-09...
Isn’t that just human bias seeping through into the data set, so of course the neural net trained on that will show similar biases. The problem here is the human element.
The world's most severe lockdown and all you have to show for it is the biggest death count in all of Australia (8x the rest of Australia COMBINED), skyrocketing youth suicidality [1] and skyrocketing domestic abuse (especially among children) [2]

A staggering 1 in 10 Victorians "seriously considered" suicide. [3]

The Australian Medical Association projected up to 5,000 additional suicides, with a large portion of them being young people. [4] This is over 5x the current COVID death count in Australia in suicides alone, without considering deferred medical problems, domestic abuse and other factors.

[1] https://www.afr.com/policy/health-and-education/victorian-te...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/dec/01/the-worst-ye...

[3] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-25/one-in-10-victorians-...

[4] https://www.ama.com.au/media/joint-statement-covid-19-impact...
The one Blizzard game that I was fond of more than any other was Warcraft III. It holds a special place in my heart because I saved money for several months to be able to buy it for myself. It was a big deal to me. And wow, that game was everything I had hoped it would be when I finally got it.

A couple of years ago Blizzard thought they’d re-release the same game with updated graphics to cash in on the nostalgia. If it had been even half decent I would have bought it. But it was an unplayable mess. They couldn’t even release a playable version of a game that already existed. That’s when I knew Blizzard had died. I’m done with them.

I’m sure they’ll survive for a long time with their CoD and WoW, but I want nothing to do with them.
I’d love to hear more about retro68, your experience finding documentation for the various APIs. Stackoverlow didn’t exist when these APIs were in use.
14-year-olds are likely not equipped to make such a decision. If all you're doing at school is failing, then the school itself should provide better support mechanisms.
Huh? OCaml is pretty obvious in its semantics and compilation strategy. Maybe flambda changed something, but before that I'd used the compiler source code as a reference on how one would compile an ML.
Nothing made any sense until I got to your comment.
Mike Lindell Decided to Pull MyPillow Ads from Fox News
CEO of MyPillow Mike Lindell has decided to pull all of his advertisements off of Fox News after the company decided to censor his latest ad.

The ad that Fox News reportedly decided to censor was Lindell’s cyber symposium event which will release evidence of all the election fraud that occurred during the 2020 election.

Fox News released a statement regarding Lindell pulling his ads from the network and it read “it’s unfortunate Mr. Lindell has chosen to pause his commercial time on FOX News given the level of success he’s experienced in building his brand through advertising on the number one cable news network”.

Many believe Fox News decided to pull the ad due to the fact they are afraid of Dominion Voting Systems filing lawsuit against them once again.
The censorship debate always reminds me of the 2000s after 9/11 where anyone who opposed going to war in multiple foreign countries - Libya, Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Lebanon, Somalia etc which had nothing to do with 9/11 were labelled "terrorist sympathizers". Taking advantage of this, they also passed a mass spying bill - the Patriot Act.

Stating "man cannot be a woman" or "men shouldn't compete in women's sports" is considered transphobic in current climate. Regardless of which side of the Palestine-Israel conflict you fall one, either or both sides can be censored by labelling it as "anti-semitic" or "islamaphobic".

Just a few days ago there were 2 posts on HN:

Rival weightlifter speaks out on transgender Hubbard's Olympic place:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27598383

The blackout Palestinians are facing on social media:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27645282

In the first case, my women friends are too afraid to speak up because they are afraid of being labelled a transphobic. 3 of my female friends have lost sports scholarships to biological men.

In the second case, the reasoning provided is "Criticism of Israel is Anti-Semitism. Really.":

https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/criticism-of-israel-is-anti-...

Speaking out against the Patriot Act and forever wars would be (and was) labelled "unpatriotic" and "terrorist sympathizer" and censored. Speaking out against healthy living would be labelled "fat phobic". Or the opposite could also happen. All the groups which speak out against fat shaming could also get censored because it's dangerous to public health. The government and big tech would start censoring you for advertising soft drinks/chips and other junk food. Since all religions oppose gay marriage, when super religious are in power, they would censor LGBT content. Pro-choice would get censored for religious reasons and Pro-life would be censored for racism/dangerous or other reasons.

Add to this, the absolute contradiction of their terms of service (as well as the Canadian Bill C-16) where it aims to stop discrimination against religion while also stopping discrimination against LGBT. Every religion from Hinduism to Islam to Christianity is against LGBT, abortion etc. How they plan on maintaining any neutrality is beyond me. And lord forbid when the pendulum swings in other direction and you get some super religious person in power.

The only way to stop all this is to have absolute freedom of speech on tech platforms which should be classified as common carriers. We already have plenty of laws to take care of any immediate actions taken as a result of your speech.

4 years ago, they came after Alex Jones. 2 years ago, they came after Tulsi Gabbard, an anti-war liberal. This year they came after the President of the USA. They are already going after anti-war channels like Jimmy Dore, Aaron Mate etc. Even history channels aren't being spared:

https://taibbi.substack.com/p/meet-the-censored-hitler

https://taibbi.substack.com/p/meet-the-censored-matt-orfalea

If people don't think this censorship will come after them soon, they are being naive and comfortable because the wind is blowing the other way.
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“FreeInit.org is an initiative supporting FOSS alternatives to systemd”
There are no soldiers nor even police enforcing my COVID curfew.
And YouTube hasn't blocked me access to videos theorising about the lab source.
Does it feel "right" giving money to a company that would side with the American killings of civilians for oil and profit? Just trying to understand how morals work.
Great, thanks for the book reference. I will look into that.
Even the PRINCE2 framework itself states that it is meant to be adapted to the context where it is applied. It is way overkill when applied 100%, which has led to several IT fiascos[0]. But the workflows and overall goals PRINCE2 seeks to achieve are productive I would say. I have applied it to orgs where there was NO insight into how to run projects and programs, it has at given a meaning to what we have been working on. It has also given legitimacy of why one chose to focus heavily on things which might seem uninteresting to some managers.

Whenever I deviate we just say "since we're now in agile mode, we don't have to do this particular step here" :)

0, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRINCE2#Advantages_and_critici...