skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the spirit of the FSF's "Right to Read"[1] dystopia story, I present "Fully Automated Amazon Communism" :

1. Everyone works at Amazon

2. Amazon has vertically integrated into every conceivable industry.

3. Everyone gets paid in Amazon gift cards.

4. Amazon automatically delivers to your home everything you need to live your life without you having to ask. It knows what to order based on an AI model of everything you have ever done or thought. Your level of consumption is automatically scaled to your gift card balance.

5. You rent everything that's not a consumable from Amazon.

6. If you quit your job at Amazon, you starve to death. You must even return your clothes because your license to them has been canceled. You could try and live in the woods and eat nuts and berries. Using someone else's Amazon prime account is punishable by death since that's the practical consequence of getting fired from your job at Amazon. The right of first sale has been abolished for all goods, so even if someone wanted to give you food, they don't have a product license to do that.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Right_to_Read
I recall Aeon Flux from around this era
My team upgraded our frontend monorepo from npm+lerna to Yarn 2 with PnP. We saw vastly improved installation time, most importantly on incremental installations. The startup times for jest, webpack, and TypeScript also improved. PnP's dependency strictness eliminated cases where updating a package in one workspace would break a different workspace.

It was a fairly difficult migration, in particular because Yarn 2 PnP does not allow you to import a module that is not specified in package.json. Lots of libraries play fast and loose with dependencies, and so our .yarnrc.yml file which adds those missing dependencies is now 172 lines. PnP requires configuration for vscode and a custom build of TypeScript, which isn't ideal, but those have worked well.
Matt Damon is good friends with Trey Parker and Matt Stone, and the only reason they made him like that is because the doll maker messed up on Damon's doll and he looked like a dunce.
In Israel.
I'm in the self-hosted camp as well with two Synology NAS boxes in two different countries that all of the family's computers synchronize to using Syncthing. Each of the boxes runs a local backup to an external drive nightly and one of them also runs a backup of a subset of (really important) folders to Backblaze. This uses Synology's proprietary backup tool (HyperBackup) which I intend to replace with an open source solution (most likely rclone but I'd be interested in suggestions). As an additional measure I rotate the external drives in one location weekly. So far it proved quite reliable when switching machines (in combination with git-managed dotfiles and stow) and accessing data on demand. I also make a full image of my laptop on an external drive more or less once a month to enable quick restore in case my OS gets hosed. One problem I still only semi-solved is synchronizing iPhones. Right now we just synchronize photos using Synology's DS File and I do an iTunes backup using a Windows VM which is clunky. High hopes for libimobiledevice here but I've had no time to properly research it yet.

All of the above requires some work but it's fun more than a nuisance. Probably not that great of a solution when I'm no longer around though.
All the information you need to read and understand to sign up to Amazon (in English) is 12k words, or an hour and a half of average reading time. What percentage of users to you think spend an hour and a half to read and comprehend the terms. 1%? 0.1%? 0.01%?

In addition, under GDPR consent has to be separate from terms and conditions, it has to be opt-in, and the explanation of what you opt in to has to be clear and concise.
Number will be a lot bigger if you count all their "independent contractor" delivery drivers.
I just moved in to a new apartment, and I've been ordering furniture on Amazon. Why? Because the local Ikea is out of everything I've looked for, which is unsettling because I don't think of Ikea as running out of things.

It works... ok. The delivery company only delivered one of three boxes for my bedframe, I got a refund but now I have a headboard and a mattress on the floor, and the model is out of stock. Woe is me, right?

Everything else has gone off without a hitch, and so, tl;dr yes you can buy a couch on Amazon. Or Wayfair. But not necessarily at Ikea, at the moment. At least not here.
I disagree with their implication that the business is engaging in systemic acts of discrimination.
Not just consistency, but customer service. It's gone down a bit in recent years, but Amazon is still amazing at it. I can actually chat with someone, almost instantly, if I'm having a problem. Having had to deal with flight delays on American Airlines recently, it's insane how much of a difference there is.
So 0.65%? Not insignificant, but using “1 out of every 153” seems intentionally worded to sound more outsized and draw eyes.

I wish HN posters would stop encouraging this lowbrow form of journalism. For an educated community, people sure do love their cheap clickbait headlines here.
While the entire series is absolutely incredible, I _loved_ the premise of human beings knowing 400 years in advance that aliens are coming. Such a fascinating start to the trilogy.
We’ve seen similar things for general contractors and construction, which is a market we don’t yet serve. Today we target jobs that are completed within one day. We find our jobs get prioritized because we drive material volume to contractors.
Eventually, we'll need philosophers to sort it all out.
For some reason I actually did not know this!
I was at that Stanford lecture! Assuming it was the one that I attended, the Intel engineer was John Crawford, the lead architect of Merced -- and John Hennessy was absolutely annihilating him. I described attending that lecture in a Reddit AMA years ago [0]:

In fact, allow me to tell a story: as a young engineer, I attended a talk at Stanford, by John Crawford, architect of the Itanium (then known as Merced). He was presenting a bunch of benchmarks that seemed... dubious. And while Merced kicked butt on Eight Queens, it was terrible on gcc (and everything else that looked vaguely real-world). Even as brash as I might have been (ahem), I wasn't about to say anything, but then some guy in the back of the room just got on Crawford on this. Crawford tried to shake him off, but the guy was just a badger, at one point saying "Doesn't this just willfully ignore everything we've learned about commercial workloads over the last decade?" At this point, I turned around -- who the hell was this guy?! -- and saw that it was none other than John Hennessy himself. A Silicon Valley gangland slaying if ever there was one -- and told me everything I (or anyone) needed to know about Itanium's fate.

The room was packed (and open to non-Stanford students, which is how I got there); glad to know I wasn't the only one on whom this made an impact!

[0] https://i.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/31ny87/i_am_the_cto_of_...
> fed introduced this program to prevent interest rates from going below zero

FOMC repos and reverse repos predate ZIRP.
OpenAI ranks as one of the most unusual organizations on the planet
Only an anecdote, but...

https://cdn-ctstaging.pressidium.com/wp-content/uploads/2020...
https://www.taipeitimes.com/images/2012/08/05/P18-120805-a5....

:)
In the book that's the state of human science when they learn of our existence. Also, they want our planet and it will take them a long time to get to earth - so long in fact that they predict that if our physics is allowed to mature they won't be able to beat us militarily by that time. They need to stop progress asap.
JavaScript, as I recall, was the answer to Java being crashy and slow on 50 MHz processors. Microsoft tried to make VBscript happen, but was very Microsofty with the licensing, so JavaScript won by default. It’s been good enough to prevent people from successfully replacing it, but annoying enough that people keep trying.
You are absolutely correct; but if you pixel-peep, it's easy to mislead yourself / misunderstand what you're looking at and "see more noise".

That's a prime example how Ken's logic sounds intuitively correct but is technically incorrect and will lead you down the wrong path.

Mind you, nothing wrong with d40; it was my first DSLR too and I loved it to death; also, back then, there WAS some additional noise due to additional electronics between 6mp and 10mp which meant that less light actually reached the sensor, so he wasn't completely wrong :)

Unfortunately, that misconception caused much rage throughout the decade, for example when Nikon released d800, which was 36MP compared to it's beloved predecessor d700 12MP. Internet went bananas on "where's our low light camera". To this day, there are people who firmly believe d700 had "better low light". (I've owned and used both side by side professionally and while I loved my d700 and enjoyed couple of UI/UX choices better, there's no comparison; d800 has better images, period).
Though in hindsight a 64-bit version of x86 would’ve killed them all anyways. Had Intel invested money into that instead, they’d still win easily.
> The new particle contains two charm quarks and an up and a down antiquark. Several tetraquarks have been discovered in recent years (including one with two charm quarks and two charm antiquarks), but this is the first one that contains two charm quarks, without charm antiquarks to balance them.

This is not the first time a tetraquark has been measured, but instead it's the first time a tetraquark with two charm quarks and no charm antiquarks. That's still nice work, but I was initially confused by the headline ("didn't they discover those already?").
I'm not sure what you are arguing here. You can buy things on Amazon but it's difficult to get a Passport right now. How is one thing related to the other?
I dunno, I put Spongebob's fall from grace right around the movie. Before that things were pretty excellent, even if they weren't always stellar they were decent.
The tragedy of Beavis & Butt-Head is that you can't legally get the actual complete-with-music-videos episodes due to licensing issues. I thought maybe YouTube would make this possible given their deals with all the labels, but nothing to date.

Fortunately you can torrent pretty solid TV rips. I was both too young to watch as a kid and didn't have cable, but I watched the whole series with my wife almost 10 years ago now and it was so good. It's hard to believe that show was so controversial. In many ways it was one of the friendliest, nicest shows. I wonder if younger generations would appreciate it.
I think your original claim is where I would like to focus my argument:

> Normal forms not required.

3NF (approximately where document databases live) struggles to decouple the time domain from individual facts. Let me give you an example.

Assume a Customer document has a LastModifiedUtc property. Does this tell you when their email specifically changed? No. It just says "something" in the customer document was modified.

Now, you could say "how about we just add a property per thing I want to track?" Ok - so we now have Customer.EmailLastModifiedUtc, Customer.NameLastModifiedUtc, etc. This is pretty good, but now assume we also need to know what the previous email addresses and names were. How do we go about this? Ok - no big deal, lets just add another column that is some JSON array or whatever. Customer.PreviousEmailAddresses. Cool, so now we know when the email was last modified AND we know what every last variant of it was.

What is missing? Oh right. What about when each of the previous email addresses actually changed? Who changed it? From what IP address? Certainly, we could nest a collection of documents within our document to keep track of all of this, but I hope the point is starting to come across that there may be some value in exploring higher forms of normalization. Imagine if I wanted to determine all of the email addresses that were modified by a specific IP address (across ALL customers), but only over the last 25 days. I feel like this is entirely out of the scope of a document database.

Don't get me wrong. 3NF is extremely powerful and handles many problem domains with total ease. But, once you start talking about historization of specific fields and rates of change, you may need to consider something higher order.
Fatal Attack on Tanker Off Oman Blamed on Suicide Drone: Report
Using a Neural Network to Read Analog Clock Faces
To avoid this problem I use virtualenv for each project _and_ I point to the pip binary inside that env (env/bin/pip or env/bin/python) in my ansible scripts or any other commands.
I settled on this after running into similar problems
Not even slightly edgier. There was stuff on the 90s that's so weird it wouldn't even get a Netflix / Disney / ATT meeting these days.

Ren & Stimpy, Powerpuff Girls, Pinky & the Brain, Magic School Bus, Johnny Bravo, I Am Weasel, Freakazoid!, Eek! the Cat, Earthworm Jim, Dexter's Lab, Courage the Cowardly Dog, Captain Planet, Rocko's Modern Life, Talespin, Tiny Toon Adventures, VeggieTales, Captain Planet, Cadillacs and Dinosaurs, Bonkers, Animaniacs.
Steam Linux Container (2019)
You're talking about the one where the European Court of Human Rights condemned Italy for not giving her a fair trial?

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-italy-knox-court/european...
us only, iphone only?
There’s just a lack of supply for the work at hand. Someday it might slow down and salaries will lower, but for now that is just a priority mechanism that ensures the highest rewarding businesses can acquire workers first.
Spoilers below:

The Three Body Problem trilogy breaks down if you think about it too hard. The in-universe explanation was that the aliens did want to destroy us, and had an attack fleet heading towards us. However, the attack fleet was relativly slow, and they were concerned that by the time it reached us we would have advanced to the point where we might win in a fight. To prevent this, they sent smaller probes to us at near light speed. In theory, these weren't capable of causing significant damage, but they could cause enough of an effect that they could make the results of particle accelerators useless. Without being able to use particle accelerators, we wouldn't be able to advance our knowledge of fundamental physics, so the aliens were confident that when their attack fleet reached us we would be defenseless.

By itself, what I have written is not particularly absurd, but if you look at the other things those advanced probes ended up being able to do, they could have easily just killed everyone.
This is lovely. Wikipedia sent me from energy not being conserved, to time translation symmetry breaking, to time crystals as a source of perpetual motion.

Just need to find a tie-in to 5G and I can write my own time-cube parody website.

(The article is also very interesting, of course!)
Demystifying Developer Advocacy
aren't those recyclable?
This one stands out among the rest in my mind, hence the modifier.
Can you go bike shed somewhere else?
I suspect both would have been able to tell that the moon isn't a traffic light.
The "path hint" sounds a lot like a cursor. Since a lot of b-tree traversal is ordered, knowing the last position in the tree is often valuable information.
It isn't if you know the capacity of your tank in gallons, and want to know how far you can drive on average before refilling it.

Or if you know the price of gasoline, and want to know how far you can drive for some amount of money.

In fact I'm struggling to come up with practical circumstances where gallons per 100 miles is what I'd want to know, could you explain why that seems better to you?
The simulation we all live in is getting a new patch with higher resolution models.
There is a law. You respect it, otherwise there is a fine.

Are you saying european companies that are leaders in their fields should not be fined by the US if they disregard its law when doing business there ? If yes, you should inform the US. If not, then you're being an hypocrite.
For large repos it can be hundreds of times faster than NPM at installs
Reverse Engineering the Stream Deck
Everyone forgets it was mostly MST3K with music videos, aside from the odd short story.
Because your interstellar equivalent of the CIA can obtain the political capital to prevent a civilisational rival from emerging via subtle manipulations, but it can't obtain the political capital and consensus needed to commit wholesale genocide.

There's a big difference between the scenarios.
Kernel Pwning with eBPF: A Love Story
>> I just think that by unbundling the services is a win overall... our application looks more like a normal Go webapp<<

That is a valid use case but it's just one of the use cases for GAE. There is a use case for folks who wanted a pure serverless which means they were willing to be 'locked in' in exchange for not having to figure out or setup a bunch of servers/services and doing the integration. It was powerful for some folks to not have to worry about search, memcache, users, etc. You just drop an API link and you now have access to all of the above services.

At the end of the day, maybe Google decided that the number of folks with your own use case far outweighed those with the other use case that I described.
I think the obvious lack of uptake of the free software for applications makes GP right.
And now I am imagining something that’s time-amorphous, like a time crystal, but that doesn’t cycle orderly over a predictable set of states at regular intervals, but that does so irregularly tracing itself into multiple paths between its possible states.
Perhaps we look to be an exceptional vacation spot, and there are space Karen's who desire an "all natural" planet instead of a terraformed one.
> The biggest problem, to me, was suggesting that Mark basically stole the concept from the Winklevoss twins.

I don't think the film suggests that at all. It says the Winklevoss think this, of course. But it doesn't agree with them.

> What he did to the Winklevoss twins was tell them he was working on their project while working on his own intentionally trying to derail them.

That's also exactly what the movie says. The film is on the Winklevoss's side at all - it makes them look ridiculous for thinking their "innovative" idea is that a harvard.edu address is exclusive. They're douchebags who want to make a website to put on the internet what is already happening at the Finals clubs (buses bringing in hot women to party with harvard legacies).

The part of the film that I thought was the biggest problem was that it framed the whole Facebook project as Mark's way to deal with loneliness. The film starts with him being dumped by Erica. The film ends with him refreshing (pathetically) the pending friend request to her on Facebook.

In reality he had a long term girlfriend when he started developing Facebook and she is now his wife.

Mark maybe a socially awkward human who doesn't quite understand that Facebook has become a weird perversion of actual social interaction, but he is not alone the way the film constantly repeats (Eduardo: "I was your only friend")
I prefer to read rather than wait in suspense: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collatz_conjecture

I knew of it as "Kakutani's problem".

> start with any positive integer n. Then each term is obtained from the previous term as follows: if the previous term is even, the next term is one half of the previous term. If the previous term is odd, the next term is 3 times the previous term plus 1. The conjecture is that no matter what value of n, the sequence will always reach 1.

Update: Wikipedia article says "As of 2020, the conjecture has been checked by computer for all starting values up to 2*68"

So, I decided I would check starting with `0x00000000000001000000000000000000` ... It looks like I can't count :-)
A former product manger thinks software engineers are getting paid more. What an irony.
I seem to have issues with using Yarn or NPM v7 with Gitlab NPM private registry.

Sadly, I can't use NPM v7 or Yarn yet :(
I had issues with Yarn 1, when it came to concurrently managing its own cache, when I had packages, which have dependencies to private git repos, which could be referenced using multiple ways of writing their URLs. In such cases one had to manually make sure, that the order of installed packages is exactly right, otherwise the cache gets into problems and errors would appear. Afaik that issue never got resolved, except perhaps by accident in a newer version of Yarn, but no explicit treatment of admission of the issue.

To me it was outrageous, that a tool used by so many could have such flaws. I stayed with npm, which also has the advantage of storing a more precise lock file than Yarn and I never had the same kind of issues as I had with Yarn. It seems more standard and safer than Yarn ever did, so I never bothered with upgrading Yarn.

I often need to work with a project, which has a big monorepo and chose to bundle its version of Yarn with that. Now it seems that there will forever be a Yarn version inside that project.

I have not noticed that much of a speed difference between npm and Yarn once things are cached and I value safety and correctness more than speed anyway, so that has not been a reason for me to try and make the switch either.
Kind of gives me NYC Subway font vibes
Aeon flux is mentioned and the creator is quoted in this article.

AF was very influential on me. We did not have cable when I was a kid, but my grandparents did.

I saw aeon flux there and I think it sent me toward sci-fi / horror. Many of the shirts had frightening or bad endings for the hero.

Beavis and Butthead got cut down some when Beavis was no longer allowed to say “Fire!”

I also think Beavis and Butthead paved the way for Ren and Stimpy.
Odds are the author didn't write the headline, and the author mentions MTV's willingness to push the boundaries of acceptable taste as an enabling factor that brought innovative shows to MTV, not as an innovation in itself.
> While it's possible that more people work at a McDonald's than either Amazon or Walmart — the fast-food brand estimates more than 2 million globally — the company primarily operates on a franchise model, so it directly employs less than 50,000 in the US.
I can access the page just fine from India
I agree, though supporting Itanium was arguably more costly than other platforms, since the compiler was somewhat special.
Movies, music, and microcode are holding up pretty well, for that matter.
iirc the solar system contained the closest planets, which is why they chose it. I don't think it matters if they want mars or earth, there's no way we would let them do that (send a massive military fleet definitely just to mars). they wanted to ensure their technology remained superior by the time they arrived
Maybe because we're their big brother tv show or just their zoo
From Bitcoin to big banks, America's concentration of wealth is getting worse
Hum, guess I'm definitely exposing my lack of physics knowledge, but my understanding was that entropy is only guaranteed to increase or stay the same in any isolated system. That the inequality is >= not >. If so while like this exact example might not work, there isn't anything clearly wrong with something that just has repetitive motion
I agree.... the whole point of a b-tree is to already subdivide the dataset in smaller manageable sets. A binary search wont be much help on those slices if the tree is constructed properly.
And yet code in Swift is much cleaner than anything in Javascript. I say that having mostly written Swift & Javascript at my jobs and on the side.
No, the Italian Supreme court definitively acquitted them and explicitly ruled that they were innocent. I'm sure that doesn't change your viewpoint on anything though.
I'd love to see that too. If you like to see people roasting narcissist streamers and "influencers", you might like joeybtoonz[1]. Not for everyone, and there are probably others out there with similar content.

1: https://www.youtube.com/c/joeybtoonz/videos