skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since the customer is always right, make it a mechanical keyboard as your centering it, please.
> Also, the concept of "practice" yielding improvement is not a new concept, and I'm surprised it seems to be so shocking of a concept.

It seems you really wish to believe anything can be mastered at any level, but it's just not true - no matter how disturbing that might sound. In pretty much any kind of mastery you can improve to some point and then your learning curve starts getting into the saturation due to your various genetical and psychological limitations. Your gains start getting smaller and smaller, and since life is limited it also limits what can be accomplished during it. People who were born with certain talent/predisposition will always win in that race (presuming they also work as hard as you), simply as they start off from a better starting position. You can't just decide as an adult to become a new Usain Bolt or Jordan or Novak Djokovic. If you haven't already started training hard as a kid it's just too late for you, no matter how much you wish it. And perfect pitch is just another extreme example of that as it seems to be closely related to the phase of speech development in kids, which ends when we're 8-11 years old. Try to pick up some foreign language that you know nothing of, just by listening and watching people use it, without any other help. And then compare your progress to a 2 or 3 years old kid who does the same seemingly effortlessly, even with the most complex languages in the world. Rick Beato has an interesting theory that kids can be directed to develop the perfect pitch by exposing them to a lot of advanced music with complex harmonies and scales, as the brain - he believes - treats music same as speech and recognizes the pitch of a sound as encoded information. But again it works only with kids. From what I've read about it there's no a single case known that someone beyond doubt proved to have had trained themselves a perfect pitch hearing as an adult.
Government interference in emergencies is a risk of doing business.
And then you have cases like State of Georgia Vs. Denver Fenton Allen. (Adult Swim did a re-enactment it was so salty)
What do you do about the small number of people who exploit the system?

Consider hospitals and their approach towards giving anti-anxiety meds. From what I've seen, they don't have a good solution.
I think even flawed benchmarks are good benchmarks.

Because real world code isn't optimized to the max. Because real world code makes bad or even wrong assumptions. Because there are usually much more requirements to real world code than "be as fast as you can".

Additionally, those flawed benchmarks make you think about a lot of interesting details. Details you usually don't think about when producing real world code.

Also it's a little bit alike as with statistics. "Don't trust any statistics that you haven't fabricated yourself". Still statistics are useful in general.
> but they should all be working to making a company successful as a whole.

Unless workers own equity this is not at all as much of a truism as it sounds. Could be rephrased as “but they should all be working to enrich their bosses”.
ctags came about in 1992. etags was a little bit later.

was there something before etags in emacs?
Unions in the US (with some small exceptions) have to negotiate better working conditions which benefit all workers, regardless of whether they are a part of the union or not [1]. If there was no mandatory fee, then unions would likely suffer from the free rider problem and be suboptimally funded.

Of course, this doesn't mean that all unions' fees are justifiable for the value they produce, nor does it mean that all unions which impose mandatory fees improve working conditions for all workers. But I think it's hyperbole to call mandatory fees "rent-seeking" when there might be a perfectly rational explanation in some instances.

[1] https://www.nlrb.gov/about-nlrb/rights-we-protect/the-law/em....
Sorry - House Minority Leader
Someone making $250k/year shouldn't think twice dropping $21/month on a tool that truly makes them more productive.

A year or two ago I bought a personal license to Ubuntu FIPS after being urgently asked to debug an issue w/ Python's OpenSSL bindings. Unsurprisingly it turned out that my company had an enterprise license, and had I known whom to contact (which I didn't), I could have gotten a license key in a couple of days. But why waits days and potentially many thousands of dollars of time when I could buy a license now and get started immediately?

Frankly, it's weird how Silicon Valley employees making obscene amounts of money balk at personal expenses as if they're some minimum wage employee being victimized by their employer nickel-and-diming them. But that's just me. In fact, except at startups, Silicon Valley corporations neither expect this nor even give you credit for taking such initiative.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Title_case
Yep agree. The bunkers also forget that there are more firearms in the US than people. So plenty of people will be targeting the bunkers.
The XPS won't have AMD, and the Thinkpads with Linux pre-installed are pretty limited.
What do you care? Honestly, so what if Apple employees unionize? They get what...better pay? They have greater equity in the trillion dollars of value that they've created?

Even if pay transparency was a small step towards organization, you say that as if it is a bad thing. The only people who benefit from suppressing organization are the executives and biggest shareholders at Apple.
I've found that the only unteachable component of perfect pitch is the ability to internalize music in tune. If you can do this, you have perfect pitch. The ability to identify the note, or intervals, or the components of chords is all done through mnemonic devices.
History’s Largest Mining Operation Is About to Begin (2020)
Yes, that might be the case, but I don't want to be dependent on the implementation differences of different operating systems.

I like Apple's approach in this case. Enforce the usage of HiDPI displays by default with at least ~200 PPI which needs integer scaling. Instead of trying to work around the issue, they simply bypass it, which is what I'll do in the future.
I have a pair from 2018 that I frequently wear that still looks fine. I think some people have feet that just don't work with Allbirds.
Economic issues were caused in part by political opposition. An extreme degree of reviews and legal objections can't help the economics.

And research into new designs that might improve on economics and safety isn't going to be as profitable or as common if there is always going to be a virtually insurmountable hurdle of objections on spurious environmental grounds, so the economic pressure that has caused coal plants to become more efficient can't be applied.

Plus, that coal vs nuclear economic calculation doesn't account for the costs of warming, nor for the intended electrification that abundant nuclear power was supposed to enable.

It all has its roots in disproportionate opposition and silly old movies that portrayed nuclear plants as potentially exploding with ten megaton blasts.
Erlang doesn't share data between processes by default (except large ref-counted binaries) because it would cause GC pauses to be global, rather than per-process.
This one is very strange, at least the abstract algebra videos (the only one I glanced at): It’s a hired actress with no apparent math background reading a script she’s never seen before, but the script is the shortened summary of a very dry abstract algebra textbook. I don’t really see the point vs. just reading the book yourself.

Their "about" page has testimonials from the "Great Thinkers" Isaac Newton, Hermione Granger, and The Sun.
I made https://github.com/lime-green/remote-docker-aws a while ago and I've been happily using it for about a year. It throws docker in a ec2 VM and allows you to call docker as if it were running locally by tunneling and syncing files. The network file systems I tried (sshfs, nfs) were way too slow when used as docker volumes so it uses a tool called unison which does two-way file syncing (rsync only does one way, which is a problem for something like making django migrations)
Families Are Fleeing Government-Run Schools – Reason.com
Besides the obvious difference in opinion about what constitutes "common", "good", or "the common good"?

Those whose justification is "the common good" are often those who hate them and wish to see them destroyed. One can't blame them for not wanting to consort with such undesirables.
Worth noting that in the 1940s cars still had enough headroom to let you keep your hat on (eg. https://static.messynessychic.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06...), but people started getting taller and cars shorter in the subsequent decades.
You basically typed out what I feel.

Let me add something useful here and say that it even has a name:

"subscription fatigue"

I was fine paying Netflix for an all-I-can-watch even if I ended up watching less than a DVDs worth of content just for the convenience of not keeping a stack of DVDs around.

I'm not fine with paying Netflix, HBO, Disney, my cable provider, NRK (state owned broadcastee,mandatory) etc etc a monthly or yearly fee.

So I just drop it: it is not like I need to watch it.

Same with tools: I'm happy to bug my company to pay for IntelliJ as long as NetBeans is stuck in its current spot, we already pay for Jira and Confluence but I am always seeking out the open source solutions, - partially because I'm old enough to realize that $n in subscription means $n x 12 x m devs a year, partially no cost open source (contrary to popular belief here) is less hassle and partially because going proprietary feels like paying Dane geld.

Edit:

> Almost no one at a higher level looks at the puzzle and goes "Well we should spend $250/year to get this $250,000 asset productive". They look at the situation and go "We've got 100 developers, ain't no way we're spending $25k/year on this product. It's not in budget."

Probably true in most places and it is sometimes a problem.

But that institutional hesitation is also a powerful defense against every vendor who wants to inject themselves somewhere and then start jacking up the prices.
Yep they are pretty much wrong. Complexity is not the same as Fragility.
Good!

Now, CSS scopes back in the menu when?
The American union is pretty bad it seems to represent the lobby arm and is totally out of touch with employee needs. It’s not a local org of your peers it feels like just another rent seeking corporate entity.
How to use Telegram for journal clubs
Curious what is the motivation for people to submit verified offer letters to levels.fyi? What does the submitter get out of it?
> My job is hard enough. I don't need to worry about my manager's job.

Once you second guess your manager's decisions (pay, raises and promotions) I think it's fair game to at least understand what those decisions really entail...

Just saying.
esxi for arm edition runs on the rpi 4 and 8 gb models. This way you can use the vsphere tooling and api to make it pretty painless, including the use of snapshots and cloning
I don't understand their complaint either. Some people have a hard time with absolute black on absolute white (and/or vice versa) so easing up a little can be helpful. It's a small difference, 19:52:1 vs. 21:1 contrast ratio. I've seen advice to avoid exceeding 18:1 in large areas, maybe #111 on #f9f9f9.
What would the real alternative be? A single nonprofit in every market collecting operating donations for just that market?
Wasp brains are remarkable in their few neurons. Some species have only single-digit thousands.

https://www.nature.com/articles/480294a
btw neurons are not the only units of computation in the human body.

allosteric activation in enzyme binding sites act like transistors almost. inside every cell there's various computations occuring
I agree. Once you try it, you see that it is truly Windows 10 as it should be.
Very small install, with minimum extraneous junk. Works on most, even older laptops etc.
Controllable update, telemetry, etc.
> it could potentially be that unions are better suited for aiding those working in some professions and not others.

Possible, but unionization rates are also down in industries that used to be unionized, such as manufacturing. This strongly implies that the issue is less “unions are bad” and more “unions were good, so bosses fought to get rid of them”. Companies wouldn’t need to hire anti-union firms if unions weren’t at least attractive to laborers, right?

After all, it’s not like life in those sectors has gotten so comfortable that laborers don’t think they need unions anymore.

> Perhaps highly educated knowledge workers can better manage salary/benefits and quality of work life better than a slate of hired guns?

Huh?

I think you’re calling union reps “hired guns”, which is deeply ironic given the history of bosses hiring actual men with actual guns to actually shoot labor activists.

> Maybe because the skill sets and work output is generally more unique, knowledge workers can more easily move jobs than those who work in traditional union shops?

I mean, unequal professions do unionize all the time. Take a look at professional sports. Unions are extremely useful in negotiating between labor and capital about things other than just pay. Length of contracts, benefits, safety regulations, etc.

Regardless, it’s pretty silly to argue that unions are useless because “they’ve had no impact” for this crowd when this crowd has never really had the opportunity to join a union. Hell, even quitting software and finding a union shop to join would actually be very hard in any field, given the low rates of unionization in this country.
Yes, I didn't take 15 inch laptops into account because I have a 14 inch laptop.

See my reply here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28376008
I'm sure there's a reason here that I'm not seeing, but it feels like it's being different for the sake of being different to me-- requiring `&` even in the simple case where you're combining them with the descendant combinator (plain space), but then also requiring `@nest` in any situation where `&` is not at the start of each selector.

SASS takes the opposite approach-- there's an implicit `&` at the beginning if you don't specify it elsewhere, and it can appear anywhere (i.e. the example `:not(&)` does not have to have anything like the `@nest` syntax in SASS).
> There have been very public physical attacks on Asians in SF if you have been paying attention.

And who were the perpetrators of these attacks, if you don’t mind me asking? Some guys in MAGA hats? Did they also have a noose?

> Trump was also never recalled unlike this school board member.

Not for the lack of trying, though!

> You have a consistent theme of using every opportunity to magnify bad actions by non Republican actors no matter how insignificant the person might be, discount the apologies etc.

These “insignificant actors” are very representative, in fact. For example, this “anti Asian violence” narrative that you repeat here is coming from the biggest people in Democratic establishment, and the implication that the perpetrators are Trump supporters or Republicans is clearly false, and it’s obvious to anyone who is paying attention. Your comment here is pushing false narrative, while accusing others of doing exactly what you are doing yourself.
I've never seen so many bad opinions in a row. Normally there's at least one reasonable point, but this whole article is a garbage fire.

Electron is a nonsense technology that is completely without worth, and web developers should never have been given access to desktop development tools.
The universe is hostile to computers
Shouldn't the solution to fast matrix multiplication be logarithms, similarly to fast scalar multiplication?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logarithm_of_a_matrix
The singular of “anecdote” is, in fact, “anecdote”.
This looks like a very thoughtful and well laid out introduction to theory for anyone who wants to teach themselves. Well done.

Something like this should probably still be supplemented with an instructor who can provide the student with some immediate, fun, and practical exercises to make the process more exploratory and engaging, though. Something that will get them thinking musically right away.
Employer upskilling programs need to consider both durable and perishable skills
lots of acts can be illegal, but that does not make them fraud.
It is an odd specific narrow ruling.

Only the reasoning of the ruling surprises me, Locast always felt like a for-profit business on the outside with different words. You either "donate" or suffer commercials and interruptions to service, and their rapid expansion in recent months suggests those donations go pretty far.
A certain amount of gatekeeping is necessary for good science in the modern world. This isn't the 15th century where anyone can verify the results of scientific experiments. Scientific research is often expensive and complex and isn't accessible to the average person.
Suppose you have a set membership question. If you approximate yes, you do a more complex inquiry to grab details. If you approximate no, you tell the user no, don't know that face [answer, command, etc]. So this is ripe for approximate methods as you can tune to get very few false negatives (respond no when it's really yes), but allow a healthy dose of false positives.
Why couldn't only the defense have peremptory challenges?

They even mention that system in the article, yet it sounds like Arizona is eliminating them entirely.
I was childless until the age of 38. I'll be 40 when my third is born. My wife is 37. We didn't decide to have children when I was 37, we'd been together for a decade at that point. Still a lot of time for some perspective change in your group.
What is your address? After all, having people come to your house and steal all your property is a risk that you accepted when you purchased said property.

Should the poorer folk in your city be without flat-screen TVs, just so you can continue to play your PS5? Should they be forced to ride the bus, just so you can have an air-conditioned commute?

That's really how those arguments sound, and they both deserve to be dismissed equally.
Why is it so hard to find laptops with ECC memory?

Surely SO-DIMMs are just as susceptible to bitflips as regular Desktop DIMMs?

Am I the only one to care about this?
> Do you really think that businesses are going to jeopardize the workflows of their $250k/year assets over a very core piece of software for $250/year?

YES! I've seen it. Stinginess at my shop regularly causes hours and hours of pricey engineering resources to address problems caused by underallocating cloud resources to the point things fail - or refusal to allow some cloud service because it will cost $100/month (despite saving 10s of thousands in eng resources)

It's crazy but I bet it happens many places.
Are we so certain that no billionaire became a billionaire by advancing the public good in the first place? I am as skeptical as anyone that billionaires individually contribute value equivalent to their wealth, but that doesn't mean billionaires couldn't be an unavoidable side effect of a process that does contribute that value in aggregate.
Without US public broadcasting, I and countless others would have grown up on GI Joe instead of Mr. Rogers.

Further, I generally strongly oppose charity as a component of future plans (leaving aside whether charity is good or necessary in the present). We should never be building society such that it depends on the funding whims of rich philanthropists.

Sure, there should be some kind of analysis of benefits, but some things simply have to exist for a society to be a society, because without them, the loss of their intangible and second-order benefits will cause a society to implode Idiocracy style, and nobody will know why.
What does any of this have to do with the vote tallies on civil rights bills? The modern Republican party is literally defined by opposition to those bills; it was the core of Goldwater's strategy, which set in motion the "ideological sort" of the late 70s and 80s.

I probably don't have a beef with your defense of limited government! But obviously you can't use D'Souza-ism to build your case.
Amazon Managed Grafana Is Now Generally Available and Direct SSO, SAP, Jira, V8
The performance difference is negligible. If you add a new card to the list then react is going to add/remove a couple CSS classes. Completely negligible.

Plus you're going to need this approach anyway if you want to do any more advanced logic like maybe you have a list of users and you want to color them based on some status.

With this method you have the above logic all in one place and in one language. After having used traditional CSS with selectors vs this method I really can't go back.
Carsome races to $1.3b valuation with $200m raise
That can't be right... if you've shot someone you're eligible for the bennies but those who have a years-long record of non-shooting people aren't?

The article must be confused, that's irrational and immoral.
Every element of a matrix multiplication is a dot-product of two vectors. The dot-product of two vectors quantifies their similarity -- in fact, we call it "dot-product similarity" in a nearest-neighbors context: If the dot product > 0, the vectors point in similar directions; if < 0, the two vectors point in dissimilar directions; if = 0, the two vectors are orthogonal.

It's not too hard to imagine that it might be possible to learn representative K-means clusters of training vectors and then, at run-time, find similar vectors using an efficient hashing scheme and do the equivalent of a table lookup to get the approximate dot-product similarity scores -- without having to perform any multiplications.

This isn't quite correct (I'm oversimplifying and ignoring many important details), but I think it's a helpful mental image.

Very clever stuff.
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Ask HN: Resources for understanding shifts in Chinese policy
It feels to me like a pretty substantial sea change is happening in Chinese politics right now given the crackdown on large companies, the crack down on for profit education, the crackdown on video games, the 3 child policy, changing posturing on Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the South China Sea. For many other topics I have go to youtube channels or blogs I'd go to to learn about it but I'm not coming up with a lot of great resources on this. I'm not looking for a politicized narrative, more like a detached analysis of the situation. Does anyone have any recommendations? I'm especially interested in long form monologue or dialogue youtube content.

For the record, I'm actively not looking to debate Chinese politics in the thread and asking others to refrain as well. It seems like there is no shortage of threads to endless fight about China on here recently, not looking to make another one. My goal is only to get tips on resources.
What does "appropriately" mean in this context?
The wiki page says ctags was part of the 3BSD release, which would put it about 1979. My memory isn’t good enough to recall which release of emacs picked up support.

I think there was a find-function key binding for lisp code before ctags, but these are very rusty bits I’m recalling.
Market forces come from people.

Market forces tend toward baseness. It takes active intent to elevate society above the lowest possible level. Just as one doesn't want to hire at the median skill level of their company lest the average continue to drop over time, a society has to aim higher than what the impulsive market optimizes for, or it will decay.

Revealed preference is just code for exploitation of vice.
Rubber?