skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A few tiny threads:

Building Fizzbuzz in Fractran from the Bottom Up - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23583673 - June 2020 (1 comment)

Building FizzBuzz in Fractran from the Bottom Up - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22866303 - April 2020 (1 comment)

Building Fizzbuzz in Fractran from the bottom up - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11894141 - June 2016 (3 comments)

More generally:

Open Problems in Communication and Computation (1987) [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26074413 - Feb 2021 (2 comments)

Remembering John Conway's FRACTRAN - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23142232 - May 2020 (14 comments)

FRACTRAN - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14202367 - April 2017 (8 comments)

In FRACTRAN, every program is a list of functions - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10091053 - Aug 2015 (1 comment)

FRACTRAN - the esoteric programming language invented by John H Conway - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3119937 - Oct 2011 (1 comment)
“Settings” -> “Messages” -> Toggle “iMessage” to off. Couldn’t be simpler.
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Just quit dude. (dang doesn't want you to see this)
Have you looked into WebAuthn[1]? It seems pretty similar to what you want to do and could provide some answers to some of your questions.

Also, you could set a timestamp in the headers and include those in the signature (like Slack & AWS do), while remembering to reject any request using a timestamp that’s too old for it’s signature.

[1]: https://webauthn.guide/
Can't take you serious if you find it "whacky" or "far-fetched".
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That's what my company does. Well, they don't publish the salaries externally, but I believe they're accessible to managers. I switched BU's inside my company and had to essentially "apply" to this new job -- I tried to negotiate salary and was told "No, they're fixed to a certain amount, +/- a tiny wiggle room, by HR at the corporate level based on job level - best I can do is offer the top of the range for this position". I've been told that they try to accommodate location-cost-of-living; not sure how good or bad a job they do.
The person isn't saying it's personally frustrating. The person is saying that it must be frustrating for the people in charge or involved with the project, such as an executive who directs the project but then gets poached by Ford.
Just FYI, US public education is not good even in affluent areas.
That will be a neat trick if you can figure out how to preserve and stockpile nursing home workers.
In the US it's usually called "half-assing it" or doing it half-assed.
There is a National ID Number for everyone with Salvadoran Nationality 18 and older. And also a Tax ID that anyone can apply for.
Ex-Googlers raise $40M to democratize natural-language AI
When you say Hitler memes, do you mean, like from Downfall?
External look can also affect drive handling (weight distribution, aero, general bulk/length concerns for city streets/parking)!
Curious about these "micro-needle electrodes". If I try on my buddy's helmet, is there a chance I'm going to catch hepatitis?
Even if you believe that a two party system is the only possibility, you can do many things that don’t involve voting for Trump.
Nearly indistinguishable from noise. Subtle art, and hidden meaning. Inspiring stuff, though I can't help but wonder if noise + a stupid algorithm couldn't be even more interesting.
I would stop using HN if it turned into Reddit - from a comments perspective. I already see it happening on some threads so it's probably a matter of time.
If I recall the mouse decision was deliberate to avoid people having the mouse plugged in all the time. So it was more of a planned user experience rather than apple not knowing what they're doing (for better or worse). Besides the mouse charges in like 5 minutes anyway.
That subreddit was exploiting children for sexual gratification. It wasn't just teens, and it wasn't people posting purposefully provocative images. It was children living their normal lives and having their pictures exploited for the sexual gratification of perverts.

Calling this harmless is absolutely disgusting.
One remarkable past thread:

Manned Orbiting Laboratory - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20107534 - June 2019 (4 comments)
A password manager integrated with a browser can offer more security, because it can verify the domain to prevent copy-pasting the password into a phishing site.
Hundreds of millions in possession of bitcoin maybe, but the number using it for any legitimate purpose is a miniscule fraction of that. The vast majority are in it under the assumption that bigger rubes will come along later to buy it off them.
I'm not an economist, but I imagine it's similar to disclosing any product margin or cost of goods. It's probably more about what it does to the perception of the producer vs. the consumer.

It may lead to increased cost (paying higher salaries) if the market is not competitive and companies are leveraging the obscurity. But it may decrease cost if things are over valued.

The question is, is the labor market over or under valued? If it's over-valued then disclosing may actually cause salaries to equilibrate/come down -- which would be to the company's advantage. Does it imply that companies think the market is over-valued and aren't wanting to increase competition (both internally amongst current employees and externally with new hires)?
Seems you have really outdated info about Bitcoin, Bitcoin being not fungible is a great tool for analysing/tracking transactions. Money laundering and drugs use FIAT or Monero.
Interesting take and I largely agree.

I wonder how Boston Dynamics should be characterized.
Apple Augmented Reality Event September 14th 10a.m. PDT
>> The idea would be that the astronauts would be able to take pictures and interpret film on-orbit

That is a modern take on the problem. At the time, the astronaut's role was to interpret the situation and ensure the best photographs were taken. Getting a spy sat to point at the correct location, at the correct time, and take a good photograph was a huge engineering challenge. But a person looking through a viewfinder could ensure that every snap was useable rather than another picture of Russian trees. They were never going to sit in space with magnifying glasses and do actual image analysis, a process that takes hours and many different people. They would evaluate a target for the most interesting details and ensure those details made it into frame.

And unlike satellites, a manned station could take photographs of targets of opportunity, targets that cannot be pre-programmed such as a moving ship.
Interesting. I'm definitely not a subscriber, so that's not the issue.
So 3 million jobs?
What about standard client certificates?
Yes, it is necessary to use language that is familiar to most of your audience when writing something.
Not going to happen yet, Macbooks are expected to be announced a few weeks later…
Splitting up objects attributes into separate arrays is required if you plan to work with those data on the GPU. I did it when working with Java and OpenCL, and wanted to efficiently access the same data trough Java objects and also in OpenCL kernels. OpenCL does not know about objects, like Java, but it can access data in arrays, so practically every Java object holds an index into the arrays of the different attributes.

Per my knowledge Unity ECS does not currently process data on the GPU, but uses ECS to split work to multiple threads on the CPU. If the threads work on data that only they need to touch, then there is no need to synchronise them. It is also more cache efficient to read and write data from a couple of arrays sequentially, than to pull objects and their attributes from all over the heap.

The idea of storing objects by attributes, instead of object instances is not new. Some clever allocator indeed might be new.

I suspect they want to make it harder for Unreal to make the same system. Unreal might have nice visuals, but scaling was not their strength before.
> Also, for what it's worth I think they were trying to modulate that snark a bit by using "friend".

The internet sucks for nuance, but "friend" in this context doesn't read as modulation to me, it reads as sarcasm (and thus intensifies the snark).

Edit: Dropped a response that was due to a simple misreading. Sorry.
So some companies will bend over backwards to avoid sharing pay info. But how well does this work when employees can and frequently will report salaries on their own to e.g. glassdoor, levels.fyi etc? It seems like this information is in broad terms already out of their control, and making actual salary bands for new hires in each role would be clearer than the murky stats from employees who report their comp on their own.
A EV is a much simpler device than a ICE - it's a battery and an electric motor, it's much simpler than mechanical power. Gone are oil pumps, transmissions, etc.

On top of all this, you can now route power through electrical wires, rather than needing an accessory belt to distribute mechanical power to the A/C, oil pump, power steering etc.

The electric car's tech advances are mostly in the battery technology (and vapourware "Level 5 automation in 2019"). Tesla will have a unique differentiator in battery tech and production, but it's not crazy to retool an existing ICE manufacturer to EVs.
> example(see salary band): https://www.northropgrumman.com/jobs/San-Antonio-----TX/Engi...

Salary Range: 70582 - 105792
Salary Range 2: 87400 - 131100

This is "knowing right away"??? You could make 70K or nearly 2x 70K, how helpful that is to know? This is the shotgun approach to recruiting. The band is so wide, they want to pull in as much interest as possible while making offers near the 70k range as much as possible. It doesn't matter about your "disadvantaged background" the HR team works for the company and wants to give you(everyone) the lowest offer you'll take. If you have any type of advantage, you'll have negotiating power to get higher than 70K. I see this as having all the normal issues, except for those looking for higher than 130K. You get enough info to keep moving on without wasting your time if you're after >130K.
If I won a significant amount of money I would open a BnB or pub. Ideally I'd grow my own food too.
> My statement is objectively true.

Sure. It's also not relevant. You asked a question that made no sense. The appropriate question would've been "Who has more impact on company earnings, a quarterback or a CEO", in that we're discussing one's ability to impact revenue for a business. It has nothing to do with celebrity.

You're welcome to quantify whatever you like. How blue is sky blue? Ultimately it doesn't matter. A CEO has far more ability to damage the company they work than a quarterback. This is why your behavior is in bad faith. You're arguing points nobody made/don't change the outcome of what we're discussing.
I honestly don't get it. I sent BTC from one wallet to another, and it took like 90 minutes. And $20 fees.

I cannot imagine paying for anything with this. How can user experience be compared to paying with VISA, PayPal or anything else?
Do your low commitment projects actually pay a reasonable amount?
It costs over $5 billion dollars to build a single fab. I can only assume the more complicated chips costs 3-4 times more.

It also takes over three years to build the plant itself. We aren't even talking about the people you'd even need to employ, design, and run the place (highly specialized labor).

This is such a huge burdensome cost. It's not even a guarantee that that such an investment would even make sense once 5-years pass.

I do think there should be more fabs and having them located in one area of the world is already playing out to be a geopolitical nightmare. It's obviously going to become a national security issue for nearly every industrialized country on earth over the next decade if not sooner.
Is one of you on NTSC and the other PAL? One of them is slightly faster.
It's a demand shock.
From a screenshot I earlier today, McD El Salvador is using Opennode.com for Bitcoin payments.
I do not see how a society would not benefit from a more efficient labor market, almost by definition of efficient.

It is the whole reason why top down control and fascism or communism or Stalinism or Maoism are not ideal, because there is no better signal of supply and demand curves than prices.

The way prices move, over a sufficiently large dataset, indicate the way supply and demand curves are moving, and where the ball is moving so you can get to where the ball will be.

It is not perfect, of course, but it is better than the alternative (which is?).
What do you mean by 'the simulation'?
Looks like he couldn't login so he deleted the tweet. Here's the new twitter thread: https://twitter.com/TeamYouTube/status/1435317727158177796
I see what you mean. I guess what I was trying to say is that my position is close to that of michaelcampbell's, and that I wanted to emphasize how little portability is sacrificed by adopting this position on most environments one will ever work in.
I tried sending XRP from one wallet to another, and it took a little more than a minute. Much much better than BTC, but still not credit cards...
Tesla owns the near term EV space simply due to battery output. Nobody else has, or is making, those investments at sufficient scale.

If Tesla realizes it's more profitable to sell skateboards to BMW, then they'll happily do that. They're a basic capitalist company in that regard.

To what degree will existing automakers get national level protections in order to protect global interests? Germany certainly won't sit by while BMW & MB go under; they'll take some action even if it's forcing Tesla Germany to sell skateboards to BMW. Japan will do something similar to preserve Toyota & Honda, as will China and South Korea.

Disruption will be very interesting in how it plays out...
El Salvador, while not a "failed state", is certainly a "dysfunctional state". I don't think this is even in the top 10 of their problems, and is mostly a PR phenomenon. Remember that this is a country in which a quarter of their GDP comes from remittances from the United States. Their economy has already dollarized. They have historically had terrible problems with armed gangs and insurrectionists (in 2005 the murder rate peaked at 103 per 100,000, but has since fallen to about 20 per 100,000). They have very poor infrastructure. They rank 104 out of 180 nations for corruption perceptions. 14% of the population has paid a bribe in the last year. A poor track record on property rights, rule of law, or ability to collect taxes. For a developing economy they have very low GDP growth and virtually no productivity growth.

Worrying about this bitcoin stuff is just silly. At best it's a distraction, hopefully an entertaining one, from the problems of governance in El Salvador.
> But the notion that traditional car companies can magically start cranking out profitable EVs (Tesla made most of their money from tax credits which are essentially gone now) is laughable.

That seems to be exactly what a lot of traditional car makers are doing though. Ford, Audi, BMW, VW, Hyundai, Renault, Nissan, Mazda all have or are adding EVs to their range, and that’s just off the top of my head. They seem to expect profits to reach similar levels to ICEs as well: https://europe.autonews.com/automakers/automakers-finally-se...

Similarly Honda have announced they’re going to phase out ICEs by 2030 (iirc). Toyota just announced around 10 billion dollars of investment to expanding battery production to 33x current levels and 5 billion in battery technology R&D.

Digital cameras destroyed Kodak’s business model of selling film. For car makers though selling EVs is essentially the same business model as selling ICEs. They sell cars not particular types of drive chain.

Tesla is now well established as a luxury car brand but I think smaller EV startups are about to be washed out by competition from traditional makers. Smaller traditional makers will likely struggle to make the investment required to make the transition though. There’s likely to be a period of industry consolidation.
NIH must mean National Institute of Horses?
I understand now thanks.
>> Even with all that added specificity, I still think it falls short of clearing the bar of novelty beyond prior art. This is such a performance-relevant part of game engines that leverage ECS, that somebody out there has to have already thought of ways to improve the memory management of entities.

I think it's more specific than a combination of ECS and memory allocation strategy. Since ECS allows dynamic building of "types" or "classes" of objects, this seems to be automatically detecting new types and allocating memory for them separately. Maybe? So go ahead and ECS all you want, and go ahead and use spiffy memory management all you want, but don't tie type inference into your memory allocator. IANAL but that seems to be the ostensibly unique part.
Yes, thanks, I have. I want users to have full control of the key pairs and handle them however they like in hardware or software. That's why I selected Ed25519 keys.
Stupid question, but what do you do from your phone? I would like to put my grocery list in the same system as the rest of my notes/todos.
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Well my comment was about the original article being misrepresented by the comment I replied to, so your comment adds nothing to that conversation.
He's part of a movement that is trying to replace a democratic secular government with a nationalist christian theocratic despotism. Their first target is young women.
In my decades experience hiring, there are only three archetypes you want to avoid:

- Someone who has no clue. This is rare but it does happen. I have seen some fly through interviews and then literally do nothing until they leave for another company as we are set to fire them.

- Assholes. Everyone is nice in the interviews. Not everyone is nice during code review. There is a sub-archetype of asshole called The Complainer. They can live in pairs, but if there is no Assholes, a true Complainer will find a way to turn someone into one. They are two sides of the same coin.

- My way or the highway types. Your team uses Design Patterns and Unit Testing. Bob says that is overengineering and refuses to be a team player.

Interviews focus on the first one, which is honestly simple for a relatively experienced interviewer to weed out. I don't believe in 10X rockstar ninja programmers. Either someone has the ability or they don't.

The real keys to great hiring are good managers and cheap firing. Good managers are hard to come by, but they can be built fairly easily. Cheap firing is usually easy, if that is your goal. Some locales restrict this legally, but there is always a loophole.
> OpenBSD is not being "silly" they have solid reasons

They're entitled to their opinion, but I'm entitled to think they're silly.

In particular, it's weird that they hate the termination clause of the patent grant in the Apache licence, when BSD licenced code doesn't even contain an explicit patent licence.
Right now the state of the art options are either surgically implanted electrode arrays (invasive and very limited in what they can detect), electroencephalogram type helmets (non-invasive but only get very vague signals), or fMRI type imaging (more precise but still only gross detail, and requires an enormous complex machine).

There's no obvious way forward with any of these that produces what you or I might consider a true brain machine interface. We don't have the tech AND we don't understand the brain enough.

Fortunately you don't need a brain-reading device to produce something useful, just like you don't need a teraflop computer to go to the moon. I've written recently about an EEG helmet that can be used by profoundly disabled folks to navigate a UI, type, and so on, and that doesn't require a precise signal at all. So I think what you'll find is while the Musks of the world are chasing a sci-fi dream of what they think the technology ought to be, most of the utility will come out of using what it's actually capable of in a smart and compassionate way.
It seems to me that recently, businesses have more often tried to use their market power to strong arm democratic governments into doing their bidding. For example, Amazon has done it several times, and remember Uber and Lyft threatening to leave California. It's corporate 'cancel culture', in a way. Very possibly, my impression of the frequency is wrong.

To me, it's troubling: It implies a fundamental claim that a large corporation should overrule the people of the state, force or extort the people into doing what the corporation wants. I wish the people would react appropriately to this challenge to democracy. Also, often the threat is a bluff. Finally, it also seems to me that people used to be a lot more skeptical about power, especially corporate power.
It should matter to us when the inevitable killing of the animal (along with the environmental harm incurred by raising it) take place without any benefit to us. Our society has decided those terrible costs are worth it in exchange for bacon and hot dogs. When these animals are raised and wasted they'll have suffered for nothing and the rest of us will suffer for it.
> A "tech company" is one where your tech is so good that either you can offer differentiated consumer experiences that nobody else can offer(…) or people pay you to handle the tech things for them

It’s a decent definition. It has some implications though

Almost no companies really differentiate via tech that nobody else can offer

Almost no game or app companies meet that bar. Most game companies have tech that another company can reproduce for example. Almost all apps use fairly commonplace tech.
> but purely based on a superior and novel tech experience for its users.

I mean they were the pioneers in offering tv and movies via streaming. The tech is really not that dramatic.

You can think of streaming tech in three parts: video quality, recommendations and UI.

Arguably video quality is the most important, but other platforms have already offer similar/better quality (albeit a lil more data).

Their recommendations and UI are better than others but I honestly don't care about these two as they are still not good enough for me to discover content I would want to watch, for that I still have to go to reddit/curated articles.

So I would say Netflix's contribution was more in pioneering tv streaming as opposed to tech. They are now competing mostly in terms of their originals, so I would label them more like Disney/HBO rather than tech.
That's intriguing. My original comment was longer and included https://macropolo.org/digital-projects/the-global-ai-talent-.... A plurality of top AI researchers are Chinese. The Chinese undergrad pipeline appears very strong. If China figures a way to keep over half of its most promising undergrads from moving to US for grad school and/or work, chances are there would be a new unquestionable top tech dog (err, dragon) of the XXI century.
And I too prefer Firefox with Tree Style Tabs, been using that for years.

In general similar setups are not uncommon on Linux with tiling window managers. Probably the reason this app is available for Mac only. :)

Setting up a nice environment takes time, it doesn't come out of the box. So it is good to see people trying to come up with ready solutions.