skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One point that the author fails to mention regarding Jetbrains is that they developed Kotlin and that Intellij at this point is largely implemented in it. Their whole strategy features a lot of Kotlin at this point. So, the best IDE for Java is built by the company that develops a drop in replacement for it. Not a minor point to make. The IDE that Oracle acquired along with Sun (Netbeans) is still there of course but it's rare that I meet someone who even knows what that is.

This is actually also a weakness because there is no good competition in terms of alternative Kotlin IDEs. Eclipse and VS Code have Kotlin plugins but they are nowhere near as good as their Java support. Nice in a pinch if you really can't be bothered to install Intellij.

Java undeniably has great alternative IDEs. I think it's still unrivaled in the wide variety of very decent IDEs and by pretty much every other language. And that has been the case for a long time. Eclipse and Netbeans are still around and both still do a fine job. If you use emacs or vi, there are decent plugins for those as well. VS Code of course has pretty decent support. Kotlin support for all of those is not at the same level.

But one positive thing that has come out of Kotlin (and Scala) keeping the pressure on Oracle is that they have rapidly rolled out a lot of new Java and JVM features in the last few years. JDK 17 is a nice piece of technology with lots of under the hood changes that benefit all JVM languages. So is Graal. I think the efforts to make Java more usable are also going to be nice for people with Java code bases.

Like the author though, Kotlin is my main language at this point.
I agree with everything except your last sentence. Much CAN be done to ensure those biases do not manifest in the results of their work. More generally, this is the power of our institutions.
Amazon's revenue.
Jennifer Scheurle steps down as IGDA group chair amid abuse allegations
You don't need to test a feature that they don't have
I don't get it. Did you think I was speaking for someone else?
I'm not sure why you think that, because Amazon is an incredibly trusted brand. And having worked there, in their advertising division no less, even I would be open to trusting them with financial services.

I would prefer not to because I don't want to contribute to their domination of every market under the sun, but I'd pick Amazon over some traditional banks (namely Wells Fargo or BoA) if I were forced to make that decision.
Oof, that's rather sad. My experience with it was 2008 and 2009 and it was very different: very casual, interesting people from around the world staying with and hanging out with each other. It was very pleasant and was the focal point of my social life during that time, until I moved to a town without a presence that was too far away from any hub area. And then I heard it declined... which is I guess where your experience comes in. That's very sad.
Yeah the logic here is seriously lacking. Heartbleed shows that it's entirely possible someone might not find it for over a decade! Or the most recent Apple Bootrom exploit.
The redditization of hn continues - this story is (ironically?) flagged.
A few developers from different HospEx (hospitality exchange) platforms (Trustroots, WarmShowers Android app devs, BeWelcome) started an attempt to federate the HospEx world.

Mariha (@mariha:matrix.org) was contributing for Warm Showers Android App and with https://warmshowers.bike/ happening she kind of kick-started the whole project.

We got funding recently from https://ngi.eu and with that we start to work for the next generation internet.

We would love to revive the spirit of early Couchsurfing and Warm Showers

https://openhospitality.network
https://mailfence.com Great alternative to G-suite since it integrates also Calendar, Docs, Chat and collaborative workspaces
We've looked at http3 / quic, and have not yet seen any advantages for our workload. Just a large loss of CPU efficiency.
Time to back up my DNA.
There are several different results. Language aptitude was the best predictor for learning rate. Fluid intelligence was the best predictor for programming accuracy (the numbers you quote), and for declarative knowledge.

But yeah the actual title of this 2020 article is "Relating Natural Language Aptitude to Individual Differences in Learning Programming Languages", the current HN title "Predictor of learning to code is language aptitude - not math/cognitive ability" doesn't appear in the article, and I don't see at all how it is supported (besides numeracy specifically not showing up strongly) when they found general cognitive ability to be a significant predictor.
Cerebras in the Cloud: Wafer Scale in an Instance
What point are you hoping to land by providing this example?
Thanks for a well reasoned response. I too am always blown away at the comments here when it comes to labor. I think the reality is that most people making these comments didn’t have to build themselves up to where they are, and they have sympathy toward people having to do “demeaning work”, having never done it themselves. I’ve scrubbed bathrooms, loaded trucks, pumped gas, and served people and enjoyed every single one despite them being low skill, entry level jobs.

Did I expect a job that anyone else could do to compete for me with a high salary? No way. I wanted a higher salary so I hustled on the side and got a degree in a field that paid more. Some of the people I worked with did the same, some didn’t. That’s the way it goes. I think the people complaining mostly feel guilty about straight to college and a high paying job tract. Think of it as the jobs equivalent of white guilt.
At least we can call it what it is: utilitarianism. Now we don’t need to rehash every debate on the subject, but instead recognize the arguments for and against it.
>more transparency

Really...I always heard it was terrible for guys because people only wanted female guests, women because it probably meant they weren't interested in sex, men because it meant maybe they might get laid.

The possibility of romance never really seemed like a transparent implication to me.
Hmm. Without Corretto, which is "recent", I don't see how your argument holds. "No" seed stage company is going to use something from Azul, and probably not from "regular" IBM either (that is, exempting RedHat).

Without Corretto, I think Oracle really has poisoned the well.

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/corretto/
Simplified examples always look neat. Any code/syntax will look simple if it doesn't have async, state and error handling.
Are you suggesting this person's mental health issues and other contributing factors would have all gone away had he been handed a check for a few hundred dollars?
> A superficial reading might be that Oracle's JDK does not come with the GPL encumbrance.

This is the whole point of the "classpath exception". You can run, build and distribute Java programs under any license you choose.

> But this also raises the question: what differs between the various JDK builds?

Very little typically. Some like RedHat or Amazon enable extra options, like the Shenandoah GC. The big difference is who you contact for support.

> what is the legal status of "OpenJDK" particularly WRT Oracle?

I'm not sure what this question even means, but frankly given Microsoft, IBM and Amazon are all building and distributing their own builds of OpenJDK I don't think there are any significant legal issues, these are all companies with teams of lawyers on retainer.
In Germany in the 60s there was the concept of the "long march through the institutions", implying that the rebels of then would become the elites of tomorrow, with the purpose of then putting into practice the revolutionary policies. It worked to a certain degree, many formerly left-wing policies have now become mainstream, but of course a lot of compromises had to be made and the ideals got watered down.
What's the difference in declarativeness between:

- Opening a YAML file in a text editor, deleting some lines, then doing a Kubernetes or Terraform or whatever apply operation

- Creating a SQL migration to delete some rows from a table, checking the migration into the repo, and then running a database migration

?
Ha. A minor government department. Some folks got the idea we were big brother. This was in the 70s. We had one computer between 50 or so developers. It had less than 100k memory, card input, and all tape to tape. Honestly they were deluded.
Next up is the scimag collection (also maintained by library genesis), which is a backup of all articles on sci-hub.

The torrents are already widely replicated, but whether or not IPFS is going to be able to scale to the level required for 85M articles is still an unknown.
A major confounding factor with things like mask mandates is that there is no reliable data on adherence and no reliable data on types of masks used by the general public. N95 masks are better than ordinary surgical masks and surgical masks are better than neck gators or cheap thin cloth masks.
It is deployed here:

https://airss.roastidio.us
My Pfizer had 5 weeks between the shots. I wonder how that affects protection.
But it's also wrong. Is there any legal precedent establishing what the "GPL with classpath exception" even means? Does each build of the OpenJDK come with it's own license?

https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/1194...
Actually it hasn't. Ever get annoyed whether your email is in primary, updates, promotions or social.

Previously I had rules, almost all marketing went to labels or trash. Is it just me or have the rules become inconsistent?
Very interesting, I had no idea. Would adding something like an intel optane help performance for large transfers with a lot of I/O? I manage my services with a simple docker-compose file and establish the data link to my NAS via NFS, which I’m sure is adding another layer of complexity (I believe NFSv4 is asynchronous?).
That's a lot of money for graduate researchers who make <30k a year.
I think you're the one missing the larger picture. One of the main selling points of mass vaccination is herd immunity to protect those that are unvaccinated - including babies
and cancer patients.
What drinks should they have for sale on campus?
Interesting read.

I always think of Batman https://youtu.be/9pSD26bGy3I
The Steel Man Case Against Vaccine Mandates
>From my experience, most conspiracies are manuals.

Figuratively true, and sometimes literally. Take the Operation Northwoods manual for instance:

http://www.smeggys.co.uk/operation_northwoods.php?image=01#t...

>Operation Northwoods was a 1962 plan by the U.S. Department of Defense to stage acts of simulated or real terrorism on US soil and against U.S. interests and then put the blame of these acts on Cuba in order to generate U.S. public support for military action against the Cuban government of Fidel Castro.

As part of the U.S. government's Operation Mongoose anti-Castro initiative, the plan, which was not implemented, called for various false flag actions, including simulated or real state-sponsored acts of terrorism on U.S. and Cuban soil.

The plan was proposed by senior U.S. Department of Defense leaders, including the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Lyman Louis Lemnitzer.
Would love to see a larger study to know more about the “first evidence that measures of intrinsic network connectivity obtained from resting-state (rs)EEG can be used to predict Python learning outcomes”.

That strikes me as incredibly controversial.
So did the volcano collapse? Reffering to the previous submission

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28544740
Am I missing something here? It just sounds like a digital voting guide. Political parties in the US publish these all the time.
I assume Canada has the same, but she's (it is she, the article makes that clear as well as answering your question) eligible for the second dose just as she was for the first, so she wouldn't get the exemption.

Just has a reasonable reason not to want it, and not to be treated poorly for making that decision.
I care because as supply chain issues get worse, it's becoming harder and harder to get the good Linux-ready laptops within a reasonable delay.

I recently switched to an Asus after a decade of Thinkpads (because a custom maxed-out Thinkpad would've taken 2 months+ to get delivered). What I forgot to check was Linux compatibility. With out-of-the-box Ubuntu, wifi didn't work. I was forced to switch from my usual distro, and still bluetooth doesn't work. Thankfully there are enough people wanting to run Linux on those machines that a few enthusiasts have managed to get the drivers to a point where it's usable.

Think about it, how much of your machine's stack have you actually built yourself? Probably only a tiny fraction: some dotfiles, tiling manager bindings, a few scripts, ...

It's a collective effort, and the more people use it, the more enthusiasts work on it, the better it becomes for you and I.
If you could email me your ranges, I can try to look into it internally. Use my last name at gmail.com (or at freebsd.org)
Interestingly at one point Google Docs did have a save button, which IIRC didn't actually do anything because it would automatically save. The button was there just to make you feel more confident.

You can see it in the top right corner here:
https://sm.pcmag.com/t/pcmag_au/photo/g/google-docs-2010-old...
You can’t avoid spring unless you’re in a small shop. It’s basically mandated/standardized at most places since “everyone knows it”.
The policies may have changed, but the people are the same.
It's probably just a few steps away to finally build an IPFS version of sci-hub. Sadly, I'm not a fan of the site's method of searching the libgen index by using sqlite's partial load feature [1] mainly because of the possible limited available storage issue.

[1]:https://phiresky.github.io/blog/2021/hosting-sqlite-database...
Yeah, and Terraform providers can be buggy and actually mess up those dependencies. I ran into this very recently where Terraform planned my changes successfully but failed to delete something because it had a dependency on another thing which it was planning to delete later.

It would be very difficult to mess this up with SQL foreign keys.
Let’s take a look at the NIH Director’s stock portfolio.
Everyone at Google says this. It’s not true. Of course it contributes to the problem, but trust me a broken messaging strategy doesn’t naturally arise from Software Engineers trying to get incremental promotions.

It comes from two parts of google that are totally broken and don’t know it:

1) Product Management
2) Legal

The PMs are running from meeting to meeting trying to please execs and not doing anything that looks like sophisticated product development. Each team has their own broken process and crappy dashboards. I can’t even describe how irrational and broken the process for making product decisions is.

Then there are the lawyers. If you even think about doing something interesting or original they will say No and that’s the end of that. They’re shockingly risk averse. Even if every single competitor is doing a thing, you almost definitely can’t do that thing at Google. My team was BARELY allowed to know how many users we had! And we certainly couldn’t know anything about them. Because Legal.
Who does worse at customer service than big tech companies?
They have something similar, but in her province the list of allowed exemptions is much stricter[1]. If you have an allergic reaction to one vaccine, they require a second dose using a difference vaccine. The author is unwilling to attempt that.

The problem the government is trying to avoid is doctors who will give out exemptions too broadly. There is a balance to be struck and BC took a harder line.

1. https://twitter.com/DrBirinderSingh/status/14383191651740180...
> The myth persists because coincidences will happen in high numbers at scale.

I think the myth persists because Big Tech can learn more about you from browsing history and credit card purchases (from you and your friends and family) than most people realize.
Ragnarok is one of my favorite movies of all time, as I found it unique, mesmerizing, and incredibly re-watchable. Great comedy, great drama, great action, great world building.

The Dark Knight and the rest of its trilogy are just so ... blah. I just re-watched the 3rd and still find it so tepid and uninspired. I mean, Bane is kinda cool, but the rest is just bad. The story was insipid and hacked.

The multi movie story and world building is the best thing that has happened in cinema in a long time.

So you and I apparently have quite different tastes.
Haha, red = explosive, green = toxic, blue = inert/empty.
I saw a photo somewhere of a Netflix POP that showed dozens of servers and a huge chassis router with hundreds of 100G links, so that's terabits.
Yes. See a tech blog from last year: https://netflixtechblog.com/how-netflix-brings-safer-and-fas...
From your link it doesn't sound like the suicide was due to financial reasons.

Regardless, $20m split tens of thousands of ways also doesn't go very far. On the order of like $300 per person per year.
Hey, this is exactly how I met my now wife and we've never heard anyone else with this story before! Long shot, but did this happen in Los Angeles?
Being trusted to deliver counterfeit goods that are easily returned is very different from being trusted to steward one’s life savings.
Lambdas, commandline applications, everything which needs startup times in the range of a few milliseconds.
By how much?
Subsidised salaries do not create new workers, they (create an incentive to) move workers from non-subsidised jobs. It is effectively the non-subsidised workers whose taxes pay for the subsidies.

That kind of thing is best kept for where markets don’t accurately price externalities, not ”$foo businesses can’t find staff at a price they are happy with”.
Yes, I managed to copy and paste badly. Thanks for the correction !
iPhones, vacation money, nicer clothes, money to go out and do things, etc.

When everything is locked down, what's the point of looking nice in fancy clothes that nobody can see you wear?
What’s wrong? The federal Liberal Party. That is what is wrong. Provinces didn’t want to divide their populace with this no exceptions papers please nonsense. So the feds went ahead and threatened billion dollar level withholdings until such divisions are put in place.
Besides federation, are you setting up as platform cooperatives? (Info: https://platform.coop/, Example: https://fairbnb.coop/ )
> It's hard to square this hypothesis with the fact that much of the world (Asia, Africa, etc.) lives on carbohydrates such as rice

Not really, though it needs expanded: Calorie surplus + high carb diet leads (via contributing to or exacerbating various metabolic conditions) more and harder to resolve obesity than the same calorie surplus with other macronutrient composition.
>If the author sees this, you might want to swap it out for another word like "automatically" in the readme.

On the other hand, giving up on using "silently" in a positive light does nothing to push back against its negative connotation and cedes the word to the negative Nancys. The author doesn't appear to be trying to make a living from this and I appreciate their using language they want to use whether or not it's approved by the marketing department.
Personally, I think that keeping the bit as the default network bandwidth unit is a good idea. When expressing physical transmission limitations, the equations of information theory are all in terms of bits (being the smallest unit of classical information). Obviously, this means that somewhere on the spectrum from the Shannon Limit to storage on disk, we've gotta shift from bits to bytes. The NIC is as good a border as any.
Simple fix would be to only require a single dose for a passport?

I can't think of an 'illegitimate' reason that somebody would be willing to take one dose but refuse another; so we could just charitably assume anyone with at one dose either had another too or a good reason not to?
Exactly. There is zero technical reason to use the Oracle JDK. OpenJDK licensing is GPLv2 with the classpath exception. Nice and simple. If you want to get your arm twisted and pay more, Oracle indeed provides you that option. You can also get a nice linux distribution from them and a database. And companies actually exist that buy all those things from them.

But for the rest of the world, you can also get certified JDKs from Azul, Amazon, Red Hat and a few others. All fine choices. Pretty much the entire financial industry, including some of the most conservative companies on the planet, depends on Java and I doubt most of them are paying Oracle for that. Why would they?
> However, there is no explanation of how you build an ‘organization’ out of this.

There's not a one size fits all of what being a DAO is (and many people bicker about those calling themselves a DAO when they may not be[0], and some protocols are more decentralized on day one than others), maybe this can help you understand some of what's going on by some of the examples listed [1] and the various actors (there are non financial DAO's not talked about here).

> And it seems like you are saying this isn’t true.

It is true to the degree that for the positive/negative incentives to take place -- “a specific jurisdiction, expensive lawyers and army of accountants” -- are not needed like they are with centralized organizations who incorporate in a particular jurisdiction.

[0] https://nitter.42l.fr/josephdelong/status/143272844148131841...

[1] https://vadymnesterenko.medium.com/participants-in-a-defi-pr...
The bottleneck in countries with "free university degrees" is not the cost of university, it's the cost financing your live while studying.

For young people with no real financial obligations that's somewhat easy to accomplish.

For people in the midst of their lifes, working a regular job, taking care of a family, it can be very difficult to juggle all these obligations at once.

Because even when university is "free" it still requires you to invest time.
While I don't know, I have a guess: Google loves building infrastructure, and they're pretty good at it. XMPP wasn't build in-house, and writing a replacement protocol was something Google could do.

What Google absolutely suck at is UI and native applications (at least on the desktop). It's also why their products keep failing. Seriously how hard would it be to build native clients or open the protocol and have it integrated into libpurple. I find it extremely hard to comprehend why Google don't just hire five of the worlds best macOS developer, five Windows developers and five for Linux/BSD and just let them build fantastic clients that integrates into each platform and provide the very best chat experience.
Patience – On Surfing
>Compared to Norway the number of covid deaths so far is about tenfold higher. How that counts as success is beyond me.

How is 19 million dead soldiers from Allied forces counted as success and win in WW2 is also beyond me.
Close, but not quite. The only thing Google knows how to do is make dirt-cheap large-scale computers and hire people. Then they let the people do whatever they want with the giant cloud, because the marginal cost is nothing.

So, the reason that gchat etc keep appearing and disappearing is because there never was a plan for it in the first place. One or a few engineers just threw it together at some point and there it was. Nobody truly owned it, it wasn't strategic. The churn is just a superficial symptom of the bottom-up product management style.

There are tons of Google products and features that were thrown together by individuals or pairs of people over a weekend and then subsequently got launched to the public. That this is possible is pretty neat, but that the products might not be durable is a downside.
How do they know they are only detecting neutrinos from the designated source, and not also other neutrinos mixed in?
Infants exposed to domestic violence have poorer cognitive development