skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>wasted by the constraints of its platform

I mean, ignoring that there are some fairly serious number crunching things to do on iPhones (I think the lidar and basic 3D scanning features intro'd with the iPhone 12 Pro are already quite useful professionally for example, like cameras themselves on smartphones), how can you say this following Apple's switch of Macs to their chips too? Obviously the economies of scale and constraints generated by iPhone development has fed Apple's move up the stack in classic disruptive fashion to the iPad and then last year the Mac. Hwever you feel about smartphones themselves, it seems a little more than a little odd to see this comment now in 2021 given that it's going straight into more classic personal computers as well?
> Businesses are also shifting their focus away from “AI-as-a-service” vendors who promise to carry out tasks straight out of the box, like magic. Instead, they are spending more money on data-preparation software, according to Brendan Burke, a senior analyst at PitchBook. He says that pure-play AI companies like Palantir Technologies Inc. and C3.ai Inc. “have achieved less-than-outstanding outcomes,” while data science companies like Databricks Inc. “are achieving higher valuations and superior outcomes.”

Palantir is now a "pure-play AI company"? (And, for that matter, a market cap of $50b is 'less than outstanding'?)
> I'm often forced to choose a side, even when it's all hypotheticals and virtues.

In what situations are you forced to choose a side? In conversations with your friends/family? At your place of employment (in whatever form that may be)?
> Same is true of Apple's Lightning. It looks symmetrical, but electrically it isn't.

Have you every used an Apple product? Because if you did you'd know that it doesn't matter which direction you plug it in.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning_(connector)

"The male Lightning connector is symmetrical (same pins on either side), so it can be inserted into a female Lightning port in either orientation."
For those that deleted their account, how do you navigate a world where more communities exclusively use Facebook?

I deleted my account almost 10 years ago. I've had no regrets. However, I'm finding lately that more communities have no option but Facebook to communicate with others. I live in a somewhat large metropolitan city in the US but it's nearly impossible to find anything on Craigslist anymore — Facebook Marketplace has displaced it. Even local enthusiast groups or my children's school's parent groups communicate only through Facebook. I feel like a luddite when I ask organizers if there is a email mailing list or suggest to start one. Lately I've had urges to create an account again solely for these sorts of groups, but knowing myself, it's a slippery slope.
McKinsey is an interesting place, but I think this is very much the wrong take - and the headline is out of context.

McKinsey is a conglomerate of silos, and it's entirely possible for McKinsey NY to be working on something that's related to something McKinsey Atlanta is working on - that doesn't make it a conflict of interest.

In any more than banks advise and act for all sorts of clients who have related interests.

There are reasons to maybe having Red Flags (or points of concern really) about McKinsey people but I don't think that this is generally it.

I would hire everyone from McKinsey that I know if there were a role for them, and their 'integrity' wouldn't remotely be an issue. The issue frankly is how applicable their skills would be in most operational environments.
TIL the phrase "magical smoke" :)

Never were much into electrical engineering, to my own chagrin.
i stand corrected. it is indeed usb4.

the point i made is just as true though, as the announcement that thunderbolt switched to the usb-c form-factor is 6yrs old now. (and was even linked to from someone else in this thread!)

the downvotes just show once again how hilariously dumb the average hn-reader is.
There's also Prodfiler from Halvar Flake and friends.

https://prodfiler.com/
It might not work in Rust, but in Swift it works just fine.
"We" in your sentence are not the same groups of people.
Also pretty clearly not a native english speaker/writer (I'm hoping based on how substandard their english skills are). It may not be entirely fair, but the poor writing pre-disposes me to not give much merit to their arguments.
If you're the ones complaining about "censorship" or how "people want it": sit right down.

No one is saying that other Web actors can't do all these things, or that people who want it can't find it; just Facebook. Because they're a monopoly and the usual rules don't apply to them. When you make the market, you can't defend yourself with free market principles.
Too bad, the article is behind a paywall.

But for anyone not listened to him before, I'd recommend Finlandia. Take a listen to hear what an important part those "Sibelian sweeps" are part of Hollywood music scores when they want to suggest something grandiose.

Also it set me thinking on orchestral music that sort of strives to represent a gist of the national characters of different nations.

Perhaps one list could be:

Great Britain : Elgar, Pomp and Circumstance

Russia: Tchaikovsky, Marche Slave

Finland: Sibelius, Finlandia

USA: Copland, Appalachian Spring
uBlock Origin and Facebook Container. uBlock Origin is basically a content blocker. Facebook Container is preventing Facebook from tracking you.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin...

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/facebook-cont...
You want cities without open spaces? That sounds very depressing to live in. And I don't see how that would reduce crime. If anything, open spaces are easier to police.
The big issue is that a ballistic missile may not be able to deviate as much from the expected position as it can search away from it.

I agree that they're not that different from ballistics but they still have considerable advantages.
While the article discusses possible solutions to an important problem and it may have some good ideas, I strongly dislike the choice of words of the author, because such inappropriate terminology is one of the main causes why there are problems with handling integers.

When using a bit string with N bits, e.g. a 64-bit bit string, it is possible to implement 3 distinct integer types.

Two types are subtypes of the integer numbers in the mathematical sense, i.e. interval types a.k.a. range types, which can be either signed, e.g. with values in the interval [-2^63, 2^63-1], or unsigned, e.g. with values in the interval [0,2^64-1].

The third type are modular numbers, e.g. numbers modulo 2^64.

Unfortunately I am not aware of any programming language that either allows the use of all 3 kinds of types or at least uses appropriate names for the available types.

For example, the types named "unsigned" in C and C++ are not unsigned numbers, but modular numbers. They should never be used for a variable that is intended to belong to an interval of integer numbers, unless there is certainty that during any computations with that value it is impossible for reductions by the modulus to appear.

The wrapping behavior of modular numbers is not an "implicit overflow", it is their normal behavior according to their definition. There is no overflow of modular numbers.

On the other hand, for the interval numbers (e.g. C/C++ "int" or "long") a decent programming language should define what happens on integer overflow.

The fact that many modern programming languages have chosen to specify that the behavior on integer overflow is undefined is extremely annoying and this is the root cause of all bugs caused by overflows.

There are 2 acceptable behaviors, the same as for floating point numbers, either integer saturation, where the interval limits are considered infinities, which are the result of overflows and then they are preserved by all subsequent operations until they are tested later, or an integer overflow exception signaled immediately.

Most ancient computers and programming languages always generated exceptions on integer overflow.

Ignoring integer overflow is a modern method of cost reduction which moves the burden from CPU designers & manufacturers to the programmers who must now either be able to predict correctly whether integer overflows will ever happen or compile with options for overflow checking.

Due to the poor support for integer overflow checking in most modern CPUs, this option causes a much greater performance penalty than really necessary.

Fortunately the existence of the IEEE 754 standard has prevented such cost reduction measures for floating-point operations, but for integer operations there is no standard to force the CPU makers to do the right thing.
Even in the benign case it usually intent laundering. Consultants are often brought in to deal with organizational inability to do something that a substantial chunk of the employees already knows they need to do. It is one of the reasons they can be successful hiring people straight from school and putting them on big accounts. The basic formula for many of these jobs is to interview employees, figure out the way forward that the sponsoring exec really wanted anyway in the form a synthesis of what the employees suggested, add some data and pretty graphs to a report, and then lend the idea external credibility (and future blamability if it fails).
Battlefy’s Frontend Architecture
For context, these are both right-leaning sources attacking the NYT for having negative coverage of right-leaning politics.
For grad school across fields a statement supporting “equity and inclusion” is becoming the norm. While this does not sound political, the use of the word “equity” vs “equality” is political.

Specifically, equity explicitly entails redistributing resources based on lack of privilege. This is instead of equality, which entails providing everyone with the same resources and opportunity.

Now we are left with question of how to fairly distribute resources. These are centralized decisions made by career bureaucrats. If the distinction was made along economic lines, this would not be all that political. However, lines are commonly drawn along race, gender, and sexual orientation. Now those making these decisions have decide based on belief structures about what groups are the least privilege. These structures are inherently political and a poor proxy for economic status.
I get the point you're trying to make, but the connector is electrically symmetrical: "made up of exactly similar parts facing each other or around an axis"
My impression of her was that bad and I wouldn’t waste time on other social media getting my 2 cents in :)
It took more than a decade for the ecosystem to migrate. IIRC, a lot of effort went into making them compatible, but some things are just fundamentally incompatible and also very difficult to automate (e.g., string encodings).
It means we shouldn't fall for the promise of safety at the expense of freedom because we are afraid. Diseases are part of life like forest fires. Many totalitarian dictatorships of the past were welcomed in with thunderous applause because they promised to keep the population safe.

The promise of safety from infection is not something than any human can guarantee. The COVID vaccine does not prevent infection and does not stop the spread. The desire to force people to take a vaccine in the name of population safety is rooted in fear. Fear leads to the fearful cheering when the police beat someone for not wearing a mask. Fear leads to the fearful begging for a "leader" to keep them safe at all cost. Fear is used by megalomaniacs to expand their power and control. We should not be fearful.
1. The data I scrape could be enough to check this theory out. Currently the site calculates a 'all time' accuracy and 'last year' accuracy, it would be fairly simple to also add an accuracy for 1 year back, 2 years back, etc. When I have time, I'll give that a try.

2. I once knew of a website that did just this - it displayed the radar image for the village that the creator lived in, and used some really simple linear motion estimation to predict rain in the next hour. I believe it had pretty good accuracy, but unfortunately I can't find that site any more, sorry.
> A pricing update to not charge egress fees for object storage and some types of streaming is hardly "disruptive"

Hum. Do you think the largest cloud providers can outcompete that without completely changing their business plans?

Egress costs are always described as the ultimate cloud moat, and the main way those companies lock their clients. I do think there is enough space to disagree here (personally, I have no idea), but the mainstream view is that it fits the (econ-)dictionary definition of disruptive.
Yes, one can certainly argue about whether they've handled the fuel shortage well. However, I'm not sure if anyone else would have handled it any better. One way to look at it is that they've left the ball where it should be: with the haulage firms who must now pay more for drivers. It's not really the government's job to ensure that private haulage and petrochemical firms have as much access to cheap labour as they would like. It was always going to be an uncomfortable adjustment to make.
Ah, haha, clever!

I missed that one O:)
BuT tHe MeTaVeRsE
TLDR: Munro admits to owning a bunch of Tesla stock, and there is a drastic change in his opinions of Tesla before he owned Tesla stock vs after.
This author is clueless.

All three of these things were already free.

None of these things are industries.
Casey is in fact perpetually annoyed with and disdainful of microsoft. Anyone who is familiar with him knows this.

He's been like this for years, and that's fine when you are hanging out with you buddies over a beer, but now Casey is a public figure.

Being a public figure means you are not 'every competent developer'. The reason this was made so public wasn't ms employees, it was Casey's followers.

The sequence of events he started here ended with his fans and friends on discord feeling justified (because Casey, not them, was right on a technical level) brigading volunteers and microsoft employees alike until at least one of them quit open source.

A truly ugly conclusion that could have been avoided with a more circumspect approach.
Code Smell 89 – Math Feature Envy
Yes, thanks for providing the link.
Cloudflare really is impressive. Who can forget when they disrupted the retro emulation scene, by protecting the website that drove a prominent emulation developer to suicide? Or when they disrupted Isla Vista by serving the sites where Elliot Rodger was radicalized?
Calling it clickbait is generous
Yes, but that was the case for most of history, and America (and the world) at the time did it progressively less and less (first the abolition of slavery, then women right to vote, civil rights, de-seggregation, and so on).

Whereas today it's a new phenomenon, that gets progressively worse even though the problems you've mentioned (regarding blacks, women, gays, etc) are at their historical lower point.

So while America was progressing then, this is a regression now.

And it also affects blacks, women, gays, lesbians, republicans, demoracts, old-style lefties, and so on -- all of those categories have had members cancelled or mob-attacked for wrong opinions... (even someone like Dave Chappelle, who is a comedian of all things, has been attacked on such grounds).
You're getting downvoted here, but at border crossings often you'll be asked for social media access. I don't think it's that far off the mark.
No question. They've been dealing with that factor at hyper scale for many years now. The only question is how they've already decided to go about it.

They'll certainly want to make a big splash with the product, given the cloud giants they're taking on. That's better done with fewer limitations initially, even if they know ahead of time the various ways they'll restrict abuse over time.
Why is this downvoted? I understand the second paragraph might be slightly aggressive/inflammatory but the first paragraph alone is a legitimate critique.

I would really appreciate if those who disagree would provide counter arguments, as both sides here offer the potential for an interesting (and important) dialogue about CF and their role in global Internet/WWW infrastructure.
I use my https://crushentropy.com/ as the day planner and it has definitely made me more productive. It's like markdown for planning your day.
I’m trivializing their research based on their inherent triviality. Any new gene could be game changers for a plethora of ailments. The correct gravity comparison would be trying to celebrate someone finding the value of g in Oxford when the original measurement was in London.

I didn’t say I am sour I didn’t get one. When did a film critic need an Oscar before he could criticize moviemakers?
Yes,it runs fine (and the manual says it's safe to run without). It's not a lot of heat, I think it's only about 2000 W. But that's the difference between the pipes freezing and just needing a sweater. (Fortunately it doesn't get -40 °C cold in my part of Canada.)
Doubt there's an affiliation. The whole article is written from a perspective of how founders can use these features to build their MVPs faster (curious how nobody in the comments mentioned this).
Counterexample: WireGuard. Turns out OpenVPN was massive and slow for no reason and it only took one (talented and motivated) man to make a much better version.
According to the article, you can also reduce the vast majority of Google communication by disabling all Google apps and services. You need a phone that allows that (I have a Fairphone 2). Not as watertight as LineageOS, but easier for most people, at least for me. Then indeed use F-Droid and the occasional app from sources you trust via Aurora Store. Very usable as a main phone.
Any ideas how to make it more clear that our desire is to have them participate in the specifications? Also, wouldn't the switching thing work both ways (or even in a mesh pattern, assuming multiple adoption?) (I think that's obvious but, maybe it's not?)
Wouldn’t you imagine every revolution is really a catalyst moment that follows years of hardly-noticed incremental changes that set the stage for it?
It is indeed revolutionary, because it is at the heart of the first widely popular fully-functional powerful general-purpose ARM-based laptop ever being produced on a massive, industrial scale. If that's not being revolutionary, I don't know what is.
Please search my comment history for what I posted about electrophoresis and physics. I don't think they'll be able to get past the physical limitation. To summarize, you either move ink fast but end up losing bistability, or move ink slow, as it is currently. Most people don't realize electrophoresis has remained at about 700ms for an update over the last decade. Tricks like A2 sure with the Dasung, but nothing substantial.

As for the comment about "money/interest", see my comments about why a venture capitalist would have little interest in spending billions trying to create new display tech and fighting hard expensive physics problems when they could get higher rate of return by investing in another software service or ML/AI company. That said, Jeff Bezos spent hundred million or more on trying to get Liquavista working, Qualcomm spent lord knows how much on Mirasol. Great demos, but just couldn't get the process scaled or reliable enough to commercialize. Physics is hard. Physics is expensive.
I agree entirely, but: How obligated are we to attempt to save someone from their own willful act of stupidity? In this situation another person coming in and shouting might be what sets the critter off... or perhaps this person talking to the elk is aware of their circumstances and willing to take responsibility for their own damned self.

Stupid should hurt, pain is the most effective teacher.
I have heard from interns that colleges want to see engagement for social justice or diversity causes during the application process.

I have also heard that for research grants you need to show “diversity and inclusion” efforts. One guy I talked to from a Nevada school said these are often won by rich colleges who are almost purely white but know how to talk diversity whereas poorer colleges that are actually way more diverse don’t rate well on the diversity and inclusion scale.
4-5 days is not enough watering for outdoor vegetables. Seedlings need watering every day or better 2x a day. Use hose or sprinkler drip irrigation doesn’t work with seedlings

Also timing is critical you need to plant at the right time for your local area otherwise seeds will .

Light level is important too, full Sun IS best but requires constant irrigation for best results.

Research a lot ask your neighbors and keep trying

Try reading https://www.gardenmyths.com/. There are some decent YouTube channels like urban farmer curtis stone but YouTube is kind of a slow repository of info. You need to watch a lot of videos to learn bits
That sounds very close to "just following orders".

Enabling evil is itself evil.

Whether or not McKinsey is, when taken as a whole, evil is debatable. But, they certainly do enough work with dictators and other known bad actors that we should have the debate.
Is it really a partnership? Do they have as much say in your continued employment as you have in theirs?

What I found works best is giving them advanced notice of what type of feedback is expected and when. Schedule a one on one a week in advance. Let them know what you are looking for. Don't combine it with anything else.

The worst thing you can do (and what almost everyone does) is tack it on to the end of a yearly performance review.
Cloudflare doesn't require terminating end to end encryption between the service provider and the user.
thanks. I want to use web apps instead of native apps. So far the easiest approach seems to be asking users to install bookmarklet in a Mac and sync the bookmarks to the iPhone.
Does this argument explain why I can't think of a single country that has put forth a concerted effort to discourage cross border capital flows? I don't think so. If I'm wrong please point out a case study. I think the fact that globalism ends up being a net positive for nations long-term is the reason they prefer to stick to it as a system. I'm not well-versed in economics as a whole, but it seems like PPP is one of the metrics that can somewhat approximate how well individuals in a nation are able to exercise economic power. And it looks like globalism does help increase that if the goods your country produces are uniquely positioned in some way (ie uniquely cheap, uniquely durable etc.). I remember many people predicting that the luxury-good level pricing of the iPhone meant that it would never take off in "non-developed" countries but clearly in 2021, that's far from the truth. I think what people want is access to high-quality and reliable goods/services, rather than globalism or nationalism as a system.

FWIW, I like localism the most due to the psychological/cultural/scaling effects that it produces and hopefully, there's a minimally harmful way to get there without getting stuck in a nationalist rut.
Career development/advancement and a raise.
Same here ("it's Chromium without Google's stuff").

For Brave on Android I wish they deviated from Chrome by adding a no-autoplay option for videos.[1]

[1] https://community.brave.com/t/where-is-the-disable-video-aut...
One interesting thing about the M1 is that a single chip (currently) powers apple's tablet, entry level laptop, entry level desktop, and their most recent all-in-one desktop and high end pro laptop. The differentiation is done elsewhere. What is missing is the high end pro level hardware, but if the rumors are true those will have the same but "more of it". It's the first chip I know of that answers the "should we optimise for speed or for power consumption" by "yes".