skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I would like to point out the underlying thought behind your comment - that truth is more on the left then right.

At the moment, in the US? Absolutely. Have you seen the kind of things that people on the right are saying? And not just some nutjobs (they always exist as part of any group), but their political leadership and political commentators. They have completely embraced lies as a point of policy.

That is of course a completely different issue from what's going on in American universities, and I'm not arguing that there's nothing wrong is wrong there. I'm just saying that this:

> it's not advantageous that you are a white scientist"

Is not a party line of the Democratic Party, it's not a traditionally left-wing position either. And excluding people for their skin colour is also not exactly a left-wing thing. Many, many people on the left will disagree with silencing professors for any reason, especially merely for being white.

> to the point that ideas that can be associated with the right are simply wrong if not morally repugnant.

It depends on what those ideas are. Racism? Yes, that is absolutely morally repugnant. Low taxes? Well, I think extreme economic inequality is harmful, but it's not something I'd call "morally repugnant".

> Do you agree that any disparity is evidence of racism

Obviously not. Though racism can obviously be an important cause of disparity, but it's one of many.

> and that policies either increase disparity (and are racist) or decrease disparity (and therefore anti-racist)?

If we're talking racial disparity, then knowingly enacting policies that increase that disparity would be racist. The policies themselves might be totally fine in a different context. Context matters a lot.

> Are new york vaccine mandates racist since they disproportionately effect BIPOC?

Not as long as vaccines are easily available to them. (What does "BIPOC" mean? I know PoC means people of colour.)

> Female was considered diverse in hiring and diversity was considered very important.

Not if 80% of the people are women. Then focusing on hiring more women is anti-diversity. Again, there's nothing left-wing about intentionally trying to exclude entire demographic groups, and I don't think trying to exclude men completely has ever been the party line of the Democratic Party, which is the specific claim I was addressing.

> To your comment, I was trying to be a truth-seeker as a scientist and academic, and I left the academia because it stopped seeking truth in an honest way.

And I applaud you for doing so. I'd probably have done the same in your situation. I'm just arguing that there's nothing traditionally left-wing about this. It's just archconservatism with the roles swapped.

I guess it's a form of extremism hijacking what were originally good ideas and taking them to unhealthy extremes. It's like the difference between real feminism that wants equality for men and women, versus the man-hating parody of feminism that wants to replace the patriarchy with an identical matriarchy and not actually solve anything (and I know those people exist, and they might well be a big part of the problem at your university).
it's not my own hypothetical link, it's widely suggested in microeconomic circles
Ideally on Serverless infrastructure the system would
"move" jobs around so they run on the optimal platform
for what they are doing continuously?
(Based on price or based on raw compute etc)

I know there are many reasons this will be difficult in
real life, but it sounds like where it should be heading.
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"The voice came from an oblong metal plaque like a dulled mirror which formed part of the surface of the right-hand wall. . . The instrument (the telescreen, it was called) could be dimmed, but there was no way of shutting it off completely." - 1984.

It is best to treat electronics as always on and always recording and transmitting everything.
The Glymphatic system is fascinating. It is only recently discovered -- can you believe medical science is still discovering fundamental anatomy in the 90's and 2000's!

* https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25947369/#:~:text=The%20glym....

There is a great radiolab episode that talks about it:

https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/episodes/91528...
That this wasn't legal was not some big surprise or innovation in law in the "historic" times of 2007 either. (indeed, according to evidence from the case Schmidt explicitly mentioned not discussing the policy by email to not create a papertrail).
for me, nothing about open source is practical, reasonable or makes sense... and that's why it's magical.

Software, as an industry may have evolved past that naive stage. It just kinda makes me a little sad.
This is relevant perhaps 10% of the time. The other 90%, the devs have absolutely no idea how to actually perform the task the user of the software is trying to do, don't talk to customers, don't dogfood it, often don't even understand the industry, and the result is a horrible UI which forces people to severely adjust their existing processes to fit the software. Then if course the devs complain about "the stupid users." To this day 99% of address forms expect me to find my state from a drop down list of 50 entries plus DC, Puerto Rico, Guam, etc. instead of simply typing in the two letter abbreviation.
I went with the commands:

> implaying

and

> srsbsns

to toggle it off/on.
> Let's serve devices the image resolution that they can handle and not an XL image just because we can.

I would be all for this, but I frequently find myself pinch-zooming into images on my phone to more closely examine the details in them. If the site assumed that I would only see what's visible in the image at the initially-rendered aspect ratio, then zooming would reveal nothing (e.g. text that's small and blurry, would just become large and blurry, rather than crisp.)

Ideally, a browser would be able to notice when you've zoomed into an image element past its Nyquist frequency, and async-load a higher-quality version of the image, swapping it out once the loading's complete. Do any browsers do this yet?
People are coming up with crazy workarounds for funding. Taxes, subscriptions, government programs, begging profit-driven corporations to donate…

As programmers in a lucrative field, you can get financial independence (https://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2012/01/13/the-shockingly-si...). Then you can work on whatever you want without hoping for the rest of the world to change so you can pursue your passions.
Servers and bandwidth are not free. People maintaining them need to eat too.
I'm not looking to argue over the meaning of "invent" or "personal computing", but I'll point out that Alan Kay wrote a 1972 paper "A Personal Computer for Children of All Ages" that pretty much describes the modern laptop or tablet. (He even mentions ad blockers!) Xerox PARC went on to implement a lot of this in the Xerox Alto.

It's worth taking a look at the paper to see how many "modern" ideas were described in 1972: http://www.vpri.org/pdf/hc_pers_comp_for_children.pdf
this lowers engagement metrics, so probably not going to happen
Taking into account trading costs, a meh strategy and its inverse can both lose money.
The fuckup wasn't that we didn't know as much about the virus a year ago than we do today, but that by Fauci's admission the messaging to discourage mask use was adopted to avoid PPE shortages for healthcare workers. That's not "the whole 'science' thing" that's just bad comms.

To be clear I was fine with saving masks for healthcare workers and maybe there wasn't a better way to do that against the backdrop of people going apeshit in the paper goods aisle, but the point still stands.
I moved from engineering to product management precisely because I realized that the problem of "what should be built" is often harder than building the thing.

Asking users what features they want is pretty much not fair - because most people don't have the skills to think through and answer that question, nor is it their job to do it. It's like asking a novel reader what they'd like to see in the next chapter. It's a cop-out with guaranteed suboptimal outcome.

Obviously product management is half art half science but in a nutshell, much better than asking an individual what features they want would be asking them - especially on a senior level - what problems they have and what keeps them up at night. Getting an understanding of that and then thinking about how those problems/risks can be addressed by your system is a much better starting point.

The reason I say that it's important to partner with your users on the senior level is the difference in perspective on the class of problems they want to tackle.

For example I used to work on a trading platform. If I went to my heaviest users and asked them what their problems were, they would probably say "I do 1000 trades a day, and I have to tweak each one manually - can you make that process faster" and maybe even have an idea of what that could look like. So let's say I did that and shaved a second off each trade handling so my user is happy cuz I saved them 16 minutes a day. Sounds like a job well done.

But if instead (or in addition) I talked to their boss, I might hear a very different story. Eg: "we do 1000 trades here every day, but 900 of them are straight forward. I wish I could automate those so trader can focus on the 100 complicated ones. But instead, he's so busy doing the 1000 trades that a lot of them get fucked up especially the complex ones."

That's a major change of perspective, from optimizing an existing workflow to optimizing the entire operation. The implementation is quite different - one is a UI optimization and the other is establishing some sort of automation capability that can be extended to all my clients over time. One may be doable with the team you have, one may require standing up a new group, etc.

At the end, the end user is happy (they get to do 10% of their previous load but this is the high value 10% they really want to focus on.) The key point is that neither the user nor their boss could tell me exactly what to build, but the high level perspective allowed me to understand their problem in a deep way and figure out a scalable solution for them and other clients.

Anyway that's just an example but yeah, your users can't tell you what to build and yeah you need a good product manager - or someone who can play that role well.
Those little strips of color don't need to be shaded, though. You could do what Windows XP did with tabs—highlighting them by running a line of bright shining highlight color along the top (e.g. https://www.techrepublic.com/a/hub/i/2008/11/19/b8ad3817-c3b...).

(I'm sure there are even better examples of this "no gradients, but strong color contrast" effect among the various Linux Desktop Environment themes, but I'm not too familiar with them. Paging anyone from /r/unixporn.)
Microsoft didn't run automatic code analysis tools as part of their code review process until 2017? What on earth was wrong?
> This seems pretty huge ('19% better performance at 20% lower cost')

I believe the performance boost will not be meaningful and the only important factor is cost per GB*s, given that most Lambda workloads are IO bound or simple event handlers that barely take 1s to run anyway.

Nevertheless this is exciting stuff, specially given that NodeJS might be lambda's most popular runtime and thus we might only be a toggle flip away from a 20% discount.
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That the government is still visibly divided over whether vaccination is a good idea is what really troubles me here and it's pretty much purely America at this point. Canadian liberals don't like the Liberals - Liberals don't like the Conservatives and neither Liberals nor Conservatives like liberals. That all said every represented party in Canada (and almost every individual MP) is either pro-vax or losing a lot of clout right now. In the US the GOP is technically for vaccinations and sane mandates - but if you look at House Reps and Governors you'll see a lot of anti-mask mandate laws and other protests.

The government is of the people - but it should be the best of us not the biggest conspiracy theorists among us (having one or two is fine - but this problem is a lot bigger than just Marjorie Taylor Greene)
You're right. We have such a weird system of government. We are literally paying the salaries of these people. If you had an employee that cost you 100k or whatever per year, and when you asked what they did today they told you they hassled a guy with an obscene bumper sticker, would you want to keep paying them?

But somehow, police departments keep being able to justify and apparently receive their budgets despite cops doing all kinds of wasteful stuff that in no way contributes to public safety. Accountability should be through department budgets, i.e. they should be cut it police are wasting taxpayer money. But somehow that doesnt happen
What if the government figured out it could just use private companies to do what it can't?
Thanks for the reference! I hadn't heard of Atlas before and it seems super relevant.
Terraform issue tracking support for architectures parameter: https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-provider-aws/issues/2...

There's a pull request that went up about 40 minutes prior to my comment.

So it looks like it's coming, soon.
i will begin this by saying that i am vaccinated and wear a mask. the CDC misled americans about the efficacy of masks specifically to reduce demand so that medical pros could get them. it's one thing to ask and another to straight up lie[1]. when an institution literally admits it is not truthful, that it is operating on some level where you must parse their motivations and countervailing evidence to determine whether they will give you correct advice, why should it be a surprise that people don't trust them?

this doesn't even get into the fact that fauci personally approved funding for GoF coronavirus research at the WIV, a fact which he has still not even acknowledged. there are many, many other reasons to distrust the CDC, but these are the ones that i found most personally flagrant.

[1] https://www.thestreet.com/video/dr-fauci-masks-changing-dire...
Right! A healthcare system with a 100% cure rate for a 100% fatal disease. Let’s complain about the cost of this miracle.

Start mucking about with the price of this service and the next thing you know, hospitals are not stocking enough doses or the Pharma Corp has trouble recruiting volunteers to make immunoglobulin. Then you get bit by a rabid dog and go to the ER only to find out they gave their last dose to some kid yesterday and the next ration delivery is weeks away.

Miracles cost money. These people are bickering about a $20k bill when their alternative was to get their papers in order and pick out $10k in funeral arrangements.
I heard all sorts of hypothetical links suggested in microeconomic circles. Some of them contradict other hypothetical links and it's hard to really prove these things given the huge number of variables involved. However this particular suggestion still seems rather unlikely to me.
That subset of opcodes is the ARM instruction set. So yes GCC will have no problem. Even the SIMD extensions are under ARM's purview.

The neural processors, GPU's, TPU's etc. aren't part of the CPU anyways (they're part of the SoC).

This fragmentation has some downsides but having a good compiler isn't one of them. It's more likely all the different ways these SoC's handle booting, connecting to peripherals, etc. This will create a huge burden on something like the Linux kernel if it attempts to support them all (for evidence, check out the recent work on Linux M1 support.. fascinating stuff).
I know that the Weimar Republic had anti-semitic censorship laws. I made almost the same argument that you are making just 2 months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27865484

"My understanding is that pre-Nazi Germany had hate speech laws, and it didn't seem to work there?"

I abandoned my views on this question for a few reasons:

- The Weimar Republic laws either weren't effective at preventing distribution or they weren't actually enforced. The continued circulation of Der Sturmer is evidence of this. The judiciary was known to be heavily biased in favor of the far-right, where less than 10% of far-right political killers were convicted and the majority of far-left political killers were convicted.

- Online censorship is far less likely to create martyrs than the visual/emotional imagery of imprisoning people.

- Online censorship is far more effective at preventing distribution.

- Failing to censor online leads to automatic mass-distribution due to the consolidation of eyeballs in a small number of venues. Failing to censor offline does not. There is less scale to be had offline.

- Online censorship that we're talking about is private and voluntary. It is not in the same category as government censorship as far as downside risk is concerned.

> Given that what you advocate for is virtually identical

It is not "virtually identical". As I've said, the context is extremely different. You can't draw an analogy as much as you keep trying.
Lambda is never meant for low latency CPU app, where speed is king, due to startup cost. I don’t see why you would run architecture specific code on lambda.
ARM itself is proprietary, including the ISA and several micro-architectures that implement the ISA.

I don't think it's shocking that folks who licensed a proprietary ISA, and then paid a stiff license fee to implement their own microarch off of a proprietary reference microarch, would keep their chips proprietary.

risc-v is the only hope in this arena, and luckily David Patterson is generally signal enough that something might be a good idea.
> I recognize that it's ridiculous to be in a situation where I'm rejecting facts; that's a great way to be led completely astray. But that's the world that censorship has created.

Sounds to me like you're blaming everyone else for something that's completely under your control.
For this specific case (product discovery interviews) take a look at Interviewing Users by Steve Portigal, and Validating Product Ideas by Tomer Sharon.
This always makes me laugh. The virus comes in waves and someone will point out one country is doing “better” when it’s just the fact the country is past the latest wave.

I even saw different regions of my country do this. Fast forward 2 months and the situations are reversed and so is the finger pointing.

It’s absurd.
the modal dialog that interrupts my flow is forcing engagement, adding a choice doesn't change anything
really interesting share. a reminder of the arbitrariness of our current metrics of "citation"s and "h indexes". consider Ludwig Boltzmann's non-existent google scholar profile and his paper "Further studies on the thermal equilibrium of gas molecules" with 131 citations, in which he explained the 2nd law using statistical mechanics and defined entropy.
Google already left China - perhaps Russia is next.

I could even imagine Apple leaving Russia if their employees (or their families) are threatened.
That's brutal. You were right to quit.

There's a certain personality type that will never appreciate or reward hard work.
Google deals with 2-7 day cloud networking incident
So you're not getting vaccinated and you've convinced yourself it's for pro-social reasons. Misinformation truly is something to behold.
> (N95 preferably, but at least surgical),

I wouldn't even go as low to recommend surgical (at least not without a mask fitter)

KF94, KN95 (reputable), FFP2, or an higher quality N95 NIOSH (shame they won't make those for kids)
The whole point of container is to abstract away the underlying OS & hardware. If you need CPU architecture specific code, running it on lambda seem a bit pointless to me.
Exactly. You don't uphold democracy by silencing its critics, either.

Democracy and liberal freedom is best upheld when (a) the government is founded on the principles of liberty and rule-of-law, and (b) the people treasure those principles and refuse to tolerate a government that fails to uphold them.
Depending on which country you look at you got different goals. Some tried isolation. Others tried herd immunity. We are currently trying those 2 dose vaccines and are already planning for a third before the winter has even started, and I suspect we will see talk about a forth dose by early spring. Then we have nations like Norway addressing covid as a new aspect of the seasonal flue with no end date.

The idea that we just take two doses and are done is clearly no longer the goalpost.
the first sentence of the article:

> The new biography Steve Jobs

it was a response to the new biography.
> The tool ingests ownership data from state registers

That means the most difficult part was solved already. Some countries, especially the more exotic island ones probably, do not have an online public register. They require a local lawyer to walk to the Chamber of Commerce to access ownership info for a company.

Being a tax haven is not always about taxes only.
> We have standards for both normal approvals and emergency use authorizations.

so, since you are implying that emergency use approval protocols are just as safe as normal protocols, why don't we follow emergency use protocols all the time? they're quicker!
You can just type "Find" in the huge text field at the top to filter out settings items. I rarely drop levels deep for anything.
Hubspot.com is down, status.hubspot.com says all systems operational
If you read my comment thoroughly, I was talking about cloth masks. That link you posted is really only interesting as far as surgical masks.

The surgical mask effect is certainly interesting, but they couldn't de-correlate the effect from increased social distancing in the intervention arm. Certainly that seems just as likely to make a difference if not more so eh?

So I'm left where I started: Nothing of consequence about cloth masks, and a mild un-corroborated effect from surgical masks in a country that's about as different from the US as I could imagine.

I wouldn't base public policy on that study, that's for sure. I have no problem if people want to wear masks, go for it. But mandates? I have a higher bar than you to infringe on personal freedoms I guess.
Found this from 2014: https://techcrunch.com/2014/03/24/sheryl-sandberg-facebook-r...
Clogging up hospitals and traumatizing the healthcare workers. If it wasn’t for that, I’d be all for lifting all restrictions and letting it rip.
It looks very similar to this other piece of art:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erased_de_Kooning_Drawing
It is the latest system in that same family - more details here: https://engineering.fb.com/2021/09/29/security/mariana-trenc...
It seems like autofixing linters got popular about 10 years ago? That was when it hit my radar at least, but before that I wasn't really a software dev. Whenever it happened that was a quantum jump in usability.
This is why changelogs and release notes are not optional or tucked away in a dark corner. And users who request features need to be notified (actively, specifically) that something they requested or a bug they hit was resolved or addressed.

I know, that's a lot of work. But what's the point of fixing things if you never tell someone it's fixed.
It's the old classic of 'invented' vs 'popularised' at play. Both equally important I think.
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> no one ever turns their phone off

Sometimes turning it off and on again is the only way to get wi-fi syncing to work.
Big discussion earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28697508
True, I should have used "massify" instead of "invent".