skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's a good way to get kids more interested:

Give kids HAM radio equipment for free.

From what I understand, the setup can be quite expensive for the younger generations, who are struggling financially, compared to your "average HAM operator", who's a 60+ year old white baby-boomer.

When we were the age where interests and hobbies are developed, I didn't know anyone who had anywhere near that amount available to spend at their discretion. At most, some of us could save up money and buy a $50 video game.

To get a radio station, we'd have to save up for a year.
Depends on how many cases of "large scale events" you have. You could calculate a simple correlation coefficient and even a p-value to loosely estimate causation, if you had enough data points.
I think it has accelerated in the last 5-10 years because of Twitter and other social media. I do not think the hearings such as the Church Committee Hearings are possible now a days.
If you are banned by Facebook, does that mean they will stop tracking you?
I was curious about the LOC sizes of some well-known packages:

% cd Python-3.9.1
% wc -l `find . -name '*.py'` | tail -1
843196 total
% cd ~/clones/numpy
% wc -l `find . -name '*.py'` | tail -1
256900 total
% cd ~/clones/scipy
% wc -l `find . -name '*.py'` | tail -1
397250 total
% cd ~/clones/django
% wc -l `find . -name '*.py'` | tail -1
383167 total

That's not quite 2MLOC.
Your comment probably got downed more drastically than normal for being a new account but on the off chance you're a legitimate new account that just had an unlucky first comment:

It's compatible with both web and Node. In Node it uses https://github.com/stackgl/headless-gl to provide a WebGL compatible implementation as Node doesn't ship with GPU access out of the box. The project is looking into https://github.com/maierfelix/webgpu or similar to instead provide Node with a WebGPU compatible implementation. Both require N-API. The tracking issue can be found here for reference https://github.com/gpujs/gpu.js/issues/507.
My point exactly (your last 2 sentences).
> Not that they need one :)

Exactly! None of your damn business how other people handle their health. Go cower in the basement if you can't handle a (hopefully temporary) less than 15% increase in the death rate for your age cohort.

https://data.cdc.gov/resource/3apk-4u4f.csv
Yes, on our roadmap. Trying to solve for UX and reduce complexity.

Imagine a menu:

Open in New Tab

Open in New Private Tab

Open in New Container

Open in New Window

Open in New Private Window

Open in New Container Window

+ Tab groups! Oh my...

It is a bit too much, needs to be simplified.
It’s typically just a Facebook group of your neighbors, so “platform” might be a bit strong for what it is. Besides everything being free, I’ve found it helps build a bit of a sense of community for those who participate.
Which looking to the 10 years that took for WebGL 2.0 to finally become available everywhere, and WGSL is still half baked, being production ready is still a couple of years away.
We're swinging from The Network is the Computer to The Computer is a Network
That’s why I don’t think it is ethical to do that kind of research.
I think this is a different case, though. The police didn’t succeed or didn’t try to get a warrant before pointing a camera at one guy. Then, tried to argue that they could mount it anywhere because his fence had gaps and was only 6’ high.
Sure, lack of UI is bad.

But if you know about it, it makes no sense as a reason for you to stop using firefox. It only takes a few seconds to set up and you can do the same thing with themes.

> Also have you ever tried migrating profiles before Sync?

I have. You move the folder from one computer to another and the profile is migrated.

Unlike chrome, where that triggers some kind of "malware has altered the profile!" mode and it resets things. How do you migrate a chrome profile without sync?
1x is supposed to be a baseline for an average productive programmer.

0.1 is someone who isn't actually a productive engineer but somehow faked the interview process.

It's not difficult to be 10 times more productive than somebody who isn't productive at all. I'm at least 100x better Kotlin developer than my 30 years dead grand-grand father who never saw computer IRL.

It's much more difficult to show that you can be 10 times more productive than the average productive developer.
Matrix multiplication is a nice example, but does it also support sparse matrix-vector multiplication (because this is what is most useful in scientific computations, e.g. iterative solvers)?
the company will study the environmental impact of right-to-repair and act on its findings by the end of the next year

The title seems misleading.
UBI is income redistribution. It will always be immoral for those paying to support others who are not working.

What you describe is not exploitation, people are working of their own will and that's the best deal they can have.

When you'll eliminate those jobs with income redistribution and minimum wage those people (especially if they're coming in from a different, poorer country) will just be out of a job.
Lego to release a 9,090-piece scale model of the Titanic
There are so many items on this list that I've internalized over the years and this has done a great job breaking them down into a paragraph of text.
Milton Friedman's grandson is on it:

"Friedman and Gramlich noted that according to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, a country's Exclusive Economic Zone extends 200 nautical miles (370 km) from shore. Beyond that boundary lie the high seas, which are not subject to the laws of any sovereign state other than the flag under which a ship sails. They proposed that a seastead could take advantage of the absence of laws and regulations outside the sovereignty of nations to experiment with new governance systems, and allow the citizens of existing governments to exit more easily"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seasteading

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Seasteading_Institute

"The project picked up mainstream exposure after PayPal cofounder Peter Thiel donated $500,000 in initial seed capital[4] (followed by subsequent contributions). He also spoke out on behalf of its viability in his essay "The Education of a Libertarian""

Patri Friedman is described as a former Google employee, a transhumanist and rationalist, and a very good poker player.

"Since attending the Burning Man festival in 2000, Friedman imagined creating a water festival called Ephemerisle as a Seasteading experiment and Temporary Autonomous Zone. Through The Seasteading Institute, Friedman was able to start the Ephemerisle festival in 2009, aided by TSI's James Hogan as event organizer and Chicken John Rinaldi as chief builder."

It doesn't really interest me, but I guess it does make a lot more sense than Mars colonies?
They think they own the internet. But in some countries they do.
It's not particular to the US. The US is doing this by pressure as a compromise because the European powers threatened something worse. The US would prefer to change absolutely nothing and let its major corporations continue to avoid taxes where they can internationally.

Germany and France are overwhelmingly supporting this, because they benefit from damaging competing nations that have lower corporate income tax rates (eg Lithuania, Ireland, Hungary, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, Switzerland, Albania, Armenia, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Croatia). Both Germany (30%) and France (26.5%) have higher corporate income tax rates than the US and stand to benefit more by forcing the rest of the world to a higher base and or otherwise preventing any further decline in rates. This helps those two nations re-level Europe to their advantage, and stop any further race to the bottom on rates (where Germany and France can't follow).

For those two nations it's a particularly relevant matter in Europe. They've watched as Ireland has rapidly become one of the richest nations in world history by leveraging a very low corporate income tax rate. Ireland is taking economy, growth, away from them. In the time that Ireland's GDP per capita has massively exploded higher, Germany has seen a GDP per capita decline over 26 years. Read that again. 26 years, an inflation adjusted GDP per capita decline ($31.6k in 1995; inflation adjusted that's $57k today; their present GDP per capita is around $46k). A generation has been nearly lost to economic stagnation in Germany. France is in the same stagnation boat. And how has Ireland's GDP per capita performed in that time? $19k to $84k; an inflation adjusted 150% gain roughly over 26 years. Yeah. Now you understand what's going on - it's about knee-capping countries like Ireland, stopping their incredible climb.

Ultimately this corporate income tax rule is a regressive attack by powerful nations on typically poorer, weaker or otherwise smaller nations. It dilutes a substantial means for them to compete to draw capital.

France and Germany on one side. All those other nations I listed before on the other. It's quite obvious what's going on.
The entire purpose of these cells is to present foreign matter. It's no more highjacking than watching a movie is hijacking your optical neurons.

It is simply presenting the information in the language of your immune system.
Musical, Mathematical Minim, Marin Mersenne
Even better fund organizations like EFF to take cases like this and make sure there is legal precedent that gives a strong footing to all developers.

Hiding in other countries is a not sustainable solution, they are going to force extension stores to remove it etc payment gateway not to process you, pushing you as a dev to the fringes and silence others

The chilling effect is the real aim, they are effectively signaling that they can come after anyone who pisses their business model of.
Try migrating people away from green-screen apps
>10x to mean as many different things is a good reason to avoid the term altogether. The whole thread is just "10x programmers don't exist because X" and "10x programmers exist because Y", where X and Y are unrelated.

Yes, I understand your complaint here too but the various X-Y meanings isn't really the fault of "10x"... it's caused by any label. Previous comment about that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28797871

E.g. the alternative word "expert" or "effective" such as "effective programmer" would cause the same debates:

- I think an effective programmer is one who understand the whole stack from hardware gates to web stack

- No I think a truly effective programmer is one who empowers his team members.

- No an "effective programmer" is really X. No it's Y.

- <... ad infinitum disagreements ... >

It doesn't matter what the word is... "10x", "talented", "expert", "master", etc. There's no consensus definition and yet we haven't tried to eliminate those words.

Generally, I understand that people typically mean "10x" as a synonym for "massively better". (Because nobody who says "10x" has a stopwatch and rigorous academic studies measuring it.) And yes, the counterargument is "10 doesn't really mean anything" ... that's true but the "'massively better'" also doesn't really mean anything -- and yet we can't strike "massively better" from our language so we're back to the same issue.

There is no short label X that "really means" whatever everybody agrees it to mean. That's human language. We muddle onward regardless.
> eliminate Covid

Nothing is 100% in medicine…
I have fond memories of SETEDIT: http://setedit.sourceforge.net/

It was kind of a complete floating windows GUI in a TUI: http://setedit.sourceforge.net/se1.gif
The Halle shooter built his own weapons out of metal but he didn't have access to real ammunition. He couldn't forcibly open the gate to the synagogue with his guns. Gun control works just fine.
If Steve Jobs was right we'd still be holding it wrong.
i don't mean necessarily doing active NC. i was more curious about doing an initial tune with the car at idle or while driving on the road as a way to compensate for the average. is there any value in doing something like that? maybe even just to tune the EQ profile of the car.
I was really surprised Rich Hickey's talk wasn't linked to: https://youtu.be/oyLBGkS5ICk
Exactly. Then the current system that has vast racial imbalance, is unfair. Because those things brand a child as 'not smart'. So it needs reworking

And to say "Well, my kid is winning now so don't touch the system" is a weak argument.
Making enough easy things "more convenient" can make harder things "feasible", which can lead to virtually-impossible things becoming realistically-possible.

You've intentionally taken mine and others' words in the most uncharitable ways possible and you've displayed a general willingness to make this an unproductive discussion, so I'm going to stop engaging with you now.
Thanks, yes, that was the intent - and I realize it did not turn out to sound in the best way.

I thought we'll have time to figure it out before we launch but it did end up getting featured on HN unexpectedly.

The core of the idea is a 'more humane web' and we will be adjusting the messaging accordingly in the future.
I was thinking more finished goods made locally, rather than custom-made. I’m guessing the coverage will be pretty meager, though. But good advice for the next time I want something a bit more unique, thanks!
Hey Bryan, just curious, what are your thoughts on the tradeoffs that Zig is making compared to Rust?
I would guess that a lot of the validation for studies like this comes from marketing research. Marketing often does "study groups" to try to figure out if, say, one product name is better than another. Would you buy "ZimZam Fluid" or "Superlicious"? The study participants are not confronted with the actual product (it may not exist yet) but have to imagine which they prefer. If this approach shows success in marketing (which is all about peoples behavior) then it seems likely it is useful for figuring out other things about how people work and what they will think in specific situations. What people imagine is a clue to how they think, you could think of it as a simulation. People often imagine future outcomes as a way to make decisions in the real world.

What you are also saying is that the way research is funded determines how research is done. You need a reputation to get big money. To get a reputation you have to start small with the little money/time you have. Hence lots of studies are done that are too small, not well controlled, and are essentially useless because no one will believe they have conclusively proved anything. However, once you get 10 papers based on these poor studies you start to look like an expert and it becomes easier to attract bigger grants. By this time you may have actually formed some ideas about what it is you want to research as well and abandon your original ideas as castings in the dark. So it's good in that it helps focus research and helps researchers gain experience, but it is bad in that it results in lots of studies that are not very useful to anyone (like all the medical studies you read about where, when the topic becomes important like in a pandemic, you will find scientists calling out studies as underpowered, too small, not an RCT, and useless.)

It seems possible that making the basis of getting a PhD be making a unique discovery ("your contribution" as it is called) is misguided. It results in the above useless studies to gain reputation, plus it means researchers won't touch each others ideas for fear of being labeled derivative instead of unique. It may be much better to have all scientists in a field brainstorm ideas and contribute them to a common list and then individual grad students and researchers could choose one. The list could be ranked by the same crowd (and hopefully by outsiders as well) and used to assign grant amounts ahead of the selection of an actual researcher applying for the grant. That might result in better and more important topics being studied, an easier path to reputation for new scientists, and more useful studies being done that will actually advance science. Or maybe it would mean that a cabal of scientists and politicians take over the list and misdirect research for decades, which would not be much different from what we have now.
Error handling in Rust is one of the reasons I went back to Go. It's a lot of mental overhead having to constantly think about all the different types of errors from different crates that could be returned and how to handle them at the caller. I don't want to have to import somebody's hobby crate that claims to make it easier either. In Go it's just dead simple.

I've noticed a lot of Rust discussion is on how to write the code or make the compiler happy which is quite telling. I don't want to spend my time thinking about how to write the code and make the compiler happy - I want to get a problem solved and a ticket closed. Hence why I went back to Go (but I acknowledge these languages have distinct goals).
That is exactly how it works even with the extension. By building what ammounts to a GUI to a glorified database you are deciding on the interaction level with the database.

The fact that the extensions helps automate some tasks if a different matter. If it were an industrial level scraper that scraped anything public... that could be considered malicious and can cause tangible financial losses.

This extension on the other hand... You can't really justify sending a threat like that. You can come up with excuses but that is it.
Something I've been thinking is, like the article says, SQL is a very good way to transform data, and it recommends dbt for it, but how to you test this transformation?

I know dbt has tests, but on a superficial look they seem pretty trivial stuff like "check if this field is null" and things like that, but what about tests which I setup scenarios and see if the end result of my transformation is what I expect? Is there any good tools for this?
> tax policy is now being set by unelected diplomats instead of congress.

Each nation will have to ratify the agreement.

It is nominally true that congress sets tax policy, though that overlooks the golden horde of lobbyists that descend upon Congress with ready-made bills. It is also true that a representative or senator ought to make decisions based on the best interests of their constituents, rather than donors and their lobbyist pals (who might land them a lucrative gig after office).
How does this compare to Prodfiler? My understanding is that prodfiler uses ebpf under the hood too.
"There is no ethical consumption under capitalism." You can choose where to draw the line you want. Those who point fingers at other's moral purity only draw attention to their own.
So in fairness I haven't followed this in the news very closely, but after initially feeling negative about this decision I've started to come around to it.

US politics has become extremely draining, divisive, and aggressive - particularly in high partisan-lean areas. It's flat out exhausting talking with people about politics, even those who I agree with, and it just gets worse every year. Polling has shown people sort themselves by political ideology first and everything else in life second. I see fewer and fewer options available, but to just run from it. I don't see it getting better any time soon.

The company I previously worked for spent an enormous amount of time (and money) facilitating discussions appeasing these divides and focusing on social justice, etc. Not only is there no hope for any given company to realistically solve for societal-wide problems or find an approach that satisfies everyone in this manner, but it's painfully obvious they don't truly care about these topics either. Having people come "talk" about racism or putting on inclusion workshops doesn't result in real action. Things like "diversity" are mangled and manufactured into company metrics where data is awkwardly bucketed by "ethnicity". Are we expected to believe HR departments who group half of the world together as "Asian" as taking diversity seriously? I've come away from every company I've worked for with the cynical impression that that their "social justice" efforts are simply to minimize inner anger, strife, and liability. And for leaders, if you commit to being a "politically engaged" workplace it means everything you do is twice as vulnerable. You are walking on eggshells even if you aren't instigating any sort of animosity - what if you weren't paying attention to the news and didn't speak up about a particular political event? What if you didn't say enough? What if you were misinterpreted? I can understand why Coinbase doesn't want to go there anymore - they can achieve the same goal if nobody says anything at all.

I'm not arguing nefarious forces don't exist or aren't important. I care deeply about many of the commonly-discussed social issues that we're dealing with today. I've personally witnessed blatant racism, sexism, and other forms of discrimination first-hand at work. But those things can be solved for at a company level - trying to treat our general political environment is well beyond anything any corporation can manage nor should we expect it to be their responsibility. Companies should focus on refining things that are in their control, like practicing transparent & fair hiring, enforcing anti-discrimination policies, and ensuring equal-opportunity internally. But I think you can fairly draw the line there.
It's a cat and mouse game. See an example of how Facebook obfuscates "Sponsored" here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/assholedesign/comments/anila7/faceb...
Agreed - very sophisticated treatment.
that's like saying that surfboards are not useful because we have cruise ships.

Radio is fun and a way to surf the ionosphere!

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Wow, sharp blades now that sounds dangerous. If your drone is basically a flying lawnmower I can see how that will kill or heavily insure hundreds of people with a single drone.

But that isn't very surprising though. An Apache helicopter can kill hundreds of people as well...

What's surprising to me is that someone suggests that we do away with the toy drone swarm idea and to increase the capabilities of the drone without requiring an additional payload.
Depends on what you do.

When I see some dude on LinkedIn who has a Certificate in whatever from MIT, I eyeroll. Sometimes it helps consultants if you went to an overseas school or some random school that doesn’t advertise prestige.