skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have tried using Google Cloud - I spent a lot of time finding a location and getting the permissions to use GPUs. Then one time after I switched off the vm to economize on costs I could not switch it on again because of lack of resources. I don't know if I could migrate it somewhere else - but most probably not, because the GPUs setups are pretty unique. After a few weeks I gave up. I bought a laptop with nvidia. I switched off everything that I thought was to switch off. Then for 4 months I was constantly being reminded about something more to switch off. Now I still have a static IP address and I don't know how to switch it off because the VM it was attached to is deleted.

By the way as a seasoned (and actually kind of retired) programmer I started learning ML by myself after deciding that I don't like the code I was getting from hired companies. It is a strange land with many software writing practicies surprising someone coming from different programming culture. I wish I could find a community of people who made a similar path - here is my blog: https://zby.github.io/.
Although npm supports lifecycle methods that run before publish / on install, many packages fail to use those correctly (or at all) yet still require a build step, so using the GH repo directly very often does not work.
Assuming the npm registry doesn't dissapear, npm will download the exact same files you would have committed to your repo

I think that’s where you missed what the gp is saying.

If everything is checked in to source control, npm will have nothing to download. You won’t need to call npm install at all, and if you do it will just return immediately saying everything is good to go already.

The workflow for devs grabbing a 10 year old project is to check it out then npm start it.
I found clickhouse very easy to setup '__') haven't tried timescaledb tho.
You do know that AWS Graviton is based on Arm Neoverse cores which is absolutely a viable Arm server core.
Yep, it's worse actually. You rarely get offered anywhere near 50%.

Over the years I've coached more than a few founders. Usually they come to me because they are looking for a CTO because they assume they need one. My #1 advice to companies like that is actually to not get a CTO unless they are a proper tech startup where the tech is what defines the company. Most startups simply aren't and they need skilled engineers rather than some CTO/propellor head. They need somebody that will build them an MVP and that is good at bringing in more tech people when growth happens.

I have a few reasons for this:

1) the type of engineer that ends up taking that role is rarely proper CTO or even management material; or even very senior when it comes to engineering. It's a convenience marriage between a random tech person who happens to be available and some business people not really qualified to make tech hiring decisions. So, avoid that situation and get some doers involved and give them enough equity or cash to keep them motivated but without creating the illusion that they are there to do something else than executing your vision.

2) inevitably the moment comes where early CTOs not really suitable for the job need to be replaced (or simply walk away) if the company actually survives long enough. As a founder you need to be honest about how the company will evolve. And that often means getting some grown ups involved as soon as money allows for that; especially on the tech front. I've seen more than a few startups with very awkward CTO types getting a senior baby sitter in the form of a VP of engineering or something similar.

3) CTO is a vanity title in a startup. You can use it to up-sell to engineers their role in your company and sometimes you need to do that to keep them and get them to build your product. However, it often ends up looking a bit desperate when you hand it out to the first engineer willing to talk to you and it creates awkward situations when you later meet someone more suitable for the role.

If you are a proper tech company it's different. You need such a company to be driven by a technical founder and such a company needs to be created primarily by technical founders. So, it would be unusual for such a company to be even looking for a CTO because that would indicate some serious issues with the founding team. They'd be looking for CMO/CSO/CEO types instead.
> planning on causing?

Refusing to take medicine is not the same thing as "planning on causing harm" no matter how many times you attempt to falsely equate the two things.

> I get that it didn’t jive with your narrative

Narrative has nothing to do with it, you can still believe what they're doing by refusing to take the medicine is the wrong choice and simultaneously acknowledge that their incorrect choice is not the same thing as the consequence levied upon them by a third party when they refuse to take the medicine.

> but it’s a reality that I’m describing, so sorry about that.

If you really think that's the case, then the inability to separate cause and effect is an enormous blind spot you should work on.

> Good job using the word “snow” in the middle of hand waving away actual material suffering while trying to accomplish

You were the one that insisted the word would change the underlying logical structure of the question, unsurprisingly it did not. That was my entire point all along.

> Are you personally willing to be unable to leave your house because it’s important to you that the municipal workers won’t be vaccinated?

That has absolutely nothing to do with the logical structure of coerced action resulting in a refusal and dismissal and the second order effects of that chain of events. But for the record, I am willing to suffer whatever consequences are necessary in order that the aggressive violation of individual bodily integrity and autonomy of peaceful people is unacceptable, up to and including the immediate destruction of the entire universe.

A universe where peaceful people minding their own business are not free to make their own choices is not worthy of existence. Cross that line and you've gone most of the way down the road of justifying the worst excesses of authoritarian abuse throughout history. There's a very good reason it's in the Nuremberg codes, it wasn't an accident to be revoked next time there's some "catastrophic emergency" going on. There are certain lines you do not cross and that is one of them.
Doesn't `(save-lisp-and-die :executable t)` [1] create static binaries?

I had a look at one of my SBCL-made binaries on MacOS, it shows this:

▶ otool -L lisp-enc
lisp-enc:
/usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1292.100.5)
/usr/lib/libz.1.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1.2.11)

EDIT: GraalVM takes several minutes to generate binaries, and the binary may not behave the same as the JVM-based runtime, so I wouldn't recommend using that.

[1] http://www.sbcl.org/manual/#Function-sb_002dext-save_002dlis...
Thanks @chillee! Your comments are helpful.
This is exactly right. I studied both engineering and management, so I have experienced both schools.

Actually understanding science and manipulating the world is hard. Try to explain to a non techie how a car moves, or how a web request happens. They can never understand it on the required level to fix things.

Now try to explain to an engineer how a bond works, or how industrial strategy works. He can do both his own work and the manager's work.

I sound pretty bitter for a guy who's managed to dodge most of the BS things in large corporations his while career, but that's because I really think this aspect of the world needs fixing.

It seems like just about every human endeavour is encumbered by MBA people who pretend to understand something hard, who get paid at least as well as those people who can both solve the technical and the strategic problems.

This might be more of a problem in the Anglo world. Engineers getting promoted is more common in Europe according to rumor.
Everyone wants to feel special.
If a frog had wings he wouldn't bump his ass a-hoppin'
Could you elaborate on those issues ?
Personally, I had great results with Searx - a metasearch engine that aggregates results from different engines. It supports DDG bangs (!g uses Google search, !!g redirects to Google search) and language flags (:en uses English, :ru uses Russian, etc)
How does that make you feel?
A byte was the number of bits a particular system used to represent a character - 6 bits was common in the 1960s. 36 bit words were also common then, 6 bytes and handily a ‘sweet spot’ for representing a floating point number.
Have you even seen the kind of people who become public “servants”? Who exactly would you classify as talented?
At which point the entirety of humanity is dead, the project to ostensibly reseed it is destroyed, any emergent alternative lifeforms have been eliminated (by you), and then the game literally deletes your save file.

It's closure, I guess, but it's no happy ending
> All "money" is propped up by belief (in its value for exchange).

Nope, it's propped up by a government who is forcing it on you, whether you believe in its value or not. It's not like you have a choice not to use the <national currency where you live> in most countries. You can't ask your employer to pay you in anything else but the government-approved currency either.
I remember when google was the shining light of “be nice company” that we all dreamed of working for, at odds with the evil that was M$crosoft.

And, from reading all the “why I left google” posts and hearing about them leaving China, the old google of 20 or even just 10 years ago was the good or even just a better google.

With how google went from “do no evil” to this, with how Facebook has always been profits over ethics, with how Amazon treats employees generally, etc:

Which employers are the “nice company making nice things and you’ll be able to sleep at night” tech companies nowadays?

Who should we safely not feel bad about wanting to work for?
no_std is already in ubiquitous use in the embedded rust community and does exactly what it says on the tin. Having a no_std feature is extremely common to allow (restricted) crate use in that context.
Ocean: Fish faeces have a large impact on the climate cycle of the sea
> Apple would be ceding control if they went back and they're not going to do that.

Case in point: 2x ProRes accelerators in the M1 Max.

These are critical to a significant percentage of Apple's core base and yet there is zero chance that we would see them in the Intel offerings.
Imagine being paid to write code for all that.
Thanks for this reply! Got some follow up questions if you don't mind being bothered ...

> It makes it possible to automate optimizing python models, adding things like conv and batch norm fusion for inference.

By "optimize", do you mean "reduce computational load", or "use Adam/SGD/whatever to minimize a loss function"? What is "conv and batch norm fusion"? How does FX help with any of this?

> It also allows you to plug in other ops to for example make quantization or profiling easier.

I can indeed see how it could make profiling easier. I'd love to get pointers/links as to quantization methods that would necessitate adding new ops.

> Another example is a feature that was just added to torchvision which can take a classification model and extract the backbone for generating embeddings.

Hasn't it always been possible to extract a certain set of weights from some `nn.Module`?
Ask HN: Any Linux Phone Recommendations?
I'm just tired of the mobile OSes restrictions...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_(computer_architecture)
True, but allmost all of our modern machines need lots of thinking devices to work.
You want a standard library for... React?

What about the people that like Vue or angular more than react?
Isn't it just?

I like that it wasn't enough for it to be rare (which it was) and laborious to produce (which it was), but also that it had unusual and very practical properties.

It seems as if today, mainly due to marketing, luxury goods get away with just being rare (even if artificially), or just being laborious to produce (e.g. the old (false) notion that "a Rolls Royce is completely hand-made").
Lu Xun, Diary of a Madman
I share same sentiment on consumer goods, especially cars.

Your experience with industrial equipment is irrelevant here since it's still being done in US.
Outsiders also don't grasp how high a lowly senior engineer earns.

Compensation in tech is so insane.

Other high earning occupation just doesn't even come close.

It would take doctors years to earn 250k a year. In tech with stock growth + RSU, you might get that as a junior eng. I earned 450k as a junior per year with pre-ipo company.

This is why engineers can just leave and others are surprised.
> If a great new opportunity comes up, take it, but drop something else. If the dropped thing was important, it'll get staffed. If not... why work on it?

The above seems to explain how a thing that fills a gaping functionality hole in one google product via another just gets deleted without any consideration for the interaction between the two.
The key question is whether the two legs should stay together. Even with excellent execution the risk is that x86 with its higher margins gets priority over the third party fab business which as a result remains uncompetitive.

Independent Fabs would be ultimately able to compete with TSMC on equal terms - in fact on better terms for some clients as based in US. The fabs would be a growth business and x86 a cash cow.

Going back in history the move which Grove is remembered for - ditching memories - was partly about improving focus. This strategy is doing the opposite.
Buying the domain is an insurance policy on that reality
Huawei and Xiaomi comes to mind. Build is not Apple quality, but technically superior (I say that as I own pretty much every Apple product)
I'd imagine it would be very difficult, and would require a relatively powerful MCU. Ben Eater's made a few videos discussing how PS/2[0] and USB keyboards[1] work. USB's a vastly more complicated protocol compared to PS/2.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aXbh9VUB3U

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdgULBpRoXk
TFA is citing jets from the original Dune novel.
I wonder if the behavior of the largest tech companies is a cause or an effect of their size.

Is unethical behavior pushing companies to the top of the food chain?

Or is it that other companies feel more ethical simply because they don't have as many chances to engage in unethical behavior?

If it's the latter, all the push to split the companies is for nothing and we should just consider "ethics at scale" to be an unsolved problem I guess.
Smoking and alcohol is reducing the IQ of everyone since hundreds of years.
Just so you know, those numbers are way off. If you think about it how would a hummingbird consume that amount of calories in half its bodyweight? See https://www.birdspot.co.uk/bird-brain/how-many-calories-do-h...

I mean, when extrapolated to human size it's still 125k calories a day, but 6600 for a bird of 3g is just not possible.
thank you that is really insightful, while the article touched on that practice it didn’t explain why.
I could see how this helps the buyer’s psychology in other ways - empty shelves could look like a neglected store, which doesn’t speak freshness or quality.
I don't like criticizing anyone or trying to talk about "objective" qualities of art, but I don't agree with your portrayal.

I love electronic composers; I almost exclusively listen to avant-garde/experimental electronic compositions, personally. Most of the artists are quite young. I agree Collier is definitely very experimental.

I do not think he's very artistic or emotional and agree with the above comments that he's in the "intelligent/skilled but not creative" camp. I think he has a lot of potential, but his work just doesn't seem very musical to me, and I have absolutely no biases against experimental, "weird", electronic, or new stuff.
Guess who writes the laws? People who are neck deep in insider trading to the point where the speaker of the House outperforms some of the best performing hedge funds. Don't hold your breath on this one. And the law would need to be signed by a dude whose son "sells art" for $75K apiece and takes jobs he himself admits are only offered to him because he has the right last name. And finally, if by miracle such a law were to be passed and signed, to enforce it you'd need to go to a judge who's also corrupt as fuck and trading stocks from the bench, and whose mortgage on his third beach home would be jeopardized if he was to agree with you. It's rotten all the way through now.
I've actually been surprised how quickly HN is indexed. When I see comments about a seemingly niche thing, I often google for more details - and often enough the comment that made me google it is among the top results.
Odd. I get HN results. You're right that it's not as frequent as SO or Reddit, but it seems to surpass the "hardly ever" threshold.
.. but this didn’t at all support your statement that the App Store generates 37% of apple’s profit.

Apple make around 70-80B revenue per quarter, 22B in annual commission is around 6% of annual revenue…

That 22B figure doesn’t even touch on costs.
I think he's referring to his tendency to pick weird twitter fights.

I have tons of respect for what Musk has done with Tesla and SpaceX, but it's undeniable that some of his tweets should not have been sent. And while I generally appreciate weirdos, he's a bit much sometimes.
Yeah, a few people have mentioned these as low points. But I really liked them.

Reminds me of some of the stuff I enjoy in Umberto Eco's historical novels where he dives deep into some historical worldview, often one we now know is wrong, though I think in this case Melville was relating the current state of the art of his age, but both do so quite poetically.

Some of the cod-Shakespearean bits were a bit more of a drag for me. Something for everyone maybe.
I happened to read it correctly, but it’s definitely ambiguous. Little can describe the locality of the infighting or the amount of total infighting, where the former was the intended meaning.
Is someone working on a more modern syntax to Prolog? like how ReasonML is for OCaml but for Prolog
That press release is an FDA regulators wet dream. I see multiple clinical claims based on preclinical tests in cell cultures with a final call to action “if you want to buy this product for your employees” email us.

Apparently the laws are different in Estonia but this company has a San Francisco office.
> I'm sure this familiar to any engineer on this site. "I have this great idea for an app, and I just need you to build it. We'll split the company 50/50."

I wish! Usually it's "I'll give you 5% equity if you implement my idea. No no, I cannot actually help, I'm the idea guy"[1].

Honestly, I'd take a 50/50 split with someone who:

a) Provably has strong connections to decision-makers in the target market,

b) Has already raised the money for a 6 month runway,

and

c) Has some objective data around the proposed product/vision and a few of the competitors.

I've heard my fair share of "the next facebook/google/youtube" ideas, or "whatsapp/netflix meets reddit/amazon", etc.

[1] Probably the number one thing that turns me off is hearing "I'm the idea guy". Seriously, if you can't contribute to the engineering/building of the product, then at least ensure an income to pay those who can.
We’ve requested native dark mode so many times in the past and ‘dang’ has been sympathetic about it, but we must rely on addons and other solutions, when in fact it’s a very simple addition. Let’s hope we’ll have it soon ;-)
As others have said, a blanket stocks prohibition might make the public sector uncompetitive.

Blind trusts seem to be quite a bit too permissive to me.

Offer them the performance of a stock index fund on their stock holdings, for the duration of their public mandate.
ArXiv DOOM – A parody of the ever-increasing amount of papers on ArXiv
Unfortunately, this doesn't apply to German police.
> Vizio isn’t some wide-eyed teen, randomly copying code they found from GitHub without understanding the implications. This is a multi-billion dollar company that absolutely should know better...

Indeed.
Also watch this to understand how immersive the tech is now xD

https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/qdcrxl/vr_but_taken...
For anyone who's sick of Mozilla but loves Firefox, try librewolf, it's a fork of Firefox without the bs. Been using it for a while and it's awesome!
Can I scrape Twitch data on my own?
> I'm sure there are more people who want to see these content-free comments than not

Two rules of thumb about how this stuff works:

* Never underestimate the number of children on the internet

* Never underestimate the number of people intoxicated/high on the internet

Using those as a guide, lots of popularity metrics make sense.

It's mostly like real life, if your community can avoid attracting children or people actively doing drugs, it'll mostly be fine.

Reddit decided at its redesign point to pull hard and accelerate to both these groups as fast as possible.

Slashdot is kind of interesting. After floundering for maybe 2 decades it's starting to get a new focus as effectively legitimate tech journalism.
But if you have antigravity, why do you need wings?

(Same also applies to having force fields, but the whole “slow blade” vs fast blade thing is enough to at least handwave that away)
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What would you wish to see changed ?
I read Eichmann in Jerusalem a while back and it was a good read, but I was surprised to find the basic thesis disproven by ten minutes of research. Arendt wants to argue that Eichmann's evil is banal in origin, not malicious or ideological. But in interviews with Eichmann while he was in Argentina, he openly confesses to being a fanatical and long-standing anti-Semite, and to seeing the Holocaust as the eradication of an inferior people.

More recently, I read what is supposed to be Arendt's magnus opus and one of the greatest works of political philosophy of the last century, The Human Condition. I was surprised to find, given the reputation, that it was a conceptual mess. Arendt builds much of the book around a distinction between 'work' and 'labour', but they are neither mutually exclusive nor clearly specified. Her attempt to argue otherwise just leads to compounding error.

That aside, I do like Arendt's short book 'On Violence', which is simple but powerful.
This reads like some covid misinformation piece and/or submarine PR piece by the company in question.

This article is from August and makes many claims without providing any sort of studies to back it up. I went looking for any study related to this and found a _single_ study listed here[1]. This study apparently only had 16 participants, and failed to post any results despite apparently finishing in the beginning of June

[1] https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/results/NCT04916574
I genuinely don’t understand what people are referring to when they use PWA in this context. Do the latest versions of Google office suite apps qualify? How about Outlook in the browser, or maybe TensorBoard or Slack?

I would generally describe all of those listed above as providing a poor experience compared to even a decent native app. Maybe those aren’t what you mean, which is why I’m curious to hear which PWAs aren’t terrible.
Are you suggesting the scientists in this case didn't give good reasons?
> Because "we can," executive said in 2016. "Smaller pubs don't have alternative revenue sources."

And 90% of publishers and small websites suffer because of this.

These are more damning than anything that has been said about these companies, because it affects their real business, not the antisocial apps they give for free. Is it even called a monopoly when you control so much of both the Supply and the Demand? It's like a black box telling advertisers "give us your money and we will tell you we did what you think we did".
I don't often downvote, but when I do, it's dumb shit like this