skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>trussed up and dismembered and skinned while still conscious (granted due to failures in the stun mechanism, but there isn't much push to monitor assembly line failures)

There is absolutely push/incentive to monitor and correct for failures in stunning. The stress response it entails in the animal makes for poor quality meat, or even inedible meat that would have to thrown out.

Also, stunning is followed by slaughtering and draining. There is no situation in industrial production in which an animal would be dismembered and skinned alive.
Reminds me of the old quip "how do you know if the spec requirements are out of date?" - the ink is dry.
Nothing, those guys aren’t nearly as sensitive and attention seeking as hners
Very true. In the end, WebGL finally did it... mostly.
Yep, seconded. I would find cryptocurrency and NFTs merely amusing or maybe even interesting, if it weren't doing the environmental equivalent of dumping out N gallons of gasoline per transaction and setting it on fire
Another thing I don't understand. How do you develop a model with VOLUMES of real world data to train it on, and not just check how well it predicted pricing every month, both in aggregate (trending prices) and on individual listings that sold that month? This seems like a very small, closed loop to me. You could tweak the heck out of that algorithm in short order based on WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED.
Usually you can disable this by passing `--disable-silent-rules` to `configure` and/or `V=1` to `make`.
Most data scientists are not smart. They are basically pushing a few buttons.

This is true even for “Ivy” trained PhDs. There are may be a handful of people who can do truly profound work today. The rest are only capable of replication ie mouse clicks here and there.
“Big Brother” is now slightly less scary than “Smart” Brother with our data
What about a monolith ensures better performance optimization?

And won't general-purpose engines pay a penalty relative to single-purpose engines since they have to optimize for the "average case" game rather than exactly one target?
The press. "Israel Is Preparing for Possible Fourth Covid Vaccine Dose".

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-09-12/israel-pr...
It doesn't require anything remotely close to total selflessness, just not abusing the market and abiding by its spirit would be enough.

Sadly, the way many individuals and entities act is why the totalitarian straightjacket of zero-trust approaches a la “blockchain and reputation points for everything” seems appealing to some (not that I think it would help).
Do they really? Only one of those they created, the others they bought after they'd already become the most popular apps. You don't have to have any ideas to just measure what's already popular and buy it.
Antique websites are so fascinating
https://cryptopanic.com/ is good. I have build something similar with a slightly different approach https://coindodo.io/
This comment goes a bit too far the other way. 3D printing is a manufacturing technique with its own possibilities and drawbacks which you need to be aware of, but it's very possible to make engineering-grade parts with 3d printing - for some things, it's even the state of the art. You can eliminate layer stress lines with annealing, and you can print interior shapes that would be impossible to injection mould. I myself have made polycarbonate fan blades, only a few mm at the thickest point, with a tensile strength tested to over 500 kilograms. Their theoretical strength is much higher still.
The metaverse needs a killer app - something that makes it appealing for a large user-base besides gamers, academics and tech bros. At the moment the metaverse is simply a concept with some very interesting tech demos, but without any broadly appealing use cases.
Hedging the insane money printing fed is the biggest value you can find.
It's also the asylum there is not much of worthy discussion anywhere around the web. It's just false gospel and get rich quick schemes. If you really want information look at the white papers and they tell you a damming story.
Right. I read their current actions as the result of a liquidity crunch. Something forced them to realize a 25% reduction in labor and other cuts. They also completely ended this home buying program. They’re hoping they’ve cut enough that when they sell their properties they have enough funds to keep them afloat. If not, chapter 11 filings are not far behind.
I agree with the OP that "it's put up or shut up time for Data Science teams. When the business depends on our work for revenue growth, success is expected. Failure is fatal." Zillow's CEO blamed the Data Science team for the failure of a mission-critical business unit and fired 25% of all employees. The stock lost a third of its market cap in a few days. When revenue growth depends on an ML/AI system, failure is indeed fatal.

However, I disagree with the OP's diagnosis.

The initiative failed because to a close approximation the only homeowners who would routinely accept Zillow's offers were those whose homes could not fetch anywhere near as much via traditional sales channels. Everyone else would rather sell their home via conventional listing. Zillow gave homeowners a free put option: Whenever Zillow's offer was above market, the homeowner would take it; otherwise the homeowner could freely ignore it. The incentives were strongly stacked against Zillow from day one.

Zillow unwittingly launched what I would describe as a seller's market for lemons. Naturally, Zillow ended up buying... a lot of lemons.
Why does the time period matter when each credential should have a unique password anyways? Is knowing time of a breach important important when the only way you’ll know is through a website like the one you linked or when your credential is used unauthorized ?

Also I personally think users absolutely cannot be trusted. At all. There should be a minimum viable security model for all users regardless of what their threat models should be. (I.e not allowing easily guessable passwords, enforcing a password over X length , forcing capitalized characters and symbols).
It really is as simple as “eat less”. Input / Output.

The obesity epidemic is complex but big factors include poor decision making, psychological issues, sugar sugar sugar.

Still, at the end of the day it’s input / output. You can’t gain weight by sucking in too much air.
>The real benefit of microservices in most cases is that the network acts as an externally enforced boundary layer.

Then we have the scalability, then we have composability, then we have different security models, then we have code isolation.

There are many advantages to a microservice model. But that doesn't mean the microservice model is good for a game, unless it is backend code.
Not every human is vegan like you.
Wakapi – Open-Source Coding Time Tracking for Developers
Great question. I don't think there's a single answer for that, but I see Frameworks as being code-first tools, where developers are expected to do most of the work using code. Users are expected to write things together (views and controller), and more code is exposed to them.

In (most) engines, however, there are more assumptions baked in, and most things can be accomplished by configuration alone. Writing code is mostly an escape hatch or is required just in few places, instead of being the only way of interfacing with the engine. (Of course that doesn't apply for every engine).

I think a good comparison in the web world would be Hasura. It can do similar things that Rails also does (provide APIs), but in a more limited way, and code is not strictly necessary unless you're doing something that's not standard.
Never say never. A “stuff” import seems like the kind of feature that would have to be copied by other platforms as soon as one does it, but there’s a chicken and egg aspect.

I disagree with the whole “value of ownership” thing. Making knock off nfts is trivial, so this relies on people caring enough about provenance to police this and shame people that have knock offs in their virtual environment.

Digital goods can be copied for free. It’s the killer feature of digital. No more scarcity!! Any system that fails to embrace this will be outcompeted long term. See the music industry.
> All this outsourcing talk is so 2005.

Except for the fact that it's not outsourcing to the lowest bidder like companies tried back then.

Pretty much every major American tech company has a development center in India. The developers working here are employees of the parent company. They have the same or functionally similar culture as the HQ.

And the cost advantage has significantly shrunk because of the booming local startup scene.
Why post something so negative like this?
> Our industry is well short of good CE graduates,

Are there any? My son had a summer job in a small recruiting firm in Silicon Valley. Customers (you know them all) had just two requirements:

- a proper degree from top 10 universities;

- 5+ years of experience in the field;

All others need not apply (and there were so many of them - recent Berkeley/Stanford graduates…)
I don't think there is anything else quite like HN. I sometimes wish I knew how to better find certain things here or something.

I don't really want tags or silos. I'm not great at searching the site. Given how often questions exactly like this post show up here, I'm clearly not the only one who wishes they could find HN-like discussion for a specific subject area.

I'm bothering to make this comment in hopes that one of two things will happen:

1. Someone will give me a solution for how to more readily find what I want on HN.

2. Someone will create some kind of tech solution in response to seeing this observation.
This is already happening. You're thinking about this in reverse.

The web 1.0 and 2.0 way of thinking if we build the product, then we own the community.

The web 3.0 way of thinking is there are existing communities out there (BAYC, Punks, etc.) that we can enable to use our product and come into our space.

And this is already happening.
I would think that relying on folks straight from school or from 4-ish years of hacking is very risky when it comes to more complex products. Unless you retain some of those expensive, grumpy, possibly-now-remote designers...

EDIT: debugging skills are earned through experience, not taught.
> HN has a hateboner for cryptos, which most of the time is based on purely illogical assumptions of tech they have no understanding of.

Basically all online communities have hatred towards cryptos. Not because of understanding or assumptions, but because the shill army of shitcoiners that try to pump their shitcoins in every possible community there is. And of course the numerous spampots and scammers who also spread the negative image for cryptocurrencies.
Is there use for crypto outside of coins?
> Zillow believed their inference quality was high enough to support a new business model

This isn’t why Zillow started Offers and the zestimate did not play a big part of it. Some same people but those were different teams.
Meta is of course working on exactly this.
> as crypto Twitter sometimes looks like one giant circle jerk (or pub brawl if you find yourself on the "{insert-cryptocurrency-flavor-here} maximalist" side of the camp).

Strongly agree. It’s hard to find anyone honestly discussing crypto things on Twitter because any mention of a project or currency becomes a magnet for low-effort pump efforts. Saying anything negative results in weird, low-effort pile ons and attacks.

It’s also just plain boring. Everyone is posting “how NFTs will change _____” threads now that don’t even make sense. That’s because they’re not interested in actually using NFTs, they’re only interested in collecting followers and “selling shovels” in the latest iteration of the crypto gold rush.
Matrix and Element: a case study of funding an open protocol for real time chat
Web dev is not tightly coupled, but browser dev is, and when you do web dev you're essentially buying into a set of monoliths that have finally after 30 years come together by committee just enough so that you only have to conform to one single way of doing web dev. Javascript has quite seriously sucked for a long time and only recently got a bit better, and HTML and CSS are still trash, so don't talk to me about "dictate basically everything" as if that's not the case there, too.

Unity is the equivalent of a browser, not an app or even app framework. It just lives in a world where the competitors haven't done the committee thing to ensure interop (and never will).
This is simply not true if the overhead is much smaller than each one operation. But I agree that batching matters.
> Embedded programming? Dealing with signals?! God forbid, man.

"How does a USB keyboard work? by Ben Eater:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdgULBpRoXk
It’s true. Most of us have vices. Psychologically it’s more comfortable to make excuses up. But we are responsible for our own behavior.
Intuit’s Acquisition of Mailchimp: How Did Employees Do?
Metaverse is really shaping up to be the next google glass:

* An "out there" idea that the boss of bigtech is betting big on because hes enamored of how cool it is.

* Which normal people dont even seem to want all that much.

* Followed by a moral panic that will likely end up seeming rather silly in hindsight.
Same way you can't just print out a copy of the mona lisa?

People care about status and authenticity.

Imagine a virtual world where

1. You have the validate you are an avatar you own

2. You can be anything you want

The virtual world 1 is way more interesting because it's authentic and the people of status will want to use it and people of less status will build towards being higher status.
Yes it is possible. You can tackle it through different technics like game theory.

Cf. also the “market impact” in HFT, for a practical example.
I think that's fair. I will say, I select for laptops that are known to have good linux support (ex: Thinkpad X1), and my last few have worked pretty well. Sometimes there are weird quirks, but honestly no more than my macbook has.
Pascal (https://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/ref/refsu62.html) and Visual Basic (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/visual-basic/languag...) have with.

That serves a similar purpose, (in VB only for accessing multiple fields in an object, I think)

Visual Basic’s syntax is a bit safer. Requiring that seemingly superfluous dot means there can’t be confusion between referencing fields and referencing local or global variables.

In Pascal adding a field to a record whose name shadows that of a local can change the meaning of the statements in a with statement, and removing it may silently ‘fix’ a broken reference to a no longer existing field.

with A, B, C, D do is asking for trouble even more.
Fast food isn't unhealthy. A fast food burger is generally better nutrition (fewer calories) than similar fare from a sit-down restaurant. A diner burger and fries will often have twice as many calories.
Hey,

I share your quest for finding the HN of "Web3". I've long been on CryptoTwitter but I've decided that I don't want to spent a lot of time on Twitter anymore.

Since then, I've tried to understand where there could be a technical and philosophical community of tech+crypto people on the internet.

- HN is full of haters, sadly

- everything on reddit is slightly too non-technical and hype mentality

- I haven't found a low noise Discord server

- I haven't found a good hacker news clone either.

- CT is too self-important

I don't strictly want to have this totally crypto-biased community either. I'm in the camp of "'yes' to crypto but I'm critical".

For the last year or so, I've simply started to foster my own community. I write a blog on crypto that you may like: https://timdaub.github.io/
My headlines are kinda clickbaity but I think they're legitbait :) Check it!

I'd be up for starting a proper crypto community. I even have reserved a name for it: neoactuary.com. I checked out the lobster code base and I think it'd be a good fit too. But those things take ages to get established: https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters
What's the positive opinion/perspective of crypto thats missing? Maybe like a tldr of this opposite view point?
Freedom of choice doesn’t mean freedom from consequences.
> What happened to Notepad and Apache?

* https://motherfuckingwebsite.com
ECS is just data oriented design. The data is better layed out to enable parallel execution and to minimize cache misses.

OOP is not a good fit for performance. I would even argue that OOP is not even good for decreasing complexity and ease of maintenance.
The "NoSQL" movement -- which I wisely rejected -- is also responsible for this.
I must be living in the same alternate reality as the GP, then. Facebook and Whatsapp are commonly used around here, but the others hardly exist at all.
I don't know if there is one yet, but I wouldn't be surprised if a successful accelerator DAO emerges.

People here always say the value of YC is in the network, and that may translate well to a decentralized model.
I agree about the energy use of PoW. On Ethereum, the PoS beacon chain has been live for almost a year now [1], with the merging of the PoW and PoS networks happening next year.

We're now at the point where the specs for the merge transition are ready [2], clients are already being modified to target the release-spec [3], and the first long-lived testnet will go live by December. I'd personally expect the Merge to happen by May.

[1] https://beaconcha.in
[2] https://github.com/ethereum/annotated-spec/blob/master/merge...
[3] https://notes.ethereum.org/@djrtwo/kintsugi-milestones
I completely agree with this sentiment.

Not to throw ad hominem back at the above poster, which I'm of course doing, but I have hard time trusting ability to understand information and do correct deductions from said information by anyone calling others "an idiot". Now I'm not saying that they are "idiot" themselves, which I don't think they are, but it's revealing in my view how the ways they reach any conclusions in life may be flawed.

Here's few thoughts:

1. Single decision like this in such a short timeframe of these vaccines being available does not make or imply anyone to be an idiot. You have no clue about their circumstances someone may be in or what they've seen.

2. Medication/vaccines have trade-offs, even if these are 10,000,000:1 ratio.

3. I believe current studies show vaccines have a lot more potential downsides than mainstream media is letting on. Which makes it hard to trust anything mainstream media is saying right now.

4. While anecdotal reports are not scientific evidence, they are definitely cause for alarm at present time. Looking at VAERS and similar European adverse reporting sites, I don't think there can be a good explanation why the reports are so high compared to other vaccines, except the fact that these vaccines are actually causing so many issues.

5. Above poster doesn't know your age, gender, existing conditions, allergy risks, behaviour - maybe you live alone and never go outside, etc.

6. Despite whatever anyone likes to repeated, that mRNA tech has been studied for decades, which I don't even necessarily think is the issue here, the spike protein might be the issue here for instance, we don't know what the long term issues are, e.g. recent study showing that it may impair DNA repairs. There's so many hints everywhere, and we haven't had time to investigate all of this.

7. Despite what people like to claim, it is possible to avoid Covid19 by staying inside, and make chances of getting it reasonably low, 1% per year possibly, if you can work from home and order everything in. Only see family when infections in you area are really low. In this case you are also doing more for your society than an average vaccinated person, since your R is definitely below 1. If everyone behaved like you without vaccines, the virus would die out.

8. More and more data coming out about adverse effects and wading efficacy.

9. Issues with Pfizer trials, and trial participants with adverse effects being excluded, gaslighted etc.

10. If you do get vaccine damage, there's no compensation and you might just get gaslighted like has happened to thousands of people. In fact to my knowledge at least 6 people committed suicide because they had vaccine injuries and nobody believed them.
Not sure how they could really validate their models given that "market making" in houses is probably really thin - if at all.

Finding alpha in financial markets is just tough (real assets or not), and real estate also needs a lot of capital, which makes "waiting it out" tough
Israel has boosted 2.8 million people as of Sept 2021, a little more than half the vaccinated population. Total vax eligible population is 7 million, but some of them are not vaxed, thus can't take the 3rd booster.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-09-12/israel-pr...
There's a common assumption among crypto-apologists that critics just don't understand cryptocurrency. I don't think that's true. With Bitcoin for example, I could whiteboard out how it works and explain it with some technical depth. As a hobby project I once wrote a script to parse the blockchain blocks to get details about specific wallets I was interested in. There are certainly implementation level aspects I don't understand (or know about), but I bet I understand it as well or better than 90+ percent of pro-bitcoin people.

My understanding of Bitcoin doesn't change the fact that it's pretty obviously a Ponzi Scheme. The only way to make money with Bitcoin is selling it to a greater fool. Bitcoin is largely not used for real transactions because it's slow and expensive to transact with. For the typical user, who is concerned with risks like losing their keys, being hacked, or being scammed, Bitcoin is vastly less secure than established banking solutions.
I started my EE career in the bay area in 1978. Before retiring in September, I had worked for 3 companies. Each one modeled itself in the HP style. The culture of each made life at work tolerable if not actually pleasant. All 3 were very successful as businesses. Management in each was competent, cared about their employee, and cared (very much) about our customers. In my 3rd company, we were purchased by a large, multibillion dollar company who most definitely did not continue in our previous mode of operation and made going into work a whole lot less desireable. It was one of the reasons I decided to leave. In my opinion, HP was successful because of the HP way.
That's how I do it as well right now. But users have to clone/download the file themselves and manage the script location and updates themselves. That's an inconvenient installation procedure, which I'm usually too lazy to do.