skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am the author of this article. In it, I describe the process I set up in my team to reduce technical debt. For context, when you take over an existing team as an external hire, in particular a team that has not had a dedicated manager for a while, you often face an uphill battle. One of the problems I had to tackle was reducing the technical debt of a core engineering team at Zalando. The challenge was to establish a process without being granted a sufficient time budget for technical debt. I originally wrote up my approach for our intranet a couple of months after I set up the new process. Recently, I was offered the opportunity to revise this article for Zalando's public engineering blog. I think it is most relevant for engineering managers working at fast-moving companies.
Clearview AI may be fined up to $23M for privacy infringements in the UK
> It feels like the algorithm (combined with the SEO/marketing industry) has effectively nuked discussions from organic results.

This always gets brought up but the problem is far deeper:

When I search for:

> "weirdly specific ab345"

and the results contains thousands of pages without "weirdly specific ab34" then the problem isn't spam sites.

It is Google not respecting my queries.
For some reason it reminds me of this from a couple of days ago:

https://twitter.com/nikitonsky/status/1465247347550703618
Yes, this is an issue. I wrote my own service that I run on my own web server for this type of message. Outlook webmail includes a convenient link preview by default. When someone opened the link, the message was already deleted. I solved it by emailing a link to the link.
Let's even put raw numbers to it. DifferentialEquations.jl usage has seen compile times drop from 22 seconds to 3 seconds over the last few months.

https://github.com/SciML/DifferentialEquations.jl/issues/786
Believability in Practice
>For a world championship match, players have so much time to prepare and put so much focus on it that preparing for your opponent's previous openings is not as important - he's not that likely to stick with the same repertoire for this match

To emphasize this, Nepo got a draw with black yesterday playing the Petroff, an opening that, according to the commentators, he had never before played in a competitive match.
I'm pretty sure there would be a market for a tool that transpiles Excel into literally anything else
Having spent time in some of the nicest prisons in the world, I’d much rather sit down to have dinner with the violent criminals living in those institutions than the prison staff.

Even in Scandinavia, maybe 20% of the prison staff weren’t downright awful people. The rest? Bullying prisoners was their daily entertainment, nothing but cruelty.
It's basically a "forgery". I mean it's the same image contents wrapped with a different cryptographic signature, so they can be told apart, but the point is that being unique doesn't automatically make something valuable.
Missing the point of what was making people want to participate in old-school hackathons and what made these events fun in the first place. It is true that these days most hackathons are reduced to a pitching contest you describe, and that's exactly what's wrong with them (along some other things).

Not that there isn't a place for pitching contests or people who still find them fun, but GP was talking about how the term "hackathon" was taken over and doesn't mean what it used to anymore.
Propaganda, Technology, and Woke Public Relations
Google actually found a result for Eternal September. Call me amazed! I didn't even have to use quotes.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September
Yeah I agree. BTC is severely underpriced.
Copyright has always been a means of control by publishers, stretching right back to mid 1600s.

The specific wording of the US constitution was (is?) a nice little bit of fluff but it didn't really change the nature of copyright at all when it was published.
Ridiculous, nobody wants _reality_ anymore. /s
I considered clarifying that, but it's a bit subtle.

First of all, neural networks are typically trained from (millions of) self-play games. So you have the "equally strong opponent" assumption right there in the weights of the network.

Second, when actually playing, the variations that are explored with high probability in MCTS are (recursively) informed by the same neural networks that are applied at the root. This means that there's no extra reward for moves that lead to complications in lines that only a "stupid human" would play.

In effect, neither alpha-beta search nor Monte-Carlo tree search have any concept of "tricking" a weaker opponent, admittedly for very different reasons and more probalistically in the MCTS case.

That's what I meant with "the implicit assumption that they play against the best response of an equally strong opponent" -- yes it's a simplification, but directionally true I think.
Things like Patreon help a bit. I still play games that use dedicated servers hosted by the community and most of them pay the bills that way. Much better than it used to be in terms of easy ways to get money for upkeep.
> I'm not sure if you read the article
> As the author states in a comment

Ie, not in the article.

Can you elaborate on how that paper 'tells me' my own lived experience the last 20 years maintaining FOSS projects and offering patches 'isn't true'? That sounds arrogant on your part.

The paper tries to guess gender from github nyms and profile pics, and looking for google + integration, this seems like a red flag to me. I couldn't guess gender or sex from that, especially considering regional differences, like anime pictures for profile pics, unless it was explicitly telling me in the name. What they may instead be partitioning is the aggressiveness / confidence of the nym and its presentation, which corrolates later to what happens at the first hurdle for their patches.

For simple bug fixes, patches are typically acceptable right away. For more complex fixes and new features, some negotiation is needed with the maintainer as to how it should be done, there are often several ways that are reasonable, but eg, only one or two that align with future plans for the code. If the maintainer asks for a redo, a good proportion of contributors give up, they have exhausted their initial energy. Similarly, when asked for tests, or presented with considerations for other supported platforms the contributor doesn't care about, more give up. It requires extra confidence to approach the maintainer about preferred ways to do the patch before just starting on it. The maintainers are sometimes assholes (I am pretty sure, to everyone).

I think it's very hard to unpick why patches didn't go anywhere unless you follow the story of each, certainly you need abnormal energy and confidence to get started and get over the hurdles for anything nontrivial.
The comment wasn’t that they had a lot of papers, but they had a lot of papers in influential conferences.
Without energy nothing can grow.
JingPad Review: A Linux Tablet with Potential, but Rough Edges
Yep. My comment was more along the lines of 'connectivity can be fun/useful, but sometimes there's a privacy trade-off'.

I'd consider myself 'aware' rather than 'paranoid', but if we extrapolate for a minute....Some function or app on the phone (or distant cloud service) can recognise the MAC address of the Fisher price phone's bluetooth PHY and, coupled with GPS info, we have a location where there's possibly a young child (or an older one in their home office!). Maybe, worse case, your targeted ads contain more children's toys.
In technical interviews I conduct I also include a system design challenge. I present a large scale architecture problem our company has had to solve and ask the candidate to take us through their process of designing a solution.

Excellent candidates are not the same as the ones who arrive at a similar solution to ours. The best candidates are able to ask important questions about the requirements, and when asked can provide rationale for choosing specific components, as well as other potential options they considered.

More often than not this kind of question is assessing your process, not the outcome you produce.
Those who knows it would instantly understand. Those who dont could fact check it themselves.
How the FBI Discovered a Real-Life Indiana Jones in Rural Indiana
Digital Twins made easy – AWS
Different cultures have different ways of expressing emotions. Hugs are not a big thing outside of the US. But let's make a general statement either ways because it's psychology research after all.
If it was available here, I'd have ordered one today! Oh, the fun!
He has said multiple times that the movie that he has been working on will be his "Final Fantasy" only to make another movie because unless Hayao himself works on the movie no one will watch it. This makes his Studio have an incredible risk if he stops making movies.
Hello, this is the wild comment police. Please provide evidence that Elite conferences are “full of work that is scientifically awful”.

Full meaning significantly most of the work is of no value?

License, registration, and proof of your statement please.
> Google's current inability to answer the question isn't new.

IMO this is true.

It used to be however that the search results contained the phrase you looked for. This was later I think revised to also include pages that had links with the text in question pointing to them.

This kind of made sense for some queries (opinion based?), but for other queries (looking for technical content) it is actively harmful as it drowns out every useful site.
Sounds almost like an ideal use case for Oberon to me - perhaps with remoting the UI or something like that. Chances are that a full environment would still be smaller than this micro-py thingy, whatever that is.
Is there a way around the paywall?
So completely stereotypical of developers on HN: hate certifications and simultaneously praise a CS bachelors as a divine certification.

I am also a military signal officer and a corporate software developer for one of the largest companies.

My experience is CS degrees are the clearest signal of predictable success only if you are hiring for Java, C++, or something super archaic like COBOL or Ada. Otherwise a CS degree is a signal of compatibility far more than competence, but many employers are willing to pay a premium for that.

Actual certifications, things like Security+, which the military requires everywhere or the CISSP which they praise, is a signal of two competing qualities. They can be a measure of technical experience but mostly they are a signal of only academic preparation.

Really they aren’t any different than the SAT in either function or real world meaning. This is double true in that the clueless/worthless will hold them up on a pedestal as a shining example of their self worth like some form of vanity. People are willing to cheat on the SAT for the same reasons.

What I find most ironic though is that the stereotypical HN CS graduate, worshipping their degree and hating on certs, praise their SAT scores as a cert.

EDIT: Why is this flagged?
Constrained Horn Clauses for Verification and Synthesis
If you don't care about IE and Edge compatibility a link can be too long for an HN comment.
I also feel that for 99% of applications, it doesn't matter. Like, yeah, there are a a few areas where hyper-optimized code in some kind of near-bare-metal language is necessary. But most of the time, if you're writing code, the language itself isn't gonna be the deciding factor if something is performant enough for your application. Furthermore, by using a "fast" language, you're then trading your ability to quickly and cleanly implement code that's human readable suffers greatly.
>I hope those benchmarks are coming in hot

M1 is extremely good for PDEs because of its large cache lines.

https://github.com/SciML/DiffEqOperators.jl/issues/407#issue...

The JuliaSIMD tools which are internally used for BLAS instead of OpenBLAS and MKL (because they tend to outperform standard BLAS's for the operations we use https://github.com/YingboMa/RecursiveFactorization.jl/pull/2...) also generate good code for M1, so that was giving us some powerful use cases right off the bat even before the heroics allowed C/Fortran compilers to fully work on M1.
portable too
Sure, but if the thing you are speculating with doesn't matter, why not just use something completely arbitrary instead?

For example here is an random UUID: 6f50fde3-a7f0-433b-a9b1-8ef6d665905b. How much money would you put on it?
Wikipedia is loaded, so why’s it asking for donations?
This feels to me a bit like saying "wheelbarrows trump cars" because you're way less likely to get into a life threatening incident while operating one.

You're highlighting one small convenience of cash and ignoring its many real disadvantages.
I said "not just", not "not". It's a matter of degree. Picking a top three engine move instead of the top one, when it's only 0.01 worse, isn't a losing strategy. Even at this level, and especially if it takes a human opponent a lot of time to counter the move accurately. And from the analyses I've seen, that's precisely what seems to be happening in this world championship.
I've been using this to great effect for a very long tine! I can only recommend it.
I realise it's probably still no-go for enterprise, but from 'how it works':

> Pglet UI does not become embedded into your program, but is being served by an out-of-process Pglet server.

Which seems aimed at addressing what you need to share and under what circumstances.
Don't worry. It will very likely be open sourced. They'll open source it for the same reason they open sourced intellij.
This would seem like an argument for installing wired / wire->mesh 5G base stations around our houses instead of the wifi repeaters we currently use..

Amazon in the past flirted with the idea of building a mesh network of Amazon IOT devices so that your neighbours Echo could connect yours to the internet even if you didn't have a connection. BT in the UK offered reduced price broadband if other BT customers could use a WiFi Guest network from your connection - so BT customers had like 90% free wifi coverage in cities.

I can see a amazon deploying Amazon Echos and automation poducts as 5G enabled IOT devices that backhaul to your home internet but also mesh with neighbours, then eventually deploying its own outdoor 5G coverage and suddenly becoming a mobile network.
> just for "alleged" copyright infringement is the problem.

Yes, that is a problem, but not the one I thought people complain about. Maybe the comments doing so stuck with me the most and I overestimate how many there were, but even rereading most comments with what the problem is according to you in mind, many do not seem to address this problem at all.

> Does a DNS-Server from a Non-profit needs something like content-ID from youtube?
>
> Or does a Non-profit DNS-provider needs hordes of lawyers just to check every single complaint in the future?
>
> Would you like that?

No. Quad9 was also provided with a deadline way too short to implement anything.

But after researching that bit a bit more, I changed my mind a bit about the process: I initially wrote that quad9 is in the wrong, I don't believe that anymore.

On one hand it would be more efficient to directly contact the providers that can do something about the infringement (youtube, DNS providers, whatever your prefered target would be), on the other hand it makes it easier to abuse. I still don't know of any good solution that's not just telling one side to go and shove it.

> Germany already has a law to block websites at ISP level, why bother a DNS provider with it?

My understanding was that this is also a DNS block and is frought with the same criticism (I may have accidentally projected that topic on the commenters here though, as the complaints seem to be the same). I'd gladly change that understanding :)
I know this is covering a mistake, but I've occasionally done one thing, then done a separate thing without committing (especially easy to do with things like one-line version bumps or super trivial bug fixes), then used git commit -p to commit+push the first change while still working on the second change locally. Obviously this only comes up because I suck at task management, but it is a real-life time when the feature is helpful.
Sometimes a lower court will actually make a judgment saying "According to my interpretation of the law, I must rule in this way, however I invite a higher court that has the power to reverse this, because I think it's silly". I can't see the lower court judge being punished for that when the higher court does reverse it.
I guess there is always some worse bar to compare against. Maybe the existence of worse doesn’t make this stand alone (not tit for tat) action ok
You are suggesting an opinion I never implied. You injected a straw man to make some point to battle against.

BTW, I agree that marketing driven 4 minute hackathon demos are stupid.
The fundraising banners have started again, asking people “to defend Wikipedia’s independence”. This may sound like the Wikimedia Foundation is struggling to keep Wikipedia up and running, but there is no financial emergency – on the contrary.

As always, the Foundation is richer than the year before. But it wants to grow, and grow, and grow ... something a Wikipedia volunteer once described as an “infinite loop of ‘we should do more things, because we can raise money’ – ‘we need more money, because we want to do more things’.

There have always been discussions in Wikipedia’s volunteer community about this – about how much money to raise, and about the ethics of making readers believe there is an acute financial emergency:

https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2012-Janu...
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2012-Janu...

Recently, a Wikimedia manager in the “Advancement” (= Fundraising) department mentioned that there would be “nothing intrinsically outrageous” about “an annual budget for the movement in the vicinity of a billion dollars”:

https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@list...

The Wikimedia Foundation is arguably well on its way, with revenue and assets regularly increasing by 1,000 percent or so – and more sometimes – over the course of a decade:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Fundraising_statisti...

Here are some of the latest figures: In the 2020/21 financial year, the Wikimedia Foundation exceeded its own original revenue goal for the year by about $47 million dollars, taking over $154 million rather than the $108 million planned at the start of the year:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Wikimed...

The precise figure reported is "$154,763,121 USD from over 7.7 million donors".

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising/2020-21_Report#K...

Moreover, the Wikimedia Endowment (which is completely separate from the Foundation, and not included in the Foundation's audited accounts or Form 990 reporting) reached the $100 million mark in June of this year, five years earlier than planned:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising/2020-21_Report#W...

In the current July 2021 – June 2022 financial year, the Wikimedia Foundation aims to take $42 million more than the $108 million goal it set itself at the beginning of the previous financial year:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Medium-...

That is a planned increase of nearly 40%. For an historic overview of Wikimedia revenue, expenses and net assets see this graphic:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation#/media/Fi...

As always, people should know that the Foundation’s paid staff does not write or curate any of the content found on Wikipedia – this is all done by unpaid volunteers. Wikimedia’s medium-term strategy (never spelled out on the fundraising banners) is here:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/...

There’s actually no mention of Wikipedia in that.
> How do they pay for salaries, operating expenses, building rent, vehicle purchases, electricity, marketing, etc?

> They take a percentage of their income and use it to cover these expenses. Right?

> Well, this is semantics. A conventional business does exactly the same thing. They take a percentage of their income and use it to cover the cost of doing business.

Yes, and in neither the case of the charity nor of the conventional business is that profit. That is operating costs, and gets deducted from revenue before tax is paid on what's left precisely because it is not profit.
The Growth of the Christmas Tree
This has an extremely high i-want-this factor for me, personally. No way my kids get to touch this thing (if I could get a hold of one in Europe, seems sold out or unavailable)

I want to use this during video calls for work, where people can see me listen and speak into the thing.
A quick look through their comment submissions points at https://www.getlantern.org/:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20824759#20826587
btw I couldn't remember that in Seinfeld so I googled it and found this rant from "wedding crashers" https://youtu.be/9Tn0fr7EMow
The price of cryptocurrencies is currently massively, massively manipulated. Not just "investors with deep pockets buying and selling strategically", not just "insider trading", but outright pumping massive amounts of fake money into the markets, and dishonest exchanges.
> But if the lens miniaturised so does the rest.

Not necessarily. I recently looked into miniature cameras for self- built drones.

For less than $50, you can get a package with a lens that's maybe 2-3mm across. The entire sensor+lens unit is roughly 1cm cubed. But then you need the electronics to process and store the image, and you're up to credit card size. And then you need a battery, and not a tiny one because that image processing draws quite a bit of juice.
Stephen Krashen on Language Acquisition
Let me guess, you never bothered to get any certificate? Sour grapes huh?
I think in the context of law, how it applies and should/could be enforced on the internet, societal implications like fake news, privacy and state surveilance (last was the actual context of the quote) she was right back then and is right still. We have little experience with the problems, discover new problems every other year and have no solutions that work well - hence, uncharted land.

Not limited to germany.
> When unions get involved with promises of higher wages, it disincentivizes the business from growing in that area because it has effectively no benefit over the higher cost areas.

Say the Alabama workers decided to unionize, I don't think amazon could easily relocate warehouses to a another state/country in the same way that Boeing could do with manufacturing. There just isn't that much cheaper labor available in the country.
Planetary scientists discover brief presence of water in Arabia Terra on Mars
I've never seen that UUID before in my life, it must be priceless!
" it's not even money - it's just shares held times the last price a single share traded at."

Bezos cries, as I wave a tenner in his face and say, mockingly: "You don't have any money, its all in stocks! You're as poor as I am!"
In what way is it clearly not true? The end-to-end flow I outlined works for many choices of countries.
I don't know all the details, but I would find it pretty strange that this is the only DNS provider that resolves the domain.

Maybe they file a lawsuit against a weak player so that they can reuse the result against other bigger players.