skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of this seems manageable to me - like I could imagine myself being able to build it - but I have no idea how the author handled the domain names part and hosting all these websites. How did you just "throw together" a registrar and a hosting service? Seems like they built heroku and namecheap as side facets to their "tiny project." I must be missing something.
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Are there many folks who care more for a title than compensation? Granted, a higher title might help one win more compensation when negotiating one's next job, but fundamentally one must back that up. I mean, you could hire me as a principal engineer for $100,000 today and I could hope I can get hired as a distinguished engineer for $800,000 next year, but somehow I don't think anyone with that much money to spend is going to make that terrible of a mistake.

Right? Because if not, I need to have a discussion about titles!
Five Former SpaceX Employees Speak Out About Harassment at the Company
Show HN: I Made a LCH Gradient CSS Generator
Building a Blog in Rails in 2021
Wouldn't future inflation increases drive down the value of those recurring revenue streams?
> it eventually stops being about your direct technical contributions and about your ability to multiply the value of everybody under you in your org.

I thought that was the whole point of the IC track: putting a technical person into a role where they can be a multiplier without burdening them with management responsibilities.

Every staff/principle/architect IC I've ever worked with has had that kind of positive effect on the teams around them. Their schedules were indistinguishable from most managers, except they met mostly one on one and they could get a senior engineer's worth of work (impact wise) done in between the meetings instead of paying the management overhead.
I would so that about 3/4 places I've consulted, I wouldn't want to work full time.

Mostly because they simply didn't know how to run an IT office, and so they couldn't build a culture where good IT people want to work. When they finally get a strong candidate, they end up overloading the poor hire, because finally, it looks like they can get their infrastructure fixed or dream project off the ground.
This is a neat and helpful comparison, but to me the issue was never really latency; it's more the fact that Wayland isn't neccesarily a direct upgrade over x11 in a lot of ways.

Now, I can anticipate a number of responses to this. Firstly, a lot of people will (correctly) point out that x11 isn't a very good window server, and doesn't account for things like compositing, security or proper window management. Fair enough, they're all valid complaints. Wayland's solution to the dog bite seems to be pulling the teeth off the dog though, and I don't really agree with a lot of the design philosophy that went into making it. It reminds me of the recent GNOME releases, where their solution to inconsistent user theming and poor extension support was just to remove both features altogether. The trap that a lot of modern Linux developers seem to fall into is fragmenting their userbase under the guise of "finally fixing" some pain point or bug, and cutting off the users who disagree with them instead of Doing One Thing, and Doing It Well. Everyone is big-picture these days, wanting to take giant leaps for the Linux desktop experience without really considering how extensible or feature-complete their program is, and slamming the "f*ck it, ship it" button before it's ready.

Admittedly, there's not an elegant solution to any of this. However, in this specific example, I think the best course of action would have been to just outright plagiarize Apple's Quartz. The development cycle for Wayland has been painful to say the least, and a lot of it came from wildly unnecessary breaking changes, vendor apprehension and arguments about ideology that really shouldn't have wasted our time in the first place. Now that it's "ready", there's a couple hundred asterisks following every feature, and the experience is generally shaky enough to keep me fearful of God and contented with x11, no matter how bad it is.

Edit: Quick shoutout to PipeWire while I'm here, for actually creating a crowd-pleasing solution where nobody had to be thrown under the bus. They were given a herculean task of unifying 4 different audio standards, and they shipped it when it was ready instead of letting it languish in development hell. The result was fantastic, and distro uptake was almost immediate. If more projects were like PW, we wouldn't be here having this conversation right now.
ElasticSearch supports vectors (dense ones, they supported sparse ones at some point but they removed support I think), and has things like cosine similarity functions built in.

Not sure how “free” it is though.
Google is building a new augmented reality device and operating system
No, it’s empathy.
There is something human about our irrationality. Rising above that, we lose a bit of that magic that makes us unique.
Overshoot from population-control mentality adopted by Asia, with the encouragement of the West, during the 20th century. I'm from Bangladesh and my dad works in international development--my parents were actually a bit put off by my wife and I having three kids. It's socialized that educated, westernized people have only 1-2 kids, and poor religious people having more is a problem to be solved.
I notice that you said not that "my tesla is great" but that "they are great". Do you own one?

I will not purchase a car that has a panel gap I can fit my pinky in. I will not purchase a car that is at the bottom of reliability ratings. I will not purchase a car without radar sensors for the adaptive cruise control.

Regardless, I ended up buying a faf bmw and I'm loving it. So I did okay, anyways.
Moderna is working on a vaccine targeting the Omicron variant for 2022.[1]

The mRNA vaccine technology is "agile". There's a workflow from sequencing a virus to generating a candidate vaccine. It only took two days to generate the original COVID-19 vaccine. It's the clinical testing in small, then large groups that's the time consuming part.

Also, the inhaled vaccines are entering clinical testing.[2] It's not like we're stuck with the original vaccines.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/28/moderna-says-an-omicron-vari...

[2] https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/e1637976-5c3f-11ec-90d0-c...
Thanks, I missed this at the bottom of the gist, but it was helpfully quoted in a comment:

> As one might have guessed, this is not an essay. It's a transcript of the following talk by R. Martin with some substitutions made (SmallTalk -> Haskell, Ruby -> Rust, and others). You are free to make any conclusions from this.

I think that means that this isn't a serious enough argument to be worth engaging with.
Saule Omarova says banks sank her chance to become a key regulator
Fun seeing vector search all over the front page today. :)

The official documentation on Faiss is rather light, so we made “The Missing Manual to Faiss”: https://www.pinecone.io/learn/faiss-tutorial/

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29291047
The usual end result of Go is machine code, machine code is not safe to the degree you would consider Go to be safe. Yet you consider Go to be safe but not TS.
I don't know of anyone who can summon an image such that it blocks their literal eyesight. But in my head, I can still "see" the image, with definition, color, etc. I can vividly recall photographs and "see" the colors, lines, and details of those photographs in my head. I am still also seeing what is in front of me, though in a more "out of focus" fashion - my visual concentration is elsewhere.

I don't know how best to express it, but it's extremely visual. It's not just that I am recalling and describing - I am viewing and describing.

Ironically, I am terrible at drawing things because I can't see past the "big picture."
Yes its very goofy, but also uses it to build a world where strength of character is the most important. I didn't feel like GITS was that great. I prefer short manga like this (I like brief ideas quickly compressed and expressed with no filler only one chapter), you might cry for a hotel's feelings. http://www.mangahere.cc/manga/hotel/v01/c001/

Techy anime you might like Ergo Proxy, its more philosophical, and Serial Experiments Lain is very popular as your internet self becomes more real than you. I found gurren lagann the most enduring, animatrix is a bunch of short animated features of the matrix universe, I don't care if the boondocks isn't "anime", its drawn by the same animators animes use and it gets the most rewatches.

What shows or TV do you like? Yu gi oh abridged series is just goofy fun,

If I don't reply, feel free to message me on another thread, too bad I can't see replies!
I think the main thing is it starts to become a distraction from just writing the gameplay code. I don't have to implement the pooling stuff now that I have this compiler--naive / simple code tends to also start off with a high perf ceiling. But yeah if I did go further with the game in vanilla Go I might have to try the pool approach. Having worked on game engines with GC language runtimes (using Lua etc.) before, you always ultimately hit a perf ceiling due to lack of memory control and wish you could move out of it, but the runtimes don't give you a way to do that incrementally.

Ultimately in the game scenario the GC is actually just ... not helpful. Game logic code already explicitly handles lifetimes to some degree (eg. when this entity collides with that one, destroy it, etc.) -- emergently deciding when to free things based on references is usually not what you want. You do want it for resource management (like a texture cache), but it actually makes sense to kind of roll that on your own and adapt it to the game. So having a GC and then fighting it just sounds like an ill-fitted solution.
It could be worse, they could start naming these "Go WXGA+", "Go i99900kf", and "Go for Women".
Given the poor track record of the OpenSSL project, the grand parent's complaint for crappy programming isn't unfounded.
>for instance all the low quality clothes and items sold in large quantities to fill some internal void for people for a short while.

For clothes, for the purchaser, have you done the math to show it isn't worthwhile? I find it's cheaper[1] to buy low quality clothes than to buy high quality ones in the long run. I'd buy shoes that would last only 6-9 months, but paying double wouldn't make them last twice as long, etc.

[1] Cheaper for the purchaser, not society.
Marshall McLuhan would have appreciated this. Most everyone is familiar with his “The medium is the message” phrase, but if you dig a little deeper, you’ll come to appreciate his fascination with “Technology as extension of the human body.”

That brio pen; the light bulb illuminating your workspace; the words you write; they’re all extensions of your body — from transcribing your internal thoughts, through your extremities, through transmission and distribution.

If the author is reading this, I hope you’ll consider connecting with a few reputable online stationary retailers to offer a curated collection of reasonably-priced premium notebooks and pens. Additionally, consider expanding your original scope to include tags, which would open up your platform to paper-based automation opportunities.

If you’ve made it this far and are just looking for the best cross-platform handwriting recognition, check out the Nebo app. It requires a stylus, but it’s the best I’ve come across and it reads PDFs, too.
Is there a list of Ultrasonic Humidifiers anywhere so I can avoid them?
What is wrong with cooking meat?
Ehm, I assume you never used a MacBook for work? (giving it a go or I tried my friends MacBook doesn’t count)

No they don’t get in the way of using keyboard and no they’re not unreliable or inaccurate.

I use MacBook keyboard + touchpad for almost a decade without external mouse and keyboard on purpose and I do 120 wpm on a on 2017 MacBook Pro with a 1st generation butterfly keyboard without touchpad getting into my way.
I seem to have lost track of how the discussion reached that point, thanks for the clarification.
> You consider telling everyone “OK, here are some promises that we’ve designed to maximize how embarrassing it would be for us to break up”, but decide it’s better not to make that explicit.

I didn't understand this sentence. Anyone care to clarify please? (E.g., what would be an example of a promise that would be embarrassing?)

Thanks.
Give it another try, I found the docs pretty good, you need to get your head around XLA tracing, and read "the sharp bits" section and you should be pretty set!
This is the correct answer in almost all cases for managing production databases.

However, developers who use postgres never got the memo, and are trying to do mass rollback transactions of schema changes "cause it worked on my dev notebook."

Source: DBA who manages tables with billions of rows.
> Why on earth does it matter? That recording can be used in many ways, anonymously or not, in a court or in an informal investigation. You don't even have to use it, and if you don't use it, it simply doesn't exist.

That's not my understanding. Courts don't allow hearsay or evidence without someone certifying for its accuracy, and for good reason. Think of deepfakes for a recent example of why, although this rule far far predates them. And in this specific case where many of us live, California Penal Code 630 says: [1]

> (d) Except as proof in an action or prosecution for violation of this section, evidence obtained as a result of eavesdropping upon or recording a confidential communication in violation of this section is not admissible in any judicial, administrative, legislative, or other proceeding.

So basically if you obtain a recording of someone doing something illegal without getting that person's consent, the recording can be used against you but explicitly can't be used against them.

I view this as an unjust law that protects the powerful at the expense of the powerless. I have a friend whose manager basically said "you should change careers because you're a girl". She might have been able to do something about it if not for this law...

[1] https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySectio....
It does, but with generics coming down the pipe, I feel that "any" expresses intent somewhat better in certain circumstances. Or at least it ought to improve readability-at-a-glance.

I'd imagine you can continue using interface{} for the foreseeable future.
Suddenly vector search is relevant. Was this orchestrated?
Is this a proper peer reviewed research? If not please don't add more noise to the internets.
I assume that by "allowed", OP means whether we'll finally relax social distancing and mask mandates.
> I don't see how eradication programs would work with such a differential

Its all about R0. If the efficacy (and compliance) is above the 1 / R0 rate, then eradication is possible.

As its "efficacy times compliance", the number we wish to maximize is the smaller number. Efficacy may have dropped to 60% (double shot vs Delta), but a 3rd booster brings the efficacy back up to 90%.

Compliance however, is stuck around 60% in the USA in general, and a large number of people are refusing to get the booster. As such, compliance is the number we need to work on right now.

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Going from 90% to 99% vaccine efficacy barely does anything, because our vaccine compliance numbers are so damn low.
> this sounds like a job for version control

Not at all. The most that would get you is "what did Vox think in 2018?".
It's a feature of many cars, and the majority of them buy a standard well working chip for it (usually from Bosch). Same with the automatic wipers.

Tesla is the odd one where they decided to implement those kinds of features themselves, using their own machine learning algorithms for the cameras. Which results in random weird behavior that just doesn't happen with other brands.

It's a fundamental problem with Tesla, they think they know better but the result is shit. Apart from the wipers and now high beam, autopilot is another example. While Tesla was a pioneer in the area, it now performs worse than most other brand's adaptive cruise control. They've shot themselves in the foot with computer vision, with many phantom braking events as a result.
Not everyone can do the same thing over and over again their whole life. Soon, I'm going to scream if I have to build another website or app... thankfully I'm making a massive career shift into Aerospace.
Follow websites that don’t have RSS feeds
> it's a distinctly different paradigm from the familiar a-file-is-a-stream-of-bytes convention of Linux/UNIX/NTFS

Each of those platforms has an analog to HFS forks.
What makes you believe that what the article says is true?
> if Nike stops making cool stuff my $25K is stuck in their rewards program.
>
> However, with a Nikecoin if you knew multiple 3rd parties (i.e. Citibank, Coinbase, etc.) were validating the Nikecoin ledger and could convert from Nikecoin back to USD there's more trust that could be developed.

I don't follow your logic here. Why would Nikecoin have any value of Nike went out of business?

> Just spitballing but yes I'm picturing it the same way BTC/Dogecoin/Shibacoins are tied to the USD in that you as Nikecoin holder you could freely convert back and forth at the going exchange rate and the number of Nikecoins is run with a predefined supply algorithm.

My bad. I should have specified I meant a fixed exchange rate but you're saying it's a floating exchange rate. This means what I said before is true. Nike will have to price their items in terms of both dollars and Nikecoin which means they could use that to manipulate the value of Nikecoin.

> I could also picture a standard set of Nikes always tied to a set Nikecoin price so Nike can provide some stablecoin like price stability.

Yeah, but now you're back to trusting Nike.
Yeah the Go -> C++ compiler I linked from my other comment is pretty much overlapping with this idea. TinyGo is still a bit early afaict and also tries to exactly implement Go semantics but I'm kind of interested in extending / adapting it to my use case.
I’ve been learning by doing advent of code this year. The ramp up of problem difficulty is nice for general lisp learning, and as I get more comfortable I’ve been stretching out more and more into the emacs specific parts like working with buffers and text properties. Kind of like learning JavaScript first and then getting into the DOM and other browser specific APIs. My main resource has been the emacs lisp manual that ships with emacs.
Still waiting for something cheaper than buyingbackup hard drives for 10tb of data.

I nearly calculate the cost of using tape every year and it's just not end-user useful :-(

The drives are too damn expensive and probably not that nice to use.
There was a Gtk backend for Qt which would have solved this: https://github.com/CrimsonAS/gtkplatform
Public health is hard. How important is the truth if you know lying will save millions and millions of lives? Of course you can’t lie too much, or people will ignore you even when you tell the truth. What if your research on the disease model of alcoholism shows it to both be effective and a fantastical fabrication? Is it noble to publish this? Is it elitist to selectively distribute this knowledge?

As for masks— when I reviewed the research last, there were clear benefits in the case of SARS-CoV-1, especially when compared to influenza (which appears to be unaffected by surgical masks.)

So, the interesting and, perhaps, less controversial discussion is what sort of masking we would do if we were talking about a pandemic where the body of research data very strongly implied zero (or even slightly negative) effectiveness with masks for that specific contagion. And then the same scenario with a very high effectiveness. I’m not sure we would do anything different either way, and everyone would feel smugly correct while arguing based on the title of studies rather than their content.
Cliche can be good like Chronicle, but usually the issue is the execution loses humanity, they act like robots. No depth stock characters suck.
There are small poles at the side of the road that have reflectors on them to make it easier to see where the road goes. Does this exist in the US?
It's not the water. It's the minerals in the water, which become fine airborne particulates as part of the process. Other types of humidifiers don't have this problem, though some can be prone to mold instead.
The link you specified specifically says that previous infection could be why Omicron appears less severe..

> “Epidemiological tracking shows a steep trajectory of new infections, indicating Omicron’s rapid spread, but so far with a flatter trajectory of hospital admissions, possibly indicating lower severity,” explains Dr Noach. “This lesser severity could, however, be confounded by the high seroprevalence levels of SARS CoV-2 antibodies in the general South African population, especially following an extensive Delta wave of infections.”
TA bullshit *

* unless critical mass number of market participants who all also believe in voodoo.
Irrelevant. Your claim was specifically that the only reason to get a Pocket was for people "hung up on software vs. FPGA emulation". I pointed out multiple unique features of the Pocket and differentiating aspects vs. a random Linux emulator handheld.
I’ve been doing a lot of rust programming recently, but how exactly is the Result monad better? I feel like I end up with nested match statements for chained results, but maybe I’m doing something wrong.
Well, I drive a 2019 ford fusion that has all these features (auto-lane keep, adaptive cruise control, auto brights and auto wipers) and I never faced problems using them. These features are old and stable at this point and most cars do a good job with them. Except Tesla.
"Basic" means stupid, or at least simple minded. It doesn't refer to common, or normal, which would be the opposite of unique.

Parent is saying "If you are a simpleton, who doesn't understand art, then ...."
Cool, but conditioning an "art style" will make the web even duller (a la Bootstrap). We should simply create a framework for people to upload and program their own sketchy art, not just serving someone's else.
Indeed! Sorry, I was thinking more about the layers but of course JAX is way more than numpy on steroids. (Although it is also that: https://dionhaefner.github.io/2021/12/supercharged-high-reso...). JAX has a very nice vmap for easy parallelization on SIMD accelerators, and pmap even allows cross-device vectorization with a single line which is just beautiful !
To the proponents of the "efficient, regulated, centralized financial systems" I want to ask - why can't I pay $0.10 to a random paywalled site to access a single article?
Many people are scammed all the time from this garbage, and there's usually no legal recourse because either the malicious actors reside in countries which encourage these scams, or they hide their identities well enough that you can't find out who to sue.

It's a totally fraudulent industry and certainly deserves the anger directed at it. It undermines trust in society, and the people participating in this fraud deserve prison and asset forfeiture.
According to reports, the original BioNTech vaccine was developed in a matter of hours: https://www.businessinsider.com/pfizer-biontech-vaccine-desi... Moderna's was done in two days.
Panel gap matters because it is a clear indicator of manufacturing precision, and it also affects weather proofing. It is a very strong signal (but not the only one!)

Most people buy cars based on brands, and also a very substantial amount of car purchases are impulse purchases.

Anecdotally, I rented a jeep a few months ago (compass) and it was truly abysmal.