skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed that they would be convenient. We are looking at both those options. There are devils in the details like seamlessly taking advantage of available hardware acceleration.

Would love to talk more about your use case so we prioritize the right things for model export. Drop me a line (george at nyckel dot com).
See other discussion on a different article but same topic

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29841747
It's a common trope to say it's their duty to shareholders, but it's not. Their duty is to be diligent and transparent to their shareholders, but not to pursue short-term profits at any and all costs no matter what. Specifically, there is no legal requirement or duty for companies to be anti-union.
This doesn't make much sense, Webb was deliberately underboosted for L2 orbit because it has thruster only on one side and cannot correct for any overboost [0], so if Ariane performed as expected there should be exact calculated amount of fuel left. If there would be more fuel left in Webb than predicted it would actually mean that Ariane overboosted from programmed trajectory, which is bad thing. I think this is just NASA doing its usual underpromise-overdeliver rather than better-than-expected performance from launch vehicle.

[0] (supposedly it cannot rotate its cold side to the Sun, though I don't know what difference it makes when it's not taking images at the time?)
I will also comment that when we talk about "healthcare being a market", we need to separate out providers of healthcare, with insurers of healthcare. Insurers of healthcare are much closer to a market (in that I can generally find out what the cost of the insurance is, and what it covers), but providers aren't (in that prices lists are hidden, it's not clear what is covered vs what isn't, etc). We talk about the cost of the insurance, but that's artificially high because of the practices of the providers (themselves incentivized to behave that way because of the insurers).

And that's the open market; it gets even more cloudy when we talk about employers being involved, so we have an agency problem as well.

It's a system unlike any other, and I don't think general theories really apply very well as such.
Were those expectations based on real observations, or did Google just get lucky with PR from the jump?
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So what's Deno's stdlib principle:

1. you got pretty much 80% of what you will need from the std libraries for a mid-size 'normal' application(similar to glibc, libstdcpp, go stdlib, python's stdlib)
2. you got a small stdlib than usual(rust's stdlib), the rest you use cargo and good luck with that
3. you grab whatever you need(node.js, you have no idea about the 500 modules npm just installed)

I prefer No.1 here.
> My initial impression is that the JS/Node world is miserable. Rails looks 1000 times more pleasant.

God, yes. Especially with Hotwire [1], which advertises being able to do modern web apps with a minimum of JS. I've played around with it, and for me it completely eliminates the need for AngularJS/React/whatever.

[1] https://hotwired.dev
As the paper clarifies, this is for the performance of non-atomic read/writes in sequential setting. The paper left the performance evaluation for atomic read/writes to future work. Is there any indication yet regarding the performance in a parallel setting compared to weaker guarantees?
> It sounds like you are disputing empirical evidence as well as standard economic theory regarding monopsonies.

When there are multiple sellers of generic drugs, you're correct. When there is one seller of a non-generic, life saving drug with no alternative, the NHS is going to pay whatever the one seller, which by definition is a monopoly, is going to charge. [1]

> What is even the point of that sentence?

That we cannot keep increasing NHS funding exponentially. Some people seem to find that fact hard to grasp - there's an upper limit. Another commenter talks about the UK raising debt to fund the NHS. Thank goodness there's a set of rules for government borrowing in the capital markets.

> A) If it is a majority of years it's a fairly slim majority and B) they werent there when it was set up.

Both parties campaigned for the NHS in the 1940s. Labour won. Blair, in power for over a decade promised to "fix the NHS" whatever that meant, but he didn't do it. Thatcher/Cameron/Johnson, all in charge for 2 decades or so, still haven't "sold it off".

> Somebody who knew that they could start charging either customers or government through the nose and make it fantastically profitable.

Except it will never happen. The government would not introduce a commensurate tax cut since they're no longer funding the NHS, so your cost of living would go up, and even in the UK, I think people would get rather upset.

> Branson is one example (Virgin Healthcare sucked £2 billion out of NHS coffers, yay for crony capitalism).

Did he really? Evidence? 2 billion of private money paid by companies into Virgin Healthcare, sure. But did he take £2bn from the NHS?

> They are not so aware of the corruption going on underneath with taxpayer money.

What corruption? Surely the police should be involved if there's true corruption?

I won't defend the NHS. I'll defend the staff that treated my father, but the organization itself needs fixing.

[1] https://www.bmj.com/content/368/bmj.l4627
Sure but no.
Google/Alphabet needs to be broken apart: "The National Labor Relations Act forbids employers from interfering with, restraining, or coercing employees in the exercise of rights relating to organizing, forming, joining or assisting a labor organization for collective bargaining purposes, or from working together to improve terms and conditions of employment, or refraining from any such activity. Similarly, labor organizations may not restrain or coerce employees in the exercise of these rights."
Some of us have seen the exorbitant damage corporations can cause, for example Exxon et al knowingly destroying the planet in a bid to extract profit.

No organization is inherently good. Unions can be led by bad actors, and that doesn't diminish their overall value. They provide employees with a countervailing force to use against employers who would otherwise be mostly free to squeeze them for every penny, whether via cut wages, unpaid overtime, etc.
What it seems you're arguing is that the use-case that justifies NFTs is facilitating criminal behavior. (In this case, it's criminal behavior that you or I may deem socially or politically beneficial, but nonetheless criminal.)

A decade on from The Silk Road and this is where we continue to be with crypto.
I don't want to vote on every position. I live in a representative democracy and I want to select a leader who will make wise decisions that are (mostly) in line with mine.
> If you have an NFT, you get to do things others cannot.

That's the definition of property, yes, but with many real NFTs, aside from transferring the NFT, there’s not much you get the exclusive right to do.

> At the very least, holding an NFT gives you the ability to transfer it to someone else and make them the holder.

And with many concrete NFTs, that's also the very most they give you.

> Do NFTs signal legal ownership? I imagine we're going to find out that it probably depends.

As if it were a mystery how legal ownership was determined. It's very clear that:

(1) It is possible to construct and use NFTs in a way where they would be at least compelling evidence of legal ownership of certain rights, and

(2) Most NFTs in existence don't even begin to try to do this.

> I can make a picture of the Mona Lisa too, but no one will respect that picture as the real Mona Lisa.

Yes, and you can make an NFT that points to a URL that points to a low-effort drawing of an ape, and outside of a small cult no one will equate the NFT with the original artwork (or, for that matter, care much about the original artwork.)
> With all the Quantative Easing (read money printing at the tax payers cost -> inflation), corruption, name it..

I'll take steady, minor inflation over crypto's love affair with hyper-deflation for Bitcoin, hyperinflation for most altcoins after their bubbles burst, and general instability.

And you want to talk about corruption? Crypto has a new scandal, scam, or rugpull nearly every month, and that's not even limited to altcoins. Then there's the whole thing with NFTs, which I repeatedly seen linked to the money laundering that used to go on in the art world[1]. Bad actors are attracted to crypto precisely because it's decentralized and unregulated. It's a dream come true for them, certainly.

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/24/nft_users/
I sometimes feel this too, especially if I spend a day or two working on a bugfix that feels (to me) simple and logical, and then it sits rotting in the PR queue for a few months.

There's a feeling of indignation, but I constantly remind myself that on the other end of the PR is a maintainer like myself, so I try to remember to bite my tongue and be extra nice.
OpenSea + ETH represent the vast majority of NFT activity, but the existence of some also-rans demonstrates... what, exactly?
I've got an OLED and a some more conventional (I actually forget the tech, haha) monitor. HSLuv example actually looks less uniform on the OLED -- green, cyan, and to a lesser extent blue are notably brighter. Looks good on the conventional monitor, though. I could just be miscalibrated, though, my OLED is pretty cheap.
That's the hard part of this whole situation, is that you weren't scammed, just had bad partners.

Btw, I know what I'm saying sounds harsh, but I also have to say, mad props for taking this risk. Unfortunately I think it was a bad decision but the experience probably taught you a ton and still cheaper than business school.
Study: You're Bad at Evaluating Your Own Photos
It seems pretty inconsistent to champion human rights in one sentence and advocate for illegal kidnapping and extrajudicial punishment in the next. The Hague has no legal authority.
Wait, so did they do a statistical test somewhere comparing it to the formula they wrote, or is that just by eyeballing it?
If you zoom it enough you can read the text albeit only barely. The second circle goes as far as Assago and Sesto San Giovanni; the third goes as far Rozzano and Rho; the fourth goes as far as Cornaredo and Pioltello. Based on this the first circle should be the circonvallazione esterna (viale Liguria etc.).
It's unfortunate that, at least in the mind of almost anyone who has taken an embedded systems course, Ariane 5 is associated with that very expensive overflow bug.
over 50% of the compensation is in shares, wall street - as a colloquialism for the capital markets - can tolerate much much more dilution
What's hilarious to me is that Apple considers their own computers of this era to be "vintage"

No joke, that's the real term https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201624 "About vintage products. -- Products are considered vintage when Apple stopped distributing them for sale more than 5 and less than 7 years ago."

Well, not much has changed on the intel side in that timeframe. My 2013 laptop is still getting OS updates and performs fine for my needs. And now I can brag that I'm running a vintage computer as my daily driver.
It doesn't sound like anyone really knows how many people exist or are born or die in India, so it's not clear that the Economist's attractive presentation of the data could have any real basis in India, without a primary data source.
dark.fail is your friend. Grab and verify the onion url, and bookmark it. It lists current markets. A game of DDoS whack-a-mole.
This hits on an interesting fundamental that is often skipped when talking about bike infrastructure. Zoning. If you live in a country/area where living, working, recreational activities and shopping all happen in distinct areas, like it does in most cities built for cars, the distances traveled are often too far for the average person. In this case you are kind of right that investing in public transport might be more urgent. To become a true cycling city, municipalities also have to allow for more mixed use development to shorten distances.
Looking to talk to founders applying to incubators to help us validate an idea
Worth noting, as it's unclear: Neither Preston Byrne (who wrote the tweet in the submission) nor Stefan W. Huber (quoted in the submission tweet) is part of the "founders" of Ethereum. However, the presentation quoted by the quoted submission tweet was made by Joseph Lubin who is one of the founders of Ethereum.
> claiming XMPP is either the best ...

Unfortunately, this seems to be the starting point of most discussions on XMPP. Somebody claims that XMPP solves all problems, and is secure and private. Or they present a highly-customized, non-default XMPP setup and compare this with an out-of-the-box competitor to show the superiority of their setup. We rarely see posts like your FAQ on the internet.

> ... or the worst

In case you refer to our article, we don't claim this. We recommend to self-host your XMPP server (if you can), or to migrate to alternatives instead of blindly trusting unknown entities on the internet. We are also not the police on the internet. People can choose what they want, including WhatsApp, Telegram, XMPP-based messengers, Signal, or whatever messenger they use.

> Let's try to promote more informative resources.

We will link to your FAQ. Thanks for providing more balanced content.
I was in the UAW for about 6 six years. My dad was a Teamster for about 30 years. My feelings on unions are mixed — there are pluses and minuses — but they're mine. What I hear on HN a lot of the time is a naive belief that unions are an unalloyed good, and I'm not sure where that comes from. I won't accuse anybody of being a shill, I just think they're getting their information secondhand and don't fully appreciate the tradeoffs of the non-theoretical world.
Yes! https://v3.ocaml.org/users has a list some of industrial users. The list might not be as large as say for languages like Rust, but its more than just Janestreet :)

Personally, I've also been lucky enough to have worked for two different employers (not in the finance or compiler space) over the past 2 years where I've mostly used OCaml for writing things that many people might consider "boring", namely lots of web services, database drivers, data processing, etc.
Do you mean this story about dark patterns? https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/24/technology/e-commerce-dar...

Because the author (who does not control how NYT subscriptions work) does mention that in the story:

> About 30 sites made it easy to sign up for services but particularly hard to cancel, requiring phone calls or other procedures. The Times requires people to talk with a representative online or by phone to cancel subscriptions, but the researchers did not study it or other publishing sites.

And highlighted it on her social media promotion of her work: https://twitter.com/jenvalentino/status/1143531833147240449?...
> when it comes to technology companies, I got to say it's pretty good here.

At the moment yeah in some areas but I wouldn't say that 12 years or ago, and maybe not 12 years from now
What would you say your hit rate is on your cold calls, and/or what is a realistic hit rate?
In both these cases, there's an entry level that people can get into without much skill, effort, or risk. (Running an email server, of course, is not part of the entry level: email is heavily gatekept.)

Most people who upload videos to youtube are going to have less than ten views total on those videos, which is fine, because why should they maximize views on a crappy phone video of their cat or something? Likewise, you can run lighttpd with little to no configuration in order to make some directory available, & nobody's likely to attack it even if it happens to be vulnerable, simply because most people are not hosting anything valuable enough to be worth exploiting.

The ideas we have of running a youtube channel or running a server are both affected by the hypervisible minority of highly polished professional versions: when we think of youtube videos, we're more likely to think of Hank Green than x_greenfan77_x, and when we think of web services, we're more likely to think of Facebook than we are to think of that python script we dashed off in ten minutes that's been working unobtrusively for eight years. The difference is that running a server has a mostly unearned reputation for a higher minimum technical skill involved: everybody knows that you can record a youtube video with no makeup & shitty lighting and sound, because everybody has seen amateur youtube videos, but not everybody knows that their torrent client is a server.
Hard to find (shouldn't be). This 1992 WaPo article names the 9 who starved (starting with Stchukin). Also mentions that under duress these people smuggled seeds out of Leningrad to storage in the Ural mountains.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1992/05/12/s...

This Springer article goes into great detail on the Pavlovsk Experimental Station's history
"by 1934 Vavilov had founded over 400 research institutes, with staffing requirements of 20,000"

https://springerplus.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s4006...

Looks like the story was first told here:

Alexanyan, S. M. & Krivchenko, V. I. Vavilov Institute scientists heroically
preserve world plant genetic resources collections during World War II siege
of Leningrad. Diversity 7, 10–13 (1991).
Galactic Tranquility – Spiral Galaxy Captured by Hubble Space Telescope
You want a MIT license (that is by definition without restrictions), but you want to add the "without money restriction". It doesn't work like that. Once you add a restriction of "without money involved" to the MIT license, it is not the MIT license anymore.
From a technical perspective, I love BitTorrent. I remember reading about it years ago and being amazed at the bandwidth efficiency and robustness it had. It still had some centralization (ie trackers) but they themselves could be duplicated (ie you could set up a tracker for an existing torrent).

The part that surprises me from reading this is the issues raised from moving from SHA1 to SHA256, specifically because that's 20 vs 32 bytes respectively. This has created compatibility issues.

The same thing happened with Git and it's a nightmare.

I honestly don't understand how this happens. We've gone through this many times for many years. Replacing your hash function should be built in from day one and for any project to come along in the 21st century and not do this is really gross negligence.

I really wonder how this happens. Like is it just hubris about how this hash function will be different? Or are engineers just so in love with the optimizations they get to make by assuming, say, 20 byte hashes? I really wish I knew.

Anyway, I'm a little sad BitTorrent only really found traction for pirating media. Whether you approve of that or not, it's still an astounding technical achievement.
> When Trump was in power CNN had a covid death count being displayed 24/7. America's ranking in deaths was constantly mentioned.

CNN might be partisan but I don't know that this is a good example. In 2020 COVID was new, and people were all clamoring to see new updates about it. Trump being in office was (I think) somewhat incidental.

In 2021, I think people are tired of hearing about COVID as much and as a result it didn't get the total 24/7 coverage as often. I remember a similar thing happening shortly after 9/11.
This is downvoted, I assume because people are maybe disagreeing with the principle rather than the validity of what you said.

A lot of large companies clearly do look at unions as something that forces them to pay more compensation for less work, which they'd have to justify to shareholders and the board. Even if the board would be cool with it, and they could make it fly with shareholders, leadership bonuses and stock grants are tied to performance. I really don't see where this is an incorrect statement to make.
Wait, you have outdoor socks to go with the outdoor shoes? What purpose does it serve to change your socks before going outside?
It’s almost certainly true, but an accessible and rational strategy to combat that is to critically consider why you think anything that you do if you haven’t yet.

Maybe that seems obvious written out, but it wasn’t to me at first. I felt a deep sense of being a product of my environment in a negative sense. I think what happened was that I began to see holes in my knowledge or understanding of things I thought I knew and it was a little unsettling. These days I just try to stop myself and ask: why do I think that? How far down the chain do I need to go in order to find concrete information?

To some people this is probably very intuitive. And it is for most of us when it comes to matters of science. But what about your opinion of companies, products, or even people? I think we all get into habits of being influenced here - it’s literally in our genes and can be very covert.

I guess in a sense this is like personal epistemology. It’s important to study on a macro scale, but also on a micro scale in individual day to day operations.
You mean it should include a negative adjustment for the fact that suicides fell in 2020 in the U.S.?

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/vsrr/VSRR016.pdf
9/11 policy changes had barely any long-term impact on civilian Americans. Taxes didn’t have to go up. Airports already had security lines, TSA was largely a management change. And the constant surveillance is largely transparent (unless you lived near a government or military installation).

I’m talking about policy changes that require a massive change in daily life. Wearing masks. Street redesigns that reduce parking or slow down cars. European-style gas taxes.
Unions only exist to protect mediocre people, and only cause harm to top performers.

Wasn't Google supposed to be a place that only hires the best and brightest?
It also failed DKIM signature validation for me on several accounts, but when I cross-checked vs. http://mail-tester.com it worked fine. I think there's a bug in https://www.learndmarc.com
Can confirm. Have personally seen this in Patna, Bihar.
Ruby is a lot like spoken language in that regard. When the many ways in which to do things are chosen well, Ruby reads like pure poetry. For that I will always enjoy Ruby.

Moreover, the choice of which idiom to use conveys the intent and mindset of the author.

But like any complex language, it's also possible to write very unpoetically, and like any complex language, readability is a function of familiarity with the language's syntax and idioms.
GraalVm Under the Covers
This. I was going to come here to post this specifically.
You might be right, but we have the demo now anyway. The problem is that this shouldn't have been so painful for me in the first place. It's just a few months working on a cool product. They could throw me some cash to make sure I'm okay, and I'd be happy.

Their inability to be fair/competent is what's breaking me.
But isn't it the government that allows the healthcare system to hold you financially accountable for opaque and arbitrary bills?
If you freeze a UTXO, one can spend that UTXO inside the network by committing a transaction and the output will be a new UTXO which is different from the previous one, thereby unfreezing it.

This is the basis for mixing services which do this at scale.

The fact is that the author is using intellectually dishonest arguments to try and convey something as the truth, which is not true.

The above also doesn't take in to consideration any L2 or Taproot transactions that provide even easier ways to mitigate Government overreach.