skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
YDB doesn't use Zookeeper. The system is built of tablets, every tablet implements distributed consensus algorithm. There are different types of tablets in the system, say SchemeShard is tablet that stores metadata, table schema for instance. DataShard stores table partition data.
Isn't SIMD new in this release of the spec? How can WASM crush JS using SIMD if they only just added support?
More of a common lisp person here.
They work there.
Several, for my work as translator: for example a short autoIt program to create and log translation projects, a short autohotkey program to write different types of smart quotes and n and m dashes in the programs I use to write my translations, a Python program to create and log estimates. Nothing major (all my programs are a few hundred lines of code max.) but they are all programs that I use on a daily basis, in fact they are among the programs I use most frequently.
You could use Dart I guess, Flutter is similar to WASM apps like Figma in that they manipulate a canvas, not the DOM directly. I'd assume most WASM apps in the future will look more like that than true DOM manipulation.

There are others however, such as Yew written in Rust, or Blazor in C#.
>> "As an extreme example, that front page in the Lancet that referred to woman as "bodies with vaginas"."

I haven't read this exact article, but I can near 100% guarantee they were actually trying to be inclusive of trans men, AFAB nonbinary people, and people who have had bottom surgery to flip their bit (not all are women), not refer to women specifically. There are common medical issues that affect all of them and it does no one any good to pretend like cis women are the only people worth including.
There is a big markup on heat pumps because you aren't eligible for the government assistance unless you hire a certified installer to install it...

That means obviously the certified installers charge very high installation prices because they know you can't just DIY it.
Perhaps quite the opposite in some cases?

A trained engineer/physicist should be able to approach any new problem in a disciplined and systematic way, which opens up a lot of career options. This is probably true for other disciplines as well, but that is outside my wheelhouse.

If you see engineers and physicists in random but still good careers, like software, consulting, finance - that would indicate their education succeeded rather than failed.
well its not really for smazon workers then.
Yeah, neflix if the weakest of the big tech because it's not inappeasable. People can cancel Netflix. You cannot really cancel Google, Amazon, or Windows. If Netflix went away, people would just get their entertainment from one of many other sources.
I've found there is a world of difference between virtue signalers and people who actually want to help with real problems. The virtue signalers only care when they can look good or bludgeon others over the head. Actual help is tiring.
> The problem here is that you have not proven in any way that the Second Amendment's use of "well-regulated" does not refer to "government law" or "some other type of control".

You're really set on ignoring the George Clinton speech, huh?

The second amendment begins like this:

> A well-regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state...

This usage is obsolete; translated into modern English, the same clause would read:

> A well-functioning militia being necessary to the security of a free state...

And it is obvious that this does not refer to the existence of laws, because that's just not part of the meaning of the word. What do you think needs to be proven? Why?

Anyway, here is another letter from George Washington: https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/03-07-02-...

> I am unacquainted with the Extent of Your Works and consequently of the Number of Men necessary to man them. If your present Numbers should be insufficient for that purpose, I would then by all Means advise Your making up the Deficiency out of the best regulated and equipped Militia. [4]

> [4] The draft reads: “out of the best regulated Militia that could be got.”

This is pretty explicit: George Washington anticipates that Philip Schuyler may not have enough troops under his command to achieve his objectives. He recommends mustering troops from the local militia. But he is more detailed than that: he envisions ranking the local militia along a scale of how "regulated" they are, and choosing the men who are best regulated. All of these men are subject to the same laws, but they differ in their degree of regulation.
Didn’t the Trump Camp lie about meeting with Russian operatives?

Didn’t people end up in jail for lying and refusing to cooperate?

It was absolutely political, but isn’t anything concerning an investigation of a sitting President?
At least the government is and will be challenged by the judicial system... eventually. Not fast enough, but it's being challenged as we speak.

Tech oligarchies don't have such restrictions. It's almost scarier.
Build, baby, build. But we need property rights to be able to do it. None of this discretionary permitting nonsense; that's how we got into this mess.
I wonder how much of point #5 was Charles himself. It didn't last long: Charles' brother and successor James II was run out of town not long after he became King.

That was (relatively) peaceful, at least. And it definitely established that Parliament had the final say in things.
Well the user perspective is: suddenly there a compilers for all kind of languages targetting the browser because wasm makes it easier for the maintainers to build them.

Sure you could have implemented unsigned integer semantics on top of bool-arrays in javascript years ago but if the result is too slow you have gained because the compiled c++ code does not run fast enough to be usable.
It's also worth noting that someone who graduated from Stanford/MIT/etc has a lot of good options, and it's a huge vote of confidence that they chose to work for your startup
Sunwing technical issue continues to disrupt travel for thousands of passengers
The main problem of Netflix, more than competition, is quality of content.

They need to think like a Hollywood studio, and less like a Video Supermarket. You need to be a Disney or PBS , Universal or MGM, and the subscribers will pay for high quality content.

The only notable Netflix content seems to be the one purchased externally. Internally developed content, tends to follow a common amorphous pattern, that becomes very predictable as it gets extended into multiple episodes of the same script.

They need charismatic movies and set free artists with risky content. Not 20 episodes of Ozark.
Postgres support is in progress actually.
It became the default because going to college was the way to show you were a “high status” person. The people with “high status” will constantly “rethink” anything that challenges it.

Personally this article comes off as classist and that disgusts me.
You can use GPT-3 right now on OpenAI playground and there's commercial apps running on it that as far as I know aren't on Azure. It's not clear what they meant by exclusive.
How is that relevant? People are concerned about bad things that might happen to them but haven't happened to them yet. Just because it hasn't happened to them specifically doesn't mean their concerns are invalid.
In the United States, I think the larger problem is that expensive college became the default. It also became common for universities to increase the course requirements for graduation, making it more difficult to graduate in 4 years.

At my alma mater, the average time to degree was 4.25 years during my cohort [1]. Fortunately, this graph seems to be moving downward, and is currently at 3.95. However, my guess is that it's still particularly rough for engineering students. During my time, if you transferred into engineering, you were guaranteed to take 5 years. Naturally, the university doesn't have a strong incentive to correct this (more semesters = more $$$). At least until admissions start declining as more people learn about it.

[1] https://www.purdue.edu/datadigest/?dashboard=Degrees_TTD_1
I don't have a degree but it's literally never come up, and I've been working as a software engineer for two decades.

How do you know it has "never come up"? Because you've never been asked about it?

If people have passed on your profile completely for that reason -- then it has still "come up" on their side, even though of course never know that's the reason.
unCLIP as in “this algorithm is NOT going to be told to make paper clips resulting in all the mass in the solar system converted into paper clips”?
> Don’t rich people have better things to do than incite others over trivialities?

I think everyone in the comments can agree with this.
Ah, the unredacted version is quite a bit nicer to read, thank you.

I was referring to the text in the complaint: The complaint is written off the legal discovery process, presumably in the case of especially a tech company such as Google, the statement that these teams met and discussed this topic would presumably be found in the form of either a meeting invite or the notes from a meeting sent in an internal email.

I think within some margin of interpretation, it's reasonable to state that if the text in the complaint is as such, it's backed by one or more internal emails I personally don't have access to. As I think it's pretty implausible that the Texas AG invented a meeting between the ad team and the AMP team and a reason for it out of thin air.
Yeah, it seems quite a bit easier to become the dominant power when most of your potential competitors have had their cities and industry flattened for half a decade.
My guess is that this will be officially released as GB/GBA apps for the Nintendo Online service once the eShops for the Wii U and 3DS are discontinued next year,
...apparently something to do with third-party systems "Airline Choice" --- whatdya think? My guess Ransomware.
> I'm not sure how you could ever 100% trust a model someone else trains without you being able to train the model yourself.

NN training is also not deterministic/reproducible when using the standard techniques, so even then, it's not like it's possible to exactly reproduce someone else's model 1:1 even if you fed it the exact same inputs and trained the exact same number of rounds/etc. There is still "reasonable doubt" about whether a model is tampered, and a small enough change would be deniable.

(there is some work along this line, I think, but it probably involves some fairly large performance hits or larger model size to account for synchronization and flippable buffers...)
The UK requires an energy efficiency inspection of all rented houses. If you don't get a minimum standard, you can't rent a house.
Just wanted to let you know I completely agree with you. I went to an undergraduate university that required two semester of philosophy and two of theology, and I certainly think I'm better off for them. I think we need to get back to that and away from expecting universities to be job training. Let the employers train their employees instead of foisting it on universities.
That's the exception that proves the rule. Fact checkers rarely can be wrong. The overwhelming amount of times they are very correct.

If anyone thinks I am wrong, they can list a dozen times fact checkers were wrong.
You wrote "link" which is an element in a page, but we never "hijacked" or rewrote any such URL-bearing element. (We do for De-AMP, now.) Please dont fall for such lies about us couched as "link hijacking".

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31088549
They raised prices and have considerably less content in a market with more and more competition. No surprises!
> I can see how it might be difficult to build and sustain a real startup around this kind of product

Yes, I think the most important difference is that, as far as I can tell, you're looking for a bit of side income rather than trying to jump start a whole company.
It sure looks like such models are going to have to undergo the same sort of scrutiny regular software does nowadays. No more closed-off and rationed access to the near-bleeding-edge.
"Landlord" is gendered; people still regularly use "landlady" to refer to a woman property owner/lessor.

There's room for a neologism here. Maybe "landliege" to keep it sounding feudal?
> It's no different than evangelicals who try to impose their morality on everyone else

Are you trying to suggest that there aren't certain words it's inappropriate to use in certain types of writing?
We don't need to rely on internal emails, which may be out of date anyway, and we don't need to figure out anyone's intent. Brave (or someone) could do performance measurements to see what the impact is now.
It's been implemented in browsers for longer than the spec has been out. In fact, one condition of a proposal being merged into the spec is that two production engines must have implemented it.
No garbage collection integration yet? Or is it done as a separate work?
And that the USA stole a TON of Nazi scientists and then brought them to the US, giving them new identities.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip

1600 is the official number, in practice it was a lot more and their identities were concealed.
I love Terry Tao’s writing on math. One thing that strikes me about him is that, despite being an absolute technical powerhouse, he writes in a very down to earth style that connects disparate areas of math - e.g. his article on “what is a gauge” https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2008/09/27/what-is-a-gauge/am... where he explains how dimensional analysis might be viewed as a change of coordinates. Too often exposition in math is myopic and fails to impart a unique perspective on the subject, but Tao imbues his writing with a wisdom that I consider the sign of a true genius.
AIUI, a cmpxchg loop is enough to implement read-modify-write of any atomically sized value. The ABA problem becomes relevant when trying to implement more complex lock-free data structures.
It should be fast to build houses. My family acquired land, designs, permits, and moved in to a place in rural TN in about 9 months. It's taken me 2 years to get a site development permit (permission to ask for a building permit) to modify a roofline so that it sheds water in CA.
Can you imagine how many tacos they can buy now? They may get 10x multiples over time
Many people would be forced to sell though if there was a price drop, because the high prices necessitated having a very high borrowing rate (95% borrowed), and commonly at renewal (typically 5 years in Canada) mortgage terms require the borrower to pay the difference between the market value and the borrowed amount to ensure they are not more than 95% leveraged still.

This is the big problem the government has: it is very difficult to unwind this mess through policy without triggering a cascade. Likely it will come eventually, they just want to ensure it’s not their party in office when the shoe finally drops.
It could, if the 10 pages are fed through a automatic feeding scanner which gives the same skew to all scanned pages.
That sounds like some weird company/person specific thing.

have heard this come up with respect to professional engineering certifications in some states. But I believe those don't even exist in the US for software at this point--and even in some states where there are supposedly restrictions on using the term, those seem to be pretty widely ignored.
Fortunately for you they are defining offensive so broadly that you can resist this being lorded over you without using any words that will offend essentially anyone.
The common theme in the discussion here that doing X "makes my colleagues happier". Do you know a real person that became happier once you changed "master" to "main"?

Also you said "high rewards". What are rewards in this particular case?
Statutorily for sure. Most don’t require apprenticeships as a part of the job/role fundamentally though. Electricians (classic apprenticeship setup there) for instance could be made through formal trade school + probationary period, and it would likely be even better than it is now. If it works, it works though.

Generally, It’s a means of locking in stasis in a particular field in general, or restricting competition to the ‘have’s’, just like the old Guild setup before that. Still very much a thing for MD’s in the US.

There is a reason why France in particular is notorious for not getting anything done.

German’s do it too of course, but in their own way which is focused more on results, so it tends to be less sclerotic and more productive.

It’s always a trade off - more protectionism, or more churn/chaos/competition. If they can provide good labor protections while maintaining economic growth enough to ‘lift the tide’ overall, hard to fault them. It’s easy to go so far that it strangles the economy and locks everyone into a pointlessly inefficient setup in favor of the protected classes though. (And they won’t necessarily be rich protected classes either).

Europe’s tide hasn’t been rising very rapidly for awhile, and many EU countries are clearly insolvent overall (Greece, Italy, etc), so we’ll see how long they can sustain it.

And housing wise - to be somewhat on topic - very unlikely those Nurses in the UK are doing so in London.
I went to an elite university on fully paid financial aid.

I don’t think the university made me much wiser than I would had been at a less expensive public school. And I think I could have learned many things on my own based on my abilities at the time.

However, having a degree from an elite university is an effective signal that you made it through the filter of their college admissions process. This is what companies like to see.

Since those admissions were based on SAT and other metrics, the students they select are among the brightest and regardless of the quality of education, they will do well in the world. This reinforces the value of attending an elite university and feeds more competition for the spots. This is similar to a shoe company sponsoring an athlete. The custom shoe might be better than what the athlete had before and maybe they even provide training from world class coaches, but they’re not just sponsoring anyone. You’re not getting that shoe without already proving something.

My earnings have benefitted from the school network and at the price charged the network is probably still a net benefit for me, without accounting for the financial aid.

So overall, it’s a game, but worth playing. There’s likely a better system we could devise to signal intelligence and ability that didn’t rely on diplomas from 4 year schools. However, the network effects of colleges cannot be replaced in the same manner. For that we have to consider whether these effects are disadvantaging others and worth perpetuating.
You get a sample PDF when clicking "Start Scanning".
Yeah and they were right. We keep inflating the time children spend in school but don't proportionately scale the content. People are taking Calculus the second year they're in college now. People are graduating high school practically illiterate and innumerate.

This isn't a call to educate fewer people. It's to educate more efficiently which, when done right, will reach more people.
college is a great place to have sex. At this point, that's what the institution is for. You pay a place to be a relatively safe space, where your child will meet other young adults that are in their intellectual strata, have sex with them, and hopefully turn that into a marriage. I don't have kids so I don't know if parents consciously think this way, but it seems clear to me college doesn't have anything to do with any kind of education or skills training.
I watched "Apollo 10 1/2" recently. It's about what life in America was like in the late 1960s.

One thing is that mom cooked all the meals. People rarely ate out. I know that was true in my family at the time. Eating out was a major, major treat. Entertainment was going out the door and joining up with the neighborhood kids. The house was tiny.

It all was perfectly normal.
Ozark is good, I love that show. But I do agree, in general, that the quality of their 95% of the content is crap and it is far below the level of Disney+ and even HBO.
Exciting! One typo, I think:

> Org Mode can be used for anything from managing apartments, writing manuals, literate programs or executing code like a programming notebook.

Is that "apartments" or "appointments"? I suppose some people manage their apartments with org-mode, maybe via TODO lists and calc spreadsheets.
I suspect go_prodev is referring to the DDG app ( https://duckduckgo.com/app ) and not just the search engine.

I only recently became aware that the app existed, so I don't know how/if it deals with all things AMP-based.
A quick search of my emails suggests that while I commonly use "everyone" and "y'all", I haven't used "you guys" in a business communication in...years

I don't think "folx" is going to be one of the recommendations, it isn't synonymous with folks anyway, so the replacement would be rarely make sense unless you were explicitly talking about particular queer or marginalized communities.
>I was actually thinking of the internal google study about their teams from a few years back. And a similar (unpublished outside the org) study a company I worked for did, where they found that teams with the highest racial and educational diversity had new members onboard faster than ones with less.

You don't think, given the zeitgeist, that these studies might be a little biased? Maybe designed to produce certain acceptable results? What kind of scandalous pushback do you think google would get from activists if they dared to suggest results which went against this forced D&I consensus?
Well maybe if the European kids had gone to school they wouldn't have so much free time to go around starting wars. (\s...)
>Is that what the Russian government is doing?

No that's what the canceled US policy was for...did you still not read the article?

In Russia you can't talk about it because it's a state secret now, means you are not allowed to talk about deaths in the "special" operation.

No sure why you are so blind on one eye but not on the other?

>Remember, you brought this up to draw a parallel with what the Russian government is doing.

I did never said it's the same. But it has the same goal, try to hide the results of war on your own soldiers.

As you can read:

>>Yes different but not far away from hiding...you know a picture say's more then thousand word's, the pentagon knows that too.
Netflix reports loss of 200k subscribers in quarterly results
I have a comment I would like to make about this article.
I am curious how this "no meeting after 12pm on Friday" would apply to companies with offices on the East Coast in addition to California. On the East Coast 12pm Pacific Time would mean 3pm. Would it put East Coast employees at disadvantage?
Replacing the reputation on StackOverflow with a percentage of Jon Skeet's poin
So we should halt progress just so people can keep their jobs? I hate this argument whenever AI or automation is brought up, it's probably one of the worst ways to deal with it.
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Yes, it is.

But not as education. It’s just an expensive stamp of approval one must receive to work with certain institutions. You pay the institutions for the stamp, fill out worksheets for children and write papers for no one for 4 years and then bravo! You did it!

You didn’t do anything!
Now it’s time to learn the actual job. But this process is time-tested. The only fault is the parents lying to the kids attending that they’ll learn something. They won’t. But they’ll start understanding how to show up (without their parents waking them up) and do tasks (without their parents making them) which is really what college is these days.
> massive haul of natural resources and confiscated land

And the pick of scientists and engineers from most of the world (handily snuck some of them in before adding "have you been a member of the government of Nazi Germany?" to immigration forms)