skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Microsoft partnered with Qualcomm last year at its Build developer conference to create an Arm-based dev kit for developers to build native Arm64 apps for Windows.

Native support for non-Win32 platforms is great. Are they going to port the Win32 API? It'll be interesting to do assembler programming on a new architecture.
It's a satirical tweet, but I find it interesting the tweet is 6 year old and reflects how little has changed in website design. I’m undecided if this a good or bad thing.

For startups and SaaS websites this layout template is instantly recognisable. Is it a cookie-cutter approach to website design? Or a boring but reliable layout template?
Muslim Indians are often mistaken for Pakistanis.
The games we play: critical complexity improves machine learning
I've seen hundreds of job descriptions for a wide range of interesting roles (data science, ML, systems, computer graphics, AI research, CV, etc) that list an MS or PhD as a requirement

But even if that bullet point is BS, I am sceptical that the ROI on spending $7k to get 1000+ hours better at your field can be THAT bad. Maybe suboptimal, with all the good free/cheap resources out there, but a waste of time? I'd be surprised.

Besides, you get to avoid meetings for a couple more years, and that by itself might be worth $7k :)
Racket is trying to make itself an acceptable Python at this time [1]. Also I used to use Racket and the biggest issue was the lack of batteries either were included or I could find a library that would work. But the biggest issue is the community itself [2] and that isn’t going to change any time soon.

1. https://github.com/racket/rhombus-prototype/blob/master/reso...
1. https://beautifulracket.com/appendix/why-i-no-longer-contrib...
Stable sort and binary search is the bread and butter of pretty much every database operation.

When you bulk insert into indexed columns, it sorts the inserted data and merges that with the existing index. If you do joins on non-indexed columns it often sorts the intermediate results.
Excerpts from the Annual Letter
> It would be challenging to fairly compare data from the last 10 or so years to a similar timeframe 100 years ago.

Why? A thermometer works exactly the same it did 100 years ago. For such a simple measurement like temperature I can't think of many reasons why measurements from the 30s could be significantly different (as in more than fractions).

I also guess that if the data was considered unreliable for any reason it would not be used.
The problem with the linked keyboard, the K3, is it's ultra low profile. At least at launch, there were no alternatives on the market except the ones that it came with. The keycaps are thinner than my phone and I remember trying different keycaps and I think they worked (maybe upside down?), but not well.
Functional programming is what people talk about when they "talk about FP".

The historical story is that "functional programming" just meant purity, originally. Now it seems to mean purity + higher order functions + other strong, fancy types (which I'd claim include algebraic structures such as monads).

This current meaning, exemplified by the ML/Haskell tradition, spiritually comes from Peter Landin's ideas in his paper "The mechanical evaluation of expressions" and its supporters don't revere Backus. Sure, algebraic laws characterise monads etc., and his work was foundational—but the Turing Award paper is not a script that everyone is following.

On the specific topic of deriving programs with algebra, there is the book "Algebra of Programming" by Bird and de Moor from the 90s, (https://themattchan.com/docs/algprog.pdf) but it is difficult to look at the functional programming scene now and conclude that deriving your program algebraically is a more essential aspect of the activity than using referentially transparent expressions. It may well be or become an important idea, but it's hardly the bread and butter of functional programming in practice (while maybe in your headcanon it is functional programming). I think part of the problem here is complexity/irregularity: it's simply not practical or helpful to describe typical desired systems algebraically and then derive code from that description.
Between Elongate harassment, the steady stream of safe workplace violation claims in past years, and Elon now building a crack team of aggressive street fighter lawyers, it seems rather than correct the behaviors all accused entities are doubling down.

What does it signal?
Two months ago I caught it, had two weeks of being reasonably sick, the last 10 days being a mean dry cough.

Then the shortness of breath began, and the night sweats with the inability to sleep. Also a lot of very deep seated anxiety/ fight or flight feelings.

The doctor said Dysautonomia was a very high risk and to avoid any real exercise, especially weight training. I started to feel better and caught a cold which brought back the cough.

I don't know what this all means, but it seems likely that: covid affected the nervous system, that it may have caused neurological damage, that it caused long term inflammation...and finally, I'm sorry, but three vaccine shots doesn't prevent this (surely didn't for me).

I've learned a lot these past months, and I'm meeting people regularly with dysautonomia symptoms after covid (dizziness, racing heart, shortness of breath). Some of them thought it was the vaccine. Nope, this can start months after infection.
This newsletter: https://tldr.tech/crypto
Yes, if climate was static. It is pretty obvious that it is not and the earth is warming.
Part of that I think is their humor is very niche, and I don't know how to describe the niche.

I had friends who absolutely loved them, and I never found any of their stuff remotely funny. There is something either in the context that people were introduced to them, or in some subtelness of people's sense of humor that seems to completely make or break how they get perceived. Sort of like the comedy equivalent of Rush
The PE is STILL 85. It was almost 1000 about a year and a half ago. They have sailed on smooth seas, now the market is rough and their products are having minor issues. Wait until there is one major problem and it will be a free fall.
The issue with container security is that the linux kernel boundary is porous and probably not possible to secure in depth.
Sending unsolicited e-mail advertisements are explicitly illegal in my country and companies that do that could loose the right to exist.

It should also be mentioned that using private information for unsolicited advertisements is something which is likely in conflict with GDPR.
CO2 would probably be one of the better byproducts
4K consumer video is 3840x2160, 4K Cinema video is 4096x2160.

Just like 2K consumer video is 1920x1080 and 2K Cinema video is 2048x1080
I'd recommend the opposite approach and go for stable software companies as the best employers. Non-software companies usually see software as a cost that is often at the top of the list when layoffs come up. IMO working for a software company means not only better treatment (eg. see the recent discussions on staff vs. line jobs) but you get better stability as you are core to the business.

None of this applies to start-ups which are volatile in every industry. But if looking at established players I'd 100% rather work for a software company or, more specifically, any company where the software is core to what they do (ie. SaS companies, hardware+software companies, etc. all are usually good).
The post mentions he picked multiple Hetzner DCs to put his servers in
See also Web 2.0

It's not a technical spec.
InfoCentral – An Architectural Approach to Decentralization
I agree, instead of critiqueing and truly reflecting on what went wrong, and what to do to fix it; technologists are obsessed with over-praising of how things have gotten better. It misses the point that "We could have done a lot better" if we weren't so stagnant.

America was a powerhouse of innovation in 1950-1970 both in private and public sectors. The progress was impossibly exponential.

First step is admission of failure. Even the valid praise that "World of bits has seen tremendous innovation" should be followed by "Why did it not progress even faster and why is there so much malaise in the world of bits (ad tech)?"
Marry well
I'm a GOOGL investor and I find this offensive.
How Elon Musk and Jack Dorsey aligned behind Twitter deal
Maybe. But you still need an override from real courts, when the contracts fail.

That's what courts are for. When someone finds an exploit in the smart contract there must be a "no that's clearly not what anyone meant. Nobody actually wanted all the money in the world to go to Hacker McHackerface".

If your assumption is that one of these contract layers is "perfect", then it's not realistic.
That the media doesn't like being teased by Musk, and the establishment is doing it's best to push out people who don't play along?
> You can pay for it working at Starbucks

Ah, so housing included in tuition huh? :D (/s)
I've worked for a place that would only hire MS or PhD grads.
University of Maine's Climate Reanalyzer is my trusted, respected go to.

They have long time series: https://climatereanalyzer.org/reanalysis/monthly_tseries/

They have wonderful daily difference-from-average "anomoly" maps: https://climatereanalyzer.org/wx/DailySummary/#t2anom

I really dislike this site you've linked. The whole middle of the chart is completely overwhelmed with data points unless you zoom way in, until you can only see a decade or so. There's the extreme data points of each year that stick out, but what's actually happening most of the time is utterly occluded & unclear. The data masks rather than informs.
Has a Trackpoint? No => ignore it.
JSONForms: Customizable JSON Schema-based forms
What a presumptuous article. What exactly have we "fixed"? We simply stopped destroying it, and nature took care of the rest.

If I stop causing a recurrent issue that is all my own fault anyway, should I go ahead and pat myself on the back?

This is almost akin to a murderer saying that he saved a person by practicing self-control.
Elon Musk Files Plans for 24-Hour Tesla Restaurant in Hollywood
Leslie Lamport built Knuth's TeX into the user-friendly version to which he appended the first two letters of his surname: LaTeX. He wrote an excellent, highly accessible guide, LaTeX: A Document Preparation System, which I wish I read before setting off on a thousand random web pages.
The usage of "bugs" to refer to microbes in the press release was quite confusing, although note that the study does cite work that found some similar plastic-degrading microbes in the gut microbiota of some insects:

> Certain species, such as larvae of Plodia interpunctella (waxworms), Tenebrio molitor (mealworms), and Galleria mellonella, were even found to have developed a flora that can degrade polyethylene (82, 83), polystyrene (84, 85), or both plastic types simultaneously (86). However, these organisms might have a highly adapted and specialized microbiome due to their direct exposure and breeding in specific plastic-contaminated habitats (82, 84), [...].
That sounds like pure heaven :) If I had 4 acres of lawn I would get a robot mower. As it is I have little enough that it’s not worth the hassle.
Wholesome and sound advice!
I think if one thoroughly understands this paper then all the rest of distributed systems theory makes sense.
My daily goto is simply the BTC-USD exchange rate[1].

I expect tether to be a leading indicator[2]

Everything else is opinion, not fact, based speculation.

1 - https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/BTC-USD/

2 - https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/USDT-USD/
Wow, a Kids in the Hall reunion. It really gives me hope for the future. If this can happen, then anything is possible!
Emotional intelligence is still intelligence. You need high EQ to be a good salesman. So still on the right side of the bell curve.
Has a NumPad? Yes => ignore it.
Much of that is consumption, though. I don't want to knock consumption, but it's not productivity.
What is a war crime and could Putin be prosecuted over Ukraine?
Funny, I hate plastic but the thought has crossed my mind a few times also. Is this just part of nature that the world secretly wanted?
I agree with this judge. People should be able to sue their employers if they get sexually harassed by their supervisors or coworkers. Mandatory arbitration is a bad idea.
Wayback Machine shows the beta was available as early as Oct 26, 2020.

https://web.archive.org/web/20201026191156/https://www.linod...

That’s 1.6 years ago.
Marginalia: A guide to figuring out what the heck marginal
I don't think that was the point. The OP said "we have [them]", not "they've gotten better".

I agree, Dyson is quite a bit better than the vacuum my parents had (though central vac was pretty damn good).

Dishwashers are quieter, though not that different. Microwaves seem about the same.
Money quote: "When you write an algorithm, you need to have a proof that it's correct. An algorithm without a proof is conjecture, not a theorem."
> Nowadays, he couldn't do the research work he did there and at other places at any big IT company - it's R&D, with the emphasis on "D".

I, on the other hand, am amazed by the progress being done today, and the research paper released on an almost weekly basis by companies like Google, Microsoft and co. Just look at the language and image models that are released, the progress on computer vision etc.

I played with the playground of OpenAI GPT-3 and I am blown away at the result. It's not perfect, but it's orders of magnitude better than what we had easily access to just few month ago. I have started using it in my day-to-day life on some specific tasks, and I can't wait to see the next versions. I can't even start to fathom the amazing products people are going to build around it in the next decade.

It's absolutely true that these models/research serve the purpose of the company building them... but even Leslie says in the video that he did his entire career in the industry because that's where he saw many interesting challenges, and that his whole research was a means to an end.

R&D is still alive and kicking, and is going faster than ever. You might just be looking at the past with rose tainted glasses, and needlessly undermining the present.
I'm a dev at a VC-funded SaaS startup in California. We're still in a growth trajectory (doubled headcount last year, on track to do so again this year, just hit a headcount of 500).

Our industry is such that we're not too worried about the recession -- people tend to buy our product because it's significantly cheaper than paying one more employee and it tends to make teams in a particular corporate department far more efficient. When COVID hit, we had a surge in sales.

My last company (larger & much older) also tended to get increased sales when the market slumped. Their product is key to helping governments, utilities, and other companies operate more efficiently.

So there are still great startups (and larger companies) that are hiring. I'd suggest looking for ones that have a recession-tolerant market or business model.
Judging from the number of decades it's taken for organisms that reproduce on the order of hourly/daily to develop that capacity, I wouldn't hold my breath. We haven't even evolved the ability to digest wood, after all. But, we are cyborgs. One could imagine a probiotic treatment to introduce plastic-digesting bacteria to our gut flora within a decade.
It's prompted by a premise of the podcast that I wrote and a list of keywords and guests. I also sometimes prod it during the transcript generation to make it more interesting, the ending for example was me injecting a line "I'll leave you with this bit of Vogon poetry".
Also, there are billions more people who demand wood for their shelter. Is it reasonable to expect that quality of wood, which I assume is almost purely a function of time, to maintain the same accessibility?
I find it impossible to believe people actually think like this and aren't just aggressively defending something terrible because they are invested in the person's companies.
Yeah when I visited Europe I didn't wear a bicycle helmet either. American cities are a different story, with poorly designed roads and poorly designed vehicles with large blind spots around the A pillars especially.
What are we going to do about this unconstitutional and out-of-control Supreme Court?
What can be done?
Often the wood is treated with polyurethane...plastic.
Isn't that just saying browsers have gotten better?

OP was talking about overall system complexity.
Siri, give me the most HN comment on productivity development. (Golly gee, this consumer technology sure is swell)
Back in the day, when I was cutting my teeth on embedded systems, I read an Intel Application Note - probably for the 8051. The section about managing watchdog timers stated that it is often good practice to deliberately let the watchdog time out periodically, at a convenient time. Then the system would be reset to a predictable state regularly, and failure states leading to unplanned watchdog timeouts would occur less frequently.

To this day, all my systems which are intended for prolonged unattended operation reset themselves at least once a day.
I've seen fruit marked as "IPM" in my local grocery store. That refers to integrated pest management, a general philosophy of controlling pests through understanding of their physiology, behavior, and interaction with the artificially-managed ecosystem, sometimes using synthetic chemical pesticides but in the smallest quantities that achieve the desired effect.

http://ipm.ucanr.edu/

I don't believe use of the term is regulated, though. So in practice that may just be a nicer-sounding synonym for "conventional".
I didn't know about these!

Still, since they're crowd-sourced from phone data, they only have a single view (no 360 in most places), inaccurate (or at least not reliably accurate) camera calibration, no accurate localization, and possibly most importantly, no LiDAR data.

That's a lot of things that make it much harder to deal with and limit the potential compared to street view.
To me, this sense of the word "bug" can only refer to diseases.
Thank you for your kind words. I wish you all the best also! If you haven’t gotten the chance check out 1MB’s latest features: you’ve probably missed out on the new blogging functionality and AI functionality. Thank you for choosing 1MB for something as intimate as drafting your wedding website in the past. That means a lot to me I hope to regain your trust in time and see you back on 1MB.
Francesca Fiore!
That wood doesn't exist any more. It's water under the bridge.
We are still fixing the ozone layer. I am an aerospace engineer and part of a project to test and certify a non-ozone depleting fire extinguishing agent to replace Halon 1301 in commercial aircraft. Although production of Halon ceased in 1993, since then, ALL commercial aircraft have continued to be manufactured using stockpiled Halon. But the stockpile is being depleted, and as of 2014, manufacturers cannot apply for certification of new or derivative aircraft that use Halon fire extinguishing systems.
It's funny to me why people aren't aware of CDK. It's literally no different than writing code. You don't have to depend on anyone, you can customize this to no end, its part of your codebase.

from aws_cdk import aws_s3 as s3,naws_iam as iam,bcore

class S3Template(core.Stack):
def __init__(self, app: core.App, id: str, **kwargs) -> None:
super().__init__(app, id)

myBucket = s3.Bucket(self, 'MyFirstBucket',
bucket_name='balkaran-aws-cdk-s3-demo-bucket')
myBucket.add_to_resource_policy(
iam.PolicyStatement(
actions=['s3:GetObject'],
resources=
[myBucket.arn_for_objects('*')],
principals=
[iam.AccountPrincipal(account_id=core.Aws.ACCOUNT_ID)]
)
)
myUser = iam.User(self,'s3User')
myBucket.grant_write(myUser)

app = core.App()
S3Template(app, "S3Template", env={'region':'us-east-1'})
app.synth()
I don't see why it boggles the mind. There's a significant portion of the population that doesn't care about something until it perceptibly affects them.
I am currently unemployed because I'm waiting for paperwork to come in to get my optometry license. I'll look into those options!
or reddit: https://github.com/AncientEntity/PublicPyRedditStorage/
This doesn’t sit well with me at all. Apple should have every right to create a closed system if they want. Why not? And in fact, an Apple that’s forced to do otherwise isn’t Apple anymore. The walled garden is one of their unique value propositions.

There are options for the incredibly small percentage of folks who want completely open systems. So what exactly is the problem they’re trying to address?

Like the never ending bombardment of cookie pop-ups plastered over top of everything, the EU seems intent to continually etch their mark on everyone’s lives. All I see is lazy, half baked ideas and petty bureaucracy.
Feels close in spirit to Oilshell.
> To be honest is my first time job hunting since I graduated in 2019.

Do you mean you’re leaving your first job after ~3 years or there’s been a gap in your resume?
I don't think so. You can set the search options to only find images published before the article, and even find some of the original images.

One image links to the 2015 article, "It's Ridiculous To Say Black Women's Natural Hair Is 'Unprofessional'!". The Guardian article on the Google results is from 2016.

Another image has the headline, "5 Reasons Natural Hair Should NOT be Viewed as Unprofessional - BGLH Marketplace" (2012).

Another: "What to Say When Someone Calls Your Hair Unprofessional".

Also, have you noticed how good and professional the black women in the Guardian's image search look? Most of them look like models with photos taken by professional photographers. Their hair is meticulously groomed and styled. This is not the type of photo an article would use to show "unprofessional hair". But it is the type of photo the above articles opted for.
Sorting or hashing are the main ways to:

- construct sets

- remove duplicates

- construct and query dictionaries (especially multi-maps, btrees, etc)

- group equivalent elements

- find the number of occurrences

- etc

Hashing solutions tend to be popular in modern language standard libraries, but not in C or C++ where in-place algorithms and simpler implementations are preferred. You could also make the argument that it's much harder to use hashes with generics as it's not always clear how to define good hashes for complex data types. Alternatively, sort requires only a < implementation.

> bucket sort which you could say runs in linear time.

This only works for integers in a small range. Also consider strings, doubles, or lexicographically ordered arrays.
On the scale of human civilization it probably makes sense to celebrate the small wins, even the ones that are effectively due to inaction (e.g., not emitting CFCs anymore). But I think even that undersells it slightly, given that the negative decision in this case occurred despite all economic incentives and the international community’s lack of enforcement power.
Out of curiosity, which companies do this sort of research?
>> vacuum cleaners
>mainstream since at least the 1950s

Canister vacuums date to the 1910s and were probably mainstream by the 1930s (wasn't Herbert Hoover mocked by connecting him to Hoover Vacuums?)

Battery powered vacuums are ubiquitous now and were not in the 1980s (for example the first Dirt Devil model was corded.)
Seems like it's not deprecated, but facing some technical reasons with GTK4.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27783545
Yes - you're missing "mathemagic" :) And a variety of independent engineering solutions which are largely independent of the mathemagic(think sharding or something like the lightning network).

Check out ZCash for an example of non-public, decentralized block chain.
I accidentally clicked past the last page, hit the back button then had to go through the thing again. As I was rushing, I missed the last page again, and could not figure out how to go back. Scrolling would have trivialized this issue.