skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In the last wave, only one country (Hungary) handled the problem sensible (building a wall, encouraging locals having more kids).

You left out the part about turning to fascism. Anyway, none of what you mentioned helped immigrants nor resolved the reason for their immigration, so it seems more like the least sensible being that it was a complete failure.

> The rest of the governments mostly pretended the problem doesn't exist.

Excuse me? This isn't remotely true. It was the main topic for half a decade. We housed, clothed, fed and educated millions of people in need of our help and it was an amazing success!
>> You're missing roughly 30,000 employees to run a service that, at steady state, probably needs about 30 software developers and a few hundred second or third level customer support folks, with first level being handled by outsourced local-language companies.

This comment is insane for any real app in the real world transacting in real dollars. There are a hundred countries with 100 regulations. Accounting/P&L/bookkeeping for the United States ALONE would take 30 developers for a revenue base this size.
To make your comparison with fat jars closer to the point, imagine you got the source code from the owner of that old obsolete website, and need to use it in your newest Java project, with the bleeding version of Java, gradle and all the stuff.
I wanted to some simple web scraping and wrote around 100000 lines for an HTML parser and XPath interpreter
Political commentators say this is just to distract from PartyGate.
Excess food is being stored, but it can't be stored indefinitely.

Others have explained again why excess food is a good thing.

One thing in favor of your point is that we can still improve the system: avoid excess production of processed food, and find optimal uses for excess food that isn't eaten (compost, biofuels, etc.).
Sure, but in the context of where excess deaths come from, it's the total number of deaths we're interested in.
I don’t see how this is getting us closer to the singularity. The original title is much more suitable.
it would be a bit more precise of course, but would use three times the memory at any hash size...
Which would kill them and cause massive suffering, so... no? I don't understand how people can be both this cruel and want to propagate such a norm: What happens when it's your turn to starve outside the gate? This kind of rhetoric is _not_ in your self-interest. Nobody is immune to the potential to need to migrate.
Based on the first published benchmarks, even the programs which have not been optimized for Neoverse V1, and which do not benefit from its much faster floating-point and large-integer computation abilities, still show a performance increase of at least 40%, so greater than the price increase.

So I believe that using Graviton 3 at these prices is still a much better deal than using Graviton 2.
Yes, but the side-effects of laws are the direct effects of laws and cannot be simply dismissed. This is the primary concern for any law, that it may impose other costs on society than just its intended consequences.
I never thought about it that way, but that's such a good point.
> The lack of access to high speed ICE trains is a hinderance.

The ICEs are already quite overcrowded without the 9 Euro ticket though, at least during "prime time" (weekdays in the mornings and early evenings, and at the start and end of weekends). Adding more trains may also be problematic because (1) those trains probably don't exist yet, and (2) the trains are mostly already on 1hr interval which is probaly hard to increase.
Original titles are to be used.

“Experiments in Machine Learning Weirdness Galaxie 500 Edition 4K”
I hope you told the professor what you discovered. Allowing cheating is complicity in the cheating without the benefits. But I remember the intense social pressure - glad I’m not a kid any more.
>> Whatsapp used to service 900 million users with literally 50 engineers. Instagram had 13 employees when it was acquired.

There is a big difference here -- revenue. Real transactions. Financial reporting. Country-by-country regulations and reg reporting.
A lot. And google is being fined for it as well. Awareness is key and that takes time to gain attraction.

But no, I don't have any numbers for it. You'd might consider having an open mind though. I'm for one is done with this "discussion".
Unroll the dependency until you are longer than the SIMD width.

Ex: as long as i, i+1, i+2, i+3, ... i+7 are not dependent on each other, you can vectorize to SIMD-width 8.

Or in other words: i+7 can depend on i-1 no problems.
the 1997 labour manifesto had a committment to changing the voting system

there was a consultation and its results were quietly buried

no reason to expect it would be different next time
hm, I have had limited success with such nudging - it's certainly not a programming model with a predictable outcome.
And as soon as the compiler or its flags are updated, maybe the situation changes.
Solid Project: Your data, your choice
That is the 'why' autovectorization fails. But it seems solvable in this case pretty easily actually.

EDIT: Solvable by a human. I dunno much about compilers though, so I dunno if there's some kind of language issue that would prevent the unrolling of this dependency.
>directly kill other people's children by either voting

Oh really?
Apple has a massive hardware moat that will take even secondary players a decade to break into. Every action they take that effects the industry should be taken critically, even if at the surface it appears to be a net positive.
if only evolution worked on generational time scales, who knows where humans might be now.
It's like saying "Regulations against dumping garbage into oceans can make it very competitors to gain traction for incumbents."
I think the point he was trying to make is that big tech can use privacy regulations to keep out new competitors, rather than encourage them, as compliance with privacy regulations can create a higher barrier to entry
The relatively poor average quality of healthcare was made apparent in covid pandemic where US had among the highest mortality rates and deaths per capita in the developed world [1]

And I do not need data to tell me this, just overal experience comparing it to my previous experience getting healthcare in Europe leaves a lot to be desired.

Getting medical care in US is hard with a lot of bureaucratic/insurance overhead and when you finally get to the doctor they are more prone to follow strict procedures/checklists to reduce liability instead of being genuinly curious about your condition.

And all this while most have to pay astronomical price for healthcare out of their pocket. Not sure that the case for privatised healthcare can hold up with these results.

[1] https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/mortality
> Findings of this study suggest that the US expenditure on cancer care may not be commensurate with improved cancer outcomes.

Well yeah, the cost of healthcare in the US is astronomical. https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/health-...

This would be the same across diseases, not just cancer.
Very true. The headline is misleading though. The actual article is framed as the inverse: "does spending more on cancer care give the US better outcomes?" and the answer is no. We're on par with other wealthy countries that spend half as much per person on cancer care.

So yeah, the exorbitant costs of US healthcare do not correlate with better health outcomes. Just worse financial outcomes.
> “The pattern of spending more and getting less is well-documented in the U.S. healthcare system; now we see it in cancer care, too,” said co-author Elizabeth Bradley

It's a cynical viewpoint, but I can forgive those who think that modern health care is mostly a way to extract as much wealth as possible from sick people before they die.
I think it's less about the game mechanics and more about the viscerality. Board game players tend to prefer physical representations they can feel and fiddle with.
If you work from home, can’t you acquire an office with a door that closes? Perhaps by building an extension on your house, or a workshop in the yard, or renting an office over a restaurant a mile from home (you know the ones that are usually rented by local lawyers, insurance agents, etc)?
Southwest Furnace on Two Wheels
A weird thing I saw in UK is milk being sold in both metric and imperial containers:

1 L next to 1.13 L (2 pints)

2 L next to 2.27 L (4 pints)

Luckily the shelf price label always had price/liter.

https://metricviews.uk/2015/10/19/milk-in-a-muddle/
I always thought of it as "use a sprinter for a short sprint and something else for a marathon"
It seems like in both cases, the relevant portion of the advice is just fixing that missing stair step in the most effective way. Work on what's broken inside your house, before complaining about the world.
It's definitely 10x the average. But exact numbers are going to be subject to debate.

The worst are net negative productivity
Thank you! (I made plaintextsports!)

On my to-do list is making a personalized page where you can select exactly which teams you want to follow, something closer to what dpeck wants, but I've been having trouble finding the time...
If you think software development can be a collaborative creative process, it’s really not a terrible analogy.
I agree, we have a sister team which resides half-way around the world (we’re west coast of US, they are in Germany). Over the years, we’ve found the asynchronous communication between us to be a point of friction that has slowed down progress. Waiting for a peer review from them introduces days of lag on what should be faster iterative development cycle.

As a result, we’ve factored this into new architecture plans which further decouple the two teams to operate more independently. We may not have cared as much if we all were operating in approximately the same time zone but asynchronous work will undoubtedly slow development progress on any interface boundaries or when working with dependencies. In a micro-services oriented organization this will almost always be the case. For some areas I can see IC’s being sufficiently isolated in a way that asynchronous could work well but for my organization it would be a nightmare.
I honestly can't tell if you intentionally take stuff out of context so you can argue against it, or if your reading comprehension and logic skills are really just that bad.

I said, "instead of a regular language". You even quoted it. You don't even read the bits that you cut and paste to argue against.

> expressions which can match them are not regular expressions

And that's the damned point. Modern "regular expressions" aren't just "regular" any more. They've had back references and other extensions for a while now:

https://www.regular-expressions.info/balancing.html

https://www.regular-expressions.info/recurse.html

https://www.regular-expressions.info/backref.html

Please - don't reply to me until you take the time to read and understand what I've said.
> a seedy area with lots of violence going on

E.g. America.
I am in US, running iOS 15.5 and I tried US flights as well as international flights but it still doesn’t work for me.. so not sure if there is some privacy setting blocking it or if some feature we need to enable.
There are exceptions, but in general, an ability to communicate clearly correlates to an ability to think clearly.
Well, they don't need to. They just need to turn off the tracking of users and they don't need any banners.

The problem is not in GDPR. The problem is in the website owners. They are the one who are trolling you with banners.
I prefer Adguard as well.
https://archive.ph/GxXWn
How do you format your SQL queries?
If they’re so out of money that they’re breaking out of signed offers, would you trust them to pay $10,000?

If you are then, I’m sorry to tell but you’ve probably not experienced enough on this topic. Reneg on signed offers 3 days from joining date is a signal for catastrophic problems that are already in motion (not ahead). They’re done.

(Source: Old enough in the industry to have seen 3 recessions.)
Ask HN: How fast can we truly advance science?
Is it just a matter of educating more scientists and funding research or is there something fundamental blocking it that I’m not seeing?
the answer is no/maybe, but it's still a yes/no question as typically used
"You should measure the satisfaction of the students"

OK. Then how do you measure competency? Right now, a medical diploma indicates that the person took all the requisites and passed all the tests to be a practicing physician. If you only measure student satisfaction, how do you which medical student is ready to treat real patients and which isn't?
> Literally 6 days ago when they introduced this thing.

Offering a new option is not a price increase. You can still do all the same things at the same prices, plus if the new thing is more efficient for your particular task you have an additional option.
Yokohama Mary: One of city's most mysterious figures (2017)
I think @dhzhzjsbevs meant that 8TB and higher is CMR. A quick google search seems to support that.
Without being dismissive of your opinion, being the CTO of a startup doesn’t really say much. I can be the CTO of a startup after I finish an undergrad in computer science or I can be the CTO of a multiple rounds of funding unicorn. So qualifying your opinion with the generic “I’m a CTO and founder” perhaps isn’t a sufficient credence to suggest your experience holds clout.
My issue with these awesome lists is that a lot of entries are out of date and may not even run anymore. The first entry, AnyMaestro's website has a news section last updated in 2016 (and it looks dated af), so why would I trust that tool with my DB credentials?
Ask HN: What are the Web3 companies hiring mobile developers?
Hi!

What are the Web3 companies hiring mobile developers? Ideally remote friendly?

So far I've found:
- Blockchain
- Strike
- WalletConnect
- OpenSea
- Alchemy
- SuperRare
- Phantom
- Rarible
- ConsesSys
- Gemini
- Spruce
- Heir

I'm currently looking at the market for the next job, but to be honest it's quite hard to find open positions for iOS engineers in Web3, so any help is highly appreciated!
Lists of things don't work that well as HN posts:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
I've personally never witnessed any cheating, heard any friends or students even allude to doing so, I never cheated myself and I can't even comprehend how you would cheat at most of the coursework I did in uni in Sweden.

Sure you could copy your friends code, but you still had to present it to a TA who would certainly get suspicious if you couldn't answer to what you had written. Ditto for exams and essays/reports.

Cheating, or elaborating on how to cheat, just wasn't efficient use of my time as a student, disregarding the morality of it. Frankly, it seems to me the way these students are being tested is not appropriate as it's easy to abuse and creates incentives for students to cheat.
What is your actual objection to databases?

SQL is a skill, and not a hard one. Develop it once, and its availability becomes a benefit.

Relations are trivial once you have the skill of SQL.

Foreign keys are entirely optional sanity checks. Ignore them.

SQLite comes built in to all your favorite languages, and no need for docker-compose.

And all the other things, like letting the database protect you from race conditions, recovering from crashes and the like, are good.
I'm going to put the definition of cargo culting here since we seem to have lost it:

> Cargo cult programming can also refer to the practice of applying a design pattern or coding style blindly without understanding the reasons behind that design principle. Some examples are adding unnecessary comments to self-explanatory code, overzealous adherence to the conventions of a programming paradigm, or adding deletion code for objects that garbage collection automatically collects.

Installing an app from the store is not cargo culting. Playing with a new framework is not cargo culting. Trying a new order at the donut shop is not cargo culting.
you can't have a static outer class in java; static classes must be defined inside of a non-static class.

AFAIK, the closest you can get to free functions is a non-static class that only has static functions. infuriatingly, many coverage tools will count the "constructor" of this class as uncovered code. stuff like this makes me really miss C++.
> Personally I always loved STEM topics, and would go out of my way to learn about them. This ended poorly for me in school, as I ended up being incredibly bored in the STEM classes, as they were filled with content I already knew.

Thanks for posting this.

This was my experience as well, with the added malus that when I went into school, people were still saying things like "what do I need maths for?" or "a computer will never write the next Dante" and things like that, so not only it was frustrating, it was borderline painful and lonely.

Then I discovered kids, I don't have kids on my own, but I have a very big family and I am grateful for being surrounded by people younger than me of any age from 3 to 20.

I saw them being entertained by the most boring stuff just because it was new to them and build up from there, at an incredible pace, and become young experts, with all the limits of being inexpert and also being kids, in a very short time.

I realized that what kept them motivate was a feedback loop that needed no external validation: knowing more about that thing made them happily satisfied and so they kept doing it. They don't care about understanding things the wrong way, eventually they'll get it right, they don't care about not doing any mistake, eventually they'll learn to make new mistake, they just wanna learn more and experience more.

What you call "acceleration".

I saw most of them struggle in school because they were bored, they were getting good grades, most of them at least, they were kin to put up the work necessary to get them, but their motivation started lacking, until they arrived to university and chose something that could (potentially) assure a good job or would make their parents happy.

It's a sad state of things, if I think about it, but it's also a "great filter" and we should strive to make education something that adapts to people receiving it (I'm not talking about schools for the gifted or smth like that) and not the other way around.

When I was in my 30s a friend of mine married a woman from Finland, who was living in Sweden, and then they moved back there when they had kids. I've visited them on many occasions and when I saw how they intend school there I was astonished.

They are not tracked, they are not tested, there is no standardized grade scale, there is virtually no homeworks, they do not compete, they learn by playing and are simply thought that you have to get the basics rights to go on and then helped to follow their paths.

I think that, in general, it makes happier adults.

Which is a good goal by itself.
Archived: https://archive.ph/uXSml
> Same for 24h time, but because of mobile phones (Quebec).

I'm in Toronto and use 24h wherever I can (especially as a sysadmin).
Comments like yours makes me happy. I once gave a lightning talk [1] in the same vein describing project that would be typical REST/API/Cloud/App setup and ended up being just a mobile app with not servers whatsoever. Just by carefully inspecting your data, unique requirements and asymmetries, tech stack can be drastically changed and unsual trade-offs can be taken.

[1] https://divan.dev/talks/2019/golangparis/NoSystem.pdf
> You DON'T measure knowledge.

> You should measure the satisfaction of the students.

> Because the most valuable asset a developed country needs to protect is the will of the members of their society to keep improving and learning.

But if they aren't actually improving and learning, their satisfaction and desire to continue with what they were getting isn't desire to keep improving and learning.

Self-improvement theater is as much a thing as security theater, and it's something we probably want to be able to distinguish from actual education.
Vanishing fore-edge paintings
> Apple has no ad business at all…

https://searchads.apple.com/

Understanding the ways this is different from, say, Google Ads, AdRoll, or TowerData, is nuance beyond most journalists.

Not that it’s hard to research. Consider:

Apple Search Ads doesn’t buy or share users’ personal information with other companies. We don’t track people by linking user or device data collected from Apple apps with user or device data collected from third parties for advertising targeting or measurement. And we don’t share user or device data with data brokers. — https://searchads.apple.com/privacy

Pro-tip to journos: the story is in what comes immediately after “which rely heavily on data collection”.

Data is collected. Then where does it go?
But this is adjusting for the baseline illness, remember. This isn't just age-standardised mortality rates. It's disease-standardised mortality. Hopefully they've adjusted for confounders...
I don't feel like your arguments support your assertion. There are multiple ways to run a company/do business/ship products.
RIP Spring
in Germany, Ecosia is a pretty popular choice

it’s built-in on Safari actually
That article is really outdated (from before Russia forced payment in rubles), many capital controls were lifted, foreign exchange is allowed up to a limit. I've seen people still making the claim but much more of the opposite. A lot of people on Bloomberg have contradicted precisely this on air. Most of the evidence in the two month old article is anecdotal and unsourced anyway.
Then use them.
This happened to me in an ML class. Somehow people went from not knowing what eigenvalues were to solving all the problems in Bishop's book correctly and exactly the way the TA wanted them. A bunch of them would go to his office hours and have him do a problem, then they would share his answers.

I didn't complain until after the term was over and was just chatting casually with him while waiting for lunch at a food truck on campus. He was completely oblivious and didn't believe it.
I tried to do the same thing. On the first day back in the office I was venting to my manager about all the issues I had with working at the office (noise, smells, talkative coworkers) and I requested the ability to resume remote work. Later that day I was pulled into an impromptu meeting with my manager, our VP, the CEO, and the HR manager. They explained that they knew I had a great work ethic and that I was one of the top developers, however, I couldn't work remotely because it would be "unfair" to the developers. The claimed the rest of the team could not be trusted to work remotely therefor I couldn't either. I'm not sure if what they said was true but I applied at 4 jobs that evening, scheduled all 3 interviews within the week, and put in my notice by the end of the second week.

I'm also a small sample size but the idea checks-out to me too.
Yes, but my comment was coming from experience with title triggers, not experience with startups.
I was thinking at a certain point, future computers may become so advanced and powerful that they will be able to handle many aspects of society and civilization without any human involvement or supervision. In such a scenario, humans would no longer be able to understand what the computers are doing (the black box of machine learning), since their ways of thinking and reasoning would be far beyond our current level of understanding(one definition of the Singularity, as I understand it).

But, I also created the first title, so, you know...
> The second code can probably become SIMD as well, but it's beyond GCC's ability to autovectorizer it in that form.

Usually, for floating point operations the compiler simply has no chance to do anything clever. NaNs, infinities and signed zero mean that even the most "obvious" identities don't actually hold. For example, x + 0 == x (where the == is bitwise) does not hold for x = -0.