skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it’s generally true that product shipping speed is very important for startups. You’ll always have competition, having the best product is crucial to “winning”, that means you have to be faster than your competitors.

However, speed has to be balanced against things like:

- Doing customer research/building the right things

- Stability (high uptime, few bugs)

- “Workflow regressions” (not explicit bugs, implementing a change correctly, but not realizing it breaks a key workflow for key customers)

For a B2C social network, speed dominates those factors. Ship a lot, keep the successful features and prune others, customers tolerate the rapid change and a moderate level of
bugs and outages.

However, for a B2B Enterprise startup, where your software is absolutely mission critical for your customers, and you MUST have a great reputation to do more sales, it’s distant. Those other items are really important too, and you do have to sacrifice some speed for them.

Even for mission critical Enterprise startups, I think you still have to emphasize speed a lot to “win”, but it can’t dominate things like stability, customer research and workflow regressions. You have to sacrifice a moderate amount of speed for those things.
So, we don't have to pay for the access, great.

But searching for and collating all these tens of thousands of papers in each federal repository will have to be done... manually... by every researcher.

.....Oh. You wanted search? You wanted indexing? You wanted a centrally managed service to pull from all those different federal repositories? Well, you're gonna need a company to develop all that and run it. You can use it for a subscription fee. That just happens to be the same cost as access to journals. Or if you're lucky, subsidized by ads for Subway and Nike.

There is no such thing as a free lunch, people.
What would be your concern? M1/M2 is just arm which Linux has run on for decades?
Oh, don't get me wrong, I agree! Since the invention of transformers, progress in generative AI models has accelerated exponentially. It's an exciting time to live, and they are definitely extraordinary! (I mention transformers because basically every bleeding-edge AI in the last few years has integrated a transformer somewhere in its architecture. They really spurred an AI revolution.)

That said... it would be lying to claim Stable Diffusion's current generations aren't nightmare fuel :D
They could've converted the entire free tier offering to a $2-5/month thing, which would still be very attractive for legitimate users. Fraud is a big problem, but it didn't mandate this specific solution.
> the two industries where the government has gotten deeply involved, healthcare and education, are so comically expensive one doesn't even know where to begin.

Education and healthcare are two examples of inherently social enterprises. Allowing profit-seeking firms into these spaces has caused nothing but trouble.

Having CEOs in charge of healthcare and education is as stupid of an idea as having government planners deciding the price of cars and how many cars each factory will produce per year.

Most enterprises are capitalistic, but some like education and healthcare are inherently social.
It's pretty easy to be car light though. Every artery has at least one bus line. A bike going 12mph is faster than traffic on surface streets in my experience when you account for filtering to the front of the intersections at lights (I take the lane otherwise); I regularly beat cars I see on my commute or errand runs. Plus there are grocery stores and restaurants in every neighborhood. You can probably get all your basics within 2 miles of your place. 300 days of sun means you can do this all year, and if you are in the valley where its pretty hot, you can just buy an ebike and not pedal too hard and wear white. Lack of humidity means you cool off as soon as the bike starts moving or you are in any shadows.

Santa Monica is a good model for how the rest of the west side will look after the city finally implements the bike lane plan they created in 2010, and imo that is one of the most bikeable cities in the country.
Its not the results I'm worried about with DDG, after all you just use bing behind the scenes although I think there's some shenanigans there too.

It's your deep financial ties to Microsoft that's worrying. And it seems you're willing to turn your back on privacy/tracking for your friends when Microsoft asks.

https://twitter.com/shivan_kaul/status/1528879590772338689
They serve very different purposes. While a search engine in turn can archives sites it isn't the only purpose. LinkAce is designed more for bookmarking and archiving sites akin to a bookmark manager, not as a search engine.
Everyone is of African descent, depending on how far back you look. So it's a rather vague term, and becoming less useful over time as previously distinct groups become more intermixed.

In studies of conditions like sickle cell anaemia or lactose intolerance or skin cancer it would probably be more useful to relate those to particular genotypes and/or phenotypes rather than relying on which "race" field each experimental subject selected on the intake form.
"It is well to remember that the entire population of the universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others."
It is not just a barrier for researchers without lots of grant funding, but also diverts public funds from funding more research and research personnel to paying significant publication fees. This really needed a complementary cap on what would be allowed in paying such fees via grants to bring the costs down.
indeed, I could reproduce it, just force push `master` into a PR, github UI will close the PR, marked it as merged, delete the source branch ... but of course nothing happens in the git repo :/
Yeah it's scammy as hell.

But it's also a really great deal 14.99/month for free faster shipping, books, movies, music, etc...
@countspongebob, I hope you take HN's reaction back to your team & management. Not doing so, not replying, that will probably be the nail in the coffin from the HN crowd, which is highly influential in the industry.
> Services like Herokus are useful because they save hundreds of hours of sysops.

Which they know, and can charge you accordingly for, right?

If a single sysop engineer cost $100k/yr (without anybody managing them), they can charge you $50k/yr to replace them and it'd still be a steal, right?
> If one red cent of taxpayer money goes to it, the taxpayer should get it for free. Hopefully the trend continues.

I wouldn't go this far. Part of the current revolution in the private space industry is precisely allowing companies to own products that were partially funded by taxpayer dollars. As it encourages companies to fund their own money into it, rather than simply relying 100% on government funding.

Further if the government wants to encourage some industry, by using tax dollars to fund it they would instead destroy that industry. Many companies would end up simply refusing government grants because they know they could never profitably sell it if it would simply be copied. Or they would charge the government significantly more for the product.

Now yes, if the research is done at federal centers that simply exist for research rather than creating products, yes absolutely put it out for free immediately, so that it can get into products faster.
It wasn't finished.
TL;DR some icons (like the floppy disk icon for file save) live on beyond their time
I feel the same about NIH funded research and development in the medical space.
"symbolic processing" means computing with symbols, not numbers.

Like: (simplify '(2 * a + 4 * a)) -> (6 * a).

An application for symbolic processing could be a rule-based system. The application then consists of a lot of rules and facts. Facts also could be symbols, not just numbers. Like a physical pressure value could be a number, but it could also be a qualitative value like low-pressure.

A relatively old application (originating in the mid 80s) is real-time control with a rule-based system in technical systems. Technical systems could be a fleet of satellites, a chemical plant, a cement production plant, ...

The software might get sensor inputs and based on rules may cause physical actions like opening or closing a valve, while getting more live sensor inputs, then possibly triggering other rules.

Typically Lisp systems have some kind of GC and most of the time this will not allow real-time applications. There are are some specialized Lisp systems which have no GC and the application code is written in a way to not dynamically allocate memory during runtime - one says that the style is non-consing, where CONS is the basic operation to allocate a new list cell. This way they avoid garbage collections. This allows some real-time applications, like the mentioned rule-based process control software. This is rare and exotic stuff. It's also considered 'old AI' technology.

The paper describes also something exotic: a concurrent Garbage Collector for a Japanese Lisp Machine, which runs a Lisp operating system - that was a thing when Japan was investing a lot into Artificial Intelligence in the 'Fifth Generation Project'. Such a GC would be useful so that the machine's network stack could be written directly in Lisp, but also for applications (similar to above control of external physical systems): robots, machines, production plants, ... It was thought that an important application domain for expert systems could be in industrial control systems.
Their entire argument is that the federal government has no business mandating whether abortions should be legal or not and that it should be left up to the states. You think that the very same people making this argument are then going to have the government mandate abortion be illegal?
Chewy does this really well, and follows this same advice.

I get pet food on subscription. Chewy sends me a notice my order is about to ship. I can skip or cancel if I want.

Shopify on the other hand is hostile. I have a small store there I've deprioritized. They have a $9 / mo inactive plan, where they keep your stuff but customers can't buy. If you want to stop paying, they delete all of your stuff & domain: https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/your-account/pause-deacti...
Twitter is officially adding podcasts to its platform
tl;dr: Scraping Wikipedia is currently the best way to get structured data
Most companies that use take-home tests don't use such systems.

Also, such a system does not prevent cheating, which is really the worst issue here.
Some thoughts.

I think users happen in generations. The first users set a tone, and then later users make formal and memetic rules to enforce tone (like the monkeys with the bananas up the ladder). Without change, this sticks and places become stagnant. On the other hand, there's clearly been a huge influx in users on Reddit and they haven't managed the volume well so you have popular threads which commenting in is just pissing in an ocean of piss. When that becomes normalized, users are forced to resort to unusual behavior to get noticed, meaning being spammy, dramatic or offensive.
Not enough data to say what the impact of this is. Good for them disclosing it early while they investigate.

> we have seen no evidence that this incident involved any access to customer data or encrypted password vaults.

One way to prevent risk to your passwords in the event of a security breach is to not store them in the cloud at all. KeePass is great!
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Unless you pair at your job, I disagree with this. Emulate your actual work environment as much as possible. That’s what you’re actually trying to get signal about.
One of the major frustrations I have with my current town is the "last tenth of a mile" that is often disconnected from any sidewalks, or is blocked off with no path through. We're a dense inner ring suburb with a decent selection of stores within 1/4 mile of tens of thousands of people. But for me to walk to the grocery store or dollar store, There are a couple of short sections of the walk where the sidewalk simply ends and I have to walk in the street. Also, a lot of commercial areas will be completely fenced off in the rear, so pedestrians in the residential area behind them have to take a long circuitous path to visit them. There sometimes seems to be no thought given to how pedestrians would access some areas.
Off-topic, but how do you like Synology? I'm familiar with one of their units for work, but I'm looking into a new NAS for my home, and I'm trying to decide between Synology or building my own and putting Nextcloud on it.
Yeah, the interface is slow and trash, even the legacy mode is frustrating to use.
> What did I do wrong?

One could claim that you let some of the only unregulated, uncertified, safety critical software in existence, drive your car. Can anyone give an example of other completely unregulated safety critical software out there?

For some extreme contrast, see the basic requirements for a traffic light [1]. Other good examples are elevator control, aircraft autopilot, and basically anything that hooks up to a human, in a hospital, containing a microcontroller.

The NHTSA seems to be slowly waking up to the need for safety regulations [2].

1. https://ops.fhwa.dot.gov/publications/fhwahop06006/chapter_1...

2. https://www.consumerreports.org/car-safety/automakers-now-re...
I really don't think discord has any advantage over slack. I still can't log into multiple discords in the same client (for when I want completely separate use cases).

Also the spread of Teams has proved that the product can be... bad... and still used by everyone because its free or bundled with something they pay for.
same here, web client on desktop, app on phone.
I read that sentence as "where everyone can contribute a little [to the overall ecosystem]". Absolutely maintainers don't need to accept your contribution of a patch, and that's what forking is for - both are part of the overall banner of open source licensing.
> I can learn more about you working with you for half an hour than I would ever learn by studying the code

That's the problem. I think everyone is too focused on technical prowess and forgetting something just as important which is written documentation and explanation.

Pair programming has the downside of selecting people with good interpersonal skills and will tell you nothing about quality of code delivered.

A good middle ground I believe is simple takehome tasks with focus on documentation that could be done in no more than two to four afternoons.
I'm reminded of the book "iWoz" by you know, woz.

In it he said:

"Most inventors and engineers I’ve met are like me — they’re shy and they live in their heads. They’re almost like artists. In fact, the very best of them are artists. And artists work best alone — best outside of corporate environments, best where they can control an invention’s design without a lot of other people designing it for marketing or some other committee. I don’t believe anything really revolutionary has ever been invented by committee… I’m going to give you some advice that might be hard to take. That advice is: Work alone... Not on a committee. Not on a team."
Climate change impacts or global pandemics could also significantly impact TSMC's operations. Or, Chinese actions that are somewhat short of full-on war.

Also relevant here: TSMC is building a chip fab in the US.
Well actually, it's not just HN, I see this pattern all over tech Twitter, programming subs on Reddit etc too. I think it happens when people want to participate in the conversation but don't have anything actually worthwhile to say, so rather than say nothing they nitpick.
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Have you tried FastMail? Probably the closest thing to a G Suite/Workspace alternative that doesn't have ties to "Big Tech".
Those sorts of hypothetical "facts" don't just happen though. At best there might be some research indicating a very high correlation between hair colour and level of infectiousness. But just as often as not it turns out not to be the straightforward connection an initial finding might suggest. So there's no reason to withhold publishing of the results of such research, but every reason to ensure that new research is presented in a way that makes it clear that they're new preliminary findings that are likely to be overturned as more research is done and better understanding is achieved. If that still sets the mobs loose then your only option is government intervention to protect the victims. Suppressing knowledge about the real world is not a feasible long (or even medium) term strategy anyway - it's there to be discovered by anyone and everyone.
ES modules were not only issue with node. There are bunch like no Promises in std library(they are adding that though) standard library is very minimal, so not easy to make a web app without a npm package.
"We have over 404 pages but not the one you're looking for"
That's amazing, and it just goes to show if you allow these things in the regulatory environment (they are not allowed currently), then they will be built and purchased by people who benefit from them. It's just a better tool for a job in 99% of the cases. Using a car for each and every trip you take in your life is like using an excavator, when all you need is a hand trowel.
Well said. Your point leads me (once again) to wonder. Is programming, or some specific aspect of it, fundamentally a creative practice?
Examples:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCutBaSt6tM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmaKc0I1VAo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N14T_4gUH-c
i honestly prefer a take-home exercise to live-coding.

at least with a take-home exercise, i can take my time, do in a few hours, without the pressure of having someone looking at what i'm doing.
Unsigned commits won't help in this specific case though, no?
No. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9491978 for reasons.
Once upon a time, back when StackOverflow was young and vibrant, I also used to ask and reply to questions. I enjoyed the site.

But after a little while the corrosive atmosphere I began seeing towards questioners made me walk away from the site.

The only time I see anything from StackOverflow these days is when one of my Google questions indicates an answer might be there. Otherwise I stay as far away from StackOverflow as possible.

Of course, YMMV.

"There are no such things as dumb questions. Only dumb answers."
Different people have different tastes. The high price of dense areas in the US shows a demand that is currently impossible to meet due to zoning.
That sounds promising! How often do you export your bookmarks, and in what format do you keep your knowledge base?
I got tortilla-making tips, I’m good ;)
Is the quality of reddit declining? If so, why make HN more "reddit-like"?

I dont think HN has enough sprawl to meaningfully support subreddit-like fragmentation, personally.
I'm curious what actually unifies the "MX" for some X. There are different chips in the series, and apparently they can even be on different-sized processes and keep the name

Anybody know more detail?
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Same for investments by Chinese intelligence agencies. Right?
He thinks his comedy act is funny.
>There would be a significant hit to processor performance.

You are probably right. Look at the gains Qualcomm saw by migrating from Samsung to TSMC: https://www.anandtech.com/show/17395/qualcomm-announces-snap...
Roman notions of slavery were very different from American notions of slavery. Rome did not fight a civil war to continue enslaving a specific group of people, nor did Rome largely declare all germanic people everywhere to be natural slaves of Rome, which was the way Americans viewed their slavery.
Why Is a British Baroness Drafting California Censorship Laws?
Thinking in Hotwire: Progressive Enhancement
Most people use a work machine and a mobile device, so cloud syncing is absolutely necessary.

LastPass and its competitors theoretically have zero-knowledge storage of everyone's passwords, so even a full breach of their servers would fail to leak passwords.
IIRC they were using TSMC before TSMC had a material process lead and supported them (and moved away from Samsung) with big contracts and a long term commitment. Hardly surprising that they have first go a new process. Not a risk less bet but one that has paid off.
That's just how Thomas at Cloudthread.io run his process, he used real paid work for his final hiring decision. It's not the only way. We personally (Algora.io founders) jumped straight into paid work without prior interviews.

We shared a hiring bounty with a dozen applicants purely based on their resumes, never spoke with anyone on the phone, received 5 PRs, awarded & hired 3 of them.
My department seriously discussed making our own textbooks for at least one class. The idea never got off the ground, although I think it was a good idea. Part of the reason really is that there were no incentives for doing so, no real teaching or research credit, no grant dollars brought it, etc. The other end of it too was that there was a lot of pressure to turn it into a profit-making venture. Rather than it be open-source, for example, to keep the money in-house with the idea that it would lower costs for students and keep the money in the department instead of a publisher.

So, good idea but too much pressure on departments to be bringing in indirect grant funds, and not enough incentive to release it openly. I think some people in some places can get away with it, but not everywhere.
Moving Pictures: A Conversation with Pixar Animation Artist Tim Evatt (2020)
It is more important to:

1. Have a sense of proportion.

2. Respect people's work-life boundaries.
The Space Launch System (SLS) – USA Super Heavy-Lift Expendable Launch Vehicle
My neighbor Totoro and ponyo are childrens movies for the younger ones.
Many American officials were public leaders in war that already have killed about a million. Would it be ok for foreign governments to liquidate those people, or should they conduct the formality of convincing them first?

Once again - you’re assuming US was the good guys there. Which is quite an absurd assumption if you look at the numbers instead of propaganda.
If anything this saves a step. For me, git push heroku master was more often git push && git push heroku master at least when starting out.
I cannot help feeling like what we see in things like this is the manifestation of a new religion. My only hope is, this woke/scientist religion doesn’t become a new christianity and instead dies sooner. But even if it goes the way of christianity my only happy though is there will be a point in the future when the wokes will be looked down with the same disgust and revulsion they look down on christianity now.
docker compose. Start it as a systemd service if you want.
It sucks for pedestrians but I can't blame the bikers when the alternative is getting ran down in streets without bike lanes. But if there's a proper protected bike lane then there's no excuse for being on the sidewalk or going the wrong way.
Just because someone is using a resource doesn’t imply they’re not putting in their fair share. Where did you even get that idea?
This feels like the same kind of kludge as "!important" and will probably be similarly abused.
Narrative Slipstream Effects
Indeed… The rot has spread frighteningly far.
It will force publishers to either add real value or be swept away by new models of publishing that aren't simply rent-seeking. It will take time to change, but this is another hole in the dike. It'll probably be messy for a couple of years, but I welcome the opportunity to shake things up.
It's great that you experienced the idyllic version, but note that the phrase "rural area" glosses over a diverse array of places, and that your experience may not be universal.
Mostly positivity in the comments there. Care to elaborate?