skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have to repost a comment: "I remember a friend of mine arguing prefixing names with g, q and k was a reason linux on the desktop failed. I asked "So, how do you explain the success of ipod, iphone, ipad and itunes?""

People complaining about influence of the name of a project on its success should publish unbiased statistics to base their arguments on.
From what Intel put out in marketing materials, even at 14nm they had a very unreliable process with DUV. So, it might not be economical for the type of IC produced in these factories.
Seems unlikely, given that this story was told from the perspective of someone mining in the pre-ASIC era. I suppose they could have invested in ASICs early on, but they started as a broke student and the reason the story is fun is because they made it work on a shoestring. "And then I bought $200,000 worth of ASICs in an overseas datacenter" doesn't have the same effect.
Xbox Elite 2 controllers now customizable in Xbox Design Lab
Bingo. Middle managers can make your day-to-day a little easier or a lot worse, depending on their particular management style/ability.

But overall trends in the workforce, at your company, and policies/practice that create these trends? That's upper level executive level leadership. Why do middle managers get all the blame for company decisions? I have never understood that.
I wish C++ has a universal dependency manager like crates. It feels like every external library I want to use requires their own exotic setup.
Now I'll go the other way and wonder if it should still fall under fair use if I respond to requests for small quotes programmatically and eventually quote the entire book.

Or here is the real analagous question:

Fair use is about more than just the size of the excerpt.

If you write an article about good writing, and quote a choice paragraph from someone else's work to show an example, and credit that quote, that is fair use.

Is it fair use if you read an awesome paragraph, something that really is the result of the authors unique intellect and effort and craftsmanship, and makes you think "damn", and then drop that same jewel into your book?

The difference is, the paragraph isn't being included for examination or comment or transformation, it's being included to directly copy and perform it's original function as part of what makes a work a great work, and, it's not being credited in any bibliography or footnotes or directly.

The reader reads the paragraph and is impressed by your deep insight, which you never had, and the original author did.

I think all in all, this sort of copying & re-use should be allowed to happen somehow, because software is more like a machine than a novel, and humanity benefits when machines work well. There just needs to be some sort of rules around it about what gets included in the training sets and how both the input and the output are credited and acknowleged.

Right now, I think Github are simply outlaws. 100% of the output is violating the copyright of the code in the training set, because 100% of the input is copyrighted one way or another and none of it is being declared on the output. And it's allowing incompatiple sources to mix and the origonal terms to be stripped. The training set includes both proprietary and open source, and the output is being used in both proprietary and open source.

And there is no way that Github does not have this same understanding that I just described. I refuse to believe I am that special that I can see this and no one at Github did.

So they are not merely possibly inadvertant outlaws, they are deliberate knowing intentional outlaws.
How did it look in US during height of covid? I would definitely agree in say most of Europe where people including doctors got properly shit scared, and medical care was... lacking to be polite. Very bad time to be in situation to require medical help.

But I had the impression that US (maybe apart from NY) was trying to keep business as usual as much as possible.
Or, like the UK, the days of Russian empire are over and the new bi-polar world will be the NATO/India/AUNZ/Asia vs China/Africa.

So another Cold War for the 21st Century if we continue to rely on a mercantilist attitude in a world where networking is more important than some trade links.
Not examples of source code, but we've been gathering lots of code review tips in this open source repository: https://github.com/reviewpad/code-review-tips
> Danish research currently indicates that those who have taken the mRNA vaccines are at greater risk of all-cause mortality

My first suspicion is that those who have more contact with medicine tend to have greater all-cause mortality because they probably have a reason to have contact with medicine - there's tons of correlation and it's hard to tease out causation.

Vaccines certainly have tradeoffs and in the US at least there are mechanisms in place to try and offset those https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Childhood_Vaccine_Inj...

What's new is the politicization of vaccines, and particularly in one American political party, but I suspect the math (including the new mRNA vaccines) is as it ever was; vaccines are a huge net win for public health.

Generally one thing I've noticed about medicine could probably be summed up as - it's really complicated, there are trade-offs to nearly every decision, and you eventually die anyway.
My personal fav when I see stories like this is the lengths these companies go to in order to avoid paying taxes... then are the first with their hands out for tax-dollars?

Intel - If taxes are so bad that you need to use Ireland, etc to avoid paying them.. why do you accept them?

Privatized profits and socialized losses at its finest.
> far poorer security and privacy practices

Poorer than Meta? Is that even possible?
> Amazon engineer salaries are in the 90th+ percentile in the tech industry

FANG engineers are typically in the 99th percentile of tech excellence. Amazon engineers are not well paid when compared to professionals of the same league. Amazon SDE1s in Austin, Texas have a salary of around $120k/year and new hires have a total compensation package of around $160k/year. In Europe salary ranges for the same role go from €80k/year in northern countries and €40k/year in southern European countries. Check Glassdoor.

We're discussing positions and professionals which compete in a global stage.

Amazon is far from well paid for this sort of position. It's one of the key factors why Amazon SDEs tend to bail out after 2 or 3 years. They are smart enough to not bother with high stress, low-paying jobs .
... Am I the only one looking at American companies offering me 3-digits salaries and going "holy shit, that's a really good deal"?

In my case, the company is extremely accommodating and doesn't schedule reunions at hours that are inconvenient for me, but even if they did, I'd still consider it worth it for the compensation they give out.

I dunno. Maybe I could get an even better deal if I pushed hard or if I unionized or whatever, but right now I just look at the fact that I'm getting 5x what a middle-school teacher gets while doing way less work, and I just... don't feel the anger?

(maybe other american companies pay a lot less, though)
Yes, heart disease and stroke have been way up there for decades. Type 2 diabetes, also diet-driven, is a close follower. Cancer may have been behind these two but it as well has many diet-driven types, but I’m not sure how much those comprise overall rates of cancer.
Yeah. There's nothing of substance here. All it is is a shortcut for private mode and a default to dark theme when you're in private mode. Not really noteworthy. It's a user-hostile update, even. Dark theme by default when private? I'll control my own themes, thanks. If people are unsure whether they're in private mode, put a permanent private mode indicator in the UI. And what about people who will now confuse dark theme with private mode? Their privacy story just got worse!
> Who the hell spells web as "WEB" in 2022?

I am not familiar with the famous UI book written in Russian that the verbiage came from, but given that it is supposedly famous, it is doubtful that it was written in 2022. Fame tends to take a fair amount of time to acquire.

> In fact when "WEB" was ever considered proper, outside of all-caps headings?

Given that the book was said to be written in Russian, we can surmise that this is translated. Perhaps even by an automated tool. It is unlikely to be what one would choose if they were writing natively, but that isn't the case here.

As long as the intent is conveyed it is proper. There are no rules, just outcomes.
> if I take a photograph of you out in the public and sell the photo for $1 million, would you expect compensation?

I mean I wouldn't expect it, but I think I'd be pretty annoyed if you didn't ask permission and then made a bunch of money off my image. It's easy to find stories from the subjects of famous photographs who feel like they've been exploited. Just off the top of my head there's Afghan Girl, the kid from the Nirvana album, Harvard's collection of photos of enslaved people, and Henrietta Lacks is sort of a similar case.

> if someone compiles a list of the best restaurants in the world and sells that list, do you think the restaurants should be compensated?

No, but here's a better example: you make friends with a bunch of food critics, collect their thoughts and opinions and favorite secret spots, and then publish a book based on that stuff without ever telling them what you were doing or compensating or crediting them.

I'll give a concrete example: I was rock climbing recently and met an old guy who was sort of the local expert, and he told me how some other non-locals had come in and kind of mined him for information about the area, all the routes, etc. and then published a guidebook without crediting him at all. He felt pretty upset and exploited by that, and I felt bad for buying the guidebook because I had assumed it was written by some local climbers and didn't realize they got most of their info from someone else.

It's not illegal, but it is unethical.
Science doesn't have "facts" or "truths". It is based on falsifiability: for a theory or hypothesis to be considered scientific it must be able to be tested and conceivably proven false.

This is the key difference from religion, which has no such "falsifiability" equivalent.

The closest thing to "beliefs" is probably an individual following which of several competing theories is most likely correct -- but there's always the underlying basis that any of them might have evidence showing they're incorrect at any time, and one's view should adjust as a result.

Often this comes in the form of deferring to other people or a consensus view, which could be construed as "faith" but is different: If you asked me how the universe exists, I'd say the big bang theory is the best answer we have, but I don't understand enough about the underlying science to explain why nor can my brain comprehend the reality of it. I have no loyalty or allegiance to this view, though; I could be swayed to another theory if the big bang is ever proven false or if a better theory arises.

Further reading: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2015/11/why-scie...
> There is a similar gymnastics done by human engineers today due to the issue of patents. I don't think this is a good trend to uphold.

Are you arguing that copyright laws should be abolished? I have no problem with that as long as it's clearly defined, you can't not respect copyright of open source code but enforce it for proprietary code, just because the value is arguably non-monetary.
Seriously, the QR is just a URI that any QR reader can decode (preferably one you trust).

https://github.com/google/google-authenticator/wiki/Key-Uri-...
Yes, indeed I had already read that in the man page, but I did not feel it answered my question, because in my mind, and state of naivety about compression, logically at least, a compression algorithm and final file format needn't stand in a 1-1 relation. But I suppose that ZLIB is just the DEFLATE algorithm, then?
Oh yeah? This space is moving fast
hi esterly,

i survived. the greatest piece of advice i took from the community was to calm the hell down. i am certain when i crafted this submission that i was in the middle of a panic attack and just let myself be consumed. Monday came, and my boss was there remotely with me. I am not sure why i let myself believe he wouldn't be, or that i was supposed to carry this cross all by my lonesome. a couple errors occured with a few custom reports, but i was able to troubleshoot!

so, in all honesty, i may have written up and pleaded for help a bit too hastily but what i received back from the community i will never forget. it has been a long time since i have felt comfortable putting myself back out there on the web and for me to make this desperate-sounding post and to receive the support i did is, quite frankly, crazy to me. i thank you all from the bottom of my heart. sounds sappy but true.

always remember CTHD - calm the hell down

EDIT: fixed typo
Got the upgrade a few days ago. I am loving it.

I reside 12 hours a day within the private window itself and the ui looks quite nice now. The purple and all.
Keep it up
I find that study unconvincing, it is based on very limited data. They essentially looked only at the initial RCTs for the vaccines, and the total number of deaths is very low there. This ignores all the information gathered after the vaccines were approved, which of course doesn't have randomly assigned placebo groups, but does have far greater numbers. If the mRNA vaccines were indeed killing as many people as they saved we would have seen that in other sources of data as well.
I cant imagine having any issue with google being split up.
Preach! Came here to say the same thing. But you know product/stakeholders can't help themselves asking for more than they need :)
Batteries are fine for semi trucks, too, actually. Even 500 miles with full payload. Transoceanic ships are a major challenge for batteries, but the scale is large enough that maybe you could use liquid hydrogen. Or just synth fuels like methane.
This is spot on. For concreteness, let me give a candidate definition for the virtue of justice:

Justice - rendering to each person what is owed to them.

It's obvious that we will very often disagree about 'what is owed', but doesn't our passionate disagreement in this case show that (1) we agree that practicing justice is good and (2) we are closely aligned on the existence of this thing called 'justice'?
Pegging one currency to another is fundamentally impossible in the long term.

If you don't believe me, keep your eye on the foreign exchanges for the next, oh, year or so. Hopefully that's a generous enough time frame, since trying to guess how long the paper mache coverings can be slapped up and held together is always very hard, but there's a lot of "pegged" currencies in the world that are not going to be pegged for much longer because they simply won't be able to be.
No. You don't. You generally aren't aware of them either. I'm comfortable saying that. Don't get so entrenched in a position that you find yourself saying ridiculous things just to defend a bad point.

The lottery also isn't guaranteed. The lottery goes unwon often. And it doesn't change the odds.

You should be way more afraid of both lightning and sharks if you think buying a lottery ticket gives you much more a chance of winning it than me.

And you know what's crazy? 0.000000003 parsecs is just about 60 thousand miles. On the scale that parsecs are measured, that's nothing. It's a rounding error. It's telling that you have to use cosmic scales to make the difference measurable. That should tell you something.

Line up all the people who have been struck by lightning, what do they have in common? They went outside. So never go outside.

Conversely, line up all the people who bought tickets and never won. There's far more of them. You are more likely to get cancer than win the lottery. So much more likely that buying a lottery ticket at a gas station is irony of the highest order. Due to the number of known carcinogens found at gas stations.
I don't know that I have a better suggestion, but the lack of friction on adding new dependencies makes for really hairy dependency graphs. For example, I really loathed having to write this[1] when all I did was write a gstreamer plugin in Rust. I'm not even confident that I got it all the licensing right, and I surely didn't vet every single library in the graph nor will I vet every library during a future cargo-update.

In languages where adding dependencies is more difficult, I think things tend to be simpler and thus, more verifiable. But it's also simply harder. I don't know which solution I like better.

[1] ~75 lines of library authorship copyrights https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/blob/proton_7.0/dist...
Good stories have a lesson of some kind. What's the lesson here?
> This is unfortunately very true.

But like, is it really? Still? Are you sure? It seems like we've reached a point now where women and PoC actually have an advantage over white (and often Asain) men in most areas of life now. Affirmative action programs at universities, private grants and funding specifically targeted at them, etc.

I don't have any hard data to back this up, it just seems from observation as if we've almost swung past "equality" and into "racism and sexism, but now just against white and Asain men."
> put a permanent private mode indicator in the UI.

There is. The purple and white mask icon in the upper-right window corner, and in each private tab.
No, the repercussion is that a country other than America is deciding whether or not one American company is allowed to buy another American company.

Then replace America which the country name of your choosing.
I disagree. Zuck has a vision and he's made it pretty plain. He is pivoting his company away from traditional social media and attempting to transform it into a social VR company. He seems intent on making this happen even if he has to kill the facebook arm of the company in order to do so. The thing he says over and over is that he started facebook as a way to connect people and I think he sees the inherent limitations built into that system. You will never truly connect with someone through text and pictures on a webpage, even audio and video can't do it. He seems to believe, whether correct or not, that we can truly connect with each other in VR. I think he might be right about that. It won't ever have perfect fidelity with the real world but it is far more accessible than buying a plane ticket to the point that it stands a chance of doing for social interaction what the web did for access to information. I think he's all in on it, I don't know if he'll succeed but he sure as hell is going to try.
The Rise of ‘Luxury Surveillance’ [Amazon's “Everything Tracker”]
I would mostly agree, but is "saving face"[0] considered rational behavior? How big a factor is that in this thread's context?

Honest questions here.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Face_(sociological_concept)#Ch...
It does not show an unwarranted sense of self-importance on the part of Tim Davis.

Whether or not his style his widely known, his code is VERY widely used. Just look up SuiteSparse and try to find all of the downstream uses of it. It is one of the most---if not the most---ubiquitously used set of sparse linear algebra libraries. If you do anything with numerical linear algebra, there's a good chance you at least know what SuiteSparse is, and possibly also know who Tim Davis is.

The bigger issue here is the effect this has on research. Tim Davis not only programmed this library, he did the basic research leading to many of the algorithms in SuiteSparse. He went ahead and released SuiteSparse open source, probably thinking that it would be a good deal for him, provided that its use was properly attributed. Provide a public service in exchange for attribution. This is a reasonable way to get support as an academic. Clearly he has had a large number of industrial collaborations which likely have provided him with a significant amount of funding over the years.

Speaking for myself, if Microsoft has no compunction against behaving this way, I can no longer see the point in publicly releasing research code that I develop using an open source model. Microsoft is clearly telegraphing that they don't give a f** about licensing, although whether that holds if they are litigated against remains to be seen. I think there's an excellent chance many other researchers feel the same way. If you think openness and reproducibility in science is important, this is a problem.
But most of the bugs I often face and seem to struggle with are with dynamic lifetimes (in graphics / simulation / gamedev). So even as a relatively low-level systems dev I don’t really find Rust’s borrow checker that useful.
The "dark yellow" here looks greenish/brown only because it is shown against a white background. Against a black background it is a perfectly acceptable yellow.
Of course it's better to do processing client side. You pay for server side compute, you don't pay for client side compute.
Parser Combinators in Elixir: Taming Semi-Structured Text
Sure but you end up with wealth hoarding as older people live into retirement and by the time they pass on their kids are entering retirement.
TL;DR - yes. :-)

There is a ripgrep "config file" (not mentioned in my previous comment), but there is only one and you have to set it via RIPGREP_CONFIG_PATH.

The things mentioned above are "ignore files," which are a sort of configuration for whitelisting and blacklisting files to search in a directory tree. And yes, you can splat them down into any directory, and if ripgrep enters that directory, it will read it and respect it. (Unless you tell it not to.)

If there are a lot of files with a lot of patterns, indeed, that can wind up taking a chunk of time not only building the matchers for each config file, but for actually matching them against every path. Sometimes it takes longer than not ignoring files at all! But if your ignore files are permitting ripgrep to skip GBs of data that GNU grep wouldn't otherwise skip, well, that's going to be a huge win no matter how you slice it.

ripgrep does use multi-threading as well, and it makes sure every ignore file is parsed and built only once. All other threads can then share the one single matcher.
>> Obviously not fast enough for Google since they literally invented a new programming language (Go) to address the compile time and runtime limitations of Java.

Go was created to overcome complexity issues and compile times of C++ (not Java):

https://commandcenter.blogspot.com/2012/06/less-is-exponenti...

https://go.dev/talks/2015/gophercon-goevolution.slide#4
> many OEM vendors are moving toward creating "dumber" cameras, with the hardware just exporting a raw data stream and all the image processing logic is done in software

So it's WinModem [0] time again, but with AndCam?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Softmodem
Chinese law should almost never be considered something that constrains the government, and especially not in grandiose cases like this. The government will do as it pleases, regardless of the law. That is more of a strong press release than a binding proposition.

However, I am not arguing that China is not serious about retaking Taiwan. They are deathly serious.