skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My only criticism is that Ruby doesn't need more features.

ES6 suffers from this disease to a fairly extreme degree, and you can see this schism in the JS community back to the semicolon war in the early 2000s. Kotlin as well, unfortunately, as it's otherwise generally a really nice language.

There are so many language structures and shortcuts. And unless you spend a large amount of time becoming truly fluent in all of them, you're never going to be able to read all the "clever" code that uses them.

These structures are not common across languages, either, so if you jump between codebases in multiple languages... good luck.

tl;dr: Readability über alles.
Hire someone with sales/marketing experience, ASAP.

What type(s) of dev teams? sales, marketing, etc. Ah, ok end of 2nd sentence -> developers.

Why would someone develop NEW SDK for a 80's c64 commodore for sale reps when current stuff is supported/understood by by both in-house IT, sales reps and management.
i asked:

> what do you think they were implying?

…because in the previous comment you felt confident enough to answer for them. you said:

> No, they weren't saying that.

is asking what you think they meant unreasonable?
Is it only the file system structure or file contents corrupted? How corrupted? Did a whole file get lost, missing a whole sector, or having bit flips?
Eh - It's good to know when you're taking the slow route, but most times the slow route is fine.

It's easy to point to the title piece and assume the right advice to is try to optimize early - but the reality is that the gains mentioned here basically only matter because these libraries are used by millions of developers, and run often.

essentially - don't try to optimize until you have a reason to make that effort worth it. For these libraries - it's worth it.

For the times you're getting asked to fix performance, it's because performance has become a feature that matters enough to have someone ask you to fix it. It's fine to wait until that time to swing back around and pay attention to it. There are thousands of times where that never happens, because the performance was fine taking the scenic route through a string. Plus - that leaves you plenty of low hanging fruit to pick up some easy wins.

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I think the real story here is not that folks are taking the slow route, I think the story is that the low hanging fruit hasn't been knocked out of these libraries. And really, that goes to show that a lot of software really is supported by a very small number of library authors, who aren't doing it as their day job, for very little in the way of real compensation.

Ex: SVGO is used by 9.1 million people (on github alone) but only has 163 contributors, and only 4 people have more than 10 commits. That means only one in 55,000 users has bothered to add anything. And there's only one real dev for every 2.25 million users. And "users" here also includes entire companies.
I guess so?

I am at the top of my game and the company recognized it.
It will be very hard to find another company like where I am right now.
Currently the manager I have is one of the best and the coworkers are also one of the best.

I have zero incentive to move somewhere else.
Where I work, they used to give you desktop computers (pre Covid) for the workstation purpose, but post-covid they just provision a VM for you. Honestly, its probably cheaper in short-term and only mildly more expensive long term. No real IT work needed (since <cloud provider> handles the hardware), and automatic upgrades if more ram/GPU/etc is needed. Even a really big VM ($80/m) wouldn’t be crazy compared to the logistics of managing/storing/powering/networking a bunch of desktops across an office.
"Trump repeatedly stated that the point of the ban was to ban Muslims from entering the country."

Do you have a citation for this? I’m no fan of Trump, but that’s not what I remember.
Ha! I'm really trying to keep the price down, these are the cheapest screens I could find and they're still ~$4.

If they took off and were produced at scale, we could definitely do color, and make them thinner and flexible as well!
Actually, in the last few months there has been an absolute ton of feature work. A very sophisticated generational profile system was introduced, and the entire framework is being split into separate packages to enable more stable versioning. This is all with the goal of reducing the bus-factor from being just Henrik.
Maybe I'm misreading the tone of your comment - but is that a bad thing? Reframing the approach to a problem, to state-of-the-art results; that strikes me as nothing if not progress. Don't mean to come across as negative here -- I just don't see why anyone would control those variables.

You list reasons why text-to-image is easier than unconditional image gen - but isn't that the point? They're both under the umbrella of image generation, which is ultimately pushed forward.
> Add to that local translation! FF is the best it has ever been and somehow it is losing user share faster than ever. I used to get all the hate, but now at days... I'm just not sure. I'd love to know why.

I'm also a long time fan of firefox, but it does seem like there's always something I have to disable or fix with every major update.

Firefox has always claimed to be very pro-privacy, but they don't always live up to that with their actions (From a privacy perspective perhaps the biggest slap in the face was Pocket). Even here "local translation" means that Firefox needs to repeatedly ping Google's servers in order to download the models. Still better than letting Google translate the contents of a page, but far from ideal from a privacy standpoint.

As it stands I have modifications to over 100 settings in about:config that have to be made with each fresh install of firefox to get it locked down properly. Firefox is still the best browser out there because it gives you the ability to disable all that stuff, but its still a pain.

User share is always going to suffer because for most people their phones come with something else already, their PCs and tablets do too, and they don't know any better. They don't see or understand the problems with using chrome so why look for a browser that gives them better solutions?

I use firefox because I care about my security and privacy. If I didn't care about that I'd use Chrome or whatever Microsoft is shipping these days too because I know sites will make sure their stuff works in those browsers. All the hate I have for firefox comes from a place of love. I care about firefox. I depend on it. I want firefox to be better. Often that means I'm calling them out on their bullshit, bitching about the extra work they're giving me after updates, or just mentioning how they could have done better.

Firefox users complain about firefox because if they didn't care enough to complain they'd just be using chrome.
This distinction is not something I'd heard of before, so thanks for the explanation.

It seems to me that I fundamentally disagree with this idea of a conduct crime. Prosecutors should be expected to prove the harm that was caused by the actions for which a person is having criminal charges pressed against them. (I don't know of anything like this in American law; per my understanding, if you do the thing that's written down as not to do, you did bad.) If it's expected that it will be obvious what the harm is, then it can be expected that proving it (or convincing a judge of it) will be easy.

Anyway, maybe I'll be able to come up with a counter example but I'm coming up blank currently.
Hoe exactly are the files corrupted? How much of it?
The core of that reputation is because people on HN want the best and many of them know that expecting the best can be an effective way of getting it.

Yes, there are critics who are not ‘in the arena’, but for the rest I see a lot of care (AKA taste as defined in Ira Glass’ words on “The Gap”) put in to the comments.
> 1080p

I dont think you (and the public in general) realize that several sites offer 1080p, even with L3.
Digital Tarot readings would be a possible use for this. You'd need to program the thing to randomly turn cards 180 degrees.
That's cool and all, but I'm probably going to make something to hide it. I also hate paywalls, but (almost) all of them are so easy to circumvent that I usually do it in the inspector.
If you want to do this, pass on the Lenovos. Their thin clients and USFF pcs are often bios locked to specific hardware.

I was given one that would have made a decent media PC for the living room if the wifi wasn't ancient, I want to say it was an early Wireless N 150 card.

I swapped out that card for a same sized, same brand Wireless AC card and the PC would no longer boot thanks to some "An approved network card is not installed" BS message in the BIOS.

People have used long workarounds to edit the BIOS to allow these systems to boot with "unapproved" cards, but even for free it's not worth it to me.

There are a lot of good HPs & Dells in the same price/performance category that will simply work without the headache.
>> But does Google upload what you translate later?

> If you use Google Translate, of course it does because everything is done on their servers

As mentioned by GGP, the Google Translate app for Android (at least) allows you to download the model for a given language (pair?), after which you no longer need any kind of Internet connection to translate. That implies everything is done locally, not on Google’s servers. GP’s question was whether the app will still save your queries and submit them once a connection becomes available just to scratch that data collection itch.
It still exists and the logins often work, at least for me
There are a lot more armed citizens than there are police.
Here's a summary of US states' quarantine and isolation statutes (since, to many Australians "freedom" means whatever the US does):

https://www.ncsl.org/research/health/state-quarantine-and-is...

Have a look at "freedom-loving" red states like Florida, Texas, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Mississippi, Georgia, Arkansas and Alabama. All seem to be quite "draconian" when it comes to quarantine

That eliminates the US. Maybe there's some other country that doesn't have "draconian" quarantine measures?
Thanks for posting on this topic. Do you have a link to a publicly readable copy of the paper?
I think this idea is really cool, I just don't see myself using this due to the alternatives (GitHub pages, static blog generators etc.)
Bought off Alibaba, I think they're so cheap because they're designed for grocery store shelf price tags.

Good Display GDEW029T5D
Flying is way way way worse.

The business class offering is now equal to the old economy offering (alcohol, food and space to relax) and the economy offering is now some weird hunger games event where you are pushed to compete for who gets on first, who gets to put a carry on bag in the overhead with everything nickel and dimed to the nth. I literally hate traveling domestic US airlines.
That’s stretching the word stealing pretty far I feel.
If you run your tracker on Linux and an info hash whitelist approach would work for your use case, it might be worthwhile to have a look at aquatic_ws [0]. It relies on tungstenite [1] for websockets and achieves around 20x the throughput of the reference implementation when running with four threads.

I don’t know of anybody who runs it in production, but its sister implementation (BitTorrent over UDP) handles 80k responses per second with lower load averages than opentorrent.

[0] https://github.com/greatest-ape/aquatic

[1]: https://github.com/snapview/tungstenite-rs

(I am the developer of aquatic)
I’m having flashbacks to some contract Java developers who were calling toString() on deserialized JSON objects and then parsing the output (old school index/substring, not even regex) because they insisted it was too hard to use the built-in accessors. Bonus points for then trying more kludges when they got a reminder that JSON does not guarantee object key order so they couldn’t write code assuming values would be adjacent.

They also did that exact same thing parsing dates, except that they flubbed the logic and IIRC had an off-by-one on the month for the constructed Date object.
No, she didn't have a chat with herself, and not even with an AI.

I hate this complete and utter misrepresentation of facts.

GPT is not an AI. It does not talk. It certainly does not understand.

I wish AI researchers would spend some effort to educate the public instead of bathing in all the attention.
$50SAT – Eagle2 (2015)
> The average new car purchase in 1975 was $4,900.

That's $28K today. Even in 2019, before the pandemic, the average price of a new car was $39K.[1] Definitely one industry that hasn't gotten cheaper.

[1] https://mediaroom.kbb.com/2020-01-03-Average-New-Vehicle-Pri...
Singular Value Decompositions of Transformer Matrices Are Highly Interpretable
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Usually wikipedia has the info, and few sites list the same info and sometime more, for instance the debts of the company (some profits are sucked out with the huge interests of those massive debts).

Usually a good start is gogol (a vanguard/blackrock company!): "who owns tesla".

Amazon for instance: JB is in full control, with azure/vanguard/blackrock right behind.
Yeah! I was going for a Tarot/Occult vibe.

Turning 90 degrees... maybe I could do some magic with magnets.....
There are quite a few platforms that still offer e.g.1080p with L3, which I'm still looking for a replacement source for. The NHK uses it for time-limited content, such as interviews with manga authors which I've ripped for people to fansub. There's much more out there than just Netflix, Disney Amazon et al.
Anyway to add NFC. I imagine a special gameboard which sends data to the cards based on game state.

Very impressive!
I can think of a few:

* Lightweight (no GC, under 2MB)
* Designed to be a secure sandbox (not just a language runtime)
* Modular (add host functions as needed — eg support for Tensorflow)
* Multiple languages (esp compiled languages like Rust)
* Works with container tools (Docker, k8s etc)
That’s the issue with this site.
Almost everyone thinks this at one point or another. And then, one day, your shields drop.

My man Rands explains it best: https://randsinrepose.com/archives/shields-down/
It feels kinda weird but a lot of the time you can just use the -webkit- prefixed versions and they'll work in firefox too.
You are probably a DM and get how it works. Get the dice out for effect - they are a weapon too!

The whole point of DnD n that is it is fantasy ie thinking and talking about something that is not real. How you deal with fantasy is up to you.

Worrying about formalality is generally not a good approach to dealing with phantasy for obvious reasons.
Commodore 64 emulation under raspberry pi would allow for running off battery, make it poratable, and allow for using internet interface & modern storage devices.

All of which wouldn't change the groups understanding of how to use the old SDK.

With extra resources on pi, would be able to port everything over to open source version of VMS & use non-monochromatic terminals! (perhaps even emulate the c64 under openvms and slowly roll out port behind scenes)
In the meantime I found this page, which answers this question explicitly.
https://climatetippingpoints.info/2019/10/14/fact-check-will...
To have a conversation about freedom of speech you have to have a conversation about "freedom", it's meaning, and it's value. Freedom of speech does indeed have the power to convince people to do harm. However the only alternative to "freedom of speech" are constraints on speech enforced by authority. In order to oppose freedom of speech you have to support the use of authority to constrain speech. You therefore must argue that such a use of authority does less harm than the freedom it is curtailing (and as a policy is resistant to corruption).

In addition to all of this, we have to agree that "reduction of harm" is a valid guiding principle to hold above all others. This is fundamentally consequentialist (and valid as such). My thesis though is that "freedom" itself has deontological value, even if it causes harm. Deontologists and consequentialists have a notoriously hard time seeing eye to eye.

I'm not at all trying to derail the conversation, but it just doesn't seem all that clear-cut to me.
As you write more about this, you don't manage to make it sound less like a conspiracy theory. But that's helpful; I know how to interpret what you were saying upthread now. Thanks for responding.
WASI development is very slow. Bytecodealliance is kinda all the big names but it seems not a lot of investment to hire more people working on the spec (I know at some point more people won't work, but right now there are only a few)
What if we want or need code that has to run for centuries? (Just a thought experiment.) What struck me in your post was your mentioning the fact about debugging being difficult. What if we don't debug? What if we treat them as evolving systems. You can debug mechanisms, but you can mainly treat organisms. Possibly this is the actual line between mechanical and biological systems, and that a meta-programming language (the DNA) is involved is hardly surprsing.
The pizza example only includes the websites of the big pizza delivery firms, and the delivery apps:

> This analysis is based on over 500,000 transactions from Domino's, Pizza Hut, Papa John's, UberEats, DoorDash, Postmates, and Grubhub (including Yelp, Seamless, Eat24, and Tapingo).

https://trends.edison.tech/research/pizza-delivery-sales.htm...

If you only include the large firms in your data, it's not surprising you'll only see large firms in the result.
We're entering not-so-subtle whataboutism territory here. Which culture has normalized child marriage? Certainly not mainstream American culture. Even if it's technically legal under certain circumstances, it's exceptionally rare.
The PSP is not the same as SGX. That's more like the management engine, and while I agree that both Intel and AMD are shipping that antiuser "feautue" and that AMD had its own implementation of a trusted execution environment like SGX, the current AMD chips do not ship with it. AMD is not perfect, but it's sad that people can choose one or the other and still prefer to hand Intel their money when Intel goes out of their way to take advantage of their users.

- Intel wanted to lock users to RamBus RDRAM which was incompatible with AMD chips and a patented technology which AMD would not be able to use.

- Intel shipped the aforemtioned CPU identifier. Intel did the management engine first.

- Intel locks its chips from frequency tuning so they can charge more for overclocking.

- Intel locks the amount of RAM that is addressable by their chips arbitrarily rather than basing it on hardware support in order to squeeze more money out of you.

- Intel and NVIDIA locked their GPU linking technology (SLI) while AMD allows Crossfire to run on both Intel and AMD processors.

These are just the ones I remember off the top of my head. Not all of them may be current, but it's obvious that Intel has no problem extorting money from their customers in a million ways where AMD doesn't play this disgusting game.
Yes, the man appeared to have violated the law. I guess my criticism that the Australian government is overly restrictive and the public are hysterical moral busybodies has been rendered void because there was a law in place that he violated.

My friend was unable to go and see her dying mother in France because the Federal government wouldn't allow her to leave the country. Her request to leave was initially rejected and took so long that her mother was dead by the time she was given permission. Now I heard many people have similar experiences because of the inability to find flights. I didn't realise the government forbidding you to leave was a completely normal experience worldwide.
More the latter, re: the EU's governance structure + higher member diversity (econ, military, culture, etc.) leads to a less coherent foreign policy than for the US.

So while there are plenty of state-based influence games being played in the US, they aren't as big an issue for the US vs. the EU.

TL;DR: There are some similarities, but on balance Europe is less united and countries like China/Russia make use of them well.
Retirement age in most of Europe has been bumped to 67 and we're at the very start of the demographic transition, which leaves governments with 2 options:

Provide the same services with about 60% less revenue, and NOT by inflating the difference away. Oh and without hiring essentially anyone.

Keep raising the retirement age so someone born after ~1980 essentially never retires. And ... I guess pray that medicine actually makes this possible.

Both have obvious problems. It seems to me a near-certainty that all governments will not know how to run fast enough to option b. Now there may be "robots" or whatever as a plan, long term, but while I don't work in robotics, I do have a master in it. We're 50 years away from viable robotic care for humans. We're currently not capable to build a robot that's physically capable of doing it without weighing 800+ kg, which makes it a non-starter (and this is the only part of the problem I expect someone like Elon Musk might be able to fix in, say, 10 years)

Of course, governments being what they are they are, are working on it. By:

1) making immigration much harder (and world demographics will start making it harder very soon now, and those won't stop)

2) dropping investment in robotics and medical research

3) making it harder every year to become medical care professionals

TLDR: you definitely won't retire in 20 years. Unless we can create a company and make, at the barest minimum, ~5 million there won't be retirement for any of us.
Can you share a photo?

I keep 3 (!!) RFID tags on my wrist using my Pebble 2SE and a NATO strap, they're 100% unnoticeable and invisible aside from added functionality.

I'd love to add storage for microsd to it; especially if it doesn't impact my current method
Probably not if journalists are trying to get "the pulse" or get in on a scoop. It can work as nice in-group comms system.
If it had no value then people would not want it, so would not pirate it.

The simple fact that people want to pirate a thing means it has value.
I'm not exactly C or Rust expert so better to check
@dagmx comment for that, but I know some C++ and worked with networking enough to know some pitfalls.

Talking of C++ it can be really solid to work with your own data structures where you control code on both ends. Using templates with something like boost::serialization or protobuf for the first time is like magic. E.g you can serialize whole state of your super complex app and restore it on other node easily.

Unfortunately it's just not the case when you actually trying to work with someone else API / ABI that you have no contol over. Even worse when it's moving target and you need to maintain several different adapters for different client / server versions.
Yeah, I generally favor the approach of first making the code easy to understand/validate, and easy to replace later if you find a performance problem. I’ve found it’s usually only a small percentage of the time that your first guess for what’s going to be a bottleneck is accurate.
A more accurate title would be, "Sure the mall seems to have like 100 stores, because it does. But all of them except 8 are owned by the same big 3 parent companies. And by 3 I mean 12"
Ah, oops, you are correct.
Embarassing America gets thieved by such shitty low class villians like BAH.

Keeping reasonable checks & constraints on democracy is hard. Creativing visobity & awareness of governance is one of the ultimate & most important meta-projects. For now we have lone heroes like Matt Stoller. Visibility should be baked in.