skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is Scalable OLTP in the Cloud a Solved Problem? [pdf]
Thank you for sharing. It is definitely underappreciated how the patriarchy simultaneously oppresses and privileges men. I'm sorry if you've had bad experiences with online dog-piling, but I'll note that understanding intersectional feminism has been important for my own personal understanding of my gender and the ways it negatively impacts my life (or positively for that matter). I think dog-piling is universal and a product of unhealthy discourse and the way online spaces erases nuance.
I’m curious why you think that. There will always be illegal casinos, but the interest in slot machines would surely not be large enough to reach prohibition level behaviours?

But I’m also unsure how I feel about prohibiting a behaviour, given the whole slippery slope article etc
Agile is a philosophy and methodology, documentation is a component/facet of what eventually gets created by our work, no?

I get what you mean now re: “important” though, I appreciate your reply!
> We should be far more focused on avoiding 0.1x programmers than finding 10x programmers ... The 10x programmer is a silly myth.

I've worked with far too many 0.1x programmers, too many 1x programmers to count and maybe a handful of 10x programmers.

I always flabbergasted when people say things like "The 10x programmer is a silly myth." ... have they really, in all their years, never, ever worked with a superstar?

I worked with a guy who wrote the framework of a medical imaging system almost entirely by himself; hundreds of thousands of lines of FDA design systems quality code complete with tests that formed the backend of a successful product that was used on almost every MRI and CT scanner for years all while mentoring developers all around him.
>"How It Works

It works through a new technology called Dual Lens. This lens system consists of

two thin, wave-shaped "plates" that slide over each other

(http://selfadjustingglasses.com/reviews/flexvision/en/int1j2...)

with a twist of the button on the side of the frame.

It enables you to self-adjust the power of the lens for each eye. Turn the dials to change the lens power at any time from -6 diopters of nearsightedness to +3 of farsightedness. This way you can address the problem of outdated and inaccurate spectacles."

PDS: Think of this as a tuner -- for optical distance...

A tuner in the above context -- is something that focuses something else in a certain way at a certain point -- in the above case, it's light rays -- but in theory (if made of the appropriate materials!) -- it could be any wavelength of the electromagnetic spectrum...

(Optical Distance / The Focusing Of Optical Waves Of Light -- for lack of better terminology -- is an "Inverse Square Law" AKA "Law Of The Squares" phenomena (or at least highly related!): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverse-square_law)

It would be interesting to play with the above lens design -- but using different non-glass materials -- and experimenting with non-optical waves / wavelengths...

What would happen?

Anyway -- a highly interesting eyeglass design!
> I was born in 2002

First thoughts: How does that work? You live by yourself right? I was born in 1988 and I barely live by myself.

Nope, they’re 20-21 and I’m just getting old.
not sure how that follows... the impacts of donating has diminishing returns. I'd much rather see a diverse of array of causes supported. I doubt any of these charities rely on Amazon Smile as a primary source of donations but a lot of smaller charities would benefit

Funny sidenote is that my chosen charity was actually ProPublica
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34435338
Ask HN: What are the most important skills to have in today's job market?
As the job market continues to evolve at a rapid pace, it's important to stay informed about the skills that are in high demand. I'm curious to know what the community believes are the most important skills to have in today's job market. Whether it's a specific technical skill or a soft skill, share your thoughts on what you believe are the most valuable skills to have in today's job market. Let's start a discussion and share our insights on how to stay competitive and relevant in today's job market.
Housing markets in many cities globally.
Honest question: why would tech companies oppose those charities in particular?
> the lack of understanding you by other people is caused by the lack of skills to explain yourself to others

This is the point where the argument went off, I believe. People only listen to what they want to listen, and generally they care less, or won’t bother to care at all, if the topic is not somehow related with themselves.

So no, the lack of understanding you by other people is usually not caused by the lack of skills to explain yourself, but more often caused by human nature.
Just look at other companies.

Here's Meta as an example https://about.meta.com/giving-together/

They gave $7B to all sorts of random stuff like cat shelters

Pretty much every company has some stuff like this. Don't you see think it'd be weird if Amazon was the 1 company that doesnt?

Edit: Better article here that distinguishes between Meta's matching and donation from meta users https://about.fb.com/news/2022/11/fundraise-for-nonprofits-g....
I guess they have to justify their e-begging banner somehow even though a tiny proportion of the donations actually get spent on Wikipedia.
Interesting.

I'm curious if you're seeing this on desktops? My sample of mac users is very heavily biased towards laptops (and I've only used macos on a laptop) - but I've seen the exact opposite.
Hmm. I always though smile.amazon.com was mostly to dodge having to pay affiliates by switching the domain and losing the cookies. I did donate a couple hundred bucks through it though :(
Fun with Magnets
> direction, a sort of Postgres-lite that uses a single flat file and lives inside a lib,

Can you expand on this? How did you package postgres as a lib?
I don't understand how you can say this with a straight face, especially "100x". Operationally, multiple services is always more complex.

Unless there is something unique about the setup (E.g. one piece of functionality requires much higher scale, make sense for the domain, etc) it doesn't make sense to split things into independent services.
Both, in my opinion. From incipient need (rfc, etc) to use-cases, to design specifications, tolerance acceptances, expectation management, support, and finally sunset/archival.

If the code is where the “why” is found, those who are the end goal consumers of the product will be frustrated, for a small example.
they could've simply made an ethics committee and removed certain options while still giving users some choice...
If this article was written by almost any other news org I would say "compared to what" would be some attempt to privatize the entertainment so someone could make a profit, luckily the article seems genuinely interested in the harm the machines are creating for the military.
I'm not talking about Amazon Smile specifically. I'm saying that if this is how people react every time a charitable program is closed/modified, then companies have less of an incentive to have these kinds of charities in the first place.

A company is essentially having to make a permanent, immutable financial commitment lest they face backlash.

Yes, Amazon has the money to continue this program. Yes, I think they should keep it around. No, I don't think it makes sense for people to go bonkers over it ending.
I think "1 kilo of food per person per day" is a reasonable approximation (e.g. 1kg of dried beans is 3300 calories, 1kg of canned tuna is 1300 calories). 400 kilos of food should be enough to last a family of 4 for 3 months. Efficiently packed, you can fit 400kg of food in a 0.5m x 1m x 1m space (1 large kitchen cabinet).

It's a fair bit of space, but it's not a "fill your bedroom with stuff" amount of space.
From TextExpander to Keyboard Maestro Again
The boomers grew up with three TV channels broadcasting about sixteen hours a day. (And when small they didn't get to stay up to see the test pattern come on.) Their families rented phones from AT&T; they not only didn't have pictures on the phones, they often as not had party lines (which did offer entertainment in some cases). So, yes, we likely did read more for fun, though it wasn't always a particularly high-grade version.
Interesting no mention or discussion of FPGAs for DL Neural networks.

"Our enhanced NPU on Stratix 10 NX delivers 24× and 12× higher core compute performance on average compared to the T4 and V100 GPUs at batch-6, despite the smaller NX die size."

"Results show that the Stratix 10 NX NPU running batch
6 inference achieves 12-16× and 8-12× higher average energy
efficiency (i.e. TOPS/Watt) on the studied workloads compared to the T4 and V100 GPUs, respectively."

https://users.ece.cmu.edu/~jhoe/distribution/2020/fpt2020.pd...
One of the primary strategies activists have managed to successfully deploy against those groups is through targeting advertisers. Also most tech workers are college educated which is a demographic that (increasingly) supports gun control/does not like the NRA
That's not a bad idea. I wonder if companies do this today.

I expect cynical HN commenters would make the similarly snarky comments about how X company is only committing to Y time period.
We do, it's just "free money" basically
Every company, even the "good" ones, are committed to pursuing profit, at least to some extent. That's the _entire_ point of a company.
Not the parent, but I can imagine a pretty fast left-to-right algorithm.

First assemble all the CSS rules into a tree, where each non-leaf node represents a selector and following a path down the tree corresponds to reading a selector from left to right. For example, if there are two rules, ".foo .bar" and ".foo .baz", the tree root would be ".foo", and it would have children ".bar" and ".baz".

Then give each DOM element a pointer to a style tree node. When an element is inserted into the document, set its style tree node by looking for a matching selector among the children of the parent element's style tree node. For example, <div class="foo"> would be associated with the ".foo" style tree node; if <div class="bar"> is created underneath that, the browser looks up ".bar" among that node's children. If there is no match, then use the same style tree node from the parent.

That way you can find the matching CSS rules for each element at the cost of a single lookup per element, regardless of how deeply the rules are nested.

In reality it's more complicated than that, because an element might actually need multiple style tree positions. If you have ".foo .bar" and "div .bar", ".foo" and "div" would naively be two separate tree nodes (each with a ".bar" child node), but <div class="foo"> would have to be associated with both nodes. In other words, the style tree is an NFA. But just like with regular expression matching, it might be faster to convert it to a DFA in advance, i.e. duplicate nodes as necessary so that each element does only need one position in the tree.

And the need to support efficient incremental updates (e.g. an element could change class name, or style rules themselves could be added/removed) makes everything even more complicated.

Still, if you asked me before today to guess how browsers implemented CSS rule matching, that's the algorithm I would have thought of… I wonder why they don't do this. Maybe deeply nested CSS rules are not that common in practice.
Will I have access as a human if I answer anything but “42” to that last question?
Amazon (via Smile) and Microsoft (via employee donations) are probably the two biggest funding sources for the FSF.
I sent an email to amazon-ir@amazon.com stating that I will cancel my Prime account, Business account, and credit card on February 20th. It’s annoying having to go to different sites for goods, but I think I can manage.

The charity I contributed to got the email and won’t be using Amazon as a vendor any longer.
Could you share what font editor you used, and whether you're using ligatures?
had a similar "feature" on my pixel. Tapped the Power button 5 times in a row thinking it was volume, it called 911 and setoff an audible alarm. I hung up immediately, later received a call back from 911, and disabled the feature. I dont remember ever seeing that feature before
I accidentally took down all Internet e-mail for the entire world back in 1996. It was a basic DNS mis-configuration on my part for AOL, combined with the behaviour of typical e-mail servers at the time.

This is a slightly popularized version of the actual events: https://www.theregister.com/2018/04/16/who_me/

Today, I think it would be easier to mess up the entire internet via a bad BGP routing advertisement. I think mail servers are now more robust against this kind of misconfiguration.
> Worth and value are inherently subjective

If they are inherently subjective, why are you claiming we're not paid what we're worth? This statement is meaningless, isn't it?

> It kinda/sorta works, but it also kinda doesn't

In what way it doesn't work? Clearly it has more utility than other attempts at measuring value. I can agree it's not perfect (nothing is), but that's very different from not working.

> let's say that workers in America demand $10/hour and African workers ask for $2/hour for the exact same job. What's the correct value for that labor?

The correct value is whatever someone is paying for that labor on a free market.

> You could say it's the minimum value at $2. But then some other worker asks for $1. Did you make a mistake?

The only mistake is treating value as inherent and static.
Software developers will be fine. Chatgpt is no where near replacing a mid-level developer. Maybe it could be different in 10-15 years. But right now, more often it simply outputs garbage once you up the complexity. Even if the output code was workable, one still has to make it fit into their larger code. Which still requires an understanding of how the code works.

Don’t get me wrong - chatgpt could be a great tool for learning. At the very least, it can teach a person on how to ask the right question.
Sharks also evolve. There were sharks 400M years ago, but they weren't the sharks of today. Some core banking app written in the 70s and still running today on a mainframe that requires software and hardware emulation of a 1970s mainframe is probably a dinosaur.

Something like unix that sprang up in the 70s on the same types of mainframes and has evolved and changed a lot over time but still kept a lot of core conceptual DNA is probably a shark.

Others I can think of off the top of my head:

vi[1], emacs, C, ethernet, smtp, ethernet, excel, rs-232[2], FTP[3]

There's probably plenty of others too.

[1] in the form of neovim and vim in particular, but also nvi, busybox vi, and probably others.

[2] i just got a box from dell that has only one non-network way to interface with it: serial over usb. I had to remember how to set up my line parameters etc. Fun fact about xterm, etc: many of them allow you to do `xterm -l /dev/ttyUSB0 115200` way easier than dealing with picocom or whatever

[3] another fun fact, FTP is older than IP.
The 8-tracks make me think it's a flea market setup.
Why did you use his private, real name in context of talking about his art in which he used pseudonym? Did he recently stated he prefers to be called by his name rather than pseudonym?
Because when you do that thing 3000 times it becomes 1000 hours?

Versus a CNC which could probably do the paint job in 2 minutes, resulting in a total time of 120 hours.
You are treating "because it doesn't generate profit" and "because it's obsolete" as equivalent conditions. This is pretty normal, but let me suggest that the two don't have to exist together, because the market is, in fact, not a dispassionate force of nature but a creation by men to serve the needs of a subset of those men. In this particular case, even, it is a market that has decided to keep the secondary costs of nuclear associated with its generation, while dramatically underweighting the secondary costs of fossil fuels, even though the latter kills more people per month than have ever died from any nuclear event or waste in the entire lifetime of the tech.

But even from there, nuclear is constantly under development. Its leading edge is miles beyond the nuclear of the generation when it was being built out commonly in the US, and the new tech is both very safe and produces way more manageable waste output. China is building both more nuclear and more renewable energy than any other country in the world, and is just one place showing that that the combination is a viable way of meeting our needs.

Put another way, I do think you're right when you say (lack od) profitability is the major problem. But I think, given a frank assessment of the technology (preferably from sources not funded by people with an interest in maintaining the status quo), we should consider seriously that the problem isn't nuclear tech, but the concept of profit, itself.
In addition to the criticism raised by others: just look at the new list of 'approved' charities. Holy cow. Talk about ineffective altruism!

Obligatory Links:

https://www.overcomingbias.com/2008/09/politics-isnt-a.html

https://blog.givewell.org/2009/12/14/charity-isnt-about-help...

https://www.amazon.com/The-Elephant-in-Brain-audiobook/dp/B0...
Actually, once the heat islands are accounted for, the temperature increase is roughly halved. Even Obama’s climate adviser admits there’s less than claimed. Or Lomborg. Or go back and read Paul Ehrlich, the Club of Rome, or further back Malthus. These folks aren’t Cassandra. They are snake oil salesmen. Simply observe those who are profiting most from promoting the hysteria: Gore, Kerry, Gates, Klaus Schwab, et al. Or notice that those screaming the loudest live in luxury, travel on private planes, etc., e.g. DiCaprio. Everyone who buys into this simply increases the mass of useful idiots to the detriment of all. Now several years into retirement, I have the advantage of having watched this play out for more than 50 years. Hopefully, those of you who are much younger will avoid drinking the kool aid and selling yourselves into slavery.
> However if it was almost everyone

By the time it got to this another disaster already happened
Unfortunately I haven't had the same experience as you. Even for a simple program I've had to think about passing by value/reference, lifetime annotations, static lifetimes, etc.

That's not to say I don't like Rust; I hope it takes over the world that C/C++ have a grip on.
Sorry, I don’t really understand what you’re talking about.

My point is they are trying to sugarcoat this as focusing on specific charities, whereas I believe total donation dollars is going to drop. In addition, I think Amazon is hoping to save on costs having to manage AmazonSmile itself.
Definitely hitting across the board, a few friends in the game studio (like Bethesda) were let go sadly.
> Also most tech workers are college educated which is a demographic that (increasingly) supports gun control/does not like the NRA

It's less a college educated versus not and more an urban versus rural issue.
One of my all-time favorite Laws! <g>
you lost me at the cabal of radical feminists
Gotcha. Thanks for the update.

I used that site to generate avatar images for “users” on my service.

It was only 10K users, which is a rounding error, for most “Big Data” types, these days, but I did send the author an email, explaining what I was doing. I didn’t expect a response, and didn’t get one, but it was only polite.
like acting out what the others wrote in parables? he does have a point begging from a statue, for example
What's unethical about supporting the Constitutional rights of Americans?
As I understand it &impl Meower also uses dynamic dispatch, whereas the generic version will generate a specialized version for each concrete type it is called with.
Amazon has been historically very stingy with their donations.

Internally, employees have begged for literally decades for an employee donation matching program (similar to Microsoft's donation matching) and have been stonewalled for years, with upper leadership not wanting to give a firm answer as to why.

Meanwhile, most of the philanthropic endeavors that Amazon does offer its employees internally are in some way otherwise related to things that Jeff has a fiduciary tie to or where doing so was politically motivated to turn a blind eye to the rapid expansion of the Downtown/SLU Seattle Campus.
If you were required to catalogue hundreds of records, taking many days, instead of being out catching criminals, would you? Just on the off chance that someone wants them back?
Irregardless isn’t a word
The only who has made a claim here is you: your claim is that the ACA's guarantee of pre-existing condition coverage doesn't matter because there exists places that only have inadequate healthcare options available for purchase. You have provided no evidence for this claim.

Others here have provided first-hand accounts of acquiring adequate coverage on exchanges.
Ah the most ethical of businesses
I haven't done this, but I'd want it. I'd like to write my code to use a Postgres database, except swap in something similar to a SQLite database instead when I'm either testing or not yet at scale. SQLite does everything in just a library linked with your code, unlike Postgres which is a separate running server. I can't simply use SQLite for this because its API is different from Postgres's.
Def #1 is way off. Loneliness is to feel that other people don't relate to you; to be misunderstood _can_ create this situation but so does different likes/dislikes, different moral premises, or even plain prejudice.

Def #2 assumes that there's no such thing as non-verbal knowledge. I wouldn't be so sure; if there's one thing that all that qualia crap shows, is that some things cannot be communicated verbally.

>the lack of understanding you by other people is caused by the lack of skills to explain yourself to others,

Even if someone accepts the heavily questionable premises ("definitions") #1 and #2, this is still problematic because it is an unwarranted assumption. It is not a logical consequence of the premises, even if dressed as such.

>Ultimately, you are the recipient of feeling understood or misunderstood, not others. So it’s your task to make others understand you.

GI/GO. Questionable premises + faulty reasoning = dumb "advice".

Some people will never understand you no matter how much you know yourself, and how good you are at explaining yourself to the others. And some people will never relate to you no matter how much they understand you.
Internet Transport Protocols, Part I: Reliable Transports
SPLC, like most non-profits, is a scam
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-reckoning-of-mo...
Amazon is working hard to improve gross margins so they are cutting this service. Now they get to keep more profits vs having to share their margins with charities whenever someone uses a smile.amazon link
I gave you a simple task for the unconscious which as far as we know you can't physically do. i.e. align your subconscious to switch red and green perception.
If your “less cynical” (I’d say “more naive” :P) take is true, then where’s their concurrent announcement that they’re donating .5% of sales (or at least .5* * % of revenue that was amazon-smiled since not everyone used it) to a smaller set of organizations?
That world exists. It’s called Europe
if we had a conference there could we get away without a land acknowledgement or make one out to surtr just to be safe?
a few more details are at https://www.nasa.gov/aeroresearch/programs/iasp/sfd
This is exactly right. I help run a small local non-profit makerspace, and donations through Smile help keep the space open and free, without a membership fee.
#1 I'm not a script monkey.

#2 It's just as easy to write stuff, than to carefully check for dumb AI errors.