jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
That was the case in second half of 90's and 00's, today most engines got back to C++ plugins (or plugins in same language as engine itself) and simple declarative logic in game data.

(this has to do with both performance as with various walled gardens that do not allow general purpose scripting)
Sure, which is why erowid recommends having a "trip sitter"

https://www.erowid.org/chemicals/lsd/lsd_death.shtml
I documented a similar experience just over a year ago[1].

I ended up helping give a talk about my experience at the Amazon Summit in Sydney. I hope I made a good cautionary tale to the devs/ops/managers attending.

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6911908
well I for one am proud to have been an LSD user. It was amazing, but after about half a dozen trips I started to see "the dark side" and stopped doing it. I have no regrets, it's friggin awesome.
Between morning rituals, standups, meetings, breaks, and blocking tasks I'm probably spending around 40% of my time on real work. Open offices probably cut that in half.

The problem is most claimed benefits are really just poor project management - which is really the biggest cause of low productivity. It isn't a good thing that you can easily interrupt a neighbor to solve an issue. Because 9/10 neighbors won't complain and you'll keep on doing it because you keep getting your issues solved. Interruptions should be difficult to encourage the creation of self-service tools or processes to solve common problems. I've seen the same person interrupted like 10 times in 30 minutes because he is so damn good at fixing everyone else's problems.

Most places don't use available tracking software well and they hire non technical people to manage technical projects. This leads to using multiple task tracking systems poorly and poorly defined direction and tasks. There aren't good processes in place to solve different types of issues so they revert to the lowest common denominator (face to face or email) when they could otherwise be handled asynchronously.

If everyone gets nice clearly defined tasks defined and managed in a single place and there are tools in place so they can help themselves you get a bunch better environment regardless of how people are sitting.
in fact, this is already happening with online entertainment such as some youtube channels (think stuff like https://www.youtube.com/user/geekandsundry , which started with 'the guild'). I believe TV and long form media will not be around for long, replaced by dedicated on-demand media that caters to very specific audiences, and there being thousands, or even tens of thousands of them.
It looks rather like a fancy hotel: open-plan but with desks set in friendly clusters and separated by low, clear partitions.

The company I work for uses a design like this now, albeit the partitions are solid (but still low), and with the 120 degree angles between them apparently favoured by Robert Propst originally. It's known as the "snowflake" design because of the way the clusters with their 120-degree angles look from above.
No, that's what it costs to live alone, in the middle of a highly desirable city that restricts housing supply via NIMBY zoning. None of these things are things you need to live life. You don't need to live alone, you don't need to live in NYC, and you definitely shouldn't feel obligated to live in a place that refuses to build adequate housing.
Because investing is non-trivial and nobody tells you how to do it.
> I don't think it's reasonable to say this is a wholesale illegitimate/cheating approach.

Thank you for a voice of reason :)
Can you look at this, and tell me which of the 2 you're using:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31063868

From speedtest's official cli program, on my 2.5gbase-t connected machine I get 2200mbps up and down.. but from the open source speedtest-cli I get 300-350mbps.

(Here, I only got ~900mbps because I was running from a raspberry pi with a 1000BaseT link).
> Defense & prosecution aren't on a search for truth, they are on a search to make the best possible case for & against you, respectively.

The most important things prosecution does are: decide who to prosecute, decide when to ask for bail, decide what sentence to ask for. This all has a lot more to do with societal values than making a strong case.
Almost like I was responding to a comment, not the article itself... That's why there's levels to comments.
Minecraft? Roblox? VR Chat? What about the thousands of independent games made by kids and young adults that are created and posted to Itch.io and Steam every day? Does that not count for anything?

>I'm making an open 3D action MMO engine to sort this out.

Yes, I'm sure this will be the Unity killer that everyone is waiting for. rolls eyes
While generally true, there's the problem of what to buy and when. Then there's the problem of hindsight and the problem of that one stock everyone thought was going to the moon crashing and burning away your life savings. Then there are strategies and strategies that decide which strategy to apply and when, then you realize it isn't as easy as "just buy stonks".
Eastern European here - it's interesting to read how this looks from the other side.

But yeah, $50k is enough for many to throw work-life balance out the window and at times pull all-nighters - I should know, because just recently I quit a job where that unfortunately was a habit of mine - all for approximately this pay.

I don't think it's sustainable, but younger people increasingly choose this way of life, because it lets them obtain status symbols like a MacBook Pro or a lease for a Mercedes C-Class. Also the overall mindset is that this is how people live and work in Silicon Valley - regardless of whether that's really the case.

But here's the kicker: some in my area are saying that we're in a bubble and developer salaries surely must come crashing down eventually. Others think that our only advantage is low cost.

Personally I share neither of these views. It's all relative and as long as real estate prices in Silicon Valley remain absurd, developers will be compensated generously. Perhaps even after they come down - if they ever do of course.
Great looking - everything but the cutesy front headlights.

I'd slightly prefer a blacked out Tesla truck to that. The main problem with the front/back of the Cybertruck is the it's very flat and plain where even a licence plate or name decal would make it look better. But I have a feeling it will look better in person than online.
"Ownership is not the most important thing. It is the only thing that counts.

Nothing else counts in the getting of money. Shareholder thanks do not count. A good salary and a company car and health plan and pension don’t count. Most share options (usually nothing more than the promise of chickenfeed to salaried employees, and a promise broken half the time, too), don’t count. The gratitude of colleagues doesn’t count.

Nothing counts but what you own in the race to get rich. If you haven’t much skill, or much wit, or much talent, or much luck, and yet you insist on owning more than your fair share of any start-up or acquisition, then you can become rich. If you take what you’re given, you will probably not get rich."

- "How to Get Rich" by Felix Dennis (late billionaire publisher)

If you want compensation, insist on it. Don't accept third-class steerage shares that are 100% of nothing.
>Financial remuneration is surely the primary factor

Personally, I wouldn't quit WFH even if someone offered to triple my salary to come work in an office.
Can't we whitelist some of third-party cookies for the transition period?
Maybe this is the case in general, but a while back we did something that required flipping an array and when we did it with python inside Postgres it was several magnitudes faster.
Sure, but the "commercial bank money" layer is a feature rather than a bug of the system from the point of view of central bank and commercial banks alike (investment costs and risks are reduced by readily available credit at a predictable price, and the broad money supply is elastic in response to demand) and it makes no difference at all to those on either side of the transfer.

If you worry about the stability of interbank lending and solvency of banks, you resolve that with legal requirements around lending and reserves, not introducing a new optional form of m0
Lots of technologies start out appealing to technologists until they mature enough to reach mainstream adoption. It's not disturbing, it's a sign that they were successful! Cars did the same, and aeroplanes, and electricity. I'm happy the internet is now as common and easy to use as electricity. Geeks can move on to the next interesting immature technology. Perhaps cryptocurrency or machine learning or whatever. The world is full of exciting things.
The same thing could have been said about information in the pre-Internet era.
Just bought it on the app store, very nicely done!
To answer shortly to your questions. 1 - No; 2 - No.

Expanded explanation. Due to economics you'd invest in a more expensive technology, using more manual labor, having less free time to think to more advance tech, which in turn leads to slower development. Using more manual labor would also, in turn, lead to less need for coal and oil demand and that would mean lesser climate change problem. My 2 cents
Where will the $20,000 (times millions of recipients) come from?
As a former nephrologist I feel obligated to comment on this article. So, much of what is written is true, but much is also a bit slanted too.

So, mortality rates on dialysis do suck. It's not necessarily a reflection of bad care, though that certainly happens. Once you require dialysis, that means your kidneys are trashed. They don't work well enough to function, so you need kidney replacement therapy. This generally doesn't happen in isolation. If your kidneys are that damaged, you generally have serious underlying health problems (diabetes, high blood pressure) that have also affected your brain and heart... so it's only a (short) matter of time before you have a devastating event.

There are diseases which only affect the kidneys in isolation, and those people tend to live a long time on dialysis.

The comparisons to foreign countries is always important but I feel like the article dismisses some of the country-specific factors

"Yet Italy spends about one-third less than we do per patient. These results reflect lower overall health-care costs and a __patient population with lower rates of diabetes and heart disease__, but also important divergences in policy and practice."

Less diabetes and heart disease would be a huge factor in the difference in spending and mortality rates. Those are massive implications, and also indicate that their dialysis patients might be due to different (less systemic) diseases.

In the end, it's probably only one factor. I think it's likely that underlying U.S. cultural differences are another. I believe expectations and beliefs about death and elderly may be different abroad, though I don't have any citations for that. In the U.S., it's seems hard to deny people dialysis. I'd be curious what the average age of people on dialysis in the U.S. vs abroad are. I expect the U.S. average age would be much higher.

I think american families tend to want dialysis and are more reluctant to accept that it's simply the end of the line. To be fair, it's a hard decision to not accept what seems to be a life extending treatment. And it's incredibly hard as a physician to refuse dialysis to anyone, especially if the family wants it.

I also expect these same attitudes pervade u.s. trained physicians who may skirt these subjects of death more apprehensively because they also share those attitudes. The cover your ass mentality also tends to mean people err on the side of doing more, when doing less may be more appropriate.
http://www.coolestfriends.com until about a week ago when the "New MySpace" launched.
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ASP.NET with Blazor or Kotlin with Kotlin/JS.

C# and Kotlin offer a nice balance between rigor and accessibility and have good docs and tooling. Using the same language across the stack makes collaboration and debugging simpler. Large labor pool of devs who prob have a bit stronger CS fundamentals than the average JS/TS dev, but still prob have a web/mobile app focus/experience
> Britain doesn't have a constitution.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_the_United_Kin...

Also try reading 'The British Constitution: A Very Short Introduction' by Martin Loughlin.
Yes, there are so much incredible bike-software out there. TrainerRoad is fantastic (and check out their podcast!), Zwift is fun (races, group rides), also Sufferfest, Rouvy and others. However, since the resistance of the bike isn't readable or controllable by other software, the Peloton is just for all other usage than the Peloton app just a dumb spinning bike. Instead I'm using a Kickr Core and my normal bike, no lock in there, and much cheaper.

Someone has also now made a physical device to adjust the resistance, so it can be used with other software [0]. I think Peloton really should use ANT+ and open up, would make the bikes usable for many more people. Of course, maybe it's the subscription Peloton wants to make money on, not the bikes?

[0]: https://www.dcrainmaker.com/2020/12/shift-smart-trainer-firs...
This whole thing was pretty harmless. The media and people who don't like the president calling it "insurrection" and other such breathless terms are giving it way more credit and import than it deserves.

As far as revolutions go, this one was... understaffed.

https://mobile.twitter.com/jamiefox1/status/1346972712670011...
Because they read some blog post about this cool thing you can do...
> According to the latest WebAIM Screen Reader User Survey, when it comes to desktop screen reader usage, JAWS and NVDA are practically equal in usage, with around 40% of respondents reporting that they use one or the other.

I wouldn't take this data too seriously. The WebAIM user survey is only available in english, and usually filled by tech-savvy blind users who are part of the blind community and are told about it.

At this point, JAWS is mostly used in corporate environments in the United States, mostly due to the number of scripts already written for it, a business-friendly (non GPL) license, and easy enforcement of restrictions given by IT, which are features that NVDA doesn't provide. Some countries give out JAWS for free to their blind residents, so the number of JAWS users there is probably going to be pretty significant too. However, in most parts of the world, NVDA is the screen reader most people use. As a person living in eastern Europe, with many friends from around the world (including the U.S.), I know exactly two people using JAWS as a daily driver.
What makes you think it will go away? If anything I think it will get worse as there will be even more USB connector types introduced, and screens with even higher resolutions and refresh rates that todays cables don't have the bandwidth to support.
HN is a much more civilized place compared to the wild west.
I actually do not find this unreasonable, maintaining and providing backwards support everyone's custom version with their own quirks would be a big technical burden.
If the new messaging app doesn't have an option to import previous chats from the old platform, changing platforms does come with a price.
Elsewhere I read that the company's CEO and/or another spokesperson said that:

- the company is legally required to pay the dividend

- the company is looking for a 'commercial loan'

I don't understand the latter part. I read 'commercial loan' as a loan on commercial terms, which would include pricing in the risk of default etc. If that's what they mean, then why does the government need to provide the loan? Why not borrow from a commercial bank or issue bonds in the normal way?

If the answer is 'no one will lend', then the rate the government charges should be very high indeed (infinite?). If the answer is 'too expensive', then the government's price should be too expensive, too.

What am I missing?
I'm working on a simple site for running polls using alternative election methods like Instant Runoff Voting, the Condorcet Method, and Borda Counts: https://poller.io

When I looked for sites to run polls with ranked voting, I was surprised that nothing really fit my group's needs, so I figured I'd make one. The site is working (in MVP form), and I'll iterate on it more in the coming months. I'm hoping it can spread awareness about different voting schemes in addition to being a useful/simple tool for decision making.

Also, it was a fun way to learn ReasonML :)
I’m primarily a windows user and am programming to create products.
Since I don’t work a programmer job, my learning is unstructured. Is bash the main benefit of learning something like Ubuntu?

I have delayed making the switch because I have lot of things to learn (currently relearning math, testing out different deep learning architectures, and learning JavaScript (second language after Python)) and not sure if should prioritize learning it.

I still need to get better with GitHub which is something I clearly see the benefits of. Also need to get better with a text editor , using Visual Studio Code , mainly just for text completion in Python and JavaScript, so need to learn the additional benefits.
Also want to test sublime text.

I see recommendations for vim, but I wonder if that will make me too twitchy and will start to type before thinking.

So due to the amount of things I am trying to learn, I have delayed learning Ubuntu.

I know Windows 10 now has built-in bash capabilities but I wonder if there are other benefits I am missing with Linux and worth learning.
> They're reporting basically no new cases at this point.

It’s like 50-100 new cases every day, looks like. I’m getting out of my depth with what exactly that allows us to rule out, but it sounds like “constantly restarting the chain of transmission” might be the actual reality?

If that drops further, then maybe these new cases are just the ones that incubated longer instead?
I've been quite happy with https://covid19info.live/
So your plan is to greatly reduce testing capacity?
Companies are paying taxes too. If you stop purchasing products from one company, government would simply go and tax the hell out of the one you chose instead. It's the wrong way to tackle this problem.
Older discussion here on Hacker news including comments from the project leader explaining the reasons for the fork : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3645055

(I see a correlation of the reason with the recent news on ngingx plus, but that can be only mind tricks)
I doubt this. If Forex comes in India, Rupee should appreciate. No matter whether it comes through legitimate banking routes or illegal laundering, if $ is brought in Rupee should appreciate and vice versa.

Also I doubt the money being brought in by the political parties would be enough to move the currency at the scale it is moving.

The charts are misleading. INR has steadily lost value against Dollar over last 3 decades, more so after 1991. Only during the 2002-2007 period it gained, because a lot of $$ were coming in. Now that foreign investors are taking their money out, Rupee is being hammered.
Ah right, thanks. I had been thinking that picture and srcset were competing.
Here's the problem:

|RobinHood co-founder Baiju Bhatt stresses that if you want to do deep financial research, you probably want to sit down at a desktop.

The heavy traders who would really benefit from zero-commission (assuming that it actually is) are on desktops in front of 4-10 monitors. Because of what it implies, I think regular people probably shouldn't be making trades that need to be done RIGHT NOW before a desktop can be reached.

edit to add: Is the "Share" button on the bottom of the trade confirmation screen really necessary? Are rich people going to be clogging up twitter with brags like "Just bought 1,000 shares of AAPL on Robinhood!"
Interesting idea. But not practical, I think. The mighty will always find ways to hide their doings and as you can see at the current state, those with the bigger resources will always win in such a battle.
Singapore is pretty authoritarian but to call it a police state goes way too far. The comparison with the CCP is also honestly ridiculous. A more accurate parallel would be with Japan, with the almost unbroken run of LDP governments since the US occupation in terms of one party rule, but with a real and effective opposition. You could also look at other cities, albeit ones that are parts of, rather than constitutive of states, like San Francisco, which has been ruled by Democrats for longer than Singapore has been independent.
The CPI does normalize. There's a hedonic adjustment model which takes into account everything from TV screen sizes and types to sleeve lengths.
https://www.bls.gov/cpi/quality-adjustment/questions-and-ans...

It isn't perfect - arguably there is no such thing as a perfect way of capturing the differences between changes in what's available and what's expected over time with respect to things like CRT vs LCD monitors - but portion sizes are relatively simple for adjustment
I think Capital One does this in the United States, and the whole Machine Learning and Maps magic that’s associated with it is entirely unnecessary.

The credit card companies already have the address of the merchant. They just stick that address on the map.
Might have been able to include Irish Stew, and Coddle for Ireland.

Both are more stews.. but several other things already on this map are more like stews.
"Gender issues" and "workplace diversity" are vague topics, not "truths" or even specific ideas we can discuss.
Gauge theory is already a thing in physics. Maybe he should come up with a different name?
Sure, the blog might have missed out on the finer details of the different architectures. We intended to give an overview of some of the techniques used to build such information extraction models, we will definitely dive deeper into one of the architectures/model as a second part to this blog.
Even the broke musicians I know have thousands to tens of thousands of dollars in gear.
The way e-ink works is quite different from an LCD. They didn't even get color until recently.

Personally, I think the benefits of reflective reading surfaces (ie e-ink) over backlit reading surfaces (everything else) is massively overblown. I have an e-ink tablet now that they are >300ppi and it's nice to read on, but it's a novelty. Some people love 'em, but that hasn't stopped the iPad Pro from outselling all of the e-ink tablets by a huge factor. I think e-ink's future is mainly in small/low power/ambient displays, like price tags or luggage tags.

Most people read most things off of their phones or tablets and it's just fine.