skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Additionally, the performance of cgo can cause problems when linking to libraries like Vulkan that can't effectively be lowered into syscalls.

Agreed. But you also ask for very fast memory allocation, which implies a bump allocator, which implies a copying GC, which implies pinning objects shared with C through cgo (Go's foreign function interface), which would probably make cgo even slower.

> I also think that throughput of memory allocation, not just latency, matters a lot more than people give it credit for.

At 60 fps, minimizing latency is critical. You have to optimize this first. When your longest GC pause is well below 1/60 s, then you can optimize throughput of memory allocation.

Anyway, most AAA video game engines being written in C/C++, my guess is they don't use a bump allocator, which means they do quite well with allocators like tcmalloc or jemalloc, probably by allocating as much as possible early, and using object pools.
> High Growth Handbook is the playbook for turning a startup into a unicorn...

No, I don't read the book because I don't like books that claim to be selling some secret sauce to success because they are often rife with survivorship bias.
> check any other crypto sub and you'll find some of the same articles and information

That's because no matter which coin they own, the main source of their information comes from the Bitcoin community. If Bitcoin dies, all other coins will be affected by it, so even the stupidest traders keep an eye on what happens to Bitcoin even if they didn't invest in Bitcoin itself.

I didn't sell my Bitcoins when the chain split happened so i own the same amount of BTC and BCH, but I still think this "Bitcoin brand is owned by the original Bitcoin chain" is ridiculous and ignorant idea. But that's just my opinion. You see, it's all about opinions and there is no such thing as "fact" in crypto because nobody knows the future. Anyone's free to have their opinion, just like you think Bitcoin cash is a scam. I'm just sharing my own opinion because I think it's as legitimate as the "bcash is scam" opinion yet doesn't get enough attention, mostly due to the unfortunate turnout of the market. Most people who bought into Bitcoin late last year bought BTC and not BCH, and these are the people who are most active on social media, and of course they want BTC to win and BCH to fail because otherwise it means they made a bad investment. In contrast, a lot of early investors (who have owned Bitcoin for a long time even before the fork) don't have any incentive to speak out because to them it doesn't really mater which side wins (unless they're just irrational people who don't understand the market). So we end up with a world where the loudest people are the ones who bought BTC, and the people on the BCH are automatically presented as frauds and scammers.
Yes, they start punching way above their weight against tanks, too. Even moreso if you throw in an auto-scatter script.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKVFZ28ybQs
Neither. From many places, downhill gets me to the Great Salt Lake.
I don't know why I have to say this but this doesn't apply to everyone in China:

- he says nice things about his friends and coworkers

- people line up

- there is social media outrage in China when events (as he describes) happens
FCC and other federal bureaucracy are by-product of Will of People .. centralize the power .. Federal government any way!

To blame libertarians for FCC is like blaming John McCain for Vietnam war.
Store UTC, convert on display to any timezone, either automatically based on geolocation or using a stored preference. This is application design 101 at this point.

Converting old logs isn't hard either since ISO timestamp formats include timezones, or just pick a date for the switchover. The only scenario that gets tricky is with scheduling where users expect local times that carry over daylight-savings boundaries, but it doesn't apply to most apps.
One might be seen as sleeping back then too if they considered proprietary, complicated, insecure behemoths with large, sometimes shitty standard libraries and forced high-level constructs as "nice batteries-included VMs".
> "The difference is that in Argentine politics, if you're not corrupt you'll get destroyed." (This is kind of exaggerated but it gets the point across.) So while the cultures are similar,

Wouldn’t you characterize that as a significant cultural difference. Accepting corruption can be viewed as cultural.
I would view it this way.
Can Big Data Save Us from Poverty Porn?
Top 5 Mistakes of Greenhorn Data Scientists
Isn’t your argument itself sexist? Judging the publishing company based on the sex of the publisher? Is there any actual content that offends you or is it just the people publishing it? Serious question.
Umm, did you miss the point of the post you're answering to?
I think it’s fine, most Chinese people complain about these things too. Nobody likes a line-jumper, in any culture.

What I think is a problem is to suggest the entire Chinese populous of being money-loving but without asking how that happened. Life is tough when you have over a billion people to feed, and no government support structures to lean on in times of need. It’s dog-eat-dog because it needs to be, not because the Chinese people like it.

Regarding the not-stopping-to-help someone hit by a car; There’s pretty well known story about a bystander who tried to help, getting into deep trouble for doing so. I don’t have the link, but some creative Googling should surface the story.
Yes well I am sure that's what the guy next to me when I was in hospital last year thought until he took supplements plus his prescribed meds and had 100% kidney failure.
Unnecessary antibiotic prescriptions highest in urgent care settings
After reading the comments, I must be the only person in the world who misses good, old-fashioned Rails templates / views. With someone who knew the internals well, they were a productivity gold mine.
I have everything working on my Lenovo T480 with Fedora Linux.
> From your perspective, you are already fully vested

So, um, about that. I should not have said I have 1.8% in the bank. I actually just have about half of that vested so far. I won't be fully vested until three years from now.

I don't really want to quit. I'm excited about what we're working on and I think it could be really useful for people. I just wish that the upside was a little bigger. I also really loathe the idea of walking away from something that isn't finished, you know?

Plus, all the intangibles are nice: I like my co-workers, I like our full-remote office.
Can you give some more info about what this is, it's not really obvious what it is and what it does.
It's not really about how far you can run in a day, more if you can survive long enough with a broken ancle to get help.

In some climates that means having some form of basic shelter (wind sack, sleeping bag) so you won't die from exposure during the night, or due to a shift in the weather.
> Trump has been talking about intellectual property issues

IP is a capital issue; tightening IP protections reinforces the relative power of capital on all sides of a trade regime.

> That is, exactly what your third paragraph was saying, except that he isn't talking about labor or environmental protection

Yes, it's exactly what I'm talking about except for being completely different and benefitting a narrow interest rather than a broad one.

> which you seem to be implying are the only two places where they can work.

No, they can work as leverage on any issue; labor and environmental issues are just the critical ones where they would have broad benefits to the Sheridan public because they would address the problem of the choice between making local conditions worse and losing jobs.
Honestly, the risks for early employees are closer to the investors risks. Early employees are just as subject to the whims of the founders as investors are. It would be much more balanced if early employee options were from the same class of preferred stock that investors are granted. That way they at least get something out of a low-value buy-out they had no control over.
Ask HN: Can we split the HN voting button into two?
1) for agree/disagree (sentiment)

2) for vote to increase/decrease ranking in HN submissions list (value of exposure to HN community)

It’s obvious some people use their votes to reduce the visibility of stories or points of view that they don’t like, rather than according to whether they find it to be of value to themselves and others. By splitting one’s vote one could still express their sentiment without that being tied to their judgement on value. Another option would be to put said info in the comments. But. Come on. We all know that doesn’t happen. Just a thought.
https://naturalmath.com/

(The PDFs are pay-what-you-want and Creative Commons licensed)
`AA(|A|AA)` is valid regexp syntax?

Holy moly it is! I had no idea you could put a | right after parens like that! I guess (|A) is nothing or A? Woah.
My family has served in every branch except the USCG, and I was NROTC early on. The educational benefits are great, the GI Bill is great, the VA financing you can access is great. None of that requires a 20 year stint.

I knew quite a few officers who planned on doing the 20 year office career and then retirement. None of them made it. I knew plenty of officers who wanted to be stationed in Hawaii. They got a taste and then were redeployed elsewhere. The Air Force you think you know does not exist. They are as cut throat as any corporation. And like a corporation the closer you get to retirement the harder they try and spin you loose.

Your daughter may do all 20 years of service. But do know that one day she will plateau career wise and when she does that is when the sharks circle. [0]

[0] https://taskandpurpose.com/military-needs-abandon-promotion-...
Call for testing: VeraCrypt support in Tails
I had a similar idea of an "eternal bit" - to break the problem down, how much would it cost to host a bit for the next X centuries? Not sure if there's a realistic or practical solution.
> Almost like the wealthy who need therapy despite living materially comfortable lives, Americans are fighting with vitriolic rhetoric in seemingly unnecessary ways.

The most accurate idea I’ve seen in years.
What’s the benefit of a crippled pseudolang for use in templates?
Most of them would carry over, but would have to be changed slightly to match the system.
You'd be surprised how much FP you can pull off in Vue. :-)
Once upon a time, 90% of the web would have failed the “is there any use for it” test, and yet people put stuff on it. Sometimes you just wanna have something to fiddle with.
> How can i ensure I get roaches

Which is trivial for any skilled player, because they are an incredibly cheap, low-tech unit, and passive base defenses are currently very good at fending off very early aggression.

> As an aside, ANY change to a game is going to disrupt the equilibrium in some manner

Yes, and sometimes, the equilibrium settles on an incredibly shallow, uninteresting game-space.

StarCraft is a game of a number of rock-paper-scissors cycles, all operating at the same time. Greedy expansion - versus rushing versus safe plays. Economy versus army versus tech. Roaches versus marauders versus zerglings.

Sometimes, due to patch changes, poor balancing, or because player skill improved, the game ends up stuck in a quagmire, where the risk/reward ratio for many of these options is completely out of whack. The game stagnates, and becomes incredibly unfun to play, and to watch.

Throwing a wrench into balance, by allowing auto-scripts, which have an incredibly uneven effect on the different units, mechanics, and races in the game is far more likely to push it into an unfun equilibrium, then a fun one.
The observations about the Chinese people here are racist, inaccurate, and quite frankly plainly incorrect as a whole. Just the observations about what he thinks Chinese people's values are, when compared to actual Confucianism, are pretty inflammatory and ridiculous.

I think the flagging of the comment exemplifies how fearful people are of admitting to being a party to prejudice.
San Francisco to increase tax on businesses to solve homelessness problem
dat: https://datproject.org/
Perhaps amongst the technical crowd. I clearly remember the average dial up user at that time was excited about "surfing the net".
I'm glad they even included the timezone. An alarming number of tech posts don't even bother with that.
I am about to do the same, but it isn't entirely because of Who is America

I've gotten into the habit of hopping from service to service. Now that Westworld and Silicon Valley are done for HBO for a bit, I'll hop over to Showtime for a few months.

Similarly, when the new Stranger Things season comes out, I'll hop back to Netflix for a bit and watch that and whatever other content I come across during that time period.
How Will AR and VR Change the Way We Eat?
First hires are not at least as likely, they may be rewarded with a portion of the company out of the goodness of someone's heart or they may not be, until you actually have a stake in the company don't mistake your seniority for a share of the profits.
I mean... sure but they're also only willing to interact with the game when they're making the experience bad for everyone else.
Thanks for those comments about the Xiaomi 12.

What do you find lacking in the BIOS? Don't you use EFI instead?
Another thing to consider is Apple’s convergence of macOS and iOS. For better or worse this probably makes things much easier for them in terms of code sharing and hiding advanced features from users.
I don't believe, I know for a fact. Most early Bitcoin investors still hold Bitcoin Cash and never sold. And this is the majority of Bitcoin holders. Even the so called "BTC maximalists" still hold the bitcoin cash forks. If you're curious, go ask some of the "famous" BTC maximalists who are aggressively active on Twitter.

Also, if you got in last year, you're a small fish and doesn't really matter in the grand scheme of things, because in the end, it's the older investors who will move the needle. Right now they're just sitting this one out because nobody knows what will happen. But they will start moving their funds once it becomes apparent which one will have the future and which one won't. And when that happens, a "relative hyperbitconization" will happen, shrinking the other chain to irrelevance almost overnight. I'm not trying to say which chain it will be (again, i hold same amount of both so I win either way), I'm just saying, if you hold any type of Bitcoin and want to benefit from this scenario, it's best to do your own research and understand where both parties are coming from, instead of just following the mainstream narrative like a sheep.
"There is a complete and utter lack of respect for the individual or person in China. People do not have innate value as people simply because they exist."

I am imagining that is one reason that the Chinese government is so scared of Christianity, which in recent decades has won over a great many converts, since it teaches that all human beings are the sons and daughters of God, and so should be treated with dignity and compassion.

Of course Christian societies have regularly violated this rule. But it has had a great influence, and it combined with ideas from Western philosophy to produce liberal democracy. And in fact Marxism, which is the official ideology of the Chinese government, has rather similar philosophical roots in Christianity and Western philosophy.
Instagram is building non-SMS 2-factor auth to thwart SIM hackers
The entire West of the state is a coast line.... Water is a few desalination plants away. The reason no desalination plants yet is because water hasnt become that big of an issue.
I'm more for normalizing and legalizing sex work so that it can actually be probably monitored for the benefit of sex workers and even clients. Making sex work illegal hasn't stopped sex work nor customers and has only made sex work non-transparent and potentially increase the harm on both sex worker and client.
Yes. He wants a GUI for all possible options. I say no need, VPN providers can just provide mobileconfig file, or you can always make your own.

Or an app. But it works fine without installing 3p app, more secure.
Sentimental Versioning
You know the FDA stopped thalidomide being prescribed? there was an epidemic of kids born in the 60's with massive deformities in the Uk and Europe.
That's exactly the problem; I don't want to re-zoom every domain. I'd like consistent sizing everywhere, and devPixelsPerPx does that.
I can understand the feeling. In certain cases--like compensation--the economy trends towards inefficiency due to an imbalance of power between capital and labor.

However overall, the economy is a mechanism for rewarding risk, not hours spent in front of a keyboard. "Hard work" in general is a meaningless concept. What drives humanity forward is risk taking.

The system is designed to encourage holders of capital to risk losing it for the potential reward of even greater wealth. Without incentives for owners of capital to take risk, our society and technology doesn't progress.
I'd respect him more if he was upfront about disliking Chinese people. Also It's quite ironic that he complains about lying right after window-dressing his own statement.
I think the standard term is Idiom Recognition.
Ah yes, I saw the adjacent impls, didn't check deeper to see Epsilon was exactly what I was looking for. Thanks. I see even the ifaces are GPL sadly as are the impls. I am not sure the classpath exception applies to the interfaces. And I fear even reading/learning from the impls lest I want to use my GPL-gained knowledge on a distributed, non-GPL project.
>Standard medical advice? Are you even reading what he wrote? His doctor did not clear him to fly.

That's not how insurance works. They aren't going to pay for stuff on the say so of one doctor. The expectation is that they pay for treatment according to published and accepted standards of care. In this case, those say that you can fly with broken bones.

>With all the responses you've generated here and the way you go about your argumentation I wouldn't be surprised to find out that you work for the insurer.

Of course I don't work for the insurer. I am just an experienced backpacker that understands the concept of travel insurance.

> It's crystal clear from the way they conducted themselves that the insurance company would find any excuse to deny his claim

I see no evidence of that. What they offered was exactly what travel insurance is there for. That is, travel home for further treatment after a patient is stabilized. OP wanted to argue he wasn't stabilized. In response, they told him specifically what he needed to get from his doctor in order to justify his claim. As far as I know OP, for whatever reason, never bothered to get that.

IMHO, it's debatable whether or not you should be travelling with unset broken fingers. However, if all you bring to your side of the debate is a single sentence, you're going to lose.

We also don't know what their reaction to paying for the emergency services would be. OP, for reasons that are clear only to him, has decided not to claim ~$6,000 worth of covered expenses.
Would running two VM's on the 32 core server be too much overhead?
I really want to like Backblaze and they seem to do a lot of good work, but whenever this comes up, I also feel responsible to let people know the dark side so they're informed at least.

I've written in more detail before[0], but just to share the gotchas in case anyone here is thinking of switching to Backblaze:

1. They backup almost no file metadata.

2. The client is very slow (days or more) to add new files and there's no transparency (it claims everything is backed up when it's not).

3. There are still bugs in the client that can put your backup into an invalid state where it gets deleted.

4. Support is terrible, and won't be any help when you run into these bugs.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16301626
Wow, I can’t believe I didn’t know Mark Shuttleworth founded Thawte. I always knew him as the Ubuntu guy, but never knew where he earned his millions.

> Shuttleworth founded Thawte Consulting in 1995, a currently running company which specialized in digital certificates and Internet security. In December 1999, Thawte was acquired by VeriSign, earning Shuttleworth R3.5 billion (about US$575 (equivalent to $844.70 in 2017) million).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Shuttleworth
> That the popular vote isn't who wins is a feature. It helps prevent the tyranny of the majority

No, it doesn't. It lowers the threshold for dictating policy, and biases it to particular interests; that makes tyranny of those interests more likely, including when they command a bare majority (or even large minority) of support.

You don't fight tyranny of the majority by unequal representation; you fight tyranny of the majority with constitutional limits on what government can do at all, or by requirements for supermajorities or (as some state constitutions do) multiple time-separated votes (or both!) for particular kinds of action.
That's fairly reasonable when thinking about it. The sales for an AAA game is in the hundreds of millions of dollars. A free to play game should be able to earn the same order of magnitude through its shop, or there wouldn't be so many of them.
Even better would be to replicate screen reader behavior—not only does it handle tables well, but it can interface with all semantic elements (buttons, navs, links, images, etc) in a well-defined manner.
> I'm in an incredible position

Why? Because the founders gave you 1.8% pre-dillution equity, vesting over 8 years, and told you that's "very generous"?

You're an engineer in a market where engineers are in high demand and short supply. Being one of 3 engineers developing a product and getting just 1.8% of the equity - coupled with high demands and (I would bet) under-market pay isn't such a great deal.

You're shouldering quite a bit of risk spending your best working years in a place that likely will never be able to promote or pay you fairly. Your potential reward for that is very limited.

Yet after all this time, you still think you're getting an "incredible" deal...
2048 would break current crypto, >20 would help solving most unsolvable NP hard problems.
My experience is that I don't even need to call to get my prescriptions refilled. I login to my doctor's EMR portal, select medication from the menu on the left, select the check boxes next to the medications I need refills of and click the refill button. A few hours or the next day at the latest my Walgreens app alerts me that my prescriptions are ready.
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There's a generalized problem in medicine that it takes a long time for new standards to trickle into common practice. It often doesn't fully turn over until an older generation of doctors retires.

It seems to me that, of many imperfect systems, one where doctors have control is more preferable. They are legally and duty bound to serve their patients. The same can't be said of pharma company marketers, not by a long shot.

Let's solve the right problem (updating doctors with new training), not the wrong one (let people but prescription drugs they may not understand). Not all drugs are as cut and dry as birth control pills may seem to be.