skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Huh? The article does a poor job of answering the question posed in the title (please, author, just tell me which is the "classic"). I've never seen the image in question and just wanted to get that basic fact straight before reading.

The article leads with two side-by-side images. The one on the right, apparently, is the "classic" one. However, it has been cropped, which makes the comparison pointless. The caption is no help either, just giving the photographer's last name but not identifying the "classic."

Was the goal to force the reader solve the riddle for themselves? If so, it ruins the rest of the discussion.
China also federally funds them. But God forbid if the US Federal govt spends some infrastructure money on the coastal elites. That will be blasphemy
Entrepreneur in China since 2001 here.

The big shift occurred in 2007 in the lead-up to the 2008 Olympics when China said "OK, enough foreigners" and tightened up the visa rules (which were admittedly extremely open). They never relaxed them again. This experienced reality perfectly conincides with the drop-off seen in the graphics in this article.

IMHO there are three parts to the story the article misses: (1) The impact of the 2007 changes has now passed and stats across the board have stabilized or are picking up again. (2) China's first tier cities are now extremely expensive, which is a massive disincentive for small-scale foreign investors. (3) That Blue Frog chain's food is both terrible and expensive.

Also there are have been many major macro changes in this time the article misses, like increased focus on anti-corruption, reforms toward digital tax, banking and governance systems, Belt and Road Initiative, cities now choking on cars, WeChat and mobile payment going from 0-100% penetration, omnipresent food delivery, etc.
I do work with FPGA's as well. The tool chains are a lot more tightly coupled to the device. Also IP tends to uses chip specific features a lot of times to get better performance or space utilization. So it's a lot harder to justify a switch. AMD's CPUs cover the cases of what intel provides 99% of the time.
O am an active chronic hepatitis B and hepatitis D patient (27 years old).

I was checking this the other day: http://replicor.com/

Based in Canada BTW.
'16TB' of silicon at current rates is not a few cents, not even close.
Ask HN: If you woke up tomorrow and it is 18th century, what would you do?
Hypothetical question, you woke up tomorrow and it is 1718 or it is 1018 or 318 BC? And you have your knowledge (just knowledge, you can't bring anything with you to the past), what would you do, how would you use your knowledge?

(assume the language is not the issue and don't worry about the grandfather paradox)
Teams is actually not bad at all (sans linux/skype annoyance), but yeah.
But the sound. A carbureted SBC sounds so good.
No Google Dragonfly, Just Google Firebase Service, OK?
give your answer
Sounds like google/apple/amazon's take on the United States tax law as well.
1. Any transition to synthetic foods would be gradual.

2. People have already subsisted on fully synthetic diets (aka elemental diets) in the past as part of things like space-travel research and treatments for gastrointestinal disorders. They do fine.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1410941/?page=1
> Were not for the battery degradation ghost, people would be switching in droves already. But they are familiar with laptop batteries, and they think car batteries degrade the same way.

Don't they? Elsewhere in this thread it is said that these batteries are still some kind of lithium/polymer tech, so unless the capacity is severely artificially-restricted in both directions from the optimum storage charge, (a) it becomes dangerous and unusable when fully discharged and (b) it loses capacity continuously whenever it's close to full charge, even faster if it is at full charge with the power-source left connected.
It's better than I expected, with C as an option. You seem to be missing everything else I use: assembly, linker scripts, machine code (bare hex opcode bytes).
> driver became highly unstable after 2004

The ATI dev on twitter made no such claim. In fact he never made any claim about stability at all. Just that the new driver was missing functionality, so only specific things (like Doom3) got it and they were shipping 2 OpenGL drivers as a result during 2004-2007. End-users weren't broken during that timeframe. The old driver didn't suddenly break and get super unstable. If anything the complaint is that the old driver was too stable, it wasn't getting new features & changes fast enough.
> But there is every reason to believe that it will be worth pennies on the dollar, and companies will end up in chapter 7 rather than chapter 11.

I don't think you're disagreeing with me here. I said "fire-sale" above—I meant pennies on the dollar. Liquidation of assets. It's just that PE firms think they can make money by getting underwater companies to favor ch11 over ch7, because then they can play negotiating hardball over specific assets that other companies might want (like real-estate), rather than those assets just being probated out at face value to creditors.

GM was already almost ch11'ed in 2008. They were sold to a PE firm, and the PE firm looked for buyers for its assets. They just couldn't find a buyer at the time, since the foreign electric market was still nascent, so no company wanted to grow into the American market at the time. Eventually, GM got propped up enough with government stimulus to buy itself back and keep going. If it hadn't, though, it'd probably have limped along for long enough that it could finally be sold some time in the last five years.

Also:

> By the time that electric startups are driving current ICE companies into bankruptcy, electric startups will no longer need those assets (because they must have built their own before this happens) and therefore still won't buy them.

Why wouldn't a Chinese auto-maker want to buy a set of American plants (which is to say, American real-estate to stamp out copies of their Chinese plants onto) if they wanted to expand their global business into the American market? Especially considering the likely-to-only-increase trade tariffs between the US and China—it may end up far cheaper to build a Chinese electric car intended for the US market in the US than in China.
To be fair, they probably learned it from Detroit. It's just a lot less formal in Detroit than the program they put together in Atlanta. And it's done more to put food on the table by necessity in Detroit rather than as a sort of public works kind of thing.
Google Blacklisted Dissident to Please Chinese Government
I think you're assuming more meaning in that statement than was intended. I somehow doubt that "timely" as used here implies that untimely means fixed.
I use a quite a bit of Stevia. I wonder where that fits in.
ARMed Attack: Intel and AMD Do Not See the Torpedo Headed Their Way
Yeah I expected some kind of a big plastic bag to wear :)
It's expensive and it tastes awful. It's hard to give an easy answer to "why is this super complicated thing expensive?", and I'm no expert, but you essentially have to replicate the specialized microbiological machinery of multiple plant species.
Some of the Google employee replies are so bad, they circle around and come out good.
The "metric ton" is really just the megagram, with standard abbreviation Mg.
I wasn't trying to be negative. I was genuinely curious. As I said the website has very little information. It sounds like something i'd be interested in. I just don't entirely understand the purpose of it and what features it will have over existing solutions.

Or even whether it's a language or a library. It says it's a language but that it can speed up higher level languages. I don't understand that statement. Will they provide bindings for other languages to link to or use? Will you have to write your own for your language of choice? Do you compile your SOUL binary first and link to it like a .so or .dll? Do you write standalone programs with it? It's fairly unclear.
This is a horribly inefficient way to grow food.

The reason why food is grown by large industrial farming companies is because they can grow it ~100 times cheaper than you could.

If everyone had to grow their own food, then everyone would starve to death.

The idea of locally grown food in everyone's backyard is a fairy tale that just sounds nice, but would actually be horrible.
Now we need an LLVM target for this.
Having experienced this on the passing of a colleague, I think there are an equal mix of people that genuinely feel that reverence and people that talk it up in order to increase their standing, and both of those groups are generally in the minority at any organization (with the exception of cults.)

Point being, most people at Apple probably considered Steve as a person.

Regarding the design review practices, that all sounds like good advice and rather normal when presenting to a time and attention limited audience.
And the sad thing is, if it takes hundreds of millions of years to evolve an intelligent species, as far as we know there is absolutely no way we can leave a message to the ones who could presumably come after us. Even choosing a location on Earth for the message is impossible because even optimal places for life to flourish become deserts or buried under ice or rocks on those time scales.

Makes you think how small we are.

The best bet would probably be to draw a giant smiley face on the light side of the Moon - but that's assuming that a new species will have faces like ours. Maybe the "Moon rabbit" is a perfectly obvious drawing by some ancient species' standards.
In the US, at least, so-called “browsewrap” agreements, those that are linked in a website footer and purpose to bind you simply for visiting a site, are legally unenforceable. However, “clickwrap” agreements, where you get a text box with the terms and have to click “agree”, are enforceable – despite the unlikelihood that even a single user read the terms before agreeing. I don’t like either type, but it’s important to distinguish them. You won’t be bound just for receiving an HTTP response, any more than you can bind someone else by sending an HTTP request; there has to be a human in the loop knowingly choosing to agree to something, even if they don’t know what it is they’re agreeing to.

That said, I don’t know much about how other countries’ legal systems treat such agreements, but from what I’ve heard, they tend to be equally or more restrictive of them, not less.
I don't quite understand what is meant by "not to cross is compensation"
not to be dismissive, but please. didn't have the balls to sign his name. this is just noise.
I hear they have one of those in China.
Mehhhhh in for a penny, in for a pound. If it turns out this stuff kills you I'm probably already done for anyway.
I showed off the "net send" flood in my school which was a batch file that looked like this:

:label
net send username
goto label

Someone then substituted * for username and flooded the network. I got to spend a week in in school suspension for that!!!
Sounds like operator overloading isn't the real problem here. An function equals(T rhs) -> bool that calls new and modifies member variables still sounds pretty terrible; changing "==" to "equals" doesn't fix the problem.
> From a fundamental standpoint of physics and available materials, nutrients are relatively easy to get; as far as I know, most vitamins and minerals are pretty cheap to either come by naturally or manufacture, and you don't need that much of any of them to keep a person healthy, so let's assume food energy is the real limiting factor here.

Food is more complicated than this picture. So much that nutritionists have major differences over which basic materials are beneficial in bulk and which cause health problems. Vitamins, minerals and medicines are not automatically absorbed well by our digestive system. The many biological foibles of human metabolism and our symbiotic gut flora, still confounds expectations about what food can be and can do to health.

There have been many, perhaps endless attempts to synthesize a wholesome food product - it would be worth a fortune. I am aware of zero successes to date and this shouldn't be the case if its not very difficult. We don't even synthesize sugar for consumption - maybe start there, but it is not even clear if/how much it causes diabetes or other diseases.

We might be stuck for a while longer with reliance on foods that needs to live for bit (plant or animal) before we can sustain our own lives with them - seems to be a very old system requirement of multicellular life, and one that has not been cracked yet.
Do you have examples of this? I know teens on 4Chan and video games were ironically/ignorantly spamming racial slurs a decade ago, but the rise of legitimate, serious neo-fascism and Nazi beliefs feels like a recent development around the last election. The activist left agitation has been going on far longer. When I was in college circa early 2000s, we were indoctrinated that only whites can be racist (privilege + power), hooking up after a couple beers is date rape, etc.

FWIW, I've really enjoyed discussing this with you. Most people who disagree with me are very aggressive and resort to insult rather than an honest two-way conversation. The thing you said about eliminating prejudice is especially important. Even though I believe people in America enjoy some of the least biased treatment in all of human history, there are still problems like corporations shielding executives from serious sexual harassment claims and police brutality against unarmed minorities. We can, and should, do better.

Anyway I still have a hard time buying that tech is a prejudiced place run by privileged, straight, white, Christian men: Sundar Pichai and Satya Nadella are Indian, with tan skin and a totally foreign culture to most Americans, yet they run Google and Microsoft. Larry and Sergey are descendants of Eastern European Jewish immigrants. Sandberg is a Jewish woman in a high-level, power position at Facebook. Tim Cook is openly gay. These people are in the highest level positions running some of the most valuable companies in the entire world.
Same thing happens to me with Gmail. Weird.
The Netherlands!

It's a small country that grows a lot of food!

Final answer.

Now let's read the article and sees what it says.

Edit: ah it's more about cattle.
Perhaps another reason why VW has lengthened their US warranty to 6yrs/72k miles.

Certainly Dieselgate forced their hand but there may also be some appeasement to dealers since many new car buyers do the same as you.
The stats on my sub indicate new Reddit is roughly 10 percent. Old reddit desktop is slowly giving ground to mobile, where a surprising number just use desktoo browser on mobile.

And that is how I prefer Reddit myself.

Multi subs are my primary reason.
I think some people have to be 'pioneers' on that front; in this case, I wouldn't be so offended that someone who is trying to swindle me doesn't accept me. Part of growing as a person is identifying, challenging or accepting your biases, which can be uncomfortable; if a person (Chinese or otherwise) doesn't accept me as a result of not doing that, it's on them, and it's their failure as a person. At most I can advocate that others challenge their beliefs so the next person in my (hypothetical) position doesn't have to suffer such fools.
> is also a lot more economical than 1200 humans sitting at home playing Fortnite all day because there are no jobs

No it is not. I personally care about people being able to do what they want with their free time.

The situation you describe is only "efficient" if you value everyone's free time and happiness at 0. I care about people's happiness, on the other hand.

The main goal of society should be to provide people with things that they want, and that includes leisure time.
Thing is: Majority of failed interviews can be probably traced back to a relatively small pool of mediocre engineers, who get rejected by dozens of companies, before they finaly land a job. And then they loose that job 3-12 months later, because they coulndn't keep up with their employer expectations. So, at least in theory, both "there's talent shortage" and "it is so hard to land a job" can be true at the same time, just for different groups of people.
The price of oil will be pretty stable over the next ten years. The life of the average vehicle is now around 12 years and getting longer. Demand for gas isn’t going to massively decrease in the next ten years. Also, many gas stations don’t make a ton of money selling fuel, but on selling items from the convience store. So gas stations aren’t going anywhere for at least 10 years.
Audio apps have been the red-headed stepchildren of consumer operating systems since forever: the APIs aren't tuned towards latency, and they often stop providing functionality once "decode an MP3" works.

And audio programming languages themselves have lingered in a research/prototyping/hobbyist zone for decades. CSound, one of the oldest examples, dates back to the 70's, but production hardware and software tends to ends up with funky embedded-code style toolchains because the higher level provisions aren't good enough for professional apps. That said I have seen a few games(indie scale projects) do something like run an instance of Pure Data rather than code up their own custom audio system. It's all a bit related to the difficulty of doing low-level, time-sensitive I/O in a computing world that has towers of abstraction. Graphics have been ushered up that abstraction path while audio is still living in the 90's, so you can see cool modern shader effects in your phone browser, but the same browser can't play Amiga tracker music without stuttering and popping.

The attractive part of the SOUL pitch is in making the base tooling experience better, and then down the line using that to boost performance.
We may well actually be mostly in agreement.

As for the Chinese auto-maker, it is a chicken and egg problem. If the end result is Chinese EV makers having a big role in driving US auto manufacturers out of business, and they decide that they need US factories to do it, they will have to build those factories first. By the time the US auto company factories are for sale there will very much be a flavor of, "Gee, that would have been nice 5 years ago..."

That isn't to say that some Johnny-come-lately who entered the US market late won't be found to snap a few factories up. But at that point they'll probably be better off looking for buyers in unrelated industries.
Is the natural follow-up to this question: What about Google?
It is actually very easy to bring them back, but you can't go ahead and then kill them a week later and expect any benefit. Stop tilling and spraying and put down some compost and you've got your microorganisms back and the food to get them through until the first plant roots are well established to keep it going from there. The thing that is hard to bring back is the thousands of years of accumulated topsoil that we've destroyed.

https://hooktube.com/watch?v=x2H60ritjag
I think it's good show all facets of famous people, especially their dark sides. There is a tendency to glorify them and then think they are great people in all areas. Most times they aren't.
> They are not going to orchestrate a stunt that makes them look incompetent.

Speaking of the other Google story on the main page as we speak...

https://www.blog.google/products/messages/latest-messages-al...
Uber Joins Lyft in Race to Tap Investors
Getting your head chopped off and getting your shins kicked both suck, but I know which one I'd prefer.
I would rather the government step in than allowing anti-vaxers to keep polio, measles and whooping cough around.

Frankly the government steps in on a lot of things, like when a parent is caught driving drunk with their kids in the back of the car.
A Bayesian Perspective on Generalization and Stochastic Gradient Descent
apologies for being off topic, but: I am a long time Fastmail customer, but the law passed in Australia yesterday has me somewhat concerned. Fastmail is an Australian company. Anyone else concerned?
Python Tuples: detailed overview
I’d roll out the cotton gin!
Plenty of ICE cars have artificial engine sound pumped into the cabin today. We could easily do the same for EVs.
For realtime audio processing Intel still bears the crown. Hopefully AMD will get closer so that Intel get on improving.
Huh. I haven't had that issue with Outlook Web App. I have "Mark the item as read when the selection changes" selected in my options and I haven't noticed it failing.
"Why not just lie"

Some people care about being truthful. ;)

"What would be a potential reason for refusing to take care of a patient if you didn't follow them from week 1"

It's something like the Apple/Google/Adobe/Intel agreement to not hire each other's engineers. It gives one group more power by making the other party in the relationship have worse options if they leave.

If you leaving your current pediatrician means having no pediatrician at all, then the all of the pediatricians in the town benefit. Each can use it as a threat for compliance, force appointments, or have more room to act in ways that parents/patients don't like.
Until the spammers find out that google values those results and supply you with an endless stream of drivel and trash to wade through.

(cough cough reddit)
I have no complaints with Fastmail, great experience.

Android mail clients however - I really wish K-9 Mail felt more modern, it's perfectly usable but the ancient UI makes it less nice to use.
That's a very good point -- I've never had any issues with it, but I've also not used it very extensively, so my anecdotal experience doesn't count. If it's true that it's more broken and unreliable than alternates, then I'd agree with you.
I am frustrated by the dismissal of this study in the comments. I think the burden of proof clearly lays on the claim that using artificial sweeteners is a healthier alternative to sugar. It seems fairly certain that is not the case.
>top disregard of users' data site

LOL
Chat apps (even "enterprise" chat apps) are commodities. Here today, gone tomorrow. The same is going to happen to Slack inevitably; an acquisition (or, really, any financial exit) at least get something for the founders.
Talk about surge pricing.
This is glorious for its clever use of batch. Like another poster says "mad as badgers".

If you have spare time can you recreate the .Net ILR from batch scripts? :-J
just asked the 6 or so coworkers here right now who have macs. not a single one has homebrew installed.
Not only all the above, but where's the head-to-head comparison with sucrose (layman's 'sugar')-sweetened beverages?
> What about UNIX shells that allow to call public functions in dynamic libraries as if they were shell commands?

dlcall

> Or interact with running applications using the OS APIs like Powershell allows with WMI, COM, OLE Automation and .NET?

Depends what you need. You can use nc -U /var/run/socket or pipes with expect. If you have root permissions you can use gdb scripting/ebpf to communicate with user-space/kernel-space data of your application.

> Yes, there is DBUS, but isn't really integrated across the whole stack.

DBUS is a bus for desktops/mobile. I never saw that someone use it for server applications. The main idea(after KISS) of the Linux shell is that if you can't write something in awk it will be better to use python. Actually, in the Linux world, GRPC/REST is more common than OS-level API.
API Designers in Field:Design Practices and Challenges for Creating Usable APIs