skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And really, even offline interactive apps have no chance of reacting this fast.

What do you mean? Lots of games run at 60Hz, and lots of games are considered unplayable if they render frames slower than 64ms. You might consider your terminal broken if it took more than 64ms to respond by displaying your input. https://danluu.com/term-latency/

> Try opening TextEdit or Mail - they don't even draw the window frame in 64 ms.

The OS shows you the app is loading. This seems like you're intentionally trying to prove some point and not listen, rather than being open to understanding. Arguing that an app doesn't respond quickly when the app isn't running seems obtuse.

> If we chose our preferences by performance alone,

Nobody said that, so this is another straw man. The post is suggesting that UI & frontend devs use generally accepted interaction principles, and nothing more.
Or even better, the classic SO “What are you actually trying to do?” non-answer!
Maybe this will cheer you up: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/20/business/liberal-arts-ste...
> All making oil more expensive does is make the more expensive oil worth extracting, prices stabilize at a slightly higher point and the market adapts.

For traders, at exactly which point matters a lot.

> Unfortunately we aren't going to run out of oil anywhere near soon enough to save the planet.

Yes, it's probably a good estimate: It doesn't mean that we won't achieve the "peak" in some decades, eventually even "more expensive" options will be used up, just that that won't prevent having much more CO2 than now.
Perhaps you should consider reading this submitted article, which contains all of the context that answers your questions.
Lol $100k is a bit hyperbolic considering even the top internships pay at most $11k/mo. A few tens of thousands is absolutely possible though.

Also lots of Stanford students have parents who are just rich af, those are probably most of the ones with really nice cars
That would be more of freedos territory, I believe. https://www.freedos.org/
I always read the "We raised $x million dollars" as "we're not going bankrupt this year, so we can pay your salary." You're right about raising less means you get in earlier, which means you should have more return.
Wow. That's a surprise. I wonder what kind of stick they had to beat him into that?
Considering that they work for a third party I imagine it is the third party's problem.
Does it have interviews of people who didn't make a suicide attempt because they were guilted out of it? The dangers of not making a suicide attempt are so low we usually don't even bother to call out "survivors".
I don't really use Stackoverflow besides coming across answers in Google like everyone else. Not familiar with any internal community problems, so I can't comment. Can you share the story here?
Capacity is the currency of the industry they're in. Its right in the article itself.

>What Saudi is trying to do by not revealing the true picture is to protect its reputation as a reliable oil supplier, especially to its target clientele in Asia, so we have to take all of these comments with a hefty pinch of salt,
Right now, based on their own data, We is selling a dollar for 60 cents to their customers. With very flexible contracts. Of course many people and companies rent from them. Just see how long that lasts when We starts needing to get actual profit from them.
That makes sense, they really are just relational databases optimized for certain tasks, with corresponding limitations e.g. they don't support arbitrary joins.
As a category of bikes that also can’t do this is quite popular this isn’t a deal breaking issue.
Yea - is "brand consistency" actually a good thing for coworking spaces? Different tenants require different aesthetics, and can targeted marketing from coworking spaces that match that aesthetic out-market the name recognition of WeWork?

And on-the-ground ops just require intuitive software to enforce standard operating procedures. The last two coworking spaces I've worked at both used different SaaS solutions for coworking-space management, with customer portals and all. I'm almost certain WeWork's edge has been commoditized.
I have mixed feelings about legacy admissions, partly due to the fact that having a pedigree from an elite institution matters a lot less coming out of undergrad than it does for grad school. Graduate admissions are far less likely to have as significant legacy components, but legacies allow the school huge leeway and connections to secure funding for researchers, if not fund it directly.

The article talks about the huge endowment Harvard has, and I wonder how much of the incredible research going on around me would be possible if the university were to "take a hit" financially by reducing or banning legacy admissions.
> I like this way of thinking. WeWork isn't doing anything "new" - coworking spaces have existed for years. What's the upside of having a giant corporation owning all coworking spaces, versus having many small and independent small businesses running and operating independent coworking spaces? The answer to this question isn't obvious to me.

An advantage I see as a customer is that I can go to any WeWork across the country and get a desk/coffee/etc for the day. I can get that from a few other coworking places, but I don't think any have the number of locations that WeWork does.
"If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is: Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern."

Aldous Huxley had a similar intuition in his essay, The Doors of Perception: the body perceives everything, and environment (including culture, traditions etc.) teaches the man to close some doors lest he be overwhelmed. Mescaline and other entheogens are a way to open most of the doors. Artists (such as Van Gogh) are people with a different set of doors open/closed.
I got a chuckle out of this one recently. Everything that’s wrong with StackOverflow: https://i.redd.it/per2eihv0jn31.png
The answer that we use when developing Scuttlebutt is that you get to choose who to listen to. Free listening rather than free speech, so bad actors are filtered out by you and your community rather than powerful institutions.
CentOS 8 is a case of too little too late for me. There were so many cobwebs growing on CentOS 7, and no clear timeline ever being given on when (or if !) CentOS8 might ever arrive that we gradually shifted elsewhere.
Disney's US theme parks [adding] vegan [options at every dining location]
It doesn't. Where does the USW come into the picture, if PATP is affiliate of the DPE, considering that USW is _also_ an affiliate of DPE? I don't get it and I wished the article explained it.
Climate change is political for some reason
URL changed to that from https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=newss.... Thanks!
Its not hard. Require people to pay back the money they received once they have a job. That’s how Switzerland does it. I‘ve seen so much abuse in Germany of the social security system that would be prevented by this simple measure.
The Orbit model for developer relations
>Another reason is that it's extra work to decouple the browser with the OS.

MS made the exact same argument 15 years ago.
black mirror in the making :)
Convenient window of time to pick.
> To be honest, I have no way of knowing or testing, because ~180 ms is already faster than I can see or react to.

As an avid video game player, 180ms is roughly the visual reaction time of good players. "Sound" to be maybe 150ms or faster however.

However, trained players consistently can "time" and percieve fast events. The throw-break window in Guilty Gear is 3-frames, or 50 milliseconds. Players still hit throw-breaks.

There's also the 1-frame jump, which improves jumping speeds by 1-frame (17 milliseconds), but requiring 1-frame precision.

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Street Fighter players have a variety of combos requiring "1-frame links", a window of only 17 milliseconds where the combo would work.

Humans may not "react" to 17 millisecond events, but they absolutely perceive them and can work with them. I've run calculations on musicians (ex: Flight of the Bumblebee), and "proper timing" of songs is also to a precision of less than 100ms.

EDIT: Case in point: a 16th note at 144 bpm (Flight of the Bumblebee speeds) is active for ~104 milliseconds, and probably needs to be "precisely" played at a quarter of that time period. (if you are 25 milliseconds off, a good musician probably will notice)

Humans are way more perceptive of sound than vision. So maybe its not "fair" to study music or musician perception.
> it was broadly understood that his sin was creating a toxic/sexist culture. It wasn't related to business fundamentals, per se.

So it had nothing to do with:

- General disregard for regulation

- Blocking regulators from the plaform via Greyball

- Corporate espionage - Waymo vs. Uber

From my impression at the time he was forced out primarily because of actions like those last two (only few of many), because they have the potential to cost Uber serious money (sexism sadly not so much).
The advantage to me with Spaces (which I believe is owned by Regus) is that I can do guest co-working in any city they happen to be present - and since I travel extensively, the bigger the network the better, as far as I'm concerned.

Sadly WeWork do not appear to offer this option (or didn't last time I looked).
There was some research done on psychedelic hallucinations which revealed that there is actually less sensory input and that so filters are not disabled - they just have less work as there is less input.

With less input the brain hallucinates to fill in the gaps. It may feel like the doors are being opened to allow the outside in but hallucinogens close the outside off. Your heightened perception of external things when on psychedelics are hallucinations occurring in your brain and not some objective information being transmitted from outside
> There is an overabundant proof that the Catholic Church's teachings are true.

Most people clearly don't accept this. Which leads us to:

> The only reason people do not believe is because they do not want to

What's your evidence for this? It's certainly counter to most non-Catholics' own statements. So they're either lying or deceiving themselves. Each option would need extremely strong evidence for a reasonable person to believe it.

I'd be interested in your response to a bald statement like "There is an overabundant proof that Hindu/Buddhist/animist/Islamic/Gnostic/whatever teachings are true". No doubt the more extreme members of each of these faith communities will make such proclamations. What's a poor rational non-believer to do? Spend a lifetime assessing the claims of dozens of different religions? I guess you'd insist they should ignore the others and look only at yours. Why?

> They choose to believe logical fallacies and pretend it's logically consistent rather than believe the truth.

Do you really believe truths about the world can be deduced through logic? Would you put your children if you have them in an aeroplane that had been constructed out of a mind of a genius logician?
> That’s what people have been saying about the iPhone for 12 years now.

And they've been correct for the past ~six of those years? The only reason people buy iPhones today is walled garden capture and brand identity. None of the technology is superior to what Huawei or Samsung or even Motorola is selling.
Old Volvos had that unreliable reliable quality to them where something was always broken or going wrong but you could keep it essentially useable forever. My handyman was an old Russian dude with something like 360k miles on an old Volvo station wagon. Another old dude in my village has similar miles on theirs. I don't expect modern Volvos are going to hit these kind of miles.
Social sciences in anglosphere after say ww2 before say 1985.
So you basically store S3 Buckets in Elastic Search and you're using Git for versioning a hierarchy of buckets, right?

It's interesting that versioning now finally seems to be getting some traction in mainstream database systems (even though they are not really optimal in these systems my opinion) and for instance also in your data store. You position this as a Dropbox or Google Drive replacement, right? :-)

I'm asking all these questions, because I'm engineering a temporal, versioned Open Source storage system myself (since I studied at the University of Konstanz until 2012), possibly on a much more database oriented level -- currently for storing both XML and JSON data in a binary format.

A resource in this storage system basically stores a huge tree of database pages whereas an UberPage is the main entry point (reminiscent of ZFSs UberPage, from which SirixDB borrows some ideas and puts these to the sub-file level), consisting of various more or less hash-array based subtrees as in ZFS. Thus, levels of indirect pages are added if more data needs to be stored. I've added some optimizations from in-memory hash-array based tries.

Each revision is indexed. SirixDB stores per revision and per page deltas based on a copy-on-write log-structure.

I've thought about storing each database page fragment in a S3 storage backend as another storage option and using Apache BookKeeper directly or Apache Pulsar for distributing an in-memory intent log (it doesn't need to be persisted before committing to the data files, as the UberPage just needs to be swapped atomically for consistency).

For the interested reader:

https://sirix.io and https://github.com/sirixdb/sirix
I think another advantage is making writing easier. Consistent style guides can reduce cognitive load while writing, in the same why that a consistent design language or design system can reduce cognitive load while developing software user interfaces.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21062373 and marked it off-topic.
Well, that’s kind of a stretchy headline. [Edited. Was: *Disney’s US theme parks going vegan”.]

In reality, “plant-based food options will be added to every dining location in their US theme parks.”

In context though... “There are few places less hospitable for vegans and vegetarians than theme parks, where the standard fare is burgers and dogs. They are among the biggest sellers at Disney World, which serves 10 million burgers, 6 million hot dogs and 1.8 million pounds worth of its iconic turkey legs every year.”
The "Public Alternative" hinted in this paywalled article can be built on the w3c recommended standard, ActivityPub. Organizations should be adopting this and running implementations under their own organizational control.
I went back to college after having worked as a developer for a few years, which helped me focus on what mattered. That book looks like a good overview of many important CS topics.

I recommend the following topics (in roughly this order):

- Data structures

- Sorting algorithms

- Search algorithms

- Algorithmic complexity analysis (Big O) - Important

- Databases

And these topics that aren't in the book:

- Set theory

- Networking

- Security

- Encryption (learn what to do and what not to do)

My take on the rest of the book:

- The history of computing is interesting but not necessary to learn (plus there's a lot more than what's in that book)

- Software design patterns and principles are nice to know, but they're only useful when you're in a position to design the software (not likely for an entry-level job)

- Study functional programming before trying to learn lambda calculus, unless you like abstract math (guessing you don't)

- Learning how compilers work is not necessary unless you're working on a compiler or writing much low-level code (sounds like you're not)

- Testing is good to know, but it's not really that hard to figure out how to do

- Unix basics can be useful, depends on your situation
It used to be you almost always had to reboot to update the Safari web browser, but interestingly this week's version 13, at least on macOS Mojave, did not require a restart.
> Policies such as family separation and detention did not yet exist.

https://www.thenation.com/article/americas-secret-ice-castle... :

«“If you don’t have enough evidence to charge someone criminally but you think he’s illegal, we can make him disappear.” Those chilling words were spoken by James Pendergraph, then executive director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Office of State and Local Coordination, at a conference of police and sheriffs in August 2008.»
> I mentioned why the EU having control of our money is bad in a previous post

and I responded "True but irrelevant. Boris lied".

> Asking people to vote a second time before disrespects the first referendum

"Good evening madam, please be seated"

"Thank you. Let's see, I think I'll have the fish... no wait, the chicken looks good. I'll have the chick-"

"NO! You will have the fish"

"But I want the ch-"

"Do not do this! You wanted the fish and you will have the fish"

"But I changed my m-"

"You are disrespecting your first choice and I cannot allow this!"

Well, that's not how I see things.
I feel like Mastodon has the right idea. Decentralized, open-source and easy to setup.
The Weird World of Infinity in JavaScript
BYD owns the biggest factory for LFP batteries around. That's point one

The biggest downside is its lower specific energy, but it is compensated by all of things above, so the net capacity and energy density comes close to other chemistries. However, working around all of those "sharp corners" requires a very different engineering approach from mainstream EVs. So that's a second point. Competitors largely don't bother going deep with engineering.

The engineering philosophy there is much closer to their electric busses. Much more manufacturing conscious, with a lot considerations for commercial use.

They think of heavy users who will use the battery for 2k+ cycles with minimal service, and go through multiple battery packs through the life of a vehicle.
My wife says I can't buy it, sorry guys.
The unexpected difficulty of comparing AlphaStar to humans
Do you have the ability for people to choose their audience - like a group of people they are comfortable goofing off around and another group they want to present a more professional face to? I think this is one of Facebook's killer features. Another feature I miss having on Twitter is the ability to manage comments on one's own posts.
I'm a software engineer and I wrestled with this for a long time too. It seemed bizarre that we should be getting paid what we do and I had an intense experience of being an imposter. Eventually it clicked with me that the work I'm doing directly affects millions of people on a daily basis, or it affects a smaller number of people in a big way that's unique and hard to reproduce. Viewed from that angle, it makes a lot more sense I think.
My semi–informed guess: even with automation you need the message to be decipherable by human eyes.

Also: you'd now have to keep your data dictionary in sync between your version of the product and whatever third party log analyzer you're using.

It isn't impossible, but it doesn't seem to be in anyone's particular interest to solve.

I used to write error messages for IBM RACF (a security product for MVS), circa 1990-1992. Mainframe stuff (the O/S, products, etc) emit messages and codes of various sorts. Most are inhaled by automation systems, but all are semi–legible to humans, because sometimes the automation systems throw up their digital hands.

The first hard lesson I learned is: once a message is in the system, you can never change it. You can replace it (with a completely different message identifier and text), but you can't change the typos you find (they're 20 years old at this point) or lowercase the all–uppercase messages to make them look pretty (I didn't do this, but someone briefly on my team did).

When I moved on to doing web stuff, I hacked my copy of NCSA to emit a simplified access log, timestamps were Unix epoch, I skipped the "user" fields, error codes were in hex (ie, not "200" but "C8" for Document OK). Thought I was a genius, saving space and all that. But every tool assumed what we now call "common log" format and it meant that you couldn't just look at a snippet of log at a glance to see what was going on. So I ended up reverting back to common log format after a couple of months.
I'm surprised she's not going to wait for Trump to release the call transcript this Wednesday. This move seems a little hasty.
I'm one of the core OSSU team members. Unfortunately I'm not aware of any such resource, but I'm really interested in finding someone who can build an OSSU/Math curriculum!
My company was in WeWork for roughly 2017.

I had your initial impression, it does look good and you can certainly get up and running quickly.

But after a while, my feeling was that it really seemed to be poorly thought out as an office space. I get the appeal of natural light, but you were looking right at your neighbors. The hardwood floors look great, but everyone with heels is banging away, and there was generally no soundproofing.

So many decisions seemed to prioritize looking hip over being functional.

And the details weren't well done. Their tech platform, their attempt at social media, the printers and space reservation and such, all look nice at first and then you realize how unpolished they are after using them for a while.
Just a note, I realize that I came off as overly-hostile towards OSSU; not my intention, I don't know anything about it and I apologize if I gave the impression that I was criticizing it specifically.

> I somewhat agree, though I don't really see the problem with "learn to code" style programs if learning to code is precisely your goal.

I agree; nothing wrong with learning to code if you just want to learn to code. I get a little frustrated that a certain subset of people treat these MOOCs as a replacement or alternative to college.
http://archive.is/YRQwS
Seems ironic to me that the study of wealth production, consumption, and transfer wouldn't lead to making money.
Part burnout and part fed up with their development process.
Why do you think it seems a bit unfair?
Large reserves and production capacity means market control, i. e. they can control, or at least set an upper limit, on price. This allows them, among other things, to scare potential competitors away from trying to compete. It also strengthens their position in OPEC. And, IIRC, there may even be some provisions in international agreements that tie quotas to reserves.

Counterintuitively, a high price may actually be scarier for SA than a low price. It may cause competitors to invest in exploration. And where fixed, initial cost make up a large part of costs, some competitors may continue to produce even if prices fall, and even if the investment was based on wrong estimates and may never actually reach break-even.

SA running out of oil would also hasten efforts to replace oil with renewables.
Modern Bluetooth can have years of battery life on a cr2032 button cell if all it does is signal some inputs.
Professionals don't, but students need to, especially in study groups, tutorials, tests, and exams, when computers are not available. Calculators are also much more approachable than computers for this material for students with no programming knowledge.

The point of using a calculator is to skip over the tedious unimportant details when learning other things e.g. Newton's method or Euler's method. The calculator itself is a tool, not an educational destination.

Learning a slide rule as you say makes sense in a history of maths course, and implementing one's own calculator makes sense in an electronics or computer science course.
Make plain, no funny-business HTTP GET, server responds 200 and sends some text. Guess they wanted me to have it. I'll decide what I do with it, thanks.
I think it's worth noting that there's a lot more to it than just the money. Sure, data scientists make more than I do as an engineer, but I would feel absolutely fucking miserable doing the job of a data scientist every day.