skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well I didn’t say multiple screens didn't serve a purpose, did I?

Having said that, is there any good evidence of a fair comparison of dual screen vs a fast switching single screen. Most Mac and Windows setups make switching so tedious and slow it’s pretty obvious that dual would be more productive.

I would not be surprised that a truly friction minimized single screen setup (total switching latency from input to display <100ms... which is technically easily achievable (and done in many special purpose devices... just not in PC software).. and ergonomic switching key would approach dual screen in productivity. I mean, this is the typical setup I and many others use on a Linux laptop for dev work. By the time someone gets MC on OS X up, I can literally switch “screens” 3 or 4 times.

I enjoy a multimonitor (4) setup, but I’m not about to trade off battery life and space for it on the road.

Frankly it’s just easier and cheaper to buy a second monitor with state of the art, for most people. I get that. I use OSX and Windows too.

Also, I would expect more than 2 monitors to increase the gap.
Sort of related- as a newish parent, I was surprised at the variety of "colors of the rainbow" included in different foreign sourced toys, both in print and audio. Even translated to (decent sounding) English, many talking toys/books only seem to list 5 colors, and they're not always the same 5. But Red is always one of them.

In case it needs to be stated, I was taught in the US that ROYGBIV is a fundamental constant of the universe.
Just plain bank transfers. You get an employees/contractors account number, or read it off an invoice, plug it & the amount into the banking site or app, done. Compared to the general overhead of doing accounting (and in the case of an employee, doing all the employment related things), it's not really effort.
Ah, well, I guess my UPS delivery guy could get a job with Dominos Pizza.
But they won't. Spend it, I mean. At least not on things where VAT is relevant.

Most people, when money comes in, they spend it on things, so it immediately has to also pay VAT. If they're lucky, they may have some savings, but it's going to be on the order of 2-3 months' worth of income.

Rich people make orders of magnitude more money, and mostly need to spend the same order of magnitude to live as the rest of us. The money beyond that, they mostly don't spend on the same kinds of things. After all, what would you do with a million dollars' worth of soap?

There's no VAT on lobbying, on buying a house in the Caymans, on hiring six people to clean the mansion.

VAT, like all consumption taxes that aren't highly targeted, is hugely regressive.
This isn't accurate.

First, this kind of thing has been going on for decades. It has been going on in the US with the govt, particularly the military, funding research. 3i, a relatively large PE/VC investors in Europe, started out as a govt-funded body in the UK (there were parallel bodies to the ICFC...I can't remember what they were). Scottish Enterprise is a huge VC investor (they were an early-stage investor in FanDuel).

Second, the concerns that people have are due to issues that are solveable. Controlling how the govt makes appointments, only investing in companies with matched investment from the private sector, etc. It can work. It does work.

Third, the issue that this is meant to solve is the fact that capital markets don't work all that well everywhere. This was the case in the US, it was the case in the UK (and is still the case in the UK), and it may be the case here. Either way, it is a fine and logical solution. If you have experience at the coal face, it is often very evident that investors are not good at this kind of thing (the situation that exists in the US where individuals will fund startups is totally unique, it occurs nowhere else).
I am from the EU and lived in several countries. Had my own company and did a good exit. Now working on another one, operating (tiny scale) in several EU cities.

Edit: never been to SF, so no idea how that is like.
> The rewrite is a good opportunity to explore how it works and why certain decisions were made.

... and a good opportunity to break existing and working features along the way.

If something works, why should you fix it?
In my area at least, I've found that even where the road networks are complete there are usually a lot of things that can be done to aid navigation. Some examples:

Walking: Tag roads for sidewalks, add footpaths and crosswalks.

Cycling: Tag roads for bike lanes, add bike paths.

Driving: Tag roads for turn lanes, and tag intersections for turn restrictions.

And of course POIs are always missing or need updating or additional info.
He is not playing just against less skilled players, he is playing with very good players as well. Regardless of the opponent he can always make the right decision and only time he loses is if he bluffs and someone makes a extremely tough call with a weak hand (something most people wouldn't do).

There is no situation when he bluffed against a better hand.

Not only this, but if he was as good against weaker players, he'd play all the time, not just when it is streamed and RFID is used.
I feel for you. The (near-)monopoly in some service areas is disgusting.

$150-220 for triple play (tv, internet, phone) is still preposterous. It is 2-4 times more expensive than the most expensive package I could find for my current location (Northwest Europe), including all extra pay-tv channels (live sports, etc).

$20 per month for a DVR is $240 per year, which is insane. $35 for landline is insane. Internet price you quote ($60) would get you almost commercial-grade internet here.

Don't get me started on the price of USA mobile phone networks!
Yeah, in one US prison I was at, we had three guys die from medical issues one year. And, we were forced to live two guys to one cell! Outrageous!
Banks borrow short and lend long. It works out OK for them.
Just you?

Intel FPU bugs from the 80's/90's. SPARC e-cache data parity errors (cost cutting) in the 90's/2000's. No thermal protections on AMD CPU's (Athlons?) in the 2000's to cut costs.
np, I was probably sloppy in my description. In the hand, two players hold AKo, there's another deadcard king in a folded hand, and Postle calls a all-in pre-flop with 54o. That's a +EV call, but only because of the exact combination of cards held by multiple players. There's no way a tell can give him this information.
> Who is this "no one"? HN commenters living within bubble?

The negative press cycle they got over the past year was quite public, not in a bubble.

> On the other side of equation there are over 2 billions [0] of users, users who WILL GLADLY USE this cryptocurrency if/when it becomes available.

In what world does a Facebook user = someone who wants crypto? Most people don't even know what it is, let alone trust it enough to put real money into it. Reminder, most Facebook users don't even have a payment method associated to their account because Facebook is free. That barrier alone is big. Then you have people that know crypto from last year and that it's a risky investment that doesn't make any sense and crashes. Again, what Facebook user thinks they need Libra?
I find Elon Musk very uncharismatic. He alone makes Tesla in general much less likable to me that it might be. Not that it matters, as I'm not a potential customer.
They could use avocado oil. It has a smoke point of 500F. Should be fine for searing.
> No, the startup scene is a side effect of a lot of money floating around in a place where there is little job security and surplus of people ready to gamble a couple of years of their life in return for a very small chance at success, though I'm prepared to admit it'll be very messy without that backup plan.

Aka risk taking. For SWEs clearly they've got job security, otherwise they wouldn't do it. Founders are usually well connected and have enough of a cushion to land safely if the startup crashes. Either way there's plenty of job security in SV.

> I'm in agreement with the exception of the word 'correct'.

I'll agree with you also! Unique is better.

> Consider also that inside the United States many places have already tried to imitate SV and it didn't work there either, and yet, the economic, political and social conditions were identical.

What? There's so much variance just between cities, let alone states. These things are not equally distributed across the US.
Is physics truly objective? I see people still arguing about quantum mechanics, and it looks like the safest conclusion is that we don't actually live in a straightforward, temporally causal world (prediction: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheeler%27s_delayed-choice_exp..., experimental support: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delayed-choice_quantum_eraser)

Nobody's making progress because people are dying (we still see many vestiges of the Cophenhagen interpretation!)
In probably all European places I've seen, final consumer price is most prominently displayed (what I most care about). That doesn't mean VAT is hidden. It is clearly displayed, often in shop labels, but also required on receipts with each item (VAT rate, total), and a summary of individual VAT rates (rate, base, VAT).

People I know are well aware of the taxes here, both VAT, income taxes and mandatory health/benefits payments.

I think I would be quite annoyed if the taxes were omitted from the price until the cashier calculates it (or if I'm supposed to do mental gymnastics). Do you mentally calculate total price if the taxes are different? Or just apply a constant factor?
When Mac stopped supporting NVIDIA the Mac users became losers. They missed out on all the AI and other GPGPU work.
From my experience Go is simpler than other langs where it can be, and at worst equally 'difficult' than the others. On average it's simpler.
Thanks for actually taking the time to look up the references. It's been disappointing reading through this comment thread to see people ragging on Robert's Rules for things that aren't really its fault. It's like complaining about how terrible hammers are because the claw end makes it so difficult to drive nails.

I did wonder about the number of abstentions. Also, the fact that there were only 61 votes total. Which indicates either that the organization wasn't that big, or that this was at a convention. From Wikipedia "white SNCC members were asked to leave the organization in December 1966. The vote, characterized by some as 'expelling' whites and by others as 'asking whites to work against racism in white communities,' was extremely close; 19 Aye, 18 Nay, and 24 abstentions"[1]. I'm not entirely sure what to make of it, but it sounds like there was a lot going on to understand the context of the vote.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Student_Nonviolent_Coordinatin...
US Customs Officer Harasses Defense One Journalist at Dulles Airport
Good rant. I'm very sympathetic to your dis-ease.

As a kid, I read and embraced Postman's Technolopy and Norman's Psychology of Everyday Things, Things That Make Us Smart (for starters). Transmuted me from a technophile into a humanist. It's been downhill for me ever since.

"We are not the machines we use."

Elon Musk repeated something very smart during his Joe Rogan interview: We're already cyborgs. Pen and paper are advanced technologies. No disrespect: we make the tools which in turn make us.

I really wish more geeks active today were better versed in the history of cybernetics, memetics, automation, technology.

"I talk to the person and the deal is done."

I think you're referring to trust.

A major, recurring mistake geeks make is the technophilic future perfect effort of replacing trust, esteem, relationships with protocols, while ignoring culture, social norms, and basic human nature.

Yet another distributed social media content publishing truthiful moderation peer-to-peer payment scheme, now with better crypto.

Something like Robert's Rules of Order only works because the participants temporarily suspend disbelief and buy-in.

To use your phrasing, that's the bubble that worries me, technology without humanism, which keeps us geeks apart from the general populace, and has now manifested as blowback.
This ability to turn on profitability was decently spelled out in their S-1. It was too late to amend it further to reemphasize the point because investors had already massively soured on the deal and would not take mere assurances at face value.

In order to overcome that, WeWork needs to take time, at least a quarter or two, to hit that button and show they're at least on a course to profitability. Before they can get back to IPO land and hope for even a $15 to $20 billion valuation, they need to demonstrate the truth of their statements on turning profitable. Even then I'd place that at the high end of a valuation, 7.5x to 10x revenue is still enormous for a real estate firm
Can you say, "Insider trading?"
Yeah, useful for teams that want to use pointers everywhere and disregard escape analysis xD
"Definitive Guide"..."Exhaustive"? Really? So why do I only find tips like changing from debug to release, or enabling 'Parallel build' which is enabled by default? And no mention of ccache? It's as simple as

$ brew install ccache

Which will drop partial compile times from minutes to seconds.

I suggest people who are upvoting this actual look at the contents. I'm by no means an expert, but I found this "definitive guide" worthless. My guess is the author was learning how to use Xcode and these are his notes.
And what’s the common theme here? Naive switch statement logic instead of a real state machine with fully mapped transitions.
How would you read that? (Distance between two distinct atoms) doesn't seem practical
I'm sorry to hear that. However, Malaysia isn't alone in doing this. A lot of governments are pumping money into developing their own startup scenes, and the article's mentioned the other ASEAN countries that have been doing that, Singapore being the most successful one so far.

And Malaysia will have to do this eventually: they're just fashionably late and playing catch up. You can see with Grab how they lost what was supposed to be a home-grown business to Singapore. Governments everywhere are also seeing how a startup scene can create jobs and absorb the surplus of highly-educated people that universities everywhere are churning out.
Marketing speak is almost always going to be dubiously credible. It definitely can be made more healthy than red meat in future revisions of the recipe. But it’s undoubtedly better for the planet than to be “raising” and killing cattle for red meat. You don’t need 660 gallons of water to make plants for 1 pound of beyond burger like you do for one pound ground chuck.
The left-hand slice of toast when it comes back up at 1:19. >:(

Good video though. Pushing the toast down 3-4 times before realising the damn thing is unplugged is my signature move.
But they have major drawbacks, too. Like: no encryption and authentication. And that means that e.g. critical medical data about a lot of people can be trivially snooped from the airwaves. This is not just hypothetical, it really works, and you can find multiple newspaper articles and reports online on this subject by googling a bit.

Worse, it is trivial to tamper with this and insert forged pager messages. A lot of harm could be done with this, possibly even leading to death of patients.
Uber coverage is still fairly limited with plenty of cab companies operating in areas they don’t. https://www.uber.com/global/en/cities/

In 2012 there where 233,900 cabs in the US which seems limited, but they would work very long hours. Uber’s actual change was mostly around increasing peak availability, but not nessisarily total availability as 1/2 of their drivers average 1 to 15 hours each week.
Whether this is true or not, if Stone Live's systems are unsecured, it's an easy security hole to plug.
> a year from election and Trump Facebook budget is at $1.5 million per week (!!)

what a colossal waste of money. and it's all going to FB :-(

(and I see a dead comment arguing that the other side should just do the same ...)
If there is any information domain were it’s harder to figure out the real truth than current US politics, it’s “nutrition science”. As someone who actually tries to invest the time to check on sources and methods beyond the clickbait headlines, it’s really a mess. Poor scientific methods (observational studies), cherry-picking data to match a bias (Ancel Keys), conflicts of interest all over the place, etc. At a very macro level it seems like a few things are true: (a) 300,000 years of human evolution eating meat; (b) per-capita leveling off or even a drop in consumption of red meat, that didn’t stem the huge spikes in disease; and (c) being told to swap out good fats (meat, eggs, dairy) for industrial seed oils and ‘fat-free’ cookies to make up the calories, leading to an explosion of diabetes.

Fallacious arguments abound for the carnivore group all the way over to the militant vegans who would want to tax or outlaw meat eating altogether, while telling us to shut up and eat our processed patty of canola oil and isolated pea protein. For now, I’ll keep eating like my grandparents ate - you know, real food.
Why not just devise a test rather than waiting for someone to hand you the answer? It's not a hard thing to simulate...
Sacklers Received as Much as $13B in Profits from Purdue Pharma
Seems fairly obvious: you can't pump and dump the medallions if there are no medallions.
This is an orders of magnitude approximation.
Weren’t they Xeons?
Brings to mind the secret psyops JTRIG group (part of the GCHQ), as revealed by Edward Snowden.

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

Look at the presentation slides from below - scary to think we are subjected to their propaganda on a regular basis

https://theintercept.com/2014/02/24/jtrig-manipulation/

Very wide breadth and depth of the tooling used by JTRIG

https://www.schneier.com/gchq-catalog/
AKs and ARs are used for hunting and use the same rounds as other non "assault rifle" weapons. There is no ballistic difference. Both are just as deadly. Moreover, many more people are killed with knifes than rifles[1].

1. https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2017/crime-in-the-u.s.-...
If all that is required is a super large constant (as in some cases), why not assume the large constant, do the calculation, then factor out the large constant?
Beach+Vacations+|+DisneyLoversHangout.com
I'm a big fan of Jocko's podcast, there are great episodes that talk about Unit 731 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mizmXTWDf-4) and the Rape of Nanjing (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uylTcj5yDOM) that are worth the time if you're interested in learning about the darker side of history.

The Rape of Nanjing episode is particularly interesting since he goes over the book "The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II" by Iris Chang in the first part, following that up with readings from "The Woman Who Could Not Forget" by, Dr. Ying Ying Chang which goes over how researching the Nanjing Massacre affected her daughter Iris deeply enough to the point of ending her own life.

Usually this is stuff that people avoid, but I feel that knowing what people are capable of doing gives some perspective in my life.
Did you take a taxi any time before uber came along? Unless you’re in a major city (NY, LA, London), or are somewhere like an airport, you’d need to call them, potentially hours in advance in rural areas, and organize a pick up. Knowing if you should tip or not was always confusing, the fares were expensive, and you had no real way to address grievances against the driver, unless they do something illegal and get pulled over.

Nowadays, almost every taxi company has an app, which emulates all the same functionality as Uber. Uber’s way of changing the world was one of user experience and logistics. Not the actual transportation, which as you call out, existed long before.
> The "crypto" part seems like an implementation detail but otherwise irrelevant.

Nail on the head.

The innovation with cryptocurrencies is decentralized byzantine fault tolerance, using unknown actors. Libra is based on BFT where all parties are known, which has been a solved problem way before Bitcoin. The "crypto" part is irrelevant.
Not specifically Cocoa - but audio in Catalina is a city block-sized dumpster fire.

A good set of big audio developers - Steinberg, Ableton, Avid, NI, Presonus - and not a few of the smaller developers have had to send out emails saying "Whatever you do, don't upgrade yet!"

I'm sure there's a shiny happy Cupertino reason for this, but is it ever an annoying waste of time and resources for everyone involved.
What I took away from the Bhagvat Gita is that it is a treatise on why you should accept, internalize and submit to the role or place that society has assigned you.
I think the future is game engines. You can write once and run everywhere. As soon as there’s one with first-class support for Rust (as the world is clearly and rapidly moving to Rust) the rest will be moot.
I've met with Intel execs; one of them told me, not in as much detail as that anonymous engineer expounds, but simply that they reduced their emphasis on validation. So there's no need to speculate here (pun intended).
Why is an unencrypted pager message any more scary than an announcement over the loudspeakers?
Aren't pages generally just "go here" or "get to a phone"?
I can't remember where I read this (busy at work so, sorry, no source), but:

There's a production/re-use cycle in Europe wherein Aluminium is processed and smelted in Iceland, turned into ingots which are sent to mainland Europe to be manufactured-with, and then resultant used product sent back to Iceland for melting down and processing back into ingots.

The point being: Iceland uses geothermal energy to work Aluminium, so the entire process is one grand re/charge cycle of a significantly-used and energy-dense process.

Next step - small, modular fission power sources for the likely-hydrocarbon based and heavily-polluting ships transporting it all back and forth.
We actually have one of these, and it's absolutely brilliant. It's been in constant use since my father-in-law was growing up, and yet it still works flawlessly. I've never burnt a piece of toast with it.

It's kinda depressing that today our toasters are less useful and stop working 10x sooner.
It sounds like the real solution is to stop making babies.
What Was George W. Bush’s Greatest Achievement? – Combat AIDS in Africa
That's not even technically an anecdote, let alone data, but here's a more accurate description of what's "already" happening: A vanishingly small fraction of fast-food restaurants are taking small steps to experiment with offering faux-beef burgers as an additional menu option for the small percentage of their customers who might want that.
https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/the-truth-abo...

The worst type of dietary fat is the kind known as trans fat. It is a byproduct of a process called hydrogenation that is used to turn healthy oils into solids and to prevent them from becoming rancid. Trans fats have no known health benefits and that there is no safe level of consumption.

There are trans fat free margarines now, but historically margarine have been a tub of trans fat.
Where's the pride in one's own accomplishments when that one person is begging for handouts?

A wealthy person will feel uncomfortable empathizing with a poor person, because the process chips away at the wealthy person's sense of security.
I’m a massive fan of my classic Dualit 4 slice toaster.
(Look I’m British we like toast, alright?)

I was all ready to pooh-pooh this new fangled design from the 60s vs Dualit’s classic design from 1952; it’s the Technics SL1200 of the international toast scene.

Honestly though this design is ingenious! Video is well worth watching (assuming you like toasted bread comestibles).

Now if you’ll excuse I’m off for some afternoon crumpet.