skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With regards to your comment, you're absolutely spot on in terms of the chilling effects resulting from not wanting to anger China. That pressure will not change until the population is willing to put its money where its mouth is and stop supporting/investing in companies that cave to Chinese threats (or any other market as you mentioned).

With regards to your question...

>Are there any platforms that empower these students to distribute their video game without relying on other businesses, specially big business?

Yes and no.

Mobile devices in particular are problematic in that they're much further away from General Purpose Computers than desktops or the OS's of the days of yore.

If you wanted to get a game out, you just published the executable somewhere for downloading and marketed it well if you were out to disseminate something without profit motive.

Nowadays though, the gaming industry flourishes based on integration through various corporate entities which represent leverage points for sufficiently large and centralizable market actors.

Android and especially iOS are the most telling examples, but basically any AppStore like infrastructure that relies on market penetration to maintain it's own existence is at some point threatened.

This is where the idea of "too big to fail" comes back to bite you. When you have highly consolidated and invested in industries that are so large that they constitute large chunks of market share, yet require substantially large capital inputs necessitating the partaking of "tainted cash" you get an environment where economic hostage taking becomes a viable strategy.

Your choice suddenly becomes whether to topple/hobble those companies, potentially having disasterous effects on your labor market, or sacrificing your cultural morals to the first big market actor who takes offense.

The alternative is "rolling your own dissemination infrastructure." Which while non-trivial, has it's costs associated with it primarily in the sense of "what sets of tools are at my disposal to get something out there?"

When you have an actor such as China clamping down on for-profits in order to prevent them from providing aid, that essentially means starting at the ground floor. All you can really assume is there for you without the threat of a lawyer knocking on your door with bad news from a vendor is Free Software, and whatever smaller actors you can gather who aren't yet big enough to be adversely effected by your Adversary.

Not an enviable position to be in to be quite honest.
Author could have just linked to Neil Postman's books.
Orphaned Radioactive Power Generators [2015]
The three horizontal lines ("hamburger") is meant to represent entries in a vertical menu. In situations where pressing the button doesn't reveal a vertical menu, it makes no sense whatsoever.
This doesn't seem to be a new thing generally. Variable length arrays (if you like) are just what you have in Fortran. If you support scientific processing, you'll often have seen mysterious SEGVs due to people insisting on using Intel ifort, which allocates arrays on the stack by default (or used to?), and doesn't fare well with typical default stack limits. This is the equivalent of Gfortran's -fstack-arrays, which is only turned on by -Ofast. (Recursive procedures use the stack anyway.)
You have individual agents with actual intelligence that vary by skill.

The human regressions are pretty well defined and correctable: impairment, fatigue, distraction, vehicle condition.
Somewhere I have a copy of a BASIC program I typed into my TRS-80 Color Computer as a kid, from an issue of K-Power magazine.

I don't recall if it was one of the full issues, or one of the "insert issues" found within Family Computing of the era.

It was a special kind of "snow fall" generator; IIRC, there were only a couple of versions, one for the Apple IIe and the other for the PCjr - I likely used the PCjr version for the conversion since the BASIC language was nearly identical between the PCjr and my CoCo 2.

What was special was that it managed to seemingly move hundreds of pixels relatively rapidly on the screen; now, this might not seem like such a feat, but it really was considering we're talking about a computer system running an interpreted BASIC program, with a max speed below 1 MHz in standard mode (0.89 MHz - there was a so-called "speedup poke" that "doubled" the speed - POKE 65495,0 if anyone cares).

I don't recall what trick it used - or if it really used anything special at all - but I do remember being impressed by that bit of code.
That's proof that Google's Kubernetes strategy is working. They've forced AWS to create infrastructure that makes it easier to move off of AWS.

Google is still a distant 3rd but without the Kubernetes strategy I think they'd be much worse off...
Disabling JS doesn't help in this case.

This post shows that it is possible to put unwanted text in your c&p buffer without using JS: http://thejh.net/misc/website-terminal-copy-paste
Duffel raises $30M Series B. Here's an investment memo
This is a problem I have thought about over my career.
The TLDR; You definitely need senior level engineers (Principal's & Above) as a career track in a healthy organization.

Here is why - (for the sake of discussion, "principals" refers to principals and above)

- In an org, lets say as a director, I find I rely on my principal engineers to objectively tell me what the right thing to do is. They have less political motivation.

- Principal engineers almost unilaterally have a series of noteworthy accomplishments that create a catalyst for innovation for all engineers around. The depth they create inspires people to really understand tech.

- Discussions with them require managers to have more depth themselves. Rarely can managers win arguments without brushing up on tech.

- Regarding some comments about "CRUD apps" as universal easy things all engineers can solve I find perplexing. Problems in distributed systems are all trying to make CRUD possible and organizations are still figuring out how to do that at scale.

- Regarding arguments about ageism for principals, yes, I agree that ageism exists to a certain degree. However, I find most principal engineers are older as you go up the chain. Therefore, what you are really saying is ageism exists for engineers < principal level. Where you can have new hires know the same depth as them and pay less for. Can you imagine trying to hire folks that built S3, Python, Kafka, etc. be replaceable by younger folks?
Working on AI right now;

Gonna do a startup based around arguably the worst problem to have when trying to build a neural network from scratch;

Choosing the architecture of the net itself. It's super cumbersome, and you can often go days/weeks with crappy models by choosing poor architectures/objective functions.

Currently working on AI to build AI architecture recursively.
I understand what you're saying, but using eminent domain to seize part of people's property to expand the size of roads and add sidewalks is no small (or popular, or cheap) task.

That's why a lot of places prefer the hands off approach: Legal mandate sidewalks for all new builds/major changes, but grandfather in all existing property and let the "problem solve itself" over tens of years.

It kinda works if an area is naturally undergoing development. As farmland gets more urbanized and developers build housing they're forced to upgrade the roads to add sidewalks.
Thanks for the suggestion! I'm planning on doing TripleByte, Hired, and possibly some more mock interviews with Interviewing.io in the next couple weeks. I think my main concern is whether I can even get to the phone screen step with companies that don't work with something like TripleByte. Will they glance at my resume and think I'm not remotely qualified because I've never had a "real" software engineering job?
You may have spent $0, as in that's the amount that left your pocket. However, you invested your time, your skills and expertise.

While it's cool that you are making headway, a better question is: does this financially make sense in the long run.
Data Integration with Apache Kafka and Attunity [audio]
I will personally love to see someone justify spending $250 on wireless earphones whose batteries cannot be replaced.

I'm a year and a half into my normal airpods and they already need new batteries.
I wish, but the fact is the average citizen probably doesnt care about walkability or walkable infrastructure and would likely be hostile to any such project because "tax dollars".

Right now people are fighting like hell to get a municipal internet in place (with much of the infrastructure already existing) to break the Specturm monopoly, but most people are apathetic or apprehensive to any sort of public spending
I don't work for or with any entity mentioned. If I did, I would have disclosed it.
You won’t get rich fast with entrepreneurship
The Value of the Things on the Left
I started getting severe ear issues with my normal AirPods. Due to a lack of cushioning, my ear canals started getting damaged. It got very painful eventually (swimmers ear levels of pain).

I stopped using them and went back to my Bose in ear headphones (that never gave me problems).

These new AirPods seem to have cushioning. I might consider them.
Money. I have a $5 VPS for my personal stuff. If I ever have anything else that needs more computing power than that, I'm going to run it from a server under my desk unless people pay enough to cover the cost.
Yep. I stay on the road and act like a "vehicle" whenever I feel like it's reasonably prudent, but many streets / blocks in phoenix are straight up suicide for a solo cyclist -- no bike lane, motorists not looking, fast and heavy traffic -- so I end up on the sidewalk probably 20% of the time. [Biking with a group, it's not so bad because you're much more likely to get seen / not run off road or cut off]

'Course, in Phoenix, there are verrrry few pedestrians and so colliding with them is not very likely provided one goes at a sane speed and uses bell / voice to alert folk you're behind them, but still, it'd be nice to not be more or less compelled to encroach on pedestrian space while cycling.
I can tell you that multiple lawyers looked over this contract and found no problems with it.
Ask HN: Updated “latency numbers every programmer should know”?
does anyone know of an updated "latency numbers every programmer should know"? This is well cited in interview prep material, but it's from 2012. I imagine things like NVMe drives, higher clock RAM, and 100GB/s Ethernet in some DC's have made things quicker.

https://gist.github.com/jboner/2841832
The less capable might be my grandparents, my cousin, my neighbours, or my future friends, and whatever you call 'less capable' might be temporary.

I want to hold all of them up as much as I can. I don't need to fear for my own life either, because they do the same in turn.

I will never understand your stance on healthcare.
(I'm in Germany. Comments like yours make me appreciate our system again and again.)
2 incremental updates to this product and still only one color, they holding the others back for the post-Christmas lull in the hopes a lot of people will double dip or something?
Stripe is really nice if you have a discount code for the first xxx$. I found it really expensive without a promo code @2.9% or something around that depending on volume
> Tones when any outside door in the house opens. Optionally: random Seinfeld bass transitions

Dear Lord yes, that is FUN! I'd love to see 'walk up music' like in MLB, but for anyone and changing randomly from time to time.
Lately I've been wondering an analogous question in NLP. Could modern NLP techniques learn what software source code does?
Having "quantum computing" in the title makes this genuine clickbait when the body lacks any explanation of what a state is or what a ket is. Energy or momentum or spin states are rarely (never, in reality) just numbers.

You made no attempt to explain what the two different states in a single ket mean: hint, it's superposition. Never provided even a trivial justification for why normalization is important; where is the actual physics?

Using Rust here is also quite pointless when you're just doing linear algebra... where is the actual benefit over Python or even Haskell?

You've written a very cute and inefficient math library, but calling this QC is just false advertising.
> Another 100% free technique that still requires effort and time to set up is to answer Quora questions where your website and product will be the answer.

No wonder Quora is such garbage now. It's basically a self-promotion platform.
Nice, thanks for the tip! I'll have to give it a try
From Product to Platform to Protocol
*typo: lost on my first playthrough
I just end up immediately closing these sites that don't work at all reasonably with a scroll wheel.
Anecdote: my OG AirPods still have great battery. How often do you use them during the day? Also how do you know the devices need new batteries?
A small group of determined people can make a surprising difference.

Also: sitting around doing nothing is a great way to ensure that nothing at all happens.
> Low compared to...

"I worked on this project during my free time (weekends, evenings, holidays) for approximately 12 months, from April 2018 to March 2019."

If by "free time" the author means 1h per working day and 4 per day on weekends, that would be ~680h -> 85 days (8h per day)(back to back). Not that's not a good ROI at least for me.
I won't count the deeply unique value of "time not spent with family/friends/children".

I sincerely hope that this picks up and gets 4000 paying customers, but so far for a year's worth of work it's not impressive.
Well you have assumed wrong. It was a reference to giving the government, likely unelected bureaucracies, power to decide who receives what healthcare.
I really struggled to take the plunge on the original AirPods and it has been one of my top 10 purchases ever in my life without a doubt. I stood there holding the little $200 box in my hand and really danced back and forth in my mind about whether or not they would really be necessary. If they broke, I would go buy a new pair immediately.

For what they are, the sound is amazing. I can't really do a phone call anymore without them. Working on my car, doing dishes, going for a jog, taking the dogs on a walk, the pods are goin' in.

My wife finally made the switch from Android (she had mulitple Samsung Galaxy devices) to iOS w/ an XS and she is also hopelessly addicted to the new ecosystem and her AirPods. We had a running joke for years that she would never switch teams but now she is 100% stoked on Apple gear.

I am not in the market for anything like this, since I have the high-end spectrum covered w/ some Sony over the ear noise cancelling cans but if I was I would give these a shot in a new york minute.
Why spend $100 on a nice dinner, we'll just have to eat again in 8 hours.
This is an excellent point. About 80% of the time, this is how it plays out in most larger orgs.

The interesting thing is what happens in mid size to smaller companies, where organization structures are not as well defined. You still need people here, however, if you know the stack very well or are a proficient IC, you can make contributions that can have a significant impact on the org, and gain the trust and allegiance of many engineers, albeit informally.

I've seen this happen a lot. A senior engineer will either create or integrate a new tool or process which makes life easier for other teams. They are grateful to the person and are much more willing to hear the engineer out for future designs and projects.

All that to say... just having a title doesn't get you anywhere. You have to build trust by delivering value, however incrementally. Maybe this is really trivial stuff, IDK.
> This is one of the central features of Tcl.

One of the biggest missing features surely? "Everything is a string" is a terrible design.
I am sooo going to buy them the moment they are available; convenience is totally worth it for me, even if they have to be replaced every year
In Phoenix anyway, I speculate that it's down mainly to :

1) Urban planning that does not much consider the pedestrian or cyclist whatsoever and therefore encourages unsafe driving practices;

2) Distracted driving being nearly universal.
You can get the batteries of your AirPods replaced, it seems:

https://support.apple.com/airpods/repair/service
> I'm hesitant to chalk cyclist incidents up to something more than hubris.

Luckily we don't have to rely on gut-checks for things like this, there is a ton of related study. Notwithstanding the occasional bone-headed move by cyclists, the single largest factor seems to be poor infrastructure.
Says $249 here too

https://www.apple.com/airpods/
Me too! No clue why they keep doing that!
Very good GCs can be faster compared to common system allocators while minimizing the STW moment, but you cannot beat using a proper allocator for your needs.
I kinda throught Elixir / Phoenix was the new Ruby / Rails. Nice read none the less.
I've been hearing surprisingly often the sentiment that WeWork is "undercutting its competitors in a race to the bottom, using investor capital as oxygen to sustain losses while other serviced office-space providers ran out of breath and expired". This seems surprisingly disingenuous. The numbers show that WeWork is charging its clients at a gross margin that is comparable, if not greater, to traditional rivals like IWG [1].

WeWork might be operating at a net loss, but that is only because they are reinvesting all their money into growing their capacity. It seems unfair to accuse WeWork of winning simply by undercutting its rivals so as to starve them of oxygen. It also seems unfair to accuse WeWork of destroying the economy via unprofitable business models, and to accuse its CEO of being a complete charlatan, when they have successfully built a legitimate billion dollar business from scratch [1].

Is WeWork overvalued in its recent valuations? I think so. But that is the folly of its investors, and investors alone. The commentary that companies like WeWork are somehow fraudulent and worthless and ruining the economy, seems ridiculous.

[1] https://news.crunchbase.com/news/gross-margins-wework-and-th...
Have you tried EarBuddyz?
RAM was too expensive back then to put 4MB of it in there. Even the PS1 and Saturn which came out later could only afford 2MB of it.
I don’t even read Bloomberg and NYT links anymore, just head straight to the discussion and see if this is something I need to get bothered about.
how does insurance work for the rental period? prices seem similar to hertz and enterprise, why would i chose it above those?
> I live 0.1 mile away from my kids' school, but cannot walk over there to pick them up, I have to get in a queue of cars that leads almost to my house

Can you elaborate? This is beyond ridiculous.
Thanks for clarifying. My response has two points as well.

The first is that thinking about "Facebook" as ordering more policing is misleading, because its influence in this case is not more than the 10,000 residents would have had individually. In any case, if there were 10,000 new residents in a town who experienced a lot of theft, they could band together to demand better police services, and you would expect more officers to be hired. I don't think there's a difference here if those residents are represented by a "community leader" or a Facebook HR employee. It's collective action either way, and its power fundamentally comes from people living in Menlo Park, not Facebook's valuation.

The second is that more or less policing of petty theft is always going to have a disproportionate impact on poorer communities, because people from such communities commit most of it. This is not a moral judgment or a talking point or anything else -- it is simply a fact, one which even the community leaders quoted in this article are perfectly aware of, despite trying to word around it.

This is the contradiction that I'm trying to point out here. There are many examples in this thread of middle/upper-middle class people experiencing property theft. The majority of the time, when you can track where the property went, it's a poorer community. So in your preferred situation where even individual, middle-class citizens can get the police to spend hours hounding down their stolen bikes, it would look a lot like richer people sending their police into poorer communities to "harass" the people there, which you also said was a bad result. To repeat, there is no way for police action against petty theft to fall equally on the rich and poor, because richer people don't need or want to do it in the first place. That's why I don't know what you actually want.
Usually the only important alignment is left side like Python and proportional works for those. Do you have any examples where it wouldn't work?
Concerning the rule thing - my observation is that if the rules are stupid people won't follow them. Riding a bike in even in Germany prepares you pretty well for driving a car in some of the more chaotic countries, since the mindset is pretty similar.
I use them for about 4 hours a day, about 1 conference call every other day.

I know they need new batteries because from full charge, they won't get through a single hour-long conference call anymore without blasting the low battery warning.

I used to be able to eek out about 2 1-hour conference calls before getting the warning.
Maybe true, but there are fast math extensions:

https://realpython.com/numpy-tensorflow-performance/
SQLite is easy to compile
Implement a Reinforcement Library from Scratch Deep Dive into Reinforce.jl
How does Svelte handle static site generation? For context, I did some React for a job (using SSR), and have recently tried learning Vue in a small hobby project, using nuxt.js with it for static site generation. Is there an equivalent of nuxt for Svelte to handle all the generator tooling?
The lack of sound isolation is my biggest gripe with my AirPods, so it is nice to see that it has been improved with the Pro version. In the past I have had nausea when using active noise cancelling headphone (especially when used without music), so I am curious to see if any of the reviews hints at this.
Capitalism at its core is to sacrifice everyone's humanity to maximise a few people's profits.

It means prioritising treatments that manage conditions over ones that cure or prevent them.

It means prioritising drugs to fix the problems of rich old men (e.g. erectile dysfunction and male pattern baldness) over those to fix the problems of poor people (e.g. malaria).

It means monopolising and overcharging for treatments that thousands of people need in order to stay alive, knowing that they have little choice but to carry on paying.

Socialism is equally as capable of innovation as capitalism, potentially more so, as capitalism is inherently wasteful.
Workers get fired if they don't obey the mandates of the business.
Ferris Fencing: A Rust Game Built on RISC-V VM
I'm using a Macboook touchpad and still couldn't get past the first few slides. Scrolling felt horribly unnatural with all the jumping images.
Finally. I can't wait for the outcome of this. We'll probably waste another couple of years with more NAT and other hacky short-term solutions, but in the long run adopting IPv6 is inevitable.
Your comment makes me think of this image: https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn%3AANd9GcTipZ...
Yes we do, as they presented at WWDC, all of them.

They are following a two release steps, in release N, the user space drivers for a specific class get introduced and the respective kernel APIs are automatically deprecated. In release N + 1, those deprecated APIs will be removed.