skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hmm I don't know. The fact that it never occurred to Regus to make the working environment even remotely pleasant makes me think they don't 'get it' in the way that WeWork do, and it's a more deep divide. They may be able to literally paint their offices now it's been pointed out to them by someone else how horrible they are, but they're probably still missing the point even if they do that.
>. But if your team has agreed on the process

what if your team is dominated by process people.

> try to understand why your (hopefully reasonable and competent) colleagues believe it's necessary.

only explanation that everyone agreed to was that "it makes it easier to see what changed"
Speaking of Hong Kong, what impact is this outbreak having on the conflict with Beijing?
Stop being a tool fanboy
As a Californian, I would love if we were mismanaged in a way that produced excess housing!
It was an original iMac so we are talking about a long time ago.
How Much American Football Is Even in an American Football Broadcast?
I submitted an Ask: HN to propose designing an open source ventilator. It was invisi-modded.

From watching videos from inside wuhan, there seem to be hints that this thing is somewhat similar to the flu and I think it is possible, even likely, that there is a massive swath of unregistered infected, and the hospital based study is an extremely self selected group of people--as in there is a high mortality rate and ventilator usage among people who felt bad enough to check themselves in, and were bad enough to admit.
My favourite computer-related quote: "programming is applied philosophy" (origin unknown, sorry!)
I think you and the person above you are underselling Netflix's innovation. Yes it's true, they mostly solved the problem of streaming video over the internet, and most changes there are incremental.

But they are currently innovating massively in machine learning and other data analytics. They are also innovating in "Hollywood tech".

Hollywood still uses old tech to move from capturing the actors performance to putting it in front of viewers. They mostly still track their assets with Excel (or on paper!).

Netflix can get a show from filming to viewers a lot faster than most of Hollywood can.
Plus what kinda cup-of-coffee are we talking here? A pack of coffee costs me ~$7 and will last me at least a few dozen cups! Even if I count a generous amount of creamer, that's $3-4 a bottle and should be good for at least a dozen cups of coffee (again, really generous with that creamer lol).

If I'm out of town I'll grab a cup at mcdonalds or something. The regular cofee maxes out around $1.59. Or I could go fancy and get a medium caramel macchioto for $3.25 or so.

So you're telling me I can get their software for $0.50-$3.25 a month? Not bad! :D
"fixed".
China is a place where you can be locked to a chair and interrogated by police for social media comments critical of the state. Don't try to tell me it isn't a government ruled through fear.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6uy12RpqQc
You're thinking of street and house number as two things. Germans don't. Or at least I don't. Your approach makes as much sense as picking movie titles with numbers at the end apart into two things.
Longer version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOAfbb5D3Dw
They can be if the SaaS is really really simple. I'm imagining stuff like what used to be $25 shareware that the owner now charges $10 a year for.
Exactly! I do agree that UBI is a step up from only giving handouts to the financial industry.

However, they're both from the same vein of continually creating new money to sustain ever-growing price inflation. A policy which is utterly nonsensical in the face of rapid technological progress where most prices should be continually trending downwards like we see for computing technology itself. Insistence on continual inflation is precisely what has created the current rent treadmill most everybody is on, via only being able to pay interest-rent on skyrocketing assets.

A real alternative would be to simply stop printing all that money in the first place, let interest rates actually rise, curtail much of this speculative waste-investment (eg the VC's paying to put electric scooters in rivers), and let workers actually get ahead by saving and not having their wages erode. Ideally workers could save up enough to demand lower working hours, but inflationism has gone on for so long its disastrous results need to be addressed directly - eg redefine "full time" employment to be 25 hours a week, with overtime after that (it should have been directly halved to 20 after dual-income households became the norm).

Of course this itself would do nothing immediate to help the poorest members of society. Some balanced-budget UBI would still certainly help them, and should not be ruled out. But we need to untangle the problems of the poor (which can be solved by direct help), with the problems of the working class (who actually have income, but it's being vacuumed up by rent-seekers).
> most of us don't have tons of frames to give (especially in brand new AAA games that are the only ones implementing this technology).

Especially because it's probably first person and over-the-shoulder games that probably get the best benefit from RTX, but those are the same games where a high frame rate improves playability the most. Not 'tons' of frames to be 'competitive', but 144Hz to be able to perform the actions you intend to perform without frustration. So at that framerate, in a pretty game, maybe you could run RTX at 720p? But resolution is pretty nice too, so the performance hit really is a big deal.

The kind of game where you'd get 300Hz and can burn frames on a whim isn't the kind of game that uses RTX, at least so far. Or you'd have to drop the other settings to low, which kind of defeats the point of improved visuals.
Katrina was when I realized how silly it is to think our government would ever deal effectively with a major disaster and how vulnerable we are.
It's not a new problem by any means - UPS trucks avoid left turns thanks to their navigation algorithm for more than a decade and they were trying to do it since the 1970s.
>That is a gargantuan project

I think is less work then pressuring existing projects to be rewritten in Rust. I would usggest Rust fans to pcik one of those dependencies like a codec and reimplementit in Rust or gather money to pay someone to do it, I think it would be faster and less hostile.
Distros still won't ship that because it causes needless code duplication. Edit: I don't mean this as a general dismissal of that strategy, but more to illustrate what problems you'll run into trying to get Rust packages into a distro. A huge amount of work has gone into most distros to "un-vendor" dependencies because it leads to a lot of problems.
That's interesting. I don't think as optimized memory manipulation via convoluted casting and such as "complex stuff". I think of that as optimization.

I thought what the author meant by complex was a gigantic system that needs to use many design patterns for good reasons; the code models a very complex, convoluted domain.
"Surgical masks protect other people from your coughing / breathing -- they do nothing for you."

But the mandate to wear masks in crowded public places is to protect others from the wearer. Note there have been few if any reported cases of transmission on long flights from China. This may have something to do with mask wearing by carriers of the disease.
Physical and behavioral butterfly adaptations to prevent wing overheating
Another feature I want is "money is no object mode" when travelling around new york city. Sometimes it's fastest to take the subway, sometimes it's fastest to take a Lyft/Uber, but sometimes it's fastest to take the subway part of the way, and then take an uber from there. This last situation is really tough to figure out by hand with the existing tools.
Evolution of the Telecommunications Industry into the Internet Age (2001)
because the price of any good or service that profits rent seekers will be inflated almost instantly to maintain differentials.

Which is why I'd prefer to see UBH (Universal Basic Housing).
My worst fear too. I'm no certified prepper but being stuck in a city, 100% dependent on other people /entities, scares the hell outa me.
> chèm <- moche (ugly)

You'd write it cheum (moche => cheu-mo => cheum')
Haven't watch this video, but thanks for posting this. For some reason, despite being deeply involved in the arts my entire life, and despite believing that the classic liberal arts are about enculturation more than knowledge, I never quite put it together that aesthetics more generally had a kind of behavioral utility beyond personal "satisfaction."

Behavioral cognitive therapy is aesthetics for beginners, or maybe "applied surgical aesthetics"
Out here Starbucks has been building/opening a ton of new places lately, some of which are replacing old ones. The new ones are strictly outdoor seating.
Is it any different than Flint Michigan? Except that Obama came in and drank the water.
Regus is valued at 3b because they’re only growing at 5-6% per year.

WeWork was growing at 10x that, however who knows now that this PR disaster of the century has happened.

With the ouster of Neumann now and a sensible CEO I wish they had gone public so I could invest. It’s a perfect contrarian scenario. I doubt you’ll see this much negative sentiment about a growth-stage company again for a long time.
> looking at this really makes you appreciate how far we’ve come in terms of efficiency

My exact thoughts too. It's incredible that within a few decades, a process which was a full time job for dozens of people could now be totally replaced with code that runs in seconds.

Where I work we often have to involve some manual steps in business processes (too complex or edge case to develop in the time available, so we hand over to customer support or back office staff). When that happens it often feels like we're failing to do enough to support those colleagues. But I rarely stop to think that a short time ago absolutely everything they do would have been manual.
That's happening right now, to a large extent because anybody with any get up and go has got up and gone.
Is this directly from the authors? If yes, I'm a bit shocked given the prices for the book when searching for ed 1, ed 2 and ed 3 on Google. Please add a donation button to the site.

I just finished the first four sections and I love it. Thanks a lot!
Meuf is absolutely not close to hoe (or even less nigga). Meuf is very common and just colloquial among the younger generation. Maybe the closest would be "dude" or maybe "fam": not insulting in the least but something you wouldn't use in professional settings or with your parents.
It was called DreamWeaver.
- from the hacker news guidelines, for those like me who didn’t immediately realize this
Huh, where I'm from the 24th of December is Christmas. The 25th is the day after Christmas.
Are you evaluating any alternatives?
I have had this app for a long time. First on android, then on iOS. From what I see it has a google online search and then search through state, city and street. I can’t just you “Broadway , New York” or “Indian buffet” while offline. Otherwise the app is great.
Or exonerative tense:

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/past_exonerative

In which journalists use the passive voice to excuse, e.g., police shootings. "The victim was shot and killed in an officer-involved shooting." Rather than: "the officer shot and killed the victim."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2014/07/14/...

https://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/14/washington/14mistakes.htm...
You have to be on the 12.x firmware and enable it under Experimental features.
I just realized that I should probably mention that in the instructions.
https://tic.computer has Wren support. I don't want to belittle the OP's efforts, just mention this other system.
So I'm 100% in agreement with everything you said, but it still sounds like it's a decent idea for people in really crowded areas to wear masks to:

1. Not infect others during the period while they feel fine but are actually spreading the virus

2. As a more effective means of preventing spread via coughing and sneezing.
Regarding salaries, pick a number you’re a tony bit ashamed to say out loud and add 5-10%. Use that as a starting point and let them talk you down. You’ll probably want to try this out a few times on jobs you’re meh about to get comfortable saying it.
Agree. It’s like a bad translation of “as of today”. It is kind of ugly though and to me it sounds awful, especially when you consider that you can replace it by the much more simple and elegant “à ce jour”.
Does anyone know if it can be manually added by the user later?
I was under the impression that 10x isn't in terms of speed of coding, but rather value added to the business, including proposing/implementing solutions that weren't in the spec to begin with but open up new possibilities.

Seems like something difficult to test, probably why it wasn't attempted in this study.
I don't think that's a far comment. It was a different era with different expectations about computer user. The equivalent these days would probably be Excel macros
That 10px font size is not accessible. I can't read what's there without zooming in. It looked like decorative text or legal disclosures for a contest or something. Did the site's creator find that the ideal text size to use?
https://archive.md/FptCi
Yes, plenty of people retire without loosing all sense of self worth.
My current office setup is a Chromebox with VDI (Windows 10, 2 VCPU/6GB) and two ancient Dell monitors.

For input, I use an older Apple USB keyboard from circa 2008 and an IBM mouse that I find comfortable. For work at home, I use a 2014 MacBook Pro.

My personal computer is a 27” 5k iMac, and we have various iPads and Chromebooks all
over the place.
I wonder what other happenings in the U.S. were eclipsed by 9/11.
Alternate hypothesis: Regus has successfully scaled and retained its customer base and makes a big profit per desk whilst not following the trend of the thousands of other spaces being sublet with trendier decoration and social spaces, most of them not by WeWork. Maybe it's not the company whose investors have written down 90% of their investments which is the one that 'gets it'

McDonalds makes terrible beefburgers too, but they're doing just fine.
HTML Tables does not support a dynamic number of rows. But you can do that with CSS grid.
often I wish that roads had "wiper" cars that would fill the whole width and drive at the maximum limit and not more. :)
>reflective

reflexive
Who is to decide the amount of that?

Presumably the same people who decide what your taxes are right now.

You are right about housing though.
There are some stuff where open source reimplementations would be good to have. The things you mention seems like good to have a open source reimplementation of, but I do not know of the specific projects. Another thing is game engines, such as ZZT (by Potomac Computer Systems) and Hero Mesh (by Everett Kaser Software). I have figured out many things about their working, but I may have missed some details. I have the wiki for making Free Hero Mesh with some of these details that I know of, but may have missed some. But the question is also valid of which software you are interested in, too.
I'm guessing they'd like to see the three at once.
>It is funny how willing computer scientists are to want to use a duct tape analogy.

I'm not a computer scientist. I'm just going off of the way I learn and the way i've watched other people learn or the way i've seen people learn while i've been teaching them or training them. That and the general way everything kind of works. As amazing as everything in the world seems, when you break everything down to the smallest components, they all rely on the same skills and techniques we've been using since we were picking berries and hunting mammoths. The materials, accuracy and scales of our work have changed and improved dramatically, but fundamentally, most of what we do can be traced back to the same old things we've always done. We're just really good at building on layers and layers of things and applying things and knowledge to novel concepts and ideas.

Take music for an example, we just keep making the same music over and over and over again, yet we still find new and novel ways to make it sound different and new to the point where most people don't realize they've been listening to the same few songs in new forms for the last 100 years or so at least.
Meena, Google's New Chatbot
It just seems really unconvincing to me. Just don’t do data modeling with entity pointers at all, and use patterns like RAII to guarantee that resources manage the lifetime of pointers they need. Or use pure functional programming if it matters that much in a given use case.

When the article says the compiler doesn’t know whether a given pointer is meant to be an entity pointer or not, but that you do as the programmer (and thus should use complex metaprogramming facilities to encode correctness of handling semantics of that pointer), it loses me completely. Those are code smells of bad program structure (especially creating the metaprogram to enforce a type of correctness chosen by the programmer, and highly susceptible to YAGNI premature abstraction).

In response to “boy it’s hard to guarantee keeping track of all these things” the bad response is to take on more code liability in the form of metaprogram “safety” enforcement. The good response is to ruthlessly remove entity-style pointer handling entirely and restructure the program to simply not need it.
JustifyContents and AlignItems are like inserting an old USB key: I always get it backwards the first time and have to switch it over.
The NIH study I linked says that they found "no significance difference" between N95 Respirators and surgical masks. LiveScience.com looks like some kind of popsci website. Not sure I would take their word over a study published in a medical journal.

Edit: For the unfamiliar N95 is a NIOSH standard that dictates the percentage of particulates that are filtered and if the filter is rated for environments with presence of oil. The letter which can be N, R, or P tells you if the filter is good in the presence of oil. N=Not Oil Rated, R=Oil Resistant, P=Oil Proof. The number following the letter tells you the percentage of particulates filtered and typically come in 95, 99, or 100. Both surgical style masks and respirators can be N95 rated.
Building a Linux Desktop for Cloud Native Development
It usually takes several of these conversations for them to start thinking like that.

Why it works in our case is because I acknowledge it's a debt and then later we pay it back. A huge problem devs have is - there is a push, promises are made, and then something new and urgent comes along.

I do agree, most devs usually work in large companies where money and salary is an abstract thing several layers removed from them.

When I was a developer I used to despise some of the places I worked at, but now when I'm trying to start a company I see them in a much different light and see that a lot of things made sense
It's also a serious consideration for companies working on self-driving cars, as unprotected left turns are extremely difficult for the robots.
What would be interesting is if there were a language-agnostic library that handles the annoying and complicated game engine things like optimizing the list of OpenGL draw calls or pooling audio resources, which would take forever to buggily reimplement - then have people write bindings to it in whatever arbitrary language they want.

For example there is a version of the LOVE game engine that targets ChaiScript instead of Lua[1].

What I really want is a version of LOVE that targets a lightweight LISP like Janet.

(I know, fennel exists. But imagine having a battle-tested game engine like LOVE in any LISP at all.)

And yeah, I'm implying LOVE should be that library. They have pretty much everything you'd ever need for a gamejam. I'll never touch GL.h again.

As for what the author of DOME says on exposing fewer abstractions than LOVE, I found I didn't have to muck around with low-level details like window resolution that much. LOVE provides the functions wrapping all that and preventing undefined behavior while benefiting ergonomics. The process of resizing the window which took far longer than it should have for me to get right in C++ is handled by a single call to love.window.setMode - and it handles hidpi and fullscreen and stencil buffers and MSAA and a bunch of other things[2]. Imagine implementing all that yourself, supposing that yes, you really do need that stencil buffer in the future. The work has been done already.

Where LOVE's very large standard library becomes useful is when I code myself into a corner with some inefficiency or wrong drawing output, then I look at the wiki and discover this neat feature I never knew existed that solves the problem. As an example, I wanted to control the size of a sprite batch, but drawing it ignores width and height. Then I found there's a neat thing called love.graphics.setScissor, which lets you push and pop a drawing region. Using it solved the problem with necessitating a rewrite of any internals.

Things like that make my day.

[1] https://www.libretro.com/index.php/chailove/

[2] https://love2d.org/wiki/love.window.setMode
I remember hearing a lot about it during the leadup to the trial, even as a middle-schooler at the time. Because of how popular the Monopoly promotion was at the time, it left a big impact.
Cool, thanks!! I'll take a look at it
So you think Bush was a great president then?
No, someone emailed to complain about it.
I have made a little reactive app to illustrate the fact that those curves number don't allow to infer much about the virus parameters, because there are quite a lot of freedom in other parameters we don't have good prior about.

https://gistnoesis.github.io/nCoV/

Please don't attach too much weight to it, as there is probably some bugs and I'm no epidemiologist.
Some previous articles:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17638677

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10643160
At the moment it will only run on the Oculus Quest.
There is nothing really keeping it from working on other 6DOF headsets as well, the Initialization code may need to be tweaked a bit but I don't plan to at the moment.

You could take the source and check the Godot VR tutorial (https://docs.godotengine.org/en/3.1/tutorials/vr/vr_starter_...) to see if you can modify it for your own headset.

And without hand tracking it may be a bit uncomfortable to do push ups. But maybe the knuckles controller will be comfortable enough.