skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yea, to be specific, using Ubuntu 18.04 on one SSD for his cloud tools development, Kubernetes Go controllers? Because MacOS doesn't cut it.

And his Windows 10 Pro on another SSD.
Per-game fractional equity stakes are something I am also considering for my own endeavors. I think it makes sense for rapid release schedules, where you plan to build the "factory" that can ramp a dedicated pipeline of hypercasual games with in-game monetization on a predictable and speedy timeframe

It would be interesting to explore 100% crypto smart contract solutions to this. I know a couple of years ago a lot of people were interested in fractional ownership for real estate development. But I am not sure what if it went anywhere
> Those are all examples the market would solve really well.

Fire engines? No.
No toll free in Chile :(
> His skill is getting shit done.

The main contribution is from his employees, not himself. He manages to convince them to work for him with extreme hours for bad pay and without even receiving proper credit (check out how many authors the Neuralink paper listed, then check out the cern paper's authors). How does he convince people to work for him? Marketing. He's a marketing guy.
Getting a 40% heap reduction by halving pointer size implies that pointers were 80% of the heap! What am I missing?
What’s wild to me is that a third-party product, Workshare Compare, actually does a better job of this than Microsoft does with its own product. Workshare is used widely in the AmLaw 100.
First time I see Wren. It looks nice.
Also kudos for the comment below the benchmarks:
"LuaJIT with the JIT enabled is much faster than all of the other languages benchmarked, including Wren, because Mike Pall is a robot from the future." :D
Earth after most disasters short of getting hit by a full-on planetoid that liquefies the entire crust is still much easier to live on than Mars, and hardened Earth-based bunkers are a lot cheaper and easier to make than a Martian colony.

Really, for most planet-wide disasters the thing they do is force us to live a little bit like we'd have to on non-disaster-stricken Mars.

[EDIT] for the record I'm not against Martian exploration or even a Martian colony—I'm susceptible both to the "because it was there" and the "we'll come up with some cool tech in the process" arguments—I'm just very unconvinced Martian colonization is a good path to better survivability for the human species.
Reminds me of how when designing software systems for companies you always start with the user access patterns otherwise you end up building some elegant stream based system for something that only needs batch access. Pure math can be the same way in alot of ways, why invest the precious resource of human innovation getting lost in the woods? It's possible alot of pure math is just us convincing ourselves of it's value unchecked by any actual means of producing value from it. Context: used to be a pure mathematician, now an engineer.
I personally like seeing the “works for me” posts. It helps me gauge if the reported problems are universal, or just hitting a subset, which helps me decide when to roll the upgrade dice.

BTW, I did finally upgrade to Catalina last week and it’s been going fine, with the exception of losing 50% of my Steam library to the 32-bit graveyard....
> I mean, nowadays, I think middle class and fairly wealthy people don't die of cancer.

Some of the richest people in the world have died of cancer. It kills anyone and everyone, eventually.

His answer is so ignorant that I stopped reading his words right there, I don't trust his information processing.
NetBSD 9.0 supporting aarch64 is nice, I believe there's support inbound for the Pinebook Pro[0] as well.

[0] https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=8659
Not speaking on behalf of rich ppl, just want to say imo there's a lot more than what can be easily acquired through money. A lot of things are so disgustingly hard to achieve no matter how rich you are and the kind of sensation they provide can never be purchased.
Doom is ported to browser

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18817278

2. https://doom.fandom.com/wiki/Wasm-doom

3. https://wasm.continuation-labs.com/d3demo/
If you watch his presentations over the years, he has very much shifted towards "this is my team's accomplishment" versus taking the credit for himself. With time comes wisdom; whether it's to further motivate employees or because of how he genuinely feels, can't say, but it's observable.
Upvoted you, mainly because you echoed my own sentiments about the hippos perfectly. Ever since I first heard about this I thought it was more fascinatingly delightful than anything unfortunate, and in terms of damage, nature itself is full of species collisions, so this is hardly the sky falling. It's also absurdly amusing that the ferociously bloody crime giant Pablo Escobar's single most enduring, still growing material legacy has been this of all things: the small herd of hippos he decided to import one day as a casual, probably barely considered gesture of showing off his wealth.
We are facing a tragedy of the commons, and individual action does not solve that. This holds true for overfishing, pollution, greenhouse gas emissions, you name it. The change we need is pigovian taxes, which factor negative externalities into the price of the activity causing it, instead of letting them be amortised by society. Consumer-shaming is not how we solve a tragedy of the commons.

If half the world stops burning fossil fuels tomorrow, the other half will enjoy cheaper oil and double their emissions the next day. Tax pollutants.
Home ownership is important in a world where you don't want everyone always strapped down by debt as barely more than a chattel slave. It is the increase of the rentier class of capatalism that is largely to blame for adding millions to the homeless population while millions of homes go uninhabited. Of course I understand in some specific markets this generally doesn't apply (the SV centric nature of HN tends to make this sentiment seem more prevalent than in most of middle America). The small percentage in taxes you would then pay in repairs and taxes per year vastly outweigh paying on a mortgage for the rest of life until you die, and narrowly focusing on people who abuse equity as a line of credit doesn't negate those facts. That same rentier class repacking mortgages in financial derivatives many times over is how we got 07/08, and nothing much has changed other than a slight deleveraging from ~30 to ~11 and the bailouts being automatic next time via Dodd-Frank.

Of course the largest part the problem is that people are trained to think debt is such a good thing. I can't tell you many lawyers I know who make 500k/yr are way in the net negative, while my country/redneck friends are far in the net positive. Their homes and vehicles may not be brand new or as nice, but they own them and have a financial and other type of freedom the rich-but-a-debt-slave can only dream of. Of course they have the means to get themselves out of that position, but they don't think like that for the most part.

tldr - Ownership (on more than just homes) is still very important if you don't want bankers to own the world.

ps: Also, this is one of the reasons why the move more towards a remote-first workforce seems very promising to me. Buy a forever home as young as possible and never have to sell it unless you want to move, as opposed to always having to sell for every new job you take.
I like that people's personal sites don't have to be optimised for pleasing users and hence have so much variety to them, it's the one bit of the old internet that we still have with us
> If there's no regulation enforcing this, it's because the EU doesn't think it's necessary — the industry has agreed upon a standard without intervention.

Which is exactly what the EU asked them to do with chargers, 15 years ago :) And then they didn't so here's the resolution.
I also stopped right there. I don't trust anything about how this guy thinks after that.
This page has great content, but some Javascript or CSS stupidity that prevents text selection. Anyone have a good fix to reenable that?

I use the text selection highlight as I read just to keep my place when scrolling around to look at the images.

Browser makers need to come up with a "Disable user-hostile features" toggle that gets rid of this and form related BS like the inability to paste passwords.
Whoever honks (in any country) without a legitimate need (to prevent an emergency) should be fined severely or get his driving license postponed. Even is somebody violates the rules, you should not honk unless you sincerely believe an accident is going to happen if you don't honk.
I would argue that marketing is a core skill for getting things done.
> If Musk appears to be doing something crazy you've not understood it.

I'll remember that next time he accuses a rescue worker of paedophilia,
there is something "missing". The SQL spec specifies `null = null` to be "unknown", where i sometimes expect "true". For MSSQL this can be configured using `SET ANSI_NULLS { ON | OFF }`. AFAIK MySQL can't be configured. Don't know about Postgres.
Then he should have said "building the thing right" rather than "building the right thing".
This advice seems fine but not great for salary negotiation.

In general, because of the information asymmetry and extreme advantage the employer has over the employee, accepting a weak offer can mean leaving over 30% on the table, and that matters to individuals. (It matters to some companies)

You can have healthy conversations explaining that you want to reach an agreement that's good for both of you and still explain that you need to get paid. Companies and recruiters actually value that _more_.

My recommended reading/listening on negotiating as an employee is patio11's posts.

As a company, yeah, don't try to "win" and be fair (as much as is possible given funding constraints)
Thank god Frefox Reader View exists.

For the same reason browser vendors abolished the <marquee> and <blink> tags, this kind of unreadable color schemes should be reset by default by browsers, just like autoplaying videos, and pop-ups are suppressed.

The Gopher renaissance can't arrive fast enough.
>but modern JavaScript is just as quick to use

this is not true. There are many APIs in JQuerry that are shorter, nicer to use and totally missing in pure JS. there are JQuerry methods that workaround HTML5 and old HTML(quirks mode) differences, there are functions like wrap,unwrap, sibling, parents,find,is,css that replace many lines of vanilla JS.

I am not saying that JQuerry is the tool for building a complex SPA , it has it's uses and vanilla JS is inferior for those uses, for a simple form where you want to check the input JS is fine.
Phoenix point? Outer wilds? I'm curious which game.
For potential backers, it seems that Fig is much more curated? KS allows literally just anybody to create a campaign, but I'm assuming from the limited selection of open investments that Fig has a threshold of viability.

By and large, it's pretty easy on KS to see when a campaign is created by known developers/publishers. But there's still plenty of noise and anomalies, like this "Day of Dragons" which seemed to raise half a mil based on coincidental timing: https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2019-10-11-harry-potter-a...
This is such an influential paper.

However, I don’t recommend using this IR style (aka sea of nodes) because:

- The original CFG and the original ordering of operations contains useful data. You want an IR that preserves that at least up to the point where some pass proves that a better order exists.

- Lots of optimizations can be made cheaper to run by using basic blocks, so it’s good to have an IR in which control flow nodes are basic blocks. Load elimination is an example.

- IRs need to be intuitive to the people who work on the compiler. Sea of nodes is more challenging to think about than SSA over CFG.

- There does not exist a program transform or analysis that is uniquely enabled by sea of nodes. Those program transforms that are made easier by sea of nodes are pretty easy to write in SSA over CFG as well.
>Barrie R. Cassileth, the chief of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center's integrative medicine department,[172] said, "Jobs's faith in alternative medicine likely cost him his life.... He had the only kind of pancreatic cancer that is treatable and curable.... He essentially committed suicide."

I’m not sure it is that tough of a call.
The appropriate strategy is context-dependent. Your strategy is appropriate for most cases, but there are some situations where your interaction is a one-off, and you don't expect to have to interact with your counterparty at all after the transaction. Buying a car is a typical example here: If you're able to negotiate a car dealership down to a price that's minimal profitable for them, the dealer will be unhappy, but there are no negative consequences for you. In those situations you should absolutely "try to win" - an extra 1-5% off is money in your pocket, and there are no negative consequences beyond some uncomfortable interactions with the dealership staff.

TL;DR - Don't buy a car or house using the same negotiating strategy you would use to negotiate a professional services contract.
Don't think about it as _the_ coronavirus. Think of it as _a new virus_ and things start to make more sense. Over the next 100 years _a new virus_ is likely going to develop that spreads quickly and is lethal. When a new one comes up it's hard to tell initial how it spreads, how fast it spreads, and how lethal it is. For now, I think it's unlikely that the coronavirus will kill all that many people. For now, I think more people should just get the flu shot and not worry about coronavirus. But I'll update my opinion if the spread and death toll seem to worsen.

As an aside, stopping pandemics is on of the main things that Bill Gates is passionate about.

https://www.gatesnotes.com/Health/Shattuck-Lecture
any example?
Growth still looks exponential and attempts at containment seem to have failed.
Tech in 2020: Standing on the Shoulders of Giants [pdf]
There were 6 cases in China 2 months ago now its closing to 20k.

Maybe that's why.

SARS killed approx 800 in span of 1.5 year.

There are over 300 confirmed deaths from Corona roughly after 2 months.

The numbers are growing quickly and I for one am starting to feel a bit uncomfortable about this.

Edit:
Its 360 deaths, that pretty much half od SARS now :/
> But if the rule had been in place 20 years ago, cell phones today might be featuring SCSI connectors.

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/RC-9-2020-0070...

"5. Points out that the Commission, without hampering innovation, should ensure that the legislative framework for a common charger will be scrutinised regularly in order to take into account technical progress; reiterates the importance of research and innovation in this domain to improve existing technologies and come up with new ones;"
Non clickbaity version: they did not “jump” anywhere, the coordinates for GPS were just updated for the first time since 1994 to account for the constant movement of 7cm per year. And it’s not just these 2 parts of Australia, it’s all if it. NSW and Victoria just moved slightly more than the rest (1.8m vs. 1.5m or 1.7m for other parts).
Similar ideas were proposed for the memory compression, exploiting a fact that most allocations in typical applications are object-like. See for example [1] (HN discussion: [2]).

[1] https://blog.acolyer.org/2019/05/24/zippads/

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19998645
Somewhat clickbaity headline. The change is being made to fix a 1.8 metre inaccuracy that has crept into our GPS coordinates, caused by Australia slowly drifting north.
As a physicist who studied mathematics as an undergrad and was admitted into some top math graduate programs (but didn’t go because I pursued theoretical physics instead) — no, only part of mathematics has something to do with physics at all, let alone being inspired by physics.

> Cryptography has generated number theory, algebraic geometry over finite fields, algebra, combinatorics and computers.

> Hydrodynamics procreated complex analysis, partial derivative equations, Lie groups and algebra theory, cohomology theory and scientific computing.

> Celestial mechanics is the origin of dynamical systems, linear algebra, topology, variational calculus and symplectic geometry.

Now those are just backwards.
What's hilarious, it's mostly the same "old" css that you still have to work today for html emails :(
Exactly. Correctness (and often mere robustness) is almost never a requirement, so it's never even attempted. There are industries where it is important and where it is done routinely, but evidently not in the places most HN commenters work. To say it's impossible probably sounds kind of silly to the engineers who are currently doing it.
Not only that, but the cynic in my says... what SHOULD you be spending your billions on? Carefully grabbing more billions and political influence/power so you can have more influence/power? Or, you know, try to make humanity better?
I don't understand how to 'alt select' anything, what is it for?

I don't mind the the numbers of word/line in my full HD 15.6" laptop screen, in fact, and I actually hated the 80 words/line pattern like articles at medium.com. Are you on 4k wide somehow?
The FDA Just Approved Its First Drug to Treat Peanut Allergies in Kids
AIUI mov supports these things directly[0] and if I read the instruction tables correctly then at least on skylake the latency/throughput is the same for all addressing modes[1]

[0] http://www.c-jump.com/CIS77/ASM/Addressing/lecture.html#R77_...
[1] https://www.agner.org/optimize/instruction_tables.pdf (page 238)
I think generally the party who causes the accident is liable for damages in the accident, regardless of who gets a ticket for what they were doing at the time. Though in some states, the driver always pays for the pedestrian's bodily injury. So you need to swerve into anything else you can find (tree, ditch, etc.) to avoid that darting pedestrian.
He's rebinding them, too, with cardboard - which is to say, turning them into half hardcovers. You could argue he's not even reducing their lifespan.
There aren't many. Traditionally, Chinese people would rather endure. There are a lot of families play mahjong all day long, but it's unfortunate for those who don't have 4 players in the family - most of the public places to play mahjong have been shutdown.

For young people, their interests are more westernized, varies from person to person so that depends. It's more introverted people favored when people cannot go outside.

Luckily, the Internet plays a centric role in people's daily life, at least in cities and towns.

For the countryside, villages lockdown themselves by rejecting strangers and far relatives, but villagers can still move around.
The fun part about those numbers is that Mars and Earth have roughly the same amount of CO2 in their atmospheres.
>For example, Oracle database won’t allow you to have an empty string. Anytime Oracle database sees an empty string, it automatically converts the empty string into a NULL value.

Damn. This is how you do enterprise.

I might be the only person who likes SQL nulls. If you learn how they work up front, they're useful and not really that confusing. But if I ran into weird behaviors like this, I might hate them too.
You know what it’s like to be a computer system with human & surrounding society levels of complexity? That has been conditioned to think it’s not a machine?
Really? Because nature itself, as a vast unconscious force of constant movement, brings forth gargantuan currents of rapid and slow change both, with absolutely no consideration of any kind for anything that's already the case. Yet things seem to balance out and learn to thrive in some way or another over time. We are no less a part of nature than any other productive and destructive thing it has created, I'd even say we're much less catastrophic than some others in fact. We only delude ourselves in thinking otherwise.
China will likely not be able to contain the virus at this stage.

it also could mutate and change it's behavior.
It doesn’t load on my phone. Outline doesn’t work either so I guess the content is not important enough for the author to make it availabe for their readers..
And he won, the whole enchilada, at least in his own terms. While those he was negotiating with have decidedly lost, in both his terms and their own. There is every indication that this will continue.

I believe that this will inspire a great many people to this negotiating style for many years to come.
It's not his only skill, but you have to admit he's pretty good at it. Just look at his twitter account.
If it truly is a case of them being a good employee 99% of the time I'd honestly take the 1% hit in exchange for a happy employee. I'm definitely not suggesting just firing them, I'm suggesting acting in proportion to the problem, but focusing on the problem being them not delivering as well as they could be, rather than the problem being specifically that they're working from home.
Should Woke Social Media Barons Be the Arbiters of Truth?
Is that true of nuclear winter or a major impact event?

Wouldn't either of those render the Earth temporarily uninhabitable?

Is the argument that it would be easy enough to build on Earth places to survive such events rather than going to Mars?
Then why so small number of people get infected outside of China? I can hardly believe no case of infection could get unnoticed and not isolated successfully so far.
They call on the industry to agree on a common standard. 15 years ago. They explicitly do not mandate the protocol.
We have machines to do that for us. As in, "press Ctrl+Q, IDE shows relevant help." I don't value encyclopedic knowledge of every API out there any more...especially since those I do recall are of rather, um, limited use nowadays. Like with any language, the point isn't to cram a dictionary into your brain, it's to communicate.
Because it's not at all under control, the numbers are rapidly growing, and if they do get big there won't be much you can do at that point.
For what its worth, don't do this - pretty much all db code and practitioners expect three valued logic, not two.
A U.S. citizen that migrated from China has very little reason to self-censor or dissemble on this topic. After encountering this beguiling attitude in conversations with others, I sought out such a person, an acquaintance who was a Professor of linguistics, who became a U.S. citizen decades earlier and still had close contact. He confirmed it all. This topic has also been a minor obsession for me, and the reading I've done further confirms it. Even when the people might be aware of something their government has done, they feel protected, that the government is acting in their best interests. And that awareness of incidents is rare. I showed a video of Tianmen Square to a Chinese student I knew. Not only hadn't they known about the incident, but their response was, "oh, those people (protestors) shouldn't have been doing that."
It's interesting that Fig.co hasn't been much of a topic at all on HN; only 6 submissions from the domain over the years, only one with more than 20 upvotes (the current thread being the second fig.co submission to reach that many upvotes)

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=fig.co

(Incidentally, a Docker-related tool called "Fig" got 160+ upvotes 6 years ago; didn't see any discussion threads about Fig.co when doing a search: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7132044)