skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Typescript aim to model a strongly typed, OPP language.

Do you think? I just take TS for what it gives me, documentation and static code analysis. I can write down my knowledge and expectations about the code and have the tool keep track of it for me, removing the cognitive load of doing it myself- which I'd have to otherwise.

Can you give me an example of a pattern that is "good" in JS and not in TS, or the other way round? I'm curious.
German ISPs to public: "Everything is fine!"

German ISPs to EU representative: "Could you please ask Netflix to turn down the traffic so we don't look too bad?"

Not too hard to imagine, is it?
I would recommend getting started with q, instead of k. q is a lot easier to get started with and after you learn the basics (takes maybe a day or two), learning k is much easier. A good resource is: https://code.kx.com/q4m3/

k/q aren't actually very difficult to learn, you can memorize the entire language in a period of a day, maybe. The hard part is actually writing good code with it. I could spend the rest of my life programming in k and never be 1/10th as good as Arthur Whitney (the creator).
What an utter joke. This is only needed because unlike the backbone operators who are pushing ridiculous record traffic through the IXs these days and don't even hit any limit on their capability, the last-mile operators have not done any major investments in their infrastructure.

Cable TV internet is horribly oversold - Kabel Deutschland was already infamous, when they got bought up by Vodafone shit got even worse. DSL ... let's just say most of Germany is happy to have 16/1 ADSL. I have 100/10 FTTB via M-net and even they have load problems.

Cellphone internet is even worse but as data is horribly expensive in Germany no one dares streaming Netflix over that anyway...

tl;dr: it's not Netflix fault, it's last mile telcos who have done jack shit the last decade to build out new FTTP infra coupled with appropriate uplink capacity to the nearest IX, but people are too dumb to understand this and blame Netflix instead of directing their anger towards politicians and telcos where it belongs!
and then every menu tab on the left that you scroll through takes forever as well.
Looks quite easy to trigger that automatic process to cause trouble to any open source repo on github.

Sounds insane.
Guilty as charged, although, I would love to see what percentage of HN traffic is someone selling their product. My guess is that it's well over 50%.
US Department of State: Global Level 4 Health Advisory – Do Not Travel
For interpreted languages, it doesn't matter semantically whether you use strings or not. It's always a run-time value that needs to get resolved when the interpreter gets there.
I'd go further and say they're expensive, very cost-inefficient PCs locked with DRM into only playing licensed games.

PC Hardware is cheaper. PC games are also cheaper. And games are seldom console exclusives anymore. When they are, they're not for long.

There's no value to be found in consoles anymore. They exploit the tech ignorance of the riffraff.
That has changed somewhat of late. With WBC there's no more "fixed" contention ratios and you pay for the last mile and then peer at national aggregation pops.

It's a far cry from the 50:1 IPStream product.
? A significant portion of Xbox One X games are native 4k
Considering there is no edit on the original post, the answer has been in it since you asked the question.
You're right about the controller, but I don't know ... IMHO N64 is where they started to get less exciting as far as their internal hardware, but capabilities were getting more exciting overall.

The NES's CPU was a 6502 without decimal mode and certainly not exciting, but it's PPU wasn't too usual. 64 sprites, 56 colors, and a 2x2 screen virtual tilemap. I don't think any system had a big virtual tilemap quite like that at the time

SNES is definitely unique. Rotation and other transforms on a huge tilemap in hardware. No programmable sub-CPU or DSP is pushing pixels at all, you literally program 8 registers on the video chip to set the scaleX, scaleY and other parameters and the graphics chip outputs transformed pixels.

32x brought similar capability to the Genesis but it had some SH-1's performing transforms on textures I think, it was more similar to SuperFX than the SNES.

IIRC N64 was pretty much an upgraded PS1 polygon engine (hardware was SGI dervied like the PS1): one with a higher clock rate and a separate DSP for calculations instead of the GTE, but hamstrung by cramped cartridge ROM instead of a CD and really low texture cache.

After that Nintendo started using ATI for graphics hardware and adopted an IBM-designed PowerPC-arch CPU (as did Xbox 360) that lasted until the Will U.
Well, they clearly think their model works for them. If you think otherwise, it's on you to convince them that they should change their model, or start your own effort if you think it will benefit humanity. I don't think they necessarily need to "defend" their business choices.
The main problem I see with this is that while we wouldn't have to pay any mortgages etc, we wouldn't be able to receive paychecks either. This means we can't, say, buy food.
For speed, NATS.io also has RPC semantics and protocol is fairly straightforward like Redis: https://docs.nats.io/developing-with-nats/sending/request_re... || https://docs.nats.io/nats-protocol/nats-protocol
Amazon has delayed my shipment of Animal Crossing to prioritize essentials.

From the email I got from them this morning:
"As COVID-19 has spread, we've recently seen an increase in people shopping online which has had an impact on how we serve our customers. So in the short term, we made the decision to temporarily prioritize household staples, medical supplies and other high demand products coming into our fulfillment centers so we can more quickly receive, restock and ship these products to customers. As a result, your order may be delayed."

I'm going to cancel my order from Amazon and go pick up the game at GameStop. I suspect my behavior has something to do with the reason they're staying open.
> position of the HTML elements always did affect the layout and some designs were pretty much impossible to achieve without having to move HTML elements around

The results you see on CSS Zen Garden show that this is not true at all. It was hard, but not impossible then and nowadays grid layout and CSS3 fixed a lot of the issues.
A broadband company as referred to in the parent comment is an internet service provider.
But this is a completely unnecessary measure. Most ISPs in the EU don't have any problems keeping up with the increased demand. To make matters worse most Netflix content is served directly from the ISPs network.

This is a retarded symbolic policy to make it seem like a certain EU politician is doing something, when in fact it makes no difference what so ever.
A Practical Introduction to Haskell GADTs [video]
Too many =P But seriously, there are certain volumes I would never part with. For example: The Pragmatic Programmer, SICP, Design Patterns, The C Programming Language. Tomes which are definitive and timeless.

I also have a few for purely nostalgic value, representative of key moments in my past. Notably: the OpenGL Red Book and C++ The Complete Reference.
When an aviation company is being run by accountants instead of being run by aeronautical engineers it's time for that company to go under.
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Picture-in-Picture works great for Facebook videos, FB stops playing videos when the window is not focused, so this feature it's amazing :D
>the equivalent PC GPUs will be available too.

And RDNA2 should have scary performance, on the GPU power budgets that are standard these days.
The ISPs came out and said bandwidth isn't an issue.
At best, it's a matter of law to determine what doing business in a country means. In the broadest interpretation, employing seems like doing business. Merely being asked, by a customer, is reportable and the government gets to make the determination.

How to act seems like a determination / recommendation made by the head of compliance.
Senator dumped up to $1.6M of stock after reassuring public on Covid-19
Off-topic: I can't help but be nosy and check the https version of your page. You seem to be serving a cert with CN=albertstreetantiquescentre.co.uk. Might want to get this looked at :)

Edit: Interesting,

https://jdebp.uk has the correct cert configured, whereas https://jdebp.uk. serves the cert as mentioned above.
It looks very useful for projects of relatively limited scope.

Of course I'm biased. I wrote Epiphany WorkFlow for the Mac. It's similar but more practical for larger projects and it's free (for now).
> The model of process isolation and shared resources that is built in to the POSIX model is just too hard to get right.

isn't that the basis of like, every modern operating system? Haven't we been working on getting it right since the '70s?
I have Cox in Rhode Island, ostensibly 150 mbps but meanwhile my TV buffers on simple medium quality content. I am wondering if the apartment building's connection isn't prepared for so many streamers?
State Department issues worldwide “Do Not Travel” advisory
I think WebUSB is all but dead. See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22228879
I used to see these growing everywhere in the Seattle area, but on recent visits, it seems that they're less prevalent. I wonder if the city has been clearing them away.

> It’s the deadliest plant in North America, deadlier ounce by ounce than any mushroom

Mushrooming is a curious hobby. Common advice is "it's okay to bite/taste any mushroom"... but you're never to swallow until you've got a positive identification, and never ever while you're out in the field even if you think you're sure.

But plants are wicked dangerous by comparison, which really bucks common perceptions about plant/mushroom foraging. For example, simply touching wolfsbane can kill!

https://monicawilde.com/monkshood-wolfsbane-poisoning/
it's true

the older you go back the deeper they were in a way, there's a book about Nintendo with a chapter on how Nintendo hardware team managed to add (or free) a kilobyte of ROM then told the software team. Everybody stopped because that kilobyte meant making a whole new level.

Today even with 2x the TFLOPS I don't think it will make a difference
that's funny when games would load faster on the original C64 with a 1541 than today.
Maybe my history is off, but I always regarded OS as the business marketing arm of FS.
If you subscribe to an ISP of a decent size, then most of Netflix content is served directly from your ISPs network. Netflix has servers at edge locations all over the world. They want to serve as little content as possible from Amazon.
got any link on this?
I am O type and I think I got the virus last week (I live in a virus hot spot in Europe). I just got a mild fever though and my wife got infected 3 days later, she had the same symptoms.
We fell we still have it because now we both cannot smell things, and my wife has cannot taste anything.
> Humans do it really well with just two cameras _and general intelligence_

FTFY. You can thank me later.
You won't be hospitalized here unless you have trouble breathing. Tom Hanks was hospitalized because he is Tom Hanks.
So companies can charge for products they can't deliver? Why should consumers bear the full brunt of the contractual price and not receive promised goods? It's not like we are stealing refunds from ordinary folks, these are heartless corporations (in USA) who squeeze every dime they can.
Don't forget xf86config and other X11 fun to make it work with monitors, before peoples shared settings for popular models.
The big German ISPs don't have Netflix caches within their infrastructure, which might be part of the problem here. Last mile infrastructure might be even worse though.
Everyone's road is big enough to drive to their home, yet if we all got on the same highway at once it would be a traffic jam.
Fron 2012: Trade Off: Financial system supply-chain cross contagion – a study in global systemic collapse. By David Korowicz

...in order to understand systemic risk in the globalised economy, account must be taken of how growing complexity (interconnectedness, interdependence and the speed of processes), the de-localisation of production and concentration within key pillars of the globalised economy have magnified global vulnerability and opened up the possibility of a rapid and large-scale collapse. ‘Collapse’ in this sense means the irreversible loss of socio-economic complexity which fundamentally transforms the nature of the economy. These crucial issues have not been recognised by policy-makers nor are they reflected in economic thinking or modelling....

https://www.feasta.org/2012/06/17/trade-off-financial-system...
US drugmaker doubled price on potential coronavirus treatment
Many interesting points, but the "mutual defensive pacts that will automatically draw nations into war" part seems to not apply today.

For NATO, the key part is Article 5 that specifies "armed attack against one or more of them in Europe or North America shall be considered an attack against them all", and is intentionally drafted so as to not apply to "Cold war turning hot" in Asia (e.g. the Korean war or Vietnam war or Afghanistan or Iraq) and to any "non-core territories" e.g. French or British overseas territories or pacific islands like Guam. Heck, a literal repeat of Pearl Harbor and invasion of Hawaii would not trigger Article 5 (though NATO could and would likely take action despite not being required to do so) - the NATO treaty is explicitly designed to not draw nations automatically into war unless USSR or someone else starts WW3 in Europe or attacks mainland USA. It's hard to imagine any Chinese actions regarding their ambitions (e.g. South China Sea, Taiwan, Hong Kong) that could trigger the NATO Article 5 which would automatically draw nations into war, anything in Asia would give each nation a choice whether to get involved and if so, how much.

I'm not informed about the Russia-China treaties much, but IMHO they also don't have any strong mutual defence pacts, they have some limited military cooperation and sharing but that's it; they had a mutual defence pact in 1950s but that's long gone now. For example, there's the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_Sino-Russian_Treaty_of_Fr... where the strongest relevant obligation in Article 9 would require each party, if it's attacked, to.... immediately contact the other and consult about the situation; it does not include any agreement or obligation to actually do anything about it.
Or you can walk over to the store, put down a few green pieces of paper, be back at home and play the games without worrying about CPU frequencies, graphic card speed, or motherboard compatibilities.
> This is an issue with that particular website's implementation

because the product manager thought my user session was engaging with the site for 2 seconds longer so it must be good.

I never said it was the browser or the API just acknowledging that it is a predictable gripe and not a feature, and yes enabled by the browser and APIs
Be careful using the pickle format; it's not considered safe to unpickle untrusted data. https://docs.python.org/3/library/pickle.html
Well you brought it up, so which bailout are you referring to when you said "Corporate “bailouts” are just loans." that isn't referring to billion(s) dollar loans?
Have also worked on POS programs and I have to agree with this sentiment:

> It's too complex and resource intensive for an indie shop, it's not worth it.

If you're not an existing system, the client interfacing and employee training has to be factored into the costs on both ends. If your demo can't cover the client's needs to a tee, that's either an immediate deal-breaker or you have to build more features just to get considered. Then you have to market your product, do customer service, and do sales.

If you take that all into account, your product is not worth it for you nor the client.
> I wonder what Elon is going to do when _his_ "full self driving" fails to materialize. ...

> ...modifying the roads specifically for such cars, and segregating them from human drivers.

You were #this close# to answering your own question!
Answer: https://boringcompany.com
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I agree that human eyes do have benefits over your typical camera, but I don't think the phrase ignores that GAI hasn't been created yet; rather, it concisely points that out and makes it clear how difficult it is to do.

As the OP said, "it's not a hardware problem," in that the quality or number of cameras, sensors, etc. isn't the bottleneck to solving this problem.
Note that if you pirate 1080p or 4k content you'll always get the full resolution you asked for.
We used to have this; it was called piracy.
Change user-agent to impersonate Edge.

This is why I won't pay for premium resolution upgrades. It's too much of a hassle to ensure the entire video chain is providing what I paid for.
Based on your research, would you suggest taking Quercetin daily as a supplement?
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Then you're out of step with what users want these days.

Nothing wrong with that! But to take an example, when I hit a share button on a page I want to see the native share box, not some hideous iframed monstrosity that only works with Facebook. So I want Web Share. And I don't want to download an entire native app just so that I can receive a push alert when my food order is on the way, a web site works much better for that. So I'm happy that Web Push exists.

I get the nostalgia for the "simpler days", but web browers are essentially a universal OS these days. As both a user and a developer I'm quite happy with this.
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I recently spent some time between raw UDP and GRPC and learned a ton. This was for a hardware project so it's different from what web devs typically work on.

The most important thing that I found out while doing my research is it's not the fastest bytes that win. Well, that does matter, but it's not that important. It's reducing performance variance [1]. While my project wasn't optimizing for speed, it was optimizing for zero-copy de/serialization, but this often ends up as a solution for high-speed transfers. SBE, Flattbuffers, Cap'n Proto all had their places, but I ended up not using any of those and just hand-rolling something similar to what SBE would do. If this was a $DAYJOB project I'd probably end up doing something with SBE.

[1]: https://speice.io/2019/07/high-performance-systems.html
Should include smf[0].

[0] https://github.com/smfrpc/smf
Or just use whatever colors you like and replace displays when necessary.

I spend way too many hours using a monitor to let it's lifecycle determine what color-scheme I'll spend those hours looking at.
I purchased them in 2019 as I was refreshing my general ML knowledge as I was getting deeper outside my particular ML specialty at work. Loaded them into Anki. Wasn't really a fan, but definitely one of those "$12 isn't worth complaining about it and getting a refund from someone who seems earnest" type of situations.

Notably they're not traditional flashcards where I can be given one side, answer the question or repeat the concept, and then check the other side for the answer. Everything is on one side.

Second, lots of different subjects which may generally be good for overall knowledge, but lots of random things I found more specific to data science than ML, which I didn't expect because they're called Machine Learning Flashcards. I do realize data science is kind of a proto ML though.

Third, I found them hard to read with all the colors, some of which didn't scan as well as I would have liked.

To be completely fair, I'm probably not the target audience, but I felt like I was marketed to as if I were.
You can put an off-the-shelf SSD into your PS4.
Linux server resources consumption SNMP monitoring (CPU, RAM, Disk, Network)
It would be good practice to do so, when you are referring to a FQDN.

Apart from that, to circumvent badly configured paywall filters?
> Cellphone internet is even worse but as data is horribly expensive in Germany no one dares streaming Netflix over that anyway...

Luckily we have net-neutrality infringing features like Telekom's "Stream On" where it's included /s
The web was originally conceived as an interactive hypermedia platform, not a “document transfer system”.

It's true that it has displaced things they were true document or file transfer systems (Gopher, FTP) because it subsumes those functionalities, but it wasn't ever just that.
An alternative SDK for Firebase 27x smaller and 13x faster
I think that's a porkie, I am with Vodafone (Openreach) and it's completely crippled.
>It's true, but it ignores the fact that human eyes have orders of magnitude more dynamic range than even very expensive specialized cameras, and it obviously ignores the fact that we haven't invented general AI yet.

That level of resolution doesn't matter at all for driving. People can drive just as well through a video feed, like Starsky was doing. Yes general AI does not exist yet, but my point is simply that the parent made a comment about the need for hardware which is simply not true.
30K people get killed in car accidents in the US, and "people still buy". Heart disease kills half a million a year and people still eat twinkies. What else is new? That's called "freedom".

The issue is that if I paid a ton of money for something, I do generally expect to get what I paid for. And in this case that's not gonna happen.

[*] Hypothetically, I'm not presently a Tesla customer.
Tesla plans to keep production going at Fremont factory, says in leaked email
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Such a tariff could be made more economically neutral if the tariff proceeds were distributed to citizens as a dividend too.