skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is pretty infuriating to read when I spent so much fucking time with three different banks and my accountant over three weeks to prep and apply and I’m still unsure what the situation is in my case.

All on top of just keeping my restaurant afloat and keeping my employees safe, while I have a newborn, while the world is on fire and favorite customers come by crying about losing their jobs and fuck, what’s the rainy day fund for if not for commiserating six feet apart after giving them a free burger.

So yeah I guess I just sat on my fat ass for weeks and I shouldn’t be complaining.......?
It’s out of money as of today
The white-background screenshots give me borderline anxiety. It looks like it's perpetually half-loaded.
The Amiga line has the same 68K processors as the Apple Mac line. Just for 1/3rd the cost. For the price of a Mac 128 I bought an Amiga 1000 with 512K of RAM, 5.25" IBM compatible drive and Transformer PC EMulation software. The Mac had Mac Charlie to run PC software but it was too expensive and not as compatible as Transformer. I also got a 1200 Baud modem this was in 1986, the Amiga came out in 1985 based on Tripos and the Atari Lorrine project which dates back to 1980 and they didn't have the money to finish it. Workbench did trume preemptive multitasking and MacOS at the time did not it did task switching like MS-DOS.
That would be hard to target different phones... I am just using SSE/AVX (via Apple's Accelerate framework) for now for some parallelisation, helps to speed up the detection x10.
Almost nothing in life is actually fair, and obsessing on the unfairness of it all is impractical and self-destructive.
18.04, <enter> works for me to get the password box up.
What that //c+ could really use for Apple’s 44th birthday is a deep clean!

Along with a “Retrobrite” treatment to remove the yellowing from the ABS case parts and restore it’s original “platinum” appearance:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retr0bright
Thanks a lot! I've been to that website before, but forgot now. Will try to post there, and ask for discussion :)
All you did was discover that if you typed those words on your computer, they would appear on that website on that day.
So, at first I thought this approach is doomed, because you lose comments, and what looks like a comment to Rust may not look like one to Python. Example:

x = y // 2 # floor division

But then I decided to look at the docs:

https://doc.rust-lang.org/proc_macro/struct.Span.html

And I noticed source_text, which "preserves the original source code, including spaces and comments"!!!

Why not just use this from the start then?? Seems like the easy way out, no?

(Disclaimer: I don't know Rust, can't even write hello world.)
It's note by rote, per se, so much as it's adaptive pattern matching.
definitely TripleByte
Here in New Zealand you cannot legally place images of official road signs next to or near roads. If you wanted to illegally stop vehicles, there are cheaper ways of blocking a road!
I was in and out of "gifted programs" for most of my schooling, if you could call them that. A few of the people in there were generally smart, many not so much. Personally I always hated them. Except for a brief program when I was in 4th grade all they were for us was just am increased workload. Me, being the lazy pos I am, just neglected to do any of the extra work and I focused on my own thing. I remember in 4th grade when I was kicked outthe first time transferring from the accelerated class that had me doing boatloads of dull readings and "paper work" in the accelerated clas to the normal class with a much less mind-numbing workload where I had time to work on what I wanted to when because I finished early. Eventually they would realize I'm moving faster than most of the class, stick me in the gifted class and the cycle would repeat up until graduation. When I was a senior I. I recall my senior year one of the kids who was in the giftedprograms their entire schooling asking me if a 23 was a good ASVAB score. Ibrelaize these programs are going to vary depending on your school district, so for context, this was a mostly lower-middle class and middle class suburb of a southeastern metro. I personally dont think I'm very smart, likely average, maybe a little less than I used to be nowadays, but I consider a lot of these programs a sham.
To Amazon future free cash flows are what matters, as pretty much every Bezos shareholder letter ever has explicitly said.

Edit: When I read his letter in 2004 I went long and I've never looked back. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1018724/000119312505...
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush, so they say. It’s moving it from my hand to yours where the magic happens.
Ironically this view is the most destructive of them all. If people feel things are unfair they should never stop obsessing. If people just accepted injustice and unfairness slavery would exist and the Jews would be wiped out to give two salient examples.
Commodore's response to the IIGS was to make the Commodore 65 an upgraded Commodore 64 with Amiga style graphics and sound. It never came out. There is a clone at http://mega65.org/ that tries to complete the Commodore 65 with a 50Mhz CPU. Something about the 6502 not being able to be clocked more than 25Mhz prevented it so they made the 4502 that can go up to 50Mhz.
Double Warning over Antibody Tests
I wrote this [0] up a couple of weeks ago, which is a hack to put shell code in your rust, with reasons why you would want to.

[0]: https://neosmart.net/blog/2020/self-compiling-rust-code/
That is of course true, but doing all those things takes a lot of time. Building machines that make the raw materials for N95 masks takes weeks for the companies that already know how to do it. I imagine it is a much slower process if you first need to train people.
Swift for Tensorflow has implemented Python interoperability, rather than embedded Python code as in this article. A Swift program can import a Python module and interact with Python objects and functions as if they were native Swift objects (minus strong typing, of course). See https://github.com/tensorflow/swift/blob/master/docs/PythonI...
Oh really? Especially on mobile, that's useful to know, thanks!
Heap Dump Analysis API
Fira Code appears to be one of them, at least that is used on the website. A handcrafted recommendation of mine would be to try Iosevka (https://typeof.net/Iosevka/ ) or Input (https://input.fontbureau.com/ ). I really like the narrow-width fonts, lets you fit more code on screen.
In a way I feel it has become less complicated. I can do so much with hooks so easily using a dead simple API, for example. I write less code now than I ever did with react.

Admittedly, react now comes with that API and the previous ways of doing things, and that could be seen as over complication.
Polypropylene is really easy to make, it's one of the most common plastics around. The hard part is spinning it into the fabric needed for N95 masks.
Swift for Good, by many authors

Modern Auto Layout, by Keith Harrison
World Heritage Day
Won't this create more of those people?
Their rationale is that apps should just be closed or opened; there shouldn't be a need for intermediate states.
> engineers do better UX than most so called ux professionals

Yes, exactly. Beyond a bare minimum of having a UI (which, to be fair, many engineers forget) good UI design is about not doing things.
Keeping children who’re perfectly capable of doing sixth grade work doing fifth grade work isn’t as bad but it’s still a waste off their time and a lesson in the actual priorities of the school system, which certainly don’t have learning among the top five.
It reads nicely but doesn't sound good
I never used a //c+, but on the IIgs I remember the 3.5” floppy drive being a huge advantage. The 3.5” was faster and had much more capacity that the 5.25”, so the first thing you’d do on a IIgs was copy everything over to 3.5” floppies.

My memory could be faulty, but I also don’t recall having compatibility issues between DOS and ProDOS.

The big issue was 5.25” games, which would pull all sorts of low-level hardware-dependent copy protection tricks. Those couldn’t be copied without special hacks.
The domain knowledge is freely available for the overwhelming majority of markets but it's usually not enough to provide an edge.
Kurt Vonnegut says it more eloquently than I ever could:

http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/harrison.html
Oops s & c corps. I know someone who did it using their s Corp
Am I the only one who finds megastructures like this surreal? It’s not agoraphobia per se, but sometimes when I behold things like this tank or especially when I gaze upwards at a skyscraper, I get this sense that of not-rightness that it exists and that I’m so close to it to be looking at it from this angle. Vertigo maybe? It happens even in pictures so I’m sure it’s something about my mind thinking something is amiss somehow but I don’t know why. I actually am quite fascinated with megastructures like these but have a hard time appreciating them sometimes while grappling with the extrasensory overload that viewing them can induce.
Control-freaks will use any excuse to act unreasonably by abusing their authority to control other people when no risk exists. It's usually people who lack control in their own lives, so they fail at MYOB and seek to impose their will on others.
A language is only a tool to express something.

Actually any language doesn't have to do more than expressing your ideas because you are in charge of your brain.

If you can't manage memory like many drivers can't manage a manual gearbox, then use a garbage collector. ;-)
Fixing our PPE supply chain was/is a solvable problem that our governments have utterly failed to address properly. It is shameful that our federal and state governments haven't better organized and incentivized solutions to fix this. I understand that it's hard. I understand that they're working hard to address this problem. But it's unacceptable that we haven't just gotten this done -- that we've instead put the burden on our medical workers to solve this life-or-death problem. As if they didn't already have enough to worry about.

I feel much closer to this issue than I expected to be. Because I worked for weeks with a volunteer group called helpfulengineering.org to help figure out how to make face shields through local partnerships. I was helping organize efforts for the city of Chicago. Our group made dozens of 3D printed face shields, then hundreds. Each face shield was given to a medical worker who sent back stories about how desperately important each one was to them.

https://twitter.com/syllablehq/status/1247891099324051462

In an effort to scale up faster, we got price quotes from local manufacturers who could manufacture NIH vetted face shields in bulk using injection molding or die cutting. These local manufacturers were very eager to help and work with us. We were prepared to get our own investment to kick-start the manufacturing as long as we had some confidence that we could get the products to market and not lose tens of thousands of dollars. We were prepared to sell them AT COST - not even for a profit. Next step: we just needed help to connect these manufacturers with an organized supply chain.

We talked to government offices and offered to help them get this plan in motion. But no one could do anything except direct us to generic websites and phone numbers. We filled out forms and called numbers. Never heard back. One government office told us they were working as hard as they could, and there were numerous projects in the works... but they couldn't give us any more information. No transparency.

Weeks later, the hospitals are still in desperate need. There is still no plan to solve this problem. Corporations have stepped up to donate a million here and a million there. This is great. But it's not a replacement for the war-time effort we need to save thousands of lives.

Thank you to so many leaders who are working hard -- including those from Chicago. But we've got to do better than this. If our medical workers were soldiers, we would not send them to war expecting them to find their own community donated helmets.
Some parents don't really have the best interests of their children at heart. "Hot housing" children does not make for better future outcomes. It just deprives children of their childhood.
How it's different from Sublime. Sublime by default free to use, however it has Dev channel where you need to pay to use it.

Everyone who has creativity, can sell their products on their own wish. Love it, buy it. Not interested, ignore it. But this sort of criticism is not expected!
The author completely failed to mention discoverability. Which is a huge part of usability because it allows _new_ people to sit down at your applications and gradually work up their expertise until they are keyboard wizards (or whatever).

So, no, just having a bunch of magic unlabeled buttons and saying "use the keyboard" isn't good usability. The part that kills me, is that a lot of these applications don't even really have shortcut key guides. So, you don't even know the magic key sequence for something until you discover it by accident.

Worse, are the crappy programs that break global key shortcuts by using them for their own purposes.. AKA firefox seems to manage this on a pretty regular basis. Want to switch tabs? ctrl-tab, oh wait, it doesn't work anymore, cross fingers and hope someone notices and fixes it (which they did).
I too love the USA. I love all Americans, even those whom I disagree with on every axis, but love as people.

But I find myself at a crossroads (or at least, what I feel is a crossroads). What should I do next? Should I stay in a country that taxes me without representation of my views? I think Balaji Srinivasan said it best. In political science, you have two options: voice and exit. Voice is protesting what you find intolerable in a system by voting against policies that negatively affect you. Or, there is exit. Exit is leaving that system entirely, such that it amplifies the dissenting voice. I find myself contemplating exit. I'm actually considering an authoritarian state, Singapore, as a place to emigrate to. Because while my views won't be represented, at least they won't tax me for it. I'm almost sort of okay with that.
> I thereby discovered that you can get the password prompt by pressing Enter.

This is the same this Win10. I was super annoyed they add one more step to a very frequent action, for no benefits on a PC computer. Hopefully I don’t have to use Win10 too much, but this is symptomatic of the mobilification of computers.
There's a lot of misunderstanding in general, I think, about the rights that employees have under labor relations laws, and how those laws are routinely broken.

For example, up until very recently (December 2019, when a Republican-led NLRB overturned a previous 2014 ruling) it was expressly required that employees at a company be allowed to use email in order to unionize and organize.

In fact, in general there are still quite a few protections afforded to organizing workers -- even with recent rulings. The rule is that policies cannot discriminate on content. For example, if employees are allowed to use a work Google Calendar to plan birthday parties and events, then they must be allowed to use the same calendar to unionize. If employees have a workplace bulletin board where they can post about Girl Scout cookie sales or anything else personal, then they must be allowed to use that same bulletin board to post about unionization.
What's wrong with forking and using a pipe or socket?
What a weird article… The instruction count being about the same doesn’t make it the same program… Why isn’t he using -O3?
In Australia a major tomato producer built their new greenhouse facility in the high-altitude (1km) New England region because it's cheaper to heat the greenhouses in the cold winter months than to cool them in the hot summer months in low-altitude high-temperature areas. It might be with global warming the economics of Canadian tomatoes get even better.
Sure, but you usually don’t know what you don’t know. More pertinent to jobseeking, you don’t know who you don’t know.
Did you and classmates have a teacher who understood the needs and special curriculum for highly gifted kids too? If otherwise, it could be lackluster since most teachers don’t know how to handle them or keep them engaged.

Einstein’s tutor when he was a kid was an medical student who later became a noted ophthalmologist with a Wikipedia entry of his own. Gauss’ 4th grade teacher asked the class he was in to sum from 1 to 100, hoping to engage them for the whole period, and couldn’t believe how fast Gauss finished it.

ADDED: For exceptionally gifted students, I estimate they should have someone with the intellect equivalent to a PhD or a masters graduate from a top program to teach them once they are in late primary school (and sometimes sooner).
Yah. You can be super bright without being in the category that needs all the support and scaffolding.

My oldest is super precocious mathematically. And has adjustment problems, impatience, social struggles, etc. Massive but undeveloped sense of justice/fairness that borders on fascism, too. He is doing OK, but... it takes a lot of enrichment and support for him to make it and stay sane.

My middle kid is nearly as capable mathematically and stronger verbally... but he's chill, and patient, adept socially, ... good at, and content, slacking. Fits in perfectly in a mainstream classroom without a lot of accommodation.

(The youngest? Who knows. We'll see, he's only 6).
how about Techcrunch, Engadget and Gizmodo owner company? not visiting any of these sites since all of them first redirect you through some advertising tracking domain caught by my ublock, haven't seen any major site doing such shady thing, they would deserve it more
The paper in question says that children moved to higher grades actually do better socially. They can fit in in many ways, just not age. Compare that to the nonaccellerated kids who can fit in in terms of age, but not much else.
This wasn’t totally random:
“ This study had several limitations. First, our sampling strategy selected for members of Santa Clara County with access to Facebook and a car to attend drive-through testing sites. This resulted in an over- representation of white women between the ages of 19 and 64, and an under-representation of Hispanic and Asian populations, relative to our community. Those imbalances were partly addressed by weighting our sample population by zip code, race, and sex to match the county. We did not account for age imbalance in our sample, and could not ascertain representativeness of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in homeless populations. Other biases, such as bias favoring individuals in good health capable of attending our testing sites, or bias favoring those with prior COVID-like illnesses seeking antibody confirmation are also possible. The overall effect of such biases is hard to ascertain”

I know at least one person was inclined to get tested because he had a bad flu earlier.
Email is not inventory to be sold, or even depletable. This is more like putting up a flyer in the break room. Technically the cork board gets damaged by the push pin, but it's not particularly relevant.
Might align with Putin's ambitions to resurrect the USSR, see the usage part.
I don't really recall, because we only saw each of them for 5 or 6 months.
I'm currently 35 and I was ID'd as a gifted child, so this paper caught my attention. There's a section that discusses outcomes based on whether gifted children were allowed to skip grades or not, and my personal experience largely matches what is described for what would be my group, the nonaccelerands:

"Several of the nonaccelerands have serious and ongoing problems with social relationships. These young people find it very difficult to sustain friendships because having been, to a large extent, socially isolated at school, they have had much less practice in their formative years in developing and maintaining social relationships. Six have had counseling. Of these, two have been treated for severe depression. If educators were made responsible to ethics committees, as are researchers, such developmentally inappropriate educational misplacement would never be permitted."

I wonder how this group is doing these days. I wonder if the runners of the study ever considered introducing members of this group to the others to form a support group.
I should've said "rendering engine" rather than "front-end library", to still be able to use things like redux, css processors, etc. But your comment made me realize that may not actually make sense. I'm still generally hesitant when a single framework takes over the entire chain.
Nice to see this on here. I really enjoy using this as well as Token2Shell (SSH client) from the same dev: https://token2shell.com/
The author likely just barely missed its introduction. While the article is written recently, the implementation it talks about was published first in early April 2019, right about when source_text was first introduced into nightly.
The article mentions the DHS which was created in November 2002 in response to 9/11 and is the youngest U.S. cabinet department [0].

The other thread of the creeping problems in the West - that it is growth of government rather than decay of government - has some evidence to show here.

Institutional IQ isn't the issue. The DHS was never clever and the FBI has been a corrupt mess for a long time. See also J. Edgar Hoover and imagine him as a current president.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Ho...
A neat idea that I hadn’t thought of until your comment:

Because it’s now possible to run multiple VMs at once (containers, etc) perhaps it’s time to run a simple, minimal, admin friendly hacker vm inside Ubuntu desktop?

Let Ubuntu configure all that it needs to get a good functional machine out of the box (working sleep mode for laptops, WiFi management, GPU support, systemd if that’s what it wants.) I then deploy the minimal VM I actually want to poke around with inside that installation.

This is pretty much what many people do in macOS. Apple’s OS supports the bare metal, vagrant / VirtualBox give me my tractably scrutable dev environment.

It’s not a particularly ground breaking concept but it might cheer me up a bit when battling with the volatility of user facing Linux distributions.
This is usually the problem, especially with Java architects. The many that I've encountered are often using dated methodologies/tooling that have been eclipsed by something else. The challenge is often keeping up with what's changed in the last x years, which has little incentive if one does not program much if at all.
> The answer boils down to three T’s: technology, taste, and terrible pay.

I don't think technology has much to do with it. Digital illustration has been around for decades now, and technological improvements have made it easier to make complex, sophisticated art and reproduce all traditional techniques. So, neither the timeline nor the trend match.

The pay, sure, everyone always wants to make more money. I believe it's a factor. But it's been half a century since the 1970s. The style transition seems to have been too abrupt to be driven by long-term salary trends. Besides, it's hard to believe that the people making Corporate Memphis for, say, Facebook are so severely underpaid that no other style is feasible. In fact, if you have the money to pay your designers more, wouldn't you want to have them do something different, to stand out?

So it's taste, then. But I don't think it's a pure accident of fashion. This style aligns very well with the cultural moment: the infantilization of academic/corporate/consumer culture, the triumph of safety and risk-aversion, an antipathy towards the (conventionally attractive) human form, and an ever more homogenized culture facing an ever more heterogeneous public. If you were a designer trying to capture the zeitgeist, could you do better?