skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is such utter nonsense. How can any honest intellectual consider this to be anything other than the result of a calculated agitprop campaign by the utterly corrupt US military industrial complex ..

Assange is not a Russian agent, and Wikileaks is not a Russian operation, and never was. It just so happens that the majority of dire, desperate corruption that Wikileaks revealed, was indeed committed by Western entities. This does not mean that Russia doesn't have its problems - but it has not committed war crimes and other very real crimes against humanity at anything near the scale of the criminal Western war coalition and the member 5-eyes nations.

Please, inform yourself as to the nature of the very real agitprop campaign that has been waged against Wikileaks, and in so doing - have the courage to see Assange for the hero he really is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgw6FoFPhjo
Previous discussion.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22931290
You can customize the debug profile or create an intermediate profile between release and debug in your Cargo.toml. Debug info and optimization levels can be configured separately.

If by speed up you mean compile times and not runtime behavior then there's also some unstable compiler flag that allows adding specific llvm passes.
Did the original definition specifically refer to non-shale oil? That doesn't seem too likely. It was just about total production.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImV1voi41YY

The fact that we've made new sources viable means we haven't hit the peak yet.
Ask HN: Managing Project Updates in Remote Company
I am currently a lead TPM at a fully remote organization. We are struggling to provide the right level of insight into the business teams on the status of projects currently in flight. For the day to day, these sorts of updates to critical projects happen in disparate slack channels or emails and are hard to get a clear overview of.

We have a bi-weekly slide presentation with the status of every squad and project, that somewhat achieves this goal. However, the frequency of this deck means it can't be used on a day to day basis.

What methods have your teams used for asynchronous updates? I'm wondering if we can somehow automate the bi-weekly update as an aggregate of more often daily updates (but I need a way to keep this lite touch).
Has AI failed us during Covid-19 crisis?
the objective is not some utilitarian maximization of wellbeing; it's to prevent the state specifically from bringing harm to an innocent person. the implication is that it's worse for the state to directly harm an innocent person than for the state to allow harm to come to that person through inaction (eg, failing to imprison murderers).
They held a Q&A sessions and basically their answer to that question is two-fold if I remember it correctly:

- removable batteries can be stolen,

- can have issues due to bad weather.

They consider their design safer on those two points.
It's imho a mistake.
I'll add that this high rate is mirrored in several countries doing anti-body tests on blood donors (though one could argue blood donors are a self-selecting group):

>In this sample 11% has antibodies and the test detects 70-80% of people with antibodies. So, that leaves us with 14.6% immune. With a population of 2,377,081, that means 347053 people would be immune in Stockholm now, for an IFR of 0.27%.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/COVID19/comments/g4znbg/at_least_11...
Maybe im using the term wrong, I mean there is a steep learning curve but its nothing that will cause you serious issues like randomly deleting data or “how do I un-rm a file?”. The complexity is in using the tooling and not in the commands being idiotic and having dangerous side effects, if anything less so than other OSes
Ask HN: Why isn't the U.S. using OpenTrace?
Why isn't the U.S. using OpenTrace? Why are Apple and Google reinventing the wheel? I've read the white papers, built the apps, built the cloud instance. It seems really secure and ready to use.

What am I missing?
Similarly, I mostly stopped playing video games few a few years after getting out of the habit in university. When I tried playing a new game, it just didn't grab my attention and I didn't feel like continuing playing.

In the last couple of years, I have had a few games finally make me feel the enjoyment that I remembered feeling when I was younger. And examining my own feelings when playing, what strikes me is that the first 5 to 10 hours of a game with some depth can be quite un-enjoyable, and they become dramatically more engaging once I've gotten over that hump. I think that was the case when I was younger as well, but when I had more free time on my hands it didn't feel like as much of a waste of time.
Best comment in this whole thread. While people war over the morality of Facebook Inc. banning speech is disfavors from it's own platform, most people aren't addressing the fact that Facebook shouldn't hold such a market position in the first place.
Well, I guess I have accidentally stumbled into the future. Except for the robot body, I could really use one of those because the one I have is starting to break down.
It was the same at Amazon when I was there. You couldn't even work on your own game on your own time.
Wow, glad I passed on an Apple interview.
That's why you shouldn't just rewrite it on your own devices. The better way is to get in touch with the maintainer and become part of the project. Maybe there are good reasons why refactoring some portion of the code in certain ways is perhaps not the best idea?
I think it's partially fair; gcc, in order to make it impossible to add proprietary add-ons, deliberately has an non-modular architecture, which makes it hard even for open source extensions to exist.
What I find confusing though is Japan's low death numbers. I was assuming that spikes in mortality couldn't be hidden, but recent comments from inside sources in Japanese hospitals are starting to make me doubt this assumption. Still, there is not a crisis on Lombardia-level going on, which one would expect given the relative inaction of Japanese government. I'm guessing the truth is somewhere in the middle - Japan's reported numbers are underestimating the issue, but at the same time Japanese society is as a whole more resistant than at least Southern Europe.
You forgot that test capacity in Japan is still close to nil.
Add the Oil & Gas Industry to your first list.
Returns on those projects are bond-like (actually are bonds typically) in their predictability, so they _could_, but I can't imagine they would.
Yeah, I understand, that is why I said it is not DirectX, but being in DirectX or not is just marketing.

The reason is that XAudio2 (and lower level ones and other non-audio ones) is developed, distributed and recommended by Microsoft, and it is used by many major games and audio engines.

So I don't understand who cares about whether it is formally part of DirectX or not.

I didn't claim there aren't alternatives like OpenAL or Wine's XAudio2 implementation. I simply said the original XAudio2 is not portable on its own, which means you cannot simply use it in Linux, for instance.
I tried to find battery specs and all I was able to get was "Battery 504W capacity Integrated LG cell Removable for servicing". Is that a typo and it is actually 504 watt hours or it is battery's rated power?
While I really liked that they're moving to fully secure TLS 1.3, I was more impressed by their A/B testing. I find it fascinating they can segment their traffic by device AND then be able to deliver separate streams of content. It's something I've wanted to do at many companies I've worked at but we never had the data to begin with in order to do that. Always another fire to put out...
Human Rights in the Time of Corona
Project Evidence
Covid 19 and Awareness
You are absolutely correct - people whose personal identities are highly dependent on associating with the untouchable West will have a much harder time accepting the truth of Wikileaks immensely valuable, important contribution to modern discourse over the nature of the West's coalition of the willing/5-eyes criminal state than those who do not have an American/UK/British/Canadian/NZ/etc national identity that will be bruised by the revelations of their nations' absolute, evil corruption, war crimes and real crimes against humanity.
Here's hope for unification
He isn't great at predicting events that are surprising to the market. His hedge fund went under due to low returns. However, he did bring attention to the idea of black swan events, the possibility of which is too often ignored or overlooked. He is famous for bringing a particular school of thought to the forefront of our conversations about predictive models, not for specific predictions he himself made.
They can used throttle only and don’t add strain on the chain.
Factorio lets you rip apart factories and rebuild them (for no cost) for this reason, and even as a seasoned player while I have my go-to strategies, I still end up rebuilding sections.

That's not failure it's just part of the gameplay! There are a few mods that can make your life a bit easier though - check out Factorissimo which lets you make self-contained buildings.
Pluralsight has videos/training series that do that. It might still generally be below exactly what you are looking for, but it’s pretty good and where I go when I have to ramp fast.
This is sometimes done as a “public-private partnership”.
Why mentioned illegal immigration? That should be illegal in the first place. What Trump does is temporarily suspend ALL immigration.

There's a drain on limited resources but the idea in America was to attract all the talent and this resulted brain drain in other places, which for a US was a winning point. So, maybe this is a good thing, for other countries??

And let me remind you the real reason the limited resources are being drained the most: the rich eschew their taxes through tax heavens and what not. It is easy to blame it on immigrants to move the attention away from the tax loopholes and other shenanigans the super rich are doing.
I read a thing a while ago (maybe on Reddit?) that I wish I hadn't read. It read that the body can detect low oxygen levels - causing you to want to breathe more. But CO (carbon monoxide) attaches to your red blood cells just like O does, meaning as far as your body is concerned, you're just fine in terms of oxygen levels. No "I am suffocating" panic reactions.

Get a carbon monoxide detector if you live or stay somewhere with an open flame. Infamously in my country, it's shitty gas powered caravan heaters that are often the problem. Garages with running vehicles as well.
I used to have a Sun workstation back in the 90's. They were awesome. My workstation had 16MB of memory and ran SunOS, Sun's version of Unix based on BSD.

With 16MB of memory the system was a pleasure to use, and had an excellent UI (OpenLook, as seen in the screenshots of the PizzaTool.)

25 years later we have machines that are many times more powerful with many times more memory. But is the overall experience better? Not really. Windows 10 has a sucky UI, and despite more powerful machines, doesn't run much better than my 16MB Sun Workstation used to.
AMD offered mobile versions of their K6-2 and K6-III chips, they weren't too far behind (in speed or power) at the time.
My mother has interstatial lung disease. We got her a Zacurate brand pulse oximeter. https://photos.app.goo.gl/MVkCa7GH9NuEbgbL6

Model 500E which was recently released then. It is rated at 2% +/- but their documentation says that their lab testing gives 1% +/-

Does not have memory as I did not need that so you will be able to spot check and not have, for example, overnight readings.
Most importantly the pizza place is still around.

http://www.tonyandalbaspizza.com/
2.5x was a little too specific to be obvious.
The purpose of the overall evasiveness could be to prevent personal retaliation of some kind - that would be understandable. But why avoid mentioning the word Olympics and instead call it "the sporting event" repeatedly? Especially now when your connection to the white paper is public.
Low incidence of daily active tobacco smoking in patients with symptomatic C19
I want to like a lot of this. The UK is full of "crap towns" with poor housing, poor design and environs that are generally anti-human (as well as anti- a lot of other things). I don't particularly agree the problem is "regulatory capture" unless that's simply a shorthand way of saying, "we, as society, have agreed that inertia is our preferred approach". In some cases it may well be regulatory capture; in most I don't believe it is (obvious case in point for housing is green belt: we know it's a nonsense, but it's an absolute political impediment, not a regulatory one. The people do not want to build there).

There shouldn't be problems with people having access to healthcare, or living in housing which is not just healthy but is also pleasant. People should have access to nature as well as all their other conveniences, working should not require long commutes and we shouldn't be generating the absolute tsunamis of waste we currently do just to survive.

There are constructivist answers to all these problems. Andreesen appears to be suggesting it's just a matter of willpower. I don't believe the solution is that simple.
The AWS CDK public roadmap
That’s how C++ started out but as far as I know this had lots of limitations in terms of optimization so they started writing native C++ compilers.
Govt of India video conferencing challenge
The Govt of India is looking for alternative solution to Zoom (and other video conferencing apps). The prize money is equivalent to USD 130K.

Details:
https://secure.mygov.in/node/289601

Eligibility:
Has to be a registered Indian company or at the time of contract signing. More details at the link above.
> The hubris of this guy is quite off-putting.

You’re not a certified expert. Shut up and listen to your betters.

If there were actually the reserves of competence you and others like you believe in; if the authorities actually deserved our trust almost everywhere would have done as well as Taiwan or at least Korea. In the world we actually live in the CDC stopped the Seattle Flu Study from testing for COVID-19 and banned private labs from testing for more than two weeks after fucking up its own tests.

In the world we actually live in the prestige media spent most of February making fun of people who thought this was a real problem that would spread outside China, and later Italy. They didn’t act like they were taking it seriously. They followed the lead of the WHO, which should have been setting the alarm and instead was telling people that the real enemy was prejudice.

Many countries with well credentialed experts failed. You wouldn’t accuse them of hubris. But they failed.
You can do CJK with degraded quality using only simple cmap processing. There's another layer that requires more sophistication: dealing with Han unification, processing variation selectors correctly, composing Hangul jamo.

If people want their software to work well across the world, they should not use simple libraries like this. Unfortunately, software that gets it right is complex and messy. See "Text Rendering Hates You" for a taste of some of the issues, or some of my blogging about skribo (I tried to solve some of this for Rust but ran out of time on my contract).
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22934704
Wow, that Ubiquity thread is glorious. It's a perfect mix of sarcasm and reflection.

I think the problem stems from a shift in how users "reddit". The upvote button is now analogous to a "like" button. It doesn't encourage users to take context (eg subreddit) of the post into account. Reddit encourages its popular and hot feeds - a meta assortment that strips posts of some of their context.

So, everything is truly reduced to just "good or bad".
This is a useful reminder; thank you. It's true that my original comment was made in the context of having virtually all of my needs already met, and being far along the path to self-actualization.
Cloud Native News about open source, container orchestration and co
Belatedly, sorry: I really appreciate your thoughtful reply.

I had to refresh my memory of ACLU's involvement. FWIW, reading their own position, I think they made a good call.

But more importantly, they fail to explain their process for deciding which cases to take.

The handful of affiliates I checked don't publish their bylaws, meeting announcements, minutes, and so forth.

Having served as Secretary for my local political party, I saw firsthand the importance of transparency and accountability. While the charges of bias and so forth never go away, our org, uniquely in our region, always addressed those concerns head-on. We also proactively recommended to our members amendments to our bylaws, to address holes or changing circumstances.

The ACLU should do the same.
He’s annoying but correct.
Deadpool was released this month on the Fortnite Game
Telegram vs. Signal vs. Status – The Secure Messaging App of the Future
I have had an X2 since last summer. Some points:

The hub motor is excellent. It gives you all-wheel drive which is a bit odd in a bicycle and can catch you out in very slippery conditions (mud on paved towpath by side of river, this is slippery for every bike and every foot, but the front-wheel drive can cause an extra slide).

The battery lasts well. I don’t always need it hiked to full power (setting 4) and am happy to ride it at anything from 1-3. There is a boost button that provides extra oomph for climbing hills or getting away quickly.

It’s not crazy heavy.

It’s a properly vertically-integrated e-bike where everything is designed together and works together. If you want a bicycle with a motor and battery bolted-on, there’s plenty of alternatives. The service has been excellent from VanMoof and the only flaw is that the rear mudguard somehow doesn’t work and my entire back is covered in mud on a wet ride.

I paid full-price and it is an outstanding bicycle. I imagine the S3/X3 will be even better. I resisted the chance to buy one of those early.
I think to truly be an event-driven architecture you need to go a step or two further and be data-driven.

In other words, the appropriate way to describe your system would not be (subscribable) relationships between a set of components that describe your presumptive view of a division of responsibilities. (This is the non-event driven way of doing things, but with the arrows reversed.)

Instead, you track external input types, put them into a particular stream of events, transform those events to database updates or more events, etc. Your entire system is this graph of event streams and transformations.

These streams may cut across what you thought were the different responsibilities, and you will have either saved yourself headaches or removed a fatal flaw in your design.

If you're thinking about doing work in this area, don't just reverse the arrows in your component design!
I'd be interested in reading their analysis on price setting.

$30 is much more than it was 3 years ago. I've been waiting for a discount on factorio. I guess I'll take it off my wishlist.
A VC could build a company to fulfill a government contract? I doubt it would be able to compete with established firms though because the startup wouldn't have a history and the established firm would.
This is an interesting commentary on Andreesen’s piece, but it doesn’t really change or contradict anything.

At the end of the day, the US is a litigious society covered in Byzantine regulation that most people aren’t even aware of. This covers the most basic things: would you like to build a townhouse for your family with just one parking space? Illegal in the vast majority of the United States, where 2+ parking spaces per home are required by law. Want to build an apartment building in San Francisco to capitalize on the incredible demand for housing? You’ll spend at least 6 years getting a building permit, and what you’re actually allowed to build will be mostly the result of ugly haggling with special interest groups along the way. These are just a few examples I happen to be familiar with.

We’ve chosen for things to be like this by the way we allow our government at every level to be captured by lobbyists, special interests, and partisanship. Realistically, to change things, we need reform that fixes the way the government itself operates, and while there are many ideas that sound good, everything has unexpected side effects. That is a very, very hard problem, to solve.
Hinting is only necessary on low-DPI displays and/or when there's no antialiasing.

Given that people mostly own high-DPI displays these days with font libraries that do antialiasing, there's essentially no need for hinting, and subpixel rendering is more trouble than it's worth (which is why Apple removed it from macOS once Retina displays became the norm). Supporting hinting in a new font rendering library feels... pretty backwards-looking to me.

Granted this is a matter of subjective aesthetic opinion, but on high-DPI the lack of hinting isn't even remotely "ugly". To the contrary, it ensures greater fidelity to the letterform, while hinting necessarily distorts proportions.

(Also, the example with the 'iii's has nothing to do with hinting or even subpixel rendering [when edges of black text are in blue and red], but rather subpixel positioning. Anti-aliasing alone handles subpixel positioning perfectly well. But once again, physical subpixel positioning becomes less important on high-DPI, though logical subpixel positioning is still very important.)
It was baseless. You had no evidence CJK will not be supported. It was just a baseless condemnation of the project because the readme referenced suckless.
Yes: I did find those comments; I am even downthread of one of those comments myself, talking about the fascinating limitations of encryption: I simply do not consider three or four comments to be a thread "full of" such comments (and my mental model of this thread, as well as my own involvement, is from well before your comment, which seems to have now hijacked the first position on this post as people I guess like upvoting complaints about other commenters).
Just want to second how solidly built the game feels. There's definitely a learning curve which keeps on going for many hours (and I think that's a big part of the appeal) and there's some missing in-game information that I've found myself having to look up online - that much is true.

But the UX has incredible amounts of well-thought out polish. Different sized hitboxes for different components, often really favoring playability makes navigating bases really handy. Live map view with the ability to zoom into a location you're not currently near to get a real view of the factory at that point. Unrealistic long reach. Smart notifications on events happening in the base. Graphs diagramming pollution generation and electricity use by factory component type spanning the whole game period. Map layers showing which zones are protected by your defenses, or the extent of spread of pollution, or the routes and locations of your automated trains. And dozens of really useful shortcuts as mentioned.

The game would be perfectly playable without any of these and still be really fun but the love and attention put in by the devs is very clear. And the most amazing thing is seeing all of these things happening all at the same time with thousands of moving pieces updating at 60hz and the game still runs smooth as butter. As a developer I've been very impressed by how smoothly this game runs. And as a gamer I have seen much much simpler games put computers to the test to achieve much less.
Remote software developers earn more than non-remote developers
Is there a possibility of us getting an FDA sanctioned OTC antibody test in the near future so we can find out if we already had the virus?
I really enjoyed the special features (3d model viewers etc) you added to this article. It's a great presentation and an interesting read.