skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some people think the richest country in the history of the world could figure something like this out, but those people don’t seem to understand how it became the richest country to begin with. The United States was built on laissez faire exploitation and that is not going to change overnight.
I would imagine a not insignificant fraction of those startups were between 2 and 5 employees renting the corner of a larger office living off of angel fund money for 9-18 months before evaporating. That's just a guess though.
It is interesting to hear a similar feeling (I use to be heavily addicted prior to university). While I still do play games, I focus on short ones (story-driven like Life is Strange [1]) or ones that can be decomposed into intensive moments (e.g. StarCraft 2, Doom 2016/Eternal [2], Black Mesa, Ori and the Blind Forest/Will of the Wisps).

I am not even tempted to play games that are work, or longer endeavor. To the point, that while I love the Witcher universe (read all books before it was cool; like, 20 years ago) I decided to rather watch all cutscenes than play. (I call it gaming porn.)
With Factorio - I know that 15 years ago it would totally addict me (I was to SimCity, and Transport Tycoon Deluxe; I have a kink for building and maintaining systems).

Now... emotional catharsis, or intense flow of shooter, is what I play for. Working for dozens or hundreds of hours - I prefer to spend the time creating something. It is not (only) "I am adult and blah, blah" - just I know I would feel nauseous guilt on one side, while some sense of accomplishment when creating something for others.

[1] "Games in which you talk - and get immersed" https://medium.com/@pmigdal/games-in-which-you-walk-and-get-...

[2] "Doom 2016 vs Doom Eternal: UI side-by-side" https://medium.com/@pmigdal/doom-2016-vs-doom-eternal-ui-sid...
No, just not quartz. Microsoft and OSX have some share in hinting
What is interesting here is that multiple news outlets are calling this "AMD's revival". As far as I'm aware AMD has always been kind of "second rate" in the mobile space - until now, apparently. There's nothing they're really reviving from - it's a first.

Even when AMD was previously whooping Intel - in the Athlon 64 vs Pentium 4 days - AMD was not particularly great in the mobile space. The Athlon 64 tech was downscaled for mobile uses fine, but AMD did not have a good answer to Intel's broad Centrino platform for mobile technologies. Moreover, Intel was quick to introduce the Pentium M on the mobile market, which was a much better and competitive product than the Pentium 4 (and the direct predecessor of the "Core" branded processors that marginalized AMD again later). AMD was competitive with Intel before the Athlon 64 too, but the mobile market was more niche before the early 2000s and the differences were smaller anyway. AMD was ahead of Intel multiple times in the past, but never in laptops.

This seems to be the first instance where AMD is not only "sort of competitive, but meh" in mobile products - it's the first instance where they're in the lead technology wise. The first time you could be better off buying an AMD laptop.
is there a small C library to read ttf glyphs geometry without the rendering part?
You can't simply "protect the salaries", government isn't some omnipotent god who simply needs to do some hand-waving to fix things. There isn't a fountain of wealth that the government is hiding from us! You can print more money (often bad), or make businesses pay salaries while taking no revenue (also bad)
Iterators and other allocations in hot loops are not universally harmful to performance and footprint. Very often they are scalar-replaced (allocated on the stack and reused)-- in fact, if they don't escape, they're almost certain to be. Escape analysis is also now significantly stronger and able to see through abstraction in JDK 14 thanks to increasing the default inlining depth from 9 to 15 (https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8234863).
>MacOS has a consistent UI across all applications

Let's see my currently running apps :

Chrome - no

Firefox - no

Slack - no

intellij IDEs - no

VSCode - no

Spotify - maybe kinda sortof ?

VLC - no

WhatsApp - no

Telegram - no

Steam - no

What is this consistent UI you speak of ? Most of these apps look the same on windows.

The only reason I own a MacBook is because I wanted a single device and I occasionally need to do some osx/iOS work - would be happier with windows laptop for sure
"Aug. 30, 2015 8:54 am ET - The recent market rout caught some star Wall Street traders by surprise. But not a hedge-fund firm affiliated with “The Black Swan” author Nassim Nicholas Taleb, which gained more than $1 billion on a strategy that seeks to profit from extreme events in financial markets."

https://www.wsj.com/articles/nassim-talebs-black-swan-fund-m...

"April 8, 2020, 11:28 AM EDT - Nassim Taleb-Advised Universa Tail Fund Returned 3,600% in March"

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-08/taleb-adv...
What about the lives lost to the increased rates of suicide and drug/alcohol abuse that will accompany an economic collapse?
I had the same experience, I picked it up a year or so ago and found it to be a great game and something I would have loved when I was younger but it didn't stick. I think these days working on a small project or hacking on something scratches the same itch for me, even if it's something I throw away.
that's a fair point, but it seems reasonable to me that they would separate the sensory input and the predictive/higher-level aspects of their modeling. For example, we know for a fact that they must be doing tons of prediction for both cars and people, so I think it's likely that different models (not sensory) have the info that a person is probably still there.
As irresponsible as it was to let a handful of banks become too big to fail, they really were, and that was just a subset of the financial sector. The blast radius of the "leaving the house" sector is best described by your favorite zombie movie. The economy can feel like a bunch of remote fatcats, but at this scale that model breaks down. It's everything, everywhere, that isn't done by either you personally or mother nature. We should bail it out and prop it up because we like having those things.

What exactly is wrong with bailouts? Moral hazard is the main one. I don't think my neighborhood coffee shop will take its payout as a license to start breeding bats.

Inefficiency can be a concern. Maybe the economy would perform better if all the real estate and capital equipment made its way to smarter managers, who would not make such stupid mistakes as... business models that involve physical presence in any way?

The survival of the fittest thing is about competition. Capitalism is pretty quiet on the issue of shocks that hit all the competitors equally. That's why we've had monetary and fiscal policy for a while now. This would be a hell of a time to give them up.
Owning an Alphabet Corp Branded Espionage Hockey Puck (tm) myself, I must admit I'm fairly impressed at how far voice recognition and natural language processing has come, despite this. I remember when you really had to talk in that stilted, properly pronounced, methodical way, and then tentatively wait for a response for what seemed an age -- and it wasn't that long ago (maybe like, four or five years?). Nowadays, I can vaguely mumble at mine from the other room without thinking too much about sentence structure or how I'm pronouncing words or the volume or speed of my dictation or switching off things making background noise, and it usually does the right thing, and responds about as quickly as a person. It definitely feels a lot less mentally draining!
No idea why you're getting downvoted. I have several hundred hours in Factorio and now approaching probably a thousand hours in Satisfactory. Anyone who likes Factorio should try Satisfactory. My absolute favorite games of all times.
On a positive note Google used to have trouble with a query like "words with q without u", now the top 5 pages at least all show the correct results, eg:
https://word.tips/words-with/q/without/u/
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"so obvious".

I love it when people have strong opinions about a complex, constantly changing piece of difficult science.
>The idea you can simply shut down the economy at will and balance it with relief doesn't make economic sense.

Funny you say that because it seems to be no problem when it comes to bailing out corporate investors. Of course, near-zero federal interest rates didn’t make “economic sense” either, but yet here we are.
... or maybe this "landlord" is a parent who just rents out their old small house, and is now unable to make the rent or car payments
I guess I’ve been exposed to the wrong things…
Anyone with similar homelab setup - do you use the free ESXi 5.5 or more recent versions which are quite pricey? If 5.5 how do you orchestrate it? vSphere Client on Windows is awful.

> I discovered the Ethernet NIC wasn’t working.

> More Ethernet issues

Likewise with 5.5, where enabling the ethernet is often nontrivial (e.g. injecting the drivers for the Realtek NICs).
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Sweden is on an exponential growth curve, has five-to-ten times the deaths of its neighbours, is severely under-testing, and is instituting more and more aspects of a lockdown.
Amazon always makes money on the transaction. Assuming transactions are cheaper, the customer will be able to spend more. Nothing is cheaper or more expensive than AWS in this regard. That said, Amazon does need to and should improve to remove bad products and bad customer experiences beyond what gets returned or hits the bottom line. It’s not right when a brand has to “compete” with knockoffs using identical package design and item listings, especially as the customer buying the item has the least information about the quality of the item they’re buying — the two coins are not of identical value, as it were.
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I imagine reading this article to a uranium mine worker in Namibia.
Here in NZ the govt hasn't sent people $1200, nor have they given large amounts of money to businesses to stay alive while we're all locked up.

What they have done is:
- allowed companies who's income has dropped by 30% to claim $600/employee/week of salary support
- negotiated with all the banks to allow mortgage holidays

Think of it as trickle up stimulus and trickle down rent subsidies to keep people connected to companies and as many companies as possible still viable

We're getting close to having Covid beat(only 5 new cases today, all from known sources), next week we slowly start dropping out of lockdown
he has made money off his hypothesis in '87 and most recently in purchasing underpriced tail hedges. the most recent fund he advised was underwater for many years before scoring a total 230% return over life-of-portfolio from the action in march '20. he never claimed to predict events that are surprising; he only claimed that the pricing of the bets for 3+ sigma events was wrong, and he has monetized this a few times in his career.

as a practical matter, it is hard to be a billionaire making such bets. the time decay of derivatives positions is working strongly against you and you have to structure your position very efficiently. you are not likely to have any LPs who are willing to take such huge drawdowns in the down periods right up until the blowup. so it is possible to make millions off such bets as his but not billions owing to the nature of option Greeks and the psychology of your typical LP.
Aren't meetings in general draining?
> It also gives a better battery life on average compared to Windows on the same machine.

Only if you have a dedicated gpu. Because OSX can easily switch between integrated and discrete.

On my Macbook 12" I get 2 extra hours out of Windows 10. But on my old Retina Mac Pro I get almost half the time out of Windows 10.

It's a shame that Apple wont go AMD because the battery life would be awesome on OSX with discrete gpu.
There is none, it is just speculation/hysteria like so much else about this virus.

There's been only a very few cases globally where a person who previously tested negative later tested positive, for which a test giving a false negative is a much more likely explanation - especially as these cases were early on when tests were more unreliable. Otherwise - everybody else who tests negative does so consistently.

The virus is very similar to the original SARS (genome about 80% the same which is huge). It is a relatively stable by virus standards not mutating massively. In fact, if you had SARS your are likely immune from covid19: https://marlin-prod.literatumonline.com/pb-assets/journals/r...

So the general scientific consensus I have seen is that there's no evidence to suggest covid19 is some sort of supervirus that will reinfect people and defeat your immune system.

There's also been some animal testing on reinfection : https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.13.990226v1
I'm reminded of this set up at a fusion reactor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrtGp8hv-0Y

They put microphones in the reactor and monitors for them in the control room, so they can hear if something sounds wrong.
Why don't people make native apps for everything today? Modern frontends use talk to web APIs for data and business logic anyway, Qt/WPF/Cocoa are better than web front-ends. I'd enjoy having desktop apps for instead of many of the websites I use - to order pizza, to buy stuff, to read/comment news or anything.
2x scaling is not setting 1080p, it's telling the software to draw at 2x scale. That's sharp and very well supported. True fractional scaling is not yet supported in most Linux software but I do 1.3x scaling for 1440p just by setting font scaling. Has worked fine for many years. Going to 4K from 1440p makes things easier on the software side as 2x is very well supported.
We are quite a few years away from the 4K era.

4K desktop displays are still a blip in the radar (about 1%).
When discussing common law, the answer invariably comes down to “tradition”.

The English common law, which we inherited our own traditions from and much of which is still applicable today, is less a “law” in the sense of a set of decrees from a King or statutes passed by a parliamentary body and more a long line of traditions and community standards that change slightly over time according to a few principles, with the facts and circumstances of the time used to inform the judgement and sentencing.

Without a legislative body, you could go on evolving the traditions over time to cover any number of new and unique circumstances simply by using the existing body of law as a guideline.

So why 12 Jurors and why must they be unanimous? Because it is tradition, and the principle of stare decisis has kept it that way for a very long time. Can traditions change? Yes, but stare decisis makes it unlikely that any sort of arbitrary changes will be made and upheld. Think of it as the legal equivalent of inertia. The law stays the same given the same facts and circumstances unless changed by an outside force, usually a statute in modern democracies with common law legal systems.

The upshot of all of this is to make the practice of law and process of legal proceedings more predictable and arbitration less arbitrary if you’ve done your homework and can tie your case to a previous case, and it doesn’t even necessarily have to be a case from the same jurisdiction if it’s from the same legal tradition and not incompatible with the existing body of law in the jurisdiction the case is within. In contrast, whenever the legislature passes a new Bill and it’s signed into law, you have to study how this will affect new cases going forward rather than simply being able to rely on past precedent. This allows more instantaneous changes to new circumstances but also allows more arbitrary laws to be passed whose effects on people and commerce are not well understood until they are used in litigation.
NYC is also a giant, dense city where public transport is incredibly popular.

When you see photos of the people protesting lockdowns, it's clear that they're not city metro living yuppies. They're suburbanites and rural.

Any argument that cites NYC results for restrictions on non-NYC behaviour is ignorant at best and most likely disingenuous imo.
Teamspeak (although that's audio only) allows you to place other speakers around you in 3D; I haven't tried it much, but I imagine it could be quite useful on certain situations.
Sorry, I don't know, it certainly wasn't me...

While XAudio2 is a key library, it is not DirectX one, as we were talking about DirectX umbrella project. It is not as low-level library as other DirectX projects were anymore, it doesn't talk to the hardware directly. It is really just a user space library with convenient functions, made by Microsoft. It also has competition, there's OpenAL, which is similar - even if it doesn't have as nice API, it is cross-platform.
He means the shell of ESXi aka. it's console. As the article says, the ESXi 'shell' is not a full shell. ESXi is designed to be managed via the Web interface or via remote command line tools.
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> No problems using cash? Sure, if you only go to the stores and restaurants catering to foreigners.

Well, maybe you've been in a different region or something, but I've been in capital of a 2 provinces and quite rural areas too, no problems whatsoever. Sounds like you are talking exclusively about Shanghai. I've not been specifically to Shanghai, so who knows, maybe there it is that shitty. Not where I went though, so don't try to discredit my telling of how it is as "visiting only stores and restaurants catering to foreigners", cause that's BS.

> If you buy streetfood (from those BBQs late at night in the middle of city intersections for example in Shanghai) you now find that payment with WeChat may be the only option.

Done that, with cash, in a major city, capital of a province.

> Beggars don't want cash and instead are displaying a big WeChat QR code to receive payments.

Perhaps in Shanghai as well? I've seen them begging for cash, where I went, so that is also a quite general statement to make.

Seems your personal experience is either limited to Shanghai or simply completely different. Speak a little Chinese to the locals and they lighten up. Never on my whole trip have I encountered a single situation, where they would not take cash, while having seen a lot of different places, from capitals to villages, to street food, to little markets. Perhaps just don't go to Shanghai, if it is that bad.

I find it a little bit stupid, that people downvote a first hand account of how things are in several areas in China, as if it was something bad in a discussion about such things. This is exactly what this discussion is about, so it's on topic and adds valuable information to the discussion: Not everywhere it is as you describe it to be. Don't confuse any personal location limited experience with an overall situation in a huge nation like China.
Would be cool to have this app which supports the Universal Declaration of Human Rights... like, acknowledge when you see a right in action, allow you to track when the rights are visibly violated and tie some set of incentives to promoting the values of the UDHR in its usage.
Did that change going from 2 to 3?
Two things I find weird in this approach:

1. Why marry the state stored in the database with any particular implementation of the front-end?

2. If the problem is in the ever changing state schema, why not create migrations for it?
This "with, not from" stuff collapses when you look at 5 year averages.

EG this from UK https://twitter.com/ONS/status/1252518098047041536
Yes, the Thunderbolt 1 to Ethernet adapter works with ESXi. I use it with my Mac Mini 2011 running ESXi.
My comment above is anecdotal, based on people I've worked with & managed over ~15 years. Others will have different experience than I and will have worked with different individuals, but in my own career I've never worked with the type of engineer you're describing.
Those numbers are really damning for public transportation. If just one of the many diseases being spread around on the NYC subway system kills 5x as many as an entire nation of cars, it clearly isn't acceptable to operate public transportation.
One issue the ecosystem currently has, really (and its not the only one, I believe it's difficult almost everywhere), is that tracking dependency-rot is hard. Unless something breaks outright, you'll never know if a library has been abandoned; and manually checking dozens of github/gitlab repos is expensive and tedious.

Pypi has an api (https://pypi.org/pypi/<pkg-name>/json) that can be leveraged to implement alerts like "this pkg last released 5 years ago, it might be dead!". I guess that's what the "security" package uses already. It would be cool if they added an option to report on this sort of thing.
Living constitutionalism is not a universally agreed upon judicial philosophy.
ahaha that's a nice demo! One of the devs was on that call so I guess it was just acting :)
You can upgrade the memory on the 2018 mini, but yes that's it.
Honestly, Apple has killed backward compatibility multiple times, first from PowerPC to x86-32 and x86-64, and now, killing x86-32 in Catalina.

Apple also has a good solution to this problem (the AppStore solves it), and a big interest into locking developers into this solution...

So Apple doesn't need to restrict themselves to any hardware vendor when it comes to CPUs, and due to Metal, they don't have to do that either when it comes to GPUs.
>That should be next to nothing for a premium laptop.

For low end to mid range laptop a BOM cost of $9 is a lot. Especially to PC manufacturers, so bad that installing crapware becomes their major source of revenue. For high end the marketing budget comes in form of Rebate.

One of the major reason AMD got off to a good start from major manufactures is actually because Intel cant even provide them enough chip in the first place. And hence intel hasn't done much to push back at all because they dont have the capacity right now.
"No, that's impossible to provide between people dying at home because hospitals are full and the general chaos of those situations."

That's another claim you make, that you should be able to support. Have people been denied hospital care and therefore died at home?

"the trend is nearly always that more cases at once translate to much higher death rates"

Could have any number of explanations, like maybe infected old people homes.

"it's nonsensical to think that quality of medical care will not have an effect."

Again - are there cases of people dying because they couldn't receive care in the US, and how many?

"but mostly due to the availability of medical care."

Again, can you give any examples of people dying because they couldn't receive care? Especially in the US. And show that it is a significant number of people?
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Those 30% numbers are still very high, the similar rate in Italy has dropped bellow 10% for 2 weeks now (it's the line-chart on this page [1] bellow "Tamponi giornalieri e contagiati"), with the latest week's figures somewhere between 5% and 7%.

[1] https://lab24.ilsole24ore.com/coronavirus/
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>I uninstalled it entirely when I realized how the gaming Industry was migrating toward a free-ware micro tx based business model that relies on in game purchases for upgrades like Fortnite.

but... Factorio is literally the antithesis of this.