skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My second favorite article in Physics Today, at the same time hilarious and chilling, was the transcription of a talk by Irving Langmuir of GE Labs in 1953. In it he gives a first person account of just how badly an esteemed scientist can fool himself. Consider it a brilliant example of Feynman's advice that you are the easiest person to fool. Of course, the same psychological process is going on in countless entrepreneurs as they convince themselves that they are on to the next unicorn.

Pathological Science: Certain symptoms seen in studies of ‘N rays’ and other elusive phenomena characterize 'the science of things that aren't so.’

[0] https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/abs/10.1063/1.881205
There is no Vulkan support on Mac as far as I know, except with MoltenVK...
In NYC a huge percentage of restaurant workers are already dead, so whether or not the owners remain solvent is kind of moot at this point.
It's not demonstrating an operator precedence problem because you still aren't explaining why `True == False is False` returns False and that was the question.

In fact, a problem is that it looks like an operator precedence issue at first glance. Of course, TFA explains the answer.
That's one way to look at it. I, on the other hand, right now order only from the restaurants that are close to home, and I know exactly where they are. In the hopes that at least some of my favourites survive.
If you're talking about software jobs, 9600 for an internship is way above average and now that its 4800 its below average so that's not a good chunk of change.
People can bootcamp if they want to run windows with a good gpu on their laptop. You're also missing the cloud gaming part.
Agree with everything except

> 4. Culture. Steve Jobs disliked games, it shows in Apple's support.

IMO their lack of support has less to do with hate and more that they just didn't find value in that demographic. No one is making money off gaming hardware. On the other hand Apple has put in a LOT of effort into iOS gaming. Steve Jobs himself had multiple games showcased in his keynotes.
I'm the creator of Runnaroo. I wrote this post because I would frequently see the same common search engine issues mentioned on HN and was is a big influence on my development of Runnaroo.

Another common issue that I didn't mention in the post was that Runnaroo also shows the full URL path vs. the truncated URL shown in pretty much every other search engine.

On a side note, it is really a satisfying feeling to just check HN and randomly see your project shared, so thank you, made my night.
For people like Musk, attention is the drug. Twitter is just the conduit.
How is that operator precedence? Putting the parens around "False is False" also makes the expression True. The reason (chained comparison) is explained in the link and I don't think it amounts to operator precedence....(?)
I use awk when I need something a bit more powerful than "grep"/"cut", but don't want to pull out the big guns with Perl.

For example, recently I needed to print out certain fields of an output, but only for a given subset. So I used Awk to create a simple state machine (enable when I see the start of the subset, disable at the end), and print the fields of interest.
The point of the list isn't to say "eggs and bacon is a kind of breakfast", it's to say "breakfast is eggs and bacon". It's "name: details about name", not "type: instance".
See other comment and it hasn't been a bad experience for me. Have you personally tried it? I used to have a windows desktop just for gaming and before I decided to limit what I own.
How to Quarantine in a Ghost Town
I think your comment can be summed up in: they [read: large holding companies] just don't care because it doesn't affect them.

It's pretty much the exact same situation in Toronto.

Trying $40k/mo in Midtown in rent alone. It's stupid.
The point is that Windows has an alternative to their proprietary APIs, but mac doesn't
Honey Bees Are Struggling with Their Own Pandemic
It's not operator precedence, both (True == False) is False and True == (False is False) are true.

As explained in the link, it's because of chained comparisons, it expands to True == False and False is False. More useful for expressions like 1 < x < 3.
FYI, it seems more complicated than just precedence:

>>> True == False is False
False
>>> True == (False is False)
True
>>> (True == False) is False
True
Or you could use it to solve the Towers of Hanoi game ;)

https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Towers_of_Hanoi#AWK
The peak of 3D TVs was like 5-7 years ago, so you hardly need to be "old enough" to have experienced that. Pricing is the easiest hurdle for a new technology to get over. As long as there is a market fit and steady demand, VR will get affordable.
> It's an outdated system that should have been dead a decade ago

Longer than that, I would say. I have not bought a single car where the dealer added any value to the process at all. And I've been buying cars for three decades now.
What about the investors that want an unfiltered Elon and believe that’s part of the package deal?
Japanese aquarium urges public to video-chat with eels
this Johnny Cash song

Cash made it popular in the USA, but it was composed by Australian Geoff Mack.
Most food is irradiated, yes. Prevents potatoes from sprouting, sterilizes tons of food, etc. I am very familiar with that, but didn't realize that radionuclides were ever-present in fertilizers.

I grow my own tea, and use fertilizer. Am I at risk for the same issues after processing the leaves? Additionally, would this then extend to cannabis as well? While they aren't leaves, I'm assuming that radium would end up there as well if in the fertilizer.

I guess what I'm trying to say is what is it specifically about tobacco - is it the mechanism of intake of the tobacco plant specifically, is it a property of all plants and fertilizer, or is it only a property of specific parts of all plants?
A parser tends to get confused in the same places where a less experienced human would get confused. Making a language that's easy to parse dovetails with making one that's easy to read.
Is there a library that automates benchmark models for a given dataset? That would be useful in helping people focus on the model they’re making.
I'm surprised there's even a debate about whether it's ethical in theory. As in, I see doctors overly attached to the "do no harm" mantra to the point where the alternative isn't being looked at.

I didn't mean to imply a cost-benefit analysis shouldn't be done.
Value is whatever price a buyer will pay for something at the time of the transaction. There is no such thing as 'true value' in capital markets.
EPA denies Elon Musk's claims over Tesla Model S range test
Having a keyword for variable initialization makes parsing easier and less ambiguous. "let", "var", etc. are also used for this purpose, but I was going along with the example.
> Drinks for instance cost us more than at the grocery store — but we can’t exactly go get 20 cases of pop per day, so we don’t have much choice.

I didn't understand this. It may not be feasible to buy 100 cases of pop at a regular grocery store, but isn't Costco/Sam's Club set up for that?

I do think it comes down ultimately to real estate prices. Major metros in North America have gradually become unaffordable for the middle-class over the past 20 years. It's not surprising that it's the same story for small businesses such as restaurants. Businesses have to pay workers more (because housing is expensive) and they have to pay their landlord more (because commercial rents are high). All that profit margin is ending up in landlords' pockets.
to Mac I guess. At least Valve is betting on VR.
Having come from a JIRA/Github/Confluence setup in my previous role to a Phabricator setup in my current role, I can't believe I'm saying this but I'd give anything to have JIRA back.
The original comment was about Turing completeness, and it was defined incorrectly. I was giving an example of a dead-simple language that was Turing complete, because the claim was that metaprogramming made C++ Turing complete.
Sure, you're right about running macOS on non apple hardware but I know a lot of windows user do that and if you're a serious developer why not just buy an apple computer. I really doubt the cost of the apple computer to then compile isn't going to be paid off from macOS users if the game is any good.

Renting out a mac mini isn't raising the cost or complexity to something unreasonable either. It's like people are forcing their ideology upon a company that decided whats best for itself.

The hardware comment your wrote in regard to mine is cherry picking out the part where apple users know they're overpaying for the hardware they get.
So Canada is somewhere in the middle between oil-rich Norway and Spain with economy that was suffering even before COVID-19. Sounds about right.
JavaScript fetch is an interesting API
I can run OpenGL and Vulkan on my Windows system.
MacOS is the only platform that has officially deprecated OpenGL support, and there is no plan for any future Vulkan support.
Pure speculation on my part, but I think the craziest deals will be found on cars that aren't big sellers, particularly a few months from now.

For instance, the Kia Stinger is a good car, but nobody is buying it. At some point, they'll start offering bigger and bigger incentives.

I purchased a brand new car for about $18K off MSRP because it had been accumulating dust on a dealer's lot. I bought it at a rural dealership where there just wasn't a big demand for anything but SUVs and trucks. The same car was retailing for thousands of dollars more in the city where I actually lived.
You beat me to it. :)

At first glance this looks like an easy problem. But actually building the different parse trees for what I would expect here, and in all cases it should be True.
This is a bit like something you can do in C, almost by accident as a bonus language feature.

x = y = z = 4;

But I think this is assignment expressions which were controversial in Python or something.
How do Facebook ads spy tools scrape the data?
How do websites like BigSpy get the latest ads from Facebook?

Do they scrape all the pages on FB to a database and then use Puppeteer or Selenium to click through the Facebook page UI and look at the ads?

Or is it somehow done through Facebook Ad library?

Could someone share the process by which one could code it up themselves?

Thanks.

Example spy-tool: https://bigspy.com/adspy/facebook/
Vulkan is the vendor-independent derivative of AMD's Mantle, which pre-dates Apple's Metal. There were several proposed new 3D APIs around that time, but ISVs quickly converged around Vulkan. Apple's reticence to adopt or even permit it is worse than Microsoft's continued efforts to push Direct3D.
Had to test it out myself.. seems like the odd boxing behavior is gone in 3.7.4. But present in 3.6.6.
I suppose they do that so you know what using a Mac is like when you develop for it. Macs are, in my experience, different than other machines.
NIH abruptly cuts coronavirus research funding, alarming scientists
Inflated by rent costs for sure, but the food cost part has to be cheaper in SF than Berlin.
Apple feels like it's about as blind to where graphics and gaming are going as Microsoft was to mobile. in the end it's probably for the best though
>Restaurants must relocate to cheaper areas like warehouses and shift to a delivery-first distribution model, which Uber, Lyft, and Google Express could help dispatch. It sucks from a customer-interaction perspective, but it's necessary. Other businesses like Pret in London were already using a hybrid centralized preparation with small, hyperlocal retail sales model.

Yes. Let's just kill all community space. Great idea. I too enjoy being a pod person.
How many more people dying are we talking about had the US not drowned it's government in the bathtub?

Is the average life expectancy in the US this year that much lower than in, let's say South Korea, Singapore or Taiwan? How about the p90/p99?

We won't really know until all of this is over.
> Anybody have transcripts of the best TWiV episodes?

Youtube STT is pretty good. You can open the autogenerated transcripts on youtube page, select all and copy them to a file.

https://ccm.net/faq/40644-how-to-get-the-transcript-of-a-you...

Second the recommendation. I've been watching his virology lectures. Teaches you a lot about viruses, although it sometimes contains organic chemistry that I don't know about, but outside of that it's great: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj3NhPgOoX4&list=PLGhmZX2NKi...
Radium is also present in Brazil Nuts. Some plants aggregate chemical elements more than others.

We use them to linearize the energy scale in lower-background germanium detectors. Grocery-store potassium chloride sets our energy calibration.

The bad thing about radium in tobacco, I am told, is that the alpha-emitting radium (or the daughters) tends to aggregate in the lungs. Alphas do a lot of nearby damage, hence a mechanism for lung cancer.

I still eat Brazil nuts without a second thought, even though I've measured the gammas...
So all Python numbers are objects and the implementation automatically pre-allocates and reuses instances for small numbers? What a strange implementation. I thought it used tagged pointers like other dynamic languages. In Ruby, values can be pointers to objects but also 63 bit numbers when the least significant bit is set.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tagged_pointer

This issue of object identity and equality isn't unique to Lisp but I agree that applying it to numbers produces unexpected results.
A Technical Overview of virtio-Wayland
I started developing an iOS client for an API we use at work recently. Downloaded Xcode again, built a small POC Mac app and ran it. It wouldn't run because I am still on Mojave and the default settings are to build for 10.15. I was a little shocked/not surprised to get a "This application is not compatible with your software" type dialog from my own brand new code!

I really like a lot of the ideas that Apple implements, but the upgrade treadmill is notorious and not one of them.
You can usually always find a great deal on a popular car by finding a bulk/invoice dealer in a very large city. If you're willing to drive 8 hours, there's always some massive dealership that sells at invoice or a few hundred above to move in volume. Buy it, drive it back, avoid the local 2-3K surchage they'll add in smaller cities. They'll often even ship them to you for a 1200$ delivery fee or so. Not covered though, recommend you just drive it back after a cheap flight. If your time is worth more than this, buy it locally. Negotiating lower than MSRP but higher than invoice is trivial.

Sure, you can probably go 500-1000 lower if you're willing to spend ungodly amounts of time waiting for a dealership to need that final sale to meet some incentive at the end of the month, but that's luck and not a great use of time.

There's no such thing as a "great" deal on a car. You aren't ever going to buy a new, popular car with popular options/color at a massive discount. Why would that be possible?

And finally, if going 1000$ under invoice on a new car is that important to you, are you really the sort of person that needs to be buying new? Buy used and avoid the instant massive depreciation.
WebGL – Rasterization vs. 3D Libraries
> The idea that homed is "incompatible with SSH" is preposterous.

And yet, any honest assessment of the pros and cons of the homed proposal has to discuss the impact on SSH users in the cons section.
> This has to run so deep though, if it is a cover-up.

This reminds of the film JFK, from 1991, that retells the story around the JFK assassination. It is a phenomenal, phenomenal film that really, really hit me hard. It's 3 hours and 9 minutes long but I watched it all the way through in one sitting.

It follows the true, real story of a district attorney who looks into details around the event shortly after it happened and gets the exact same feeling as you, where he looks around wonders whether he's taking crazy pills or if everyone else is taking crazy pills. So he goes deeper and tries to find out which is the case...

Highly recommend this film. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102138/
> It’s very simple: let’s reset our expectations and restore respectable margins.

If restaurants in general raise their prices, what’s to stop landlords from doing the same and raise rents to match?
Makes sense, the Navy can't just whip up another clean aircraft carrier or other clean ships.

I would assume other nations have similar ships they know or hope are free from the virus and need to keep them isolated.
An open-source, pre-built mobile app for your Shopify store
Apple's second-quarter revenue was $58 billion, down 5% from a year earlier; net profit was $11.6 billion
XML came out in 1998, iOS in 2007 (or a year later for the SDK). It’s closer to XML than to today.
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> The type interrupts the flow of data from "hello" to x, so one thing that pops into mind is that this is typecasting the value to a string before storing it. Nope.

> Another possibility I instinctively see this as is doing a comparison and assigning the result (either true or false in this case) to x. Nope.

You can write it as

val x = "hello" : String

if you prefer. In fact that's a great advantage of this syntax: any expression can be optionally ascribed with a type. If you write the type first then it becomes too intrusive (and too much like a typecast, which absolutely should be intrusive).

> And human-language wise, colon is "description: explanation"

True enough, but what other syntax would fit in postfix position? In human language we'd probably use commas ("Bob, chef"), but that seems a bit too ambiguous in a programming language.
What I learned analyzing over three thousand Amazon Alexa reviews using NLP
I'm not sold on cloud gaming yet, I gave pubg on stadia a whirl today (on my google fiber) and it was somewhat laggy and blurry compared to even my not-highend rx580 which only cost me about what a year or so of stadia would (not including the games)
> most are held by large companies (TEBO) who can write off the losses come tax year because they have other more profitable locations/sites.

That’s not how taxes and “write-offs” work. You deduct your expenses from your income, and pay tax on a percentage of what’s left. Having more income is always better than having more expenses.
My guess is that moving forward businesses will try to reduce labor and overhead through automation and centralization in places like cloud kitchens. Delivery costs to the consumer will eventually be sufficiently streamlined to be negligible, like they allegedly already are in East Asia.

A $20 kebab is not going to fly. The only other option is to optimize whatever costs can be optimized.

Unfortunately it's not looking good for people who are currently employed in the more manual roles. It was only a matter of time before that became the case in the food industry.
It's possible to mount the trashcan mac pros with unofficial mounts, its just awkward and definitely not intended [0]. You can also mount iMac Pros [1].

[0] https://twitter.com/brianstucki/status/800778773998145536

[1] https://www.macstadium.com/imacpro
We invest in foodtech and agtech startups. Most of them have seen spikes in demand, but operationally there are challenges and almost everyone has slowed their burn and cut staff because no matter how fantastic their numbers are they can’t rely on venture capital being there on the other side.

Companies that were looking at a a $10-$12m Series A are now dialing back to $2-3M seed II rounds with insiders. Companies that were looking at large $40m-$60m funding rounds, within 8 months of their last round have mostly stopped fundraising altogether.

Still it seems like the big firms are willing to do some seed deals to stay active without blowing out their fund.

Tough times.
It doesn't sound like ours is going away, but I did recently find out they're removing half the docks so people can spread out more and planning on funding WFH setups for off-days (which will increase to handle the reduced seats).
> I thought it used tagged pointers like other dynamic languages.

No. IIRC tagged pointers were considered too complex to expose via Python’s C API.
Even if it could have been prevented, there is significant probability that another novel virus could arise from bat or other reservoirs in the future. Similar to how H1N1 better prepared certain countries who experienced it, this could be the wake-up call that was needed to help future generations survive a much worse virus by getting them more used to a life where being in a crowd is not normal. There are very few people alive who lived through the previous 1918 pandemic. This is our 1918 or, at least, a strong warning.
The problem with third-party delivery platforms
This is just a ridiculous exaggeration. There are at a minimum (the number of reported and taxed restaurant workers) 302,000 in NYC. There have been 13,500 deaths in NYC. That is less than .5 percent of the number of restaurant workers in the city.
Problems that divide people politically and religiously have dominate man's history, often subsuming all topics of discussion and slowing the development of science. Note the reference to "the arrogance of sects [and] the hatred of the parties" in the following paper, titled

"Products of the Empire: Cinchona: a short history" (well worth reading) at:

https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/departments/royal-comm...

" Despite “the promptness of its effect and its infallibility” which “made it suspect for such a long time”, according to Ignace Vincent Voullonne writing in the early 18th century, cinchona bark “finally triumphed over the multiple reproaches that were heaped upon it … by ignorance, prejudice, the arrogance of sects [and] the hatred of the parties.” The use of this “Popish powder” had elicited considerable religious prejudice because of its association with the Jesuits. As demand grew, however, lack of experience of the bark, uneven consignments, incorrect identification, and the frequent and deliberate pollution of the product by adding the bark of other trees, all ensured the argument over its value was kept alive well into the 19th century."

Does anyone else see significant parallels to today's discussions of what should be done, what is best, who is in charge, who supplies what, etc. in regard to Covid-19 and it's potential cures and treatments? One might think we have made little progress as a society in the intervening centuries!
Or, who's going to pay $15 or $20 for a sandwich? Most people will pass.
Jobs’ view always seemed short sighted to me. Yes, they were a hardware company back when he made these decisions, but software sells the hardware in the market he was in.
Did Amazon started dipping exactly after Musk's tweet? No. And you know it.

Stop defending Elon's shitposting the shitstorm it caused.
Sorry, you can’t have fun on HN.