skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The largely white people dropshipping in SEAsia are a drop in the wealth inequality bucket compared to uber rich SEAsians living in their own countries.
Starting May 1, 2020 API SP/GF-6 is the ‘minimum standard’ for motor oils
I agree with the folks at Airbnb regarding the and, or, and not keywords. "It's just not worth it." [1].

[1] https://github.com/airbnb/ruby#no-and-or
When I used Erlang in 2005, there was a problem with message queues growing and OOM-ing the process. The standard solution to that is RPC flow control and backpressure. Does this problem exist with modern Erlang?

Google's gRPC/Stubby has the same problem. It's one reason why gRPC servers are never deployed on the public Internet and always use hefty reverse proxies.
I like chained comparisons for the `10 < x <= 100`, since it makes intuitive sense and removes duplication.

But I can't think of any case with `==` type operators, or really any other operators where it also makes sense.

So was that maybe an overgeneralized feature that should have been limited to the math operators?
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> 1. No cross platform builds allowed.

This is SO annoying. I can cross compile to Windows from GNU/Linux quite easily. In fact with Wine I can even get MSVC running. But Apple, even though they employ many of the Clang/LLVM developers, believes that you must use their OS to target any Apple product.

Your only reprieve outside of buying their extremely expensive hardware is using CI services like Travis or Github actions.
not really. there’s some weird operator precedence, but it doesn’t have any multi-operator expressions
There's definitely more to it than that. I wrote a very lengthy comment about my experience working through their payment intents docs with basic REST requests and hit quite a few errors due to requirements not mentioned either here or any linked page: https://stripe.com/docs/payments/accept-a-payment

It's worthy of a whole blog post, though, so I'll share it that way.
There is a thin line between thread hijacking and thread drift. In my opinion your first comment was in the thread hijacking category.

> The shady history part is mainly one of science suppression.

Physicist love unexpected experimental results. You make a few tweaks here and there, you get a somewhat interesting result and then you have a paper or a dissertation for your graduate student.

Take for example high temperature superconductivity. The idea that a ceramic can be a good high temperature superconductor is totally ridicule. There was no theoretical explanation. But they had a good recipe to make your own ceramic superconductor, so a lot of people confirmed and improved the result.
Blogdex

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blogdex
>can’t sync frames

What does this mean?
What a rhetorically weak and unintelligent opening, which shortsightedly ignores that Presidents who won the popular vote in the past have started wars and engaged in infidelity before. The idea that somehow policies and behaviors that the author has a personal problem with would be avoided by bowing to the popular vote is just silly.

> "Equal representation of states in the Senate, for example, gives citizens of low-population states undue influence in Congress."

As for the above quote, I would have expected more from the HLR. The entire reason why Senators are apportioned as they are is to give low population states extra influence. Supporters of progressive economic policy will immediately understand the reason: smaller states should get the same number of Senators as larger states to balance their weakness relative to these states. Similar reasoning is used to justify transfers of wealth from the wealthy to the poor.

One little talked about reason why this is especially good for the country and its people is that it provides an extra check on the impulses of powerful states that may want to push policy which may not be beneficial for the entire country, or is shortsighted.

It stands to reason that small states may have profoundly different perspectives than large states and so by forcing these different perspectives to come to terms with one another better policy will be the result. If one state or region had complete dominance, there would be no opportunity for debate and the benefits of the reflection that such debate forces.

The entire US system is built with the idea of balance in mind and everything is structured so that the various forces in the nation balance one another.
Imprecise language on my part. I meant that’s the final version that they’re ever going to support (if you can call the current state “support”), but yeah you’re 100% correct.
You cannot run macOS virtualized on anything but Apple hardware. It's against the Apple Terms of Service. Is it technically possible to do? Yes. However most companies will not do so because that's ground for getting sued, or having your developer licenses revoked.

For the same reason as macOS games must be build on Apple machines, iPhone and iPad applications must also be build on Apple hardware. There is an entire market of companies that rent out "server farms" of MacMini's in datacenters for this exact reason. It massively raises the cost and complexity of a modern development/integration system to have "special snowflakes".

As it comes to hardware, the problem is you can't get something "reasonable". You can build a $500 Windows compatible PC that's not half bad. You can stick a low in Nvidia RTX card in that (for a few hundred more) and get some really reasonable gaming performance out of it. However to get an RTX level gaming performance out of a mac... you're out however much it cost to buy the new MacPro... so let's call that $10k. Most normal people are not going to pay that.
Right, and systemd is pretty much the only successful attempt to de-cargo-cult Unix.
Your chart tells me TSLA is a more volatile stock. Everyone knows TSLA is as volatile as a cryptocurrency. Why do you want to believe in god-like tweet powers so much?
Does it really solve the same problem? Can I run metal API on my windows or linux machines?

Also, to answer your question: no. Nvidia is in the GPU selling business. They wouldn’t mind having their high priced GPUs in high priced laptops. Apple keeps control of what hardware they sell, which dictates what software gets developed. Why would Nvidia or Apple spend resources to make software for a computer that no one is selling? It’s Apple who refuses to buy rather than Nvidia being unwilling to sell.
I can think of a few cases where I want:

if x == y == z:
can you open an issue with a repro?
Alcoholism? Enemies? You got all that from a joke about how much stress Elon creates for his own people with his inanity?
Whoa - nice. I just ordered one in March. I was OK with having to try manjaro, but i wanted to try void. Thanks for sharing this.
>The fact that NixOS other other new fangled package management systems are rarely mentioned in the same context as Gentoo has led me to wonder whether the new kids on the block have done their homework.

The Nix thesis[0] explicitly cites Gentoo multiple times; it's very much inspired by, and intended to surpass, Gentoo.

[0]: https://edolstra.github.io/pubs/phd-thesis.pdf
it’s also a way that they can dismiss candidates without violating equal-opportunity laws. “Looked good on paper, but failed the polygraph” for any reason they want
>You have to give wardens/politicians money to put any kind of technology in their prisons, so free video chat/messaging isn't going to happen unless some benevolent billionaire prince is funding you.

Having done a decent amount of IT work at prisons, this isn't really the case. What I did often see, however, is that various vendors would give a very long free trial and free hardware to the prisons I worked with, with the basic idea being to lock them in when the obscenely high normal rates kick in after the free year or however long the trial was
I could see this for something like

foo == bar == baz

But chaining the == with other operators feels weird, especially "is". Similarly

foo >= bar <= baz

feels very off to me, and I'm not sure it should be chainable. If the intuition is to emulate human notation in math, there are many chained expressions that we would not allow to happen.
I'll say for sims, (both flight and racing) the immersion and ability to move your view hands-free make VR well worth it. At this point I can't imagine going back to regular monitors for DCS. I do agree that there is significant pain getting into them though, as there's no real <$100 option to get your feet wet. I was lucky enough to have a local friend who had already purchased a headset, allowing me to get a full demo.
that's such a small sliver of linux users that the vast majority of linux users (who actually need SSH) are taking the overhead for nothing in return...
I mean not all investing has to be some risky thing. Say the car costs $25k. Put $5k in a 1,2,3,4 year CD and pay off each year with what you get from the CD and at the end of the 5 years enjoy the $1.6k you made for basically nothing.
It’s hard to find processors these days that aren’t multi-core. I can’t remember the last time I saw a single-core computer.

(Or are you talking about the difference between “multi-threaded execution” and “multi-core execution”? That wouldn’t make sense. Threads are how you execute code on multiple cores.)
When the Oculus Rift and its development kits first released, early adopters would post invitations to interested people in their area to try them out. Many shopping malls and arcades now have VR demos or games on display.

There are options available to try high-end VR before you buy, and ~$200 low-end versions if you prefer going in blind.
THAT is a very interesting press release (and itself raises the slightly circular question: are SEC press releases considered a valid instrument for releasing legal guidance on how to comply with SEC regulations?).

But: If the SEC regard Twitter as, to all intents and purposes, a neutral 'wire service', then that means the SEC allows Twitter users to assume - regardless of what Twitter's own ToS say - that Twitter distributes information fairly and impartially.

Weirdly, it's not clear that the SEC has any way to regulate Twitter to ensure that they actually meet that assumption. If they were to discover, for example, that Twitter DID route interesting tweets to their in-house investment management team before publication, it's not obvious that the SEC could do much other than issue a press release saying 'sorry, looks like our advice about this was wrong, Twitter turns out NOT to be an impartial information distribution channel, please stop assuming it is.'

I wonder to what extent the existence of that SEC guidance affects how Twitter and Facebook behave? Do they consider, when deciding to implement features that modify the flow of postings from publisher to receiver, whether they are creating a mechanism which contravenes the SEC's understanding that they implement a 'fair disclosure' mechanism? Should they? Should there be regulatory compliance reasons that oblige them to?

And, per the SEC's guidance, this also applies to "social media outlets like Facebook and Twitter", whatever that means. Baidu, maybe? Is TikTok a legitimate channel to release material information? Do TikTok's engineers know that?

This world we've built... it's really weird.
We have now reached the "Unix, is that a flavor of Linux?" state that people joked about in the 1990s. If the only Unix you know is Linux, then your "Unix way" is really the Linux way (which is just a different set of historical accidents).
Maybe shouldn't skim so fast? Calculate Linux (the "Russian Distro") was featured.
Location: Washington D.C.

Remote: Yes

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Email: pedramnegahdar@gmail.com
Then it should be on by default. Having to use journalctl instead of reading a plaintext file in /var/log should have resulted in a swift slap upside the noggin the moment it was first considered.

I otherwise don't care about systemd, except for the more-than-one locations I might find an init script hiding on my system. It's fine.

But don't make me use journalctl just to tail a god damned file like a normal person.

Edit: I may have reached that point on friday night where the bottle of port and my grey beard have finally reached "old man yells at cloud" stage. My apologies.
I agree, "is" should probably be excluded from comparison chaining.
Are they really that bad? I've been looking at getting a pathfinder for a while now. They're so cheap with just 10k miles on them.
Amazing. 11 USD for a döner!

A döner is between 2.5 and 5.0 EUR in Berlin (roughly 2.75 to 5.5 USD).

That's takeaway or eat in at a place with a few tables but w/o table service.

Meraba, which uses high quality organic meat from the region, comparable to the quality of the protein stated in the article, asks 4.5 EUR. A whole plate is 10 EUR.[1]

If order to your doorstep it's 6.5 EUR.[2]

[1] https://www.top10berlin.de/en/cat/eating-257/kebab-shops-230...

[2] https://www.lieferando.de/en/meraba
As a lowly JS developer, I have had a positive experience with systemd. One service file and it handles logging and process management. Better than the insane options the JS community cooked up IMO.
One time I had a file and I needed all the values in a column and so I used:

awk '{ print $2 }' my-file

And it gave me what I wanted. It was cool.
Well yeah, Microsoft developed TypeScript to resemble C#'s type system so naturally it will look a bit like Java? TS is far from being the de-facto standard though (maybe because it's centred around OOP?)
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Alibaba is about volume. AliExpress does single quantities too. Except for really cheap things and then you can several items together but nothing you'd really call bulk.
... and also skewed by the WSJ article on unfair third-party seller treatment that contradicts previous house Judicial Committee testimony and may lead to new hearings...

The problem with muddy water is it's muddy.
I think there are two main parts to this thread:

1. My summary: it’s illegal to be a digital nomad on a tourist visa. My response: illegal doesn’t mean the law is sensible. You make no argument that it is sensible. We all accept the laws given to us. I’ve argued there is very little difference between a tourist and a digital nomad (within the limits pointed out). “It’s illegal therefore bad” is not a very compelling argument in any country.

2. My summary: Digital nomads don’t pay taxes and are not paying their way. My response: I have pointed out many ways that it surely makes economic sense to have foreign earners in a country even if they are on tourist visas.

Also, repeatedly bringing up “white” in your comments is borderline behaviour IMHO, and doesn’t do you any favours.
Mapping the 2020 World Press Freedom Index
Here's some articles

* https://blog.jpalardy.com/posts/why-learn-awk/ (also discussed on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22108680)

* https://adamdrake.com/command-line-tools-can-be-235x-faster-...
1. We haven’t yet seen what Apple's desktop-class chip can do.
2. Performance per watt is critical. Apple moved to Intel in large part because PowerPC couldn’t get this down, and one of the first two Intel Macs introduced was the MacBook Pro.
So if we squash every merge request we end up with the desired behavior as well.
What? I can use online CI services to compile for MacOS? TIL.
I haven't played Beat Saber, but I remember Avatar. As beautiful as it was, it remained unique. All new films for the past decade have been released as 3D, but I cannot think of a single one other than Avatar that I would prefer watching in 3D over 2D. Is there reason to believe Beat Saber would not become VR's Avatar?
My house is open, any friend who wants to give beat saber (or half life, or space pirate trainer, etc.) a spin is welcome. No need to spend $1000 without getting a proper demo.

I know not everyone has a friend with a high spec rig, but that is improving over time as well.
> Did Steve Jobs really dislike games?

Dislike may be a bit strong, but John Carmack described him as indifferent:

> Over the years I've been through a number of initiatives where Apple wants to get serious about games, and we've done things with them. The idea way back with Quake 3 on there, that was my deal with Steve Jobs: if Apple adopts OpenGL rather than going off and doing QuickTime3D or something else of their own which was going to be a bad idea, then I'll personally port the Quake 3 stuff rather than working with a partner company on that. And we went through all that. All of our Apple ports have been successful - they've all made money - but it's marginal money, and we have worked with Aspyr usually on all the other ones after that, but I do think it kind of comes from the top.

> The truth is Steve Jobs doesn't care about games. This is going to be one of those things that I say something in an interview and it gets fed back to him and I'm on his shithead list for a while on that, until he needs me to do something else there. But I think that that's my general opinion. He's not a gamer. It's difficult to ask somebody to get behind something they don't really believe in. I mean obviously he believes in the music and the iTunes and that whole side of things, and the media side of things, and he gets it and he pushes it and they do wonderful things with that, but he's not a gamer. That's just the bottom line about it.

> There are people at Apple who want to support all this - and there's no roadblocks for us right now, we're going to support the Mac on Rage, we hope to get a version of Quake Live going up on the Mac there - but it's just that's not what the Mac platform's about, and I don't really expect that to change because it's a tough equation now that you've got everybody dual-booting their Macs and everything: why would you want to go to the extra trouble of [developing games for Mac]?

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/id-softwares-john-carmack...
At my last job, we weren't allowed to interview anyone until we had either been trained in interviewing, or were doing the interview with someone who was trained.

When I took the training class, I assumed it was all about not asking questions we could be sued for, but that probably took up about 5 minutes of the class. Instead, the instructor created exactly the scenario you described. Someone who sounded really, really great and who you'd like to work with, until you thought about what you heard and realized he hadn't told you anything at all.

Good con artists are really good. Even if the average interviewee isn't trying to pull a con, digging into their real experience isn't something we're all good at. Training helps.
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I wish Grafana was this quick
I spent like $2000 on a VR setup so I could play Half Life Alyx without ever trying VR before. Remember that the gaming PC is very usable without the VR headset! I built a backpack portable mini-itx build with a used NVIDIA 1080Ti. Then 6 months later I got a Valve Index. Didn’t change my room at all other than moving my coffee table when I want to play. My current game is Audica which is such a blast.

But yeah. It was like $3000 in total or something ‘~’
Maybe it should be even more limited than that. For example, chains of `==`, mixed `<` and `<=`, or mixed `>` and `>=` only. That would disallow unintuitive things like:

if a <= b > c:

But then, what to do in those disallowed cases? Is the parser powerful enough to make them SyntaxErrors?

If not, I’d much rather have the above compiled into the unintuitive `a <= b and b > c` than the completely wrong `(a <= b) > c`.
Even with advanced tools, all I can ever see when needing to clean up complicated models is hundreds of hours of effort.
My personal opinion (though I haven't paid attention for long enough).

* Lease mileage seems to be trending downward.
* Overall reliability is trending upwards (easy to get 200k+ miles)
* This places a lot of 1 to 2 year old vehicles in the "almost new category"

Combine this with certified pre-owned program, you can pretty much get a "new" car for 30% less. This is inflating the price of cars with low miles since they seen as nearly the same as new cars.
IIRC pbrt and renderman do
> If it was $200, I’d consider it.

Wait 10 years and then ask.

It's brand new, genuinely computationally intensive, tech - it's going to be expensive. The Original PlayStation cost more in today's money than I bought my Vive for.

Also, if you can get a used Vive or similar there is almost no risk. If you genuinely don't like VR then maybe its not for you but I've played a lot different games and I can't think of anything that remotely compares with VR. Super Hot with a mouse is brilliant, Super Hot in VR makes me genuinely excited that I'm going to be around to see the near future. Beat Saber is very good fun, too (quite hard to describe but even in a vive the graphics are very crisp and smooth).

> If it was $200, I’d consider it.

Apparently half life alyx is enjoyable in a windows mixed reality headset. There is also the Oculus Go at that price point although I've never touched one because I have a proper VR headset.
there's this, but it looks stalled:

https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/21835
> Otherwise I would invest in a eGPU. So it's not like apple gamers are missing out if they want to game with good graphics.

You're not going to get very far without drivers an you'll be stuck on OpenGL 4.1 and Metal. That and you'll have the problem that there are less games built for MacOS than Windows an Linux + Proton.

Investing in a GPU for MacOS for gaming would be a huge waste of money IMO.
Consciousness Is Emergent Need
First, understand the 'emergent' behavior. Traffic jams "emerge". They are not related to cars. They can happen with people pushing through an exit or sand clogging up a hole.

Second, understand "need". Things that impact a system and threaten its smooth functioning create a "need". For instance, you "need" to urinate. A cell "needs" to eliminate waste. A city "needs" to remove trash.

Needs generate a response. The response (urinating, cell waste dumping, trash collection) is a systematic attempt to reduce the "need".

"Consciousness" is the "awareness of the need" giving focus to a response.

Many non-human things exhibit "consciousness". If a traffic jam blocks a major highway into a city the city will mobilize resources to clear the road (otherwise "city death" due to lack of, say food delivery, will occur.)

Cells need to eliminate waste or cell death occurs.

Computers show no signs of having any need and thus are not conscious.

The internet, however, does show "emergent need" since an outage will generate a reponse to repair, reroute, or correct the problem. There are many "sensory systems" in the internet that can detect and respond to threats that might cause failure.

Thus "consciousness" is an emergent behavior.
The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic could have been prevented
Come back after you played HL: Alyx, Beat Saber, and No Man's Sky VR. Any one of these experiences is proof that VR is a huge deal.
The vast majority of websites don't need to scale beyond what a single computer can do, especially with an efficient runtime. You're right that if you're building Wikipedia or Amazon you need to scale horizontally. But most sites aren't Wikipedia or Amazon.

It's true that JS systems like Node aren't really designed for this kind of thing, although they could have been. Arc is.
There's a small market, little developer support, and they don't support NVidia graphics. Not worth doing. Good for Valve.