skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For an 18-year-old article, it sure is prescient --- the state of modern software seems to be all about gluing together numerous layers of abstraction and libraries without understanding them, with the result that whenever something goes wrong, as it inevitably will, it takes even longer to diagnose. The higher you are on the ladder of abstraction, the worse the fall.
Less noise with OTP
I wouldn’t view it as a legacy problem. There’s no actual need to change to another format (JSON etc?) just for the sake of it.
Obviously if it's a 60 month 0% loan, I want to pay the sticker price minus the return on a 2.5 year fed bond...

This sentiment makes some sense during normal times, but we're now back in ZIRP. As of this week, a 2.5 yr treasury bond pays about 0.25%. On $40,000 that's $100 per year. https://www.bankrate.com/rates/interest-rates/treasury.aspx

On a $40,000 vehicle, negotiating a $1,000 reduction in purchase price would dwarf any considerations of "the return" on a treasury bond.
Researchers see path to quantum computing at room temperature
That's obviously not in the same league. The gaming capabilities of Apple TV are still pretty much an afterthought. The games available are more likely to be ports from smartphones, not Xbox/PS platforms. The processing power is a small fraction of what a video game console or gaming PC requires, which is why Apple can use leftover old smartphone SoCs instead of having to invest in actual high-end chips for the device.

There's the potential for the Apple TV to become a serious gaming platform in the future, but it would require a major shift in product strategy from Apple. That shift would have to include putting much more expensive hardware inside the Apple TV, increasing the BOM by more than the current retail price.
I wish opening a business was easier in the states. You want an office location or want to sell something? You have to rent a commercial place. You can’t operate out your front door.

Meanwhile, in Asia, many cafes and bars and other types of industries are run downstairs from their living room....
Seems like a worthy goal. Hoping for your success.

Some sour negativity for good balance, from someone unfamiliar with criminal systems :

Are there mechanisms in place for verification of the sender and some potential criminal misuse of your platform?
Quantum vastly outperform supercomputers when it comes to energy efficiency
I’m in a rural place and it’s the same for me - everyone has a bike, or even multiple bikes.
The grep/cut replacement is exactly what I use awk the most for. I use it for other things too but this stands out. awk just fixes the problem when you need to have more than one field from the input and maybe a different string between them. I guess this can be done with cut too, but for me it's simpler this way.

Also I use awk often in scripts together with fzf to interactively switch contexts e.g. in cloud provider CLIs.
Even to the degree that's the case, "failing to accurately guess the taxonomic category of the next virus to cause a pandemic" is a really dumb criticism. Based on the evidence prior to 2019--hell, even prior to about February of this year--coronaviruses didn't really seem like that much more of a potential threat than influenza or maybe Ebola.

If you want to criticize the US government, criticize them for depleting the Strategic National Stockpile (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_National_Stockpile), maintaining pointless and counterproductive regulatory barriers against meaningful testing until it was too late, not listening to early warning signs from China and Taiwan, not effectively coordinating between local, state, and federal agencies, allowing the CDC to lose focus by wasting resources on merely metaphorical "epidemics" like obesity and gun violence, or having a political culture more focused on partisan bickering and gainsaying than on competent governance. But please, don't criticize them for not being clairvoyant enough to proactively cure coronaviruses.
Do you think they might just not yet to have the technical and intellectual facilities to do what is described in the article though?

China is an advancing country but America does have some pretty insanely good tech and researchers.
32 bits was dropped this year, not a decade ago. That killed hundreds of macOS games.

Another major issue is broken OpenGL: bad drivers, very old version and nowadays deprecated.

In 2010 macOS gaming was in a good spot. Nowadays, Apple is making sure you don't use Macs for games.
Am I the only one never to use a Facebook app? Yikes.

For the few phones that I've owned that had Facebook apps among the non-removeable bloatware, first thing I do after updates is Disable and Force Stop them.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk: “I use my tweets to express myself” (2018) [video]
It wouldn't help now but could restaurants make their own platform that every restaurant can join or leave? Not sure what the legal form would be.

Also, maybe they could found a bank too that has a payment system. I'm not sure if this is realistic but I really don't like middlemen.
What can I say? I had no problems. But maybe you were trying to do something more complicated than I was.
It's absurdly common with news articles. They never link the stats/paper/organisation. I often wonder about the amount of collective time spent by individuals simply trying to find the data summarised in an article.

For all the lamenting about the media's decline there's plenty of amateur blogs out there that manage to link their sources when writing an article.
for between arm variants that is true, but bitcode is still tied to the target architcure [1], so transparent re-compiling x64 bitcode into arm64 is unlikely unless apple has done some changes to how bitcode works that im unaware of

[1] https://www.infoq.com/articles/ios-9-bitcode/
I work in retail banking. Openshift is very common for new projects these days on private and hybrid cloud deployments. So common that a client of mine recently described Openshift as ‘legacy’. Very silly comment but it does say a lot about how widely used it is in large enterprises.
Midlife crisis hint: don’t ever start a restaurant.
It used to be 3-5x more than fast food.

A burger with a meal + a drink @ Wendys is like $8+. The price of fast food has risen quite a bit over the years.

I can get a burger and fries that's 10x better at Friendly's, Ruby Tuesday's or a half a dozen other franchises for about $10-12 and the only sacrifice I have to make is that I'll have to drink water instead of soda.
For Example 1, wouldn’t the entire S&P index fall, this showing Musk isn’t responsible,
Wonderful work, Gabe! Much thanks to you and your team!
After cooking almost every meal for the last month (in comparison to before when my office would cater every lunch and I'd usually do take out for dinner), I've come to appreciate that yes: ingredients are expensive and cooking is laborious. At the lower-end of the industry (<=$10 per meal), prices are low. Perhaps lower than what I could make it myself just due to ingredients/spoilage costs.

At the lower-end of the medium-part of the industry ($10-$30/meal), I think the prices are a ripoff. For instance, I've been making a lot of ramen (akin to what you find in dedicated ramen shops a la spicy miso tonkatsu ramen with a soft boiled egg) lately. I spend probably ~$6~8 for the ingredients for a bowl (not incl. ingredients that I buy but end up spoiling before I can use them) that I previously wouldn't have blinked twice to spend ~$20 on at a ramen shop (incl. tax/tip). Yes it takes me a solid 15-25 minutes to make it myself, but my subway ride to/from the restaurant takes about that same amount of time.

At the higher-end of the medium-part of the industry ($30-50/meal), things become more debatable since flavors _should_ skyrocket.

I have no qualms about paying for the ingredients for food. But I don't really care if the restaurant is a proverbial hole in the wall where you order and pick up your food at the counter. I'd prefer a store where the food is comparable to another store but at half the price and 0% of the frills of table service.
I'm not a Python expert so I don't know much about the internals of Python but my hunch is when Python evaluates 'x in odds' it's not storing that value internally as a boolean so when you use the '==' strict comparison Python is expecting both data types to be the same.
A mozilla alternative is Kinto

* Used e.g. for profiles sync

* Deploys to heroku - 1 click

https://www.kinto-storage.org/
Didn't even mention the name, and I assure you I've been downvoted, and not just a little :). Make it what you want
if the properties weren't leveraged, then yes.

But if you leveraged to buy the property, then you deduct the interest payment from the rental income. In the case of a vacant property, the interest cost will get deducted from another source (other rental income perhaps).

Then, come tax time, you net out the rental income. If they do it exactly right, it could net out to zero. And so pay no taxes since they did not make any money.

On paper this sounds bad. But because the expectation that property grows in value, they gain capital growth. This isn't taxed until sale time, but capital gains tax is very favourably taxed in most juristictions. Not to mention depreciation over time (a paper loss tbh) can deduct taxation.

After a few more years, they sell the property, using the old (high) rental income value as the valuation figure, pocketing the capital growth while paying little in taxes from the rental (which goes into the cost of debt).

This is why rents would remain high - you need high rents to value the property as high value.
Maybe food trucks will just become more pervasive. They _were_ pretty common in portland for a while, but not sure how many of them will survive. ;_;
No, the claim was that metaprogramming made the grammar of C++ Turing complete.
I saw that you had similar thoughts in your comment.

I think the challenge is that the capability needs to work seamlessly across the Google and Apple platforms, without becoming chat app n+1.

I don’t know the history of WeChat - curious how it became so ubiquitous.
Commuting with 8 bars is way more convenient than 3.5. Having the right pressure is much underrated. On my way to work i roll by lots of other struggling commuters without even pedaling, looking at their poor almost flat tires.

Bike pump is one of those items where you will be happy you invested a few extra bucks, a good one lasts a lifetime and you will enjoy it every time you use it, instead of being frustrated to have something that is just barely good enough. I used to have a bad one and it was so frustrating i only pulled it out once the tires were desperately flat, got a good one and now i regularly pump up my tires because it's so effortless.
If they know what they’re doing, Apple will have either blocked these invalid apps from the App Store or started removing them.
Where I live in Seattle, there is a lot of new dense neighborhoods going up. And many of these large apartments have ground-level retail, which is supposed to be that urban planning magic sauce for walkable neighborhoods.

The problem is, most of these retail spaces are actually vacant, despite massive job and housing growth. But why? Because the retail spaces are simply too large. These spaces are big enough to seat 100-200 people, but most restaurants, even popular ones, will not seat that many people most of the time, so they end up paying rent on real estate that is not being fully utilized the vast majority of the time, and then they go belly up because they can't afford the rent.

One recent trend that has kind of taken us back to the roots of small restaurant square footage is the food hall, where many small setups share one large communal seating area. Another is the food truck, with no seating, minimal rent costs, and the entire operation fits in a parking space. There is a great irony when I've been to a food truck serving food out of the parking lot of an under-occupied strip mall, because the strip mall spaces are simply too large.

It also doesn't help that mom-and-pops are not exactly the most attractive tenants for commercial lending; better to ink a long-term contract with a sure bet like a bank branch or a national chain.
Wow, some of those entries are painful to read.
sounds like to me that one-off restaurants' owners want to be artisans and craftsman, not running a business. It's like an engineer who values good code and high quality engineering, but is beaten out by massive outsourced labour that optimizes for business value.
The Dot Org Sale Has Been Rejected: Here’s What Needs to Happen Next
Making it even more impressive, that he has already contributed to 500 open-source projects! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/m1guelpf
So you haven't tried VR?
Irony, strong companies I been part of have ~2 years of banked cash. Even non-profits.

These hyper-growth companies are showing their weakness. They only work during hyper economic growth. The fact that Uber and Lyft don't have like 2 years of runway in the bank is a strong indication of exactly how much these companies are gambling like drunken sailors.

This is exactly why we must bail out the people and let the companies that did not heed the warnings die out. Ideally with the owners losing all those mega billions they managed to grab.
What you ask is basically impossible: most Macs sold only have an integrated GPU, while all major platforms (gaming PCs, Xbox, PS...) do have dedicated GPUs. This means the performance is not even comparable.

Targeting macOS is only feasible for simple/casual games and some eSports.
IMO #3 is the only significant issue. Developer will overcome any struggles if payback worth it.
> This posts says in passing without further explanation that the NIH is "under-funded". I looked up their budget, they get roughly 40 Billion dollars a year. I'm not sure what rational one uses to call that underfunded but that doesn't seem like they are some small agency starved for money.

Compare the cost of this kind of pandemic, which was generally agreed as likely to happen at some point.

Or consider it in a per capita context -- about US$100 per citizen of the USA.

Given this, and given what the USA spends most of its money on, I agree with TFA - the NIH is woefully underfunded.
I really like a lot about MacOS but unfortunately I didn't get a chance to ever use it until 2014 so I wasn't able to experience that.

I'd get rid of my Windows computer in an instant if it wasn't for the poor support Mac has for gaming. Windows is fine but I enjoy the Mac workflow more.
Not just the companies themselves, but the VCs that feed into their behavior. Will VC firms ever feel the repercussions for fueling this tech boom's irrational exuberance?
> For a 30% increase, locked in for at least 10 years (assuming the restaurant survives), landlords are willing to let a property sit vacant for a while.

The thing that puzzles me is how willing landlords are to let properties stay vacant. I live in NYC and all of the newer high rise apartment buildings in my neighborhood have retail spaces at the ground floor and usually a few floors above the ground floor also for retail/commercial use. As far as I can tell, almost every building has utterly failed to get any tenants in the ~5 years since the buildings have been built.
Under the proposed model, wouldn’t you just need the platform to break even? It’s a common tool for all restaurants or all area restaurants.
> 1. No cross platform builds allowed. We can compile to Windows, Linux, Android, Switch, PS4, Xbox One all from one windows build machine.

I build for OSX from Linux using clang all the time. You just need to grab the sdk from xcode and get your toolchain all setup.

https://github.com/tpoechtrager/osxcross
It seems like only operators with a nice transitivity should be supported. x < y < z. x == y == z. x is y is z. That kind of thing. x != y != z doesn't work because in normal language, you'd say that to mean that they're all unique, while allowing it the python way, it doesn't imply x != z.
I have a totally opposite experience. Before GrubHub et al, I frequently found and ordered food from restaurants, and never really had a problem (between 2000-2015 for example) finding their number or menu. Maybe because I live in well developed metro areas?
Personal prediction. Look at 2008.

Right now "the blood is on the streets". The perfect time to use your capital to grab up whatever you can. In a couple of years we gonna have a total economic collapse or a major bounce back. So get started with shit now. It is the perfect time.

Buying yourself time until the bounceback is the right move.
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>...The goal is to maximize income, and the maximum you can get sustainably is 100% of your lesee's profits.

If you hypothetically take 100% of the profits of the renter, they won't be in business long term. There likely will be a gap between when they stop paying rent and you are able to evict them. There will also likely be a gap between that point and when you get a new renter, particularly when your rent is so high.

I agree that the goal is to maximize income, but trying to take 100% of the profits of the renter is not a way to maximize long term income.
Take your card? By phone? Isn't that one of the problem. I don't want to give my cc details over phone. 3rd party app does provide some value and that's why they are in business. They also provide an infrastructure for delivery which people keep forgetting about.
So if you entered into the workforce in your 20s around 2010, you are now edging nearing the end of your career?

A solid what the fuck?
Interesting, thanks for the explanation!

Do you know where can I learn more about contact tracing?
Its about more than the raw numbers too. If you make 9600 a month as an intern and you get offered a job you are certainly going to be offered more than you made as an intern. However, if you make 4800 as an intern there probably isn't a large company in the world that wouldn't use that as leverage to offer you full time employment at a salary far below 9600.
Generalists vs. specialists – which one should you strive for as a developer?
Nah, he even got the extra TruCoat.
> the maximum you can get sustainably is 100% of your lesee's profits.

only if there's a monopoly on real estate. I find that unlikely.
As an occasional thing, I'd probably buy a $15-20 sandwich if I really like it. As a daily or even weekly thing? No.
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> I almost want to suggest that the local city come up with a concept that somehow would encourage actual occupancy. Granted that could be complex but it seems a real waste to have these spaces empty / taking up space with high rents where maybe some business could try to run if rents were lower...

Land value tax. Shift away from taxing the value of buildings and towards taxing the value of the land they're built on; that way you encourage appropriate and efficient development / land use.
That's not that far off from what some sandwich shops are already getting in Boston at least.
The real estate sector hasn't made sense to me in years. No matter what happens, prices either stay intact or go up. Nothing seems to move the prices down.
What problems Snaps and Flatpaks are solving
For the first time ever, “FIPS to the rescue?”
Apple is not a "not for profit" company. Don't forget if it's free then you are the product.
Jackal Dropper
I must be a crusty Python programmer, because none of the first few examples seemed like WTFs to me at all. I think a WTF is when you think you know a language and then see something that behaves completely unlike how you expect.
Enforced government monopoly, more or less.

Also:

> The restaurant calls you a few minutes later to confirm and take your card.

This is really bad, and one of the reasons. For example, I would use Apple Pay only on platforms I don't trust, and giving a card/cvv over the phone is 10000% one of them.
I don't think preexisting grudges against the USA are necessary for thinking the USA has really dropped the ball here. Home to some of the most advanced medical research, self-appointed world protector, vast financial resources.

TFA wasn't assigning blame for the pandemic per se, from my reading, but was pointing out the effects could have been mitigated had earlier (2003+, 2012+) research not been abandoned -- noting that it was abandoned not because anyone in the field didn't think it would be useful one day (experts were sure we'd have more of these types of viruses, with pandemic risks) but because it wasn't financially attractive to for-profit pharma.

> All countries on Earth could have done more to prevent this.

For most of the 190+ countries on the planet, that would be true for very small values of 'more'.
(Balk not bulk. Just FYI.)
Why do something innovative or positive when you can make money shoveling more shit onto the heap?
Legal vehicle for Tech startups investment
I've recently signed SAFEs to invest in Y Combinator startup companies under my personal name, but I still don't know what's the best legal vehicle for my investments' ownership structure, considering the startups are based in the US and I'm not a US-citizen.
My pet peeve is when news organizations write about a court case (whether civil, like a lawsuit, or criminal) and forget to include (1) the court name and docket number so you can look up the status and filings yourself; (2) a copy of the latest filings to date (this can be harder to do depending on your platform).
You'll find a $16 doner in the comically overpriced food court in City Point, or a $15 currywurst at a place Chelsea Market.

This is, of course, a comically grim state of affairs compared to the 4 euro doner or currywurst you can get in Berlin. Though I will say NYC halal carts might be the best _common_ street food in the US, and that hasn't yet made it above the $6 sandwich/$7 plate mark... yet.