skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I'm exactly the same. I'm definitely a creature of schedule, and in "normal" times I go to the gym regularly, am more efficient at work, etc. Now everything just kind of "melds together" for me and even with more time without the commute I find my energy levels are consistently way, way lower.
I'm coming out of the this less fit, mostly because my workouts depended on being out of the house. gyms being open. Or freedom to travel to somewhere.

Im also not eating as fresh as I normally do. I can usually get fish and vegetables and cook the day of. Now I gotta stock up on groceries for the week to reduce shopping frequency.
I imagine the “last seen” times are shown mainly to indicate whether users are still active members of the site, and if they are likely to have seen recent replies. For these purposes, a few minutes’ error is harmless.

It wouldn’t surprise me to learn that Stack Overflow’s developers—like those of many large websites—have decided, as a performance optimization, to allow some information to be cached, and updated lazily, to avoid the cost of providing a globally-consistent, up-to-the-minute view to every user.
Layman here, but IIUC it's the exact opposite. Nintendo in particular had massive problems with crapware and knockoff devs adopting the traditional 70s/80s PC game distribution paradigms, if you know what I mean. It was difficult to tell what was a genuine, high-quality purchase. Locking down development is apparently one of the reasons they won out over Atari. We're in a different world today, but 2/3rds of the major console market is Japanese, and the business culture there is supposedly very cautious about reapproaching things that have burnt the company in the past.
Each of them has a monopoly on the store for their platforms, so courting developers is not a high priority.

Specially small developers that would benefit from such free middleware...
To get a little philosophical, there's a kind of "lack of self" inherent in minimizing oneself into a normalized default like GMail. Someone with a common name ends up being "bob.jones.23@gmail.com" - and if you were the first "bob.jones", you will get no end of messages erroneously addressed to you and consequent exposure to the secrets of the others.

The irony is that because email is so broken as an open platform, this normalized default so prone to collision has become the legitimate one, and everything else is filtered out...just like what tends to happen in other domains of society. It's easy upfront, but we're finally getting past the initial adoption of these technologies, and overall quality of service - from initial UX to issues like these - is going to become an increasingly large factor.
A good reminder that not everybody has reasoned opinions or should be listened to.
Yeah, I read the wikipedia article on first basing and spooking as well. That's not the same as reading people in poker.
I dont know if we're on the same page here. It isn't a question of engineering time. It's a legal problem. It's not going to become feasible in the way ordinary problems do.

There's a couple companies out there that will port your game to consoles for you. [1]

(1): http://www.lonewolftechnology.com/
I’m an introvert and a teacher. In class I successfully turn myself into a charismatic extrovert.

I have 80+ teenage pupils to
manage remotely, with me on camera for a significant amount of that time. I find it very easy.

All pupils have an iPad. We all have full accounts in Microsoft Outlook and in Google Classroom, Forms, Docs and Meet.

Being remote has made me tighten up my document formatting game. I just set up a nice asciidoctor template to make classroom materials have a bit more wow factor for the assignments and ideas I post online.

The tools hold pupils to deadlines. It’s a boundary they respect and it gets a lot more out of them. They find remote work a lot harder than I do of course. It makes school feel a lot more tiring.

(Periods have about 30% face time and the rest they are left to work under their own steam — with parents no doubt pushing them on my behalf.)

We will go back to school eventually and we had all these tools before but I don’t feel we used them to anything like the full extent we do right now. Remote teaching has really changed the game for me, for the better. It’s not something I’d choose to do — for their sake — but I’m enjoying what it’s helped me learn and look forward to carrying a ton of techniques over into the new school year.
Brilliant, just the right amount of magic. The explain feature is what really sold me that you thought about users! I wonder if I can put a bit of humanfriendly support in there with a pr.
I was the same until about 5 weeks in, then the isolation got to me and I reverted to food and sleep to manage my emotions and I wiped out all my progress in two weeks.

It's important to remember that this is not a normal state of affairs, this doesn't accurately reflect WFH. I'm personally curious ot try WFH more once we return to 'normal'.
You can't separate the two experiences. What the poster was saying is that it was already tried. They were already separated.

And then advertisers realized that having your ads displayed on video content that is damaging to your company's image is generally Really Really Bad for PR. No company is going to sign on for your platform if they can't control where and how their ads are shown.
>the story is not yet over

Well if you are talking about corporations, the story is never over. It is always possible that a corporation that has been successful for a long time will go out of business.

But basically you are looking at this all wrong. The world is transitioning from ice's to ev's, and in the process some present companies will make it and some will not. Tesla is at present much better positioned to be one of the successes.
> 2/3rds of the major console market is Japanese

What do you mean?
No ideology, just words with meaning which are not wholly subjective.
No, he was complaining about how the diversity team wasn't scientific enough, and pointed out that it from a certain viewpoint it doesn't makes sense. But failed to simply account for what Google as an entity (the CEO, the shareholders, the board of directors, the upper management, the vocal minorities, etc) wanted. And that was simply diversity even at the cost of spending a lot of money and making some sub-optimal decisions.
That's awesome :) I wish I had realized that earlier instead of dropping everything.

This makes me wonder if the ability to be detached from outside opinion is not what's the most important thing to evolve in writing. Baudelaire and Lovecraft come to mind, they both managed to go on for a whole life despite harsh reception in their time.
History is a delicate thing, just as truth. Even in democratic countries we have political necessities standing in its way, and resulting myopic view leads to all sorts of problems. Wonder if we can systematically decrease the distortion of history, which is always incomplete and being uncovered.
Watch velvet goldmine
The Future of the Covid-19 Pandemic: Lessons Learned from Pandemic Influenza [pdf]
Lol!

For the lazy, I just looked this up, and it does seem to be a real quote :)
There are 3 major console makers. Two of which are Japanese companies.
Yes. File this alongside “if somebody offers you a breath mint, take it”
It isn't. Normally the application needs to be aware of dirty rectangles; it fetches them from the window compositor, and it needs to limit its drawing calculations based on the dirty rectangle, in order to get the full benefit.

(Dirty rectangles are still perfectly common in desktop apps for when you e.g. drag a window back on screen after overlapping the edge, or if you scroll a window.)
ooh - didn't know it was possible to set an SDL window icon like that in a linux build, my project... updated :)
>really? the martial art?

No, the thing people who don't want to do martial arts do with friends who fall and roll ovef on cue.

>The last bit, I am aware of that "Make a landing page and sell something that doesn't exist" (mailing list/get people signed up)

I wouldn't do that, but to each their own.

>This was a thing I personally would use, but then I saw something out there(Figma) that's way better than I could ever hope to make wow... the art alone just wow.

Have you thought of joining them?

>Anyway I have some other personal projects but they're nothing

You don't know. Finding and evaluating ideas is the subject of many writings.

>The truth is... I don't have a product... I'm unfortunately not that guy and I don't know why.

You're not which guy, exactly?

>I think I'm not around people enough or something where an obvious problem can present itself. So at this time I'm just the guy people tell/ask to build stuff.

We have profitably executed ML projects for large organizations, from problem scoping, to data acquisition and sometimes building hardware for that, to model training, to building a custom enterprise application to load and use these models, to the mobile app that goes with it. Being the company clients tell/ask to build stuff across several sectors through the years exposed "meta problems", and now we're building a product to solve these problems.

So, you're the guy people tell/ask to build stuff and that gives you data, and it is up to you to extract insights and develop product. I'm sure you presented work to someone and they didn't care, except for the thing that took you a couple of hours to write.

Also, maybe you can start a company and build things for enterprise, not as a natural person, but as a legal person. It's not `ge96` that will do the project, it's `ACME, LLC/LTD/s.a.r.l/GmbH`. This could give you a cushion while you figure things out.

>I don't know, I hope I figure something out because I do want to work for myself eventually.

Well, running a company means you work for everyone.
How does that help? The host can see inside the VM.

There have been a few games whose obfuscation was effectively a different instruction set being run in a VM, and it does slow down hacking by a few months while people reverse engineer and retool. Can't remember names though.
Definitely feels like myspace-esque.

I wonder what the team managing Google Sheets must feel like to have their product (ab)used this hard.
Completely agree. I still follow its development even though I don’t currently use it (I plan to get back to my toy game eventually though), its a great library, well designed, excellent performance and skypjack is friendly, super responsive and helpful. Big fan of EnTT.
I really hope Chinese start to use this as YouTube is being blocked by the Government.
I'm always fascinated by the amount of healing the lungs can do in just 6 months after a person quits smoking.
In my case, they've been interspersed. Even features will change, as you gain more knowledge - and some things you thought as important, will turn out not to be.

I will tell you this: it takes a lot of will power to continue working, if the project is not short term. I've worked on mine for almost 2 years and I'm still in Beta.
The Remote Work Power Shift
His argument is essentially that the lack of authoritarian control is less authoritarian than no authoritarian control. I'm not sure how someone holds such an opinion when its falsehood is self-evident.
Discipline?
They do change files that are embedded in readmes, just like most web platforms do. The original file is unchanged, but the version embedded in the readme preview on github.com is changed.
Ask HN: How to stopn fraud in e-commerce?
I'm certainly a greedy person and currently, taking advantage of thousands of people all over the world who stuck in their homes during the pandemics. But worst of all, nobody can stop me. No one!

How do I do that? Well, it's pretty simple. I've created more than 20 web-sites using LAMP stack that looks alike and paid Facebook Ads to promote them at the beginning. Furthermore, I know certainly that people love cheap prices, so I've given it to them. But what I didn't tell them, that their credit card details will be stolen and several fraud transactions will be made with 100 times more of what they ordered.

To protect myself I registered a few merchant accounts and domains in China. Who knows in the western world how to take down a Chinese web-site? Probably nobody who would do that, right?

But please, please DO NOT buy anything on my web-sites, it is 100% fraud and I'm confident enough that you can't take me down!

Just for your reference here is my main website: bccxruhy.com, it's registered in China as well as my merchant accounts which every credit card will be charged from:
Aszeiucx chang zhou sh CHN,
Bccxruhy chang zhou sh CHN,
Bieifpn chang zhou sh CHN.

Also, here is a list of almost all of my websites:
combeding.com
zinnialive.com
manyhnice.com
nshoplive.com
zaspeak.top
welldshop.com
matadoc.com
findadker.com
starlighteerer.com
sale.begored.com
Nsyear.top
babyhlive.com
nshoplive.com
mickeshop.com
saletochothing.com
vicnonlie.com
perfectkitchen.is
sale.ubuytol.top
sale.swearns.top

It's quite easy to find some proves on the Internet that all of these web-sites are a part of a huge fraud scheme. Of course, you could try to take me down, but once you have given up, here is a list of Chinese authorities which might be interested if you submit your case
12321.cn
cyberpolice.cn
12377.cn
Rolling Weekly Unemployment in the US During Lockdown
You're conflating going on a talk show to share your story and being friends with people.

I also don't really get your point. It seems like you're saying some people will incorrectly judge him because of the talk shows he went on. Okay, so?
well, apple certainly de-emphasized subpixel antialiasing.

i am still using a non-retina monitor for all of my day-to-day work. when i first installed mojave, it made my display look so bad that it gave me headaches. so i wiped my mac entirely and re-installed the previous version of macos. later, i learned that subpixel anti-aliasing is still there, it just takes some fiddling to get it back.

https://www.howtogeek.com/358596/how-to-fix-blurry-fonts-on-...

eventually, i will have to get with the program and buy a retina display. but i am thankful for this loophole that allowed me to put it off for awhile.
> Native UI framework objects (e.g. React Native)

React Native uses DOM, the only nuance is that that DOM is a tree of native widgets/windows which is a perfect DOM.

Again, virtual DOM is a projection of real DOM in one form or another. It could be a tree of anything that can be represented by attributed nodes and leaves.

DOM tree has nothing with rendering and pixels, that's why "not even close". By using virtual DOM you can update (by diffing) some tree that even has no visual representation in principle - it is pure data structure. Think about abstract XML config that can be reconciliated with its virtual DOM.
> If you value your time at, say, $200/hr, how long can you spend learning about Linux distros, repos, software,

A lot of software people already understand linux; obviously if you have to learn everything from scratch it's not the ideal productivity choice.
> maybe I am less "productive", by normal standards

What are normal standards?
Let me caveat the following by saying that I'm one who believes the future of tech work is fully remote and personally hope to stay fully remote post-COVID.

I do not believe now is the time to be drawing comparisons or conclusions between the office norm and the fully remote situation most of us have been thrust into.

Sure, some people procrastinate more than others. Some people need more management than others to keep going. Some people are better self-driven and self-organized than others.

The effects of the externalities many are now faced with

- worry over savings / the state of the market

- job security as we watch others get laid off

- how the kids are holding up, how will this impact their education and future

- sick family members

- etc. etc.

renders it impossible to draw conclusions meaningfully e.g. "Susan was super productive when we were working in the office, but she seems to have really dropped off now that she's remote. Looks like remote isn't for her!"

or

"I was so effective in the office but now that I'm at home I can't seem to get anything done, or focus, therefore I must not be cut out for remote work".

Whilst in the background you, or Susan, are facing a big drop in your 401k, or you're worried your kids are watching too much tv at home all day, or Mom is headed out to get groceries again when she really shouldn't be and there's nothing I can do about it.

I believe the sweet period when some sense of normality resumes but we're still mandated to WFH because it'll be impossible to institute social distancing effectively in cost-optimized open office spaces will be when we can more effectively starting measuring and drawing conclusions over fully remote work and its impact on people and the office.
If u have questions, ask them. If you dont have questions, you cannot ask them by definition.

People reading anymore into this are not the kind of people you want to have to work with.
I wouldn't say that I'm very productive at home, but I'm also not any more productive at the office either.
Kuhn came up with the concept of paradigm change, and as he defined it, yes, it only happened once. He claimed it had happened many times, but when you look at the history closely, it just didn't.
It's quite different, actually, both in application programming logic and in expressive power of drawing primitives.

With dirty rectangles, it's the application's responsibility to minimize much of its drawing; the renderer will at best avoid copying bits where the target of the bits lies outside the drawing rectangle. The renderer can only optimize in situations where the entire call is understood as a full primitive, and it knows that the result will lie outside the dirty rectangle.

With rxi's approach, the application gets to define the commands which update the UI - which may be as complex as desired, as long as they have a calculable rectangle - and the cost of calculating that rendering can be skipped, without needing to query for dirty rectangles or doing any application-side conditional logic, beyond the layer that rxi wrote.

It's particularly powerful if the rendering primitives are higher level than those provided by the native APIs.
66% of New York Hospitalizations Statewide Are From People Sheltering at Home, only 3 percent in New York City had been using public transportation, 96 percent had other underlying health conditions:

https://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/news/2020/05/07/new-sur...

33% are from nursing homes:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/05/09/us/coronaviru...
i've never seen a programming language implement math-y notation in the vein of

xs[0] + ... + xs[n]

so that's kind of cool... though C++ seems like an odd place to find it. i wonder how expressive it is, i.e. what the limitations are.

NOTE: the following might be incorrect, i really don't know C++ well enough to tell...

unfortunately it looks like it's limited to working with "parameter packs", which i understand are basically varargs, and can't be used to fold/map e.g. a normal vector. which seems like a strange choice... if you're going to add this much syntax, why limit it like that?
A survey doesn’t eliminate subjectiveness, it merely averages over it.
Not as mind-blowing as SublimeText leaking 3 solid GB of RAM after a few days on my Debian..
> (and a single Vulkan renderer)

I thought you were saying they should focus on ray tracing instead of the Vulkan renderer. Saying they should build a vulkan renderer and a ray tracing renderer is a much different statement than what I was understanding, and sounds like a lot to ask for.

Additionally there's a ton of risk in betting on full ray tracing in several years. Given that they are a small team with a small community and small funding, they simply have to hedge there bets, and myself as a user am damn glad they are. Unity going guns blazing on new shit and having things be broken all the time is a huge reason why I switched to Godot in the first place.

A nice thing about godot is that it's code base is very easy to get your hands in to, so if Juan wants to focus on the big stable market with the raster renderer, the community can work on a ray tracing renderer. Juan is exposing an api called RenderingDevice in 4.0 that should enable the community to write their own renderers easier than from scratch.
Well, he should have just stick to writing. Spectrum or not, recognizing that you're not great at talking, and you're not great at handling the fallout doesn't require special skills.

I'm not blaming him for going on those shows, but he should have recognized - after all he tried to argue a complex problem complexly - that supporting very biased simple platforms won't do him and his arguments any good, especially on the long run.
I ask what guided them to the decision on which we disagree.

Typically, you'll find that you have different goals and priorities. And if they are the boss, they get to make the call. If they are a good boss, they'll listen to your reasons before making that call. If you are a good employee, you'll listen to their reasons and accept the result if they choose differently than you would have.

And as an individual, if any of that frustrates you so much that it makes your work difficult, then they are just the boss of your job, not your life. Feel free to make a change.
Sorry, I should have made it clearer. Yes, I'm talking about the Linux kernel on the host that's running Docker containers. If I use the default Ubuntu kernel, it contains a bunch of unnecessary functionality. Is there a tool that I can use to configure the host kernel to only contain the absolutely necessary functionality required by the Docker container image?
Given that the immigrants were Vietnamese I'd posit that that very history also applied to them in their home country in the 1970s (causing them to flee for their lives and end up in America). And yet somehow they didn't have the same mentality.
It's the same as any virus - how do you catch a cold? Its the virus gets in somehow, you touch it on a surface, then touch your face, scratch yourself. This one seems to need a lot of touches which is why you need to be in close proximity to others who have it for a while.
Consider the recent kerkuffle with the CEO of Away. She didn't tread on any political or cultural landmines. Just decided to treat her workers like shit and do it on open Slack channels.
Consider how Facebook got started. It didn't appear out of thin air and immediately dominate the market, it was a competitor fighting against LiveJournal, MySpace etc and it managed to achieve monolithic control through becoming the defacto standard.

As a separate analogy, consider a server for a MMO. MMO servers live and die based off the usercount, and lower count servers are considered less desirable for other incoming users. So what ends up happening is that players congregate around the server that has the most users, which in turn drives up costs for said server requiring them to take in more money (through donations or ads or subscriptions) and soon they become the standard for other servers to follow.

Even if other servers end up hosting, few reach the same numbers because most new users are instead redirected or drawn to existing servers with a high user count. So we're back to stage 1 where the fediverse hasn't really solved anything at all. Said competitor may then choose to instead jump off the fediverse and take their users with them (because you become associated with certain other negative groups which are bad for your image), the fediverse starves because your average user doesn't care and then we have Facebook again.
Why is using JS or WASM as a building block for a app any worse than lua, python or ruby?

What is the material difference?
Then you’re rather unimaginative - .NET/SqlServer shops are still 2nd class citizens on both GCP and AWS.

Azure App Services and SQL database arrives a 1-2 punch for enterprises moving their apps to a PaaS that just works.