skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, they do it in a fair way, I believe if you read the page it will tell you how they fairly measure performance between the forges.

Edit: see "Expand for details on methodology" right at the top of the page.
Incubation is median 5 days or so and Georgia opened up two weeks ago. I think it’s fair to start looking at the results now.
> Want to shutdown? Oh I'm sorry windows I didn't realise you planned on doing an update!

Also recently "shut down" became "hibernate without fully taking the filesystem offline". Because clearly, that's what I meant. Not actually shut down.
For clarification, “the entry” appears to be the wiki page I linked to. The count of 96 countries appears to come from the list of countries per time of year.

My 40+ countries came from the same page, not sure why it says 40+.
+1. In the US it’s either a quote or an estimate.

Which really depends on the industry and the business owner so the word you use should be configurable per account.

Similar to how different businesses use different words such as customer, client, patient, guest, patron, etc.
If you mean Android Studio being slow (and the Android build system in general, with its many transform steps), that has little to do with Java itself.

Even IntelliJ IDEA, built on the same platform is much, much faster than AS (with non-Android projects).

Android Studio is just a slow IDE. 16 GB RAM and a good CPU is the absolute bare minimum for it these days for any non-trivial project, especially if you want to run the emulator as well.
Though this is not at all the only essential part of Racket, building other languages atop it is something Racket really specializes at, which Clojure does not. See http://cs.brown.edu/~sk/Publications/Papers/Published/fffkbm.... Of course, Clojure rocks running atop the JVM, with all the attendant engineering benefit that provides down below; Racket doesn't do that (and can't; its VM has to be specialized to support various control features, etc., that the JVM doesn't provide).
I’ve tried a few Ubuntu distros as of late and truthfully they’ve all been pretty impressive. The last issue I really have is fractional scaling on a 4K.
`git status` always shows you some of three things: files not tracked by git, tracked files with modifications that are not staged, and tracked files with modifications that are staged.

You can stash tracked files with modifications, or tracked files without modifications separately! Scenario: I've staged a couple files for a commit I'm preparing, but I see that there's an unrelated change in the unstaged files that I want to do in a commit that should come first. So I stash everything I've staged. I do not stash what I haven't staged! Now I can create that new commit, and pop the stash later to come back to the commit I wanted to originally write.
Who said they were inaccessible?
A company isn't guaranteed to make it out though and if they don't, your stock is now worth zero.
And that I think is that what we're discussing is the crossroads of science, metrology, philosophy, logic, and mathematics.

What is a kilogram? Is the idea the same as the base object? Should it have a physical representation at all? What happens when the kilogram changes? Can it change? What does it mean when/if it does? If we change it, are we still conducting science?

Of course, that sphere of metal is easy to pick on. But what about the "constant" of C, which we've seen other science studies showing it itself changes - which possibly indicates Planck's constant changes. But the solution was to state by fiat that C is an exact speed and move on. To me, this smacks as unscientific as Indiana defining pi as 3.

And as the meme goes, psychology > biology > chemistry > physics > mathematics. And yet each layer has its own findings and studies, but rarely do each group talk to each other. And such studies come into conflict.... But they're both right. What do we do then? More science? Less?

And there's falsified science. We don't talk much about that. It doesnt win studies. It doesn't get grants. Nor do failed studies get acolades and tenure positions. They should, but they don't. Knowing what areas don't have connection is just as important as those that do. It represents a map of understanding positive and negative.

And I don't think this is one of those agree/disagree.. at least I never took it that way. This is just one of those topics that goes to the root of our world. And we each are just a piece of it.
I can point out you're mistaken simply by saying "frequency".

it's power that kills. you can make a death ray with light, vhf, whatever, given enough power, which decay geometrically. most of the dead birds are on antennas without cover, where the birds would perch up and get fried. thousands of dead birds every day on top of builds is the sole reason all microwave antennas have that white half-cone cover on them.
I guess thats more an issue of "modern" IDEs, which seem invariably bloated. Im sure there are productivity arguments to be made about using an IDE, but I can't get over how they all take forever to start, and how any change in the UI layout causes everything to flash around for a good second.
Is there a reason you use nginx instead of serving the frontend using a Go static fileserver?
"39% of Americans will spend a year in the top 5 % of the income distribution, 56 % will find themselves in the top 10%, and 73% percent will spend a year in the top 20 %."

from https://medium.com/incerto/inequality-and-skin-in-the-game-d...:
Fortified milk and similar products usually include vitamin D.
So, since the article was written nearly a year ago I wonder how the story turned out, i.e. did the author get a better job that justifed the investment of this time and money in the bootcamp?
People who write pro-totalitarian surveillance hellscape articles like this should definitely be placed on some kind of list.
elementary OS has been my go-to ever since v0.2, especially in a combination with ulauncher (Alfred alternative). They're an irreplaceable part of my workflow.
Yup. If you have a bunch of credit card debt at 20+%, and/or are paying off a car in the high-single-digit percent range, then you really want to pay that off before you consider investments.

If all you have is a sub-5% mortgage (though even that's pushing it), or a low-interest student loan, then you should put money toward retirement if you can.

On the other hand, ~15 years ago I had a 3.5% student loan, and even though rationally I should have carried that debt (making regular payments, of course), for peace of mind I paid it off as quickly as a could. I think a lot of people are in that boat, or worse, having been taught that all debt is bad for you.
One big thing gitlab has that github doesn't is the ability to download (or clone I think)repositories from a mobile browser without changing to desktop view. Yes there are actual reasons why someone would want to do this.

Maybe I'm blind, but I've scoured the mobile page for a download or clone link and always ended up giving up and switching to desktop view. I just checked again, and couldn't find them after a few minute search. On gitlab, it's immediately visible just above the clone repository link on the main repository page.
Let me go ahead and outsource that:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHATHSB_450

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eNiCLanXJY
Which is often what procrastination results in. Pushing things off until the downsides outweigh the resistance to start.
How likely is that "if", though? How often when you see signed multiplication in code do you find people are actually paying attention to the negative results and planning around 2's complement behavior? I know there are occasions in which people do this, but it's so incredibly rare compared to when they multiply two numbers. And on the rare occasions when the bit patterns actually matter to them and they're paying attention, it's not like they have no way to solve the problem in C++.
I've been building a native-only Android app for testing various aspects of a cross-platform (ie, Android and iOS) library we use at dayjob. Building and running with Makefile feels so liberating and is so d*mn fast compared to the Android Studio and Gradle molasses. Can recommend.
Because the priority order is:

a) Consumption spending

b) Real estate

c) Stocks

When middle class people hit diminishing returns on electronics and vacations, they upgrade their houses. Appetite for remodeled kitchens and bigger, nicer, better-located houses is voracious, so relatively few people satisfy it and fall through to stocks.

Making sacrifices on housing in favor of your stock portfolio is of course possible, but will get you a lot of weird looks and pressure from family, particularly if kids are involved.
no one who values companies professionally predicts cash flows more than ~5 years out, certainly not decades, because predictions about economies, governments, societies, and institutions are all salient to those future cash flows and those predictions become rapidly worthless as you look further in the future.

what happens in practice is that you take the cash flows of year 5 and you annuitize it into the far future with the estimated growth rate, and call it a day.
i don't want this anywhere near my home please
Just loved your attitude. /s

I worked with plenty of Linux developers, and pretty much any piece of Bash scripts was full of remote code execution vulnerabilities. That strange love with shell scripts is so common among majority of *nixoids, it is impressive you call enterprise tools shitty in comparison.
real wages for the bottom 80% have not budged much[1], and are pretty much non-existent for the bottom 40-60% of the distribution.

The US has higher wages but mostly as a function of some sort of Baumol's cost disease. Increases in healthcare and education spending drive wages but they also drive costs. It doesn't really reflect a net gain in standards of living as hard stats like life expectancy show. the US has a life expectancy comparable to Cuba.

Not to mention that averages obfuscate the huge degree of inequality. Life expectancy differences between the richest and poorest in the US are larger (almost ~20 years) than between the American average and Yemen.

[1] https://imgur.com/vsUt8rF
Maybe you're not in the right spot right now, not doing what you really want to do? Maybe a new job, new scenery would be good. Maybe taking a bit of a break.
Whoa, that's whole another perspective. I've never thought of making it configurable. Adding that to the roadmap. Thanks!
If every American worker started buying $100 worth of stock per month, they could start chiseling at that 86% number. Not every worker has the financial means to do so, but many could if they practiced financial constraint (delaying consumption now, in exchange for greater consumption later). To the extent it is feasible, it would be wonderful to see Americans fight back against wealth inequality by buying the ownership. Imagine how much progress towards equality could be made. Each household makes a choice with how to spend their money.
https://blogs.gnome.org/mclasen/2019/05/25/pango-future-dire...

> Using Harfbuzz for font loading means that we will lose support for bitmap and type1 fonts.

It's not as straight forward.
It's looking really nice so far - although as someone who pulls together quotes there is some way you have to go for it to be an MVP for me personally. A little feedback if you want:

* Autocomplete of customer name does not seem to work. If I put in part of the customer name and then click the name, it seems to complete but will then not allow me to save the quote. In fact, I do not seem to be able to make a quote at the moment without going through 'customers'.

* Unsure what Active / Passive is. No obvious way to change a quote between the two, or set a quote to be in either.

* Would be good to change the unit rather than everything be in 'items' - i.e. 5 m2, $32 per m2.

* There is no single workflow for creating an invoice for a customer. I would expect to be able to create the customer & invoice in 'one shot'. I made an invoice first, then couldn't save it without adding a customer - so I had to go and open a new tab so as to not loose the quote. This is a bit unintuitive.

* There is no way to reorder items. If I have 4 items for installing a door (cost of door, cost of handle, cost of frame, labour) and want to add 'cost of hinges', it will either appear after labour which doesn't make sense from a flow perspective, or have to delete labour and then put it in.

* No way to provide subtotals - in the example above I would like to subtotal parts vs installation labour.

* There is no way to edit a line item in an existing quote without deleting the line and creating a new one. This is particularly problematic if I want it on the top line of the quote, as it means you have to delete all line items to make sure it is the first (no reordering)

* Would be good to write the email to the customer rather than it look like a generic mailshot - like "Hi Dave, As discussed during our phone call please see the quotation attached. Cheers, Barry".

* No way to apply charges at the final line level (i.e. 5% payment processing for above lines)
Yes, that explains their methodology but not the location of the hardware. If I go and run a Lighthouse audit on localhost vs. a server in Philadelphia there's going to be an inherent difference.
Well we're talking about blue-collar vs white-collar, so naturally I'm painting with broad strokes here, and this is all anecdotal. In my experience the people who have tried to hold me back from my objectives the most have come from blue-collar backgrounds. I'm not saying that everyone I've met from a blue-collar background has done so, just that of the people who have done so most have been from blue-collar backgrounds.

And come to think of it the financial reasons you mention (retirement) is probably one contributing factor from a cultural perspective. If you lack the independent wealth to look after your own interests then you must naturally pool resources with others. If others leave/do their own thing/do better than you that's saying, in a sense, that they don't want to pool resources with you, even if you'd reciprocate. That feeling probably sucks.

On the other hand if you're well off enough on your own, someone going off and doing their own thing/striving for better isn't a rejection or a denial of needed resources. So it can be supported, event celebrated.

Once again, painting with broad strokes. It is possible to point out trends without saying that everyone in a given group subscribes to said trend.
While there are some good explanations already mentioned, the bottom line is that stock prices are forward-looking in the sense that investors buy and sell stocks not based on what happened yesterday or what is happening today, but rather based on their expectations for the future (6-12 months ahead).

So, basically, the market is signaling that on a whole (i.e. weighted average growth of all the companies in the S&P 500) things (i.e. revenue/eps) aren't going to get dramatically worse and potentially going to get increasingly better.
Very true. I'm in a different part of the country (I'm in Boston, they're in Philadelphia) and tried running the benchmarks myself about a week ago. Unfortunately, I didn't save the results, but if you take my word for it, I remember getting similar results with only slightly different numbers. Your best bet, of course, is to run the benchmarks yourself: https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/forgeperf

Some other people ran the benchmarks from different places in Europe and got similar results with "nothing significantly different" from those published: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22900649
HEP stands for High Energy Physics, which is what is done with an accelerator.
I once wondered this after working on a not-too-interesting contract position for 18 months. It seemed like my abilities had atrophied. On top of that, I then took another year off from work. At that point I thought for sure I was past my prime.

When I finally did go back to work, it was easy to get into the hardest change was unlearning previous source control systems and getting my head around Git. [It would've been so much easier if I just read about its internal structures than articles.]

I still expected to peak or plateau but that hasn't happened. There are certainly things that I don't do as much or well--like consuming vast amounts of information rapidly--but I more than make up for it by carefully choosing a path that usually pays off in a couple iterations. Still love to learn new ways of doing things and slowly expanding into less technical areas like matching problem understanding to a tech solution. I've never been impressed with architecture which is often poorly executed as to be in-the-way as much as it helps. Can't say I've worked on projects so large that it's been critical.

Microservices is hard and gets a bad rap but when done right can be an awesome experience. I've recently started making full-stack monorepo microservices apps and couldn't be happier.

I figure at some point I should start down the less technical people management track but there's no need for it to happen any time soon, I can keep up with the youngin's just fine. I've been developing software for over 40 years.
I'm not sure if reactionary is the label, but I'll own whatever side doesn't have diversity committees at work - or HR departments if I'm allowed to dream.
It took way too long for me to realize that this isn't a product where one stores/sends famous words from smart people.

Otherwise, looks great!
> An engineered PET depolymerase to break down and recycle plastic

Wrong title, and it's not for all plastics. We all complain here about journalism taking the wrong conclusion and I'm just pointing out the factually wrong message in the title.
The interesting question for me is: big vs small companies. Can small companies successfully carve a slice out of a industry dominated by large companies? Has that happened? Or do big companies still dominate?

Anyway, to your actually question...I like to keep an eye on visual design or illustration apps, and the picture is quite varied.

Adobe continues to dominate with their suite of creative apps. But they are playing catch-up in some areas. Sketch (Netherlands) and now Figma (US) both dominate apps for UI design. Adobe XD is popular (Adobe made it free to encourage adoption) but it doesn't enjoy the same "mindshare" among designers and it doesn't appear to be displacing Sketch or Figma.

On the iPad, Procreate (Australia) has become incredibly popular for digital illustration. Adobe recently launched their own digital app called Fresco clearly taking aim at Procreate. It's too early to see how Fresco will do, but I can't see it displacing the popularity of Procreate.

I also can't see Photoshop, Illustrator or InDesign losing any significant market share, but the Affinity suite of apps (Designer, Photo and Publisher) made by Serif (UK) has been hugely successful. I sense some designers (many?) would like to ditch Adobe if they could find suitable alternatives.

There is no real competitor to After Effects for professional 2D motion graphics, but there is a promising new 2D animation tool called Cavalry made by Mainframe (UK). It's in beta so too early to know what will happen. Blackmagic Design (Australia) make a combined video editor and compositing tool called DaVinci Resolve which does let you create motion graphics. DaVinci Resolve is a professional-level editor using in the film and TV industry.

There are dozens of other paining and drawing apps that have carved out a niche. For comics, Clip Studio Paint (Japan) is popular. Other drawing tools from Japan include MediBang Paint and Paint Tool SAI which are popular for creating manga.

So to sum up, Adobe still dominates, but smaller companies are gaining popularity and usage.
GitLab 13.0 will release on the 22nd of May, 12 days from now. This blog post is about the upcoming deprecations in that release, not the features. The features that might ship in that release are on https://about.gitlab.com/upcoming-releases/

The last GitLab release was 12.10 which was release on April 22 https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2020/04/22/gitlab-12-10-re... with Requirements Management and Autoscaling CI on AWS Fargate
This reminds me of the "floss one tooth" strategy:

https://www.fastcompany.com/3022830/the-secret-to-changing-y...
Actually, I hope more than one succeeds. This will make meeting demand easier.

About converting, I'm not sure. Some procedures, like Moderna's or Inovio's, will likely need totally different manufacturing processes. I don't know about Oxford's (which uses an adeno-associated virus).

It looks like a non-trivial effort to do.

Rather than converting, most of the companies involved are ramping up manufacturing at-risk during the trials and some, like Vaccitech / Jenner Institute, are actively seeking partnerships to increase manufacturing capacity already.
Half-time high school may be just what students need
For a layman like me, what does this enzyme decompose the plastic into?
We are trying out MuchSkills with the community
> South Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong controlled the virus without imprisoning everyone at home.

South Korea imposes far more intrusive and arguably totalitarian measures such as tracking each and everyone's every movement and impose compulsive tests on anyone suspected of contacting suspected cases.

If you were genuinely concerned about restrictions on individual freedom then you would never even dare mention those cases as examples of desirae practices.

Even then, looking at the practicality of your cherry picked examples, those approaches are only possible if you already have all the people tracking infrastructure and testing services in place. Well, you really don't, do you? So what other options are on the table? Only social distancing, isn't it?

So please stop abusing cherry-picked half truths to spread your disinformation. Results are due to processes, and you're complaining about the lesser of all evils while at the same time desiring a specific outcome while disingenuously omitting what was trampled to be able to get to them.
Only contextual reasons : I have already nginx to serve a few backend-less react apps and static files, so this was less code to write.
> To optimize this system, we should identify which extreme is currently posing a larger threat and back away from it.

Except to back away from it is to alter a relationship where the incumbent ruling class holds all the cards and controls all the influence and narrative. Which they don't want to do. So they don't, and the government they bought and paid for just write them windfall blank checks for trillions while the poor threaten governors since they are going to lose their homes and are going hungry.

The US had a chance to right the power balance when it was at its most equal in the post war boom period. But instead America decided times were good enough to let scrutiny slide - complacency in plenty and the optimism of the post-industrial were powerful drugs. Since then its just felt like the late Roman republic in its glutinous downfall. The feudal lords will pillage the state until the house crumbles from the inside with nothing left holding it together while the robber barons run wild and happy in their Deus Ex style post-capitalist dystopian corptocracies.
>average Americans (the 90%)

In what sense is 90% average?
It might be extremely toxic.
It’ll eat everything inside!
I have a large number of plastic things inside my home that I hope do not become decomposed.

Garbage, sure, decompose away.
Sorta. It's only partially forgivable, the rules are complex, and it ran out of the first round of funds in under two weeks.
I prefer this title, I clicked on it. I might not have with the original.
Don't have access to the full article so I've only read the abstract, but what's the feasibility of deployment here?
It may just be for alignment. A push may be just (having a specific case in the CPU) as fast as updating the SP.
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