skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I miss his enthusiasm and true innovation focused leadership.

Apple is a behemoth now, and I wonder what sort of products we would have if he was still here.

The iPhone changed our lives, but a decade later all phones now look like the iPhone and we have face unlock and a notch. Cool.

The Macbook is still the same pleasant to use machine, and still functions as any other laptop.

Would the iPad have replaced laptops completely? Maybe we'd have a world in which offloading everyday heavy tasks to the cloud (gaming, video editing, etc.) was super normal and we all were disconnected from carrying heavy devices everywhere. The new VSC integration in GitHub is cool, but maybe that sort of paradigm would have been everywhere.

I'm just a consumer, so I could be wrong in my sentiment but I don't really feel like we progressed as much in the last decade as we did with the jump from flip phones and having a land line, to carrying iPhones in our pockets.
I know that Microsoft are all about grabbing as much developer mindshare as possible these days, but does nobody remember Steve Yegge and is Grok system at Google? It's basically this, just ten years ago. Having the IR not throw away anything so that the tooling can have a richer interaction. I guess the best way to be successful is to bury your sources.
Will the next implementation of Arc also include the ability to delete posts and comments?

Surely there might be some portion of the 1,200 people who posted today that may want to delete their submission in the future.

Allowing them to do so would be civil don’t you think?

(There may also be those who figured out there is a risk here and just avoid sharing anything anymore, but that’s another story).
You don't need to be so oblique. There are plenty of rumors about Xe GPUs being made by TSMC.
This is also what I fucking hate about Facebook's desire to make you spend all your time there. They do the same sort of thing.
That's a really good point, and comes up in first result to a google query:

https://www.google.com/search?q=why+is+clockwise+to+the+righ...

...
I wish he would have shown the heavy tree example in 11:55 without the library, seems cute and all but if you don't provide a comparison it's hard to take seriously.
The design of the language is done in a manner that allows us to translate the code (and all conditions) into very friendly SMTLib code -- that we don't need to add a lot of additional checks like frame rules or havocs and where the set of theories (and their combinations) are well behaved.

We have some info on this in the research papers section and documents but are planning on a full paper focused on how this is done (particularly in the presence of union types, dynamic records/tuples, etc.)
The "initial" 200 people don't hire the next 800, they hire the next 1.

Then the 201 people hire the next 1, and the 202 hire the next one, and so forth.
> So it's somewhat possible.

It's definitely not possible to have a mail forwarding box as your primary residence.

> But I'm curious what people do in more dynamic housing situations.

In situations where a primary address is ambiguous based on number of nights, many tax authorities will consider other aspects, such as the address you have listed on government documents, where your family lives, whether you use any of the properties for income or pleasure, where you work, etc.

Also, if you change primary residences, many tax authorities will simply pro-rate your taxes for the period of time that you lived there.
Didn't say anything about definitions. I'm speaking in a descriptive sense of the "way-of-life" that the word has become a nominative signpost for. That frequently differs from the strict dictionary definition; and those that stick strictly to the dictionary are not the vast majority of the populace. It doesn't make them 'wrong' either. Language flows like a river; and at best one can end up in the same spot one came to before, but the overall state and meaning are constantly evolving.

>RE: Civil War/War of Northern Aggression/War of State's Seceession

Eh... The folks who's ancestors were among the victims of Sherman's March to the Sea may beg to differ that the conflict was largely constrained to being between just the military. Again, very fluid and slippery if you're going to allow Hiroshima/Nagasaki as being an act of terrorism. The entire concept of terrorism is so murky and ambiguous that I'm of the opinion it is evolving to become the rhetorical boogeyman of our generation; something kept around to scare people into falling in line.

I don't like it... And I try to make sure kids understand it when they seem capable of it. It's just such a damn complicated swamp to navigate through.
Seems like the turbines rows should be positioned in alternating CW and CCW rows in order to benefit from a potentially substantial (up to 23%) increase in efficiency in the downwind turbine(s) during the night.

But I wonder is the tradeoff is worth it. There would definitely be increased costs with always building 2 mirror versions of the same turbine blades. The logistical effort would also likely increase.

This [0] is the cost breakdown for manufacturing blades. Unfortunately it's hard to tell how much "up to 23% at night" translates to in real life gains.

100 turbines' worth of tooling costs $250K-$1.5M. Two sets of these being recouped from the efficiency improvement alone is a tough sell. Building 10% more "regular" turbines might be cheaper and provide more output. Unless you really need to get the max efficiency out of the lowest number of turbines.

Perhaps as manufacturing gets cheaper, turbines get more popular, we run out of good places to put them and need to max out efficiency, and we get decent energy storage options for night-time generated power this will make more sense.

[0] https://windpower.sandia.gov/other/031428.pdf
Quick note: it would be nice to ship the hyperdrive daemon as something more self-contained than a npm package.

I tried to install it and got some c compile errors. Probably my nodejs version is too old, but you want to have the absolute minimum of friction for users to install it.

Beaker comes as an appimage for linux, which worked flawlessly at the first try. Maybe do that for the hyperdrive daemon as well?
It's still keeping the self-driving unit thought, even though there's a good chance it won't ever be successful. I don't think self-driving cars are realistic at all. I bet if you did a study and ran the numbers, it would be cheaper to put down rail on existing roads and make them rail-car only, automate those and subsidize rail cars.

I feel in the minority in thinking self driving tech will ever be viable. I've worked in computer vision startups and know how powerful the tech can be, but it still can't account with even a fraction of challenging driving conditions. I don't think anything short of general purpose AI could handle it. We are some pretty big discoveries away from general AI.

I also don't think they solve any real transport issues compared to traditional mass transit: https://battlepenguin.com/tech/self-driving-cars-will-not-so...
> Also, if someone refuses to spend a few dozen hours practicing leetcode to get a 6 figure pay rise then either there is something seriously wrong with their work ethic or they like to pick stupid hills to die on. Red flag?

I have only once in the course of my 18-year career received a six-figure (barely) pay raise. It was one of the few occasions where I did not need to cram dozens of hours of Leetcode.

> the only barrier standing between them and a $400k/year Facebook job is a few hours of interview practice

There is a hell of a lot more than a few hours of practice standing between a candidate and a $400k job at Facebook. A $200k job, sure.

Also, you went from "a few dozen" to "a few" here.
If TSMC brings state of the art fabrication to the US, doesn't that mean they're subject to seizure by the Defense Production Act we've all learned so much about, TSMC's corporate fate becomes subject to CFIUS approval, and because of that, Taiwan loses a significant amount of political leverage to protect itself?
The unreleased OS X Snow Leopard for PowerPC can now be installed on G4/G5 Macs
This is an excellent strategy if you want to decimate the talent pool of your competitors and simultaneously ramp production without having to build local staff from zero. With some aggressive incentives, they could probably snipe a lot of talent from across town.

Worst case, they will just fly in hundreds of existing, trained employees from Taiwan until the local workforce is stabilized. This is how Samsung bootstrapped their ATX factory.
> Any citations for this notion?

I don't recall if Why Nations Fail specifically covered democracy, but at the very least, you can definitely see why nations caught in the vicious cycles it outlines might suffer more because of democracy.

> because the U.S. military does not aim to install democracy, it aims to install regimes that are friendly to U.S. military and business interests

No. The US military does not aim to install any regime, it aims to defeat the enemy's military. That's the big thing of what went so horribly wrong in Iraq: the US kept pushing military solution after military solution to fix very-non-military problems and was confused as to why it didn't work.
I've explained in the article that I didn't concern myself with pronunciation at all which is the book authors advice. I have pronunciation on my answer side of the Pleco flash cards (they are shuffled and the algorithm decides which card to show me based on the ones I've marked as learned and their score) but I didn't make any effort to memorize it.

I focused entirely on how to memorize the characters and how to remember to write them based on the keyword + primitive.
Because only now are viable professional alternatives to Adobe programs starting to show up. Adobe would be shooting themselves in the foot by working with some interoperable plugin format. Also, for graphic design at least, plugins are a much smaller part of your workflow than they are in audio production— the basic tools really are the most important thing in design. I'd say most professional graphic designers, if absolutely necessary, could replace their entire digital workflow with a few hundred dollars in art supplies, maybe minus typesetting and color matching functionality, and likely produce more interesting (if much slower and less polished) results. I don't even think they make Letraset letters anymore.
I honestly don't see a lot of sense on your answer, mainly because I never said I liked or disliked a certain attitude from the FED or Boeing. You're generalizing what I said, and this is a recipe for misunderstandings, but even knowing this is poor discussion, I'll still make an effort:
The FED can perfectly take anti-capitalistic actions (i.e. inject money to keep liquidity and thus interfering in the free flow of capitals) and Boeing can use that money to keep operating and pay dividends in 2 or 3 years, which is a capitalistic behavior. A similar situation is happening with BMW at the moment and here I'm clear with my statement: this is inherently bad because that money comes from our taxes.

You were the one bringing up there was some kind of connection between money and the engineering mistakes with the 737Max. If you read my critical thinking above, I'm just saying that capitalistic behaviors (stock buybacks to pursue investor targets) together with lousy engineering (proven in the case of the 737Max) are the actual cause of the problem. Now I clearly don't know enough about plane engineering but from what is known, the main reason for the issue was cost.
Kidney injury seen in more than 1/3 of hospitalized Covid-19 patients: US study
Come to think of it, one of the most important graphical resources we have is even more interchangeable than VST plugins— fonts.
Until someone thinks that it should follow redirects which probably leads to the same thing that got apt: https://justi.cz/security/2019/01/22/apt-rce.html

Not saying that makes it a bad idea, but importing/downloading trusted code over http(s) is not simple even if the protocol sorta is.
Depends mainly on whether you already have employees working as receptionists/greeters/etc.
Grad. In undergrad I had less than zero clue.
If people are motivated to help TruffleRuby then the best thing they can do is test the specs and performance of their gems.

If people have Sinatra apps or similar they could also try those now.

I'm in the GraalVM Slack - https://www.graalvm.org/community/ - ask me for help.

Don't want to speculate more than that.
No, it's just that the updater code on Windows is architected differently.
Me and my friend have just started something we are calling PomPals, which is pomodoro timer which basically syncs with your friends, so you can hang out during your breaks together.

It is an electron (toolbar) app, which uses WebRTC, so should be fully P2P.

It is too early to use or show, but I did not want to miss out on this thread!

https://github.com/pompals/pompals
So if I deploy one critical, long-term project this month and my coworkers deploy around ten each say, how does this system know that the one thing I deployed was actually more valuable and impactful than all those little deploys? Or do I need to deploy the unfinished work in progress constantly to keep up the metrics because this is just another useless measure like lines of code or commits?
Airbnb Public Facing Talent Directory (Created Following Layoffs)
Do you have a PDF export using this lovely theme? I found the SICP Epub and PDF versions (with that theme) to be the most readable version to date.
>Humans balance just fine as well and yet the state of the art for robots is quite primitive.

That's the whole point. Full autonomy will never truly happen until computers can do what human brains can with regards to driving. No amount of sensor technology will make up for that fact. It's a software problem, not a hardware problem.
Then they can enjoy their newly-lower rent.
Imagine how much processing power is needed to analyze radar signals or camera images. If you can process more efficiently, your cooling system and electrical generator can be smaller, which saves mass for more fuel or more payload.
> the underlying business didn't suddenly become nonviable

They may have. We don't know when or if things will go back to the way they were before March 2020 and how consumer and employer behavior will change.

For example, maybe movie theaters are completely screwed. Except as a novelty, the big business chains may not survive. Universal Studios is already pushing back on theater release windows and no live-action movies are being filmed right now, and who knows for how long that lasts. Will the public feel safe enough to go back into theaters all at once before theaters run out of money as if nothing happened? I imagine some of those jobs at least are permanently gone.

Employers will probably maintain work from home and cut back on office space. All those jobs that support maintaining offices may not come back either.

I don't think the restaurant business will jump back either, people can't just restart their failed restaurant as if they didn't lose all that money they needed to keep their already slim margin business open before the pandemic.
Started way before quarantine, but was able to complete /tap, https://www.tatatap.com with extra time. It's something like a build-your-own note-taking system.

Notes can be sent to /tap via SMS. Once received they go through a parser to pull out key symbols to organize and register different aspects of the note.

There's a lot of functionality hidden behind a simple interface, the best place to get an overview is the how-to https://tatatap.com/how-to
I got permanently banned from r/space for posting a funny comment. It didn't demean anyone, and I didn’t even know the sub banned jokes. Total power tripping there.
My favorite line in the documentation:

> Paragraphs were a wasteful orthographic indulgence by lazy monks and we don’t allow them here.
Agreed, reddit is a goldmine for anecdata.
Well that's good news.
The minified code makes it hard to tell, but wouldn't this work on any synth if it's just using midi? Or you outputting something other than note on/off events?
I tend to use Adobe's little-known Acrobat Customization Wizard DC for Windows[1] to disable some of the unnecessary features in Adobe Reader. It is free and does not require a license, nor does the enterprise installer for Adobe Reader require a license. Features I disable include the online subscription services (actually a checkbox labelled "Disable Upsell"), cloud storage integrations, and Adobe sign-in. I enable Protected View for documents from "potentially unsafe locations" (basically downloads/emails). You can also disable automatic updates, though I tend not to. These changes make the UI far less cluttered. I suspect that these changes also improve speed, security and privacy, though I have not done any particular testing to confirm that.

Basically you use it by uninstalling any existing Adobe Reader installations, installing the customization wizard and then downloading the enterprise installer for Adobe Reader[2] and extracting it with 7-Zip[3] (or the commands Adobe provides in the documentation). Then, you open the msp file in the wizard and customize your options. Finally, you save the changes and run setup.exe in the directory of extracted files. Once you're done, you can uninstall the customization wizard.

There is also a version of the wizard for macOS[4], but it seems to be far more limited in terms of what can be configured through the UI, and most of the configuration has to be done by manually editing plist files.

[1]: https://www.adobe.com/devnet-docs/acrobatetk/tools/Wizard/in...
[2]: https://get.adobe.com/reader/enterprise/
[3]: https://www.7-zip.org/
[4]: https://www.adobe.com/devnet-docs/acrobatetk/tools/AdminGuid...
Everybody is sharing how they go about their app design. This is the order that works for me:

1. Data Models
2. Data Stores
3. Business Logic
4. Processes
6. Application Interfaces (resource level)
7. Presentation Interfaces
8. UI
Yep, that is a fairly common misunderstanding that the general public makes (and ends up with: if I just take the opposite decision then I will make money).

The main reason why 90% lose money is costs. That is it. Most people probably are optimised for losing money but the main issue is really costs/overtrading.

But related to this, most people believe that edge on profitable trades is very large...but in most markets, institutional-grade costs will still be a big chunk of your edge i.e. costs matter hugely.
If you enable showdead in your preferences you can read the whole thing, which is a rambling off-topic comment on their product called "interference".
> Also, I'll take "double the hardware specs" if it means I'm actually able to focus on what I'm building and not dicking around with devops or rebuilding all of stuff Rails metaprograms for me by hand.

Try 7x to 11x. That's the amount of reduced RAM usage -- and the amount of increased accommodated users -- on identical hosting by the two apps I rewrote from Rails to Phoenix.

> If there was a framework for being as productive as Rails at half the cost then it would be flourishing.

Bold of you to assume technical merit is the only factor. Historically this has almost never been true. There are a number of web frameworks that perform much better than Rails and are quite easy to work with.

Cargo culting is a powerful force. Corporate inertia -- even more.
AMD Is Chipping Away at Data Centers
He's saying that traders don't just make 1 bet in their lifetimes though.
Preprint of the full paper here:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/338882074_Should_wi...

It's cool work. Some things I've picked out from a quick skim:

- Only the downstream turbines gets a boost, cutting gains of a pair in half*

- The boost only occurs at night, cutting gains approximately in half again.

- Veering winds only occur 75% of the time

This already cuts the gains from an ideal 23% to roughly 4.5% real world.

I don't see any treatment of incoming wind direction - it appears to only consider pure West to East wind with turbines precisely aligned with the wind. I suspect the effect would disappear as the wind shifted from other directions. While wind is generally westerly in the US, it varies a lot hour-to-hour.

Combine this with the above and I'd suspect real-world benefit is in the 1-2% range, at which point the added complexity of maintenance and production probably cancels out the benefit.

Not a knock on the research, because it is great work, but it is incomplete.

*This may be unfair, as it's unclear what affect multiple in a row would have. But the power production of multiple turbines in a row when the wind is blowing precisely parallel to the row drops off pretty quickly. Commercial turbines are something like 45% efficient these days, so turbine 3 only has ~30% of the original power available.
Shouldn't the int version be enbedded in the float version? Shouldn't they agree for equal values?
France passes law forcing online platforms to delete hate-speech within 24 hours
I would easily pay US$30 for that.
In Teams at least, you can disable all incoming video.
...While still not being multicore. I feel that those efforts you mention don't go far enough.

And I am pretty sure backwards compatibility will continue dragging JS down for quite a long time still as well.
Note to other readers: It requires 2 hours to read.

This is a timeless classic from Wired, written by Neal Stephenson in 1996. I love this article not only because of the article itself, but its enthusiasm and energy from the age it was written in. It was an age with a bright future where everything seems possible. Back at that time, Wired represented the avant-garde of Silicon Valley (including the fact that Neal Stephenson being the author) that was going to revolutionize everything through computing and the Internet, the free and fast flow of information enables decentralization, and would liberate us from all the old forms of political control.

In particular, this article had a clear techno-libertarian overtone, about how authoritarianism and monopoly would be defeated through disruptive innovation. One goal of constructing FLAG (the cable) was explicitly to reduce the reliance of the infrastructure of the United States and to challenge the role played by traditional ISP over the control. The article even mentioned the early cypherpunk movement (in the mid of the first Crypto War), and acknowledged "Virtually all communications between countries take place through a very small number of bottlenecks, and the available bandwidth simply isn't that great. Even outfits like FLAG don't really grok the Internet." But FLAG was still seen as a step moving towards the correct direction and the beginning of the new network order.

The dream eventually came to an end. Wired-inspired DotCom bubble busted. Although FLAG was the first move to break U.S. and traditional ISP's monopoly, future projects in the next 10 years didn't quite accomplish this goal. Silicon Valley became the new giant establishment and monopoly (the critics say massive deregulation was partially responsible). Authoritarian regimes have done a good job preventing the information flowing online to bring liberal political changes. And the Internet has been seized as the means of mass surveillance.

Nevertheless, the late 90s was a great age to be alive with that dream.