skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I also often long for that magical feeling of everything being new and exciting again (to you). Like the computer was waiting for you to just press the right sequence of buttons...

I obviously can't guarantee getting that feeling back in full, but I've been able to experience remnants of it by just poking around with completely unfamiliar tools/languages/servers/systems that have little to no use in business. Maybe even obsolete.

Basically, look for anything that you wouldn't be tempted to turn into a job or use to make any real money. Just enjoy it for what it is. Write hacky code. Press all the wrong buttons. Make it do things it was never meant to do. Do stupid things with it just for the sake of doing stupid things. Have fun just for the sake of it being fun.
My understanding is that a lot of those are jobs like street view driver, autonomous vehicle tester, search quality rater, contract recruiter, content moderator, con-ops (help forums & customer support), etc. That's a big portion of the company but not a big portion of core engineering teams. I'd acknowledged the existence of them in my original comment, but this article is specifically about layoffs of software engineers within Uber's core products. I maintain that someone in that position is far more likely to come in contact with other FTEs than with contractors.
Yes.

There’s a short story from 1981 by Vernor Vinge titled “True Names”. Recommended reading.
> they'd mandate UEFI+ARM like Microsoft did with their phones (except without the locked bootloader)

I approve, but is that sufficient? UEFI gives you a better booting situation, but I thought you still needed device tree or something to handle device enumeration? Or does UEFI do that?

EDIT: In an attempt to answer my own question, I dug up https://elinux.org/Device_Tree_What_It_Is#UEFI which implies that UEFI can replace device tree and give you an actual uniform platform. If I'm getting that right, then that does look like the best possible solution.
I definitely couldn't do it. After about a week, my body would just crash/go to sleep by itself, world be damned.

Same, or rather, worse, when working 12 hours a day for more than ~2 weeks. I just start thinking "what the fuck am I doing? Why is this worth it?", and if it's not worth it it would just drive me into a serious depressive mood.

Maybe because I know I could do better than this, that there are other options. Maybe it's because I made peace with death already. But I think it's just that I'm physically not made for this kind of overload.
Windows support for family members is not limited to developers, it includes the son, niece, brother or cousin that likes to game on their windows machine and is just more used to it. (And I am not sure about the mindshare declining rapidly either.)
Another title could be : "termux failed to update to Android changes for 2 years"
If you would have said not many poker rooms ran No-Limit Hold'em in 1998, you would have been right. But poker rooms and poker (limit Hold'em and 7-card Stud) were easily accessible in casinos in 1998. At least in Las Vegas it was.
No-Limit Hold'em is what took off in early 2000 with TV/WSOP popularity and quickly became basically the only game in town by mid 2000's.
Those are good analogies (if more precise and more easily testable than is typical in the social sciences), but the framing suggests you don't believe they are.
Restaurant Food is not exactly a commodity. It's more a habit, and around 70% of people are loyal customers of some restaurants. And UberEats, for example, currently has helped to create 4000 virtual restaurant brands.

As for cost, at the scale UberEats, DoorDash, etc operate, there's no reason they wouldn't have access to the lowest cost providers.
If the last four years have proven anything, it's that the US gvt. is not a monolith. The three branches of the government are further subdivided into bureaus, agencies, committees, and regional subdivisions, all with their own distinct interests and concerns. The president may be the chief subject of public scrutiny at present, but that doesn't mean other interests within the state should be immune to scrutiny.

I can't claim to know anything about ciarmella's background, save what hyper-partisan, conservative outlets have spewed. But absent more even-handed coverage, or rebuttals from liberal and left-leaning outlets, the details of his personal history, and affiliations do seem to merit some level of public scrutiny. Anyone interested can look him up on Breitbart, conservapedia /wikispooks, or through any other connservativr outlet (oddly enough, not fox last time I checked). But I'd rather not link to those rags if I'm not confident of the veracity of the information within.
iPhone spyware lets police log suspects' passcodes when cracking doesn't work
This commencement speech from Arnold Schwarzenegger hopefully helps you understand where your family got lucky (text and video on this page). Arnold worked incredibly hard for his success, just like it sounds your family did. However, he did not live in a vacuum - he got lucky in many ways. He got lucky that he was born with genes that allowed him to maximize his grueling weight lifting routines to pack on mass (and probably lucky that no one really did much about steroid use?). He got lucky that someone took a chance and cast him despite his appearance and accent. He got lucky that voters elected him to governor, then that the legislature worked with him, and then that his infidelity didn't come out until after his term.

Similarly, you grandfather got lucky that he didn't die when his village was burned, that he didn't die in a work camp, that he could immigrate to the US, that someone gave him a job and wasn't in a community that hated Polish people for no reason. Your parents and you were lucky to be born to the families you were. There's less context about you/your father/your uncle, but I imagine there was a lot of luck of someone else giving you a chance involved.

As other posters have said - don't be upset that you got lucky! There's nothing wrong with being lucky. Success is a mix of luck and being able to take advantage of that luck - your preparation and hard work. Hopefully you use the luck that you got to help provide a bit of luck to someone else.

https://time.com/4779796/arnold-schwarzenegger-university-of...
All analogies fail given certain conditions. However for the choice of which search engine to register with and which ad company to choose, most companies would choose G first. So, back to the analogy (which I found strange, but certainly not dumb) a company (or person) looking to be heard would certainly have far smaller reach if G actively blocked them from their services.
Peer-to-peer canvas app for Urbit
PCVR capabilities are too high for it to be a dead end. More niche, absolutely, because mobile VR/AR has somewhere from console to smartphone-level growth potential--but a smaller, higher-paying market for premium experiences is going to continue.
Thinking of Buying a Bike? Get Ready for a Long Wait
since when? :)

A few things have been added that may help:
1. only visible data is queried and loaded
2. If you have multiple panels that use the same data, you can now just reuse the results (or a subset of the results) in a new panel. This will cut down on additional queries that may not be necessary
The site is back on! Enjoy the read
> I slept 4 hours a night for 14 days and didn’t find any effects on cognition (assessed via Psychomotor Vigilance Task, a custom first-person shooter scenario, and SAT).

Remember kids, the only difference between screwing around and science is writing it down.
I propose the following solution:

1) You must be signed in to view "controversial" comments

2) When you sign up you are given a "Safe search" style set of options for what kind of comment moderation you want (Safe, Moderate, None).

3) For users who want no moderation, apply US law or whichever law applies. For everyone else, apply the existing censorship.
OSX roots are in BSD https://www.wired.com/2013/08/jordan-hubbard/
Doesn't work quite as well in the solo WFH environment.

I just order lunch and dinner at lunch time, and then reheat for dinner.
Modern soldiers are not "cannon fodder", they are for the most part highly trained professionals that you cannot draft and quickly ship off to war.
Jepsen: MongoDB 4.2.6 transactions aren't full ACID, or even snapshot isolated
They could be wildly successful if instead of $100 pucks they could just sell $1 stickers that you could attach to whatever you want. With enough of them you could probably use it to aid scanning in geometry of real world objects
Let's Code: Contact Form in Phoenix – The Schema
So I posted this last night [1], it got to the front page (77 points at the time) and after about an hour, it was gone... also missing from the Ask HN page.

I could imagine YouTube toeing the Chinese party line, but Hacker News? Really?! Is this about the Y Combinator fund not wanting to upset Chinese money?

This really leaves a bad taste in my mouth @pg

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23221264
One thing that isn't mentioned in the article is performance.

C++ standard PRNG's, on top of all the brokenness listed in the article are very inefficient, especially if you use distributions.
Take care to observe how John Carmack went about it, though. He described the issue from his perspective, gave a clear example, didn't blame anyone, and asked before making any changes at all. Someone replied suggesting that the refactoring be performed separately from other changes. It's hard to give flak to someone taking a measured approach like this.
This has been possible for ages. The built-in text panel has an HTML option (though you have to disable this setting to allow script tags: https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/installation/configu...)

There are some external plugins that offer more advanced support:

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I used to really like that guy... But I got a suspicion that sleep experiment may have been fabricated. There is zero proof beyond the blog posts :/
So I understand your view correctly: Are you saying that you expect that in Ferguson's model, changes in intermediate values on the order of one part in 2^53 (a double mantissa) would change the output by tens of thousands of deaths? If so, how could that model possibly be useful, given that none of the inputs are known to anywhere near that? If you're really that sensitive to numerical error, then just averaging multiple multi-threaded runs may be biased in strange ways, because the process adding the uncertainty (thread scheduling or whatever) is neither deterministic nor random with known statistics--a warm day might cause your CPU to throttle, changing the scheduling, significantly changing your result. (To be clear, I don't think that's the case; I think any floating-point error is negligible except to any extent it prevents bit-exact reproducible runs.)

The stuff you're quoting above is pretty standard description of dynamical systems in general. It's true, but I don't see how it applies to Ferguson's model with respect to numerical error; and if it does, then I don't see how his model is useful. I could believe his model is chaotic in the sense that the outputs vary dramatically over the expected uncertainties in the inputs, but the numerical inaccuracy is many orders of magnitude below that.

Finally, I keep saying their "deterministic from seed" mode was broken multi-threaded or after restarts, and you keep saying it was fine single-threaded in a single start. I think both are true, so I'm not sure what we're arguing about?
Simple Sensor Intentions for Exploration
Fine, so hate speech is speech that "expresses hate and encourages violence". Please explain what "expressing hate" means?

---

Replying to your edit: "To your response, "expressing hate" is pretty much self explanatory."

Great, so we're still left with "hate speech is speech that expresses hate..." which is completely tautological and useless. Do you not see the problem there?

Even if we replace it with "profess a dislike of", it remains useless. Do you consider disliking any group of people based on any characteristic to be hate speech? Do you realize how common this is? Is every single Democrat and Republican now engaged in hate speech? Is everyone on either side of a debate now engaged in hate speech? What do we do now?
I already read this one though.
The site should handle it no problem. Works for me right now.
You can look at the EU average, which is close to US population and still makes the US look bad. Test positive rates can tell you how roughly how much a country is undercounting.

If US has twice the test positive rate as another, they're only testing half the cases.

The fact is no matter what metric you look at, the US is doing worse with our response than almost anywhere else.
I wonder if there is a way to convert Harvard Business Review articles into top-of-the-backlog items automatically...
About once every 2-3 months, something would be changed in ChromeOS that would break the crouton installation. The solution could be as simple as updating crouton, only 15-30 minutes of lost time, to switching to/from a later development version of ChromeOS, 3-4 hours of lost time as the entire hard drive is wiped and you need to rebuild the environment.

The use of a Linux environment in ChromeOS should only be viewed as a toy, because the ChromeOS developers are willing to break it at any time.
My alma mater built a second stadium for their tier 3 football team that just got kicked out of their league for poor performance. I must be very ignorant of where this magical revenue comes from.
You're underestimating the extent to which these things have been repeated ad nauseum already. This is a site for curiosity, and curiosity and repetition don't go together (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...).

On the question of political topics on HN, I've written about this at length in the past: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu.... If you take a look at those and still have a question I haven't addressed there, I'd be interested to know what it is. Just be sure you've familiarized yourself with past explanations, because if the idea is something like "just ban politics" or "just allow everything", I've already explained many times why that won't work.
I'll take it even further, what's one exercise you should be doing on a regular basis? The Turkish Get Up[1]. It works general mobility which seems to be a giant inhibitor as people get older.

1: https://www.mensjournal.com/health-fitness/the-best-exercise...
What advantages would this offer over jitsi meet?
> Linux is way way way less likely to just change something and break the whole system while the user is sleeping

I take it you have never had to try and correct a system broken by seemingly innocent-looking aptitude or RPM package upgrades. :-)

> Fixing a Windows problem can involve having to go into the registry, which can't be copy/pasted and is extremely difficult AND dangerous. (There probably IS a way to copy/paste it, but I don't know it).

I’m really not sure the registry is any more “dangerous”. For many everyday users, I would guess that the perceived complexity of the registry and of configuration files scattered throughout the system are really about the same. Both can appear cryptic and fragile.

On the one hand, you might accidentally delete something important in the registry. On the other hand, you might forget a quotemark/character or get some indentation wrong in a configuration file and be surprised when the entire thing breaks.
>> I just wish I could buy a Zen 2 chip in a laptop that doesn't look like it was made for a fourteen year old (no offense to any fourteen year olds)

I just wish I could buy a decent motherboard that doesn't look like a 14yo's first attempt at drawing an f-35. My current rig does this weird glowing thing at night when it is supposed to be off. For my next machine I would honestly pay more to NOT have RGB support.
I want to read this article but haven't gotten to it yet.
Not surprising given that they share a CEO with Twitter who also announced the same last week.
Are you saying that the identity "genderfluid" is invalid, and one must pick one of the binary genders to identify with?
> That explains your inaccurate perspective.

Yep, you really succeeded at empathy, there. /s

> reasonable price range

The word “reasonable” is doing a lot of work, here.

Most Pentium II systems were not running Windows NT. They were running Windows 95 or 98, which had arbitrarily severe limitations and lacked memory protections.

So, while it was technically possible to run lots of applications simultaneously on 256 MB of RAM, for most people it was a fun adventure in whether some buggy program has destabilized the system into needing to reboot to run properly again. Or whether it’s still usable with degraded functionality. In my case, that’s without using the cleaning, protection, RAM expander programs.

And even on professional operating systems, web browsers crashed a lot, and any other program that had to deal with untrusted input, which is basically anything that can open files or connect to the network, has gradually bloated as they learn security or add features.
Not necessarily.
China doesn't really have many options, when it comes to parking USD. If USD collapses, 0 chance of that happening any time soon, then CNY would probably take over the spot... That would balance out Chinese losses.
This is still not as powerful as my one, simple trick to handle all bookmarks, ever: Print to PDF.

I've been doing it since last century, and I have 10's of thousands of PDF's of every single web page I've ever found interesting, sitting right there in a directory on my computer. Its indexable, searchable, grok'able, available off-line, allows me to harvest data without fuss, and gives me access to anything I can remember about the article, almost instantaneously.

$ ls -l ~/PDFArchive/ | grep -i "bookmark" | grep -i "manage" | wc -l

= I've seen 20 other bookmark management 'solution' articles in 20 years

.. nothing beats print-to-PDF. Its just awesome.
If I could snap my fingers and remove all of the paywalled sites from the internet, I would. People continue to post them, and all they do is jam the signal. I should be compensated for time wasted clicking on these links and then again on the back button.

Until the industry adopts either microtransactions or federated publishing, I won't pay or sign up for most content. It's too inconvenient, and information is nearly infinite. You're just making the opportunity cost differential higher. I have better ways to spend my time.

And speaking to the advertising issue, I've never personally bought anything from an ad. They're annoying viruses being leveraged against my consciousness that I didn't consent to. That's bad enough without mentioning the tracking and deceptive practices they employ.

The whole economic model is a race to the bottom and is fucked. I'm sorry you're working in such a painful industry.

Look at what streaming did to the music industry. It's convenient. I pay monthly and have no ads. Do this please.
This is by far the most important thing for HN to learn about this. The default level of self deception on this front is enormous.
There are a few plugins that let you enter css/html/js directly -- see https://grafana.com/grafana/plugins/ryantxu-ajax-panel https://github.com/srclosson/grafana-div-panel and the text panel (if the server is configured with disable_sanitize_html = true)

this is powerful, but long term tends to lead to a maintenance nightmare
> Live cheaply

> Be indepenedently wealthy

Both are very good suggestions. And I don't think there are better ones around.
@korijn I'm glad you find our DICOM Standard Browser to be useful!

You (and others reading this post) may be interested to know that the JSON data the powers the browser is extracted using a set of open-sourced Python scripts:

https://github.com/innolitics/dicom-standard
What agenda could be served by convincing people to get enough sleep?
I guess this possibly competes with pocket/wallaby/similar?

I see mozilla as a contributor.
> "Google actively tried to stop distribution of American-made PPE during the pandemic."

This sounds like a great headline to shine some light on Google's banning practices. Some bad PR may help them reconsider their lack of customer service.
It may have changed in the past two years, but there was a 30 second splash screen saying "Press space to continue". If you press space during that time, it will "continue" to safe mode, wiping your entire crouton environment. There was no indication at all as to the key combination needed to skip the 30 second wait time.
If buybacks were banned, would companies be so fragile that they require massive bailouts?

If these buyback didn't create extremely overvalued/frothy markets, would the bailouts need to be as big?

I think over leveraging is as toxic for markets as many intuitively expect.
He had his fingers in his ears singing la la la
> middle-management kept asking for more developers, though, so everyone was happy.

> reply

not at the expense of pension funds used by VCs.
Dropping out of Play is arguably the best solution because the whole point of Termux is to run code that's been obtained from outside Play, and that kind of thing has been contrary to Play policy for a long time. It's a custom repository of sorts, much like F-Droid. That goes besides this whole W^X issue, it's more general than that.
The hard part of embedding is that the smallest 124M GPT-2 model itself is huge at 500MB, which would be unreasonable for performance/storage on the user end (and quantization/tracing can't save that much space).

Hence why I'm looking into smaller models, which has been difficult, but releasing aitextgen was a necessary first step.
Anyone benefiting from the lock-down, like Zoom, is doing well, those that are not, like Airlines and Uber ... not so much. This is mostly a coronavirus story, not a crash story or much else.
One Weird Trick to Profit Off of a Global Market Meltdown
This change was a long time coming and looking at that issue thread just makes me sad.

It does not look like they contacted the platform team or even tried to come up with any solution.

They had one year before the change was included in Android. And then another year before 29 became the mandatory version to support to publish on the play store.
you are right, the testing page shows half the positive rate and far higher testing. I was wrong here, its likely that AZ cases are dropping
Kudos - I'll be practicing this later today :)
it is the cancel culture brought to another popular media platform by one very loud minority.
I discovered it by accident from a source file header many years ago, “that can’t be THE John Carmack?!” I said to myself, it is! there are many web citations, too.

https://github.com/timon37/xwayland/blob/master/hw/xquartz/m...

http://www.finkproject.org/doc/x11/history.php
cartography
Tesla sleep by taking 20 mins naps (they said that he sleep just 2/3 hours per day by taking naps) a la polyphasic way. He is compared to Da Vinci which also did the same thing, Edison who sleep 4/5 hours ..

Does someone relate to polyphasic sleep ?
A simple acronym sums up what’s wrong with social media
For me it was because I’m moving soon and wanted to have a smaller computer to move. The shortages put a stop to that though.