skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is comically misguided. Do you really think people will be satisfied making barely enough money to survive? Just enough to live at the poverty line?

Of course not. We live in a capitalistic society where people want to get ahead and make a better life for themselves. Raising the economic floor from $0 to $12k/yr (~poverty line) is juuust enough for people falling through the cracks to get back on their feet and become productive members of society again.

Will some tiny fraction of people be satisfied living in a shithole apartment, eating garbage and trolling on the internet all day? Sure. I'm willing to accept that negligible cost in exchange for the massive social benefits.

I think you do have a valid point regarding people voting for more money over time. I don't see this as big of a problem as you do but I acknowledge it's something that needs to be considered.
To be fair, I don't see how this could be shorter in any other language without losing readability.
would you really choose "the wire" over "little house on the prairie"? How can such a comparison possibly be "objective" anyway?
Totally agree with all that, but I also think it's one of those things that most devs hit the pain point for once, and then have a standard template project they use for everything going forward. I.e. I have all my webpack/tsc/eslint/prettier/jest boilerplate set up once, so now it's not really an issue for me.

I also think this is a problem area where the Romejs project is taking a better approach: simplify and fix the toolchain, instead of replacing the entire runtime.
Agreed... I remember a study on “do kids make you happier” and their conclusion was “kids make you happier if you want kids”.. people who didn’t want kids but had them or wanted kids but couldn’t have them were sadder, but people who didn’t want kids and didn’t have them were just as happy. Which I guess makes sense... people are happy when they get what they want!
He did not make the mirror, this is one weekend in workshop.
I think the linked article at the bottom is more interesting ("Naomi Klein: How big tech plans to profit from the pandemic"
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2020/may/13/naomi-klein-how... )

I think FB is creepy af personally, but this article doesn't do a good job of reviewing the oversight board.
States are processing claims in cobol on mainframes from the 1970s. I think you overestimate their data science ops.
The only reason you can think of is a weird conspiracy?

WebCrypto only arguably skirts Mozilla's original (2015) definition of new features that shouldn't be enabled for insecure contexts.

(Mozilla says you might want to allow new features that could anyway be polyfilled, and though a polyfilled WebCrypto would be slow and under powered it could be built)

You can't bootstrap your "security on network channel (in web app)" without a secure origin because it's a house built on sand.

Some of the things people want to do in that issue are merely daft (e.g. people who are sad that they can't access a crypto-hash for their problem which would be much better suited to a fast non-crypto hash) but a bunch of them, like yours, involve hand-waving the real problem and then insisting you need "security" on a fundamentally insecure basis. If you actually trust that network then you don't need "security on network channel" and if (as is much more likely) you don't or shouldn't trust it then the exercise is hopeless because that network can trivially betray every element of your hoped-for WebCrypto feature set if you don't have a secure origin.
They're both metalanguages to me. You use them to define domain-specific languages. We may as well throw JSON in the mix, too. Sure, it's a language with its own grammar, but it's only really useful when implementing the semantics of an API contract (whether that contract is explicitly specified or not).

The reason I object to the "query" part is that GraphQL has no built-in operators that true query languages invariably have. All you really get is inclusion of fields into your request and parameterization. All other semantics have to be implemented by the user in their own spec.
Note I did not argue more compressed info (or Wikipedia) is "more useful". I argued it's a different use case, quicker and more to the point.

Of course, I don't like podcasts so that alone makes Wikipedia better for me, but this is not what I was arguing.

I was arguing podcasts can never be a replacement for Wikipedia.
Funnily, I thought the headline was talking about development process, as that also describes how a lot of places (mis-)handle the flow of what get worked on.
It would be interesting if, instead of a patent meaning "you can do whatever you want including preventing anyone from doing anything with this at all, if you so please", it only meant "you get X% royalties from anything anyone makes with this, but they are otherwise free to make those things".
I’ve been using BAZQUX which is a nice aggregator and reeder4 Since 2013. I have a nice opml file. And my eyes don’t bleed because I could have text only webpages. For those of you who are adventurous you can try TINYTINYRSS. I don’t see why everyone said RSS is dead almost every site still supports it.
There is a similar problem where Youtube's recommendations and auto-play are mostly big name brands, to the exclusion of individual reporters, commentators, and other content producers. Since recently, a "De-Mainstream Youtube" plugin[1] is available for Firefox and Chrome, fixing that to some extent.

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[1] https://demainstream.com/
The wiki links seem to say that they expect the supernova to register at -12.5 apparent magnitude. The sun has an apparent magnitude of -27, and the full moon has an apparent magnitude of -12.

So the supernova will first appear as a single dot approximately as bright as a full moon hanging in the sky. I don't know how large the explosion will appear, but the article on the Crab Nebula (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SN_1054) which was probably observed by Chinese (and other) astronomers in has some descriptions, as well as a simulated image of the skyscape the astonomers may have seen. SN 1054 was estimated to have an apparent magnitude of -6, so like 250 times dimmer than they think Antares will be.
Writing an NES Emulator in Go
2020 Presidential Election Interactive Map
The bank account numbers on a personal check or the one you give your employer for direct deposit?
>The food delivery startups could achieve the same if they paid their delivery drivers fairly

They could, but they do everything to give the perception that food delivery is cheap.
UberEats takes a 30% cut of the restaurant price. Most of them don't increase their prices in response. They really should consider it (and fortunately, some do), it devalues their offering (and restaurants already work with razor thin margins).

Same thing for their drivers salaries. Better to drive it into the ground than paying them a living wage and see a slower adoption as a result.

Not sure the quotes around engineers are needed. I have zero sympathy for most of these companies but it is still an engineering challenge to do food delivery at scale.
It's an unstable feature, but you can use import maps with Deno.
(Too many 'not's: I meant "I don't want to use a browser whose mission is to integrate as tightly as possible to Google.")
I'd love to do something like this with my kid when they get a little older, but am always hesitant on the health risks on grinding the mirror. Can anyone shed light on the health risks if any?
Windows XP was peak windows aesthetic without compromising usability. The toolbars, icons, Taskbar and everything in between was the right balance of style and functionality.
This sort of vectorised pseudo branching is often used in SIMD algorithms
Facebook and ByteDance investor General Atlantic pumps $870mil into Reliance Jio
Probably for command line tools that need to add some level of hierarchy into their output. You can add 1 to pad length and pass it to a subcomponent to display its output.
File it under:New ways to lose money
Also listened to this and was mind-blown. But my take away was that at this point photons can then "make it to infinity" which sort of meant they will get through to (or cause?) the next big bang. Maybe all the photons combine and cause the big bang? One thing I didn't understand was that he said this meant that signals could make it through to the next iteration of the universe. However my understanding was that all photons are scattered by the surface of last scattering (CMBR), so how could this be possible?
And how do you evaluate the results in relation with the time you "invested" in?
But, like, here’s The Guardian having a go at a gross, concerted effort at manipulating public opinion. Should we have a problem with that?
Do you know if Fyne can completely bundle the binary for cross platform? That’s super useful.
Aren't those the same?
I'm guessing you're not a whale?
Across different databases as in Postgres-to-Maria, sure. But people who decide to do that should know what they are getting into. But across different instances of say Postgres, it is rather simple.
And what's going to happen when there is a vaccine and it's only 50% effective or whatever it's likely to be? Will they move the goalposts again? The economic toll of these lockdowns is going to have real effects on economic well-being (and health outcomes!) worldwide. I'll bet the cost just in human life will end up being greater from the lockdowns than from the virus.
remember when SSNs were being implemented and the government promised it wouldn't be used as a personal identifier?
Orb.Farm
For answers to that question, I would refer you to this thread, although the connection might require some pondering to see.

I wonder if the rather esoteric/elusive style of Doreen's post may have been in part to invoke the very phenomenon she seems to be alluding to, by my interpretation of her intended meaning anyways. Even if not, it worked out quite well in the end.
That's definitely where it shines for me. I follow hundreds of infrequently-updated sites using Newsblur. It's sort of the same value proposition for me as Twitter. I'd never follow the New York Times in either place; what I want is to get beyond what's commercially viable to publish.
I tend to stay out of these discussions but there has been a huge shifting of the goalposts.

>My understanding at the start of lockdowns was that these were intended to "bend the curve" so we could get control of the situation and then allow the virus to spread at a rate that would not overwhelm healthcare capacity.

Yes. The standard argument went along the lines of we have to limit movement and interactions for a while so that we can "flatten the curve" and not overwhelm the hospital system. Now that that has happened in most cases, though, the goalpost has moved towards the availability of a hopefully effective vaccine in the next year or two [ADDED: and/or maybe effective testing/tracing whose effectiveness in general is TBD]. Which, even if we assume some behaviors change, doesn't seem like a practical long-term strategy.
I work in the industry, have read Flash Boys, and am aware of how misleading and occasionally false the book is. It's always disheartening to see someone be so sure of themselves while also being incorrect.

Your metaphor is inaccurate. Your metaphor describes actual front running, which is indeed illegal. It does not describe the sort of latency arbitrage that HFTs do, which Michael Lewis has unfortunately also dubbed "front running" (and succeeded at changing the lay population's definition of the term).

I would try to adjust your metaphor to be correct but it isn't really possible. There is no eavesdropping. HFTs do not know anything about trades before they happen. If they see a large trade, they adjust their prices after the trade happens (possibly on another exchange). This isn't eavesdropping, they are operating on public information, just very quickly. It's the foundation of all market making: adjusting prices according to order flow.
That's a good idea, better than just throwing random knowledge into Evernote.
Yes, it's a done deal. Regardless of who does, or doesn't, appreciate "metaformal thingies", no one is smart enough to get out of the CTMU Metaformal System, and that won't be changing. Not tomorrow, not in a century, and not ever. (If you find this unacceptable, my advice is that you try to pry your mind slightly open to admit a ray or two of light. Nobody gets over.)
There was an artistic video about the far-future timeline, part of it was post-humans first jumping form star to star, then making new stars from hydrogen, then splitting stars into small stars to conserve hydrogen, then sitting out the rest of their existence around one last decaying star.

Anyone remembers that video? Wish I could find it now.
Yep, it's how legally tomatoes are vegetables, not fruit... for tax purposes. Nobody is overruling science, they're just keeping the law consistent with it's original meaning.

Think of it as the legacy endpoints you have to keep around for your system even though you wouldn't write it that way today.
Scrivenvar: Text editor with built-in R functionality
Corkscrew light promises higher optical-communication data rates
I don't have a lot of devops experience, but I was just struck by how cheap it appeared to me. $40 / TB? I can't even imagine how much money is sunk into managing the Kafka clusters at my employer.
Doesn't it kind of become the bank's responsibility once they become aware they're holding onto criminal proceeds? Or is that why banks prefer not to pay attention, so they don't become aware of such things?
If you read down-thread I compare total taxation+insurance costs.

I believe that outside the absolute top couple of % of wage earners German total costs are similar to high-tax US states like California.
Strange that they focused on that instead of the fact that a spider infestation isn't property damage. It doesn't affect the building in any way other than killing other harmful bugs. Spider removal isn't a property damage expense any more than calling animal control to pick up a stray dog that'd gone to sleep on your rug would be.
That's somewhat fatalistic and cynical, but there's a kernel of truth in your sentiment. We have of course done good and meaningful work when it comes to environmental protections and preservation - sure, we could argue that perhaps we haven't done enough and should do more, but the effort is there.

I'm not sure if our primary goal in "improving nature" is to help "nature" or simply keep nature sustainable for humans and future humans.
So? Doesn't mean people have to be toxic about a code snippet he posted because he found it interesting. Personally, I'm glad he posted about fold expressions, because I'm not up to date on C++17 yet and I found it quite interesting. He didn't deserve the replies he got and I feel that the only reason this article is about gamedev at all is because the gamedev community were the ones who jumped on him (and probably only because he mentioned his Quake VR project).
Who would have thought that dumping trillions of stimulus into the hands of the unemployed would attract scammers? State unemployment offices just aren't equipped for this kind of activity.

Politicians want to do anything they can right now to be seen to be "helping" -- to do otherwise is political suicide -- so we get these insane stimulus bills.

A common thing I hear is that people don't want to return to work because they make more sitting at home, stealing from taxpayers. Are they scammers, too? I think so.
I can’t even imagine the levels of civil disobedience in America if a track and trace program is mandated. WA state, left leaning, already proposed track and trace to go to restaurants and already walked it back after pressure. People are starting to run out of money and food and they will turn to violence. We need to follow the same light social distancing approach as Sweden and Florida imo.
> My point is that large infrastructure projects require top-down organization

This has nothing to do with UBI. That's why you're having trouble understand the excellent points by rumanator. He's pointing out that you can have both UBI AND large infra projects. They are not mutually exclusive. I'm not sure where you got that idea from?
Yes... and the transformations are often non-trivial (especially when considering the possibility of out-of-bounds elements, which can't just safely be multiplied by zero--they might be a NaN, or on the edge of a page). It would be nice if there was a tool (or compiler option!) that could convert my branchy code into an "identical" (assuming floating-point associativity, etc.) branchless version.
When I'm hiring, these are no the qualities I'm looking for.
No, you said it was a mistake to use Kafka as database. It's been pointed out that a key member of the Kafka trio, Jay Kreps, is on record that you can definitely use it as a source of truth. NYTimes example is also of a competent team that uses Kafka as a source of truth.
Most technologists likely have an aversion to anything as backwater bureaucratic as government “tech” programs. Couple that with pay that wildly trails the market and the outcome is fairly easy to predict I think.
I came here via ttRSS, with the Android app. I host it via the hosting service I've used for years, it only requires PHP and a Cron job. The Android app lets me keep ttRSS and its authentication behind a separate HTTP basic auth, which I think keeps the attack surface low and security high-ish.

I think it's fantastic.
I'm moving from Feedly to self-hosted Tiny Tiny RSS soon: https://tt-rss.org

Would be fun if others did the same and posted about their experiences!
If you continue to post flamewar comments to HN we will ban you. I'm sure you can make your substantive points thoughtfully, so please do that instead.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Thanks. I am interested in small acreage robotics to automate most of farming except harvest. Weeding is a very small part of growing food.

The reason Big Ag(not necessarily commodity Ag) is focused on giant weeding robots(for crops like potatoes, cotton, lettuce etc..those in the billion dollar club) is because the investment is coming from chemical inputs companies. It is very likely that the same pot of money going to finance Monsanto/Bayer is also funding Agtech and ag robotics because they are hedging their chemical industry investment. So if Ag stops using roundup, they’d use weeding robots and theair market share is protected.

Also why small scale food Ag is not dealt with right now. It’s too small a market and there is enough cheap labour and third world countries to import food from..maybe agtech will reach them eventually. But until then they won’t allow product cannibalisation. And if any small acreage Agtech or Ag robots become successful they will be bought out by the big investment firms or through smaller VCs and shelved. It will come out of its dark vault when the time feels right. We have the tech. It’s just not profitable to release it to farmers.

My goal is to automate everything with small robots and then scale by swarming them. I would love to connect. My email is my user name at gmail.
I'm not sure if this was one of Neal Stephenson's inspirations for his novel Snow Crash, but if it wasn't, then I expect he would be pleasantly surprised by this real-world demo of grammar hackery.
Probably not not helpful, but meanwhile just a little bit north in Canada they sell excellent otc allergy medicine with pseudofed. Just wild what we choose to prohibit.
Georgia has provided data twice a day. I wonder why it wasn't included?

Here's the dashboard I use: https://dashboards.securedatakit.com/public/dashboard/e430d0...
> The interviewing process is broken.

Bingo to this. The sad part of the engineering world is that most companies are looking for that unicorn developer that just so happens to have used their exact tech stack. Oh and they also need to be able to optimally solve CS problems on the spot in a high pressure, time crunch situation.
Small robots swarmed.
Heat death is also the central plot of Asimov's short story, "the last question": https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Question
I agree with this, but the problem is always framed as a problem of income inequality. We have an income inequality problem for sure, but at the low end of that spectrum, the problem is cost of living.

For the past 50 years, the following things have outpaced generally used inflation indicators: housing, education, health care. Basically, the inflation experienced by poor people has drastically exceeded the inflation experienced by rich people.

Incomes for our lower quantiles is often higher than countries with comparable gdp/capita. But those incomes don't translate to a comparable standard of living.
If they're willing to abuse technology to ruin my day, I don't see why their opinion should have any weight.
Build platforms that flexibly mix SQL, batch, and stream processing paradigms
Yea. I've had many kinds, but even the more benign ones can be terrifying.

For several years I got recurring ones where I would wake up, just where I went to sleep and some person came in and disemboweled me and I had limited control to move away.

The fact the dream place was exactly my room from real life is what made it terrifying
> The app uses code-server, a browser version of Visual Studio Code hosted by me so there is nothing to setup.
Not quarantining doesn't require universal healthcare.
Same thing is happening with the UK furlough scheme. Government is paying 80% of people's salaries while they're off work but some employers are actively defrauding the scheme and telling those people to work...
... with rss
I've only been in the USA for less than a decade but when I landed here and got my SSN I got a pretty good lecture at the window from the Federal worker about never giving this out, keep it safe, yadda, yadda, yadda...

...and was then asked at every turn, by every website and application and whatnot, to provide four or more digits of this number to accomplish even the most benign things.

There's what the US government thought it would be and then there's what it's become because zero enforcement on use of it as a national person identity number was ever enacted.

The "don't give anyone your SSN" trope has become one of those household jokes. Right up there with "American's don't pay high taxes".
I haven’t watched them again now to check if it’s one of them you’re searching for, but these two videos have been posted everywhere last year:

[1] https://youtu.be/uD4izuDMUQA

[2] https://youtu.be/SUelbSa-OkA
There's no upside to fixing it for the political class.
Customizable HN feeds (inofficial): https://edavis.github.io/hnrss/

It's really easy to get posts on the frontpage only if they have more than x points:

https://hnrss.org/frontpage?points=x

Or contain certain keywords:

https://hnrss.org/newest?q=git+OR+linux
The problem is malicious actors will only buy the extension conditional on the author handing over the signing key as well.
How many EU countries are Apple News available in?
Banks already have fraud protection on credit cards and are responsible for reporting suspicious amounts of depositing (above a certain amount). Thus is the basis of my shock that something similarly obvious isn’t covered.
People rarely make telescope mirrors of this size at home, it just takes way, way too long. As mirror radius increases the amount of material you have to (very slowly) grows in a cubic fashion, so a 14.7" mirror requires removing over 8 times as much as a 7" mirror. It takes too long to do this by hand to be reasonable for most people.
Are we talking static compilation or assets? I don’t believe they’re fully static as they link out to OpenGL but I am not an expert.

For assets, I use go-bindata to embed them into my binary, personally.

https://github.com/go-bindata/go-bindata