skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We still need a world class, best of breed, open source game engine, no?

It seems like game engines should go the way of linux. No one would really consider making a new commercial os these days.
You have to compare it to GIMP.
First of all, an ID doesn't need to have anything to do with citizenship. It can also be a claim of residence like a driver's license in the US.

Second, if people are eligible for benefits, they are clearly being recorded in some fashion. If the benefit requires permanent residence in the US, I would presume most states are attempting to verify this as well.

In either case, this can be used for either a residence ID or a stronger ID that proves citizenship or immigration status, the latter resembling the national ID cards that many EU countries (among other places) have.
Spain falls into the "not enough" section obviously. But there was no 10x excess mortality as predicted. Did you see all the dead bodies from the last flu season on TV? all the ventilator patients then?

I believe in nothing, I'm just looking at the numbers. virology experts do the expertise.
politicians do the ignoring. media is doing the twisting.

Lockdowns were not necessary in most of the countries as you will see, and most experts already agree on. Selective lockdowns in some herds, yes. protecting the nursing homes, yes.
but closing the schools, certainly not, in hindsight. a.s.o. It's not like the flu where the kids are spreading the virus around.
In context, they were talking about the specific case of a source that outputs 33% 1s and 67% 0s, with no correlation between successive outputs. For the general case of a entropy source that's (not provably not) biased in some arbitary way that you don't know about, you obviously need a cryptographically secure hash function.
It's coming and will be part of 1.4.0: https://github.com/google/tink/issues/358.

We have a test package for Linux with Python 3.7 or 3.8

pip3 install -i https://test.pypi.org/simple/ tink
Or if you run out of gas or have to pullover for engine problems.
If you're racing to hit a deadline, you don't want dependencies on other teams.

So if the designers have drawn up the UI for the next major refresh, Office doesn't need to wait for the shell team to have implemented the controls, or for development to have them wrapped up in MFC.

If the dependencies already exist, you're on safer ground. Though team culture may choose otherwise; I understood Excel didn't like having any external dependencies.
That's not the "full feed", that's $19/yr and mentioned here: https://daringfireball.net/members/info

> However, paying supporters do get access to a few members-only perquisites, including separate full-content RSS feeds for articles and the Linked List (my daily list of links and blurbs related to Mac, web, and design nerdery).
Do we want to? I think the world would be a much better place without it.
I see no reason to imagine 40 hours a week is some special number. If we could go from 60h weeks to 40h weeks, why stop there even as productivity increases?

Note that overtime is still possible, but needs to be paid. But as a general rule, the increased benefits from automation should be felt by workers too, not just owners.

Of course, once you get to 100% automation this simple reduction in hours worked for the same pay breaks down, but few industries are even remotely close to that.

Edit: doctors in hospitals are a very special case, I think. It is one of the only jobs where the increased strain on the worker can be accepted, as it doesn't simply produce profit, it produces much more important human good. Even more, the problem in Healthcare is definitely not lack of jobs, on the contrary - there are generally either not enough doctors or not enough resources to pay for more doctors (and nurses, and other medical personnel).
There are many PKGBUILDs on AUR that cactually download rpm / deb packages and unpack the binaries and deps from it.
I remember when I was little, I was told that I wouldn't always have a calculator on me.

This turned out to be false, but being able to do mental arithmetic is still an extremely valuable skill. The usability of your pocket calculator is really bad in comparison, and what the mental arithmetic gives you is a general automatic numeracy where you can ballpark the answer to numerical problems much faster than using a tool.

This becomes a qualitative difference because you'll do more of those mental checks as a matter of course that you would never pull out a calculator for. Kind of like how git made merges so painless that they're now a standard part of most people's development flow. That's the kind of qualitative impact that mental arithmetic can give you.

I admit that this is a point that's difficult to get across, and schools generally don't do a great job of it...
The assessor's job is just to determine the value of the various sites. It is said that a group of locally knowledgeable people could sit around a table with a large map of the community, and they'd quickly reach a consensus about what is the most valuable site in the city. And then they could go block by block determining the relative value of the various neighborhoods. From that, a land value map could be derived, and likely it would get a few tweaks from the community.

As Bushwick becomes popular, because of better transit, or community amenities or whatever, yes, the unimproved value of the sites served by them go up. A school develops an excellent reputation? Up go the land values. (Some say that in most suburban towns, the superintendent of schools is the highest paid employee, in part because s/he can influence "property values" -- more precisely, land values -- more than any other single person.)

My first acquaintance with Elizabeth Warren came from a book she wrote about 2003, whose title was something like "The Two Income Trap: How Middle Class Parents are Going Broke" and in part it was from seeking the best public schools for their children, and paying a huge share of their income for it, seldom to be matched by single parents.
I have seriously considered buying a buffer quantity on one of the various TOR-based markets.
Both VS Code and Atom use significant amounts of WebAssembly and low level libraries to achieve that performance. In addition to that they've written their own view layer for an IDE in modern JS which makes it more performant and stable.

I despise electron and html-wrapper apps. But I gotta give credit where it's due. VS Code is pretty good.

With the advent of the new WinUI, React+Native on Windows, and Blazer. I'm betting the future of windows is more web based technologies mingled with low-level native libraries.
Never said that they would be. I'm arguing that we shouldn't poison the well with unfounded complaints about how a system which doesn't exist might or might not work.

That example is also apples and oranges. Given that a passport is much more expensive to make, has a ton of infrastructure mandated by international agreements, treaties, and standards, and is decidedly optional for the majority of people and it makes total sense to me that it would not be free. None of that is true about SSNs, and none of it would necessarily need to be true about a national ID.
> unless you have reason to assume your branches are actually close to random.

I mean, to the degree that you need to sort the data at all, it contains informational entropy.

Many "presents as sorted" data structures trade space for time by keeping track of the internal sortedness of chunks of the data, between sortation passes. Heck, any insert-optimized data structure (B+ trees; LevelDB's sorted-string-tables; N-ary tries generally) will get most of its performance gains by being able to guarantee, at node split time, that the children of any particular node are sorted relative to one-another.

So, in many cases, by the very fact that you don't already have metadata attached to your data asserting that it's sorted, it's highly likely to have no branch-predictability.

(Couple that to the fact that load-balancing in OLTP distributed systems favors writes to evenly-keyspace-distributed partitioning keys, ala Dynamo, and you'll frequently find that your inputs to an index-like data structure can be guaranteed random.)
Human engineering can be put into words. It's just very scary. Genetic modification, cyborgification or mind uploading could give us any bodies we want, but also create new terrifying possibilities of control: imagine you've been genetically modified by a tyrant, or your brain lives in a robot body built by a tyrant, or your uploaded mind is in a computer controlled by a tyrant. Humanity isn't politically ready for human engineering tech - in other words, I wouldn't trust any of today's governments with it - but it's coming one way or another, and probably sooner than starships.
I have a fixed priority order, but sometimes they add a higher priority later.... :-/ I think it's typically just used as an authority to confirm the email address, so one could be registered with multiple providers and should still work?
> As I see it, government is mostly good at destroying wealth, and so I aim to minimize their revenue.

The "excess cost" I was referring to is precisely a matter of destroying wealth. It's all well and good to limit government involvement in the economy but clearly, whatever revenue it does collect should be collected efficiently.
For the past few decades, we've absorbed them into adtech.
Also...where do you get game engine developers to work on those established projects if everyone is told not to bother?

I see variations of this with other fields as well. People disparage college operating systems and programming language classes, because "we have plenty of those already" or say that people should contribute to an established project of some kind instead of reinventing the wheel. But that's how you gain an understanding of how a piece of software works, or how you end up with a new thing that's better than the old one.
I lol’ed with

> This program is (supposedly) the smallest C program able to print "Hello world.". The compilation itself produces the
desired printout and the program need not be actually run.
You can, but the open-source types are usually quite fanatical about you not doing so.
This book is fantastic. If the author is reading this, please don’t feel shy about expanding the chapter on state machines. It is an extremely deep and valuable subject with a lot of “get your hands dirty” learning to do. Thanks for writing what you did!
Or social security numbers. Or tax returns. Or proof of address. Or... basically anything that can reasonably indicate that they are who they say they are.
Another issue are very large animals like moose. I hear this can be a problem in Montana especially.
You're missing the point. It's the fact that our government created / mandated this multi-agency, multi-state, multi-private/public process and it was implemented in a matter of months. All to prevent people from buying too many boxes of decongestant at one time... The scale of that particular problem pales in comparison to the 100's of billions being tossed to thieves via flawed IRS and UI claims processes.
You might be thinking of this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22322967
Have you checked out the Godot engine?

I don't think it's at the polish of Unreal or Unity, but it's probably the closest attempt for open source.
Amazon Lambda is basically like a part though. I mean contracting Amazon to build the system and operate it. Wasn't the Lambda error a resource limit one?
Some things are fruits in at least a botanical context and vegetables in at least a culinary context. Another prominent context that may differ is the legal one. Given all that, why are you asserting that the things on this list of fruits are "non-fruits" without giving some kind of elaboration/qualification as to the point you're making?
> Meanwhile, your web app may not be as good as native apps, but at least you don't have to write it 6 times.

I must be living in a parallel world because I use a ton of desktop apps that aren't "written 6 times" - and write a few, including a music & other things sequencer (https://ossia.io).

Just amongst the ones running on my desktop right now, Strawberry (Qt), Firefox (their own toolkit), QtCreator (Qt), Telegram Desktop (Qt), Bitwig Studio (Java), Kate (Qt), Ripcord (Qt), all work on all desktop platforms with a single codebase. I also often use Zim (GTK), which is also available on all platforms, occasionnally Krita (Qt) and GIMP (GTK), and somewhat rarely Blender. Not an HTML DOM in sight (except FF :-)).
Microsoft, there is a way to win our trust
Just started to build the group. Let us know if there are additional channels folks are interested in.
> Do you realise you can sell it to get real money?

You do realize they’re worthless until you vest right? I’m pretty sure Uber and Lyft are on a one year cliff. That’s one year of risk and what do you know, those RSUs just vaporized..

The only non FAANG RSUs making money now are real tech companies, not these service industries masquerading as tech.
Comprehensive list of symbols in calculus (and analysis)
Re, events: events are wonderful, but doesn’t it get a bit hard to debug them later on? Whenever I work in a poorly written web application, following people’s random/out of date event chains to fix a bug is just maddening
This! I would love to be able to add some blogs to my mastodon feed.
I came across this problem the other day too. I was trying to make a website that used a peer to peer audio connection between clients and binaural positioning and just couldn't get it to work. I thought it was the code and after far too long realised it was just my damn Airpods switching down to mono when I turned on the microphone.

Only figured it out by listening to binaural audio in one browser window and turning on the microphone to record in another and it still stopped the binaural sound working.

No solution as far as I know, they only have 2 channels and when you need one for voice you lose one for your ears.
Thank you! I greatly appreciate it.
Evaluation of the Rational Environment (1988) [pdf]
You know we might just have 7000 von Neumanns among us, but may be unable to recognize them. The vast majority of 7+ billion people on the planet are unknown to everyone some except family and a couple of friends.

The adage "Popular does not equal good" has never been more relevant.
And don't forget the stupid formats used by Office when an open standard already existed.
Though I don't use it for reading HN, I've been using The Old Reader since Google Reader shut down. It's basically a copy of Google Reader as it was.

https://theoldreader.com/
They're very messy - they've built up slowly over the last year or so. Will add some comments over the next few days!

https://github.com/daharka/newsboat_scripts
I think the most likely scenario will be either additional testing administered by the university like you experienced or generic credits towards a degree with a requirement that students still take Chem 101 or whatever.
> For the readiness probe a simple endpoint that returns 200 is enough. This tests your service’s ability to respond to requests without depending on any other dependencies (sessions which might use Redis or a user auth service which might use a database).

If the underlying dependencies aren't working, can a pod actually be considered ready and able to serve traffic? For example, if database calls are essential to a pod being functional and the pod can't communicate with the database, should the pod actually be eligible for traffic?
During my days of Windows-exclusive computing, I wondered what people meant by native UIs, and why do they care about them. My wondering stopped when I discovered Mac OS and, to a lesser extent, Ubuntu (especially in the Unity days). Windows, with its lack of visual consistency, looked like a hot mess compared to the aforementioned platforms.

And now that I think about it, would this made it easier, even by an infinitesimal amount, for malware to fool users, as small deviations in UI would fail to stand out?
Conrad Black: Trump is nailing it
Under Georgism, in practical terms, you would still be able to do that. The value of land in the middle of nowhere would be essentially 0, so you wouldn't need to pay much LVT. You may still need to pay some LVT, to reflect that the state is still providing you some services (in particular, enforcing your claim to the land).
That site has a rather good walkthrough of pathfinding in general
This comments demonstrates a willful ignorance to actual facts and shows a bit of gas lighting. So cite the stats, the studies or any meaningful article that shows there is what you claim. False voting records.
A carbon tax and a tax on cigarettes are very consistent with the single tax. They're taxes on externalities imposed on the community.

Solar energy is an infinite resource, so there is no reason to charge for it, but for scarce or finite resources, pay for what you take.
This is exactly how the economy works. If you raise the supply of money, prices are going to rise. Does not matter whether you print it or you just extract it from someone's bank account and redistribute it. That's Econ101. You're equating SOME people getting to earn more, with your original statement that EVERYBODY should be earning more. Well that doesn't work.

Also, rich people don't do anything with their extra money? The exact opposite is true. Most of rich people's wealth is not in cash, it's in investments - while the average folk's extra money is "invested" in products that they can't afford, like the latest iPhone or a fancy house/car. No rich person that didn't just inherit their wealth lets their money sit in a bank except for a small percentage of their wealth, because they know it's a bad deal. How does trickle down economics transfer wealth from the poor to the rich? The poor should have wealth to begin with, in order for it to be transferred.
Currently NIMBYs complain about changes that they perceive will lower the value of their real estate. Complaining instead about things that would increase the value of their property seems like a good change.
Uber is expected to begin another round of layoffs
This whole rigmarole is necessary for a single reason: TLBs don't participate in the cache coherency system.

Uh, why is that? If they did participate, then the mere act of writing to the cache line(s) which change the mapping would implicitly invalidate all of the associated entries in all of the system's TLBs. (Handwave, handwave), maybe you still end up needing a barrier similar to the instruction barrier needed when altering the content of executable pages.

What's the downside? Is it just power? Or is there something more fundamental about the TLB structure that makes it impractical?
Back to the Backdoor Factory
USA is set to require a passport or state-issued Enhanced ID [0] for domestic airline travel this year. It's about as close to a "national ID card" as it can get.

[0] https://www.dhs.gov/enhanced-drivers-licenses-what-are-they
Well, every single point of data we have disagrees with you, but someone is entitled to be pessimistic if they want to.
Care to cite any proven examples and cases?
Even if they are, so what? Sure, time would probably be better spent making their online testing actually work. However, anti-cheating is always something these types of tests prepare for whether that's exam room monitoring or trying to protect their online exams. Setting up a honeypot to get students seems exactly like the lazy method these people would attempt.
GUI Toolkits often benefit from “looser” type requirements than Go provides.

Compare SwiftUI’s way of writing a static UI view to Goey’s:
https://www.objc.io/blog/2019/11/05/static-types-in-swiftui/

The two layouts are very similar.
I’m a Professional Go Programmer, but I find the Swift example (and similar Flutter examples) much more suited to describing interfaces.
The issue is for applications next year when these courses should have been at the centre of applications.
Personally, the performance benefits are secondary. It is a lovely way to program to be able to use composition like you can in Unity. If only they didn’t revoke usage rights on their asset store without warning during license updates, I would be a much bigger fan of the company
Do you distribute Python with your application too then? How well does that work?
The college board was in a tough spot this year. They couldn't really cancel the exams -- Juniors need them for college admissions, and Seniors need them for college credit.

But they also have to instill trust in the system.

Which led them to them having claims on their website that the test was "uncheatable" and had "the highest level of integrity" while on other parts of their website claiming they had deployed extreme security measures to thwart cheating.

At the end of the day I suspect the colleges will just accept the scores under the assumption that it would be poor form on their part to give the students a hard time about something they had no control over.
Employment is also voluntary yet we are somehow okay with it being necessary to not become homeless and will often accept terms which are very biased towards the benefit of our employer.
Not even sure "don't be evil" is still written down. [1]

[1] https://gizmodo.com/google-removes-nearly-all-mentions-of-do...
> I'm sure certain trust factor guarantees prevent you from outsourcing the assignment overseas.

Who said anything about overseas? Hire your classmate to sit down at your own PC to do it. That's the Hard Problem.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellowcake
Can you elaborate on the cloud providers selling poorly managed k8s - are they all problematic? I have no experience with cloud provided k8s.
It is deeply annoying for me.

What is genuinely enraging however, is when my son runs out and we can’t get him his medicine. His symptoms are honestly pretty bad and he is aware of them but can’t do anything about it. Hearing him ask “daddy, why can’t I have my medicine?” is both heartbreaking and enraging.

In the end, we asked the doctor, who agreed to issue us a slightly different prescription for him a few days after we filled the first one. This let us get the second prescription Refilled immediately so we thankfully have a small buffer for him now.

Laws like this are bullshit.
Lyft removed the vesting cliff for those laid off, gave them 10+ weeks of severance and accelerated vesting of RSUs. The only issue is that the stock price is down 40% but recessions can do that to any company regardless of size. Still worth quiet a bit even with that drop.

So, what's your point again?
Did excel not even use any math libraries? Seems kind of silly to re-create that wheel, espically when we've proven that many of our algorithms are mathematically impossible to improve, and excel is so heavily focused on math work.
> most of a whole Linux distro.

It's NixOS.
I was a bit mistaken, the law requires a full written prescription, not just signature, and it can't be a copy. The system in place allows for electronically writing prescriptions so they will still comply with the written requirement.

There are more security requirements like what you describe, but much of this is about making a new standard comply with laws from the 70's.
I love vs code, and its plugin system, but if I’m on my laptop without a charger, I use something else. When I’m running vs code, my battery life is cut nearly in half.
Office Open XML[0] was created in 2006. In Office 2007, the default save format was changed to the new open format. If they wanted to keep it proprietary, they wouldn’t’ve created Office Open XML, and they wouldn’t’ve made it the default format.

It’s my understanding that the reason for their “proprietary” format was because, at the time, there wasn’t really a format that could contain everything Word could do. Also, their proprietary format wasn’t very proprietary; it was reverse engineered, and they did nothing to stop that.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Open_XML