skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let’s remove the fed money printing machine and find out what real investors think of the market.
Software does not rust but the board it sits on does. Not to mention we still haven't managed to create any longterm storage that does not loose data...
It’s pretty ridiculous that the top comment in this thread is 100% wrong.
sorry my bad, I realized my question was not making sense, I actually mean they can publish research data if the authority does not approve of it?
When I was in a similar position, i had to make loads applications, almost a hundred. The ones that came off are the ones i least expected.
I needed this many because in the begining I sucked at interviews, misunderstood questions/what people where after, etc.
Also FAANG will not neccesarily give you the most meaningfull work, there are plenty of smaller firms working on important things in life
Named arguments are a good example of a simple feature that C++ still lacks, and cannot be effectively 'faked' without it being built into the language.
Interesting predictions. However, they do not fit the facts on the ground, at least here in Poland, which is some weeks ahead of the US with respect to the development of the epidemic.

(I'm relieved that) people have gotten sick and tired of the restrictions, about 50% (and growing every day) are not wearing the masks inside anymore, or bother with the distancing, despite official requirements. All restaurants and bars are opening up on Monday, my favourite one described the prior atmosphere as a "psychosis of fear".

It's interesting what happens when the second wave of infections occurs, which is becoming more and more likely. It's hard to imagine the population will be as fearful and obedient as the first time, should the government try to impose another lockdown.

If, as Nassim Taleb believes, the lockdown was bottom-up, demanded by the people rather than imposed by the government, a repeat seems unlikely. Perhaps that's why the stock market is surging?
I think that basically describes DDB in a nutshell. You think it’s like Mongo, only on AWS, but then you slowly find out it’s much, much worse (for most use cases that you’d go with Mongo).
This is outstanding. They solved the „what color is your function“ problem! The Rust ecosystem has a completely separate std-lib just for async. I think there is one other language that managed to avoid that problem too by using compile-time magic [0].

[0] https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/1778
You can't just blame Amazon on loss of business for brick-and-mortar bookstores. In my country we don't have Amazon, yet paper book sales are decreasing because why buy if you can just download for free. And if you want to pay, it's just easier to buy online (ebook or paper). Not to mention that probably overall demand for reading books is decreasing.
Think of it as "Your app runs like an operating system".

Instead of installing an OS and installing your app on that OS, the OS is a library you use to talk to the hardware.

It's good for two reasons.

First security, if you only use the HDD and network, you don't have to include code for display or mouse etc. which could be a security risk.

Second, it's faster, because you don't have to do syscalls, since your app IS the OS, syscalls don't need to get out of userspace.
Travels with John Conway, in 258 Septillion Dimensions
That really remains to be seen.

Also, I believe BRK has lower risk tolerance than most people think. Listen to the latest annual shareholders meeting, he says that quite explicitly.
Measurement-induced entanglement in a hot, strongly-interacting atomic system
Imagine a closed off room of 100 traders. There are three sets of people here: a group of pairs doing a transaction, a group of pairs negotiating a strike price, no deals yet, and a final group "sitting on their hands". Only the executed trades are ordered in descending timestamps. The one at the top is the market price. It's the only reliable indicator of what actually got sold and bought.

So, in this room, the price of each transaction, from any negotiations, is a consequence of the conviction of each party in the negotiations and eventually the trade. This includes how optimistic or pessimistic they feel about the value of the stock, how aggressive each one's stance about the predicted future price of the stock, how much greed or fear exists in the minds of the traders etc. This is what moves the price. Prices can move just as rapidly (be more volatile) with a few traders and many sitting on their hands as can be the case that prices hardly move with the entire 100 people transacting.

Conclusion: what moves prices up or down are opposing beliefs with differing levels of conviction in the minds of the traders.
Here's a link to the named parameters spec. http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2014/n417...
> I don't know how things will shake out for the Linux world and x86 packet forwarding given the trend and lack of real performance in the kernel.

That's pretty much settled isn't it? It was settled in the same way the "it got too much for the general purpose CPU" problem always gets settled - you do it in custom silicon, and define a standardised interface.

That's pretty much what happened with 3D graphics where the standardised interface was OpenGL (but now seems to be up in the air). It's also pretty much what's happened in AI with standardised libraries interfacing to custom hardware, and it's what happened with networking.

For networking, the interface standard is OpenFlow. So, if you think it's possible you will need to handle links of about 1Gbs or over in the future, you do your networking using an OpenFlow implementation like Faucet. If it's not much above 100Mb/s the Linux kernel module that implements OpenFlow, called openvswitch, will be fine. Otherwise use some custom hardware.

Openvswitch has been around since 2009 - so it's not exactly a new thing.
Consumer prices and asset prices have decoupled.

Most consumers don’t have direct access to cheap FED money and the trickle-down effects (startup boom) have had limited impact on average wages.
Nope. The serif fonts of the earlier versions are easier to read on a high DPI screen; and the extra margins on this one make it far too narrow to read comfortably on a phone.
Trump-: US will reopen “vaccine or no vaccine”
It's the only software I miss on Mac :)
Using "Commander One" on Mac, but it's simply not on the same level.

While we're at it, what are people using as alternatives on Mac and Linux?
"I hope that it will motivate professional and amateur researchers to share more data via social media." -- and soon we'll see trolls photoshopping images as "new discovery".
Linux is licensed under GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note.

>NOTE! This copyright does not cover user programs that use kernel
services by normal system calls - this is merely considered normal use
of the kernel, and does not fall under the heading of "derived work".

(even without actual syscall, you can consider unikernels as normal use of kernel)
I see dithering used plenty. Keep in mind that pixel art was displayed at native or close to native resolution and blurred on CRT displays back in the day. Now it’s displayed at 10X resolution on sharp LCD or OLED screens. As another comment mentioned, it adds texture.
That's really the only support channel google has. All the other channels are honeypots for people without connections or followings.
That's easy. You come up with that number because the market organically came up with it thru supply and demand. You could argue the government interfered unfairly but the price is the price either way.
The $5 billion loss is likely pocket change to him.

But he might be onto something. Which means, does he know some insider knowledge that we don’t?

The airlines industry is practically about tourism. Yes, there is business travel, but tourism is an important part of it. But, there is unlikely to be any significant tourism in the years ahead, until some kind of vaccine comes out.

So, does he know about some insider knowledge here. He doesn’t take strategic positions like this on a whim, and he clearly operates on fringe insider knowledge.

Maybe his buddies are telling him, that here will likely never be a vaccine? Now, that is an interesting and possibly tradable thesis. Short the airline companies.
> By the time you pay a fixed cost for the proxy on top of what you already pay for the RDS server, it'd be a far simpler architecture with less moving parts to just run a Fargate container

A lot of people want to use lambda (or serverless) even so. So AWS is just accommodating their wishes.
Because we're losing jobs to automation.

The simple menial jobs of 1939 are robot jobs in 2020
I've been pretty satisfied with InSync.
To be honest, few today are educated. The most favorable characterization is that we're putting the youth though a mill that produces semi-technically savvy savages. That fact that so few people with diplomas (of which I am one) fail to see that is because they haven't the slightest clue what being educated means. Also, fallacy of sunk costs (that piece of paper was rather expensive and time consuming).
Agreed. Just watched a recent tutorial on SwiftUI where changes to Hello World were taking a lifetime to update in canvas view. SwiftUI, like most of Apple's OS releases, is beta quality.
Back in the day I remember learning about TCP and other systems subjects through Beej Guides! [1]. Is there other material recommended to review network programming? I know about the Stevens' books but they look so bulky and dry...

1: https://beej.us/guide/
Good News: Human Body Builds “Robust” Immune Response to Covid
Use a mobile app client for HN instead of a web browser?

I use Materialistic on Android and its dark mode is great
Layoffs often happen once a game is shipped. Maybe they are getting that one game they were working on before the pandemic shipped, then laying a bunch of people off and rethinking their game plan.

Anecdata: I personally have been laid off from 3 different game studios, each time it was just after one of the games I was working on had shipped. I finally decided my dream industry was a little too dysfunctional to stay in it, and left it after the third time. I only make video games in my spare time, now.

Although I've worked for a few enterprise organizations since then, and so far I've seen nothing but dysfunction in them, too, so maybe it's just endemic all over. Like at my current company, which managed to drop from its all-time-high stock price a whopping 93% over the past year and a half, for many good reasons. But at least I get paid more.

This article also discusses the tendency, and how infuriating it can be: https://kotaku.com/why-game-developers-keep-getting-laid-off...
That’s a xenomorph
If the extra time out from loosening was all spent out in the sunshine, maybe it might just balance out the increase in cases, but there’s no way that’s what would happen. To make a significant difference requires an extra several hours a day out in sunshine. Better to just advise people to take supplements.
In a thousand years it will just be described as ‘a migration’.
Well, the first two lines are usually written somewhere at the top level. You won't actually write that anytime you want something to be async. The last two lines are what you usually write, so most of the time, the number of lines of code are equivalent.

Second, Java doesn't have async/await today. If Java was to introduce it, it wouldn't be compatible with the code written today. The big benefit of project loom is that code written today will get all the benefits of async/await without changing any code. In fact, because it's not important to pool threads, it actually gets easier.

The big problem with async/await in languages like C# or even coroutines in Kotlin is that it doesn't mix with the "old" api. The get the benefits you need to do a huge refactor of your code, and you need to make sure that any library you pull in is compatible.

Java's approach seems much better.
There is some evidence that vitamin D deficiency is associated with prostate cancer: https://clincancerres.aacrjournals.org/content/20/9/2289.abs...

There are a number of other studies on this. From what little I've read, if the effect is real,it seems the it is relatively weak, but still worth doing.
The UK’s public health response to Covid-19
Matches my experience as well in the hobby gamedev realm. I can give an anecdote, I’m involved in a “private server” dev community for an old niche MMO from 2003. There exists 3 codebases: first the original code written in a windows-style C++ with heavy use of inheritance, custom collections, Hungarian notation, etc. The second is a collaborative open source version that is written in a naive/basic C++ style (e.g. c w/ classes) and the third is a from-scratch reimplementation in modern C++ with all the bells and whistles, cmake, heavy use of templates, etc.

Despite the modern c++ version being the highest quality and the original windows-style version being the most fully featured, the vast majority of people use and prefer the rinky-dink basic c++ version. Simply for the reason that you don’t need to be a senior level dev to contribute meaningfully to the code.
Interesting name when you pronounce it.
> We can extend this, for example what would 2^3 * 2^0 be? If we want our rule to be consistent, it would be 2^3, implying that 2^0 = 1

replace 2 with x.

Another way to see it is
2^2 = 4 = 8 / 2 = 2^3 / 2
2^1 = 2 = 4 / 2 = 2^2 / 2
2^0 = ? how about 2^1 / 2 = 1

Again, replace 2 with x and the same follows.

With this example though, when x = 0, it's obvious that it no longer works since 0^0 would be 0^1 / 0 = 0/0
That article doesn't say what you claim it does. It also covers a lot of stuff that would be no surprise to anyone in the EU (within and outside of Germany), and it's not particularly well put together either. Any article talking about German manufacturing that doesn't examine its Mittelstand in detail isn't worth much. There are tons of other points missing there too. Let's just say it's not great, but it sounds like you have an axe to grind so we should just leave it here.
Hi! My name is Jatin and I am currently participating in Mozilla's Lab, working on a product to improve the conditions of small businesses in India by adding a source of income for them. Our mentors and folks from other teams have been incredibly helpful and I highly recommend joining this incubator.
I am hacking on http://datum.alwaysdata.net/ . It's a feed built out of hacker news comments containing links to data, using Natural Language Processing.

Over the years spent reading HN, I noticed that some comments with the best information ratio, were the ones based on data. I wanted a way to quickly find them, otherwise I would miss them.

Surprisingly, reading that feed has started to be part of my daily routine. But I am still toying with features I have in mind. Feedback would be appreciated !
That is just not true. You can write semi-less JS modules, strict mode and ASI are orthogonal.
I was reading about Go threads just the other day and the article mentioned that Go uses green threads because they are more efficient.

I thought this was weird because IIRC Java 1.0 used green threads in Linux and it was a big deal when they moved to OS threads.

I’ve long believed that the IT world moves in cycles but this is a very clear example of exactly that. Java has gone from green threads to Posix threads and now back to green threads.

I do think it’s awesome (I love goroutines) and Threads in Java have become a but of a nightmare, made a little easier with executors and CompletableFutures. So this further improvement is great news.

But still... call me when the builder pattern is dead.
Kotlin has solved colouring before loom ->
https://medium.com/@elizarov/how-do-you-color-your-functions...

Go was the first to solve colouring but they have it seems a less type safe solution
Yes personally I would look at the rising CAPE as an indicator of asset inflation (too much capital chasing too few earnings).
That's a much larger list than I expected. Wow. Over 1400 names (with details) on there when I checked, all seem to have happened this year.
He's also been a paid spokesperson for big tobacco without making that relationship clear while he is speaking.
Nothing unusual about the origin on this one, but an amusing binomial nonetheless:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibetan_blackbird
Your comment above seemed to refer to constraints in the other direction: "we can't use Lisp because the only coders available to hire only know Java!" The point is, coffeescript and javascript are much more similar than that, especially now that javascript has imperfectly copied some of coffeescript's improvements.
What's the saying in baseball?

If you ain't cheatin', you ain't even tryin' ... "privacy" is mostly just a sales job
I must say that https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hack-for-hacker-news-developer... is the best experience on iOS. Dark mode is awesome. After this app I never want to use the original web version.
Sickle cell disease is also more common in people of African origin, so that could be another reason for a higher hazard ratio.
Obviously not in a pleasurable way.

It's disheartening / devastating / infuriating that the genocide of 120-40M people barely pierces the consciousness of the dominant culture when talking about apocalypses or genocides...
Winners don't talk about the people they murdered to win. Same thing about Australia, Canada and less so New Zealand.

It is also hilarious that the USSR is the only country apart from Japan to successfully industrialize and avoid a colonial genocide from a Western power.

If you could pick a place to live being a Russian in Moscow 1919 would give you a much better chance of surviving compared to being an Indian in Manhattan in 1624, Toronto in 1787 or Melbourne in 1835.
I’m creating a vessel inventory and maintenance tool for fellow boaters. Essentially, a boat’s headquarters.

I live aboard my sailboat and have found a need to have everything in an app for quick access and reference.

https://myvesselapp.com/

It’s in beta and I have 15 fellow boaters testing :)

Currently a web app.
So, a niche technology for a handful of HFT firms, betting platforms and hyper-scale cloud vendors. Those already use non-mainstream tech (eg LMAX disruptor) to achieve max performance.

This is all nice and good, but the Unikernel guys claim since 20 years its the next big revolutionary thing. In the real world, the evolutionary approach using containers has turned out to solve the problems most people care about.

Don’t get me wrong, this is fascinating stuff. But there is a difference between „changes mainstream computing“ and „cool tech to shave off another millisecond of latency“.
Does it really matter ? Are people actually planning of running unikernel on bare metal a situation where you would need significant tooling to manage them ?

MirageOS was initially clearly designed to run on top of an hypervisor. The idea was going from host os, guest os and application to just host os and unikernel.

As I see it, it was a different way of solving the same problem containers are now used for : do you really need both a host os and guest os when all you want is isolation ? Using container is pushing isolation in the kernel while losing the actual virtualization (in a way merging host os and guest os) while unikernel is pushing the useful part of the guest os into the application (merging guest os and application) keeping the benefits of full virtualization. I think it's why Docker bought the company making MirageOS.

I don't really see where rump kernels sit there. Clearly there is interest as people are working on them but I fail to see where they would be useful.
I've built an x86 box with ssd a few years ago for around a 100 as well,interesting how peripherals and monitors are excluded from the cost.
I just fixed a segfault the other day because one of our new hires fresh from college is eager on using modern c++ and didn't put parentheses at the correct place in his fold expression.
Needs to be said. Apple doesn't seem to give a toss about performance or developer experience so long as it has something to demo at its annual developer conference.
I'd love to try Golang, but as a game developer, the gc makes it a no go due to perf. I begrudgingly accept C# due to unity.
GC is a different topic altogether, but has also always been a pain. You end writing code to avoid allocations, which at that point you ask "Why am I not just writing C++?"
I also discovered GC makes bad programmers worse by allowing them not to care about ownership, enabling them to develop systems in an adhoc way. Some programmers need a segfault screaming at them to make them realise they are writing terrible code.
He lost a huge pile on Kraft Heinz, and that was pre-Corona. Didn't yet realize those losses AFAIK.

He lost a pile on the airlines and even decided to realize those losses.

He lost a pile on that petroleum company that I forgot the name of, but which crashed and burned recently due to oil prices plunging.

He hesitated a long time with tech stocks and lost a lot of money in the last decade due to opportunity cost. His only good bet in that area was Apple, and admittedly that paid off nicely, but even his big stake doesn't compensate for missing out on basically all other tech stocks. Especially since the size of his Apple investment suggests that he played a significant part in raising the Apple stock value, which means that he probably can't pull that out again without depressing the stock price.

Bottom line: I think Warren Buffett is overrated. He fails, just like anyone else.
Right now, cows are being killed without ever reaching a processor. Families are looking for meat at grocery stores and finding empty shelves. Does that make sense to you? Every state has a Health Department and laws regarding slaughter, and this bill would not exempt any processors from those laws.
It makes me wonder if this is moment is going to become a lesson in future finance courses about when we inflated the dollar's value out of existence just to keep the S&P 500 chart moving in a positive direction
I think it's left out because it's about 17 years old and most people who would be familiar with the name of the editor already know it's a macOS app.

But you're right, that 'native' tagline is such a big draw these days, it is probably worth mentioning the OS in the title.
SK Telecom Unveils World’s First QRNG-Powered 5G Smartphone
While certainly less convenient, but what about a real low tech solution:

A notebook.

While certainly not as spiffy it has the added advantage of being completely vendor agnostic.
The word news is literally the plural of new, as in new things. This is an new species discovered using a new method involving a relatively new communications medium. And in particular, it involves one of the strengths of this new medium: letting people share things with others that might be interested.

A key difference between social media and older media is who gets to say yes to publication. For this photo to reach this researcher in a previous age, there would have been several people who had the ability to say no. And limited space would mean they'd have a strong incentive to say no. But now it just takes one person to say, "Here's a thing I think is interesting." Every reader also has their own editorial power; they can share and retweet.

So for me, this is interesting because it's showing how the "given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow" adage applies to literal bugs. That the chaotic nature of Twitter is not just providing me with things I find interesting, but leading to actual scientific advance.
Fungy McFungusface.
The degree of corruption among academics is unbelievable. (And they seem to be overwhelmingly left-leaning and therefore predisposed to go Commie to begin with.)

What a shameless University.