skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think one reason retail and a lot of other businesses in the real world will be killed by Covid is low interest rates. These have fueled several decades of rising real estate prices and rents. Cue a pandemic where they have to close for a while but still have to service debt or rent and they're done.

They've been cutting rates to stimulate the economy, but that's not sustainable and has led to fragility. We need rates in the 5 to 7 percent range IMHO to prevent this type of thing. In that range, banks may also make loans they can hang on to rather than securities, and people may actually save a bit and have that buffer.
> I'd imagine if you offered people hardhats and heavy machinery to fix the roads they complain about quite a few would line up to do it "for free". Before wrecking the equipment and destroying property.

You're saying that people who reproduce "for free" are half-assed incompetents? I disagree.

As for "culturally normalized", that's a blade that cuts deeply and in many directions. Without cultural norms, civilization as we know it would not exist.

To reiterate my main point, I don't really have a preference on paid maternity. Maybe it would be better, though, to simply award each citizen two or three years "general leave" to be used as they wish. Those that wish to reproduce could spend it that way. Those that don't could do something else. There are too many births now--we hardly need to incentivize more of them.
I really should dredge out my old comment because I already address this concern. Curve the test so that 80% pass. In this way it is impossible to get a feedback loop that miniaturizes the electorate.
>No, but what we, as a society, need to do is cut down on how much luck you need in order to move up.

Perhaps a good place to start would be by talking about 'opportunities' and not 'luck'. Luck is a passive thing that happens to you (for better or worse) whereas opportunities require effort (aka personal responsibility) to make the most of.

for instance, I would agree wholeheartedly that a society should try to maximize the opportunities available to all its citizens.

>You can only fix this by putting a very significant amount of more resource into your education system.

I would disagree here. Education is not the only opportunity available to people. More access to small business loans, for instance, would be desirable IMHO. And of course, access to medical care is on everyone's mind atm...Although, I do think we need better education across the board.

>we need people less than absolutely brilliant to not have to fight so stupidly hard to move up.

Thinking about this a lil more - I'm not really sure 'moving up' should be the end goal? Perhaps, "not have to fight so stupidly hard to have a fulfilling life"? As people keep telling me, there is more to life then work.

Perhaps our fixation with 'moving up' is half the problem? It seems to be a fairly American concept - other cultures don't seem to share our fixation/fascination with the 'almighty dollar'.

Eh...time for coffee...
Somewhere in the footnotes he mentions that Microsoft considers changing the implementation of its uniform int distribution for performance reasons (as a supporting argument for lack of portability).
Hours of sleep may not necessarily reflect how well rested a person is.

There are levels of sleep: NREM ("quiet sleep") and REM ("active sleep"). NREM has 3 stages: 1 (almost awake), 2 (light sleep), 3 (deep sleep).

The deeper your sleep, the most rested you will be. Some people require fewer hours of sleep because they spend more time in deep sleep.
Not sure if Memex has this, but one feature I like with Toby is that I can a save window as a "session" and it makes a "collection" of all the tabs. Works well since I do window-per-topic that I'll come back to later.

I believe Toby lacks text search for the page's contents, so it's mainly just easier/better organization for bookmarks, and would be nice if the data wasn't only tied to their cloud, or if I could make an easy backup.
Thank you for saying this. I feel that media is increasingly targeted for clicks in context, yet simultaneously lacking in the actual content that justifies a given context. Since you already started to do the math, could you tell us how many of the candidates on the ballot supported Q theory? I don’t actually expect you to, as I don’t think the author provided enough context or criteria for Q theory support to determine who is part of the 35 mentioned, or how such determination was made. It would have been nice to see how they did their math so we could check their work.
I do remember, google had a record of collaborationism in China, especially around 6-4.

They were self-blocking gmail, their forums, blogger, etc.

Now, the 6-4 hysteria came to Youtube, now in US!
C++ is pretty performant, that much is true. But no aspect of C++ is simple, almost all C++ features have complex interactions with almost all other C++ features (I can back this up with examples, if you'd like). And there's always the specter of UB making your benign program have no semantics. There is no other language as complex as C++.

Still, for its relatively larhe niche, there is nothing that beats well-written C++. Thankfully, that niche has been ever-shrinking, though very slowly. Perhaps Rust will stake a claim to another part of C++'s niche, like Java/C# did so successfully before.
I really hope the new plugin architecture does not change for a while. The biggest reason we are still on an older grafana release at work is because we don't have resources to update our plugins to the later versions. And now we have to migrate to yet another new architecture?
Yeah. Who knows. It’s just an anecdote, really. But one that hopefully saves someone months of tedium.
That's...not why, and it doesn't. Try clearing your cache, or loading a profile without any addons.
Adaptive cruise control (ACC) is a common toy control problem. The dynamics can be modeled in a very straight forward way. A little bit of google can probably tell you how to implement one.
My study path to pass the AWS CSAA exam
Jeez, I hope they remembered to declare their base class destructor virtual.
> not at the expense of pension funds used by VCs.

This trope needs to die. Pension funds are heavily diversified investment vehicles of which VC is one part of the asset allocation. If a pension fund CIO (Chief Investment Officer) weights their asset allocation towards too much of the VC asset allocation then yes this is a problem - but they don't. In fact they have made size-able returns as a result of simply being disciplined about the risks and rewards of VC as an asset class.
They spend a lot of time telling you std::random_device::entropy() is useless, but I don't see anywhere that it says std::random_device itself is bad. The point of my link was to show that random_device itself is unreliable, even if you use it correctly. It doesn't always work as advertised.
Whoa! This is great! My compliments to the author.
On the contrary, but I welcome you to try to make a case instead of an easy claim that an international movement isn’t.

BTW: the downvotes without arguments already proved my point.
With Linux, you get fewer officially supported games than Mac, but at least it's on people's radar. Few computer users know BSD is a thing, but most have heard of someone using Linux. It's strictly a techie/advanced hobbyist system.
Is this a fair "tier list"?

Most helpful: Sleep

Somewhat helpful: Meditation

A little helpful: Low-carb diet, Hydration, Exercise
This all looks fine for video editing and stuff. What about Coding? I know only usb-c inputs are a pain in the ass, but I will still choose a mac for coding/programming task.
One question: Why put more sh!!t on top of huggingface already really good code?
I'll grant you that an Electron app is generally 90% C++ (ships a web browser), but I'm not sure if that makes Thunderbird (ships a web browser) any better.
It's so strange to see "independent researchers" attempt to poke holes by any means in an argument meant to protect people from the ill effects of sleep deprivation, yet provide zero non-anecdotal evidence to support lack of sleep being beneficial.

Discounting Walker's argument with "he's not thorough" and then providing a "study" done by one person with no professional research experience appears fine for HN
Interesting. I am quite keen on resolving my procrastination problem. I used to be intently focused until I became senior enough to set my own tasks.

Is there an entry point you’d recommend?
The amount of ignorance in here masquerading as experience and knowledge is staggering.

My father was right about so many things. The one I have in mind right now is when he said "age is another form of strength against the nitwit, because those with experience see straight through those with misplaced confidence."

He was right. I'm not calling anyone here a nitwit or anything, please be clear on that.

It's just amazing how wrong some of you are, while sounding so absolutely sure of yourselves. A few don't even get easily researched technical details correct, while trying to sound authoritative.

My point is that maybe this is related to why software development is in the sorry state it is in today: the ignorant are confident they know it all, and the knowledged are confident that they know very little.
Tiny websites are great!

It's interesting to note that the website content itself for this article is 5,045 bytes (HTML + CSS), but the analytics code (firebase-analytics.js) is 26,458 bytes, and firebase-app.js (whatever this is?) is 19,865 bytes.

Not a criticism; analytics is important & maybe the app JS is too. Just think it's worth bearing in mind that it's really easy to blow out your website's total delivery impact to users by several times with third party includes.
And yet it is completely and utterly irrelevant to the story/post.
Agreed. It's dangerous. This is simply someone's personal experiment and their experiences written up. It's proof of nothing other than "I did something"
What do you think of this? : https://histre.com/blog/save-restore-tabs/ [1]

You can save all the tabs into a Histre notebook.

The advantages are:

1. It's a web app, so a window of tabs can be saved in Chrome and restored in Firefox, for example.

2. Searchable

3. Can be shared with your teams

[1] Disclaimer: I'm the founder
How long ago was that? The Quest link cable stuff is still in flux. Not only did they just announce a few days ago that any USB 2.0 cable should now work[1], but they note in that article that Carmack is hoping to add a new mode to take advantage of the higher bandwidth of USB 3.1.

It's entirely possible if that Linux Tech Tips review was more than a month or two ago, things might look considerably different now.

1: https://uploadvr.com/oculus-link-usb-2-update/
The model is profitable, the price point isnt. It's predatory pricing, sell at a loss to hurt and eliminate competition, when you prevail you own the market.
Once again, none of this is relevant to the post regarding Uber's layoffs unless they're somehow disproportionately laying off more women than men can it be even considered remotely relevant.
It goes all the way back to Chiang Kai-shek and Nationalist China. It's an old-fashioned way to insult the Maoists and promote the idea that Taiwan was (and still is) in the right.
I was nodding reading this and then:

> No libraries or frameworks (the exception being analytics)

There has got to be a better way of collecting analytics than to inject a bunch of crappy JS from some company (probably Google).
>cancer

So dramatic. It's an amazing product that billions of people depend on that you don't have to use if you don't want to. Pretend it doesn't exist if it makes you feel better. Try Bing and Proton mail on an iPhone and never look back.

>If these products were just the products they appear on the surface

They're not a charity. If you're not paying for it upfront, you're paying for it with your eyeballs. Don't like it? Take your eyeballs elsewhere.
Dude does 20k burpees this year WTF
A solid open source phone can't get here soon enough.
So Trend Micro cheats to get Microsoft certified, and my employer then uses Trend Micro virus scanning to get certified for HITRUST. It's turtles all the way down.
I really wish I thought of this, nice job :)
"Did Not Connect: Potential Security Issue"

How do you visit this site?
I've used both firefox (dev edition) and chrome pretty evenly for a long time (work stuff in chrome, personal in ff), and I haven't noticed any more reCaptchas in firefox than I get in chrome. If you just started using firefox, I could see the extra captchas being due to having "too clean" of a browser, or a different browser that was never used before tripping some sort of anti malware or suspicious login system.

All just speculation, but I haven't noticed the same issue.
It was a pretty bog standard 6T SRAM block. You can see a die shot here, and I don't think going to 8K would have been a huge deal. http://www.hotchips.org/wp-content/uploads/hc_archives/hc09/...

That being said, going to a real cache rather than a block of manually managed memory I thin would have been the better design choice. Most textures didn't fill up the memory because of the practicalities of managing that memory. A double buffer scheme to load a block wile rendering from another one, the fact that you have to eat the whole cost of the full texture's load before you can render from it, etc.
Ask HN: Recommendations for video games to learn to play music?
Hey gang - hope you're well.

Does anyone have suggestions for video games which are "Video game first, Music-learning second" (as opposed to game'ified music lessons, which seem pretty popular)

As a background: I've decided to learn piano (I've never attempted anything musical before), and bought a MIDI keyboard, and started lessons using Yousician (a Duolingo-style app to learn music). It's fun, but I was thinking, "If there are piano lessons which are gamified (e.g. points, unlocking levels, etc), are there video games which are... music'ified?" I know from experience how much I can get INTO a game mode - grinding away hours etc., so I was thinking what would it take for me to feel the same urgency/interest in practicing piano, without it necessarily feeling like a boring chore.

I'm imagining:
* Street Fighter-style games where your character must use chords and song bit "combos" to beat a variety of enemies, each requiring more complicated song bits until the "big boss". This would be fun as a multiplayer/remote experience too: You and a friend could be "accountability partners" by spending time playing the game / practicing piano, taking on enemies/songs/chords/etc together.
* RPG-style games where your character use music performances to unlock doors, fight certain types of enemies by completing song parts, sustain a difficult part to "charge up" your powers, etc. The character would have skill trees based on completing mini lessons (e.g. if you learn an arpeggio, your character now has +5 more life, etc)

I am certain there are much better ideas than mine, but I'm a bit at a loss to find them. Can anyone suggest games which capture this "playing a game by learning piano"-type feeling? I want to feel that same rush that you get when in the game zone, but while playing piano!

Thanks all!
I really like the concept lets say you want to include a code snippet does it support the syntax highlighting and do you write a blogpost in plain html or markdown
Going on 3 years now, with comprehensive blood tests taken every 3-4 months for 2 years. Never had better markers for inflammation (below error threshold), cardiac health, liver health, etc.

Tried keto (proper), vegan, vegetarian, low-FODMAP, paleo, all without success. Found a forum of other IBS people, and decided to risk going against mainstream 'authority' such as the American Heart Association.

So far, feel better than I ever have, on all markers I could measure objectively, and subjectively.

Whats a terrible idea is to have fats linked to heart disease in a massive lie that spanned decades, breed fruit for higher sugar, then say sugar from fruit is fine and healthy, but refined sugar should be moderated (even then its not discouraged). Or in the face of (currently anecdotal, I agree) evidence of dozens and dozens of chronic, autoimmune diseases cured by a carnivore diet from thousands of people. (Harvard Survey finished collecting data end of April)

Cured meaning we've removed the inflammatory foods causing the chronic illness. At least see it as an elimination diet, to where a user can add foods back in, and find out whats causing the adverse symptoms initially.

But science remains dogmatic, as history shows, for better or worse.
The funny thing about knowledge work is that it sits somewhere between additive and compounding.

Additive like: Let's say you shovel sand into a pit and you shovel 1% more than your peers every day for a year. By end of year, you will have shoveled 1% more.

Compounding like: You're a derivatives trader and make 1% more returns every day for a year than your peers. By end of year you will have made 3780% more.

Knowledge isn't perfectly compounding, but it must necessarily build upon previous knowledge. Abnormal levels of investment and dedication in learning definitely pay off in the long run and compound faster than you would think.
I'm in the USA and get Japanese results when I search for things in Japanese. Google has settings for both region and search result language, I would try setting those.
Quoting for readability:

"""

- Building a high-quality product is a longterm investment and most technology companies know that. As a result, in my experience companies who expect growth would always prefer to keep engineers and PMs as investments.

- Companies generally find it hard to hire Engineers and PMs that meet their standards, especially in competitive markets like the SFBA, NYC, Boulder/Denver, Seattle, Austin etc. (You can argue whether that's caused by overly stringent hiring standards - that's a much more complex question). As a result, companies are somewhat more likely to "hoard" engineers if they expect that they'll need them to grow.

- Because engineers in these markets are expensive, it makes economic sense to spend to improve their productivity. If I have 100 engineers on my team and I can make them all just 1% more productive by hiring an additional engineer who focuses solely on internal tools or open source libraries that improve developer QoL, that's arguably money well spent.

- Many products at scale are more complex than one might expect from the outside, which demands a lot of ongoing product/engineering effort to maintain. If you're working on something that has a credible path to revenue or clearly makes/saves money now, your job is probably fairly safe.

"""

Please don't use code formatting for text. If you want bullet points, put a blank line between them to make separate paragraphs: https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc
Its table of contents doesn't do it justice. this is a great deck! super dense and straightforward.

my tiny tip to contribute:

for those who could never be bothered to remember the ctrl-commands for traversing words, but are familiar with `vi`-style movements: you can go one step above the suggestion in this deck with `set -o vi`.
> You can group multiple orders per delivery

Isn't this the reason that cost per order isn't fixed? The more orders a single delivery can fulfill, the lower the cost-per-order becomes.
Absolutely. I have made a study of self help books, and they’re full simply of ideas, rather than facts. These ideas have been invaluable to me.
Systemic leadership problems are more common than you think. Most larger corporations have orgs within them with very different cultures. It’s not hard to know why: the effective managers listen to their developers and shield them from the shit that comes from above. A healthy tree is nurtured under the protection offered by these managers; their reports never know what kind of shitstorms they were protected from. But these kinds of managers are rare albeit very effective.
And speaking of printer vulns, I believe it'd be really interesting to investigate IPP over USB as a attack vector to pwn otherwise secured hosts.

Despite using a VPN which forwards all of my network traffic on macOS, I can still access my printer's web server because of the automatically configured IPP-USB connection which provides a reverse proxy to the printer's embedded web server over USB. I haven't seen many articles detailing how this works and how it's secured...
Depends. R > 1 can also mean that projects are getting wrapped up and left alone, and their teams moving onto new stuff. Three people per module-project, three project cycles in, will have R = 1. That is not necessarily a bad thing, although it can be a liability if they all suddenly need attention at once.

R < 1 can mean that either the same functionality is getting reworked over and over, or people are breaking separation of concerns and concatenating unrelated stuff onto existing modules.

Ideally you want to be spotting the common patterns and replacing e.g. five 10k-line modules with one 10k-line module. But there's also an unfortunate tendency to favor consolidation into one 50k-line module. In that case they were separate for a good reason...
aka how to become the "myspace" of athletes in a year

their whole attraction is segments and leaderboards

maybe the guy who makes stravistix (and maybe also the veloviewer people) can now just make his own data storage and a full replacement service

but someone will
I'm not sure why you have negative points. Maybe because you meant in first world countries[0][1] and didn't state it explicitly? The world is barely above replacement rate (i.e. there is population growth) and OECD members are below (population decline).

[0] https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.POP.GROW?end=2018&lo...

[1] https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.POP.GROW?end=2018&lo...
My annoyance is that it has absolutely no relevance and adds nothing to the discussion regarding the story/post. It's just noise, which begets noise (my response) and so on. Let's talk about tech.
> What, in your opinion, are most trans people asking for, and what makes you sure that the majority seek that?

We're asking to simply feel included (this includes women as well as trans people; I'm both). When so much of your life is being told you don't belong or that people like you don't / shouldn't exist, it's a big deal. It's 1) more accurate and 2) more reflective of the wide variety of experiences a person can have. I'm not being glib here, but of course the need for gender neutral language seems irrelevant: it is to you because you were already included. It's doubly important in heavily male-dominated industries.

I, too, prefer using "dev" or "employee" in place of "man" in these cases simply because it's more accurate. But it's really not a lot of effort and it actually means something when someone corrects themselves because it's basically "wow I feel seen and like I have a place here". When you've never seen someone like you in a position of success above you because you're one of the first, it really, really matters to feel accepted in any way you can.

Like, you don't have to do it. But these days it really does sound a bit anachronistic to use "man-hours" -- language changes along with the culture and it always has.
Exactly, Google provides a lot of value. Stop acting like this is a one sided transaction. If you don't like the value proposition, you're free to leave anytime.
It is obfuscated. Right-wingers and other cop supporters have never liked the extent to which police abuse is the norm to ever be brought to light. Chicago PD is even looking to destroy misconduct records so that an officer with a history of misconduct can't have it used against him.

https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2020/01/16/chicago-police-union...