skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I wasn’t a developer back then.

That explains your inaccurate perspective.

> Windows NT required a multiple more RAM to run than the consumer versions of Windows (oh no, bloat!), and was much more picky about what hardware it ran on.

Allow me to claim that that is also not true, in the form you state it. Again, I've lived through all this, and I can tell you what that was about. The "pickiness" of NT was even at these times not about the motherboards and the chipsets. It was about the hardware consumer devices. Many things that probably don't even exist as the products today, like a black-and-white hand-scanner that scanned as you moved your hand over the paper and had only Windows 3.x drivers on the floppy with it. There was never a problem of having a developer machine running NT in any reasonable price range, with a reasonable graphic card, monitor, keyboard and mouse. And, at the start, a phone line modem transmitting some kilobytes per second!

The RAM needs did exist, but again not such as they are made to be believed by later distortions. If I remember correctly (it changed relatively fast), at the time NT was published, Microsoft had to deliver it claiming that it will run on 4 MB, the OS and the programs and the graphics, all had to fit. Let me repeat, 4 MB. It run, but not comfortably for bigger programs. But the point is -- as soon as you at that time had 8 MB you haven't had a problem. A little later, for comfortable work, 16 MB were more than a good choice. It was a hundred, two or three of $ more than the cheapest possible offer (yes, that were the prices then), but that was it. RAM was the only thing you had to care about to have NT running.

The point is, at that time there were enough those who didn't want to use Windows NT at all, clutching to 3.x and then 95 and these are those who promoted the horror stories about OS problems. But it was just their ignorance. 95 was also reasonably stable, unless you used, like many, some "utility" programs that were more malware than of real use (the "cleaning", "protection" or even "ram expander" snake oils were used by some even then -- no to mention that a lot of people believed they had to try any program that happens to access them).

The good development tools were good and stable, especially command line (in GUI areas, there were some snake oils among them too). But Word did crash even under NT, and even during the first half of 2000-s decade, and that's completely different story, that was intentional at that time for these products.
> Now that the cash is drying up, people are bouncing back to the old patterns and approaches.

We haven't got to a place where we can measure a bounce-back to "the old".

For instance, as far as I can see into the future, I'm still going to use Lyft when I travel in the US. I'm price sensitive, but the alternatives are still full of externalities if I can't hail a cab off the street easily.

Of course right now, nobody is traveling outside their home cities, nobody is going to restaurants (& restaurants don't have any leverage on delivery companies), the coworking spaces are all closed, there's no parties to cleanup with taskrabbit & that beach weekend in Carmel-by-the-sea won't happen.

The problem I think is that it's going to take 500+ days to get back to even finding what percentage of the economy would go back to doing things as they used to in 2019. And what percentage will just scale down everything and force the companies to skip non-recurring engineering expenses (I'd say iPhone SE is a good example here of "good enough").
Yes, it’s as if the business models of these companies have forgotten all about price elasticity... especially when the “price” is crazy low (because you’re losing money hand over fist)
Benefits of starting a company in a recession: lower rents, cheaper salaries.

Downsides: lower consumer and business spending.

If you’re trying to start free and grow that base, then perhaps it’s good to start in a recession. But if having paying customers is important, the headwinds could be outweigh the tailwinds.

Another consideration: does your company align with how people are reallocating their time/money during the recession? If you can get a piece of recession spending, good for you. But if you’re a general-purpose product then you’re probably in for a tough ride.
Aren't Surfaces just Windows laptops?
This particular illusion of safety actually provides some non-zero degree of safety. For instance, it prevents trivial typos in property names.
My problem is that I feel what I need the most now is real world real job experience working with a team of developers. One year of actual software developer experience working in a team will do me more good in improving my skills than 3 years working on side projects.

I feel like I've done enough side projects to prove I'm at least not a complete hopeless case.
On the whole though you’d expect less people to have enough money to be an early stage VC during a recesssion. I think those that can afford it will definitely be looking for opportunities.
Yes, I detest Electron and how its adoption has made apps that would otherwise be great, clunky (looking at you Microsoft (vs code) :/ ). I love Sublime Text by comparison.

I'd pay good money for a native Evernote alternative.

I think no cross-platform solution will ever compare to native, and in the long run, native will prevail.

Electron might be good for quick development and deployment, but that's for the developer's benefit, not the consumer's.
Not the original source, but better? ;)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSgiXGELjbc
I don't entirely agree that companies operating public discussion forums is equivalent to "forced speech", but I do agree that the problem can be fixed by eliminating the monopoly/oligopoly.
My dream is to do what Palmer Luckey did - build a successful computer graphics-based startup and then lure John Carmack to be CTO.

I've got a snowball's chance in hell of being that successful, but I do envy the fact Palmer was able to hire him. What an incredible hire.

Then again, he did have Facebook money.

It's cool that he's got the autonomy to pursue AGI after guiding Oculus into a good position.
Honestly, it's hard to articulate or even pinpoint one thing. I like the layout and options of FreshRSS, and a few little things; for example, I use categories, and when I hit 'mark as read' on a category in tt-rss, it would indeed mark everything as read, including items that had refreshed behind the scenes since the last time I opened the category, effectively marking items as read that I hadn't seen yet. FreshRSS seems smart enough to realize that those items haven't been displayed.

Also, tt-rss' developer, fox, is rather abrasive, akin to Theo de Raadt from OpenBSD (which I love and will always use, despite Theo's abrasiveness). I will admit, the projects do generally benefit from this unyielding approach, but it makes it a chore to request help, knowing that you'll likely be upbraided for asking questions.

I also like that FreshRSS has better 3rd party app support (at least on Android).
This refutation is authored by the same person who conducted the study to which these comments are attached :)
Sure, the factual parts of that are accurate. Your opinion colors some of the adjectives. OpenGL works well, for example. No CUDA, no NVENC/DEC.
Not a thing I’ve ever considered on a hiring front unless you’re famous as a sexual harasser or for pulling a Damore. Literally never heard of anyone doing this either.
(IANAL) My gut says coordination would be be evidence of both (a) premeditated intent & (b) knowledge that actions constituted fraud.

One could place a personal order (or 100) innocently.

One looks substantially less innocent when coordinating with a third party to place orders and transfer money around.

While that speaks to the severity of the crime (if one were proven), as you noted, it doesn't in any way impact whether that behavior is a crime at all.
And that's violating IP exactly how? :-)
A fun speculation about similar things is found in the Neal Stephenson novel "Anathem," where consciousness is a manifestation of the many-worlds interpretation of QM.

The notion in the novel is that most "forks" are imperceptible, but forks in a brain result in outsized impacts on the physical world due to the tight interconnectivity of its neurons / circuitry (i.e. the normally minuscule difference in electron spin could cause an entirely different neural pathway to be followed, resulting in the conscious entity taking different actions and thus greatly impacting the world in tangible ways). It is the susceptibility to this cascading effect that somehow results in "consciousness."

It's probably baloney, but it's a fun read with some interesting things to consider :)
There's an RSS feed if that's your thing:

https://travisdowns.github.io/feed.xml
Smoke signals from the house across the street.
dude, click on "Confirmed COVID-19 Cases by Day". If you ignore the drop every weekend and greyed bar from last few days (incomplete data) its increased every single week.

Number of new cases per day is steadily increasing every week! A month ago the daily new cases were half what they are this week
64DD was an expansion to the 64 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/64DD . It was a commercial flop
To continue the chain, we had 98.css last month, although a little more niche: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22940564
where do chrome books fall on this spectrum?
Everyone is throwing money into tech stocks right now because they "seem safe"

Try running the numbers on TSLA... they should be at like $300 on their best day.
Great, I have an ADHD diagnosis as well. In fact, my coping strategies are pretty similar to yours. Framing what is otherwise an interesting idea for a mindfulness practice for the masses as an easy "cure" is not only speaking for all of us, it diminutizes the condition for those who don't understand what life is like when you just can't point your mind at the thing in front of you. I get enough of 'well, everyone has trouble focusing sometimes,' which is why I even bothered to dig up my login to comment. Thanks for the level response, I had reservations that any response might turn into a poo-slinging contest and I'm glad it didn't!
Serverless landing page optimization – implementing edge experiments at Opendoor
https://archive.md/5OSus
> I'm not the one making the argument. Other people are. And you are missing the point.

No, you're here, right now, making the argument.

> If you don't think you've made three hateful statements in one comment then you haven't been paying attention.

You're going to have to do more than type the word "racist" or "transphobic" to explain why the things I've said are transphobic or racist. I'm quite aware of the words I chose and the groups I chose. If you have a legitimate grievance as to why my statements were transphobic or homophobic, please explain. But short of that I have to believe you aren't commenting in good faith.

> Opinion and group identity are mutable

Sure. But the characteristics that people can pick to identify people as an out-group aren't. Once society has picked a definition of white, I can't stop myself from being under that definition. And while you're correct that it may, with time, be possible to change society's opinion on what is good or bad, in the meantime it harms a bunch of people discriminated against for things they have no control over. To those people, the characteristics society cares about are immutable.

So until society has progressed to the point that we don't give a shit what someone's race is (and don't tie it to a skin color or whatnot), and don't want to discriminate against people who are attracted to people of the same sex, we should prevent hate speech based on the immutable characteristics of race and sexual orientation.
> Anyone have any insight in to why people shifting to eat at home would lead to less overall food demand though?

Based on the emptyness of my local store shelves over the past couple months, demand isn't the problem. Supply chain capacity is.
From your example, an even more concise way can be written using ternary operations in any C-style language:

int i = 10;
bool is_10 = (i === 10) ? TRUE : FALSE;
The chance of employers stopping hiring from the 20-35 year old age group is... slim.
The "whistle-blower" was a federal employee making allegations of hearsay and intent identifying other federal employees (not just the President). What is the line that decides that one is immune to scrutiny while others receive the full brunt? Is it partisan lines, or perhaps seniority cut-offs? Carter Page received no such protection from being targeted and publicly unmasked, despite being a long-time investigation informant.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/while-were-talking-a...

Such ambiguity fosters an environment of pre-emptive accusations, rife with alternating investigations and immunity.
This is not some let them eat cake thing, frankly I think people with your pov are actually the ones saying that.

How much would it actually cost to commute 20-30 minutes to and from work in an Uber? $40 a day? More? Let's just say its 40 and you strictly commute during the week so that's $200 a week or 800 a month. Even with bad credit or no credit you would be able to save for a car rapidly. The $2000 car would only take 10 weeks to pay for fully in cash and the savings of 800$ per month could easily cover maintenance.

My point is if you can afford to use Uber as your sole means of transportation you can surely afford your own car and the people who can't are using subways or Buses. It's pretty simple, people who are struggling aren't using Uber very often.
It does exist. I personally know a person who did that, on purpose, and got away with close to 3 years of contigus maternity leave before quitting their job.

That being said, this is ONE person I know, I have no hard data or anything, but I'm pretty sure it's a minority.
Pompeo backs away from theory he and Trump pushed that Covid19 escaped Wuhan lab
I get your point, but any culpability on their part should not cause us to withhold compassion and empathy to a person losing their livelihood.

Being laid off sucks.

I can't imagine what it's like to be laid off during the worst economic period in US history since the great depression, AND to have people bag on you because you were employed by a company they didn't agree with.
No More Flash Support in Firefox by the End of 2020
Why is this happening? Farmers dumping food at the same time that supermarkets are unable to supply basics like flour and chicken.

Does anyone know why this is happening in the US and whether it is also happening in other countries? It certainly isn't happening here in Norway. We had short term shortages of flour and yeast but that is over and now there seems to be no shortage of anything else.
I wouldn't say this is refuting even a minority of claims in the book. It appears to be a thorough fact check of a small percentage of claims, some of which is going after the author over wording and inconsistencies. It's fair criticism, but by no means invalidates a majority of the information regarding sleep that Walker presents
Honestly don’t understand why people don’t have their email address public. Spam filtering is so good these days that this is all upside and no downside.
Coronavirus has killed less people than the flu does in a year. You are living in hysteria. Wake up and look at what you are suggesting.
im explicitly calling for a peaceful solution that allows everyone a way to move forward together, but read whatever strawman you'd like
I understand you're trying to be helpful but the parent comment is still correct that one should not trust Whatsapp
The cost of acquisition is also the cost of retention. I moved to DoorDash exclusively during the pandemic because of DashPass. Before that I was mostly UberEats.

UberEats would need to win me back, at least if they want me before I got back to the office.
Mediasoup – WebRTC video conferencing
Seems to be working for Apple.
Threat Hunting with Only Proxy Logs
there's a lot of evidence in the open source community that people don't necessarily need to be paid (a lot or at all) to do work they find interesting. it's great that some people are willing to do this, but I don't think it's fair in general for society to benefit from the work and have the only reward be the satisfaction of a job well done, unless the people doing the work are okay with that.

furthermore, there may be a lot of overlap between useful/important and interesting work, but I doubt they map perfectly. there probably needs to be some material reward for important work so that it gets done even if it's boring.

I certainly don't think we have a great state of affairs today. some people get paid huge amounts of money to do work that I feel is harmful. imo the goal should be to take care of everyone's basic needs, but also to reward people proportionately for their contribution to society.
No, he is not a good dude. He spreads pseudoscientific garbage. I don't care if it's based on some old tradition.
I'm sure some people would disagree with you. What you value isn't the same as what others necessarily value. That doesn't make it a terrible idea in itself.

The experience of a WeWork and Regus are very different. They can both co-exist because some people like a more community type environment, and some people just want a modular space that is affordable.

WeWork tried a bunch of things that you might not find at a typical coworking space but I personally would pay 2x for a WeWork space over the same Regus space because I will get more value out of the WeWork space which is meeting people. I have spent plenty of time in my career in WeWork and Regus spaces, and WeWork has been much more fruitful in terms of the network effect.
My lease specifically forbids putting any plants outdoors (I don't have a patio to put them on, so they would be taking up space in shared walkways). And yes, space is limited, which is exactly why unless I want to start throwing away furniture I can't in fact find the space inside.

There was no "snark" intended. My response is just as serious and practical as "Compose [sic] them and grow new ones!".
‘The breaking of the middle class’ has famed short-seller rethinking career
That's not true. There are plenty of companies where referrals are non-essential or non-existent, but the company is able to turn $1 of advertising into an LTV of $20 even if the customer churns. Imagine an app that helps a woman through pregnancy, for example. The churn rate on its own doesn't mean that the product is necessarily trash and the lack of referral doesn't mean that the product isn't appreciated. Some buyers have needs on short timescales or do not naturally refer other buyers.
So that the people wiping your ass when you're 90 are well-adjusted, and intellectually and social capable, and thus have empathy and care for you in your declining years. If nothing else.
I should have specified, my point was that Uber is not the same as public transportation and is essentially a luxury good.
purelymail.com is hella cheap!
Podcast version here! https://anchor.fm/talking-money-stuff/episodes/The-Unicorns-...
http://archive.is/hNXNE
Sorry if I came out a bit snippy out there. But yeah I assumed you meant python without numpy, etc.

A lot of the criticism I saw was because the core routines did not need to be packaged up. There were a lot of common data structures reimplemented, etc.

I don't think the model had many novel routines. It could be built just using industry standard and tested tools in python, R, Julia (if you really want speed) etc.
But it reinvented the whole ecosystem in one big ball of C.

tbh, this should have been built on STAN or similar. There's so many variables and assumptions that the output is completely dominated by the parameters chosen. Seeing the distribution of outcomes instead of a point estimate would be actually useful.
Prickly pear https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opuntia is a very common sight in the few remaining wild/unkept parts of Austin and surrounding country given that Austin is part of its native range. As cactus goes, it is definitely one of the friendlier ones.
Twitch.tv! It's not just for live streams either. You can watch lots of previously recorded streams as well. It's also not just for video games (though it is predominantly video games).
BSDs are mundane and also stable, not like some rolling linux distros
Kaitai Struct
Ask HN: Board Games Online?
I want to play online board games with my friends, have you used platforms to do this? What do you like about them - can you create private lobbies? What games can you play on them?
Nope. But I'm 100% confident I'm above the bottom tier.
I've probably done a month or two of 4 hours a night at least. My sleep is all over the place. At times, I'll slip into occasional microsleeps at the office where I basically pass put for a split second (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsleep)
Very recently however, I had a two night bout of nearly total sleep deprivation (I maybe got 3 or 4 hours in a 48 hour period) and it was absolutely terrible. The second morning it was incredibly difficult to concentrate and I couldn't keep a coherent thought for a couple hours. However normally when I'm sleep deprived I can power through the morning hours and be ok the rest of the day. I did not want another night of that so I grabbed a variety of otc sleep aids hoping to find one or a combination which would knock me out. Luckily I was able to knock myself out the next night and ended that for the time being.
And how would one pay for it?

California and Washington are both running massive deficits due to their harsh quarantine measures and will literally be out of money in a few months. Many cities are already running out of money.

Seattle, San Francisco, LA, NYC... all are heading towards bankruptcy or massive layoffs.

Many cops and teachers are about to be laid off. Prisons will be releasing prisoners to make budgets meet.

And here people are talking about a whole new squad of police that do nothing but enforce distancing and mask-wearing. With what money?

https://www.usmayors.org/2020/04/14/cities-report-pandemic-c...

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Bay-Area-cities-...

https://www.dailybreeze.com/2020/05/12/coronavirus-la-cities...
Exactly this. Much like the Volatility Framework's psscan[1] module.

[1] https://github.com/volatilityfoundation/volatility/wiki/Comm...
You mean change the entire world's economic systems? Who had a real lockdown and has upward economic indicators as a result? Even Germany isn't spared. China certainly isn't. There's a level of interdependence here as well - if consumption (goods or tourism or take-your-pick) in one country shuts down, another country can be heavily hit and layoffs result. But all that aside, what's the bullet-proof economic system that 300 years of economic philosophy and experience has missed that would help here?
I’d say that the idea that we can recover wasted time sleeping is predicated on the idea that sleep is not a useful thing to do with our time. I think the current consensus is that there is actually many different things that our bodies and minds do while sleeping, so you couldn’t isolate one benefit of sleep and replicate it, you’d have to replicate five or ten different benefits of sleep, or more.

If you want to recover some time, try Soylent, moving closer to the office, hiring a maid to do the cleaning, etc. Assuming that these are within your means, you can recover quite a bit of time that way.
To expand on jimbob45 - his tweets aren't your usual "140 characters" style of affair :D
It seems to me that the insurance company had a pretty straightforward case that spiders are "vermin". I don't understand why the court had to go into the dubious proposition that spiders are "insects".
Oh god. I would not recommend that git repo to anyone. It is doing a lot wrong.

Look at exploreflask.com for a great example on how to structure production grade flask applications. Read the flask docs, the later sections deal with the create_app factory function and how to use it. It is really good in that sense.