skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First of all, you are ignoring the fact that the Dow dropped ~37% earlier in the year in response to what was happening. The market has never dropped that much so fast.

Second, a great day means nothing if you look at how volatile the market has been lately. We are seeing large swings up and down on a regular basis.

Third, there is no indication that tens of millions unemployed (which we are still figuring out how much of that is actually temporary vs. permanent) would necessarily immediately affect the large cap stocks in the Dow. These are companies like 3M, Apple, Caterpillar, etc...

Lastly, just because the Dow is up significantly on a single day does not mean all the stocks in the Dow are doing great. We've been seeing handfuls of stocks carry indices upwards even though they also contain poor performers.
The author of the OP is not a fan of Why We Sleep, having found many errors and misrepresentations [1].

[1] https://guzey.com/books/why-we-sleep/
No, I didn't. Perhaps that should be changed.

In any case, if there's a drone flying over my house or a public space doing something unsafe or legally questionable, it ought to be possible for me to make a call and have it investigated, knowing that there's a licensing trail to follow. Likewise for operator training.

If drones operate with impunity, we can expect more people to take things into their own hands.
My understanding is that the "deliberate slowing" reported, was such that if you have firefox send a chrome user agent, that one gets faster (and functional) results.

Is that consistent with the "it is because FF doesn't support new thing yet" explanation?
So an alternative to SVG + javascript
The reverse is also kinda true... Many people when they say "I like high resolution" mean "I like to fit lots of stuff on the screen at once".

If you're in the latter crowd, you can configure X or Wayland to render to a 4k screen buffer, and then downscale to fit the actual screen. Yes, downscaling no longer means 1 pixel=1 pixel, which introduces some blur, but unless you're a 20/20 vision kind of person, I doubt you'd be able to tell without your nose touching the screen...
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Agreed. It seems more likely that VC replaced government investment, but with a profit motive, rather than a national or societal motive.
> its the lack of investments that give a real return

The stock market has provided a tremendous real return over the decade since the great recession. And it's dramatically safer on average than venture capital. Let's say you waited until the market got back to the old highs (call it mid to late 2012), to put your money into an S&P 500 index - you're up close to 100% in a little over seven years, or 9-10% per year, an amazing return by historical standards, for doing nothing.

So no, it's not the lack of investments offering a real return. It's caused by the extreme scale of wealth outstanding now. That wealth isn't overall that desperate for a return, that's why so much of it has piled into government debt yielding zip, and only a tiny fraction by comparison flows into VC. The VC being deployed has scaled with the increase in the pile of wealth in the US and global economy broadly.

This is just a tiny subset of wealth seeking a very extreme return in exchange for taking on a lot of risk, not just seeking a good or great (what I think you mean by real) return. They're chasing an Alibaba, Facebook, Google type homerun. It's the literal thing that lured all that money into making a bad bet on Masayoshi Son's fund, his Alibaba riches. It's a diversification into lottery tickets, because hey, you could be a winner, you gotta play to win, only a small number of these lottery tickets are sold, and you know the people that control access to all the tickets.
That’s the point of having a country.
For whatever reason, I had always thought that paid maternity leave was available universally in all countries. I hadn't even fathomed that the opposite could be true.

America continues to surprise me.
Until there's a proper mainstream one I can buy from my cell provider I don't think I can make such a switch. I need very specific apps on my phone for work.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22967716 has some good resources.

I have played some Steam games which support Remote Play Together (sharing screen and inputs from one device), so only one player needs to buy the game.
It looks like he played the game one week before the experiment, during it, and after three days of recovery and did not find a significant difference
In 1998, not very many casinos ran poker rooms. It didn't start to boom as a game until after the WSOP on ESPN and online poker in the early 00s.
This is a very charitable interpretation of Elon Musk's recent outbursts.
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I've been going through computer themed historical narratives; soul of a new machine, where wizards stay up late, doom, startup, just for fun...

The doom book is pretty forgettable and so is Linus's... I'll go take my cyanide pill now.
As someone who used to live in a neighborhood that was frequented by "ghetto birds"[1], I have anecdotal evidence to the contrary. I think the main difference between a consumer multicoper and a helicopter is the barrier of entry to purchase one (and become qualified to fly it) and the operating costs

[1]: Ice Cube once wrote a song to express his frustration w.r.t. how police helicopters outside his bedroom interfered with his sleep schedule: https://genius.com/Ice-cube-ghetto-bird-lyrics
That's a horrible analogy.

While people can be physically only in one location, they do get their information from a variety of source online. Comparing Google to a town square is dumb, when you account that Facebook has much more engaged users than YouTube.

At the time of writing I'm reading stuff on Facebook, Reuters, Yahoo Finance, Twitter, Reddit and watching YouTube videos in between.(HN as well) I'm present on all of those "squares" at the same time.
I've never heard of autonomous. What are your impressions of the build quality?
I think that's what other recent psychological/neurological research has found too (citation needed--but do remember reading about it recently from multiple sources).

It figures that everyone each has their individual baseline "propensity to stay focused"--and sleep deprivation degrades someone's focus below that. You take a normal person and sleep deprive them, and their "propensity to stay focused" is lowered, but still might fall within an acceptable/functional range.

One theory that's gaining traction is that people with ADHD have a somewhat lower baseline than average, and when you throw in sleep deprivation, their "propensity to focus" falls into dysfunctional territory. Ergo, ADHD might have a large sleep component.

In all cases (which corroborates with your experiences), they found that people are really poor at actively self-detecting those fluctuations.
> In some conversations bad actors can gain more power in a debate using misleading information than a good actor can by using the truth.

Can "actors" be neatly divided into "good" and "bad"? Who decides who is a "good actor" and who is a "bad actor"? Your judgement of who is "good" and "bad" may well differ from mine.
Neither can a drone. That's already illegal. Filming into someone's bedroom is usually a felony.
I will sound silly, but I've gone with Outlook, just kinda waiting on them to allow me to use my domain from namecheap. They only support godaddy, if that doesn't change I'll find a different provider, but I went with them because I can get actual Office applications along with ad-free mail. I got an @outlook.com email though, but waiting on their domain support to not suck so much.
Transparency International ranks the US as number 23 and China as number 80 in their list of transparency/corruption. They are not in the same quartile and can't be considered similar in transparency.

https://www.transparency.org/en/cpi/2019/results/table
> I find that my cognitive abilities (i.e. what I am capable of doing) does not seem to significantly decline

It's very common. Studies on sleep deprivation report that subjects do not feel their cognitive abilities decline. However, measuring cognition using objective tests does show a significant decrease in these abilities.
Agree on granular points. While a large chunk should certainly be "was it successful," points for effort and/or general knowledge are good.

1. Did they use man pages? While Google and Stackoverflow have the answers to everything, being able to use built-in help is useful. Obviously if they just know how to structure a command, don't detract points here.

2. How clever are they with bash? This one is hard to objectively measure, but for example, someone using awk to a large extent rather than chaining together calls to grep and sed may know more Linux. Again, I don't know that you should lose points if you're following the Linux philosophy of "Each Program Does One Thing Well," but it's an interesting datapoint.

3. Are they aware of the limitations of tools? I didn't do all the exercises so I'm not sure if you have this, but having to find log entries in multi-GB files can quickly demonstrate knowledge. If you blindly pass `grep -i foo` to a giant file, it's going to take quite a while - even more so if the file is compressed, as would be expected for a production system with logrotate. Knowing that the -i flag slows down grep, and that passing a limited charset (e.g. LC_ALL=C) to grep can speed things up is good.

3a. Make them / lead them to using find with xargs or exec. Once again, understanding system calls and how your command string creation can drastically alter performance is a good indicator of skill.

I suppose overall, I'd want to see the output of the script they wrote (you don't have to auto-mark, you can just have the report print expected and actual, so fuzziness is up to the manager), the time they took, what man pages they read if any, and top commands issued.
It is a baseless fear. There will be software emulation to let those things work while you're using them - and not when you're not using them.
Show HN : Dropbox [0]

It's a rare insight into a first product launch to the world with comments on a focused community.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863
But what is he using OpenBSD for? That’s what is really interesting.
Soo, if I wanted to look deeper in the maths for these RST controllers, where should I be looking? As I've been confessing in another comment in this thread, I am quite stumped how to proceed to understand more complex controllers. This is all my fault, because of my weak grasp of advanced mathematics.
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The Founding Fathers totally predicted this. The USPS existed in some form before the founding of the nation. The postal service was vital for allowing communication and dispersal of news through the nation. Without this neutral party a private mail carrier could opt to not deliver for any reason, like after they've opened your mail and read the contents they find politically disagreeable.
Whilst I've had some spare time apart from contract hunting and home-schooling my son, I knocked this up.

I have different CVs and was finding them hard to manage individually. Having them in once place is helpful.

It's pure client-side for now. Perhaps server-side saving and presenting will come in the future if there's interest.
Sorry, meant the banner pic on his profile page, at top.
First they’d have to know he has a weakness for milkshakes in the first place. Second, he could have friends make them, third you could use an old fashioned hand blender/whisk/mixer[1]... you know the kinds with a mechanical crank... like the old hand drills. So he’s in the least embellishing for the interviewer. Oh, fourth, he could use a pneumatic blender...

[1]https://www.pinterest.com/repk/vintage-hand-mixers/
I don't know what's wrong with me, but I want to atleast buy a 1400€ 24core 3960x Threadripper, because of the insane upgradability.

The idea that in 2-3 years i could just buy a used 3970 or even a 3990 to more than double the core count is amazing to me, and knowing that prohibits me from having my mind blown by the insane value of the smaller Ryzens.
To clarify, I do not believe any of this is the fault of the academics who were operating on shoestring budgets before the pandemic became the big issue that it now is (edit: unless they wilfully misrepresented their capabilities I suppose). I do think however that the government, with several months of advance warning that this issue could become very important and having demonstrably identified key advisors including those academics, failed to provide more than a shoestring budget to upgrade the capabilities of their expert team in such an obvious way at a much earlier stage.

I'm also curious about why they brought in the people they did to do whatever cleaning up was done before publishing this code. There are several businesses in the UK that do this kind of work as a major part of their activity in one way or another. Current or former staff with that sort of background would have been the obvious people to tap for assistance. To the best of my knowledge, the people who have actually been identified as having helped have no such specialist background.
I expect this to get downvoted, but: I would say that was a smart thing to say when laying off thousands of employees. That's not necessarily what the top executives believe, or want, as it is much much harder.
I have exactly what you say. My hypothesis is that your cortex/tertiary brain functions shut down and all that's left is your limbic system and the brainstem. We do a lot of learning in our basal ganglia and cerebellum (pavlov-esque stuff and similar things). That stays more active.

I once made a giant switch statement of 150 lines at my first coding job, and I thought I did a job well done. The next day I came back, well rested, only to realize that I could replace the whole thing with an already existing csv file and a for loop.

Whoopsie :)

How I differ from your experience: there's a certain sleep deprivation sweet spot where my "outbound communication" (e.g. talking or sympathy) skills are better, because I'm a bit less inhibited. My "inboud communication" (e.g. listening or empathy) do suffer a bit. I've noticed I become more of a doer (is that how you write it?). Normally, I overthink things, according to others. That's not the case when I'm mildly sleep deprived. Then I am: optimistic, charging in head first and get the job done! Boom! Yea, kinda like that, I think I'd be a good sales guy on mild sleep deprivation. Oh, and I don't worry about the consequences too much :)

When I get too sleep deprived my communication skills do take a hit.
If Americans support policies like these then why don't we have them?
Probably more with meltdown mitigations on.
>Hate speech is generally understood as sexist/racist/homophobic speech

That may be your definition but it is not the definition and certainly is not close to being the "generally understood" definition.

All words are made up but definitions should not change with the wind. What is happening with hate speech is that it has morphed into "speech that a minority group found offensive." This is not a workable definition because what you find offensive is not what I find offensive. The most broadly accepted definition based on the laws I see on wikipedia is "speech that encourages imminent violence."

The only reason we are even discussing this is because people have begged online platforms to police speech. The inevitable conclusion when you police speech is this problem we are discussing right now. You ultimately just devolve into tyranny of the majority where dissenting thoughts are silenced.

>You may disagree with the definition, but that's what people are talking about.

Just because you don't want there to be nuance doesn't make the nuance go away.
> In data centers, we deploy strong hardware and software security protections to keep information safe and to ensure there are no backdoors into our systems. All of these practices apply equally to our operations in every country in the world.

Except in China of course.
I was skeptical, so tried it out myself and tried making a comment there with 'communist bandits' / 共匪. My Youtube comment was indeed removed completely and silently, including from my comment history. I am very disappointed with Youtube.
The one child policy worked though. The 70s 2 child and 80s-2000s 1 child policies prevented 400-600m births. Almost all the consequences were a fallout of sexist cultures in China against women killing or abandoning their female children.

They don't need the policy in place anymore today because they got over the observable demographic hump where an industrializing economy goes through a population boom before social infrastructure and education lead women to drop their reproduction rates naturally.

The environmental impacts of 25-35% more people existing in China today would have been palpable. Even if, like most impoverished nations, the "lost" population would only have contributed the equivalent CO2 and environmental drain of a tenth of an American thats still the equivalent of 40-60 million Americans less. It was one of the most effective environmentalist policies in history.
World Socialist Web Site as mainstream press needs very-very big quotes.

And this Eric C character turned out to be a nobody (maybe a CIA analyst). So why censor this name? Could be a NSL? (But can that somehow compel the recipient to censor a name anywhere?)
I think it's an inverted U curve.

Games that require fast response and planning suffer on one extreme, and abstract thinking games like chess suffer on the other.
Apart from performance reasons, a truly random seed ensures that there is no bias and the computation can be easily rerun with a different seed, but it can also be recorded and used later to regenerate the same vastly larger sequence of pseudorandom numbers (useful, for example, for regression testing of the main computation code).
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Perhaps they got there sooner, but at what cost to their health, relationships, and sanity?
> "...charges of criminal damage to property and reckless discharge of a weapon within city limits."

...doesn't seem like we need specific laws here for drones. Shooting someone's property with a deadly weapon will break serious laws in almost all jurisdictions.
In other news, GE Appliances just cut my web development contract short by 8 months. Congratulations, India.
> Neutron stars have a maximum mass limit. So do white dwarfs and every other kind of stable compact object. Anything over that maximum mass limit has to collapse into a black hole.

See, this is the crux. From what I read in GR theory, once the neutron star gets over mass limit, the gravity becomes that big that light can't escape it any longer. OK. Light can't escape. Buy why would a matter suddenly work radically differently under the event horizon?

Imagine an asteroid, which has an escape velocity of 1m/s, so it's inhabitants can launch pinballs to outer space with a simple catapult. This asteroid eventually collides with another one, with an escape velocity of 2m/s, so pinballs wouldn't leave the body's gravity field. Nothing really changes on the asteroid, all physics processes work in the same regular way.

Why should it be that different with neutron star vs black hole? NS with ~3 solar masses has radius ~10km, and is a giant lump of neutrons packed together. To me it looks like BH should be the very similar lump of neutrons, just so heavy that light can no longer escape. So what? It should still be a spherical lump of neutrons underneath, just denser.
You are thinking of only US and similar countries where everyone already owns cars. In country like India, there were not much taxis before Uber came. An alternative was autorickshaw which took twice as long to go the same distance, had much worse safety features, exposed one to all the pollution all the time, not to mention the cheating of fares.
There are similarities, but AFAIK AntiGrain and derived projects all render on CPU.

Vrmac graphics only uses CPU to prepare triangle meshes and upload them to GPU.

In terms of image quality, I would expect Anti-Grain to deliver better results. However, I wouldn’t expect AGG to do it at 60 FPS in FullHD for complex vector images on the Pi.
If your schedule/living situation allows, keeping a window open for early morning sunlight to rise helps to reduce the initial haze quickly if present at all.
Yup, I was working on it myself, but shelved it to work on another startup right now.

I wrote a complete system like a Shopify for small retailers integrated with delivery etc. But the code is locked in a private repo for me to get back to if my current startup fails.
Really nice work. One thing you might consider is making sure that tabs and modals work well/there is a model for them. Picnic.css does this well.
I share your excitement! I've never contributed to OpenBSD but have been running and following the distro for ages. I have a few mugs and t-shirts and support when I can. I'm hoping this may bring some fans of his over to the distro who wouldn't have run into (or contributed to) it before.
>Android 10 Is killing Termux terminal app

Remember who owns Android.

It's not worth investing time into a platform that will be further restricted sooner or later. Why should they treat the tablet differently?
Exactly. Except the unit economics work. You don't take a cut, you charge a subscription fee to the service.
Slovakia is not exactly the largest country in the world and to extrapolate from 'Slovakian mobsters have used it' to 'this app is associated with the mob' is a bit of a stretch.

It may only be hard to convince non-mob Slovakians to use it, but that's a relatively insignificant number of people on the larger world stage.
Ok, perhaps "literally".
But it's a reply, right? Context is a thing.

- [...] A lot of software makes me jump through ridiculous hoops to do basic things.

- Also: STOP DISABLING ZOOMING. WTF!

- And please, text selection on mobile. Why is that even possible?

I guess that's not clear at all once there are many replies. What I'm learning here is to craft responses that stand on their own. This is not a spoken dialogue.
To me, N64 continued the video game "tradition" I knew from the 16-bit era. Colorful, fast-paced, responsive. PSX games by contrast were dour, slow-paced, and controlled poorly because of Sony's initial failure to consider how digital control wouldn't work in a 3D environment.
Next time I got flak for gratuitous refactors, I'll point to this.

From John to John, thanks.
I am shocked at how often I can just ignore an annoying email and have the issue go away...
Unfortunately, for most of the Western would values like democracy, freedom of speech, human rights, etc. are more of a vague ideal than something to live by. They surely support it, in words, but if it costs them more than $100 to uphold these values, if there's any substantial risk in it, if you have to risk losing money for standing up to CCP - forget about it. As a society, we'd rather spend weeks debating whether wearing sombrero, growing cauliflowers and drinking craft beer is racist (yes, that's real debates that people have) or whether it's OK to have a particular picture as a logo of a company, than address people being put in concentration camps and disassembled for spare parts by CCP. Maybe if CCP actions cause a pandemic that kills hundreds of thousands we vaguely consider doing something... but nah, arresting single surfers for "not social distancing" sounds more fun.

So don't put too much hope in "western customers". They'd allow likes of Google to get away with a lot, unfortunately.