skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow. Phabricator has really evolved since the last time I looked at it. I will consider it for my next team.

As per wine and dine:
1. I have never interacted with a human being from Atlassian ever.
2. I don't think this is as effective for selling software anymore. This has been replaced by user conferences. Most people who can buy things that involve being wined and dined have can expense a nice meal when traveling for work. Many times a sales person may wine and dine you so they can wine and dine themselves.
Enhancing Facebook’s RocketSpeed Publish/Subscribe System [pdf]
Compatibility Is Not Transparency: VMM Detection Myths and Realities (2002)
Donkey Kong in Manga Form!
Can’t tell if this is a joke or you failed to read the comment you replied to.
I love RSS, but do think it needs to be developed.

For a start, clients aren't great. Most have poor UX and are clunky, and I've used very few which don't choke on large numbers of feeds.

Second, having lots of subscriptions really shows the value of an editor. I don't often want to scroll through everything that has been published by a recently hyperactive feed in order to see things with a lower cadence. There is no filter for relevance, which is perhaps something that could be added through an external service or added to a hosted reader. Maybe someone has already done this.

Third, search and recommendations is pretty poor. I'd be very much in the market for "if you liked this then you'll like this" for RSS feeds. Perhaps this already exists, but I'm not aware of it.

What I've always liked about RSS is the fact it can keep me in touch with more sources than I can track myself. It highlights the blogs that only publish once a month, and if I only check in weekly, it turns the internet into a handy snapshot of who has updated and who hasn't. The part I like less is filtering between relevance and irrelevance.
I'm using the old reader and i Have never paid for it.

There are some limitations for the free accounts but to be honest I have never run into them.
To be more precise, some CPUs do the "both sides of the conditional" execution (EDIT This link is incorrect! Refer to "Eager execution" in the last link below. /EDIT https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eager_evaluation) - years ago I heard that mobile processors do so for power reasons. No idea if that's still the case.

The problem in question is due to predictive execution in which the CPU has to flush the pipeline on misprediction. This is dominant in desktop PC CPUs. I have no knowledge on what is prevalent in e.g. server or mobile CPUs.

Both are (according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speculative_execution) forms of speculative execution.
Maybe you'll prefer the original (dead-language) Latin version: Via Lactea. Sounds cooler to me, maybe because it's a Dead language name.
as far as i can see, RSSHub does exactly that, and supports as many as 536 scraped sources (of varying caliber) at https://github.com/DIYgod/RSSHub/tree/master/lib/routes.

It's not an outlandish amount of work, if lots of people chip in with their favorite source.
By occupying that space in Brooklyn, that landowner excludes others from the opportunities that they enjoy. The land, which the homeowner didn't create, has tons of benefits that accrue only to the owner that come not from the owner's labor, but from the labor of others that are nearby, merely by being close to all those other people.

So how much does that Brooklyn homeowner owe to the rest of society for excluding others from what they enjoy? How much does the SaaS millionaire exclude others from opportunities?

Many proposed economic systems distinguish between property that comes from your own labor, and profits that come from idly owning an asset and restricting its use by others in certain ways. The slogan "property is theft" doesn't refer to the bookshelf that a person crafted, it refers to real estate and the economic systems of the time that excludes so many people from the opportunity to escape the economic rents of those who were born with more wealth and privilege.

There are many reasons to tax things: to make life more fair, to raise funds for government, to improve economic efficiency, to reduce pollution. It's so hard to say who should be taxed more without baseline values!
See also Peter Deutsch's "Fallacies of Distributed Computing" list (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacies_of_distributed_compu...).

There's some overlap, but also some new stuff. In particular, "pipes" isn't covered by the Fallacies list and is consistently a pain point and/or issue you always face in some way. Also "asynchronous" isn't covered by the Fallacies list.
>That's basically what java and python do. Well, they can be tricky too.

But,you can easily make the classes/collections immutable to avoid the issues you mentioned. I think in java records and many collections are immutable by default. Immutability is fundamental to functional style programming.
One thing people have made is array languages. The "primitive" operations apply to arrays of data, so branches around individual elements can't be expressed.

I think it's also generally less expressive, though. Writing Lomuto's partition as efficiently would likely be impossible, but writing it branch-free might not be -- you would compose branch-free primitives like

left = filter(array, array < array[0])
right = filter(array, array > array[0])

where `filter` is branch-free and takes an array of Boolean values as its second argument.

Shrugs, aside from some standard set of functions/primitives and idioms I'm not sure it would help much, though perhaps a mindset-shift is a more likely solution than something more technical.
Unemployment isn't quite that bad? The 20% is looking quite possible.

> The picture looks worse through the lens of new claims for unemployment benefits—a proxy for layoffs. Workers filed 26.5 million claims for unemployment benefits from March 15 through April 18—the weeks covered by the April jobs report. This is equivalent to 16% of the U.S. labor force seeking aid, which would suggest an unemployment rate above 20%. (Another 3.8 million filed the following week, which will be reflected in the May report.)

https://www.wsj.com/articles/april-jobs-report-likely-to-sho...

Wall Street has no idea which direction the economy is going to go, and stocks keep rising despite the fact that uncertainty mandates prices go down. Disparity in equity research earnings estimates has reached near record levels (actual peak was 19% in April 2009):

https://i.stack.imgur.com/bjlj2.png
And they are probably not going to change their mind by reading an anonymous sarcastic comment on HN.
RSS + Dat is a great combo, for what it's worth
In my experience RSS is at its best when dealing with infrequent publishers or niche audiences. People who don't expect to be paid for their writing because they want a wider audience, like think tanks or university departments.
Same. Glancing over 1000 headlines on a fresh pull saves so much time and energy.

The 30 minutes it takes to peruse makes for a good breakfast routine versus only making it 10 to 20 stories deep in the same amount of time.
RSS has been really great for me over the last year or so (when I got back into it). I tried Feedly, and then Inoreader. I was not willing to pay for either and ended up trying out the two popular self-hosted options: ttrss (tiny tiny rss) and Miniflux. Stuck with Miniflux for its simplicity. Using the Fever API with Reeder on my Mac and Readably on my Android.
I'm really curious about whether people think Deno will succeed. Node certainly has its warts, but I feel like with recent improvements in the JS language and Typescript that Deno doesn't really solve problems people have nowadays. I don't think the decoupling from NPM and the dependency management approach (or lack thereof) is really a thing that most developers want. NPM certainly had a bunch of "dumpster fires" for years IMO (lock files mess, signed code mess, etc.) but I feel most of those pain points have largely been addressed.

I downloaded Deno and tried it out, but at this point I'm just left thinking it doesn't really add anything for me that I need.
With the many covid websites out there its surprisingly difficult to find the information you want. https://www.syracuse.com/coronavirus-ny/ is quite good in that it shows the total number of people in hostpital over time, and change in intubations. NY State only.
Left pad disaster happened because 1.) npm took away another authors project 2.) npm makes it overly easy to unpublish already published projects. That is ridiculous.

It has nothing to do with how easy it is to publish things. Also, adding own left-pad once disaster happened is quite easy in node.js modules system.
The most mind-bending parts are those that occur beyond Heat Death.
Show HN: Wysiwyg markdown editor technical prototype
Two anecdotes in support of your last sentence:

I once paid cash up front for a procedure, charged at 25% of the insurance rate. This was put in writing as the total cost of the procedure. Afterwards, they billed me as if I owed 75% of the other rate, with threats of legal action accompanying invoices. I did not immediately locate in my files my copy of the initial contract. Like you, I was freaking out. Even after finding my copy, and knowing that I would prevail in court if it came to it, I worried about all the indirect ways the situation could harm me. Eventually they dropped the issue.

A friend agreed to a few procedures without knowing the price, and was then charged a bizarre, absurd amount of money (I comparison researched, after the fact). He offered to pay 50%, and they gladly, eagerly accepted. I heard the call, they sounded surprised and happy. Clearly he could have paid much less.
The Padhuka Sahasram of Vedanta Desikan aka KaviTarkika-Simhan has a section called Chitra Paddathi which paints pictures in words in a matrix of artistry in praise of the feet of the Lord. You can hear it being recited at (1) read the shlokas a t (2) and see the artistry at (3) Of note, the solution to the Knight's Tour can be seen at (4)

(1) Recital by Malola Kannan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bj4sWsHC6Ck

(2) Follow the recital starting at shloka 911 here http://www.ibiblio.org/sripedia/ebooks/vdesikan/rps/92.html

(3) See the artistry of the shlokas here http://www.ibiblio.org/sripedia/ebooks/vdesikan/rps/chitra.h...

(4) The Knight's Tour solution here http://www.ibiblio.org/sripedia/ebooks/vdesikan/rps/knight.h...
https://github.com/WelliSolutions/HugeJsonViewer
Profiling 2019 NFL Offenses with NflscrapR Data and Clustering
How to automate Chrome Dino game using Python
Yes we are in agreement! There is no opposition, and if at all there is any disagreement it is at most one of focus and emphasis, not anything substantive. Consider the chain:

<Fun fact: X, imperfectly stated> → <NASA engineer says Sanskrit can be used for knowledge representation> → <NASA endorses Sanskrit for AI> → <Sanskrit is good for AI> → <Sanskrit is the best language for computers> → <claims of superiority> → <Y: the thing you might be actually worried about>.

In any such chain X→…→Y, I think it's possible that worry about Y can hinder ability to appreciate X on its own terms as an intellectual delight, so it requires some conscious mental effort of stepping back or “depoliticization”, to do so. Then, for “calling out abuse” (as you said, they're not complementary), one again has a choice of form. A shooting-down approach, especially one where one debunks something actually further ahead in the chain, has its advantages — it is strong, and plays well to third parties and to those already on one's side. But it can be polarizing, and poor at convincing the person who was saying X. It seems preferable to me to start by agreeing with X (in this case X too was imperfectly stated so actually one would have to reach back and agree with the correct W), then add a cautionary note about the next steps in the chain that are not true. But this is ultimately a matter of preference no doubt. After all, those who react strongly seem to be more successful in most outcomes other than convincing the person they're reacting to. :-)

Anyway I guess it is a bit pointless and too meta to be talking about talking, so I'll end here; will just for concreteness repeat the correct (AFAIK) version of the “fun fact”: there existed/exists an interesting and sophisticated special-purpose usage of (a subset of) Sanskrit that was used to avoid (reduce?) the ambiguity that is common all natural languages, and Sanskrit in particular, and this was (roughly) pointed out in a paper in the 80s that caught some interest because of the author's employer (NASA) and publication venue (AI Magazine), though there are much better sources, and though it is not actually any more useful for AI than the typical approaches used (even at that time) for knowledge-representation.
These "free" stock trading companies cut deals with high-frequency trading firms that buy order flow. The more order flow they buy the more money they make (essentially risk free to them), which is why they are willing to send boatloads of money to companies like Alpaca/Robinhood.

High-frequency trading firms aren't in the business of stocks, they are in the business of building the fastest tech on the planet to connect buyers with sellers, therefore making markets more efficient.
Well "Andro-milk" sounds like a muscle supplement..
General Atlantic to Invest $870M in India’s Reliance Jio Platforms
Thanks for the link.

I think this quote from it enlightens me a lot in your case: "Cystic Fibrosis is a homozygous recessive genetic disorder. That means it requires a defective gene from both parents to cause the child to have the disorder".

That tells me that with the "The disease occurs in 1 in 2,500 to 3,500 white newborns" I got from Google, those are not significantly dangerous odds, even if you'd chosen to optimize them even more by not avoiding white men during the relevant years.

(but I may be miscalculating, since you said "defective gene", not "diagnosis" (which is presumably the number from google), and it's not important to my point)

With this extra information I don't put you in the group of people I don't understand with this. (of course not that you'd need my approval or understanding, like that other guy seemed to think I was saying)

But say (from a real example) someone has a grandmother, mother, and sister, with varying degrees of paranoid schizophrenic diagnoses (e.g. ranging from "being a jerk in that particular way" to "institutionalized and forced medication"), I do think that this person, even though apparently asymptomatic, would not be responsible, and would be selfish, if they'd choose to have biological children.
In the UK they have 30%, followed by eBay and the major supermarkets, so basically ~3 companies own half of online commerce.

The current percentage is almost irrelevant anyway, the endgame of this is monopoly whether or not they have it right now, the vertical integration of delivery alone is enough.

I'd split up the major supermarkets as well FWIW, but that's a different discussion.
I appreciate you sharing. I didn't mean to shoot you down or anything.
Venus is visible in daylight but not that easy to find. So maybe the Antares supernova would be like a brighter Venus.
US Secret Service: “Massive Fraud” Against State Unemployment Insurance Programs
If you have a branch free algorithm, you can vectorize it. If he discussed implementing this with SIMD instructions (whether by human hand or compiler auto vectorization) I missed that part. But that seems an interesting angle to me.
I've used a number of ORMs in the past and have not had a great experience, but recently have been using Eloquent with laravel and it's really great
Another amateur (these days professional) telescope maker who started in his teens and has written in length and detail about his projects, Allar Saviauk: http://www.allarscopes.com/telescopes/index_eng.htm
This...

Most of us just don't get to borrow 100 million, good credit ain't cheap...
High-volume sites are not a good use case for RSS. We already have various social ways to filter. Like the site you're on. I think RSS should be for high-quality niche sites where you care about every single post.

I subscribe to 200+ feeds, but only read a dozen or so stories a week on them: http://akkartik.name/feeds.xml
Our rendering engine basically serves too many masters. It wasn't designed for what we're doing with it now, but it still has to support all the things people have done with it in the past.

This is why systems like Flutter, despite all their downsides, can be really snappy. They skip the DOM and all its baggage and just use their own "app-first" layout system.
Agreeing on standards is one thing but what about taking proactive measures to limit the spread of harmful content in the first place?

Is giving anyone the opportunity to stream to thousands of users unchecked a responsible thing to do? We've already seen the downsides to that, how Facebook failed to remove the stream when it was in progress and their numerous failings to curb the spread of the video in the weeks that followed.
I think now a days “reboots” are a thing of the past. All of my instances scale up and scale down and have a max life of 30 days before they are rebuilt on a patched AMI. I think most stuff is done like that and not real metal boxes anymore.
Gartner Predicts IT Spending Will Plummet by $300B in 2020
That would explain it, but, unfortunately I mixed up that constant. I meant ln(2)/3. log2(3) isn't a constant in the 8087. Apologies for misleading you.
Zoom outage affects many users in US, UK
The thing this article pointed out to me, which I didn't know before, it that is why you should just set the partition count very high to begin with. Then you just horizontally scale consumers.
every. damn. time. i'm a freelancer, so there's not a dev team behind me. the client likes what i made, and wants to start using it. realizing this, i've started spending much more time on the UI/UX (even though i'm not one of those guys) to at least make the tool useable in a dogfooding way.
In this case the application was commissioned by the founder, and the people developing it were given errant criteria (and not given other valid criteria) which admittedly made Kafka sound like it would make sense.

The developers who adopted the commissioned application were way too inexperienced to know one way or another, and by the time I was asked to help out, no one had really learned anything about Kafka.

My suggestions to replace it with a basic queue were rejected and my suggestions to store events in a database for easier recollection were rejected. They were sure learning Kafka better would fix everything instead.

Ironically there's not even that much to learn about it, in the scheme of things. It's like learning more about your car so you can make it fly one day. It's just not the right tool for the job.
My comment wasn't inherently about sorting either. Branch-free in general is faster in the worst cases, i.e. if the branch is difficult to predict. Except most real-world branches are predictable... that's why we have branch predictors. So in general you should expect branch-free to be slower, unless you have reason to assume your branches are actually close to random.
I’m genuinely not understanding the X and Y category or behavior you’re contemplating here.

Is Y’s behavior being on average healthier and therefore less costly to insure?
> Since it happens every frame, you don't need state management to push updates around. Everything just grabs the latest value anyway.

This is not true or at least only deceptively so. If you think about "global state" in a game or more specifically in a rendering scene as "all of the objects in the scene" then the main difference is the lack of acceleration structures for the web. Most of the objects in a scene are never touched because AABB or some other structure allows you to cull large number of objects without ever actually touching them. If objects in the scene change, you definitely need to update those acceleration structures. Fortunately for games, those updates are quick and there are typically not that many of them.
> Does everybody need to speak from a position of authority? He is an influential person, seems like it's enough for the news.

Influential because he ran Microsoft.

Does this mean I should accept the solution to all ills is a massive tracking apparatus forced on me through governments because Bill Gates says so? Or even that I should accept the vaccines paid for by government manufactured by Bill Gates under a system where he has no product liability?

Don't these seem like reasonable questions?

The fallacy of appeal to false authority is applicable here.
For the sixth year in a row, an Atlantic named storm forms early
just to further complicate things and show how stats are all over the place, the Texas Tribune has hospitalizations flat (even slightly decreasing on average) since about May 1

https://apps.texastribune.org/features/2020/texas-coronaviru...
It says "Among the 40 states that have consistently provided data" (and, indeed, I count 40, not 44; missing are Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Kansas, Nebraska, Nevada, South Carolina, and Tennessee).
>>Being in America, I say my thank yous to cashiers or anyone of lesser means, exchange pleasantries, I never see them as lesser humans than me.

So I'm not saying that you do obviously, but when I visited America I found it really jarring how all hospitality people were behaving almost like....servants. I saw what felt like a huge amount of fake smiles and pleasantries , just to make sure I feel happy as a customer, and presumably an attempt to get a larger tip. It felt like people were avoiding direct eye contact and their body language seemed as if they were naturally assuming a position of a "lesser" status just to keep you happy.

Again, that's just from a few visits over to America - maybe I was just very unlucky. But I had it every time in different cities.
yes , it's available on USA only
Difference between commodities and food is subsidies. Commodities are also traded on Wall Street.
Even though currently there is zero traffic is exactly right. Haha. When this company finally did get customers, the thing they thought would help them manage thousands of high volume customers ended up making it so they could barely retain a few very low volume customers.
Probably equally, but the tax should be a function of age.
Reminds me of this paper on binary search, which also shows a speed up using branch-free comparisons.

"Array Layouts for Comparison-Based Searching"
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1509.05053.pdf
It is an incredible set of books. You can return to it years later and find jokes and references that you missed in first... few hundred readings (don't judge me :) ).
I too think it's totally possible to rig such elections. E.g., if there's something group A wants, but you don't, you add something group A is totally against, so all their votes will go to the latter issue, and the status quo is kept as far as group A is concerned. Meanwhile, their votes are lost for other issues.
+1, that's my favorite way of consuming rss as well. I love the fact that it takes advantage of all the privacy features of the mail (like not phoning home when you open the content).

I rewrote it as well, but for an other reason: when the app on my server fetches an item, it will issue a http request to get the content of the actual article and put it as attachment of the email - because on many feeds, the rss item content is just an excerpt, sometimes useless.

Although, it works well for me because I use mutt and it displays the attachment with `lynx -dump`, other mail clients may phone home to fetch images/css/js/whatever when you display the mail.