skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is kinda clickbait - all of the research mentioned was not 'research' at all - all the articles mentioned by the OP as "studies" (apart from the battery section) were from NN, or Nielson Norman Group, which were opinion articles by authors employed at that company lightly referencing a few studies. It's all highly subjective and opinionated at best, and "ain’t all that" is about the best we can say on this subject to date. Research doesn't suggest much at all, except you save battery with dark mode on OLED screens, that at least is conclusive.
> Normal people don't want to touch C++ anymore. Only people that think that CVEs are "just fault of bad developers" (LOL) can still be considering C++ a good language to start new projects in.

Deliberately inflammatory, and also false.

1. Rust has limited abstraction features to make it more approachable and implementable, but make it unable to express libraries that are easy in C++. This will not change soon, although Rust will accrete features at a steady rate. But the gap in feature sets will widen, not narrow with time.

2. The total number of people using Rust in production is easily less than the number who pick up C++ in any given week. It will be ten years before Rust is a mature industrial language, if it gets there. (It has made a good start in that direction, which is better than can be said for any other newish language.)

3. C++ and Rust will coexist for decades. The most ambitious work will continue to be done in C++, while Rust will be more than adequate for what might otherwise have been done in (the much less capable) C, Go, or Java.

4. D fizzled because it is too similar to C++, and therefore unnecessary. Rust found a ready audience in people intimidated by C++, frustrated with the limitations of C, Java, and Go, and ready to try something wholly new. Its designers have threaded the gap deftly, uniquely adopting C++'s greatest strength, the destructor (which it calls the "Drop trait"), and avoided weighing it down with garbage-collection. It has a bright future if it can multiply its adoption rate by two orders of magnitude.

As Stroustrup said, there are only two kinds of language: the ones people complain about, and the ones nobody uses.

With enough luck, by the time Rust is mature, it will have gained plenty to complain about. Rust will have got somewhere when you read more complaints about it than brags about having made it do something already done in a mature language.
We're an Indian startup that went remote on May 6. Here's what we've done since
Early last month, we announced our remote-first policy at Springworks (after consulting 130+ employees) and decided to move to WFH till the end of this year 2020.

We've given up our office space and we're now helping the team optimize for this new setup.

#1: We recognized some colleagues have power/internet issues. We're doing one-time INR 10,000 per person WFH setup reimbursement - for router, UPS, work table etc.

#2: We're shipping monitors/keyboards/accessories and office chairs to folks within Bengaluru.

#3: To tackle loneliness/inability to mingle with colleagues in-person, we started ChaiTime calls every day @ 530 PM.
Some days, we play Pictionary using Zoom's whiteboard.
Other days someone creates a quiz and the participants vie for the title of Quizzard
The quizzes we did on Zoom were fun, so we went ahead and created our own app that virtually allows you to play 100s of quizzes right inside Slack! springworks.in/trivia

#4: We realized with no in-person discussions it was much more important to celebrate team spirit. In fact, we went ahead and built a Slack app that gamifies this whole experience now!

Our random channel is full of celebrations of 'wins' - both BIG and small

#5: Internet reimbursements for all folks. This includes interns as well.

#6: If someone needs extra leaves due to kids/parents at home or just due to increased housework, they can dip into the common pool of leaves (created by relatively free-r colleagues who donated leaves)

#7: We added another INR 3000 one-time reimbursement for headphones for all employees.

#8: Apart from this, we do virtual mindfulness sessions every day, celebrate birthdays over Slack and Zoom, do lots of fun team/individual challenges (fun video challenge, walking challenge etc.)

Sharing this here so other startups/organisations who are on the fence can use our example to replicate whatever part(s) of this makes sense.
> This matters a lot because community is great power, whoever holds it, holds key to future mindshare.

Bitbucket and atlassian are still surviving despite not having any community presence on them. As long as bitbucket offers value(self hosting, CI, etc) and enterprises use them I think it'll be fine.
EFF Asks VA Supreme Court to Rein in Collection and Storage of License Plates
this is sort of an admission that the motivation is purely notional, and most people would not see any actual tangible benefit to it
the purpose of a loss leader is to bring you into a store to buy other presumably more profitable stuff. what is youtube leading people into?
Yes, it is. I like dark mode because it doesn't hurt my eyes.
I am interested in long-term sustainability of this manufacturing method. It is not an attempt to blame maker community for current microplastics pollution.
Forget "common sense." Make the argument that something makes "good sense" and support that argument with logical reasoning and evidence.

"It's just common sense" is simply an excuse to stop thinking, be it about the characteristics of the natural world, (which is, I think, what Einstein was getting at), or about human behaviour and characteristics. Things called "common sense" may even make good sense. So think about them and make the relevant case. Things called "common sense" are also often really just plain nonsense when dragged out into the light of proper critical analysis based on solid evidence.
I think he may go to Google? or Facebook?
> seriously, who uses F-keys?

Mainframe programmers.

They are an essential part of interacting with an IBM mainframe (even for basic things like paging up and down through documents).
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Accountant management. Current CEO came up thru finance. Knows how to hold a dividend steady but not a wafer.
I'm prone to aggressively planning dinners with friends and browsing restaurant websites whenever I skip lunch at work. Always takes me a while to recognise the fever that's overtaken me.
keyword: client, not server.
I'd go out and buy a NAS and fill it up with backups from IA if it would help the collection survive. Point me at the project.
Thanks! I am in Bangalore and will definitely give IWST a try. Btw, I found a DIY woodworking site from India
https://indiandiy.blogspot.com/
The evidence so far is that on top of the expected lung disease in children and adults (due to lung tissue irritation) it more critically seems to reduce human lifespan. [0]

The challenge is to fully separate if this effect is due to NO2 exposure or a combination of other pollutants found in diesel fuel exhaust.

The key takeaway is that Diesel engines release a very high amount of NO2 and that NO2 is in all likelihood killing us slowly.

We need to decomission diesel engines from roads, and more urgently, remove diesel engines from city centres ASAP (Due to traffic jams, iddling diesel engines create very high concentrations of NO2 in the vicinity of pedestrians and cyclists).

[0] Nitrogen dioxide: health effects of exposure, Guidance from the Committee on the Medical Effects of Air Pollutants (COMEAP), 2015

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/nitrogen-dioxide-...
The Minimized Life: The legacy of Donald Judd in a time of quarantine
This actually exists, and it’s called DDC/CI: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Display_Data_Channel

I only recently learned about it myself while setting up a new monitor and asking myself wtf is this DDC/CI setting in the menu.
Wouldn't disclosing any US sponsored psy-ops be illegal by US law?
Games are designed to be fun and playable by humans, this doesn't seem surprising
I just looked through the headers of a request to google.com, expecting this to be wrong, but it does look like this is there! Right at the bottom, x-client-data. The value ends with == which makes me think it's some kind of hash. Crazy. It does not exist when I use ungoogled chromium, firefox, or even edge.
I have been deploying Windows in production since Windows 3.1.

Desktops, embedded devices and servers.
Tuition in American English is what would be called tuition fees in Commonwealth English.
Looks like the goal was to cram as much as it can fit, so no fancy spacing.
I doubt any of the existing GitLab (sast, container scanning, dependency scanning / gemnasium, etc.) security scans need Kubernetes cluster integration.

They are normal containerized Jobs, for which all you need is GitLab Runner with Docker executors.
Intel's problem is that they fired expensive, older American workers and replaced them with H1B contractors.

There's a video on AdoredTV about the topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agxSclh27uo
Unfortunately doesn't make sense when you need to look up pixel 0.5,0.5 in the framebuffer.

When dealing with cameras, the central point us rarely h/2,w/2. So you're really dealing with two sets of coordinates, camera coordinates and sensor coordinates, that need to be converted between.

Integer coordinates are convenient for accessing the sensor pixels, and the camera-to-sensor space transform should theoretically include for the 0.5,0.5 offset. However, getting a calibration within 0.5 pixels accuracy is going to be hard to begin with.
Also if your screen isn't particularly high resolution, fonts tend to align to the pixel grid for extra sharpness.
Show HN: Mail Merge for WhatsApp Web
So from what I heard the other day, those >99% Numbers were from a subset of the actual sample, which they argued was because of the requisite time lag for seroconversion but may just be p-hacking.
White paper reflects light.
You are not proving him he is wrong. You are talking about a different phenomena: satiety is different from getting sick of something.

If you reach satiety your body and brain won't want to eat more.

If you are sick of something, you will just switch to something else.
Thanks for writing the book! It's a fun read, and it packs a big punch. It's making me regret not spending more time on maths before.
Dr. Michael Osterholm is 100% in agreement with what I've been saying for over 2 months, same as Dr. VDH's Youtube lectures and interviews.

You can see the google cache here:

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:RVFJC0...

AMA.
Only for light on solid dark. If you use light on non-solid dark it's fine. Can definitely said it as person with astigmatism.
Does Insomniac also do this?
Ha yes! That sounds great but theoretically the version of Haskell currently intercepted by ghc could be compiled to beam similar to how there is a compiler for the javaVM.

What is fundamentally different about Hamler and Haskell?
One of the benefits of the press was decreased price of a copy and increased availability of printed material. Look where it got us. Digital medium is no different from the press, but of course, papyrus industry is going to fight it, because profits are more important, always.
Not to discourage you from making voice recordings and all that, but as someone who is handicapped and sometimes has trouble speaking because of it:

1. I spend a lot of time online. It doesn't matter so much there. I do a lot of typing.

2. My oldest son, who had serious output difficulties as a child, is talented at inferring what I need from a gesture and a grunt. This has proven enormously helpful.

3. Consider using her phone as a communication device. It's small and people tend to take their phone everywhere and she can type out what she wants to say.

4. Writing tweets can help a person learn to say things more succinctly. I do freelance writing and figuring out how to say things succinctly is a talent you can develop. (It's something I have to work at -- I'm a "would have written you a shorter letter if I had more time" type of person.) This can help enormously when you face communication barriers.

5. Take some time to deal with the emotional stuff. It matters.

I'm sorry you are facing this. Best of luck.
Artificial General Intelligence.
Whereas the publishers now have legal leverage. And guess which one actually counts when it comes to getting sued.
Data visualisation based analysis of Japanese anime films
My point isn't that it's OK to take more than 100ms for and end to end test. My point is there is no reason why you shouldn't be able to reliably run tests that hit databases, multiple times, within a 100ms deadline and without adding flakiness.

It's 2020, computers are fast. You can do tens of thousands of database transactions in a second. Starting up postgres takes a fraction of a second and consumes negligible resources. If you treat your DB files as a build artifact that includes schema migration.
More evidence for a ‘fifth force’ found in radioactive decay measurements
Not 'perfectly' sharp, but if you have a bunch of objects where the edges go from 0 to 200, and you have a bunch of objects where the edges go from 0 to 100 to 200, there is a significant difference in sharpness on most screens.
We also need to consider the microplastics turning into nanoplastics. At that scale they can cross cell membranes. We still don't know what that means:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41565-019-0437-7
The Rolling, Lurching, Vomit-Inducing Road to a Seasickness Cure
I can sympathise with you on that. The whole of pure mathematics seems to be about making definitions and seeing what weird places and surprising connections you get. This isn't as exciting as seeing how mathematics can describe and predict phenomena in the real world.
Our company told us to take our office chairs home until next year.
OLED probably means I can't use the traditional blue background anymore...
Will Data Engineer Take over Machine Learning Work, Surpassing Data Scientist?
In particular, (0.5, 0.5) pixel centers together with a 1×1 box filter makes for a decent approximation to the square pixels on a display.
> Do you really want to have to explicitly allow cookies for every site you log in to?

Yes!

Absolutely.

Click login/cart, popup "do you want to enable login/cart for $this_site?" yes/no

But only when you explicitly make the request to use a cart or press the login button. Silently block everything else.

There's about 5 sites I would ever use with cookies. And I use chrome for them. I use firefox with all that crap disabled for everything else.

Give it a try!
Those who want nothing have everything.
Yes. In classical logic, p OR !p is always true. You have to add these axioms to get classical logic. Intuitionistic logic doesn't have that. p OR !p is not necessarily true in intuitionistic logic.
My understanding is that graphics are smeared on Unix systems, but sharp on Windows systems, because Unix libraries use 0.5, 0.5 as the center and Windows uses 0,0.

Can anybody confirm that they investigated that deeply and found that to be true, or is there another explanation?
Seems like most companies are doing similar models. May I ask what your startup works on and what are the business impacts that you have felt due to the current situation. It would help to have context so that others can understand why you can afford this. Several other startups cannot afford luxuries for employees at this time due to large losses in revenue.
If you've been warned that what you're doing is enabling others to violate copyright and continue to do so, then in a lot of jurisdictions yes. Same reason torrent trackers keep getting closed down.
> It's a Windows graphics server telling a Windows client how to draw some Windows widgets

In the 90's when everything was made of lines and rectangles, you're right that this deep integration made RDP perform much much better.

Now though, nearly all applications are composited bitmaps (webviews, opengl surfaces, etc). There isn't much scope for sending the raw draw calls over the wire anymore, and instead using some video codec to send the surfaces as bitmaps, and then compositing on the client is about the best you can do.

VNC doesn't even do that though...
Hey hey, property is property of corporations and business entities. We can only have temporary access rights to that property.
The article mentioned he joined as VP 2 years ago.

Did he still hold this same position at leave?
That's true for me as well. I couldn't read the oven clock (blue on black) at just 10 feet away. Anything bright on a dark background is just a blurry radiation pattern.

The reason dark-themed terminal and coding is fine, might be the monospace fonts. They are square-ish, so there is less need to find the edges accurately. They are also eligible on very cheap, trashy screens. As a side effect, code is readable in dark themes even with astigmatism. (No source, just a wild guess)
I'm the same. I think because I'm more concerned about the surrounding lighting and making sure the brightness of my monitor is appropriate for that. Once that's done, light mode has greater readability for me than dark mode.

I've tried dark mode a few times in the past because I felt like that's what you should use to code. But I simply don't like looking directly at bright text.
I got a different interpretation from that paragraph than what you suggest.

The interview doesn't state that 3rd party cookies are good. Rather, they argue that they are required to have a "healthy" targeted ads market:

> So the question then is, what do consumers want? Do they want no targeted advertising? Well, then you can’t have an ad tech industry. Do they want targeted advertising that benefits the business that’s sending it, like the dog walker or the New York Times? That would require competition in the ad tech market.

Of course, that conclusion rests on the assumption that "we" want a targeted ad market, an assumption that many here will dispute. But that's not the point of the lawsuit - their point is rather "Since this market exists, then the people must want it. And since people want it, we need to ensure that there's enough competition". "This class of business shouldn't exist" is not within the scope of this particular case.
OpenZFS removed offensive terminology from its code
> And yet intuitively the function is increasing and so we ought to define "having a derivative" in such a way that shows that it is increasing.

The Cantor function is not differentiable at the points of "increase", so there is no problem with it growing at those points. I'm not sure what your complaint is.

> it seems like a bunch of silly definitions with silly consequences, with little relation to the actual mathematics of our universe that I care about.

That's honestly really silly. A lot of analysis is extremely practical, and is fundamental to the study of this universe. Yes, the language allows you to express non-physical situations, but you know you can just ignore those situations, right?
I'm actually curious as to how much of that was the overall inefficiency of the Soviet system, and how much was simply due to the lack of industrialization that the Russians had to overcome.

Something a lot of (North) Americans take for granted is that, after WWII, we had the only functioning manufacturing base in the world -- we were China before it was cool.
“Is the sky really blue?”
Ask HN: Switch from Technology Analyst to Software Engineering
I have an undergraduate degree in computer science but I have never had a software engineering job. I worked for a year as a BA and then went ahead and did my master's in information systems. I have now been working as a Technology Analyst at a decent sized firm where I basically do all BA stuff, document requirements, JIRA, Scrum etc.

I'm now realizing that BA/Project Manager work might not be the best fit for me. I do not enjoy my work and it gets pretty mundane.

Is it too late to get back into software engineering? I have had a couple of internships where I wrote some code (not pure development internships) but I have never really worked in a professional software development environment. I also have some personal projects that I can put on my resume.

To upsert my knowledge of computer science, I have started working through this (on the graphs section right now): https://github.com/jwasham/coding-interview-university.
I also try to do leetcode problems on the topics I cover. I plan to follow this guide for the most part.

Do you see any gaping holes in my intent/plan to get into software engineering? Do you think it is doable?

If it is doable, do you have any recommendations in terms of the process that I should follow? Really appreciate any advice or feedback.
Anyone presenting (conference/projector) or screen recording for YouTube absolutely should not use dark mode if they want their content to be visible to the largest percentage of viewers.

Dark mode is inherently lower contrast, and most displays perform worse on dark content.

Plus, some of us like to be outside. With bright sunlit ambient light (not even necessarily direct), dark mode content is practically invisible (just a black screen).
It is in the FAQ and the primary basis for the suit

"we are taking the extraordinary measure to suspend waitlists on our lending collection through the duration of the US national emergency to meet the educational and inspirational needs of a global community of readers and learners. "

https://help.archive.org/hc/en-us/articles/360042654251-Nati...

"saying to hell with" something is clearly figurative speech. They knew exactly what they were doing when they disabled their wait-list system and willfully breaking the law.
I agree. And only mentioning PureScript as the "base" in one place on the webpage is not giving PureScript enough credit.
>"The results really speak for themselves. For sequential operations, using a USB SSD is 3-4x faster than using a microSD card. And for random access, random reads are a bit faster, but writes are about 6x faster!"