skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It wasn't a situation like that, yet.

In this case, we (engineers) had a lot of trust with management because usually features were developed with lots of customer involvement. (And when features weren't, they were usually MVP-style to test-market something.)

So, in this case, I pointed out some limitations and immediately got back an answer that implied that the customer was aware of the limitations and was more concerned about something else.

That's why I was shocked to find out no one bought it!

Anyway, to further add insult to injury, the new feature added lots of complexity to the product; complexity that added development cost to further development.
But are those the majority of Canadian workers?
90 km/h or 56 mph was the speed that ICE car fuel efficiency was measured at during the 1970's onwards until recent times. If you read a car review then the mpg figure would be for 56 mph in the UK.

For this reason the target speed for efficiency had to be 56 mph. For that would be important for comparisons. Fleet buyers were important in those days so a 'rep-mobile' able to sip the fuel as it went about crossing the country at sensible A road and motorway speeds was what was wanted. If a manufacturer wanted to sell into this market then the 56 mpg figure had to be available.

I am not sure fuel efficiency was discussed in quite the same way in the U.S. market during these times and there weren't the same tax incentives to get companies buying 'rep-mobiles' so the auto-sector could be stimulated.

Europe wasn't the EU in those days with each major country having different tax regimes for cars.
There's a large amount of literature on the effects of diet on meat flavor. I'm much more familiar with that side of things than milk flavor, but anecdotally I would expect similar effects.

Re: not consuming dairy, you be you. Cheese is rad. Good beef/pork/lamb/rabbit/etc. is rad. I think it's entirely possible to produce them in a sustainable and humane fashion, since I've personally been involved in producing beef that way (registered black angus FTW). My moo-cows had happy lives until their end. I think that's an attainable goal and compatible with also enjoying a wonderful tri-tip cooked with oak wood.
I agree with you entirely, and in defence I've got into the habit of always, without exception, opening a link in a new tab. Then I can simply close the tab to return to my launch point.
You think they're going to stop after the Confederate statues?
Do I understand correctly that the software layer of Oxide's product will be a hypervisor running VMs with hardware virtualization? If so, that's super surprising to hear from @bcantrill, considering how many talks he gave about running containers without VMs.
It's odd that you mention how Chrome needs competition but also decry lack of features in other browsers. That is one of the ways they are attempting to monopolize the space.

The standards are meant to be agreed upon by several parties, including both Google and Mozilla. Google implements new features in order to control the way they work, instead of allowing input by all the parties involved. It's always faster for one company to just do whatever they want than for a group of organizations to come to an agreement on what to do. The slower way results in better and more equitable implementation for everyone though.
Exciting improvements I am glad to see: Intel QSV-accelerated VP9 decoding, Support AMD AMF encoder on Linux (via Vulkan)
Altman’s rude awakening on clinical trials sparks an effort to make them faster
SoX is amazing. http://sox.sourceforge.net/

It’s not perfect but it’s way easier to use for audio stuff than FFmpeg is. I have a bunch of scripts I reuse that do basic stuff like high-pass, normalize, automatically trim audio files, add fade-in or fade-out, downmix to mono, and then resample / dither to the right depth and size.

It also will spit out spectrograms.

Generally when I need to record a ton of sound clips, I chop the audio up and rename it in a GUI editor similar to Audacity, and then do all the processing in SoX. I might also do a bunch of work in a DAW beforehand.
The answer is immediately in the paragraphs following.

> Sims acknowledges that the conflicting papers “put people on edge.” But his work used more up-to-date mathematical methods to demonstrate that a whole menagerie of marine predators take Lévy walks.

> These improved methods quashed doubts over whether animals ever do Lévy walks. “The amount of data is overwhelming,” said da Luz.

> Sims and Humphries even revisited albatrosses in a subsequent study in 2012. Working with more sophisticated GPS tracking devices, they found that albatrosses did not perform Lévy walks while searching for food above shallow water, where they might have more visual or olfactory information to guide them. But when they flew out over deeper water, the birds did in fact adopt Lévy searches.

So the original work had the right conclusion (Albatrosses do adopt Levy searches) for totally flawed reasons (the data didn't actually support the conclusion, the Levy walks weren't being used for the time periods originally predicted).
>> A Lorentizian manifold looks locally hyperbolic, so we need to imagine a light cone. Now the curvature of this manifold tells us how we need to distort light cones at different points to build up the full space.

> A Lorentzian manifold is not necessarily locally hyperbolic

Maybe OP was thinking of some local notion of global hyperbolicity[0] (which, of course, has nothing to do with hyperbolic Riemannian manifolds)?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globally_hyperbolic_manifold
But isn't 30% approximately the same you'll see portioned out from you if you put your game on Steam?
This really resonated with me.

Before getting into programming, I was a somewhat accomplished guitar player. By the time I was 20, I had played in a bunch of bands, recorded several albums, and gone on tour. As a result of these early successes, I developed a big ego about myself as a musician.

I realize now that the main thing driving my musical career was that ego. I enjoyed playing, but getting better at my craft was not my primary driver. Instead, it was that I wanted to be famous and rich and noteworthy and desirable. For me, playing guitar was inexorably linked with becoming a certain kind of person and gaining status.

Now any time I pick the guitar back up for more than a day or two, I quickly get lost in delusions of grandeur. I start thinking about how I'm going to change my whole lifestyle to "be a great guitar player" and playing itself takes the back seat to fantasizing about gaining power and status. Try as I might I can't just casually play guitar for its own sake—kind of like how you have trouble programming without the promise of a conference talk or an influential git repo coming out of it.

For me the solution has been to avoid playing music, and to focus on programming (and my family/friends) instead. I think the groove of ego I carved out as a guitarist is just too deep to allow me a healthier relationship to music. As a programmer, I don't have that same narcissistic false-self to live up to. I just enjoy it and want to get better because it's fun.

Maybe the solution for you could be to take up a creative pursuit other than programming?
And a key component of that is evaluating not learning the new framework.

It's a meta analysis on the new tech that can be done in less than a day, rather than spending weeks mastering it just to determine if it fits in your tech stack.

Focus is everything. The universe is too infinite to learn everything.
I am convinced that `rustc` should have an "optimizer lint" phase with all the same checks other languages perform to change the behavior of the code and instead suggest changes that affect running code and compile time, like `Box`ing fields or variants that disproportionately affect the size of an `enum`[1] or to suggest changing generic params to trait objects or vice versa[2] when it makes sense.

The advantage of not doing it automatically is that the behavior of the code once compiled can be always inferred from looking at the code, no magic and sudden changes in behavior because some threshold has been passed in some optimizer.

[1]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-clippy/pull/5466

[2]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-clippy/issues/14
I didn't. I said that being a "good programmer" isn't part of my identity...
What's the story re: backtrack2, for the uninformed?
Revolutionary N64 Vulkan compute-based renderer released for RetroArch
Tesla recommends stopping for a 20 minute charge.
Some comparative info for Canadians: Taiwan is slightly larger than Vancouver Island but has roughly 2/3 the population of all of Canada.
Even during acceleration?
Great job with Postbag. However, the signup process can be vastly simplified.

Coming to the lists - it's a good start. I got a few decent leads for my space. What would be great is info on their social handles, blogs, LinkedIn etc.
A 7% cut? Yes, it makes a different for all the other manufacturers which is why they constantly send me new pamphlets.
remember, you can buy xbox games via disk. not all games have to be via the store. independent publishers have a way to get you those games without going through microsoft. something you can't do with apple. and don't get started me with browsers. how can a user with 400+$ device, not be able to choose their own browser. n by the way, was an iOS dev, before I got enlightened that the browser is the only way
Graduating to the Modern Data Stack for Startups
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/04/world-h...
I would argue that if you are not hampered by sexual pursuits, it frees your brain up for technical ones. https://www.seinfeldscripts.com/TheAbstinence.htm
Practical Python Programming
ffmpeg is fantastic. I'm an iOS dev and when I put something on Github, I first record the iOS simulator with QuickTime. Then I convert the resulting .mov file with ffmpeg:

ffmpeg -i example.mov -r 15 example.gif

Voilà, an animated gif. Quality is atrocious but it gets the message across, plus the filesize is not too big.
Does gstreamer have a command-line interface in addition to the libraries?
As I said in that issue, I'm not completely against having Enzyme info in that page. However, we're not obligated to have the Redux docs show information on _every_ other tool that exists in the ecosystem, and our own recommendations may change over time.

Right now, we have an entire docs page on how to use Immutable.js with Redux [0]. That page was submitted by a user who cared about Immutable.js. They took the time and effort to write it, and the information is useful.

However, at this point we now actively recommend _against_ using Immutable.js [1], and _do_ recommend using Immer [2]. So, that docs page will be removed in the near future, because it now goes against our recommendations.

As I said in that thread, I personally would not recommend Enzyme at this point. Doesn't mean it's useless, or that people shouldn't use it at all, but it's not something I would use or tell people to use. Given the focus of that specific Redux testing docs page, I also don't see a _need_ to show both methods at once.

I agree that the ecosystem shouldn't just chase new shiny, but there's also a lot to be said for actually keeping docs and recommendations up to date. I understand your concern in this particular case, but it also feels like you're extrapolating rather broadly from one specific issue.

It's also the case that sometimes creating _new_ tools is the right answer. Yarn's release forced NPM to wake up from stagnation. There were dozens of Flux libraries when Redux came out. In the case of RTL, Kent created something because he saw a need, the community has seen that it's useful, and he's well within his rights to promote the tool that he created.

[0] https://redux.js.org/recipes/using-immutablejs-with-redux

[1] https://redux.js.org/style-guide/style-guide#use-plain-javas...

[2] https://redux.js.org/style-guide/style-guide#use-immer-for-w...
Interesting. I've been reading The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich and the author makes the opposite case: the German people, due to their founding mythology and geopolitical history, were susceptible to ideas of authoritarianism and racial superiority. Hegel and Nietszche provided a popular philosophical backing for the supremacy of the state and the view of individuals as primarily agents of the state rather than free actors in their own right.

Hitler saw this and built a political movement around it.
> A poor kid from a bad neighborhood cannot compete with that

Yes. Exactly. You have no idea.

I went to a poor rural school. We had 0 AP classes. We did 0 ACT prep, wasn't even mentioned. I didn't even know you could retake it. We did not have air conditioning and the temperature outside would often reach 100 degrees. Kids would tear up the floor tiles and smash them against the blackboard in my math class.
From https://9to5linux.com/ffmpeg-4-3-released-with-vulkan-suppor...:

> support for the ZeroMQ Message Transport Protocol (ZMTP)

This is fascinating. I've never heard of zmq being exposed in a public API. Cool idea.
That looks like it's from 2016 -- is this still the case? (I'm not a Dropbox user, but would like to know)
Why does "need" have anything to do with one's diet? Cheese can be sustainably produced, and as an aside it tastes fabulous (I encourage you to try it).

I have zero intention to transition to a plant-only diet (we almost all already have "plant-based" diets, that term is offensively transparent marketing hand-waving for "vegetarian"). However, I certainly don't look down upon anyone for their individual dietary choices.
You are welcome. It's pleasure for me to see when somebody likes it.

I am planning to keep adding more features, so if you are interested check github repo after while again. E.g. there will be definitely some way to increase radius of explosion in next release.
But it's NOT misleading. It's correct. They (both the Chinese health care folks and the WHO thought) that all the cases were from that one market and that it wasn't spreading in the community. That's what "human-to-human transmission" means in context. (They were wrong, obviously, but that was a sincerely held belief given the evidence at the time.)

The misleading bit is to try to insist that what the WHO "meant" was something more akin to "it's not contagious, you can't catch it". NO ONE thinks a respiratory virus isn't contagious. The WHO quite clearly did not mean that. And yet we still have this argument months later because people like you steadfastly refuse to assume good faith (and bad writing) on the part of the WHO.

That, sorry, is politics. The WHO isn't your tribe, so they have to be skewered as enemies instead of interpreted as (however confuddled) people just trying to do their job under extreme time pressure and with limited information.
40 years ago, if you looked at the preceding 40 years of economic growth in the US, the reality was "a rising tide floats all boats."

Today, if you look at the preceding 40 years of economic growth in the US, the reality is "rich get richer, poor get poorer."

Clearly, magic capitalism beans aren't the only ingredient in an economy that improves everyone's lot. My theory is that the other key ingredient is growth. Growth is chaotic and stirs money around, it's one of the precious few strong market forces that pushes towards equality rather than winner-take-all, even though it does so purely on entropic grounds and isn't strong enough to actually arrive anywhere near the maximum-entropy state.

Of course, once the growth stops, the market settles out again, and the real question is how to deal with that. "Try to stimulate growth at all costs" just creates bubbles. It's a tough question, but whatever the answer is, I'm pretty sure it involves stirring money around, and I'm pretty sure big monied interests are going to fight it tooth and nail out of self-interest.
That's the same sort of language I kept getting from Tesla when I wanted to know for certain that the car would satisfy my needs. I was not going to drop $100k on their car unless they could say what you said with a little more certainty.
The "new American left" wants universal health care, college education, housing, and a clean environment. All of those issues affect lower-income whites just as much as any other racial group.
Unsure why you got downvoted, it's a fair question

https://warontherocks.com/2018/10/hope-on-the-horizon-taiwan...

> The first phase is the decisive battle in the littoral, extending up to 100 kilometers from the island. Key capabilities at this phase will include sea mines, and large surface vessels equipped with Taiwan’s capable, domestically manufactured anti-ship cruise missiles, the Hsiung Feng 2 and 3. Taiwan’s surface fleet includes larger vessels from the legacy force, such as French-built Lafayette class frigates, U.S.-built Kidd-class destroyers, and U.S.-designed Perry class frigates armed with both Hsiung Feng and Harpoon missiles, as well as a new class of fast attack Tuojiang class catamarans that carry 16 missiles. Taiwan also fields anti-ship Hsiung Feng missiles mounted on trucks that will disperse in order to survive initial strikes. While evading detection in Taiwan’s urban and mountainous terrain, they will launch strikes at surface ships throughout an invasion.

> The second phase seeks to annihilate the enemy at the beach area, which extends approximately 40 kilometers outwards from anticipated invasion beaches. This phase calls for Taiwan’s navy to lay mines in deep and shallow waters off suspected landing beaches. A new fleet of automated, fast minelaying ships are being built for that mission. In the interim, mine-launching rails can be installed on several classes of surface vessels. While invading ships are slowed by mine fields, swarms of small fast attack boats and truck-launched anti-ship cruise missiles will target key ships in the invasion force, particularly amphibious landing ships carrying the initial wave of PLA assault troops as well as roll-on-roll-off vessels carrying follow-on vehicles and armor.

On top of that, hike along the west coast at any time. As you hike along mountain paths you'll stumble upon bunker after bunker.
I think you have a point. I think I'll watch for a consensus about replacement terms and just start using them in my own everyday language.
Ask HN: What's hotexamples.com and why is it in all my code searches?
I've recently noticed that more and more Google results (when searching for code snippets) deliver hotexamples.com URLs.

It looks like it's a wrapper for GitHub, but I couldn't find much information about it.

Anyone knows what's going on ?
Optimal Targeted Lockdowns in a Multi-Group Sir Model [pdf]
Well, the difference is that for programming you almost always have an enormous surplus of computing power, while evolution is a race to the bottom on who can do most with fewer resources.
Yes. UEFI. Because your bootloader should totally be able to access a network stack for future remote attestation...I mean, trusted computing purposes!

Reading my way through the specification at the moment, and I'm failing to see how UEFI does anything user-friendly at all. It seems to only be useful to entrenched business interests (read Big *) and to a lesser extent maybe OEM implementers. Whereas all the cryptographic subsystem utilization by industry seems to be being used against users in the interests of fortifying market position.

Wish I'd have added my voice to the din back when I was first reading about it back in the oughts. Didn't realize how much of a pain in the rear it was about to make my computing life.

Too late to turn back the clock now. I just wish I understood what was so wrong with the old BIOS POST->handoff process.

Probably need to sit down with an Old HP or Dell XP box and try to figure that out. Besides the Rootkit issue (which frankly, it feels like there are less intrusive and user-abuse enabling approaches to dealing with) I don't buy that the end-user got a single blessed thing out of UEFI; only lost.
If this actually works, I am desperately keen to get my hands on it. If you have the capacity for high bandwidth, why not use it? Zoom’s model must work on whatever crappy broadband people have in their home office. If you have gigabit, it doesn’t seem to make use of that extra capacity to improve video quality.

As for sound, I don’t think audiophile quality is necessary...
Whose ears and which military? :D
Free cyberpunk secure coding posters
low COL usually means you don't both need to work.
> You download a single binary executable. You run it. There’s no step three.

Indeed. I'd like to personally thank probonopd for AppImage making applications on Linux sane, if only for the relatively few projects distributing that way.
Complexity classes of problems (P, NP, NP-Complete and NP-Hard) was a subject that I often had a hard time trying to get my head around it, trying to remember the concepts from college, so last year I decided to write about it [1] to improve my understanding and fixation of the subject. It turns out that while talking to other devs it seems to be a common feeling, so if you're interested in an introductory text on computational complexity I provide the link below.

[1] https://thomasvilhena.com/2019/08/complexity-classes-of-prob...
That example is fantastic and really illustrates why a solid API can make things so much easier for the developer.

Reading the command line I could barely tell what ffmpeg was doing. This also could mean the command line is badly designed.
Karen Armstrong
( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Armstrong ) said in her memoirs that when she turned 18 in 1962 she knew she didn't want to be a wife and mother, so she figured that she must have been "called" to become a nun.

It is hard to overstate the social pressure women were under to discard any life goals besides "motherhood" for a long time. My MIL has a math degree but knew full well that she might as well put in in the shredder once she got married. It's still kind of a painful subject for her honestly.
Once you validate a design using a vendor's PDK, how much does it approximately cost for the fab to start printing chips?

$10,000? $1,000,000? $100?
The issue with 'military-grade' is that anyone in the military will attest it translates to: Cheapest possible thing that gets the job done.

Audiophile grade at least has roots in high fidelity.
I should note that Xcode supports ARM perfectly well and MacPorts does the same for PowerPC. I'm sure they'll be fine.
"The thing about working on yourself is that it’s actually work. Reading an article, or a book on behaviour, self-improvement and what else doesn’t actually change you any more than reading Harry Potter does."

This is well put, and I think part of the reason so much self-improvement material is drivel. Generally, I've noticed that some of the most pathological people are the most into 'self-improvement' as an idea. That being said, their brand of 'self-improvement' generally does not extend beyond reading and quoting books by various gurus.

On the flip-side, those I've met who are actually highly motivated and disciplined, have never picked up one of those guru books.

Reading up on something is one thing, and in many cases, it's an important first step. There's no way to start using a new language without reading something. That being said, simply reading is not enough. On top of that, what you read has to be actionable. The self-improvement platitudes are not actionable. Reading a book on Python does not turn you into a python developer. Why should reading a guru book turn you into one?
I use Android, I wasn't aware of this stuff.