skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you lookup street addresses within DDG it now returns a result with AppleMaps.

I don't mind this but I hope they've partnered with Apple and not sold out.
Wow. That sounds interesting. Consider yourself lucky, haha!
Knowing the point where you pass good design and start over-engineering is an art developed through wisdom and experience. Sort of like the art of making good LOE estimates given incomplete requirements and an unknown team.

I would look to senior people who have boots-on-the-ground experience delivering and maintaining projects/products, ask them if they think you're overdoing it.

edit: I want to add, get input from non-engineers too. Ask them "in your experience, how far have projects diverged from the initial requirements/purpose? I'm trying to plan for the future but not over-complicate things"
Do those programs blindly try to execute AVX instructions without checking whether they’re supported? What happens if you're just running on an older intel processor?
Ah, nice! Let me check it out.
CHOP: A tragedy of errors, now entering its final act
Spacemen 3’s Peter Kember on Analog Synths, Plant Life
SketchyReq: Securely Fetch Malware from Malicious Domains
Are those guys in the twitter thread looking for an excuse to vent? It's a minor annoyance at best, and with security/speed benefits...
Facebook tests Forecast, an app for making predictions about events like COVID19
Wow that's pretty crazy but an interesting take!
Data Definition and Code Generation in Tcl (2014) [pdf]
Mentally I'm doing much better. The business is suffering which directly impacts income and financial goals for this year but it could certainly be worse. One of my larger fears is that I will not be able to readjust to being in an office once asked to go back in. I have founds I do very well working from home.
I don't think it's true, a lot of my German friends have been traveling for 3 years in south East Asia without having any real job while I hear from German old men that new generation is not as passionate about working as they were at their time. So what gives? How do Germans maintain such high quality life without working, it's mystery to me.
Bachelor of Arts I guess.
most of the world not speaking English use loan word "email" despite having no clue it has something to do with electronic mail in English
"This dramatic warming of the Arctic up to triple-digit temperatures was not expected to happen until 2100 from climate change."

It happened one time, I am not sure if this statement is warranted. In 1937, Montana recorded the hottest temperate it ever recorded when it reached 117 degrees in Medicine Lake.

Not saying this was a fluke, but it could have been. It happens all the time.
The state of the world isn't great, but I have never been more productive and more relaxed and fit at the same time. Time to read, write, build businesses, develop software and do a lot of exercise. Even though mandatory quarantine here ended, we are making it more permanent.
What reasoning is behind the question?
https://archive.is/XpJdX ( https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/07/17/who-by-very-slow-decay... )

(Slate Star Codex going down is related to news item https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23610416 ; https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/06/22/nyt-is-threatening-my-... )
Props. Well done.

The thing that struck me most was the podcast appearance. I was distantly affiliated with the music industry at one point and I saw over and over the value of being in the right place at the right time. Great bands languish because they just weren't seen.

I don't mean to diminish the work, either the technological or the effort of finding sponsors. I just want to caution about extrapolating success stories to utopianism. Success is more random than we'd like to believe, and there is a risk when failure leads to victim blaming.
>Why force software to change for no apparent reason just to appease the arbitrary whims of Apple

Why assume there's no reason?
That was a bit of joke on my part with the 5k dollars. But who knows, people might just be willing to pay that if it makes their spouse/child/parent a little bit more happier or give them some memory they’ll cherish. But rates on the app range depending on the status of the celeb, and the lowest I believe is 25-30 dollars.
>> we had this in different forms since the early 80s already

Could you name them, happy to check them out.
As well as the significance, danger and precautions that come with our current pandemic.

Two of our current greatest threats threats to human life reduced to political wedge issues.
Docker has had an experimental feature for some time to build containers cross architecture [1]. I'm guessing this transition is a good excuse to finish that up. Running cross architecture containers with only Docker is not possible as far as I know.

I'm guessing that we're going to have to see a lot better adoption of cross-platform container builds because of this.

[1]: https://docs.docker.com/buildx/working-with-buildx/#build-mu...
> What I once thought was a retelling of the Bible, surprised me with its political nuances.

The Bible has surprising political nuances as well.
“ We're better off with organizations who receive their money from donations. ”

We get value, in exchange for value.
Sorry, I missed that part.
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My favorite is ngrok. Great developer and well documented product that I even rely on for production.
> These sound like they should be relatively straight forward to translate. I wonder why they didn't? Lack of time? Or perhaps because translating them means that they don't run fast enough to be useful and the fallback paths are likely to run quicker.

Probably because ARM's NEON doesn't have 256bit registers, greatly complicating the implementation.
I very much agree with all of this. Number 1 and number 5 stand out to me the most because they are things I've had to work on the most. For number 5, I don't pray, but I've begun keeping a journal, and that lets me vent to myself and keep an archive of my thoughts, which has been incredible. Just turning thoughts into real words is extremely helpful for understand a situation and also a great way to blow off steam.
The vast majority of pro/graphics intensive apps (with the exception of games) will probably be the first to go native on Arm-based Macs.
Please hang in there. You aren't the only one in a similar situation. Reach out (you can find me) - even if someone to talk to.

I still try hard to remain confident we'll all get through this.
Thanks, this was very well put.
> Apple would lose their edge over Intel because most of the efficiency gains come from the lower frequency.

Presumably that would only apply when the cores are actually running at full-throttle though. For casual use there could still be considerable gains if the processors are better at power management (which they most likely are, as they've had to hyper-optimised for this for phones).
these tend to come off like humble brags a bit considering working on the right thing at the right time is a big factor
Ask HN: Why is my brand new MacBook so slow?
Simply clicking around, logging in to iCloud, unchecking some boxes, and clicking the various options results in the spinning wheel. It's a brand new $1300+ device, and yet it's as slow as my 2010 device
1. Why not NAS?

NAS can only do part of it. For existing solutions for iOS I can see, that needs an APP, and only can backup photos and contacts which is allowed by Apple to third party apps.
I agree that giving someone else your data is the issue. But as an alternative to self-hosting, I'm working on an end-to-end encrypted approach [1]. I can offer a service (much easier to setup and maintain than self-hosting), but I don't have the data (not in a useable/leakable way).

https://chiffre.io
Usually you'd want to check cpuid or similar and fall back to something reasonable.
The game is, just as the author says, basically a model of our own capitalist system. Or maybe a model of the conquest and exploitation of the new world. It features conquest, growth, exponential expansion, -and resource depletion. I’m not sure that makes it bad though, from the sounds of it the game creators were quite conscious of what they were doing- in fact they may have been subtly making the same sorts of points as the author of the article. After all the game of universal paperclips is not supposed to leave you with the impression that converting the whole universe into paperclips was a good idea. Exponential expansion is fun and feels like winning, even though from the point of view of the people on the receiving end of historical examples of such projects, it was no doubt no fun at all.
> Facebook tests Forecast, an app used to gather more data points about its users and has no other value.
tl;dr: it's not.

And it's also a very annoying to deal with them, I might add, especially when you need to save them or to work with them, as they are not natively supported by macOS or win.
> email client

I hear a lot of "my email", as in "I opened up my email" or "where's my email?" Sure they could mean their email inbox, but they also mean the email client with that phrase, and don't differentiate the two at all. Much like how a web browser is still, to many (most?) people, "the Internet" (or "my Internet", as in "I clicked on my Internet").
No, that would be if we called cancel-culture racist and anyone who perpetuated it a white supremacist.

By assigning moral outrage to one side of the debate, we remove the pretense of a debate. It's no longer about evidence and facts but vilifying one side. It's ad hominem 2.0 if you will, and it works because we as a society have a visceral negative reaction to some labels.

The problem is that pavlovian-esque training can be untrained. If you call everyone who does something you don't like a nazi, then pretty soon it doesn't seem like being a nazi is all that big of a deal. That in itself is bad because by abusing the term you buy cover for actual, literal nazis. The same issue applies when you label everything racist or sexist or otherwise.

Words have power, but that power can fade if misused.
Just a thought, but... a WhatsApp group full of crazy people may not be an ideal place to have a reason based discussion.
Which for all we know could be qemu ;)
As a backend developer, I just can't get the logic behind CSS, everything is too implicit.
I think I'd make a declarative, very straightforward language where the rules just works as they should do and I'd make properties dependent of others more explicit.
I tried it with my online name, tzs, and everything the vs. trick gave was a currency code. It turns out "TZS" is the symbol for the Tanzanian Shilling.

I had no idea.

I wonder if that is why I get occasional inquiries about buying my domain?
Sahara dust storm headed to southern US, filters and dust masks recommended
It's not either or. E.g. ITER cost more than LHC, and the successor to ITER is in the works with construction expected to start years before this new collider would.

$23bn is a lot of money, but it also is a pittance when you're planning a project that will take ~30 years to be operational. E.g. for comparison the EU is planning ~$100bn for its science programs for the next 7 years; on top of that all the member states have their own projects, and non-EU European states have their own science funding.

As such, we're talking low single digits percent of overall European science funding, but even so CERN may not be able to fund $23bn from their own funding alone, and may seek out international sources of funding for this project.
Thank you !
This is exactly what I wrote about a year back

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18760179

Matrix/riot/modular has the potential to be hugely disruptive. This was much needed.
How many of said academics do you honestly, seriously, truly think don't have leftist political tendencies? You seriously expect to get a completely unbiased opinion out of them? Come on. No matter your political leanings, surely you are willing to admit socialist beliefs prevail in non-STEM academia?
How hard would it be to change the congressional election system to proportional voting by party?

In California you would vote for 53 representatives, each representative would be part of a party. First the seats are divided among all parties based on some system. Then within each party the seats are given to the representatives that have the most votes within the party.

This would introduce new parties to the system, no party would be able to govern alone.
I was able to find this, which appears to have been updated for 4.x kernels, https://github.com/jgraha8/ldd3-examples-modern
Apple’s Response to Hey Showcases What’s Most Broken About the Apple App Store
True, but they did have the license IIRC. Otherwise they'd be licensing from VIA or whomever owns that license now. That license AFAIK would include up to SSE4. It's not like Apple is going to tell us. But the JIT nature makes me think it's Transmeta as the company currently holding that IP is a "Patent enforcement entity".
>People writing third party linkers or debuggers is one.

All 10 of them?
I am not having a great time and I'm not entirely sure why. A broad list of factors:

I'm slowly passing the this-is-mostly-easy threshold in University. I expected that, but it's still somewhat sad. Before, I could put in the time and finish any homework on my own, now I get stuck on exercises or lecture notes fairly frequently. I've noticed that I easily obsess over the meta ("I should have read the notes vs watched the recording, that cost so much time") and I'm making some progress as far as not feeling guilty for not performing perfectly.

I'm also not sure what I actually want to do. I was cautiously eyeing academia because I like the idea of intellectual freedom (in CS, so not as concerned about the culture war) and enjoy teaching, but I haven't really found a field that fully interests me yet. Both theoretical CS and technical CS sound intriguing, but I haven't found a sweet spot that is a) easy enough to be tractable and b) significant enough to be rewarding. I think this is mostly hitting me right now because of a lowered sense of self-efficacy and mild burnout that makes any problem look uninteresting, but I still yearn for some long-term goal that excites me and I can't find one.

I had surgery last week and have been mostly tuning that out. I'm not in any pain, but do have to wear a compression vest that gives my breathing issues if I use my ADD medication. So I'm a bit more foggy and unfocused then usual, which to be fair is still much better than having to gasp for air all day.
At runtime it doesn't really matter where you code is coming from, as long as you do flushes at the right spots.
Oh come on, every second sentence she writes outside of a book mentions her books. Do you really have to quote /that/ part.

I am a Prof. for Nuclear Physics, so maybe HEP-adjacent and biased. I don't think I will ever get much use of LHC/FCC myself (EIC will do that for the stuff I'm doing), but I'm happy if they will build it. It's a fallacy to believe that this money takes away from other research. There would be enough money to do all possible research if one really wants to. Just a point to consider: A lot of money for the military is essential to prop up the economy. The same, maybe more effectively, is true for research, with the added benefit that you educate people, and maybe find some cool new stuff.
Actually, the Standard Model is NOT considered to be "beautiful". What is considered to be beautiful are extensions that include supersymmetry for which no experimental evidence exist but which have been used as justification for building larger colliders.
I fully agree with the first. You usually need some designed way of handling communication and/or IO in a sufficiently large application. Whether these are event queues, channels, commands, pipelines or w/e depends. But thinking about this up-front is the key here.

I would describe the second as a constraint rather than an abstraction. And I fully agree with this. The most obvious and probably most talked about benefit of FP would be avoiding state management complexities.

The third one is neat. But I would say we're already in danger territory here. Just writing a function and naming it properly is the minimal step required to make refactoring into a strategy or plugin pattern later fairly straightforward.
This is a typical case I am struggling with during my whole career in software. It is very hard to fight against because it is counter-intuitive.
Saying that "let's put aside all those designs and let's do a minimalistic version to satisfy current needs and then we move from there" is always less attractive than "let's do a great architecture which can support our 'exponential growth'".

In my experience following categories of people tend to fall into the trap easily (and it is really hard to convince them):

- Corporate people.

- Business school people.

The following can amplify it:

- Fund raising... you were successful in raising money so that means there is a market and people love your product ... well guess what? you are wrong.

If you are in such a situation, debating is not useful. Changing this mindset is only possible when you hit the wall at least once in your life.
BUT ... you can accelerate the process of realizing it (before it is too late). Try to find a way to make people realize that all those bells and whistles and designs were not necessary cause nobody actually asked for and we are changing it anyway now.
I can't stand WFH and it's been extended until end of September. WFH doesn't even save me any commute time since I live 10 min on foot of my office. But apart from that, everything's mostly peachy for me and my family (though one uncle had an heart surgery, it went fine) and close relationships. Though living in Western Europe might make some things easier compared to Americans.
You make a good point. I should have clarified that college in the US is scammy. In other countries with reasonable tuition it is quite a good deal.
Is Hacker News better than Product Hunt?
Hi guys,

I wonder if HackerNews is lately better than ProductHunt for legit feedback. I've worked on WriteNext and currently, we're looking to gather as much feedback as possible and to get early adopters.

When we submitted it to HackerNews, a month ago, it had amazing traction. In 24 hours, we got over 15000 unique visitors on the website and over 1300 signups. Moreover, there have been 262 upvotes and over 100 comments on the HN post. I find all of them legit feedback and good product validation as we did nothing to promote it. I appreciate all the feedback we got there! Link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23314664

Today, we decided to post WriteNext on Product Hunt to see how it works. We're 2 founders and we have previous experience with Product Hunt campaigns and we know the science beneath it, and what you should do to get to the top of the day. We previously launched another product on ProductHunt and got it the most upvoted product on the day with over 1000 upvotes (https://medium.com/swlh/how-to-get-and-what-is-the-impact-of-1000-upvotes-on-product-hunt-251bd13fd068). Though, we decided not to apply any of these marketing tricks and see how things evolve. Contrary to the great interaction from HN, we had a little over 10 upvotes on PH and almost no traffic. Link: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/writenext

All in all, I think these days if you're looking for honest feedback and market validation, PH is not what it was 2-3 years ago. It's all marketing and the results might not truly reflect the reality. IndieHackers and HackerNews seem much better places for early startup validation and growth.

What do you think? Do you upvote products on Product Hunt or are you looking in other places?

Cheers,
Stefan
My relationship of five years couldn't handle the stress so now I'm crashing with my best friend / co-founder.

Could be worse I guess.
A cost to coast drive in the US is something everyone should do at least once.

I was able to drive the AlCan highway with a friend last spring, great memories.
Rule Will Make You Unbreakable
Death to story points! Long live T-shirt sizing!
Ripping Off the Slack Bandaid
It's inspiring to see that oss can provide a comparable income to the more traditional software engineering career path. It looks like some salesmanship is required, I wonder if there's some service out there that takes care of that aspect to help oss projects to find sponsors?
By having a time limit. When I was new and over excited young guy I started with the assumption that we'll be working on it for a really long time but it rarely proved true.

Truth is most projects will be shelved before even they are complete.

You'll be taken off some projects because of financial or political BS.

So start with the assumption, there is limited time to deliver - now ask yourself - how can I maximize the effectiveness of that time? How can I do what truly matters without going into the rabbit hole of optimizations and using the best thing possible everywhere.

And once you've done that, you can always come back and improve the thing if the project is still around but most likely it will not be. Either you'd have switched the company or company would have switched you or the project has switched the company.
Well, clearly, "value arb", given that Apple has no competition among iOS app stores.
Midgin
As someone who hosts images on their site, what is the best software (preferably open source) one can use to compress JPEG images imported from a digital camera? I would be glad to serve only JPEGs and dispense with WebP versions and simplify my site html.

A straightforward encoding of a JPEG into a WebP (using GIMP) does give me an almost 1/3rd reduction in file size, which is not insignificant.
Yeah, I think this is a totally fair take.

In my personal case, I keep my personal Mac for as long as it has AppleCare. When the three years are up, it's time to replace it. I short circuited it a little when the 16" MacBook Pro came out, but it was close enough to three years from late 2016 MacBook Pro.
Highway fatalities are not an epidemic.

Would this analogy hold up if we instead considered the cost of defending against an invading army? Would it really be reasonable to ask if we had enough money to build the machinery to hold them at bay?

In past times we and other successes societies have worked in concert to defeat threats to our collective and worried about fixing any economic consequences later.
How so? They took the time to share their story and itemize and outline the whole approach for anyone to read.

Of course it's anecdotal and YMMV but to dismiss all the hard work and clear demand (people are paying) for the work by saying timing is a "big factor"? That seems unfair.

Of course timing matters in all things, but all the timing in the world won't help if you don't put in the work, or build something that people want.

Before someone points out an exception to the above, of course there are exceptions and people who get luckier than most, but this doesn't come across that way to me at all, and sharing the journey and the learnings is not something they had to do.