skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly it's pretty great.

I think the lack of commuting has been a real benefit to my life. I've got back into reading regularly, back into the habit of cooking healthily almost every day (well, except for one or two takeaways a month if I'm feeling lazy), and I've smashed through a lot of stuff on my to-do list which had been lingering there for months or years. I've also had the time to start up a second weekly game group, so I'm now in 4 RPG sessions a fortnight (done over Discord and roll20). And finally I've been getting more sleep, I'm consistently getting >8 hours a night for the first time in years.

I like my own space a lot. Since moving away from home to start university, I've hated living with people. So having almost no in-person contact since late March hasn't bothered me at all.

Regarding work, I have a very stable job and absolutely no worries about being let go, so no concerns there. I've been less productive, but not to the extent that anyone has commented on it. So, no less productive than anyone else has been. It's been very nice getting away from the open office, though.

Recently I took a week off work. I couldn't go anywhere, of course, but just having a week to myself with no commitments at all, just being able to sleep in, read books, do some programming... it was great.

I wouldn't mind things remaining this way for the rest of the year.
Extremely subjective, personal data point: I've been running with an extension (https://bandwidth-hero.com/) that compresses all images (including jpeg) and renders them in webp.

I'm a typical social networks browser, so among the images I see a high majority of them don't need high quality. I'm running the extension with max compression but still keep colors: compression artifacts are clearly visible, but in my opinion they're not a problem. Looking at /r/all right now, there are 2 images that "deserve" to remain at the original resolution, the rest is typical pictures of text/memes that don't need all the bytes they currently have.

The result: overall I saved 80% of data, just with images.

In my case it's not so much a debate of JPEG vs WebP, but a debate of whether it's ok to keep images _on the web_ in their unoptimized form the way they are today, to which of course my answer is no. We don't need high quality images of a Facebook screenshot when compressing it to 20% of its original size can convey the same information with no subjective loss.

I do agree on the unwieldy nature of WebP though, it's still mostly a read-only format right now and turns the web into a consumption platform
Microsoft is working on it.
Also, I don't think he would like to spend a year solving LeetCode problems in order to pass those SV interviews.
How the internet will change our coronavirus memories
End-to-End Encrypted Audio Conferencing
I thought HEIC is apple only and not supported by any browser. Is it even supported by Safari?
Yes, this is a sobering diagnosis. And it has spread to the liver, which likely means the prognosis is far worse.

I take your point about quality of life for what might remain. These are tough decisions those of us around her are going to have to make.

I have friends who have reported about acquaintances who beat pancreatic cancer diagnosis and went on to live twenty or thirty years. I suspect these were early onset rather than stage four.

This company seems to have had early success with metastatic pancreatic cancer. We've reached out to see what they have to say.

https://nantkwest.com/nantkwest-and-immunitybio-to-initiate-...

From the article:

"Pancreatic cancer kills an estimated 47,000 people annually; it is the fourth leading cause of cancer-related death in the U.S., and 57,600 new cases are expected in 2020. Less than 5% of these patients will live for more than five years after diagnosis, and the median survival prognosis is 5 to 8 months."

The end of that paragraph is quite sobering.
Guetzli: Perceptual JPEG Encoder
The reason is immediately apparent. They're eliminating a redundant copy of the libraries to save disk space.
because hivemind no like
For more such sites: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20614847

See also: https://github.com/aloisdg/awesome-regex
I happened to look it up on caniuse.com yesterday and it's just a field of solid red: nobody supports it, not even Safari.
I'm definitely not doing well, but I suppose it could be worse. Between the pandemic and the company I liked working for selling half the staff to another company that I don't like working for (at the worst possible time to find a new job), it's been a tough few months. My performance is down the tube, which probably would have resulted in the new company firing me ages ago except that I'm one of the only people left who knows the product (everyone else quit when they cut our pay by 20% even though they don't seem to have been affected by the pandemic and are just using it as an excuse to reduce expenses).

I've been trying to stay sane by working in my garden, cooking more elaborate meals than I normally do, biking to the farmers market instead of driving to the grocery store (more expensive, but it makes for a pleasant day out whereas the grocery store is just a chore), and playing soccer on the weekends with my COVID bubble.
Does anyone have any insight into the business logistics involved in a transition like this?

I presume Apple has done maintenance on transitioning desktop OS X to ARM as an option for a very long time. How many years ago would they have had to decide that was the direction they were going to make it reality? 2015? How many people would have been working on it? How many billions of dollars? How does the cost of developing the software compare to the cost of developing a new processor, or compared to tooling a production line for an entirely new platform?

I'm really curious about the share of institutional resources and attention this likely involved. I wonder how important it is as context to Apple over the past few years.

I also wonder if it heralds a new direction in personal computers. Every time I've considered that my Mac isn't that great, the alternatives aren't that great either. Would Apple ever decide to seriously compete for a dominant share of the personal computer market?

And finally, I am also curious about the accounting and financial disclosures required in such decisions. How much are institutional investors informed of long range plans? There's naturally a lot more pressure to distribute cash to shareholders if you don't know about some five-year-plan, yet that pressure waxes and wanes from activist investors, and institutional investors like CalPERS always seemed to be on board with Apple's direction anyway. Do unofficial leaks prevent violations of insider trading rules?
Yes, picking the right thing to work on at the right time is crucial; it takes insight and creativity, not just luck. He also had the determination to follow through on his idea.
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When I tried my go at doing my own startup with a colleague, I found it incredibly stressful. But a lot of that stress was due to me finding it difficult to prioritize the right things to do, difficulty motivating myself to do the parts I didn't enjoy, and just overall procrastination.

To be honest, I know everyone wants to have a "growth mindset", i.e. the belief that if you're not good at something that you can diligently "face your fears" and overcome it, but at least for me I've come to the conclusion that I'm just constitutionally not cut out to be an entrepreneur. I don't know if it's my genes or my early upbringing or what, but I've tried all the motivation/self-direction/anti-procrastination tricks in the book, and it just doesn't work for me. There was definitely a sense of loss when I came to that conclusion, but I've found that I'm able to thrive when I have an environment with more structure.
Can you explain more about what is "visionary"?
Undercover footage of political censorship at Facebook
> Then he simply asked, "Did they get it right?" Everyone shook their head. Everyone laughed, and he moved on.

A good follow up would be "How?"

The coverage might have been factually correct, but just because they didn't like it doesn't mean the information was wrong.
> Peace, quiet, fully able to focus on my tasks.

I am back at the office and damn I miss the quiet so much. It is so loud and distracting at the open office. This is the reason I truly want to work remotely. I honestly can do my work 2-3 times faster, and of better quality.
I make $400k a year on a side project. I can do no work on it at all and still make $400k this year because the money is residual. It took 5 years to get to this point. The first 18 months, I made $0.

I could sell this side project for $1M easily.

I could grow it if I want to and make $500k next year.

I could write a blog and grow my personal brand on how I made this side project.

There are lots of opportunities this side project has opened up that working at my SV eng job can't provide.
The NYPD has a budget for spying on people in other countries. State power is weird.
Many people have already said, more-or-less, "embrace the suck". Learning new things will always have an initial period of less-than-ideal results. So I won't repeat that.

Let me add: Break down the trouble spots into simpler sub-skills. I learned this being a "Suzuki-dad" -- coaching my child through Suzuki-method violin. When you give a 3-year-old a fiddle, don't expect Mozart after a couple days. The method works by breaking each skill down to the components, and working on each component as a manageable piece, in the order in which they build on each other.

So, if you are trying to learn something, and it isn't going well, analyze the skill that is eluding you, and break it down to constituent components. If that doesn't work, break it down further into even simpler components.

My kid eventually achieved exquisite Mozart, and Bach and De Beriot and Sarasate and Bartok. But even at that level, learning requires taking the troublesome measure, and breaking it down, and constructing little drills that reinforce the skills needed for that measure.

In my own life, I have on the breakfast table a rather sucky pepper mill that I turned out of a nice piece of cherry. I want to make a better pepper mill that doesn't suck, right after I turn a pen that will probably suck. So I am reading up on how to sharpen chisels... and watching YouTube on "how to use a skew chisel" (For context, of all the turning chisels, the skew is the one most likely to catch and scare you senseless. Which happened the one-and-only time I tried to turn a bead with a skew chisel.)
> Well, first off, despite the astronomical price, it is a good email application. In another world, one where Superhuman was more reasonably priced and a little more customizable, I could see it being very popular.

Assume your time is worth $50/hour and you can deduct superhuman as a business expense. Let’s say you do email every day in a month, so 30 days.

If I did my math right, Superhuman just has to save 36 min per month to break even. That is 1.2 min per day.

If Superhuman is even marginally better than the best competition, then it meets that bar, and is profitable for someone who earns money with their work time. That’s the target market.

I use it. I find the desktop app great, mobile apps so so. They have major ram issues on ios. But I love the desktop app.
But...that's what it is, in Windows 10, essentially...

Also, they can have the "most obvious" name, because they were first, and set the standards - literally.
I'm not sure what is more impressive, the thought of 100k in 5 months from sponsorship or that the author ported a solution to another environment and got 100k sponsorship out of it?

Wow, Good job!

Not really understanding the comparison to SV salaries. This opens up many doors for the author, something that money wouldn't be able to do.
Hang in there. Forgive yourself for challenges coping. It’s hitting all of us.
That sounds pretty cool.

I still think the company could somehow get access to the user data. The server enryption sounds pretty solid, and I beleive you saying that it would be really hard or impossible to get the encrypted data from the servers, but the information shown in the browser is unecrypted and accessible. Let's say your company grows and gets acquired by someone like Google and suddenly they want to get the stats of the tracked websites. Isn't there a way they could modify the UI source code, so that for example, they send back the unecrypted stats from the browser to a different server? I assume the dashboard's UI is hosted and served by your platform, so they could just add some JavaScript to it to send all data visible on screen, right?

I think your product could be really useful and I'm not trying to attack it in any way, I am just making sure I understand what the encryption means and if it does indeed provide extra value.
> failure of the LHC

They detected the Higgs boson and incidentally invented the internet? https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/cern-searches-for-1st-web...
Using Nix to handle dependencies(haskell, pg) in a framework is really cool!

But would IHP work in Windows natively? AFAICT, Nix doesn't work in Windows unless you use WSL(and even here I'm not sure how smooth it is).
The Tevatron indeed saw something at the right mass, just after the first hints from LHC came in: https://news.fnal.gov/2012/03/tevatron-experiments-report-la...

It's unclear to me if it could have ever pushed this to enough sigmas to claim discovery.
Three Levels of Software Project Closeout Documentation
Median home cost in Nebraska $168,900.
Median home cost in California $552,800.

Yeah I think 100k a year would go a little farther in one of these places than the other...
Trump suspends H1B and non-immigrant visas
>I'm saying that commonly, amongst people who become millionaires, you find a certain set of characteristics.

I continue to disagree strongly with this. There are /all/ kinds.

We're now talking past each other. Some are successful for reasons one can attribute to their nature. Some just fail upwards. Really they do. It's actually hard to miss examples of this when you look a little critically. I'm not sure how you've come to the conclusion such people don't exist... Luck is always a huuuge factor, even among the best of us. Anyway, best.
I mean you could literally go to riot.im and see what it is
Sadly it has more to do with the President wanting it to not be your country, then the majority of the people.
All the base images are multi arch, which I suspect covers the majority of uses in dev envs.
This isn't starting tomorrow. This is going to take 2-3 decades, starting with a design study.

So part of the point here is future-proofing. Upgrades to LHC are due to take place. We don't know what the outcome of experiments after those upgrades will be. We don't know where other research will get us to over the next decade or two.

If we want a new collider in place 3 decades from now then it is time to start planning, so that if we find out a decade from now it is essential for future progress we've got a decade less to wait.

It's not a given this will be built - we have at least decade and a half to decide whether to put down the full amount. But that is not a justification for not spending a tiny fraction of the cost to take the project forward.
The dylib cache is stored on disk. It's saving disk space by only having that copy of the libraries instead of two copies.
For file backups (not device backups) I typically suggest to my beta users that they use Resilio Sync for this. SyncThing on non-iOS works well too. They both run on headless boxes, too. I wonder if whole-device backups are really necessary, though, if you've backed up all the important files already?

If you don't feel the need to build out the web-based photo UI, you could try out PhotoStructure. Self-hosted, your data stays on your machines, and I've designed it to scale up to xeons and down to my odroid and RPi.
Had you read the article, you would've know he was making ~90k in 2018.
So is it enough to not think about it or not enough so that you must think about it to not spend unnecessarily
TiDB as a Service, Fully-Managed TiDB Offering
> This is why they like Dark mater, dark energy, many worlds. Spooky action at a distance, string theory.

You are mixing apples and oranges.

-Dark matter: Observed phenomena, unexplained yet. Understanding of it is so little that mathematical beauty is a secondary concern.

-Dark energy: Observed phenomena, multiple conflicting explanations with huge calculation mismatch. Einstein already said dips on this with his cosmological constant.

-Many worlds: Unobserved and lacks a definitive consensus of what it could look like.

-Spooky action at a distance (entanglement): Observed and understood with incredible accuracy. Remaining questions are more philosophical than scientific unless we understand other not yet solved problems.

-String theory: This is an umbrella term for multiple theories, finally unified (kinda) under M-theory. Whether they are true or not doesn't change the fact that thinking about them has improved mathematics itself immensely. Leonard Susskind says string theory has been the best "calculator" ever invented to understand complex geometry spacetime "might" have.

When the time we understand how silly we were with our guesses comes and these theories become obsolete, it still will not prove that thinking about them were a useless enterprise.
ToyDB: Distributed SQL database in Rust, built from scratch to learn
The move seems to enforce memory-always, not file-based dyn linking. Whatever is sitting in the memory that responds to the established API.

On the first look it's not that different from how this works now. However, I'm thinking of the next step where the 'system cache' is not even local to the PC, like in a case of a netboot the whole or core set would get downloaded from the remote server be it Apple's or your friendly custom provider/employer.

MacBook Pro VT. It's a stretch, of course...
The fact the humanity wastes money on other things is not a good justification for wasting money on another collider.
This is exactly what Apple has done with all of their products over the 30+ years. The iPad is a perfect example of Apple doing both over the past 10 years. Likewise the iPhone SE & the Apple Watch. It's done it with every product in their portfolio.
> I hope that the journalist gets revealed and fired.

Not going to happen. The reporter was doing his job. No one will lose their job just because your favorite blogger agreed to go on the record for an interview and is not upset that his identity will be revealed.
I think the longer Rosetta exists and macOS thereby supports a wider variety of binary executables, the more people will rely on it to deliver them day-to-day functionality in increasingly complex configurations, and the more Apple will expose itself to those users' criticisms.

If Apple's rationale for the transition is to gain further control over their product design and manufacture, the prospect of having to appease folks who won't give up their old software (like me!) but who come to expect indefinite Rosetta-type backwards compatibility doesn't sound all that appealing from Apple's perspective. We're talking about a company who denied Carbon support in the 64-bit transition while some of their largest software developers still clung to it.

Furthermore, the old software they're temporarily supporting through Rosetta represents the agreements and policies Apple followed with third party developers during earlier periods in their history, which I'm sure they want to get away from. In their eyes, the sooner they can ditch those policies and impose iOS-type restrictions on any and all macOS software development, the better.

This is probably my last Mac, after thirty years. It's been fun, watching them rise in power, but they've had to become a very different kind of company to get to where they are.
Yes this is correct
Self Organising Neural Networks ● How a Game from 1996 Pioneered AI and AL
Macs Move to Apple Silicon Announced at WWDC
Comma.ai is commandeering "prime", why not Matrix clients?!
I'd argue that every voting system that has gerrymandering as a possibly error mode is inherently dangerous. No amount of antimandering could ever be more than a temporal band-aid. There are many examples that successfully combine local representation with proportional outcome.
My gut feeling is that it will be about the same as Itanium/HP Envy x2 emulation. Emulation of highly optimized hardware where code is generated by highly optimized compilers without an order of magnitude slowdown is just too good to be true.
Our dark history gives me hope. I don't mean to say I enjoy seeing darkness in our history. Instead I see it as a clear point on a compass pointing away from where I want society to head. Even if I don't agree with how everyone else wants to tack forward as long as we're heading West, I don't care if it's NW or SW.
The “cheese grater” 2010/2012 Mac Pro didn’t support AVX either, but supported 10.14. Apps have only been able to depend on Macs having AVX for a year, but of course they should still check at runtime.
Ending qualified immunity and civil forfeiture are ideas whose time has arrived.

Even with bipartisan support for stopping these unconstitutional practices they have enjoyed surprising staying power through different administrations.
I'm doing well, thanks for asking. I have been full-time WFH for over half a decade so I had plenty of time to accommodate. My SO was forced to return to work recently, however, so I worry about that. And I think people have just given up on social distancing/facial coverings if grocery shopping is any indication. I also worry just how political people have made wearing facial coverings. I think it sets a precedent that we just don't have to listen to what science is telling us.
Could you run the linux docker machine on aarch64 and just the docker container/process on JIT-x86? The majority of syscalls doesn't care about architecture, do they?
And the OS should theoretically be agnostic to the machine code the application is written in. Probably requires some cooperation on part of the linux docker host.
Did I get the idea across?

You would go to hell for implementing that either way