skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a deep question. Some think that it is a bunch of virtual terminal windows (the idea driven to the extreme in the GUI of Plan 9), while some would feel at home with a desktop being kind of a picture of a real desk. Still others would prefer a desktop that consistently follows an object-oriented pattern: you click on an icon and get a list of the object's properties and methods. (Unfortunately, too many screenshots that are meant to showcase desktops that people like just show a flowery background image and a bunch of random windows on top of it containing a picture of a cat or some manga drawing.)
I replaced my older XPS with an Ubuntu 20.04 laptop from Star Lab systems. Mostly because I wanted firmware updates via apt-get. They have a new model coming out: better CPU, more RAM, more disk for the same price point as the XPS.

https://starlabs.systems/pages/labtop-mk-iv

The top-end XPS will be a more powerful system, but if you're gonna budget - worth considering. Build quality is excellent, have had no issues.
Most heavy math libraries that use AVX do function multiversioning. When calling the function it does a CPUID instruction check and then picks a code path appropriate for the CPU. Intel's MKL gets flak for this because non-Intel CPU's always fall back to the least optimal path even if they support a more efficient path.

I think you'd be hard pressed to find programs using AVX that didn't do some sort of feature check. While AVX debuted with Sandy Bridge in 2011, Intel's Celeron/Pentium branded CPUs don't support those instructions (or didn't for a long time).
You can subpoena for that in the public interest otherwise that is an employer related privacy violation of an employee.
Clearly, it is not to protect “private property”, as in citizen taxpayers’ property. They will let that burn, and leave you to die.

Their sole job is to protect the state’s property. And the lives and property of those who control the state.

Proof: every riot thus far in 2020.
>If you count total comp FB London pays waaaay more than British tech companies and pretty much anything outside of high finance.

I am in agreement with you here. Even with the abysmal FB London compensation (compared to heavy majority of tech companies in SV/Seattle/Austin/NYC), it is still way higher than local equivalent tech companies. This just reinforces the point I was making in my previous comment.

>The salaries aren't that much lower from what you'll get in Silicon Valley.

They are much lower than in SV/Seattle/Austin/NYC, if you count total comp (which is what majority of people in tech actually count, because the base cash pay becomes less and less relevant the higher you get promoted). And that's not even mentioning taxes and such being much lower in the US(no state income tax in Seattle/Austin at all, for example, only federal).

P.S. on my last point, there is no need to bring up insurance costs that don't come included with lower taxes in the US, as majority of tech companies in the US provide amazing insurance coverage for pretty much no extra charge.
Another downside is the long compile times.
When Trump quoted “When the looting starts the shooting starts” he was encouraging lynchings. Look up the history.

Along with numerous, more damning allegations, John Bolton says Trump is encouraging the Chinese to build death camps to house their ethnic minorities.

Boltan is a senior republican. He served in every republican administration since Regan. In fact, he’s also a racist, so it’s pretty clear he’s not some closet lefty plant. According to Wikipedia:

> From 2013 until March 2018, Bolton was chairman of the far-right anti-Muslim Gatestone Institute, which is prominent for disseminating false anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim information.

It’s not like this is the only time a member of Trump’s inner circle has blown a whistle. His former Secretary of Defense compared Trump to the Nazis in writing two weeks ago.

How much evidence will it take for you to pay attention to what Trump has been doing? Every mainstream news outlet consistently (except Fox, they’re inconsistent) runs stories about Trump’s racism and ties to white supremacists.

He purged a large percentage of his administration and the republican house and senate for opposing him.

His political campaign and immediate family regularly use Nazi imagery to support his campaign.
Could you share a link to your project? I'm curious what it is.
Plenty of people that grew up lower middle class in their home countries now making 500k a year on H1s at FAANGs.

H1s benefit the immigrants the most, and any analysis that centers anything other than the immigrants is deeply inhuman.
I think Kernel is already taken
> Amazon is throwing spare change at a massing problem they're involved in.

Yes, the point is that they're investing in efforts to help deal with some of their own externalities. We shouldn't be shaming a company for having the self-awareness to do this to the tune of billions of dollars.

It's not fair to criticize the amount, either, because $2 billion goes a long way to getting technology companies off the ground. Throwing more money at the problem doesn't produce better outcomes at this stage of the R&D pipeline. $2 billion is a lot of money.
> people insist on the same quality with lesser size.

Because a great proportion of people browsing the web have slow connections and/or data caps.

> How about more quality and the same filesize?

We're already able to get acceptable quality.
RL3: Regex on Steroids
How? Do you know how many binaries link to some old version of libjpeg? You're breaking 99.9% of the world and 80% of it is stuff that can't even be recompiled, probably.

In fact, JPEG 2000, which was standardized, in, well, 2000, already has transparency support, and 20 years later still have no meaningful support.
I just dont think Amber or Lucky's ORM are anywhere near as good / clear / concise as ActiveRecord.

But both are still very early stage of dev. Is Amber still being developed?

Edit: Looks like Amber had a new release a few days ago, and GitHub got a new design?
Many people raise families in Cambridge, MA (and every other expensive city in the country) on much less than 90k/year. (Also double check your numbers, because that $3k/month figure for the median studio apartment is not correct).

Don't forget that most families have two working parents. $90k/year * 2 = 180k/year.

> Another interesting fact about MA is the cost of public elementary education is massive, if this employee had children the tax burden per child is greater than 16k+ per year. To offset the tax burden for a 2 child family they would need to own a home that would have a property tax bill of over 32k a year.

Many immigrants do not have kids, and the ones that do have kids only send them to elementary school for a very short fraction of their working career. The average person making 90k/year pays more into the system than they take out of it. The system is going "broke" because the median person makes ~$30k+/year, and a large fraction of the population is on public assistance or in prison, not because the people at the 90k/year (or 180k/year) end of the spectrum are draining the system of resources.
You can also use privacy.com to create virtual credit cards that'll allow you to block transactions.
Hm, just realised that the shared link is behind the paywall, but the Pocket's version has full text: https://getpocket.com/explore/item/africa-s-lost-kingdoms
Mathematicians behind JPEG files honored by Spanish award
> I sometimes think that the 1990s through early 2000s pop culture depiction of black culture embedded itself strongly in the psyche of many white Americans

The portrayal of black people as prone to violence and incorrigibly dangerous goes beyond fiction and well into the past to the founding of the United States.

For one example, consider the United States' nominal newspaper of record, the New York Times.

Do an internet search using the following terms (no quotes) "NYTimes Giant Negro".

Stereotypes of blacks as intimidating and dangerous go beyond fiction and the end of the Twentieth Century into the domain of "reported facts" and well into the past.
Netherlands or Hungary? Europe is enormously diverse.
Nobody’s suggesting modifying. It’s accomplished through R&D... ripoff and duplicate.
Show HN: Query 1.6B rows in milliseconds, live
>It's about control of the web itself.

yes, that's exactly what i mean by philosophical.
What about them ? I don't think the OP means using the upstream kernel directly, just why they don't use the same version as the LTS version.
PNG already exists.
An extremely avoidable tragedy. I can't imagine why NYT wouldn't be flexible about this, they have countless articles about a wide variety of people (actors/performers, other authors with pen names, people with chosen names for a variety of personal reasons, etc) in which they respect the subject's wishes. It seems so arbitrary for them to refuse in this case.
Sounds like they bought the Capital A version of Agile
In lots of countries you definitely can't deduct rent, non-business travel, health insurance, or retirement. And home office only if you have a dedicated room for it.

I'm freelancing currently myself, and available deductions are honestly miniscule and well-defined.
To maximize tax collected on cigarettes prices rise every year with a few percent which compounds to doubling the price in 10 years. If you want people to stop smoking a government would double the price over night, but that would hurt their ability to collect tax and we can't have that happening can we?
The problem is that solutions optimised for benchmarks are usually non-idiomatic. If the solution doesn't represent "real code", then is there any real value? An interesting benchmarking approach would be to take solutions to the same problem from many different programmers at different skill levels and gather metrics from them. I think that would give a much more interesting view into a language's performance characteristics.
https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/
WebP would never have been adopted and nobody would care about it if it wasn't developed by the owner of the world's largest browser and the world's largest website (which ranks everyone else based in part on what formats and conventions they use), who has the ability to implement it on both sides, and force everyone to care.

WebP is a blatant example of how monopoly power is used to push bad things upon everyone else, and as seen here, for literally no good technical reason.
If Apple is so confident then it can allow alternative app stores and drop its monopoly enforced through technology.
It's a great city in a beautiful location... but if you come from another developed country or a part of the US where homelessness is very uncommon, it's extremely shocking to see people camping on the streets pretty much all over the city, it feels like you're in a shanty town and it feels unsafe.
> I think you have to consider portrayals in pop culture as a factor.

Sure, but pop culture in large part expresses and transmits preexisting stereotypes (and even when it doesn’t, it is perceived through the lens of those stereotypes.)

I'm not saying it's not involved, just that it's not the source.
I have read about at least one pro-gun, anti-government US-based group (described by some outlets as far-right) that has been vocal about its opposition to the abuse of power by the police, and has turned up at the recent protests.[1][2]

1. https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2020/05/27/the-boogaloo-move...

2. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-53018201
I saw this mentioned twice. What did they write?
I had an incident happen to me where I was stuck in traffic in the left most lane on the freeway next to the diamond (HOV) lane. So the HOV was on my left and was wide open and all the other lanes were completely stopped, or stop and go. A state police officer had people pulled over just ahead of me for HOV violations. A car that was exactly the same model and color as mine was flying down the HOV and pulled in two cars behind me when he saw the cop. When I got up to where the cop was, he was confused and thought it was me. He was pointing at me and pointing at the side of the road and yelling something. At first I didn't understand what was going on, it was not until later that it all made sense. I didn't know a car similar to mine had pulled in a couple of cars behind me. I could not understand what was going on, if he was pointing at me or what. I rolled down my window and he was screaming at me, I had the radio on and had not noticed any of this until he was hopping mad. Then he put his hand on his gun and I could hear him yelling at me to pull over right there right then. So I did, because I was scared as hell. Of course a car came flying down the open HOV lane right then and T-Boned my car. I blacked out for a bit and came to and the air bags had all gone off saving my life I am sure and I was unharmed but my car was totaled. The two young men who were driving the car that T-Boned me both were rushed to the hospital. The cop gave me ticket for improper lane change and HOV violation. I had the wits to take pictures of license plates of the stopped cars and got witnesses from that. I hired a lawyer and he said it was very unlikely to beat the ticket and there was nothing we could do, could not sue the police, they have immunity.

Funny, I actually beat the HOV violation in court, witnesses all corroborated my story. The whole thing was super scary and frustrating.

I can only imagine how frustrating it is for black people who deal with things 10 times worse than that but it gave me a bit of empathy and understanding how a crazed a-hole cop can wreak havoc and there is nothing you can do about it. I mean all that for a dumb HOV violation for cripes sake.
To quote the movie: Gotta be rich in the first place to think like that.
Author here.

A few weeks ago, we wrote about how we implemented SIMD instructions to aggregate a billion rows in milliseconds [1] thanks in great part to Agner Fog’s VCL library [2]. Although the initial scope was limited to table-wide aggregates into a unique scalar value, this was a first step towards very promising results on more complex aggregations. With the latest release of QuestDB, we are extending this level of performance to key-based aggregations.

To do this, we implemented Google’s fast hash table aka “Swisstable” [3] which can be found in the Abseil library [4]. In all modesty, we also found room to slightly accelerate it for our use case. Our version of Swisstable is dubbed “rosti”, after the traditional Swiss dish [5]. There were also a number of improvements thanks to techniques suggested by the community such as prefetch (which interestingly turned out to have no effect in the map code itself) [6]. Besides C++, we used our very own queue system written in Java to parallelise the execution [7].

The results are remarkable: millisecond latency on keyed aggregations that span over billions of rows.

We thought it could be a good occasion to show our progress by making this latest release available to try online with a pre-loaded dataset. It runs on an AWS instance using 23 threads. The data is stored on disk and includes a 1.6billion row NYC taxi dataset, 10 years of weather data with around 30-minute resolution and weekly gas prices over the last decade. The instance is located in London, so folks outside of Europe may experience different network latencies. The server-side time is reported as “Execute”.

We provide sample queries to get started, but you are encouraged to modify them. However, please be aware that not every type of query is fast yet. Some are still running under an old single-threaded model. If you find one of these, you’ll know: it will take minutes instead of milliseconds. But bear with us, this is just a matter of time before we make these instantaneous as well. Next in our crosshairs is time-bucket aggregations using the SAMPLE BY clause.

If you are interested in checking out how we did this, our code is available open-source [8]. We look forward to receiving your feedback on our work so far. Even better, we would love to hear more ideas to further improve performance. Even after decades in high performance computing, we are still learning something new every day.

[1] https://questdb.io/blog/2020/04/02/using-simd-to-aggregate-b...

[2] https://www.agner.org/optimize/vectorclass.pdf

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncHmEUmJZf4

[4] https://github.com/abseil/abseil-cpp

[5] https://github.com/questdb/questdb/blob/master/core/src/main...

[6] https://github.com/questdb/questdb/blob/master/core/src/main...

[7] https://questdb.io/blog/2020/03/15/interthread

[8] https://github.com/questdb/questdb
> I think the reason police treat right-wing groups far more leniently than left-wing groups is because right-wing groups are much more likely to be armed and resist violently.

...and because all police are right-leaning, and in some cases right-wing themselves.
Perhaps should clarify. Much of the reaction appears to be to Safari support for WebP. Those reacting believe that WebP will stick around even though used VP8 (Could have just hurdled straight to AV1). So curious to ask if those same people reacting think WebM will also stick around longer. It’s a bit different since WebM uses VP9, but, there perhaps there are still potential issues, and personally not know about browser landscape/hardware support.
The physical accelerator will become useless (the magnets). The tunnel where the LHC exists right now is the old home of the LEP collider.
What if donors are actually purchasing a spot on the contributions page? It would be like purchasing a classified ad in the paper or a normal internet ad. Their name or specific message would be displayed on the 'donations' page for a set duration. You might have to put some clarifying language on the page as well.
Thank you. Ah, so you grudge is <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">, sorry, I was confused by default awful table style.

Thank you, Sergey! And now that I've taken a look at your home webpage I'm happy to see you agree with me!

Thanks for the detailed explanations and the links. Comments like yours make HN the Internet gem it is!
They've specifically called out that OS level virtualization isn't available in Rosetta 2. So if there is an x86 dependency QEMU becomes necessary.
The answer is simple: money
Full blending, or just masking? i.e. can alpha values take on the full range from 0-1, or are they limited to full on or full off?
Companies that import labor when they had a perfectly acceptable local candidate should face severe fines...

Who defines acceptable local candidate?

Anyone who has interviewed candidates knows that are always a lot of local candidates who think that they are qualified for the job who you don't want for any of a variety of reasons. I don't want the government telling me that I can't hire the sysadmin I want because there is a Java programmer who thinks he can administer Unix systems. Because computers are computers, right?

Alternately I don't want to be told that I have to hire someone with a particular degree rather than the high school dropout who is self-taught and whose open source projects demonstrate ability to me. Government tends to be very impressed by certificates that industry insiders know well don't mean squat.

Companies should be forced to pay H1Bs significantly above prevailing wage, where "prevailing wage" is interpreted liberally instead of conservatively.

A modest proposal. If H1Bs are at the quota and someone else wants to hire an H1B worker and pay more than you're paying, you should get the choice between giving up your worker's spot (they can continue working for you remotely) or upping their pay. Without setting any particular dollar figure this would create salary competition among H1Bs that would take spots away from the worst of the sweatshops.

I don't think that would be much of a fix. But it would be an improvement.

I actually don't believe that ending the tie to an employer will help. I mean, we should do it anyway, but the abuse will continue.

I both believe that it would help, and that the abuse would continue. I see value in limiting how much abuse employers can get away with.
Ask HN: Best blogs/videos/courses on product marketing?
What are some really good blogs/videos/courses on SaaS product marketing?
By the way there is a solution to this plastic issue. Compostable plastics are a reality. See, for example, www.naturtec.com.

We could have a world where all cheap plastics that are not expected to last (e.g., water bottles, cutlery, packaging, bags) are compostable, and the expensive high performance long lasting plastics (e.g., those that are part of cars, computers, etc.) are made of traditional plastics. The latter will not create waste because they are expensive and would not be discarded willy nilly in large quantities. Hopefully they will be thrown in a proper landfill. The former will simply decompose regardless of how they are discarded (although for purely aesthetic reasons it is preferable they be discarded in a designated compost bins).

At this point the barrier is not technological, it is purely political. We just need to address the externality and force everyone to use compostable plastics for things that are expected to be discarded quickly.
I would like to caution anyone reading the comments to be skeptical of posts that push to erode your faith in journalism. There has been an alarming trend of people pushing a narrative that news organizations cannot be trusted. It is a toxic attack on one of the most important components in a functional democratic republic.
If there were "actual shortages" of Arabic translators in Detroit as you suggest, market forces would drive wages up until enough people with the skills were sufficiently motivated to move to Detroit.

In the case of a long-term, widespread shortage, rising salaries would lead to a widespread increase in people training to enter the industry. This is exactly what's been happening with software the past several years.
> My point is, equities are ill suited incentives for even economic profits, let alone environmental "profits."

What is your alternative proposal?

It's not like Amazon's $2B investment in climate tech is mutually exclusive with government initiatives or other climate research. It's another angle to approach the problem, using the tools they have at their disposal. I don't understand the desire to assume the most cynical takes on this initiative.
Portrait of Don Miguel de Castro, Emissary of Congo
Any chance of splicing each grid as a unique PNG and building it up in JSON like Tiled when exporting?
Hacker news is a total unnecessary luxury. By using it, you are contributing to the problem. This website consumes resources and energy to run and view.
Here's an extensive discussion on HN about this - why it seems like a gold mine when you can hire engineers for $600/month, but it rarely works out:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23402788
Check out https://github.com/xgenecloud/xgenecloud - it scaffolds backend boilerplate with database migrations creation and management via a GUI tool. It supports : MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL server & SQLite.