skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I avoided the word “comments” to keep the newspapery feel—I fear that mentioning the ravening hordes just around the corner would rather spoil the effect. I agree that the result isn’t entirely intuitive, but I’m not sure what to do about it. (It’s not obvious that the headlines are clickable either, but underlining them looks ugly and letting them be blue is even worse. Such are the perils of skeumorphism.)
In practice it's exactly what happens.

Bitcoin volume in Venezuela today is a rounding error. But most of the country is using physical USD to transact.

Crypto still has not solved two key problems, volatility and usability. Most people are not technical. Most people are also not OK putting their savings in something that can easily lose half its value in a month.
Yes and yes, unfortunately can't wait around for Mozilla. This has been a problem for years now. Even with Mozilla's new official VPN service, and similar to their password manager, they did not start with support for Linux and it is always on the backburner. Until they want to prioritize open source first I am not interested in their solutions. I use chromium on Arch and it has hardware acceleration and everything else I can adjust through my policy file.
We’re talking about the tech stack here. It’s already a success because there’s a working product. No-one is arguing that the use of this stack guarantees business longevity.
In other words, it sounds not terribly different than how many webinars are conducted
I suspect they're talking specifically about the longleaf ecosystem:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longleaf_pine_ecosystem
Obligatory oldie but goodie from the days of internet past[1]

“WILLIAMSBURG DOESN'T NEED A SPACE ELEVATOR!”

[1] https://boingboing.net/2005/02/01/brooklyn-residents-j.html
Well it's not being critical of MS that is the problem, but admitting that the patent is worthless which can cause significant (unnecessary) damage/complications.
We had the technology to get to 80% carbon neutrality for centuries. Preindustrial society was 80% of the way to carbon neutrality compared to today. The only problem is that people aren't willing to accept a preindustrial standard of living. In other words, they are unwilling to live materially poorer lives than they do today. So from that perspective, it's purely a question of "improving the economics".

Perhaps what you meant was that we have the technology to do it without completely abandoning industrial civilization--though maybe people will have to sacrifice some things, like eating meat, driving private cars, or living in climate-controlled private spaces. And maybe that's an easier sell. But it's also a false dichotomy. Developing the technology to reach higher levels of carbon neutrality more quickly and more economically can and must happen at the same time that we do what we can today. Building more renewable power generation can happen at the very same time that we prototype carbon capture systems for natural gas power plants, battery-electric vehicles, or Sabatier-process closed-loop carbon-neutral natural gas production (which, incidentally, is also something we'll need on Mars). We can build Generation III nuclear plants now while researching Generation IV nuclear plants to build later. We can work now on making all of our technology more energy-efficient while developing fusion power to deliver unlimited, carbon-neutral energy for generations to come.
Y-Combinator maintains this platform ( in my own opinion ) for two reasons

1) it's a neat place for likeminded people to share and discuss interesting topics

2) this is a byproduct of 1. by gaining popularity from 1. they gain more exposure to a lot of smart people, which turns out great when they post job ads, or new companies reveals, as well as a lot of people apply to y-combinator, which in turn means they get to be very picky in who they invest.

But HN doesn't have a business model per se. same with Reddit communities.
Thank you for writing this. If there's at least one thing I hope everyone can agree is a positive, it's people sharing their perspectives like this.

> look around the office, you immediately notice that black people aren't there.

You're right, there aren't. One in ten people in my city is black, but I would estimate* fewer than one in forty developers at my work are. But there were just as few in my college classes, in my tech clubs, advanced mathematics classes, and any other place that would lead a person to software development. I think we need to address the problems with diversity in those place at the same time as we deal with the workplace problems.

* All the obvious caveats apply. I'm not going to project an identity onto someone else.
Off topic, but I'm really impressed that "I promised I'd post my article about it" ends up as a BBC article. You talk about it like it's a Medium post! Cool stuff :-)

How did you pull that off? Did you just send it in, or are you somehow connected to the BBC already?

Back on topic, I can totally see those tiny little frustrations add up. Love that you're using it for good.
319 is not one every three days. It's technically .87 per day if you want to be precise.
To be sure, counting in base 93326215443944152681699238856266700490715968264381621468592963895217599993229915608941463976156518286253697920827223758251185210916864000000000000000000000000 would be a bit cumbersome.
There actually is a company that has a microorganism-produced casein that's on the market and can be bought as vegan ice cream at Smitten in the Bay Area: https://www.perfectdayfoods.com/

Then there's the Real Vegan Cheese project in the East Bay, which isn't venture funded and therefor seems to be moving a bit more slowly: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/real-vegan-cheese#/
1. Do cool stuff.

2. ???

3. Profit!

More seriously, I thought HN was a showcase for arc.
You can read most any good book on software development and API design, and OOP, and how to create good abstraction layers, and how to name functions, and pass parameters etc.

Here's the thing: None of those concepts in those books are trumped once you happen to be communicating over HTTP/HTTPS. None of those books tell you to come up with 9 verbs, and make everything a noun operated on by those 9. That's silly.

HTTP layer has a place in the tech stack. Let it do what it does. Your API RPC layer is a separate abstraction layer, that also needs to exist. Trying to merge RPC down into the HTTP layer is silly and is cramming a square peg into a round hole, just because the round hole already existed.
On YouTube https://youtu.be/RNNGzMK5e4c
Are you running Firefox Preview/Nightly? I've found them to be even faster than Chrome on my device.
I'm confused. Are you implying that there's something wrong with a 70 year old teacher?
It’s extremely insecure if you’re worried about things beyond passive mass surveillance.

If someone can intercept traffic to your server IP, they can get a Let’s Encrypt certificate. If they can’t reliably man in the middle that IP, then HTTP is reasonably secure already.

Such “certificates without certification” This is one reason browsers have added new UI elements for certified domains.
Wooah. Thank you for writing this. I know it's simple but these were really helpful tips for someone in the same position as the OP
So why would someone wait for that feature before changing to Godot if that's already a feature?
My take, and I'd love to hear any contrasting opinions, is that this is due to shareholder supremacy. Once a company has shareholders, it is beholden to them. The purpose of the company isn't to innovate, or do good in the world, or make their customers happy. It's to make money for their shareholders.

Now, in order to make that money for shareholders, they're going to need customers that are satisfied with their product. They might need to innovate to stay competitive. They might need to actually make the world a bit better in order to stay solvent. But at the end of the day, they aren't going to sacrifice shareholder rewards for their customers, innovation, the betterment of the world at large, or for anything else. It's simply not their modus operandi.
If you want to try a thoughtful social network, you can checkout the one I'm building, Taaalk.

https://taaalk.co

It's a platform for long form text based conversations between closed groups (that everyone can read).
As a husband, parent of 3 young kids, and full-time dev, I only have time for classes, assignments, and exams. At my local University (UM-Flint), I pay almost $2,000 per 3 credit class. I’m also enrolled at Arizona State, which charges me about the same for its online-only experience because I’m “out-of-state”. In a way, I am subsidizing other students’ non-academic activities which probably have a net negative effect on society.

From a selfish and ideological standpoint, I would love to see non-academic aspects of universities dismantled.
Summary: This is a class action by investors who claim that Casper misrepresented the profitability and future prospects of the company in their IPO. The alleged misrepresentations are listed on page 16:

The statements identified in ¶¶32-40 were inaccurate statements of material fact because they failed to disclose the following adverse facts that existed at the time of the IPO:

(a) that Casper’s profit margins were actually declining, rather than growing;

(b) that Casper was changing an important distribution partner, costing it 130 basis points of gross margin in the first quarter of 2020 alone;

(c) that Casper was holding a glut of old and outdated mattress inventory that it was selling at steeply discounted clearance prices, further impairing the Company’s profitability;

(d) that Casper was suffering accelerating losses, further placing its ability to achieve positive cash flows and profitability out of reach;

(e) that Casper’s core operations were not profitable, but were causing the Company to suffer over $40 million in negative cash flows during the first quarter of 2020 alone and doubling its quarterly net loss year over year;

(f) that, as a result of (a)-(e) above, Casper’s ability to achieve profitability, implement its growth initiatives, and expand internationally had been misrepresented in the Registration Statement, as the Company needed to shutter its European operations, halt all international expansion, jettison over one fifth of its global corporate workforce, and significantly curtail new store openings in order to avoid an imminent cash and liquidity crisis, let alone achieve positive operating cash flows; and

(g) that, as a result of (a)-(f) above, Casper’s revenue growth rate was not sustainable and had not positioned the Company to achieve profitability.
I don't think anyone who is serious about software craftsmanship would dispute the basic idea here ("you should be tasteful and minimalist when choosing dependencies").

The problem is that the economics of software development don't really ever require craftsmanship. There are two basic modes of development. 1 - You are a startup, struggling to survive; you have to ship features as fast as possible, with many fewer engineers than you really need to do things right. 2 - You are a huge billion dollar corporation, probably a monopoly, with an enormous moat protecting you from serious competition.

Neither situation prizes craftsmanship. The startup just needs to glue together a hack to raise the next founding round or solve the immediate user problem. The gigacorp has more money than it knows what to do with, so they "solve" every software problem by hiring more engineers. There's actually not many companies who exist in the middle ground, where it might be important to produce high quality software. I believe this is also the reason we don't see more uptake of high concept languages like Haskell and Lisp.
There is something so familiar about watching all the commie-lefty virtue signaling about this sudden racial awareness in an election year where there is a 4 year seething grudge against the current incumbent. Nobody seems to complain about the NBA or NFL racial makeups. Where are all the Mexicans in the NBA? What about the Filipinos? How come there are so few Japanese working at Popeye's? Clearly it's discrimination! You see, I grew up here in the good ole dirty American south. We're all colors down here. Had a black mayor in our major city for the last 40 years. My black neighbors drive nicer cars than me and live in nicer houses. We all go to school together, play ball together, eat together, go to church together and live near one another in harmony. It's been the case here as long as I've lived here. Hell, I have a black female dentist. She's wonderful. The black folks I work with are great. They're smart, they work hard, they're fun and creative - just like anyone else of any other color you'd like to work with. My lilly white kids go to a 70% black populated school. They have classmates and friends of all colors. We get along just fine down here in the dirty south. Now, I don't want to take anything serious away from the racism conversation, it's a real thing for sure. The problem is not nearly as large however as the commie-lefty media and their compliant globalist mega-corps are making it out to be. BLM is a George Soros funded conservative hitjob organization. Look at all the whiteys in the protest coverage. Hell, it seems that there's more of them than the black folks. If anything, those people are once again exploiting legitimate black issues for political attention. It's pathetic. I hate it for my black friends and neighbors to have the commie-lefty faux heros oppress them further with their highly public empathy statements (a.k.a "virtue signaling") and promising handouts as if black folks are unable to help themselves. They're doing great, because after all, we are all equal under the law and have been for quite some time that's for sure. Some of you need to get the hell out of your echo-chamber lefty cities and realize that the world is bigger and far more diverse than what you see on the news. When I go to San Francisco, Seattle, New York, Dallas I almost always pause with a "what's up with all these white people?" thought. That's because it's different than what I'm used to in my city. It's not bad or wrong, the mind notices differences. Conversely, when I look at the company directory in the American globalist mega corp I happen to work in I say to my self, wow there sure are a lot of Indians and Chinese names in here. You know, Indians and Chinese are the largest populations on the earth I guess that just makes sense...here...in...America. Quick, I'm going to go burn down a Dairy Queen!
Had one of those at my VIth Form - think it was an ex-display model Acorn had demo'd at a trade show (suspect it was an A680, it definitely had SCSI). Can't underestimate the lure of that mysterious "real" OS it would boot into. My first exposure to 'nix.
For me - a guy who runs an emoji domain registration site - I've been sort of waiting for the right project to take off, so it becomes, like, a thing. Will this finally be our moment? (I wish I could put a shrug emoji in here...)
One of SpaceX’s most ambitious projects remains tethered to the ground – for now
Google's main income comes from its adverts business and that heavily relies on data collected from its users. Mail, translate, maps, and search are monetized. It's just not you paying for them.

If you all of a sudden start using Google Translate for Spanish and you think the phrases you are translating won't get used to serve you more targeted adverts for your upcoming vacation, you're being a bit naive.

Google Translate is being monetized. It's as easy a guess as yours to say that there's no way in hell Google Translate stays around if it didn't already pay for itself a long time ago. But let's stop guessing please.
Just wanted to say, thanks for writing the article about DARPA, and this analysis of the endless frontiers act. From reading both articles, obviously you're very pro-DARPA and anti-NSF.

I have two thoughts that might erode your thesis a bit, that 1) I think you're overestimating the amount of time that faculty spend on writing grants. We like to complain about it, but I've tracked my time to the minute over the past 7 years, and grant writing (both the proposals and the reports) is about 2% of my work time. 2) You might be misunderstanding indirect costs like many people, where you say "Universities can take more than half of grant money as administrative overhead". Indirect cost math is funny, but in order for administrative overhead to be more than half of the grant, the indirect cost rate would have to be over 100%. I can explain more if you're interested.

Obviously we're both biased by our job, but it's still useful to read your perspective.
Bookmarked it. Better than the news websites.
JavaScript and Animated Sinus in Console
How to escape two party monopoly in USA using technology
None.

I don’t want anything between me and the primary app I’m using.
I think what people actually need, and probably would want, is a less free speech alternative. Like, you're banned from being rude, crass, or offensive.

In general, I like the idea of free speech, but to my intuition "free speech" seems like philosophers daring to go anywhere their minds will take them regardless of mainstream norms, political correctness, or commonly held beliefs. In practice, "free speech" is just people being jerks and saying mean things.
I'm not sure if you're being satirical or so unaware that you're actually just proving her point without even noticing it. Physics has been captured by so much rent-seeking activity that many people who feel like Hossenfelder don't even speak up any more because they're afraid of killing their career.
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No, it wasn’t me. I‘m guessing someone else has gotten inspired and we’ll see another variation on the idea sometime in the next week or so.
I mean, like totally, I also very thoughtlessly forgot to call Go by its official name as well. And neglected the registered trademark and copyright symbols!
The Three Body Problem and it's sequels by Liu Cixin.
The series is called "Remembrance of Earth's Past".
This used to be bother me a fair bit, but I learned to noun a lot of the verbs I wanted to use. You don't sell, you create a sale. You don't move, make a movement.
I think this was also the case with the old Edge on Windows. Not sure that's still the case with the new Edge, though.
The quality issue is always the issue :) regardless of time or medium.

Certainly agreed that existing institutions (educational and otherwise) need to figure out how to effectively function remotely. Remote accessibility is a separate problem from scaling and reducing entry requirements - Harvard can (and likely will) have essentially the same students, just using Zoom rather than walking around campus.

And the point of my argument is that the main goal of admissions requirements and selectivity is in fact pedagogical (supporting an effective learning environment). Yes, there are branding/ego aspects, but again this is not a simple discrete 0/1 problem. The space is continuous, and "scale" is simply not the answer.

If your goal is making great knowledge readily available, then MIT OCW and many other existing MOOCs have really already solved that. They do it by simply putting it out there, but not formally evaluating/crediting participation. This is all great, and is I believe the right way to scale accessibility without diluting the focused experience of the institution itself.
Accessible job stability and good benefits. The overall pay is lower than the private sector, but if you're looking for stable income first and foremost, working for the government is an excellent option. This stability will be particularly appealing for people who grew up in poverty.

Source: My father worked for the government, and my grandfather was a working-class immigrant who started with nothing, so money was tight.
I can't find it mentioned in those sources.. do those expenditures include loan principals or subtract income from repayments?
If you're already using Emacs (or are willing to spend a few days learning and configuring things, with lifelong benefits), there is nothing that can beat org-roam. It has been discussed multiple times here on HN.
What is YC's privacy policy on 3?
Much of these are not limitations of the export but of the platform. Web workers don't rise to the functionality of threads (wasm will surely grow decent thread support one day)

GDNative by definition is for native.

My game using C# exports to web fine, So that's working. Still a fairly huge download for a web game though, not really any worse than the Unity ones though.
I remember this game really well, it has wonderfully abstract graphics and fantastic music. This was a really interesting game at the time that tried to tackle a number of the problems that show up with 3d platformers:

- Controls - Alpha Waves uses tank controls - left and right rotate the character rather than move them. This control style continued for many years all through the Playstation 1 period and was a fairly natural fit for digital d-pad like controls. Super Mario 64 was the first game of this type that uses direct control (left moves him left, right moves him right, etc.) and it revolutionized 3d platformer control schemes. There is a clear break with games before and after Mario 64 w/r to this style of control. I believe some modern recreations of older games (some of the Resident Evil games) now use the Mario scheme even though the originals used tank controls.

- Camera - Alpha Waves slots the camera directly behind the player with very little deviation left and right. The more dynamic camera found in later 3d platformers doesn't really exist here. The camera does rotate up and down to show different perspectives on the avatar, but IIR it's entirely up to the user to move it to where they wish. This technique is today very common and is usually mapped to the right control stick.

- Depth Perception - One of the problems with 3d platformers is that there's no depth perception since it's not stereoscopic. This makes landing jumps and gauging other movements difficult. Games try to accommodate for this reality by using several "tricks" and Alpha Wave more or less figured many of them out. The first trick is a shadow that moves directly under the avatar. This often doesn't make sense given various lighting conditions, but provides a clue as to where the avatar is at any given moment. The second trick is to dynamicall move the camera above the shoulder of the avatar which introduces a bit of parallax and assists the creation of depth. An early game which combined these was the Playstation game "Jumping Flash" which forced the camera to take a top-down view and has a shadow target under the player that made landing jumps relatively easy. Alpha Waves is interesting because instead of forcing the camera like Jumping Flash, platforms have a forced "bounce" and the user controls the camera.

It's a beautiful game that represents some really solid innovation that's totally worth at least 10 minutes of your time to check out.
I've been thinking about this problem a lot myself too, and I'm currently rewriting www.historio.us to attack the problem more efficiently. I've been considering various new features, and this writeup is very useful, thank you.
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WYSINEUTWYG be damned
I'd just add that, in the case of Cheddar specifically, some of the artisanal long-aged US Cheddars are essentially different cheeses from day-to-day Cabot or whatever or even really somewhat upscale cheddars that I typically see from Europe.

The typical cheddars you can get in a supermarket are fine. But more expensive variants are at pretty much a different level.
Yeah the movie made it very blurry as to whether Herzog liked, respected, tolerated, or used Kinski. Maybe all those things.
The main point it seems to be able to present is that they could end poverty in the US (Or is it global? It doesn't specify.) and still not notice even the slightest ding in any area of their personal home life.