skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The enemy (Godot) of my enemy (Unity) is my friend.

Is essentially what this thread is talking about.

At this point (ie. Epic sitting on truck loads of cash), lost revenue for Epic Games competitors is almost as good as revenue for Epic Games. That is what people are talking about when they say anti-competitive. It's another form of a price squeeze.
Did you have a positive pcr test?
TransferWise is incredible. It was cheaper for me to take USD in my account, forex it to Yen, send the Yen to transferwise when paying a co-creator in USD. Sending a USD swift transfer would skip 2 forex transactions yet TransferWise is still cheaper.
>since there are actually really clear biological differences between the sexes, and those biological differences influence both strength and propensity towards competitive/violent engagement.

If someone tried to make the same argument about populations of individuals (I specifically use population instead of race due to how race is socially constructed from populations), would people even glance at the evidence before condemning them? At best you'll get those saying the results are tainted due to how society treats people and thus you cannot make any definite claims about biological differences, which would apply just as well to behavioral differences between males and females. Actually, I do often enough see such a claim applied to gender differences as well, though primarily when dealing with something where males appear to be perform better on some metric.

At the core it shows that people are not consistently applying the logic to these situations, which leaves one to question what standard they actually are using and if we are even able to have an honest conversation as long as they do not admit (or maybe even remain unaware) of the other standard.
Companies that file for bankruptcy don't have much damage done to operations and the organizational structure because its ability to keep operating is usually the highest value outcome. That is- the company's continued operations bring in more money than selling off the assets. Most corporate bankruptcy is about not making enough money to pay their outstanding debts, not having money losing operations.
Typically the owners lose all their investment and the debtors lose some of their investment. The debtors, in order of priority, are given ownership of the company by the court.

The ability for ownership to exist separately from the "operating" company, for the owners to only be liable up to losing their investment, not more, and for the management and employees not to directly lose money is sorta the "why" for corporations to exist.
For those that are not "lucky" - chewing gum is pretty accurate, the lungs become completely swollen and filled with liquid and can no longer accommodate any air inside them. Ventilators help a lot because they push this liquid back. Look up coroners' reports on those that don't make it.

And yes, most people make it through. This is certainly not a MERS kind of a monster.
This looks like more than anecdotes and individual hand picked stories to me:

> Reports from hospitals and researchers suggest that about two-thirds to three-quarters of coronavirus patients in I.C.U.’s have experienced it in various ways.

TFA cites the following for the two-thirds[1] and three-quarters[2] figures:

[1] https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2008597

[2] https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.31.20118679v...
This is how I used to buy stuff on Craigslist.

Also, if you ask the people you know and you might be surprised. Perhaps what’s more accurate is that you haven’t heard about it.
The Tragedy of the New Coronavirus Spikes
I agree. Declarative systems are interesting. I am not against studying, implementing, or understanding declarative OSes from an intellectual viewpoint. Rather, people generally speaking ignore that the declarative perspective is not teleological and doesn't reflect the teleology of an underlying OS.

Imperative programs are so popular among "joe schmoe" average programmers because they have a clear teleology. People are willing to forgive that imperative programs are harder to formally reason about because they make the teleology clearer. But have you seen declarative code? Because it's like math formulas, each function needs the same kind of documentation in order to understand the teleology behind the function.
Don't Be a Turkey
I've found myself stuck in that endless cycle for years. I find myself highly motivated for the first few weeks, thinking about a future where I can work on this full time.
As the project shapes up, I lose interest and start to doubt my idea, wondering why people would ever pay for this. Eventually I work on it less and less until one day I decide to not work on it anymore.
- Markdown is not consistent across the platforms that support it. If I wake you up at 3AM would you remember the format of links? is it parentheses first or brackets?

- Extensibility. e.g.: I got tired of manually typing description of links when I insert a link to a GitHub issue, I just wrote a tiny snippet that automatically retrieves the title of that issue.

- Literate programming. For example: I can have a python snippet that when I evaluate, results would be piped it into another snippet in SQL that retrieves data from postgress, and then I can send a http request to a remote API based on what's in DB, and then use that to build a chart. Can you do that in Markdown?

- LaTeX support. I can write some complex math formulas.

- Exporting. I can turn my Org-mode file(s) into a reveal.js presentation, into a book, or a web-blog.

- etc.
Package “Manager” for Deno
I like code that's simple to understand like this:

```
let user = api.getUser();
user.setName("Clay");
api.saveUser(user);
```

That's just a basic RPC API. No one will ever convince me that turning all that into some kind of noun-based equivalent is better.

The fact that a GET and a POST are HTTP verbs that match up to that is is meaningless to me because I could care less about the HTTP layer in my API design. APIs should be decoupled from all underlying architecture as much as possible. REST is about TIGHTLY COUPLING THEM as much as possible. Bad idea.
It's important to note that energy subsidies aren't inherently pro fossil fuels or anti green energy.

Their only priority is to ensure that a given percentage of energy demand is met by domestic (or closely allied) suppliers. There are both National Security and Economic reasons for this. Not only does it prevent war by insuring no enemy thinks they can quickly force a surrender by cutting off energy supplied, but it also helps guard against things such as the OPEC oil shock of the '70s.

What energy subsidies are trying to avoid is a scenario where the majority of fossil fuel is produced in the countries where it is cheapest, such as the Middle East or Russia. Such a scenario would give those countries a massive amount of economic power.

If you want energy subsidies to not go to fossil fuels, you simply need to eliminate demand for fossil fuels.

As fossil fuel demand drops, the energy subsidies assigned to them will also drop. They are only trying to maintain a domestic percentage. So cut domestic demand by 50% and fossil fuel subsidies will also drop by roughly half.
> You're supposed to rinse things before putting them into the dish washer.

I think this is a popular misconception from many people's experience with bad dishwasher soaps. With high quality detergent and rinse solution I never pre-wash dishes and they virtually always come out clean. I use the Cascade Complete brand which is definitely on the more expensive side, maybe the most expensive, but it's still very cheap accounting for the amount of time in your life it saves from never hand-washing dishes. I also use their rinse aid which makes a big difference too.
A ton of attention initially was given to safety (I mean large swaths of the country shut down and there’s plenty of business that still hasn’t reopened) however the sensationalist media is obviously sensational and people know it. Now instead of safety people, regular Joes, are thumbing their noses refusing to wear masks and otherwise just doing whatever because it looks like a big sham precisely because of the sensationalism.
So about 1 person for every 400 infected. It also implies we are about 1/8 of the way from the maximum number of posible fatalities in the US.
Quantum Entanglement on a Tiny Satellite Orbiting Earth
This is probably the best way to keep "motivation" up... and why I don't even start side projects. All of my "itches" can be scratched with existing products.
Mental Models: Hanlon's Razor – Everyone is NOT out to get you
People use lastpass to manage their passwords and have to copy them between apps. It an severe security vulnerability and I can't believe hasn't addressed it sooner.
There wasn't an ATM?
Yeah I was comparing the situation to circa 2000 onwards. Not around the time when Linux came out.

I think th is sentiment regarding bug bounties programs kind of solidifies my point. Corporate America and the government has made only the type of hacking they benefit from legal, while experimentation is off the table.

I’m not so much advocating for a free for all by the way. I think there is difference between curiosity and malicious intent.
Yeah, for his criteria it seems like a perfect match. He mentions it as the very last one and seems to like it but think it ought to include a file browser... I disagree, though. File browsing is a different beast, and a good file browser would be able to launch micro for editing a file. Likewise you can probably configure micro to use [file browser] for browsing files.
That’s a fair point. For what it’s worth the complaints I heard about her management from PI at building 8 were strictly about her style of extreme micro management which seemed to be pretty different from the rest of Facebook, he never mentioned any of the corruption allegations. For example laying out years of research with what she called “inch stones”of weekly expected progress in the initial proposal. I’ve never worked with DARPA myself so I can’t say whether that was something unique to her.
Ahh, last I checked Apple would only do 1 more year of security updates. Glad to see they've changed their stance.

10 is better than 7 but not as good as the 15+ years Windows and Linux offer.
I don't know of a "small" Emacs distribution.

You can have Vim in Emacs with Evil Mode. IMO Emacs bindings are terrible no matter what and modal editing saved my career from an early death by wrist injury. But on top of Vim bindings you also get an entire, programmable IDE. I guess it's kinda big but like, so are most IDEs? But you can get many features at a lighter weight than other ones.

Like yea if literally the only thing you wanna do is edit plain text and maybe at most have syntax highlighting, use plain old vim with some .vimrc setup. If you're finding yourself installing plugins to make vim be more like an IDE, at that point, just install an IDE, and no IDE handles vim bindings better than Emacs imo (and this is from extensive testing), so, there, use Emacs.
> If I wake you up in 3AM would you remember the format of links? is it parentheses first or brackets?

I sure as well wouldn't. It confuses me thoroughly.
it works because there are no google bros
Right, I simplify REST it as a CRUD model, because nobody ever uses the full 9 verbs in REST architectures anyway.

My who point is that having a fixed set of verbs is about as awkward as it gets in software design, even if there were 100 to choose from.
Apple makes far too much money for this to be a legitimate excuse.
ML exists in a murky grey area between variance and bias. This has profound effects on how it handles classifying people. If the variance is too high, it is overfitting on individual characteristics, potentially leaking PII. If the bias is too high, it is likely inappropriately lumping an individual in with a disadvantageous crowd/outcome.

There's nothing "intrinsic" about bias, and there's no way to effectively measure it universally. Simply handling African American facial features in a GAN would satisfy the situation in TFA, but there's undoubtedly another related bias issue lurking in the model.

Inevitably, handling bias in ML winds up being akin to playing whack-a-mole, handling only the situations where people are noisily complaining about something. This has always bothered me, but I've never found a satisfactory approach for dealing with it.
You have to understand that Spacemacs, Doom, ErgoEmacs, Prelude, etc. are not products. They are collections of recipes. And bare-bone Emacs is not a product either. Emacs is a kitchen where you use Lisp to bake your own editor/IDE/frankensteinian toy.
Using Spacemacs or Doom doesn't liberate you from learning Lisp and Emacs internals.
But this makes no sense because the user has basically zero control of how their traffic is routed to/from you.

If we could trust the entire network we wouldn’t need TLS for any site.
And when I'm on Facebook looking at the best part of other people's lives, I compare it to the worst of my life, and get depressed and discouraged. Thing is, other's aren't usually sharing the worst of their lives, so I'm making a comparison that's unfair to me.

It sounds like you are tying up a lot of your self-worth in solving these problems "in 5 minutes", and there a few things to unpack. First off is that "5 minutes" is a drastic exaggeration, and even if it isn't, standard interviews length is either 45 minutes or an hour - you get the full time, to work through the problem. So don't sweat the timing.

Even if you can't solve the problem, no one but you sees your leetcode performance, so just because you feel like you're failing, that's a feeling which is all in your head and it's trying to trick you into giving up. Don't let it. No one is getting hired solely on the basis of their leetcode profile.

(If you've already shared your leetcode profile with all of your friends, and/or feel like having a strong leetcode profile is going to make you a more attractive interview candidate, then make a new username not related to anything else you do online using an anon mail service (eg mailinator.com). Then, if you still feel the need to show off your speed on your leetcode profile, copy and paste the working solution from that username into your 'official' leetcode account.)

Instead of trying to rush through and do 100 problems per day, sit with one problem, for a whole month. Use different algorithms, do different languages, go for runtime speed efficiency, go for memory size efficiency. Use leetcode as a tool to help you.

Another thing to understand is that a large component of interviews is simply luck. There are only so many permutations of sum/sort/median/topN/bottomN/count possible, so during a real interview, if you get a question that's similar to one you've solved before, then a solution comes naturally. What leetcode really is then, is a gameified playground to see a bunch of variations on a theme, in order to raise the chances you see a similar problem during an interview.

Echoing other commenters about the subject of mental health - find a therapist to talk through this and other things with. My life's been better for it, and it absolutely helped me to get my life in the shape it needed to be, in order to get a job at a FAANG company.
Millennials are least likely to become entrepreneurs
Great read and stunning web design (short of the small italics in the abstract that are a little harder to read). A beautiful first post, certainly.
And I mean, if you're a company that does planned obsolescence and your users will continue to buy your latest products without caring about repairing them, why wouldn't you continue to use planned obsolescence?
Aside from the task bar which I don't know its specifics, those examples aren't that great:

- A dedicated menu button on mouse is hard to discover. Mac's brilliance is that you can start exploring the UX right away without any prior knowledge of which button does what. It also prevents you from examining your options without needing to click anything. I don't think saved screen real estate is worth it. Mac & Windows did away with always-visible menu bars just fine. Remember how Windows 8 tried to hide the start menu and how it had turned into the worst UX experience in the last decade ever. Visibility is important for discoverability.

- "Drag & drop" has too much user friction. It's hard to discover, it's hard to apply properly (many beginner users think that leaving button mid-drag is okay for a short little while). It's impractical because you usually use your apps maximized (for the maximum real estate, remember?). It requires you to have the file visible and easily accessible (consider cluttered desktop icons). I stopped using drag&drop a long time ago, and resort to Copy/Paste function of Windows Explorer for copying files, which works brilliant.

"Drag & drop to open" has other issues too. For one, there is no orthogonality between open & close. Do I drag away the icon to close the file or is there a standalone "close" option without an open?

They might be novel ideas for their time, but I don't think they provide good UX.
Show HN: Trading Stocks from the Command Line
> The only unifying thing behind people who say "Black Lives Matter" is the belief that Black Lives Matter.

Okay, I'll stipulate for sake of argument.

As the apostle famously said, faith without works is dead. If one believes that black lives matter, then one works to that end. Yet what should one do? Is there (to abuse the analogy) a set of ten commandments to follow? If there is no organization, then isn't one free to pursue justice for people of color as she sees fit?

It is easily seen that two people may assert "Black Lives Matter" and work towards conflicting ends.

One might, for example, work to prohibit abortion, seeing it as means by which the state sanctions genocide by murdering people of color (who have higher per-capita abortion rates than whites).

Someone else could advocate for unrestricted free-as-in-beer abortion, believing that economic inequality among women of color is driven in no small part by the disproportionate burdens placed on them by childbearing and the destruction of the nuclear family, to say nothing of reproductive rights of women.

I suppose having no organization allows for a big tent--a sort of catholicity, if you will--to unite such disparate groups of people, but it seems ineffective to me. After all, a house divided against itself cannot stand, as someone else famously said.

One way to help solve that problem is to have clearly stated policy goals (e.g., end qualified immunity) with targets to meet (e.g., here is a political contest we have a chance of swaying to get another vote against qualified immunity). A suitable organization can put people in touch (e.g. lawyers, grassroots campaigners, et c.) to get things moving. Maybe it's already been done, but in general this seems to be missing from blacklivesmatter.com.
People like being able to buy their games in a single online store. They don't like having 5 different stores just to play their collection of games.

Therefore, Epic's exclusivity deals rub some people the wrong way.
It'd be hard to argue that it ISN'T "readable." Maybe some would think it's ugly (I don't), but objectively speaking it's ticking every "readability" box.
You'll still have to comment when you come up with snee.
This is such a wildly unsubstantiated theory, that should simply be immediately disqualified from any serious consideration by the fact that countries like Thailand, China, Taiwan, Japan and Korea all share exactly the same obsession with skin whitening. The western obsession with tanning has exactly the same characteristics, but I don't see people presuming that some oppression narrative is the only possible way to explain it.
Of course, "success" in this context also comes with a Point of View.

I am both a developer of "creative" (cross-platform) software, and a participant in several different online audio-software-related communities, I'd say that Apple is currently at an all-time low as far as the happiness within the union of the development and user communities for audio software on macOS.

Apple doesn't have to care ... but this was once a group that they explicitly identified as among their core target audiences. That can change over time, but it would be honest to acknowledge that whenever one is talking about success.

OTOH, despite the level of unhappiness about recent Apple macOS/hardware developments, most of the current macOS user community will keep buying Apple hardware. So ... success? Depends on that Point of View, I suppose.
That's part of the point, I think. The author does not agree that "cutting to the chase" and the "message" is the most important part of literature.
This piece and conversation makes me sad.

As someone who both wrote a (client-side) web browser in the 1990s and at the time also built server side HTTP systems, the piece gets it almost entirely wrong, and the degree of misguidedness in the HN comments is almost worse.

But I guess that is how things go. Sigh.

The competitor to ReST (representational state transfer) was not SOAP. It was and is RPC, and by extension, object oriented languages.

The brilliant recognition Roy had, the genius of ReST, is that most systems are about data, not behavior, and solving for distributed system reliability was mostly about moving data around, statelessly.

At the time, distributed systems were not the thing they are today, but what people were doing was informally called distributed objects- things that have state and behavior, the lifecycles of which are manageable remotely. Incredibly complicated stuff, failed all the time. You can see a good example of this in Java RMI, which was still shipping in Java until recently. The term "agent" has been deeply overloaded but it was also applied here.

I think there is a good argument there is a direct line between Roy's insights, as expressed in ReST, and functional programming and the immutability revolution, and also the CAP theorem. The system design principles are exactly the same.

Hope that story gets a proper telling some day.
So. Capitalism and greed is the root of all evil but social credit score is eviler!
> I'm getting familiar with shaders, I could rewrite that app to work on the GPU

Nice, do you use GLSL? I've always loved messing around with ShaderToy. Here's an [1] effect I made, which was pretty fun. You can also use [2] Natron to apply it to a video.

[1] https://www.shadertoy.com/view/WtfGzX

[2] https://natrongithub.github.io/
If your device never connects to the internet then how would any public cert work? It would expire like any other?
Not quite the same but my father misspelled my name on my birth certificate, but spelled it correctly on my as ss application. Didn't find out until it was flagged when I was 16 and getting my driver's license. It has caused me problems several times in background checks and the like.
Invasive plants displace native ones; in the mid-Atlantic where I live, Chinese tree of heaven are everywhere. They crowd out walnut and other hardwoods, they aren't as tall and attractive, and the wood isn't clean burning. Our problem is also deer over-population-- the deer devastate the native trees and bushes but not the invasives.
When did we go from grams to milligrams?

And sure, weigh out ten grams of sand or powdered charcoal if you're worried about the density. This is an order of magnitude estimate, so a factor of two here or there is nothing.
I wouldn’t waste your time.

OP admits themselves that they had already made up their mind about the content of an article they couldn’t even view. They’re not arguing in good faith.