skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Jeez I wish I could survive on 6 hours sleep. I need at least 8 to feel fully refreshed. I can survive on 7 for a day or two but after that it catches up with me in a bad way. Any less than 7 and I feel like absolute death.
No it’s named after the “Shoes” meme video from 2006.
$180M from what I read. Seems they were acquired because sales were almost non-existent and they were running out of money.
Well that's disappointing.

It seemed like they had cool products, and it's too bad to see it bought up by an advertising/spyware company with a history of killing products.
Plain old io-bound multiprocess work would be a good match. Like static content and php sites, for example. I imagine there's quite a lot of that out there.
It's easier to try and remove words to show everyone you're "doing something" than to actually make a real change.
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redis is really a joy to work with. truly, thank you.
There are no private companies in China, all of the corporate entities directly or indirectly depend on CCP, which uses every opportunity to damage national security of its enemies.
We have more than just statistical evidence. We have physiological evidence too. We know which kind of protein (opsin) is responsible for each wavelenght. We know what kind of genetic modification can change the protein substantially (if you change the Nth protide which is hydrophilic by an hydrophobic one, you can change the wavelenght perceived). This is exactly my point:

You have an observation: Dichromacy is more prevalent with men, tetrachromacy only ever appears with women. This prevalence is huge. Opsins are responsible for colour perceptions

You have a theory: the X gene is responsible for colour perception: the L and M opsin are encoded on the X gene.
You found the responsible gene.

Again, his is exactly my point: no physiological evidence => garbage bin (unless you're a researcher).
What about when you lose access to the account and don't remember what string of numbers you had to use after your preferred username because it's not a universal identifier that only you can use? In the case of the support ID, you'd need to be able to access the account to even view it.
I turn off the color :-). And I must say it much nicer without color. Thank you.
No. It takes more time to rebut ridiculous ideas than to generate them. At some point along the spectrum of consensus, the burden shifts to the person propagating the idea; otherwise, all we're doing is wasting time feeding the trolls.
I tried them at a pop-up the company had in SF; it was an awful experience. The employees of the pop up didn't know how to use the product, when they brought out a pair that fit my (very normal) face, I could barely see the screen on it, the interface was weird (there is a ring that you wear) and it was very buggy with ios (heard it was better with android). They said I would need to buy a pair for it to fit me and me to be able to see the screen. I was really ready for smart glasses but I can't imagine that anyone would be ready to fork over $1k for something that you can't really try out.
"Guys, a few of our customers are unhappy and want to leave. We need Engineering to drop everything and start building a feature to let these customers stop paying us more easily."
Taking projects into new directions , possibly closed source, due to political disputes.

Without the legal obligation to upstream, the majority wins what happens afterwards.
If they are not as good as the Hololens 2, not interested. That device is off the hook good, really impressed with MS as a long time Linux user
North was previously known as Thalmic labs, and their first product was the Myo, a gesture-based input device. More recently, they created Focals, a smart glasses product.

More on their blog here: https://www.bynorth.com/
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Sigh, all I can think is yet another promising startup vanishes into the depths of Google, never to be seen again.

Google, please stop buying companies, please learn to support your products and build a loyal customer base. You are not a startup anymore, you need to make the transformation that companies like Microsoft did, and quit moving fast and breaking things.

People don't want an agile foundation, they want a hundred year foundation.
Voter suppression. And you want to compare that to the single party systems of China or Russia? Why do problems with US democracy make you want to abandon it and wallow in misery, and pretend like there is no hope in the world? Why can’t you have a teaspoon of strength and recognize the US is so much closer to real democracy than either of those countries? It’s pathetic.
I disable the colorize so it should be your default terminal now.
I'm not sure that this is a helpful way to look at things. Cars are much safer than they could be and the risk per mile is low, but driving is still one of our big sources of risk, precisely because we do it so much.

Similarly, I estimate ~2 deaths per million cigarettes smoked (~1000 cigarettes/year/person >= age 15, 480k deaths/year), and while driving a hundred miles in a day is unremarkable, smoking 100 cigarettes in a day is pretty astonishing, but I wouldn't say that cigarettes are not that risky. The total deaths per capita are high.

(To be clear: cigarettes are more dangerous than driving any way you measure it. I'm just showing that you get to weird places if you look at risk/unit, without looking at total volume).
It seems a CI system should be able to work the same way and cache the dependencies just like a local build.

If it does, then the long compile times are almost never encountered for neither developers nor CI. So are they really problematic?
Zephyr embedded OS release 4.0
Chrome – How do I remove the puzzle piece?
On Linux, in X, you can use xresources. Otherwise there's termcap
Could AT2 be the answer to cryptocurrency's energy and performance problems?
I hate my job, but that was existing before all this stuff started.
Not if they have no ability to reply to the user in the first place. The user may also be contacting support because they lost access to their account and not be able to access the identifying number.
Perhaps, but for Apple it’s (or should be) a major headache when apps from the App Store steal and upload people’s browsing histories, as they were doing for a while until this change came in. Clearly they care enough about it that they were willing to piss off developers when it rolled out, so it might as work right…

Also do note that Apple does claim to offer a bounty for such access, regardless of what the market is willing to pay. So clearly it is valuable to them.
> We've always had the option to pay in cash and not deal with the financing, it's just a bit less convenient.

Yes, true. But from watching what happens at those stores, it seems to me that most people do debt. Perhaps they don't have to, but they do.
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HoloLens and Focals/Google Glass aren't really comparable products, as far as I'm aware. HoloLens is meant like, mostly to be used indoors on specific purposes/experiences with a (relatively) short battery life, Focals/Glass is like a daily-wear type of device like a watch.
Try the Hololens 2 and you will never want to go back to the 2d again
You left out the rest of it: " Conversely, any decision they make when they are sober is reconsidered afterwards when they are drunk." So it's not just that all decisions should be considered sober; it's that they should be considered both sober and drunk.
> In essence, I would rather be remembered as a bad artist than a good programmer.
Discord shifting branding to be less gaming specific
Interesting data. Curious whether there's a logical explanation for these discrepancies in their setups.
Coming to Google Meet: Customizable backgrounds, Nest integration, and more
I think that you misunderstand HogFeast. The author drops in to town with American style money. The people who are serving him, for example, driving the furniture delivery pickup truck, are all almost certainly working for very little money. The convenience he experiences is possible because there are a bunch of underemployed drivers with pickup trucks all waiting for someone to buy furniture. Then they drive across town and come right back.

The IKEA model would be to load up a truck at a distribution center, have a preplanned route, and a big truck, and knock out a whole bunch of deliveries at once. This is less convenient for the customer, because they don't get instant gratification, and they have to wait at home for the delivery in some 4 hour window. On the other hand, it's much more efficient for the delivery company, because they're probably delivering about 4x as much furniture per driver per day. That will lead to some combination of better wages for the driver, cheaper delivery, or more profit for the furniture company.

You certainly could call up a moving company, have them come to IKEA with you, load up the furniture, and take it home, but it would cost a lot more than what he's paying in Ecuador. The reason is that the driver in Ecuador doesn't expect to make very much money by the standards of the author's western salary.
That Klutz wooden yo-yo may well have been the secret sauce to learning, my cousins and I all bought the Klutz book mostly for it.

Duncan Imperials are thinner and the de facto standard for yo-yos, Butterflies are good for tricks but a little unwieldly, but the Klutz was a happy medium between the two and perfect for beginners and we always wound up falling back to it.
Looks like North wasnt doing too well selling their tech. Would it preferable if Microsoft or Apple or Amazon or some chinese company picked them up instead ?
Smart Glasses?! Please!

I've been waiting since forever. This is the only "smart" tech I've been so interested in. I already wear glasses, why not make them more useful?

Meanwhile watches get in the way of using keyboards and interacting with things, and you constantly take them off. Can't use them if your hand is busy either, like holding a drink. They're not as convenient as they seem.
I don't think that's how these features get developed. Someone who orders CPUs by the cubic meter comes to Intel and asks for a bfloat16 unit. Six years later, they ship one. I know for a fact this is how BMI came to exist.
Why do you have to add “Chinese”?
I backed the Myo, and I think I was waiting to see that killer app show up for it that I felt like actually using the thing. I don't think it ever came, despite my excitement for the concept.

Will the thing still work if I hook it up? I don't even know. As a Bluetooth device, I feel like it should be possible, but I don't know if it has any cloud service dependencies.

EDIT: Answer my own question, North's website doesn't link to https://support.getmyo.com/hc/en-us anywhere obvious, but the downloads are all there, including a zip file with all the market apps ever developed for it.
Speaking purely from personal experience.

Driving while impaired in some way certainly is more dangerous. (Drugs and alcohol but also just fatigue.) Driving too fast for conditions. Bad weather, especially snow. I'd say in general that highway driving was probably safer than secondary roads--again assuming not excess speed.

One of the things I like about greater work flexibility these days is that I rarely have to drive in snow. I just stay home.
spencer kimball and alex polvi deploy a scalable stateful application on cockroachdb and k8s in 3 min: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIePIsskhrw
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‘Siri, I’m getting pulled over’
dont worry soon your options will be Apple or Alibabe/Huawei.
This might have some useful info for you...
https://www.cyclehelmets.org/1026.html

death rates per million hours of activity
As a slight tangent, generic trademark names aren't always as generic the world over. I've never heard anyone ask for a Kleenex when the want a tissue, and from your further examples I assume a xerox is something to do with stationary or printing, and I couldn't tell you what a q-tip is without googling it.

A reverse example of something I use generically but has confused a number of people I talk to in the states is using "Hoover" to mean "vacuum cleaner". They're just called hoovers because the Hoover company made them at one point.
You can achieve the same thing by opening the History sidebar, searching for the item, right-click -> Forget About This Site.
There is more recent work. This blog post by Travis Downs is the most detailed analysis of transition behavior I've seen: https://travisdowns.github.io/blog/2020/01/17/avxfreq1.html

For general guidelines on when to use AVX-512, this (older post) remains best guide I've seen: https://lemire.me/blog/2018/09/07/avx-512-when-and-how-to-us...
The other person who replied to you probably paid half or a third of what you would pay for an equivalent Mac Pro.

The profit margins on the Mac Pro are just incredible. (Yes, I'm sure that equivalent professional workstation brands also have huge profit margins... no, that doesn't make me want to pay those lofty prices more.)

The only real value the Mac Pro provides is that it's the most powerful computer you're allowed to run macOS on legitimately. If you can do your work from Windows (with WSL) or Linux, you can save upwards of tens of thousands of dollars by building your own workstation, and that workstation can be significantly more powerful than any current Mac Pro at the same time.

For video professionals who rely on FCPX or similar macOS-only software, they don't really have a choice, and they get the opportunity to essentially pay $10k to $20k just for a license of macOS, which is fun.
> But no, I don't think it's a politically conservative motivated judgement

Censoring the literal word "lesbian" is not a politically/socially conservative judgment to you?

Okay.
Microsoft or Apple or Amazon would all be preferable to Google, actually, yes. Good ideas go to Google to die.
You can use HL2 out doors and with an extra battery, you could get a full day. I'm seeing 3 hours of usage.

What the HL2 has is the first good interface to AR/XR with incredible touch, hand tracking, and situational awareness. All AR will end up like this. It's so much better of an experience and designed to share with friends.
I mean I own the hardware. I should be able to backup the key.
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It really depends on people’s tolerance for the negative results vs positive impact.

Drug manufacturing, food product, yes you want more regulation because of impact. Where someone sells furniture and whether or not they have a valid business license much less so. Light regulation means more people are self employed.

As economies develop and mature they also develop more regulation. When economies are less i institutional then they have less regulation. We can even see that within the CHOP.

If you overregulate an emerging economy you risk suffocating it.
Agreed! A SPA using an RPC API usually makes the most sense. I've wasted so much time over my career trying to jam functional concepts into REST resources for little gain.

I really like the idea of each app getting it's own specialized backend. Have you heard of the BFF pattern?

https://philcalcado.com/2019/07/12/some_thoughts_graphql_bff...
Most People with Coronavirus Won’t Spread It. Why Do a Few Infect Many?
Yeah I try FF every 6 months to see if the scrolling has improved and each and every time I go back to using Chrome after a few days. I wouldn't say it's bad but it's noticeably worse than Chrome and I just can't get over it.

Exact same thing for FF on Android.
My guess is that it's being send to the email the user registered with. And requiring them to provide a separate email from the one they registered with completely defeats the purpose of obfuscating the email in the first place, so I think it'd be unreasonable to ask a developer to implement a whole second place to put an email just to work around Apple denying access to that information in the first place.

At the very least Sign in with Apple needs to support a request for the user to enter the real email they want to use to be contacted by the app after-the-fact for cases where someone obfuscates their email but then wants access to functionality that explicitly requires their real email.
Thank you very kindly for that. Mozilla would be the best source for stuff like this. :) I had looked on Youtube or on egghead.io and such, but I didn't really find what I wanted.

This is an offshoot, separate topic: I wish there were a Firefox extension for using the compatibility/emulator mode in Devtools to avoid fingerprinting. I want the website to always think I am 1920x1080 (a common res) and have it be easy to pan around in if the viewport does not match the dimensions of Firefox's window/tab.
I think the biggest issue is that it’s been bolted on macOS, so it works nowhere near as well as it does on iOS. I’m sure you’re aware of the many other cases where there’s been holes in the macOS version of some enforcement because it was added later and without considering how it might fit ;)
try searching for the item in your History sidebar, then right-click -> Forget about this site.
Wouldn't be the first of Intel's ISA extensions to be unsuccessful because of its limitations, look at MPX:
https://intel-mpx.github.io/
Based on the latest updates[1], it looks likely that they'll try setting up an instance of Pagure[2].

[1] https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Fsf_2019_forge_evaluation

[2] https://pagure.io/pagure
>> Slavery was not very productive

Once we created mechanical slaves, it was not. But until then, it was.

Slavery was abandoned because productivity rose, not the opposite. Productivity is tied with energy consumption. That's why we won't ever be able to limit our greenhouse gaz production.
Russia's space program has been undoubtedly hobbled by their national economic problems. That's been true going back to the USSR days. But, I don't think it's fair to place the blame for that within the space program itself.
> Traffic stats on Cloudflare seems a bit inflated with the unique visitors at 36k. Maybe they do count bots as well there.

First screenshot looks like Google Analytics to me; I'd say it's more likely a lot of us have blocked it and Cloudflare's number is more accurate.
I think you're vastly underestimating the importance of these games to people. If you're racing to world first for real world fame it actually has material stakes. Eve Online is famous by being able to transfer an actual real world monetary value to things. Real cash prizes can be on the line.

This stuff has real world as well as emotional value. Just because it's a video game doesn't mean it's less important to those participating in it.
Direktbanken (i.e. purely online Banks) are an exception but they come with their own set of asterisks and are not a blanket solution as you can't open an account from all European countries.
I hope other countries follow this absolutely wise decision. China will not hesitate to use any measures for weakening national security of countries it believes to be its enemies
Note: do not attempt to use something a low-level as SES to send newsletters unless you understand all the plumbing that has to be built around it (unsubscribe/opt-out, bounce handling, click tracking, IP pools, DKIM/SPF, etc). This especially applies if your list is low-quality or old.
The only problem I have with this extremist campaign is that it's about controlling other people. Disagreeing with their narrative publicly means risking their attempt at cancelling your livelihood. You couldn't even disagree within an organization safely.

They're not asking nicely. They're not actually asking at all. You either agree with the change or you are branded an Enemy of Progress.

Imagine an employee at a Big Tech Company publicly disagreeing with the change solely for the fact that they don't wish to succumb to bullying. Many nerds have a visceral reaction to bullies.

Paradoxically, these people are forcing others to take actions against their will. They're making themselves masters and making slaves of others.
Intel desktop cpus do not use less power. The only metric where intel desktop cpus win right now is maximum per-core performance, and not by much. They're worse at performance per dollar, performance per watt, maximum multithreaded performance, and overall power efficiency. (edit: perhaps not idle power efficiency...)
It's funny looking at the responses bashing India's decision here. With the current geo-political climate, and China pretty much swallowing up and controlling all of India's neighbours - Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Nepal, I'd say this decision is long overdue.

In more recent months, China's military has become increasingly aggressive against India and in the South China Sea, and they've just recently passed a draconian 'national security' law in Hong Kong which pretty much allows them unlimited control over the territory.

With this in mind, China is starting to look like a grave threat to the peace and stability of Asia and beyond (apropos their recently influencing the elections in Kiribati and having a puppet leader installed).

India welcoming Chinese made software is like the US deploying Iranian or North Korean origin software. Tell me how that works out.
Funny story about the Myo. It was a promising device and seemed to me like it had great niche applications (such as medical). Founders weren't interested in that I guess and moved to smart glasses. Last summer they sold the patents for Myo to a company called CTRL Labs for about $20M. In the fall Facebook snatched up CTRL Labs for $500M - $1B, and their product description was basically that of the Myo.

More info:

https://betakit.com/ctrl-labs-acquires-norths-patents-for-my...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21058975
"our community has gone this long without acknowledging the need to treat all humans with respect."

Wait is that what we weren't doing by using the terms "slave" in a different context than anything resembling the actual slave trade? Come on now, we're all adults here. Have some respect for our own autonomy of thought.

Also, great job calling out all those companies who haven't given in to your ludicrous demands. That'll get the PR people there so scared they won't have a choice but to do what you say.
When I designed car seats we optimized them for the federal tests. The biggest load on a seat back was represented by a large 95% man leaning back to get at his wallet. We were ready for production when the car had it's first sled test. Basically mimic what happens to the occupants when hitting a solid barrier at 30 MPH. The front seat occupants flew forward, bounced back, and completely broke the seat backs, crushing the legs of the rear occupants.
A few more years will see good options. The HL2 is the experience, but not the form factor
As a black person, I find this to be pretty racist. The idea that this will appease blacks or is wanted by us is deeply insulting.

How disconnected from black experience can you be that you think this is important or desirable?

It trivializes our very important concerns about police brutality and systematic racism. Do you want to fight against slavery? Then lets campaign to abolish the exception in the 13th amendment.
“I would rather be remembered as a bad artist than a good programmer.”
Some optimization switches are off by default as they can subtly change the semantics of your code.

Yes, this can trip up even quite knowledgeable people as with the fp post from Lemire the other day — he thought gcc was making a mistake, but it was doing the correct thing.

But there are plenty of others, for example telling the compiler not to worry about aliasing. I might use this on certain modules or individual files which were carefully written for this.

Or asking for more aggressive loop unrolling Which could increase code size but improve performance (or not!).

99.9% the defaults are fine.