skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To add to this, three more pieces of feedback:

1. Where is the company incorporated? This is a critical piece of information
when choosing a VPN provider, and I cannot find it anywhere on your website. It
should be front, and centre.

In Germany the law says you need an "Impressum" page added to your website,
with your company information on it. While I do not live in Germany, I made a
point of adding that page to every website I put online[1].

2. The website does not work with JS disabled. If you tell me you sell
security, or privacy, and your website does not work with JS disabled, I will
likely walk away.

3. In general, I tend to trust a company more if they open source their code,
and if they run their business in the open. Mullvad[2], and Confirmed VPN[3]
come to mind.

I would also recommend that you read, and try to meet the criteria set by the
PrivacyTools folks[4], as a lot of your target audience will come from them,
and trust their choices.

EDIT: Found the incorporation information in the FAQ after navigating a bit[5].
That is on me, my sincere apologies.

[1] https://i.cpimg.sh/jEtNeUSR4TEd.png

[2] https://mullvad.net/

[3] https://confirmedvpn.com/

[4] https://www.privacytools.io/providers/vpn/#criteria

[5] https://www.oeck.com/faq/privacy_and_security/
There is also https://github.com/segmentio/encoding, which aims to have a zero allocation fastpath while preserving compatibility with encoding/json.
for me, cannabis/cbd before bedtime reduces bad dreams and grinding teeth while sleeping
How to Manage the Emotional Impact of Getting Laid Off
I would imagine that use of streetview imaging would not meet the api agreement for google maps. They have little incentive to allow it to be reused in something like this.
$215K in Seattle is still quite high. External hire gets a lot more than internal promo and that site lags behind the current offer compensation which is some part of the diff.
Apart from performance considerations, it's also because in game development, different systems are much more entangled together in the requirements themselves, in many very small and unpredictable ways that still break architectural boundaries you put in.

For a classic example, it's makes almost no sense separate model and view when you're building a real time action game, because your rendering code and your ballistics and physics work on very similar 3d meshes that are animated by the same skeleton animations and tied to the same objects.
I'm no fan of the CDC and FDA, but you'd have to be blind to ignore the failure of leadership at the top of the totem poll.

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/25/trump-coronavirus-n...

https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/18/politics/kfile-trump-official...

The links go on and on.

For most conservatives, I guess it's easier to blame the "deep state" or those "evil government bureaucrats" than admitting the leader they elected is incompetent.
You banned me because I taunted you. Then you double downed on your passive aggressiveness by accusing me of something ridiculous.

A theory that is not allowed to be challenged is just dogma.

So long, and thanks for all the fish!
Adventures in booting Linux on Raspberry Pi 4
I don't think this article is primarily about free markets vs. government planning. It's about the ability of humans - any humans - to make conscious collective decisions about how the economy works in ways motivated by things other than finding profit, versus treating the economy as a mostly-uncontrollable force optimizing for what it optimizes for (the "invisible hand").

I think that's what the author means by "the spontaneous interplay of individual economic units" - that if a potential profit advantage exists, some rational actor will spring up to take advantage of it. The idea that this sort of thing happens reliably and consistently is behind theories like the efficient market hypothesis, for instance. There's little profit advantage in being the first company to shift to remote work or in proactively closing your coffee shop while there may still be a trickle of customers, but people did it. (For that matter, there's little profit advantage in being a videoconferencing service that has its average customer use the service occasionally suddenly use the service full-time for all its employees, and yet multiple such products of the market not only embraced it but built up their free offerings, too.)

If your claim is that the free market isn't constrained to being motivated by profit and can decide, even (or especially) if not ordered by government, to accomplish some other goal - I think you have no real disagreement with the author. What the author is claiming is novel is that people know that this is true, now.
No - neutron stars can merge to form a black hole or a larger neutron star, but it was thought that this mass-gap is beyond a threshold that was too small to form a black hole, but too large to still be a neutron star.
The fuss is that this mass-gap has been something that was theorized but also backed up by a (lack of) astronomical observations. This result means that it is possible to have _something_ in this range, and the fact that it was detected so "early" in gravitational wave observations suggests that they are more common than we otherwise would have thought, again from theory and previous observations. Hence, there's something we don't understand about these objects.
Strange message. The actual data: https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/new-cases-50-states does not show any kind of "accelerating disaster".

Instead it shows that some states have completed their infection curve, and other are just starting it.

Not a single state is showing a downward trajectory that then reverses and climbs upward.

So what is your basis for saying that?

> The EU makes cold hard calculations on matters such as this - I am glad they have my back.

You do know that the EU has more deaths than the US, yes? It's possible that could change, since it's not over yet in the US. But as of right now I see zero indication "they have your back" in any special way. Their situation is more or less the same as the US.
When I had it fitted they told me it could go either way, top or bottom, just my personal preference.

It stops me from clenching because it makes it uncomfortable.
About 10 years ago I slept with a headband my dentist recommended that could detect clenching and would beep. It would wake me up just enough to stop clenching. It was horrible sleep but worked after awhile and I stopped clenching at night and didn’t need the headband anymore. I still sleep with a nightguard regardless. Don’t remember the name of the headband, sorry. I got rid of it years ago.
What kllrnohj says here. There are other trends as well. Because bandwidth was considered a very scarce resource, apps used to do very fine-grained dirty region tracking, and be very careful to update only what really changed (again, often by painting on the front buffer directly). Scrolling was often handled by an explicit bitblt operation, which commonly had hardware support even on very early computers.

For complex reasons, that's all been changing. For example, Metal on macOS doesn't even have a way to specify partial screen updates. Those optimizations are still valid, though, and in my ideal world we have both good support for partial invalidation and fast GPU rendering. Among other things, that would be really good for power usage. But to get there requires some attention to detail that seems to be mostly gone from the desktop UI space.
Having done two sleep studies, the first time it took me 45 minutes to fall asleep, so they gave me a (low dose) Xanax the next time, you can share this concern with your doctor and they should be able to address it.
(If it isn't clear from the demonstration, Diamond-Square is quite good at terrain generation.)
Preface: I'm not a gameplay programmer. I'm not even a dynamics or physics specialist. And I don't hire for them. But as a core engine programmer:

The power of an engine is that it is a series of closely intertwined parts. Often times, the graphics code and collision code are linked; here's an example. Shoot a bullet in any FPS; the resulting decal is likely created from the collision data, since it's much faster to search than the highly tessellated graphics model.

Or, let's say, I have a melee attack. The specific frame that the attack occurs on is likely decided by the animation data. So that means that we need to run animations on the server, against an invisible skeleton.

Similarly, you might encounter a scenario where a bunch of stuff blows up, and you want 99% of that simulation to be baked offline and not simulated on the client, to ensure that the tower lands exactly where it needs to. So now you need to plug together your physics and animation systems, yadda yadda.

These are not bugs, or necessarily problems. People who suggest we turn all engines into tiny independent toolkits are missing the point. Of course everyone tries to make systems as independent as possible. But there's a bunch of power you can unlock if you have even a small bit of close integration between two systems.

How does one manage complexity? The first is to enable everyone, even artist and designers, to be technical. They're already managing complex topologies, doing sophisticated lighting and shading techniques, and often writing custom Python scripts to help them clean up the massive amount of data. A big thing I've seen from developers out of FAANGs is that they're shocked that "non-programmers" are writing custom scripts and doing programming. Your artists and designers are incredibly technical people who are good at solving problems. Trust them.

Invest in custom tools; any bit of custom tooling to make your life easier will pay off massively. Basically, give your whole staff the ability to debug and fix issues, with custom UIs and logs specifically built for your purpose.

QA staff are undervalued here in the US, but anybody who's worked in games for three months knows what a difference a senior QA makes. They know your game better than anybody else. Watching a good QA go from a blurry cameraphone pic on an angry reddit post somewhere to complete repro steps in less than an hour is nothing short of magic.
By the way, I really liked this article that was posted here couple weeks ago about how the USDA has been leading a battle against an entire species of worms - and has quite successfully driven them to a defensive line they maintain in Panama - for the sake of the cattle industry: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2020/05/flesh-ea...

Nothing hidden, but unquestionably central planning on the part of multiple governments.
Has anyone considered designing an IT infrastructure from the ground up that would be maximally resistant to ransom ware?

I think past generations are excused for not preparing this, simply because it was theoretical. It is real now. So designing systems that assume some part will be captured eventually, and then work to minimize that before they are even deployed, would be timely now.
Thanks, I didn't realize neovim had this. I found this article that explains the embed feature: https://tarruda.github.io/articles/neovim-smart-ui-protocol/
Apparently when you're accustomed to paying SF cost of living $1.14M loses its sting. /s
How might the available pool of drivers look if Uber and Lyft had to hire all of them as W-2 employees? There are drivers who only log in a few hours a week or even once every few months. It could not be cost-effective to pay benefits for someone who only occasionally works for you. Would they institute a minimum number of hours you have to log in per week?
If I'm supposed to feel dumber, it's working.
Very likely, the specific thing you're experiencing is poorly-engineered switching between integrated and discrete GPUs. It's not a mac-only problem, see this thread for a somewhat horrifying story (follow last link): https://www.reddit.com/r/gigabyte/comments/91ld3o/aero_15x_d...

A good intro to layout transitions is: https://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/EgorYusov/20181211/332596/Ta...

The number of copies required to get a pixel from CPU space into photons today is ridiculous. It used to be you'd just write into a memory-mapped buffer, and your graphics card would scan out directly from that where it would get to the electron beam modulator in microseconds.
pornography is banned in public squares despite being legal. you can’t just show it in the middle of downtown... that itself is a restriction

re: fighting words they’ve since narrowed the definition but it’s never been overturned
LCCS: The LCD/CRT Hybrid from JVC
You can try a few mouth guards that can be purchased off of Amazon which may work to varying degrees based on the cause of your sleep apnea. From my experience this[0] model had the best results. These type of mouth guards tend to work if you have collapse in the area behind your tongue, which may or may not be the case (more likely if you are overweight). An Alaxostent is another option if you're experiencing soft-palate collapse; however, it's expensive and hard to know if it will help before the fact.

It's possible that you're experiencing collapse in both areas; and it's also possible that neither device will work, depending on the severity of your sleep apnea; namely if you're overweight. I had "mild" sleep apnea that left me VERY fatigued because it was characterized by mild hypopneas (slight secessions in breathing) at an incredible frequency which stopped me from reaching REM throughout the night. The devices helped.

To ameliorate the situation completely I found a great doctor out of USC who ended up performing 4 procedures and 3 surgeries. I had my uvula cut, my tongue burned, my palate ablated, and a few other things. It was an incredible headache during the time but well worth it and now don't need a CPAP. Also worth mentioning that I had some gut dysbiosis at the time which can masquerade as sleep apnea. Good luck to you.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Eliminator-Sleep-Custom-Bruxism-Mouth...
Why the EU is so White
All of them? There's many cases where it doesn't make sense:

- The function is exported to a library

- The code generator emitted an indirect branch instruction

- The inlined code exceeds the size of a single page in memory

- The inlined code does not perform as well because it is not i-cacheable
“Open source federated Reddit”

Maybe I’m old, but isn’t this what Usenet was / is?
Sublime Text 3 still exclusively uses CPU rendering. Unless you're working with really high resolutions (think 8k), CPU rendering is plenty fast.
Stranger things about the pyramids of Egypt
Absolutely, maybe I'm wrong. My experience has just been that Africa deeply respects the power of a pathogen.
That's where you dust off volatile.
Even easier with Invoke-RestMethod wtte.in
The original headline on CNN.com is "Why EU is so white", but when you click it, the article has another, less provocative title.
I hate when reddit insist us to install mobile version from play store. Why you guys follow the mainstream ?. Browser version just enough.
I found this Surveys site, just completed few surveys, got paid $500 today
That is a bold statement, but you are free to express yourself.
Yes just like we can't detect the shadow DOM from the DOM but it's really there you know? I feel like my thinking is too orthogonal any more.

There's a difference between matter that's there which we can't detect as opposed to matter which isn't there which we can oh geez
Create File System Links with Ln
Powershell comes installed with a lot of aliases.

Invoke-WebRequest is just iwr
Thanks. I see the same author has a similar book specifically on energy. Will check them out.
Maybe they meant to say “have been using” instead of “used”.
I don't think anyone's claiming anything about the relative spending on food and housing, nor that it has any bearing on the matter under discussion - I think the claim is that total spending on "essential needs" has remained fairly high and has not become "much better." According to the article you linked, while food, housing, and clothing are now only about 50% of your budget instead of 80%, there's also about 20% on transportation costs, which didn't show up in the 1900 figure. I think those also count as "essential needs." Things are better than in the early 1900s, but not by very much.
The cheapest guards made of only soft plastic, which will not slide easily across the lower teeth. Get one with base of hard plastic.

Expect to spend over an hour getting it fitted just right, minimizing stress concentration points.
The government dictated who could operate in the market. The government doled out trillions in stimulus money to keep the market going with consumer demand.

There are many businesses still teetering on the edge who have not transitioned well. There are many businesses who laid many workers off.

Also there were major failures in how quickly PPE production could get ramped up, I wouldn't call that a supply chain/market success.

There was some corporate autonomy going on, but I wouldn't say we saw a miracle of the "free market" at work.
Well, I don't know enough to answer all your questions with certitude, but I know that for me if I drank a cup of coffee in the evening I would almost certainly grind my teeth that night. I still drink coffee (and a lot more than you) in the mornings but never after 2pm.

I will also add that coffee dehydrates you, which can also be associated with muscle tension and anxiety. So maybe make sure you're drinking enough water (and electrolytes!) as well.

I feel ya on the feel good factor though. It would take some serious side effects for me to want to quit coffee.
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FL350 fingertip.

If you can spend more, I'd suggest the wrist type. The fingertip can be a little uncomfortable being clamped to your finger all night.
Also worth noting that bruxism is correlated with gut dysbiosis and parasitic gut infections which may be otherwise hard to pin down. In my case bruxism was a notable symptom of the severity of my SIBO—an infiltration of the small intestine with pathogenic bacteria. It's an incredibly hard condition to spot and will almost certainly be completely unnoticed by western medical practitioners. However, it can wreak havoc over your health & well-being and is worth ruling out if you're generally feeling unwell.
I'm not sure that usenet could scale to the degree that reddit has. Part of what reddit does that makes it good(though it's both a blessing and a curse) is that a lot of the curation and moderation is handled by the community via the upvote downvote system. That means that you don't need as much dedicated moderation handling things which at the scale that some of the subreddits operate at is huge.
There are still a few servers that allow one to access usenet to access text based groups without a monthly fee. Barring that, you can access usenet newsgroups via Google Groups (groups.google.com), but only via HTTP.
Innovation by ancient farmers adds to biodiversity of the Amazon, study shows
How have I not come across this before. Looks great - thanks.
I knew which function this was before even clicking the link. I spent months working on and debugging that exact function and the surrounding CryPhysics code improving network interpolation back in 2014. All the undefined behavior caused us some trouble while porting to the "next-gen" consoles of the time.

This is the worst code to read in the engine by far. At the end of the day though it worked, we shipped it and it performed well enough.

Last I checked Lumberyard still has a somewhat cleaned up version of this function.
Certainly possible. Glibc has the sysconf function which can provide the cache sizes at runtime.

https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Constants...

However, consider a scenario like a database where you might store on disk once and don't get cheap opportunities to reorganize data when the memory or processor hardware is switched out.

Or when your data is sent over the network for processing by some arbitrary client hardware.
Dejanews did that many years ago. You can still access usenet via Google groups.
I think it's more like they chewed the rubber/support for the wire and then it snapped?
> True, but it is cleaner to reorganize the code into several functions and use the return value to propagate across layers if needed.

I disagree. Having to jump to another function definition which is inline is a bigger mental block than following a goto. The large amount of arguments you'd need to pass might also be a barrier, as is the mental overhead of checking to see if this function might be called from elsewhere. But reasonable people can disagree on this point.

I suggest you try to clean up the function yourself and see if your function-ed version is in any way improved.

> Why? If there is a new/delete pair anywhere, it should have been an object.

The case we want is that we have a large array of pairwise collisions. This is a temporary array used inside the method. If we ever have more than this, we need a new (contiguous) array. Are you suggesting that the code should have done something like this?

template<typename T> class TempArray { T* storage; void resize(int n) { delete[] storage; storage = new T[n]; };

I mean, sure, it's a very minor cleanup. It changes like, two lines though, and makes us have to access the array through an awkward ->storage pointer. Not ideal IMO.

> codegen should be on par as a new/delete pair.

Here's modern MSVC. Let's play "spot the difference": https://gcc.godbolt.org/z/KqR-LN

I'm not even doing anything but allocating the vector / array. It took me 2 minutes to navigate to godbolt and type this in. Don't just say "should be"... test it yourself!
Sleep apnea came up in another thread about a month ago [0] where someone posted this:

> This may sound crazy, but for those who can't tolerate a CPAP, an effective alternative is playing the didgeridoo.

They linked a study [1] that actually tested this and found it to be helpful.

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23430332

1: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1360393/
I used to work on dark matter experiments. (This was a few years ago now, and wasn't for very long -- I was helping out colleagues -- but I don't think the situation has changed much.)

I don't think anyone worth listening to considers dark matter to be a Universal Truth or anything. It's a crappy theory that needs better experimental evidence on the micro scale. It's just that all attempts to find that evidence have turned up nothing. (Except DAMA/LIBRA, the bane of the previously mentioned colleague's days and motivating factor for the experiment in question... but nobody actually believes them, so let's value their reports at "nothing".)

The biggest problem is that all alternatives to date are worse. They all have problems, problems of equal or greater severity than dark matter. That, more than any other reason, is the reason dark matter is still the leading theory.

I do strongly believe we should work on the advancement of non-dark matter theories. That's how you lap the current leader, after all. And neglecting alternative theories was what got us into a couple decades of string theory stagnation, a mistake we'd be wise not to repeat. If a new theory or new evidence for an existing theory emerges, dark matter will lose mindshare amazingly quickly.

There is, of course, a "nightmare scenario". The WIMP carries a weak charge, by definition. It was dreamed up that way to make it detectable and have a presence in the universe. (And there may have been a theoretical preference; I wouldn't know, I've always been an experimentalist.) But there's no reason it must carry a charge, weak, strong, or electromagnetic. That would make it really quite invisible to experiments. This may be the universe we live in.