skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Four months ago:

"Remdesivir is really hard to synthesize"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22783363

Not sure what to make of that "93 cent" figure, but it must be marginal cost, which of course means nothing. A thumbtack costs fractions of a cent to make, but only if you have a thumbtack production line sitting around, with materials and operators ready to go.
Spacecraft could take us to the closest Earth-like planet
What kind of hardware can crank through the 2^64 space in reasonable time?
Distributed identity / self-sovereign identity is a good use-case that blockchains are perfect for imho. But that solution is quite complex hindering its adoption.
As for voltage difference between controller and lights, you can sacrifice the first led and power it at 3.3v and power the remaining ones from a second power supply. The first led will be a little dimmer than he rest but this setup has been very stable in my tests.
It's a "snapshot". In python one has to import a module during run time but for example, in matlab code, the modules and their classes/functions should already exists within the snapshot directories as submodules. I am not sure about other languages how this works.
Opposite way around for me interestingly, I used dynalist (and paid for it) last year before moving to roam. The thing I really like about roam other than the graph is the auto generated daily todo pages, so you've always got somewhere to immediately start writing. And the TODO overview page, which lets you see all the todos you added across all notes. The two are really powerful, you can organically write out whatever is in your head, leaving todo's as breadcrumbs to regain context later.
First plausible crewed interstellar spaceship proposed
I agree. Can you imagine how management would feel if you would allow your work hours to be interrupted by friends and family asking for favors and going ahead and doing them? Hey, I need a lift, can you help? I fight my keys inside the car, can you help me get in my car? Yes “everyone“ shops in line while at work, but few people are anti social robots. Point is you got a few hours to yourself after work, employers should respect that.
I think Erlang's pattern matching alone is a strong point for Erlang. Makes a generic server-client protocol parsing very trivial to implement.

Eg:
https://bravenewmethod.com/2011/02/22/socket-binary-data-str...

I don't know if any other language can do it this trivially.
When one claims to have a direct line to God and receive modern revelation, it would be expected that maybe they would see the writing on the wall, and I dunno, not enslave people?

The problem was that they were actively writing new scripture that supposedly had equal (if not more) weight than both the Old and New Testament.
The business value for a nation of fans = (Number of fans) x (avg profitability per fan) x (probability of losing fan over political decision)

I would argue that while US fans are more profitable in aggregate (first two terms) the reason the NBA sides with China is due to the 3rd term.

Chinese fans are vastly more sensitive to perceived "anti-Chinese" policies, whereas most US fans don't care one way or the other.

Therefor the NBA's position is very predictable. If you want the NBA to care, you have to convince US NBA fans that this political stance is worth not spending money on. Good luck with that because the NBA fans I know, don't care at all.
I have started thinking of a similar schedule to this for the coming school year. The majority of my co-workers are located in Germany, so I start at 0700 so that we have increased overlap. By 1100 they have all pretty much signed off and I can switch to working with my son on his school work (we are choosing to not send him to in-person classes). After dinner, I can work for the four hour balance.
I wonder about this: while I don't agree with the idea, it seems legally questionable. If, hypothetically, the KKK got such a jersey and pasted racist slogans on it, the NBA could reasonably claim the people doing so were unjustly associating its brand with causes it didn't support. They would be using the NBA brand in a manner in which they had not received license to use it. I think the same thing applies here: while I don't approve of this action by the NBA, they could have grounds for legal action against someone doing this (though I imagine it would make a bad PR situation even worse).
Solar One – a concept for interstellar travel
Erhm, you'd be missing out on a lot by not playing MGS1. And MGS2 is considered one of the weaker entries in the series.

As for "Kojima's style", it's basically "AAA Japanese Game Studio Style", which is "tell a coherent story through the first half, then go completely off the rails in the second."
Noticing the Taste of Lotus (2018)
Interesting! I was not aware of the connection to Chu spaces, will have a look into that! Algebraic topology seems to have a endless trove of many interesting dualities. I did find the connection between topological ordering and boolean matrix multiplication to be really interesting. I was taught a queue-based algorithm as an undergrad, so learning about this was a pleasant surprise.
Show HN: Athens – Open-Source Networked Thought
Take that Blizzard!
Concept shows a manned spacecraft capable of traveling to other stars
Solar One: A proposal for the first manned interstellar spaceship
How does a 33 yr old have that kind of connections? What did he do prior to this? He must have done something right.
That possibility was actually mentioned in the article:

> She had to lie, Virginia implies, in order to shield Violet, who was recovering from her own illness.
This is fantastic!! There's also elements of F# in this, it'd be wonderful to be able to do this in Python code.
Well maybe for intellectual works, you're right, but their civil engineering prowess was unmatched for 1000 years. But again, you're just underscoring my point... this "war making" culture prevented other types of intellectualism from flourishing. Culture matters. And cultural revolutions can just as easily wind up in hell as in heaven.
Software as Curation
I’m continually surprised at how willing the elites, the media, corporate America and our elected politicians are to carry water for China.

Our elected politicians expend endless breath calling “Wuhan virus” racist but don’t even dare utter a word about an active genocide against Uighur minorities? No problem with the president of one of our largest rival countries effectively becoming a dictator for life?

Let’s all keep calling people xenophobic while Xi consolidates power and swallows HK.
I've heard that such roaches have a short working life, though, because at some point they'll begin ignoring antenna input.
I write JavaScript daily and my gripe with Babel (and transpilers in general) in the JS ecosystem is that it makes it easy to have 10 dependencies written in 10 similar-but-different languages. If you have to edit a dependency then you're stuck editing their source file (written in ES6-ES11 plus random unaccepted proposals / TypeScript / Coffeescript / Purescript / etc), installing their devDeps tree to run their build process, integrating their sourcemaps to un-break your stack traces, and writing code in a slightly different language each time you make a change. It's exhausting.

It's really neat that we have the option to transpile, and I was actively working on transpilers in the Meteor ecosystem when they were all the rage, but at this point I try to avoid them whenever I can.
The next generation will realize how pretending to be for a cause is worse than not supporting it.

I saw an ad for bamba socks. For every pair you buy we will give a pair to a homeless shelter.

Sounds good but those socks are like 25/30 dollars for a pair. If they really cared they would take that 25 dollars and buy cheap white warm socks in bundles. For 25 dollars you could get 100 pairs. But they don't care but do things to make you think they do.
Yes. Many teenagers who play video games also participate in sports.
This post has only 10 points, nobody wants your garbage political posturing on HN.
I'll just come out and say that this is true for us at PriceTable. :)

I've used Rails, Node.js and .NET before this, and none of them came close to Elixir in terms of developer productivity, not to mention system stability.
There are some good reasons to use this. A typical thing is to have a descriptor header followed by multiple types of data. The descriptor header says what kind of data is following. You can obviously just use a void pointer in the descriptor that points to a separate data struct, but having them both in the same memory block means fewer allocations, and fewer cache misses, giving better performance.
Listen man, these threads are about WAR.

The fact of the matter, the WAR scenario is not looking good at the moment, for millions of people. I wade into this shit-show knowing full well it is full of Generals and Flight Lieutenants, paying your bills.

You should pay as much attention to the clear military-industrial shills that shit on this site, daily. We know who they are. I'm not the only peace-monger being censored by your authority.
How can anyone hold a political position in China and not hold those viewpoints? It’s illegal, in practice, to speak or take actions otherwise.
Vikings bury axes in Arctic ice for 1k years
There have been other HN threads about this story, perhaps with different articles as the submission. I can't find them though. Anybody?
I have witnessed that the opposite also holds true: less enjoyable coworkers are now less irritating simply because of the added distance and buffer room, making them easier to tolerate* than when having to deal with in person on a daily basis. *quality of work notwithstanding
and REALLY took off after the Rockets GM publicly tweeted out against China earlier this year, while the rest of the league ripped into him including LeBron (despite LeBron trying to play up the more than an athlete idea about himself).
I am taking the course right now. It is very good but it is also very hard. You need to spend between 10-20 hours each week for the lectures and homeworks.
> There is culture around it that defines what gamer is

That "culture" is just the gamer stereotype. If you play games, you're a gamer. Whether you choose to self-describe that way is irrelevant. Whether people who self-describe that way also describe you that way is irrelevant.

You may as well claim to ride bicycles but not be "cyclist" because you don't own spandex. If you ride bicycles you're a cyclist, whether or not you self-describe as a cyclist, whether or not people who self-describe as cyclists consider you a cyclist, and whether or not you resemble the stereotype of cyclists. If you ride bicycles, you're a cyclist. If you play games, you're a gamer.
Automattic: off-hours contact is normal, just don't expect a response until they get back to work. My team is spread out around the world, there's always someone asleep while you're working. If it's an emergency (like you deployed broken code and closed your computer) you can probably expect a phone call and/or text message.

Edit: one of the benefits of getting a late-night IM is to read it and have plenty of time to think about a response. Though, many people do not have Slack installed on their phones and only on their work computers.
Hmm, being built on top of an extendable code editor is very appealing. The ability to write TS/JS to extend Notion is something I've wanted. I haven't really used VS Code (I'm deep in the Jetbrains ecosystem) but maybe I need to give it another shot even if just for this. I loved Sublime Text before I moved to IDEA.
Which can be mounted on larger rodents and also sent loose in the area.
Yep! Not only pulling them, but also building them and pushing them if needed.
> It would also indicate that RCPSS is not the culprit.

I’m not sure about that. I think it might be. Despite both are within specs, the results are numerically different.

Modern DirectXMath doesn‘t use these approximated instruction for inverting matrices, it’s open source, there: https://github.com/microsoft/DirectXMath/blob/83634c742a85d1...
Retail stores are turning into e-commerce fulfillment centers
Also the Bluetooth "logo" is actually just the signet of king Bluetooth.
Is logic and reasoning working?
We all test in prod
Feel your pain <3 You can tell it's been a few years now but I have worked at Big Corp Inc. before.

I know what it's like to ask someone in charge of 8k people to personally approve my server permission escalation even though he's never met me, doesn't know anything about the IT systems, has never visited the site I work at or probably even been in the country I reside.

Anyway, a good thing on this front now is that (speaking from Azure exp.), you can dump logs directly to blob storage (s3, whatever google call their data storage). Then you only need that permission.

As for the non-UTC servers... -_- but if it's a problem, you can always append the tz info to the log date format.
I struggle with the same pattern and worries myself, though mostly internally. My position affords a lot of latitude for it (I replaced the previous lead dev 10 years ago when the company was 5 people). It seems to be (and is said to be) okay with others as long as I communicate even as little as, "I'm deep in the weeds on this and probably will be for the next 2-3 weeks."

I worry about the optics of it, but at least have confidence that other developers can see the end result is solid for the total amount of time invested. Smooth workflow for everyone is the other major concern, but again we're lucky to be working on our own system and not beholden to external deadlines.. and I guess lucky to have enough want-to-dos in the backlog that no one is ever without something useful to work on.

We do create a bit of expectation of every developer having at least some tasks each week that are picked up and some that are completed, and it's tempting to just game that a bit to put up some numbers on the weeks where I'm figuring out how to do what I'm about to do.
And since we're in the process of extending Refugee to mean pretty much all non-elite migration, it's close to "the whole world", isn't it? There's a lot of talk about "fleeing economic crises", "fleeing climate change" etc, not just unjust persecution. That certainly would include most of the world, wouldn't it?
I can definitely concede that the NBA is acting cowardly, but I feel like the amount of hate/attacks NBA is receiving is disproportionate. Essentially all global businesses appease China to varying degrees and NBA is being singled out because of their outspokenness on US-related issues. And denigrating companies because they did not speak about ALL issues would simply result in them avoiding all contentious issues. Furthermore, a lot of this outrage feels extremely disingenious which I feel like further justify my "distaste".

Like I stated in a previous comment - our main focus should be pressuring the government and congress where the real change happen. Especially since China would retaliate against any company talking about their issues. Also, focusing on the gov/congress do not in any way prevent the pressuring of companies to do the right thing.
Because the CCP is a totalitarian government whose dictator banned Winnie the Pooh [1] after he was offended by a couple of memes. If people started wearing “freehongkong” jerseys it wouldn’t be out of the realm of possibility that the NBA gets banned in China. Clearly the NBA does not want this.

Critics are right to hold the NBA’s feet to the fire for this kowtowing behaviour. A lot of people are unaware of the degree to which China is extending its influence into Western countries.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/07/china-bans-win...
It's because the government can say "this drug shall cost no more than X units of currency" and if that is above marginal cost, it can still makes sense to sell it.

The flip side is that drugs in the US are extra-expensive because the expected recuperation of R&D rests on the US market.

If the US government started doing price fixing, existing drug prices would come down, but new drugs would be less likely to be developed.

On the other hand, much of regulatory burdens that make drug development more costly are also due to the US government.
This looks complementary to my nested hierarchy kanban board kanception.io

Would you be interested in collaborating?
Economists rejects the idea of intrinsic and true value. Because economists don't know how to quantify it as a scalar.
I bought one of these for about $80 nearly a decade ago and still holds up good despite all the sun and abuse. Compared to most clothing out there it's certainly made well. I have a lot of respect for clothes that last, too much stuff, even high priced, is basically unwearable in a year or two, which is incredibly wasteful.
The archive doesn't include code from Gitlab as GitHub and Gitlab both are different entity managed by different group of people!
Make sure that there isn't "overdraft protection" bullshit on your checking account. Otherwise it would defeat the purpose.
Check out the OP.
> There might be jobs in these areas, but they won't pay NYC- or SF-level salaries.

You're absolutely right.

Those cities actually pay better than NYC when you adjust for cost of living[1][2][3]. In every ranking, there are few major cities worse to be a software engineer than NYC.

And OP isn't even close to making median or average salary for NYC. S/he's close to entry-level.

The cost of living in NYC is unjustifiable, which is probably why people are leaving[4] in droves.

1. https://www.codementor.io/blog/best-cities-software-engineer...

2. https://insights.dice.com/2019/02/28/salary-compare-income-c...

3. https://www.economicmodeling.com/2019/04/10/buying-power-cos...

4. https://gothamist.com/news/census-report-new-york-losing-new...
They are different companies.
We have re-written the book chapter many times, and we aren’t making major changes. We also can’t accept big things like this wholesale.

I am glad it exists though!
That’s exactly right. With zero track record of vision (especially compared to Bush), why would anyone expect this guy to be the right fit?

The Russian collusion may or may not be true, but it certainly seems like they’d be getting what they’d have wanted by constantly putting lackluster candidates with in all these positions.
"In the bay area you have first world highly trained engineers whose parents were iron age dirt farmers in Southeast Asia."
I didnt know that migration from SE-Asia was big to the Bay Area, I always thought most 'Asians' were from South Asia. Can you name a few SE-Asian countries where highly trained engineers whose parent were iron age dirt farmers actually come from.
I'd worry a lot less about any theoretical Project Electric Cockroach than I would about ubiquitous smartphones.
(Čech means "a Czech person")
Idle+Hybrid+Mattress+20%+Off+Free+Pillows
>Why have a knowledge base when anything is easily googleable?

Because it isn't. It's not even close to "anything". Only superficial things are googlable, and even then google's NN algorithms sometimes manage to mess thing up, providing some useless links instead of a single correct one. That's why I tend to use google for quick search, but then I back it up with my own notes and articles/books/webpage archive. Of course, most of the times I will never use the things I store, but once in a while it saves me days. Knowing that I don't save regular stuff every kid can find in a minute even if the original resource is gone.
Maybe "the west" should not have caused so many economic crises or changed the climate so much, if they wanted a different outcome. (But I can barely see the goalposts in the distance now...)
A possibly relevant example. Bill Taylor was a generalist, described by a more technical computer scientist colleague as a "concert pianist without fingers". Through his position at NASA, he had the vision to fund Doug Engelbart's mouse project around the age of 30, which directly enabled the mother of all demos in '68.

https://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/technologies/taylor_more.h...
> Everyone want to know why a 33-year old was chosen? Because he can be controlled. Full stop.

That's probably a factor, though from every indication I've seen of the internal dynamics of this administration it's probably a bigger factor in the sales pitch of the policy entrepreneurs selling picks to the President than it is in the actual selection process. As I read it, the bigger reasons this administration chooses young allied ideologues for senior positions for which they lack the traditional credentials are twofold:

(1) They want allied ideologues that don't need to be controlled. If they could find qualified people with the right ideological credentials they wouldn't shy away from them, but they usually can't and the ideological credentials are the key indicator that people will make the “right” decisions without explicit control, and

(2) They want a long-term impact on shaping the nation, party, and broader conservative community and jumping members of their fairly narrow factions ahead in resume building this way means that in the next Republican administration, and in Republican/conservative think tanks, media networks, etc. in the meantime, their faction will be far ahead of where it was a few years ago in people with the the kind of resume that gets them positions.
The .com zone file is updated every few minutes. Caching behaviours will vary significantly. Frequently a significant fraction of traffic can be using new nameservers within minutes, with a long tail of traffic with older information.

Each TLD does their own thing. For example, last time I checked, .ca only seemed to be serving a new zone file every few hours. How long new nameservers take will depend on your luck in terms of where you are in their refresh cycle.
Top comment, hands down. Thank you for explaining the subject clearly.

An objective standard definition for what is productive and that which is not seem impossible to me, at least once you get past the basic necessities of life. Food is plentiful. Shelter has problems directly stemming from rent seeking. Healthcare is increasingly costly. Yet electronic entertainments are ridiculously cheap.
What happens if someone file a DMCA takedown of one of the repositories in the vault?
To be the only one who knows about this and not to cultivate the competition
From decades of experience, his is what I came to believe:

The best managers I met tended to be those that if the circumstance required it, could do the job of those two levels below. So they could actually do the job of the people that are managed by those they manage.
> Despite both are within specs, the results are numerically different.

True, but it's quite common that floating point ops throwaway bits (i.e. beyond the epsilon) will be numerically different between vendors.

> Modern DirectXMath doesn‘t use these approximated instruction for inverting matrices, it’s open source, there: https://github.com/microsoft/DirectXMath/blob/83634c742a85d1....

Good find, neither does Wine, actually: https://doxygen.reactos.org/dc/dd8/d3dx9math_8h.html#a3870c6...

Would be interesting to see if this bug also happens on Linux.
And admit the program's existence in open court? No, either nothing happens and you sound like a loon, or you get black-bagged and just disappear.

...a joke that hits way different after hearing the news out of Portland...
+1 for TaskPaper.

Markdown for notes and Taskpaper for tasks, projects and outlines. It is a format and a Mac app, that is extremely well made. Super fast keyboard navigation, customizable styles and scriptable in JavaScript. Love it.