skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly I think this is an underappreciated aspect of the dominant role of Cloudflare. If we were using a smaller CDN then our users would blame us every time it went down. But because we're using Cloudflare our users will quickly notice that sites much bigger than us are down as well and just think "eh, the internet is being weird right now".
"Hi I'm from tech support, I need you to go and generate some new backup codes. Now read them to me. Thanks!"
Exactly. It's a really optimistic (and in my opinion terrible) view to think that the people that ran the company into bankruptcy can steer it out if only they got paid a bit more money.
Luc Montagnier should not be taken seriously[0]. I'd say than every "theory" he follows make me distrust them.
I think he is even an antivaxx now[1].

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luc_Montagnier#Research_on_ele...

[1]https://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2012/06/27/luc-montagnier...
It’s a negotiation; each side can propose the terms and however they mutually agree is how business gets done.

A rational exec (or employee) will look at the offered terms and compare them against their next best option (their “best alternative to a negotiated agreement”)

A rational shareholder/board will do the same. In many cases, if the board believes the shares are dramatically undervalued because of the current pandemic, they might prefer to rent executives for cash rather than renting them for shares which are in their mind undervalued at the moment.
US needs to emulate more worker-friendly nations like South Korea and Japan.
They don't want to say what happened. It sounds like the problem is negligence in security design and not just a few employees who were manipulated.
> You’re not entitled to be “paid back” for the fact that those options became worthless

I absolutely agree with this, and this is why I think the retention bonuses paid out to executives are unethical. If you can tell your employees that they aren't entitled to a compensation fix because their options/stock are now worthless, it's a bit hypocritical to turn around and tell your board/shareholders "hey, my options and stock are now worthless, give me lots of cash or I'll leave".

Just because you may have the leverage to do something, it doesn't mean it's ethical to do so.
It is not that they are ashamed, rather Trolltech made a series of decisions that make sense in the context that Qt was originally designed and the C++ compilers used by the demographic of paying customers, which does seat well with ISO C++ of all things crowd.

Meanwhile std::string still doesn't provide everything that compiler specific frameworks have been doing since mid-90's.
Do whatever is tolerable to you. "Can't" quit beef? Try eating less or buying from a more responsible source.

Can't eat less beef? Donate to a climate org, volunteer, switch to solar, drive your car less, do some political canvassing, etc.

None of us will do all of that. Everyone has their subset of things they can do.
Hm. Given the development of DSL/Cable/LTE/5G/whatnot speeds in the last few years, and more and more FTTC/FTTH roll outs it's not total unrealistic. I could have it, but I'm too cheap for that :-)
Filling the top spots in most listed companies is a matter of politics and relationships, not competence. There are many companies known in the market for hiring and promoting based on criteria other than competence, for example political influence, diversity or political stance. Not everybody is FAANG hiring experts, these are exceptions in a big world.
Very much on point. If the core of your business, or application, depends on external code, you are taking a huge risk integrating it into your code base.

Sometimes it is better to invent a wheel that does exactly what you need, and nothing more. Software is sometimes about NOT reusing code.
Its a game changer if you are into trivia or generating nonsense. http://lacker.io/ai/2020/07/06/giving-gpt-3-a-turing-test.ht...
This i such a paperthin take on the Swedish housing market that I'm starting to assume that you're intentionally manipulative. I can even remember explaining this to you once.

The government made sure that there was enough supply of apartments. This was removed 30 years ago or so. The "Market" took over instead.
You’re missing step 2: a group of virologists published research showing (indirectly, over time) exactly how one might create a chimeric virus with the characteristics of SARS-CoV-2. The argument is not “we can’t imagine them randomly coming together”, the argument is “these virologists had the experience and knowledge to put them together, and have been doing so for years in their experiments”
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I think this is your point but helping spell it out. The father in this case is probably the best shot at obtaining more food for the starving family and needs energy to do so.
Really? How is that? Proof? Link?
I mean, if we want to argue about definitions, personally, I like Steve Blank's:

"A startup is an organization formed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model. The goal of your early business model can be revenue, or profits, or users, or click-throughs – whatever you and your investors have agreed upon. Most startups change their business model multiple times."

I disagree with the idea that a "startup" needs to be "optimizing for growth at all costs" - as you say. I think this is actually a rather dangerous approach because growth at all costs is how we get things like Ponzi schemes, WeWork, and other abusive organizations.

Your comment also seems to imply that you can't do anything meaningful if you don't have/raise money. This is simply not true.
I'm curious why you presume thread spawning is needed.
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In web and online infrastructure pretty much nothing is out of your control except for two things: ISPs people use and domain name registrar you use for your domain name. And even domain name registrar centralization can be mitigated against by having multiple domains from multiple registrars and promoting different domains to different users and having backup communication channels to inform users about new domains in case something happens.

Other than that it's your choice whether to make your infrastructure dependent on a bunch of unreliable centralized SPOFs from big corporations or build highly available infrastructure relying on servers from many different providers running your own DNS servers with DNS routing, failover, etc. You will definitely beat Cloudflare's availability this way many times over.
It’s not racist to say Chinese eat bats. That’s simply a fact. If it helped this virus, that’s another debate.
This is very well done, hitting on some pain points and explaining how to work around them.

I have devoted close to 100% of my paid working time on deep learning for the last six years (most recently managing a deep learning team) and not only has the technology advanced rapidly but the online learning resources have kept pace.

A personal issue: after seven years of not updating my Java AI book, I am taking advantage of free time at home to do a major update. New material on deep learning was the most difficult change because there are so many great resources, and there is only so much you can do in one long chapter. I ended up deciding to do just two DL4J examples and then spending most of the chapter just on advice.

The field of deep learning is getting saturated. Recently I did a free mentoring session with someone with a very good educational background (PhD from MIT) and we were talking about needing specializations and specific skills, just using things like DL, cloud dev ops, etc. as necessary tools, but not always enough to base a career on.

Definitely it can help peoples’ careers working through great online DL material, but great careers are usually made by having good expertise in two or three areas. Learn DL but combine that with other skills and domain knowledge.
Ask HN: Use my mac as a microphone for my iPhone?
I want to use my macbook to play prerecorded sounds so that the iPhone registers it instead of a microphone. Say on a call, or on a different app. I tried connecting with audio jacks but I think my macbook is sending digital audio and the audio jacks are analog. Anyone tried doing this?
You could make your own, using pixel art scaling algorithms. (It's also very easy to scale binary images programmatically in something like GIMP by converting to true color, using low-artifacts Lanczos scaling and then going back to b/w binary. That gives you a very similar rendition to pixel art scaling, with no pixelation or blur but a smooth, painting-like effect.)
Title: "Microsoft is doing its usual fiscal year-end layoffs, but fewer than usual"
How does higher education shape intergenerational income mobility in the US?
Because Khronos did not want to move OpenCL beyond an anemic C API, it was only the beating taken from CUDA that made them come up with SPIR, and for what OpenCL 3.0 is the admission of defeat.

By the way, Google also completely ignored OpenCL and came up with its own Renderscript dialect instead.
You can download from webtorrent nodes as well as bittorent, you can use it without forwarding any ports, and you can start watching a video as soon as you start downloading it instead of waiting until it’s done.
> If you thought those internal candidates were better, why didn’t you promote them before?

Bad judgment. I've seen plenty of capable people in management positions who get supplanted by outside hires installed above them. Sure, sometimes it does work out, but many many times it does not. The outside hire ends up pissing people off to the point where most of the high-performing talent (including the people who were passed over for promotion) leave, and the department goes down in flames. I've seen this happen firsthand quite a few times, and hear about it happening all the time.
1. Why do you think UK software companies aren't more successful compared to American ones. Aren't they saving tons on development costs?
2. Have you considered that you are terribly underpaid?
I would recommend a more flexible definition of "from scratch" that doesn't require reimplementing everything including the stdlib and which allows using libraries like SDL or GLFW or OpenGL so maybe you'll actually finish something.

I mean... Handmade Hero started in 2014. It's 2020. He still doesn't even have the basis for a game yet. It's a great source to learn theory and low level implementation details, but no one would actually approach making a game that way.
You can avoid eating beef without being "forced" an "inferior diet". In fact it would probably be better for people to NOT eat beef.
Yes, a common GPU compute platform would be great! Even if Apple isn't going to support it being able to handle all of it in Vulkan would be nice. Maybe OpenCL can be implemented on top of that.
> Moore's law in the [single-core] performance sense…not Moore's law as in the the doubling transistor density.

Moore’s law is only about the latter, it says nothing about performance.
Syria is a free country? Have you been there?
actually, we are currently in drought conditions some years in a row in Germany. Forests are dying and the groundwater is exhausted. But hey, it's all the media making up a story.
You are correct regarding the BER, apparently there have been some corruption accusations I didn't know about!
Every discussion about encrypted messengers has to begin with the assumption (ideally backed up by actual technical efforts) that the client software is secure. If you can’t make that assumption, there’s no need for any security mechanism. You could just as easily say “why use end-to-end encryption, just send data through the servers in plaintext, since a client compromise could functionally eliminate any protection offered.”

In practice what designers do is they try to build the most secure system they can, under the assumption that they can prevent a forced compromise/update of the client. To do anything else makes the entire problem foolish, because then nothing works.

In practice, there are real (if not perfect) defenses against a forced client compromise. From a technical perspective, Signal uses reproducible builds, at least on Android. They are also legal: we haven’t seen any court case where a US company has been forced to push software updates, although we do see routine attempts by law enforcement to gain data from back-end systems —- eg Yahoo, Lavabit.

Nobody says Signal’s client defenses are perfect, and we aren’t yet in a world where client compromise is absolutely ruled out. But the problems of designing a secure back-end and a secure client are largely separable. You can work on both at the same time, and being imperfect in one area does not justify a bad solution in the other.
Testing is great but you can do all the testing in the world, if the population is not compliant and superspreaders in particular simply ignore all health guidelines and don't even show up for tests you've gained nothing.

The pandemic already is under control in most places and I'm not sure testing had all that much to do with it. The successful strategy seems to be pretty straight forward. Initial lockdowns if the country is hit badly to curb the disease, then strong compliance with basic health guidelines and regional lockdowns if necessary.

Japan has performed about 800k tests in total on a population of ~120 million, which is lower than most other countries by a magnitude and about 50 times less than the US, but has had very few excess deaths.

At the end of the day the virus cares about behaviour, not testing.
Cities have an opportunity to reinvent public art
and actually all the soya for actual human consumption could easily be farmed locally.
ok, these are all good points, perhaps i could have been clearer. how about this, which i think is a true statement based on my understanding; drugs (mostly cannabis) are usually only decriminalised, rather than legalised, due to treaty obligations within the un system. this makes canada (and uruguay) interesting cases, since both have actually legalised cannabis.

sure, there won't be a un police action against them, and today i learned that denunciation is an option in the relevant treaty, rather than expulsion. but, there is a good reason (treaty obligations) why countries won't just 'legalise all the things' and have traditionally followed softer approaches.
I am using this service since last 20 days and I am 100% satisfied with the matrix on simpleops.

Before that for the same reason I was frequently using gtmatrix.
Luck plays into business so much now than people assume. Incomplete information and unpredictable black swan events mean you're not making decisions with certainty. You make the best decision with the information you have, try not to spend more time once you get to diminishing returns, and you hope things work out. Executive talent will not ensure success, but it can raise the odds. But on the other side, a dearth of executive talent can still ensure defeat.
Definitely sounds better than I thought it would have and I've watched tons of this guy's videos in the past.

It really distorts his voice / range in some cases, such as when he taps his desk with that orange hammer. The difference there is night and day. It chops out his his natural voice's range. It seems to degrade his voice the more intense the background noise is, such as the leaf blower (lol), but that's reasonable to expect. But at the same time, even the mechanical keyboard has a very noticeable negative effect on his range.

It's one of those things where I wish so much that it worked perfectly, but I couldn't realistically think about using it for any recording work due to things like the above. There's just too many common noises (typing, etc.) that drastically distorts your voice.

9:23 in that video is hilarious though. Have to love Jerry!
Strange not including China as a major economy. I thought they were huge!
These bonuses are pre paid, not compensation for future work.
Deploying a Symfony 4/5 Application on AWS Fargate
Marketing sales pitch.

Windows only supports Vulkan via the ICD driver model used by OpenGL, Win32 and UWP sandbox only support DirectX.

Microsoft is now pushing for vendors just to implement them on top of DirectX.

Vulkan is only guaranteed to be available on Android devices since version 10. The market share of Android 10 is left as exercise for the reader.
One is a survey in which people have to participate actively (so there is a bias in favor of the languages with more vocal users) and the other one is a sample of an indicator (of popularity? of complexity? other?)

I'm not surprised that they give different results. You can average the two rankings and get something maybe closer to the real popularity.

You can also rank languages by number of repositories on github and get a ranking with a different bias.
The service looks nice and at a very fair price point. But I can’t stand it when I’m forced to go through a 3rd party to sign in. At least this made me create a throwaway GitHub account for OAuth.
Crypto
Hi,cryptocurrency is going to dissapear or must be the money of future?
In an ideal, meritocratic world, sure, but people get promoted to positions for all sorts of reasons that have very little to do with their competence.
I don’t really have a problem with this. I’ve never been an executive, but I have seen first hand what happens when a company is in distress.

I worked for a small company that was on its last legs and had been through rounds of layoffs. Our investors wanted to keep the company afloat long enough to get someone to buy us out.

They made all of us one promise - for every hour we worked, we would get paid and on time.

They made some key employees an offer of a retention bonus to stick around for 6 months or until the company was sold. I happen to be one of those employees because I took over development of a key piece of software after the founder was kicked out. (It was an obscure proprietary system written in C++/MFC with a little bit of assembly and I was the only graybeard that knew enough to maintain it.)

The last thing you want is key employees jumping ship at the time you are trying to either save a sinking ship or at least get some type of salvage value from it.
This just confirms the sentiment shared in the article by Jeff Cross in March. It's very, very disconcerting. Especially for people who've been working with Angular(JS) for years, like me. A fish rots from the head.

At a certain point, if Google can't get its leadership together, the community should probably just do a fork
You should definitely charge at least double or triple what you are doing right now. You'd still be cheaper than the competition!
You're probably not french nor in a quack-watch group (anti-guru groups essentially).

Luc montagnier made a lot of money writing about how homeopathy works thanks to water memory, i'd say i would disqualify every work he's done since then if it is not peer-reviewd.
Show HN: JavaScript regexp eBook with hundreds of examples and exercises
Hello.

I updated my ebook on JavaScript regular expressions [1] today - updates include corrections, additional content, exercises, solutions, etc

All my ebooks [2] are currently free to help with quarantine reading. These include GNU grep & ripgrep, GNU sed, GNU awk and three books on regular expressions - Python, Ruby, JavaScript

I'd appreciate your feedback and hope the books are useful. Happy learning :)

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Except PlayStation, Android until version 10, Win32 and UWP sandboxing.
Steve Blank's definition is not widely accepted in silicon valley. You can argue about what you'd like startup to mean, but what startup means to most silicon valley-ish people is a company designed to grow quickly. It's irrespective of investors, or other things.

http://www.paulgraham.com/growth.html

Growing quickly doesn't mean growing quickly sketchily... it means companies like Facebook who go from nothing to 3 billion people in a decade... something that was much more difficult before software.
Animal urine and feces are not clean water, if you only have a couple of animals it doesn't matter but at a large scale you need to treat it before releasing it into the wild unless you want to taint the water supply. Of course the water molecules don't disappear, but that's not the point. There's plenty of water on earth, but only a tiny fraction is clean enough for human consumption. If you pour your bottle of mineral water into the ocean, the water doesn't disappear but you still effectively wasted it.

>you wouldn’t have a farm away from a water source.

That's sort of the problem actually. Many aquifers are tainted to various levels because of farming. We need clean water, not cow piss.
Possibly because he was nothing to do with Computers or Technology?

But feel free to be offended at non-existent racism, if you want.
I would look into IMGUI + GLFW. A lot of neat programs are being made with IMGUI these days, for example: https://remedybg.handmade.network/ RemedyBG's entire UI is IMGUI, including the menu bar, tabs, etc.
From the article:

Bloomberg: You seem optimistic researchers will succeed in coming up with vaccines. How do you assess the prospects and potential risks?

Stohr: The coronavirus is not a particularly difficult virus to handle. Even the conventional vaccines could make a difference, and we have different approaches, vector vaccines, mRNA. That is very promising.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-18/covid-mos...
How many calories are you eating daily and how many grams of protein? Unless you're a bodybuilder at the end of a cut it wouldn't be very hard to get enough protein on even 2000 calories. I know this because I'm a large, military serving man who has been full vegan and now chooses to eat vegan where possible.

The big loss is food culture. It revolves around meat and animal products.
>Looking at the lens of "who will clean this up", future generations.

And how do we weigh the satisfaction of potential future people against people currently existing? It's not easy; if we assign some value to future people, then that implies we should try to have more children, to maximise the sum total of future people's satisfaction.

>Looking at "who was there before and will be after my visit", then human civilization outlives each and every one of us.

Metaphysically speaking, it's quite possible that every moment of human experience is going to happen anyway, regardless of what we do: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boltzmann_brain.
That won't work until super rich & their puppet politicians continue to harass poorer masses with crap like socialism=communism
unfortunately the no-meat dishes of our grandparents are not especially tasty in their "peasant"-version (northern europe) and making tasty vegetarian meals is an art not really known anymore (was it ever?) in my family, nor in any of the everyday restaurants/employee-cafeterias I visit.
Do you make minimum wage? Do you give any excess over minimum wage that you earn to charity? The vast majority of us posting here “make more when others are making less”. Even in your own company you probably make 10x more than the lowest paid contract worker who cleans your office after hours.
No, that’s a misleading comparison. There is no such thing as a “scientific argument” about matters of historical record, because you cannot conduct science on history. Forensics is all there is. It’s just that there is no piece of evidence that incontrovertibly ties the virus to the lab prior to the outbreak, e.g. a leaked research document dated prior to the outbreak showing knowledge of the virus or something.
They are referring to the final, peer reviewed version of the paper, as opposed to the draft.