skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lets put it this way, Octane Render has dropped Vulkan support and replaced it with CUDA based Optix 7.

https://home.otoy.com/render/octane-render/

So how is AMD going to get relevant in the Hollywood and TV studios that are the big buyers of OctaneRender?
SpaceX Starship is planned for 2024, and with a cargo capacity in the hundreds of tons. Even if it gets delayed by four or five years it will be able to bring back samples before this is is even launched. NASA’s plans seem very slow in comparison.
While edtech is a rising star nowadays it is appealing to see such improvements on mobile apps for kids
I agree with you that the quality of this article was not up to the mark. This was an early article on MindfulnessQuest, and I acknowledge the fact that my writing skills are average.

But if you check my latest work, you'll find better quality work. As far as the ads and links are concerned, I hate them myself, and I wish there was a better alternative.

But you see it's tough being an unemployed python developer with a family to support. On top of that my wife suffered huge loses in her business because of the pandemic, and we had to take our kids out of school because we couldn't afford to pay the fee.

I'm barely able to cover my bills doing freelance gigs. Every article that gets traction here helps me take care of my family. Therefore, I will keep the ads for now. Honestly, I don't have a choice. If you have better a suggestion, please let me know.

I thank you for giving me your perspective. I will put more effort into my writing and create better quality content that provides high value to the readers. Hopefully, I will be able to ditch the ads soon. Thanks, Take care & Be safe.
It’s nothing to do with mucus. The size of the airway physically changes over time.
According to that article the joint venture they co-founded was actually ARM.
really nice man! yesterday I was wondering how to create an autograde for some simple thing I want to do. and as a coincidence i'm just starting to learn Django so I'll try to use it in my project. Thanks a lot!
Most welcome
Does this actually work in practice? From my understanding knowing someone might get you past the initial HR / ATS hell to a first round, but you mostly have to follow typical processes after that.
Congrats on the launch!

One question, there are many open source database startups that make it easy to scale on the cloud. However, when you look into the offering, the scaling part is never actually open source and you end up paying for non open source stuff just like any other proprietary database. So I guess my question is, are you planning to go open core too or will you remain open source with some SaaS offering? Good luck to you!
An intelligent human knows when they see a mask. An algorithm does not know what a mask is.
But that's exactly my point: we still are groping around in the dark on a lot of issues. Can you explain to me why P=.05 is the ubiquitous standard for statistical significance? No? Neither can anyone else I've come across. It doesn't get much more basic than that--we still don't know how to apply even simple statistics to science.

And what we as a species know, we as individuals don't know. It's true that the knowledge of the human race has moved forward with regard to applying statistics to science, but if you make a habit of reading scientific papers and checking their math, you'll quickly realize that there are critical errors in lots of papers. And even if the scientists get the math right, the journalists and marketing teams who publicize their results rarely do. Better tools don't do us much good if we don't use them.
Two months since the riots, and still no National Conversation
Logseq: A local-first, non-linear, outliner notebook (using Clojure and IndexDB)
> "This is not just twice as difficult as any typical Mars mission; it's twice squared"

So, four times as difficult?
That requires that Softbank is willing to sell.
And the other small hobbyist computing platform, Arduino, is Italian;

Python was created by a Dutch programmer;

PHP, the much maligned bastard language that still runs most of the web, was created by a Danish Canadian.

Even from his own examples, Ada and Pascal (as in Delphi) are still widely used, though probably in limited circles.
We gave the estimation as follows:

- Junior developers should be able to finish this within a work day (8 hours)
- If you are already familiar with all technologies involved then it should take about 2 hours even with all optional tasks completed.

As an example our backend dev task was to parse a CSV file (supplied with the task) and provide 2 API endpoints (return format and url defined in the task) that access this data (free choice in language and libraries). The optional tasks for this was to include unittests and to use docker.

That really isn't much work. We did get some good feedback about this estimate both from junior developers and seniors after they were hired or rejected. Most seniors seem to complete this task in about 1.5h to 3h and juniors do seem to be able to complete this in about 6h.
Why don’t they just give the money to spacex? This is such typical French/eu behaviour. Let’s build something that already exists, for 10x the price, 10 years late, so that we can create jobs and have our own... Except the market viability is close to 0.

how about using that money for something that’s actually innovative? Or perhaps charge less tax so people can decide on their own what’s worthwhile.
it was a test .. you're hired
Yeah, but they need those Intel patents.
I never said otherwise.
Thanks! Indeed, it's the interfaces that are hardest to define. I don't know a good heuristic to determine it I'm afraid - everything I've ever done was on intuition.
> put his knee and the full weight of his body on Floyd’s throat for roughly nine minutes

I don't see any possible way in which dishonestly stretching the truth will benefit the national conversation.

The knee on Floyd's neck was not the only load-bearing point of contact with the ground, i.e., was not bearing Chauvin's full weight; and it was on the side of his neck, not on his throat.

That is bad enough without exaggerating.
competition is good, it's better than piling all the money in one place.
The encoding scheme goes to 31 bits, but UTF-8 nowadays goes to ≈20 bits. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8#Invalid_code_points:

“Since RFC 3629 (November 2003), the high and low surrogate halves used by UTF-16 (U+D800 through U+DFFF) and code points not encodable by UTF-16 (those after U+10FFFF) are not legal Unicode values, and their UTF-8 encoding must be treated as an invalid byte sequence.”
Servers next? Servers first! AWS released a second generation of the Graviton before Apple announced the Mac transition. Also great stuff is coming from Ampere and Marvell (ex-Cavium).
> an on-site whiteboard style interview where they solved a subset of the problem in pair-programming fashion with us

Do you offer candidates a remote pair-programming interview?

E.g. screen-sharing session over Skype/Zoom?
People aren’t remembering the negatives to these. I still use a normal style forum sometimes.

Being single threaded is annoying. People keep asking the same questions or repeating the same stuff again and again. No fault of their own. Discovery in a single thread is crazy hard.

Finding what you’re looking for in a thread can take a long time. Some one may ask a question your interested in knowing the answer to, but finding people who respond to it is not easy. If you post something in the middle of a [popular] thread, there’s a good chance it barely gets read or noticed.

Many of these problems afflict reddit too and Reddit and HN issue of threads being almost dead after a day is really annoying.

I have a feeling grass is greener on the other side and people in either case.
With a legendary cathedral, the layperson can walk up to it at any time and easily perceive its ever-waxing size and majesty.

This is something a fusion reactor doesn't have (I guess they could do tours or something maybe?).
Fluctuations in handling of legal immigration in light of COVID-19 are literally present in every country on earth.

Referencing actions taken in these unprecedented circumstances
as if they are the norm is incredibly disingenuous.
Man I've said it before, but I need to get the hell out of this industry. Its pointless to argue against the whole whiteboarding / leetcode process, it exists for a reason, but I'm quickly realizing everything about the industry, including the industry process is just incompatible with the way I work.
NASA funds SpaceX though.
it gives me 50/50 for a 30 year old woman (regardless of fare), and the survival rate grows when i decrease the age, even to 82 % for 2-5 year olds
Best way learn how to film better videos and improve editing skills?
عطلة للسياحة
عطلة أول موقع لتقديم عروض سفر متكاملة في البحرين. يجمع الموقع مجموعة كبيرة من العروض السياحية التي تتنوع من حيث الوجهة والسعر والنشاط لتلبية جميع المتطلبات. في عطلة، نختار بعناية كل عرض بحيث يكون منظم من قبل إحدى كبريات شركات السياحة، نجمع هذه العروض كلها في قائمة موحدة لنسهل على الباحثين عن سفر تحديد وجهة رحلاتهم القادمة.
If you do a search from the browser search/url bar, my experience is that with Google as the default search engine, the first page will still show me what I want, on the first page, better than any past tools.

There's a ton I don't like about Google, and whether true or not it feels like they were 'better' in the past. A huge step up from the multiple AltaVista searches or the clicking around on Yahoo that I had to do pre-google.

Maybe there are better alternatives these days, but DDG still isn't fully there for most of my searches, and I use Bing for very specific types of searches that I wouldn't bring up in polite society...
> Would you feel comfortable that you still have your job and your reputation after going in front of the nation and saying "I think interracial marriages should be illegal"?

Don't you think that's a bit disingenuous? People aren't being canceled for having overt racist beliefs. They're being canceled for having polite (but political) disagreements.

The issue at play here is large-scale mob action. In the online space, it takes the form of bullying and cancel culture.

Terry Crews, for example, is in trouble for using the word "coon". But Terry Crews didn't call anyone a coon. He was called coon and made up an acronym that he felt could empower himself and others. Whether Terry's career is destroyed or not, the attempt to bully him out of the public eye is there and it sends a message.

> "Take what we give you."

> "You won't be given a charitable reading of anything you say."

> "Your beliefs will be stretched and twisted to the extreme."

> "And if they can't be then we'll attack you for what you didn't say."
Local-First Software (2019)
Brown M&Ms, or Why No One Reads the Manual
Is it really competition when nobody is trying?
Be Pragmatic, and You’ll See Why Buying Bitcoin Is a No-Brainer
I've been playing with the generated text. It's usually NOT a direct copy-paste (verifying by searching on Google with the generated text in quotes)
From the research only one group feels comfortable airing opinions.

China solved this problem. After a civil war that led to creation of Taiwan.

Now everyone only has one opinion.

As a bonus they have a lot of free re-education camps. - 1984
Well, terminating an employement is as well quite easy in US, regardless who initiates it - employer or employee.
I’ve never seen such an incorrect statement in my life — have you ever been to Europe?
My guess is that Apple buying ARM is a money-losing proposition. Actually licensing the ISA can't be terribly profitable for a company of Apple's size, and ARM being fabless means there's not much competitive advantage to owning (rather than licensing) the ISA. Simply owning ARM might invite antitrust concerns that Apple really doesn't want to be dealing with, and risks souring their business relationships. Actually trying to exploit the ownership, beyond collecting royalties, would guarantee both. As, perhaps, would any future efforts to put proprietary ARM extensions into their Cortex line.
Show HN: WebGL simulation of rainy autumn day/evening
# Plus sides

Interestingly, this averts the strong issues of evaporation-based air coolers as explained e.g. on [(67) Personal "air conditioners" aren't what they seem - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2horH-IeurA). TL;DW: this works even if air is pretty humid.

When used outdoors this also even averts the issue of only moving heat very near.

# Predictable minus sides of the T-shirt option

People with extremely short hair and static position indoor might probably notice a heat flux rising to the back of their head, in practice this may not be a problem.

On the contrary, what happens if long hair covers the device? Hair being an insulator, the device may lose a lot of its efficiency.

Also, resting on your back (e.g. napping) wearing this device would lose its efficiency.

Apart from those specific situations, this looks like a cool device!
> Ada, the fast type-safe compiled language (French)? Largely dead in the market.

Isn't this language used in the Eurofighter Typhoon?
The first time I encountered a Mac was in school. Because I had experienced cassette players eating tapes (along with other forms of device failure), I was never comfortable with any floppy drive without an eject button. Ditto for those CD drives, too.
Although interestingly, Android development on the other hand was actually hampered for a long time by the slow emulator
"The joint American-European project is expected to cost billions and take just over a decade to implement."

This doesn't exist. It's never been done before. If SpaceX does it before Airbus and brings back literal tons of mars rock then great, but it's not certain when that will be possible.

Market viability isn't an appropriate metric for scientific research.
> I think a lot of fermented products are basically preservation techniques gone sideways.

My theory also :) Given historical harsh winters in Europe you're gonna eat whatever there is in the middle of a winter, spoiled or not. Turned out some of that spoiled stuff is quite good.
Question for the experts: what are the tests and analysis that we cannot do via a rover-based lab and hence need to send the samples to Earth? Asking out of curiosity (pun not intended!).
So it all boils down to boiling water?
Okay, so I do believe in worker's rights and in general that Amazon is too large. Especially that city bidding mess where it was just a way to get free data from cities about their future plans.

But I don't like the argument in the article. It lays the responsibility of government to fix something that the public can have a bigger influence on. It's something I do. Don't buy from Amazon. I don't approve of their warehouse policies. Thus, I choose not to buy from them. It's not like they are the only shop on the web. The convenience argument is rather petty too. At a certain point, you have to put adult pants on. You are just funding them in doing what you don't like if you wait for someone else to "fix" the problem.
Yep, you're spot on - although in this case, as I recall, the market did return (from memory it was nightmare market or 'Sinaloa' market (perhaps a different cartel name)), but there had been some kind of canary device activated via a signed PGP message from the admin.

It wasn't long before the admin released a subsequent signed message claiming that it was a false alarm with some excuse as to what had happened, but it was clear that the operation was, from that point on, a honey pot.
Yes, that’s what people would like others to believe. As long as you don’t tweet obviously racist things, you’ll be fine.

Unfortunately the mob is much more capricious. Read the article for an example.
Randomized Response
Newton, why do you want to name this the 6th dimensional electron-graviton interference coefficient? Just call it G for gravity!
Reach – An Intelligent AI-Powered CDP
Rabbits, like squirrels, face danger from all directions: birds from above, cats and foxes from low cover, coyotes from a hide. Horizontal pupils are a specialization on taller grazers.
Where Expiring $600 Unemployment Checks Will Hurt Most
> Delicious was for a time at the cultural nerve center of the web, and I think had the potential to be something like a twitter or a reddit if stewarded correctly.

Delicious turning into Twitter or Reddit would have been a real loss.

"But it doesn't scale!" is practically a mantra for HN, but scalability is fairly low on the list of values for me. I'd rather have interesting websites than big websites, and I'd rather see websites go bankrupt than compromise their values. The reason I care that Delicious might come back is that it was still interesting when it went down last. Digg and Slashdot still exist, but frankly I care so little that I actually had to look up that fact, and after verifying that they existed, I clicked away.
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2020-06-...

“Basically, it presents a world that is much more dangerous than real life,” Taberski said. “It presents the police as being much more successful than they really are. It misrepresents crime by people of color — the raw numbers are about the same but the show front-loads crime, and especially violent crime, by people of color. And anyone who’s worked in television, especially reality television, knows that you front-load your best stuff, you hook people in the first act.”

Thus... this show gave Americans the incorrect belief that (1) drug crime is rampant (it isn't), (2) that most criminals are black (they aren't), and (3) cops are good at their job (they aren't).
> I can say "you shouldn't spend more than two hours on this" until I'm blue in the face, but candidates think they need to polish far beyond what is reasonable

I'm going totally nuts about this particular problem. I have written in as clear terms as possible that I really don't want the candidate to spend more than 2 hours, but I don't feel I am going to convince anybody - especially as this is a (mini)game programming test, and with games you can always add one or ten more things.
Ask HN: How do you measure feedback and progress made by your reports?
We use a regular 1-1 process, mid-year and yearly review cycles. Outside of these I want to give feedback and provide coaching to my reports but want a means to measure their improvement (i.e: incremental change).

While I can certainly give feedback, and observe an improvement as a whole I am wondering what is the best way to track an improvement along with my report. What are some things that have worked for you?

Can progress against all feedback be actually measured? For example: Code quality vs presentation skills.
> Probably most of the hardware in your phone was designed in Asia

It doesn’t appear to be true at all for Apple phones: https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/iPhone+11+Pro+Max+Teardown/1...
How much work are you looking to put in? I started working on a toy DHCP / TFTP / PXE server to gain a deeper understanding of PXE booting that I later put off. Maybe you could do something like that.
Or maybe (2n)2 as difficult?
> People read the text on their Uni systems, where they got free dialup, rather than chew up their ISP connection time quotas.

At dialup speeds, the only practical binaries one could download would be images. mp3 files were practically the upper limit of file size one could download. Beyond that, articles would expire off the server before they could be downloaded.

Without broadband and better completion rates, which commercial ISPs didn't really provide (especially the latter), customers probably wouldn't really try using their usenet feed for that purpose when they had other alternatives for binaries.

I just used my ISP's usenet access for text groups until they discontinued it.
Digital camera technology is leaps and bounds beyond the last rovers we sent. Hopefully we get top quality photos this time around.
I thought Ada was still fairly widely used in aviation software in general. Perhaps not in new designs?
> Presumably because that's where the money was. Does that mean the US gets to claim these languages?

I mean I don’t think it really matters but if they moved to the US because the US economy was valuing those things then it’s the product of the American economy from a economic point of view.
OpenAI recommend it for English but it generates text for other languages too (but generated text is not that good).

E.g. here is amazon.de https://imgur.com/a/5JesS3Y

I have no idea if generated recommendations are good. I don't know German. Perhaps someone who knows can comment.
Once everyone starts jumping the bandwagon, it's time to go out and do it the good old day by simply talking to people in various places. I think the success rate would be much higher considering nobody is really doing this anymore:)
The legacy of autocratic rule in China (2016)
Canadian smart glasses going 'offline' weeks after company bought by Google
I am speculating here, but I think the US was among the first to realise that access to state-of-the-art computing is a national security issue. Therefore, the US government essentially subsidized IT R&D (e.g. Silicon valley, this is confirmed by Wikipedia) giving the US a huge heads up to the fragmented EU granting/capital (and likely Asian, but I don't know) landscape. Therefore, we now live in a legacy where, although tech is a global phenomenon, it is largely controlled by US capital, with other players (EU, CN, JP) playing catch-up.
And the first microcomputer:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micral

I only found out about this because its inventor, André Truong, studied at EFREI at around the same time as Pol Pot. Fortunately, Truong was a much better engineer, and did something more constructive with his life.
Tips from Technologists Who Landed Jobs During Covid-19
Hydrogen is really hard to store, though.

EDIT: should have qualified my statement with "in man-made objects"
When focus is quality, quality rises and costs fall. When focus is cost, costs rise and quality falls. William Edwards Deming, an American, said that.

Whilst a lot of what Liam wrote rings very very true (I'm not Amercian either) I think it's slightly more nuanced. Windows Phone is a great example. Americans hate on Microsoft and so deprived themselves of the best mobile phone OS of ever. Even today Windows Phone is more usable, faster, more secure and better in almost every metric than Android. But Windows Phone is dead. Same with the Compaq IPaq. It too was American and amazing.

I went through the whole tech cycle Liam did (started programming in '84), and felt crushed every time another obviously superior product died. Apart from the iPaq, some highlights in the mobile space alone are the Nokia 9000 Communicator, the Nokia E90, the Nokia N900, and the best device (my opinion) I've ever experienced, the Nokia 1520.

Interesting that we as humans so often base our decisions on emotion rather than logic. I now use an Android phone and no longer bother with mobile apps. That sense of awe and wonder has been eviscerated, eaten up and spat back out.

Today's tech is throw-away. Watches, thermostats, tablets, light bulbs... Delivered by Amazon this morning, in the trash this afternoon, making space for yet another smart but shitty light bulb tomorrow.

I miss that child-like sense of excitement and wonder tech used to instill in me...
What would the ethics be of using children in Turing tests? If you asked a human child to answer Turing test questions, would the judges think of them as a computer?
It's crafty mixing of real classified information with embarrassing information...

"The address of our safehouse is classified, but all the letters we send eachother have the address on the top, therefore all these letters are classified."