skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree.
If we invert the argument: just because C++ and C# were designed by Danes, does that make them Danish languages?
That sounds absurd! It's almost like saying the iPhone is a Syrian product because Steve Jobs' biological father was Syrian.
Oldlist, a Database of Old Trees
Aren’t we in fact just talking about the CPU architecture (a.k.a. the instruction set, ISA)? On the inside, all CPUs are (or can be made) the same regardless of the architecture - the differences dictated only by technical requirements such as desired performance, price, power consumption, etc.
Haha! Wow, the part where there is a device down the pipe that acts as a mini laboratory, analyzes the fecal matter passing through, and sends you medical alerts on your smartphone… I could totally see this exist in the future. Identification could probably be done by sequencing the gut microbiome to avoid the camera taking pictures of your ass.
Randomness theory could hold key to internet security
A perfect example of why I try and avoid hardware that needs a company's server to work. People have very powerful computers at home and their own work, they should be able to do the processing themselves.
I am a native german speaker. The recommendations in the screenshot are quit good and are also correct from a grammar point of view.
Ask HN: Are You Paying for Medium.com?
Just out of curiosity. I don't know anyone paying for it. If you pay for medium.com, may I ask you what's the main driver for you to pay? Quality? Specific authors on the platform?
>> Hamilton Island looks like a pretty good example of what not to do to a beautiful sub-tropical island on the edge of one of the great wonders of the natural world, which is to cover it with hideous high-rise junk architecture, and sell beer and T-shirts and also picture postcards of how beautiful it used to be before all the postcard shops arrived.

All the pretty places looked pretty before the tourists arrived. That's why the tourists arrived. And then, the tourists arrived.
Not sure. I saw a lot of industrial applications and they're all native. No Electron there.
>"There are things which are within our power, and there are things which are beyond our power. Within our power are opinion, aim, desire, aversion, and, in one word, whatever affairs are our own. Beyond our power are body, property, reputation, office, and, in one word, whatever are not properly our own affairs.

Now the things within our power are by nature free, unrestricted, unhindered; but those beyond our power are weak, dependent, restricted, alien. Remember, then, that if you attribute freedom to things by nature dependent and take what belongs to others for your own, you will be hindered, you will lament, you will be disturbed, you will find fault both with gods and men. But if you take for your own only that which is your own and view what belongs to others just as it really is, then no one will ever compel you, no one will restrict you; you will find fault with no one, you will accuse no one, you will do nothing against your will; no one will hurt you, you will not have an enemy, nor will you suffer any harm.

Aiming, therefore, at such great things, remember that you must not allow yourself any inclination, however slight, toward the attainment of the others; but that you must entirely quit some of them, and for the present postpone the rest."
US Smartphone Sell-Through Volumes Fall 25% in 2Q20
People born during the dotcom bust are now old enough to be starting in this industry. I think that qualifies anything from even near that era as "old school"
There's no link between absolute temperature and temperature dependent diseases (or at least for rhinovirus which is the most studied).

Instead, the replication of rhinovirus depends on if the air temperature in the nasal cavity is above or below 33-35C[1]. The winter in most temperate regions gets low enough to trigger that.

[1] https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2015/01/02/1411030112
Ocaml - France?
Erlang?

A heartbreaker for me is Mozart/Oz (Germany?) .. wish it was developed/used/taught more .. "pickling" (in python) came from M/Oz.
I understand your point but Terry Crew's probably understands his tweets reach millions of people. He uses it to advertise his TV shows.

And I have to have some sympathy for people who live their entire internet lives is absolute obscurity only to have their worst moment (or maybe just their most misunderstood) be promoted to a "nationally televised" level post-hoc.
One of the biggest intellectual oversights the masses dogmatically believe is that Science, as it is conducted today, is pure.

People conflate challenging Science™ with say challenging the scientific method, which has propelled Western Civilization to new heights. When in reality, the challenge is aimed towards the publication, funding, and career-ending ostracism mechanisms behind Science™ today. To say it is pure is to invite corruption to take nest.
Yeah, but that’s true for all space companies. The surprising thing about SpaceX is that SpaceX delivers more than other corporations which promise less than SpaceX promises.
Brief: Shopify's Q2 Results
The interview anxiety is a very specific type of anxiety - if it occurs during the day job - stay away from such company.
> But this is beyond ridiculous, so many years of R&D for 8 minutes of sustained acticivty activity? That sound like a joke

...You know the duration of the plasma pulse being 8 minutes doesn't mean they do it once and then the whole project is over and they need to start dismantling it, right? After a pulse, the plasma is discharged, you have a few minutes of rampdown and cooling, and then you can do it again. IIRC in the first experimental phase they expect to do ~30,000 pulses.
> 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'd prefer to design a better in person interview than take the easy route that is disrespectful of candidates' time.

Why don't you just let candidates decide for themselves how much time they want to spend on the task? You can set the expectations, saying that you expect that the task of a given complexity will to take between 1 and 2 hours; but candidates should be free to spend as little or as much time on a task as they like. Some candidates will value their time and spend no more than is advised; others will be sufficiently obsessed by the task to spend more time. Why should the latter group feel guilty about exceeding the recommended time limit?
No code there, instead an issue template. This gives me the impression that using the project creates a service dependency on a service without obvious economic viability.
The API specs were written by iSPIRT and open sourced. You can see it here - https://github.com/iSPIRT/lsp-lender-protocol-specification
Window Management in macOS: The Missing Guide
Waqf Fund to Repair Madrasah Al-Insan Saka Iman, Setiu, Terengganu
Can you say something is a vaccine before it's verified to work? A better title might be 'Around 20 scientists of various quality are using themselves as COVID-19 vaccination guinea pigs'
Exactly. The thing is, even shooting tethered with medium format, the pipe just isn't big enough to keep up and the computer and/or capture software gets bogged down, too.
Now with the idear of delicious coming back, your comment makes me consider all the good low-to-mid scale shit we've lost over time. In ~ 2008 it seems like there were just more fun/interesting sites around. Maybe I was just in an exploratory phase - late teens - and was discovering new things often. Or maybe the barrier to entry today, in terms of design/polish/product is weirdly high, and has pushed out the seeker-net in favor of normie-net.
I use HN for discovering new tech or learning about something that I didn't know I needed to know. If it's something I am searching for an answer to, then I use Google to find a source specific to that tech (could be a blog, vendor forum, etc).
May I ask you which country you are talking about?
> So far, the group can’t say if their vaccine works or not. They haven’t published results showing that the vaccine leads to antibodies against the virus, which is a basic requirement for being taken seriously in the vaccine race. Church says some of those studies are now underway in his Harvard laboratory, and Estep is hoping mainstream immunologists will assist the group. “It’s a little bit complicated, and we are not ready to report it,” Estep says of the immune responses seen so far.

Suspicious. A group this hell-bent on deployment should have serological data by now. The lack of anything suggests either: (1) a complication; or (2) no efficacy.
Aren't opinions something an employer should want in developers? And not just opinions on tech stack but all the way up to requirements etc.

If I hire a developer "to build X," I would rather work with the developer who explains that X is the wrong thing and we should actually build Y, than the one who shrugs, asks no more questions, and builds a really excellent X - that later turns out to be the wrong thing to have built.
Tangential to the topic of this post, but how have you found brilliant? I’ve been considering it but don’t know if it’s worth adding another subscription to my monthly spend when I could presumably get a lot of the same knowledge from YouTube (albeit in a less structured way). Any thoughts?
Russia claims it's on track to approve Covid-19 vaccine by mid-August
I think this has more to do with the irrationality of the customers than any legitimate technical reason. From a technical perspective, AMD is crushing Intel and will be for the foreseeable future.

Maybe there are enough suckers to keep Intel afloat. I couldn't say.
Utterly fascinating!

Write a blog, please!

I'd read it...
Like you said, "there were other exams, etc., to take.". Presumably other competitors have other exams as well? You'll thus be competing against people with different time management skills.
I feel it will be waaaay cheaper than any alternatives though (order of magnitudes, that we are likely forced to be spending on this regardless).

If success was guaranteed money wouldn't really matter.

Though part from success we have deadlines etc. that complicate the matter further. Regardless, this is welcome news.
You're trying to examine the morality of the mob. Obviously the mob doesn't have a consistent and justifiable moral stance; it's a mob.

My point is that when you post online, you're not publically speaking to your neighbors from the sidewalk. You're broadcasting nationally. Including to an angry mob.

So no, I wouldn't agree with "As long as you don’t tweet obviously racist things, you’ll be fine."

I would rather say, if you don't post online, don't have any recordings of yourself posted online, and otherwise manage to prevent yourself from having any significant online presence, you'll be fine.
Nothing like this currently exists. The closest would probably be Phobos-Grunt, but that, er, didn’t work.
Apple is making a really strong push to differentiate it's chips from ARM. A few of the mac sites are claiming it's "Apple Silicon" and not "ARM". I believe the heart of it is that Apple has "followed the ARM spec" but did not use ARMs actual silicon designs.

I don't really know what the backing of this is either. I'm sure they added a few of their own instructions. And I read that they single handedly pushed the ARM platform to 64bit (citation needed, definitely not sure if that's really true).
At least on Mac OS, Cleanshot[1] is a decent Skitch replacement if you were using it for marking up screenshots.

1. https://cleanshot.com/
Huh, TIL.

(I only ever used one real 68k Mac, and that was something donated to my school’s art department).
Sadly that never lasts for long. Fake users trickle in, exploitative bookmarks get added, then it all goes to shit, much like the search-driven web did in general.
Checkout https://www.shuttleops.io/

It helps abstracting deployment away.

Disclaimer: I work @ ShuttleOps
These days, I'd say not holding your phone vertically while filming something, immediately raises your 'cinematographic art' way above the level of most people's out there.
Digg was massive right at the tail end of seeker-net. I myself watched nearly every episode of Diggnation. Great times.
I've found the quality of discussion on forums vs Facebook is far higher for my hobby (steam powered transport). Post a picture on a forum and get some interesting replies, post a picture on Facebook and just get 101 likes and nothing else.
What observations differ from general relativity?
>a world that employs less than half the number of journalists than 20 years ago

This may come as a shock to some, but it's quite logical when you think about it.

With print advertising, it makes sense. You pay for the space you take up. How do you calculate that? Well, at minimum, the cost of a classified ad for similar space, plus additional fees for processing, graphics, and color.

Online, advertising pricing really doesn't make much sense. The space you have is freely available, there are no printing costs, no special processing requirements, and the readers aren't even likely to be local, unlike the limited distribution networks of most newspapers. It should come as no surprise that online advertising revenue for newspapers is nowhere near its peak of print advertising revenue [1]. Even when a newspaper stops printing and can cut out all the expenses that come with it, there simply isn't enough money to support their existing levels of operation.

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/03/this-is...
How to Create a Heatmap Online?
We keep coming back to exactly this and it has been explained over and over again and yet still, here we are. If you increase the minimum wage you’ve done nothing. Prices of goods are priced with the cost of the workers and everything else required to get it to the shelf. If you increase the cost of the workers in that chain you increase the cost of goods. So when you increase minimum wage you inflate, but their buying power remains the same.
Market cap is a weird metric to measure company size or influence.

For example, by revenue, it's Walmart with 500B, Amazon at 280B, Exxon 264B, Apple 260B, CVS 256B, ... Alphabet 161B at 11th, Microsoft at 21st with 125B, ...

By employees it's Walmart at 2.2M, Amazon at 800K, ...., Microsoft in 21st place with 144K, ....

By profits, it's Berkshire Hathaway at 81B (massive growth), Apple at 55B (shrinking), MS 39B, Chase 36B, Alphabet 34B, BoA, Intel, Wells Fargo, Citigroup, .... FB 11th at 18B, .... Amazon 22nd at 11B....

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

https://fortune.com/fortune500/2020/search/?f500_profits=des...
U.S. small businesses face mass closures without more pandemic aid
Show me something better that aligns with my needs and I’ll switch.
Doesn't that apply to most modern languages? I know it does for JavaScript.
Wouldn’t this exclude the strongest candidates who can get other job offers?
For what it's worth, I never called my ISP's customer support to complain about bad completion rates on Usenet. Logically, people would have found other ways to download what they wanted, either by finding an alternate source, or another usenet feed to replace or combine with their ISP's.

What really took down usenet was when Andrew Cuomo, back when he was the state attorney general of New York, made a deal with several major ISPs to restrict access to child porn via usenet.

This lead to many ISPs discontinuing their usenet service, which in turn lead decreased the number of people posting to text groups. Within a few years of that happening, practically all the regular posters in the groups I used to frequent just stopped posting. Those same groups now only have spam posted every several weeks based on what I've seen via google groups. Prior to that, these groups had plenty of active discussions going back to the mid '90s and earlier.
"x is the new y" indeed means it's not the same thing, but a replacement (inferior or otherwise).

The fact someone took the time to understand why they should care about Google Reader, set it up, and regularly used it does require some technical interest/ability. That's why most internet users didn't know what RSS was even at the peak of the blogging and RSS revolution circa 2005, whereas today (or even back then), everyone intuitively understands newsletters.

I'm not saying they're better for everyone, frankly they are far worse for regular readers in my view, but they're the clearest successor.
There's another risk besides the obvious antibody-dependent enhancement problem: this vaccine could change your response to an official COVID-19 vaccine that you might want to get later. You might be left with enough immune response to squash another vaccine that's trying to help you, but not enough to stop the actual disease. The fact that they're going for mucosal immunity, making their vaccine different from the leading official candidates, makes this bad interaction less likely. Still, I think it's important to mention.
> And I have to have some sympathy for people who live their entire internet lives is absolute obscurity only to have their worst moment (or maybe just their most misunderstood) be promoted to a "nationally televised" level post-hoc.

I do too. It should be known that the internet is not an obscure place. It is equivalent to a broadcast on national television. If nobody read your posts online it's because you were lucky, that's all.

Personally I took effort to go back and delete posts that I made in my youth. I hope others do the same.
I am very haply to see the idea of electric propultion tug finally commited to implementation. This has a lot more utility than delivering samples from Mars - in principle there is a lot of equipment that could use rugging between , and Mars.

I hope this becomes a configurable platform for future missions, nur just a one-off experiment.
Vaccine targeting RBD of the S protein of SARS-CoV-2 induces protective immunity
PyCharm 2020.2 Released
Okay, I did some research, and I think I figured out what caused these usenet group banning.

A Genoese lawyer has been a victim of harassing and heavy doxing for some time, you can find many twitter accounts accusing him of paedophilia in cahoots with epstein, berlusconi, the pope and so on (no, I'm not kidding; clearly the stalker has obvious mental sanity problems).

The stalker is very prolific and is wallpapering the internet with his copy-paste-accouse in every corner, from newspaper comments to ancient forums to usenet. The lawyer report and ask for removation where he can but also he does not seem very worried because it seems that this issue goes on from two years ...

I don't think I can say the name of the subjects in question but in any case I'm archiving the harassment accounts before proceeding with the report, then I'll try to get in touch with the lawyer and see if he can request a new, less "coarse" censorship.
It will be interesting to see what the situation will be like when this spaceship is ready. By that time we should have Starship and New Glenn flying regularly. Even New Armstrong could be close to ready by then.
Power ISA isn't dead. Besides IBM's server offerings, you can buy workstations with a POWER9 retail right now. POWER10 is in the works and it's a royalty-free ISA.

That's in addition to all the little embedded cores that are still around.
Perhaps. But the scope of article is in the title. And of course there are exceptions. While it's not always wise to generalize, it does make sense to look for patterns and follow arcs. That's seems to be the author's intent.

As for C++ and C#, maybe it wasn't the money. Maybe it was the culture that attracted them? Maybe they were Danes by DNA but they identified as American? If that's the case, they it's fair to say that those languages have deep American roots.
I love ARM too, that's why I'm sad to hear that SoftBank has put it on the block for sale and especially that Nvidia is eyeing it.

People say, it wouldn't get pass regulators; I doubt it, Qualcomm - Broadcom was blocked as US feared the latter might stall Qualcomm's telecom research giving advantage to China. But, it's the other way around for ARM Holdings - Nvidia deal; Why wouldn't US allow its company grabbing a future-proof computer architecture?

Sidenote/rant- Look what have you done WeWork, burning VC money with a nonsense company has led to a point that the future of computing democracy is now under threat. Well, SoftBank wasn't a good place for ARM Holdings in the first place but at least I thought they were in it for a long haul; I was wrong.

I feel RISC-V is the true future for open-source computing.
PBS Frontline: United States of Conspiracy [video]
Most iPhones are made in China with parts manufactured by FoxConn. Maybe it's different for US iPhones?
College Football Recruitment’s Biggest Problem Is Our Definition of It
I did a google image search for 'facebook revenue', 'google revenue', 'apple revenue' etc. I saw the same thing for each: exponential growth, sustained for years. Google in particular surprised me because I "feel like" they've always been the same amount of huge: $29B revenue in 2010, $160B revenue in 2019.

Exponential, many-year growth is enough to explain those market caps.
“Ordinateur” is so much better than “computer”! As Wiktionary puts it

> From Latin ordinator (“one who orders”), from ōrdinō (“to order, to organize”).

> In its application to computing, it was coined by the professor of philology Jacques Perret […] who believed the word calculateur was too restrictive in light of the possibilities of these machines.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ordinateur#Etymology
and some missile guidance system too
Yes definitely... i think the english language (or maybe i'm biased because i only speak it because i worked in the UK), inherently lends itself to ... marketing, to put it mildly.

And indeed all of the corporate language disguises the real nature of things. In the end, whether a boss asked me to do it, or a "manager" "encourages" me to "consider this option", the end result is exactly the same....
Management could have been aware of more personal details that coworkers should not know. I don't think it is necessarily a black mark against the company without knowing the whole story.
Yes, Communists. Literally.

Some realize it, some don't, but Marxism and thought police are rampant here.

Just look at the comment above yours. You (anyone, not just the manufacturer) are not allowed to think or say that a drug may help a patient unless the government says it's OK. Even if you've observed it.

Government "experts" who have been mostly wrong (since they've contradicted one another at the same time, and themselves over time) are telling you, don't believe what these doctors have seen. Don't believe what's right in front of you, believe us.

Think about that critically for a bit.

The point isn't that these doctors are right, the point is these doctors should be heard and evaluated by the individuals.

Bottom line, if you get sick do you want a ventilator or HCQ?
Since we're making lists:

Java is Canadian. APL and J are Canadian. R is from New Zealand. Go is partly Canadian. Pascal and Modula-2 are Swiss. Scala is Swiss too. Lua is Brazilian. Ocaml is French.
The problem with MOND theories is they require the existence of a fifth force to account for the deviations of Newtonian gravity .
And charging a recurring fee is also viable now in the age of patronage. It's more standard than charging for a premium RSS feed and easy for publishers on various systems to set up.
If you got 2-3 of those failed probationary periods on your CV though, you'd be stuffed. But that's probably a good thing.
It's a bit funny how it's illegal to submit CV with a photo( in most countries,at least) yet the second some HR drone opens your CV, they'd go on LinkedIn or other platforms to check what's going on.