skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mainland Chinese stocks have been listed on HKEX and even been components of the Hang Seng Index (kind of like our SP500) for a long time. The main reason that there aren't more HK stocks in the tech index is that there aren't really any HK based tech companies listed on our exchange.
Tarsnap key rotation with tarsnap-recrypt and tarsnap-keyregen
Is this something we will be able to buy and run on our servers? I don't think we're the only ones wary of working hard to develop IP for a different company.

Also predictions/month pricing is just really challenging and incompatible with many downstream business models. The value has to be really huge to justify that.
>For starters, Microsoft employees worked four more hours a week, on average: “Employees said they were carving out pockets of personal time to care for children, grab some fresh air or exercise, and walk the dog. To accommodate these breaks, people were likely signing into work earlier and signing off later.”

In the latter half of the 90's, I interned at Sun with a role that supported remote workers (dual channel ISDN back then) and observed pretty much the same thing. Usage logs showed people getting on briefly in the morning before the family routine started, being online in blocks throughout the day with gaps around start/end of school, dinner time, etc., and then back for a quick late evening burst of activity.
Look: the stock market is in a massive, unprecedented bubble and has been for years. But, every time asset prices try to fall, the fed jumps in and does whatever it takes to keep that from happening. So asset prices no longer have any relation to reality. Where does that end? It’s just the gamblers paradox writ large: the perfect gambling strategy is that every time you lose, you double down. You have to win eventually, right? Wrong, because in reality your cash supply is limited and you will at some point go bankrupt. This is the same. They are doubling down, doubling down, doubling down.. there’s only one way that ends. If asset prices cannot fall, then the whole economy eventually implodes under its own weight and we lose the reserve currency status. Any seismic event feels impossible right up till the moment that it happens. None of us thought that nationwide stay home orders were possible until one morning, it happened. A big enough crisis makes the impossible suddenly inevitable. All the things people are saying are reasons it can’t happen- oil prices in dollars, no better alternative- at some point they just won’t matter.

Trump and the rest of the political establishment consider that a stock market crash can not be allowed to happen while they are in office. So they are 100% willing to just keep kicking the can harder and harder just to hold things together until November. It’s a cycle of short term thinking. If the smaller crises are not allowed to happen, then the big crisis that wipes out the whole economy eventually willl.
If the Mac mini is capable of managing several servers, that's not a bad idea.
I don't know if I'd necessarily draw that implication -- I have no data; my broader point was more around the fact that consultants have a different way of saying "no" than most people.

People can elect to work on things voluntarily for personal reasons, but if someone asks them to fix or do something for them, then instead of saying no, they might say "how much will you pay me?" It's their time and they're under no obligation to offer it to you for free (though they can voluntarily choose to if they want).
> People keep asking the same questions or repeating the same stuff again and again.

That's what FAQ lists are for. Many forums have wiki-like features where FAQ-like information can be stored and kept up-to-date.
Oof I was just fantasizing about downsizing from my 6 pizza team. Its like people go out of their way to be hard to work with.
Sure, but the example give by the OP only listed a Switch game.

And the Switch represents them getting out of the hardware market entirely by converging their mobile and home console lines and going with an Nvidia designed machine for both.

Like, the Switch literally has the same RAM chips as the Tegra X1 dev boards. That's normally something that you'd swap out just based on your purchasing department's relationships with the chip vendors more than anything else and you almost never see those carried over.
>Pinyin is definitely a flawed phonetic system, but it's usable and widespread. That's it's real strength

I don't disagree. There's nothing particularly special about pinyin, but it was revolutionary precisely because it rapidly became ubiquitous in Mandarin instruction.

I don't think I can reasonably address the issue of zhuyin vs tongyong vs hanyu without stepping into a political minefield, but I will say that there's a world of difference between achieving full literacy on a small and prosperous island versus achieving full literacy in a vast nation with substantial poverty and under-development.
Yes, they did. Great achievement, I was afraid they might abandon the approach sooner or later.

This only meant to say that New Glenn isn't that different from Falcon 9. Both are limited (with respect to cost and frequency of launches) in that they need to throw away hardware on every launch. Starship on the other hand will be a true game changer if it works as intended.
Squared twice?

x -> x^2^2 = x^4

Doubled and squared?

x -> (2x)^2 = 4x^2

Difficulty factor of 2 is squared?

x -> (2^2)x = 4x

Or was that squared twice?

x -> (2^2^2)x = 16x

All of these functions agree at x = 0, so can we conclude that it's gonna be way easy??

Lesson: don't handwave your math when you're talking to lay journalists, because nerds are gonna read it and be horrified.
Because CRDTs are one of Martin Kleppmann's group main research interests (and a key mechanism in achieving local-first applications that synchronize seamlessly).

Just a few weeks ago he released a video that explains CRDTs in a bit more detail:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23802208
Sure, but anything that can happen, may happen. The world may end tomorrow. That's entirely within the realm of universal possibility, but it is also entirely unlikely and therefore clickbait.
Krita is fine for painting but isn't a full replacement for Photoshop. Inkscape does vectors, which is something else different entirely.

If GIMP prioritized matching Photoshop's UX to make it easy to switch over (shortcuts, UI similarity, etc.), it'd be much more successful at converting Photoshop users. Serious Photoshop users at this point have spent more than a decade (!) committing these things to muscle memory.

GIMP hasn't made replicating Photoshop's UX a priority, so it isn't a replacement for someone more comfortable using the industry standard tool.

If I used Vim for a decade, then you said,
"Notepad++ also edits text, why don't you switch over?" Well, I'm not as productive in Notepad++, and I don't think I'll ever be. Same for GIMP.
It really doesn't matter which group of people or what state "invented" the internet. Humanity is better off now with it.
It's also incorrect to assign all credits to the origin, since it involves all the people who have worked to improve it incrementally.
I wonder if any of these companies are mining their vast troves of data to research the members of Congress who are asking questions.
No, it won because it could be carried over all other protocols. It had a simple design and real world use cases too, which helped. A classic example of "worse is better".
I don't understand why are you being downvoted. You are factually correct - which I can confirm as a first hand witness (and a participant) of what you have described here.
I'm outside with other people constantly and have had zero symptoms and a negative test two weeks ago.
Whenever I look at large aggregation benchmarks like this, I try to estimate cycles/value or better cycles/byte.

Take this query:

SELECT cab_type,
count(*)
FROM trips
GROUP BY cab_type;

This is just counting occurrences of distinct values from a bag of total values sized @ 1.1B.

He's got 8 cores @ 2.7GHz, which presumably can clock up for short bursts at least a bit even when they're all running all out. Let's say 3B cycles/core/second. So in .134 seconds (the best measured time) he's burning ~3.2B cycles to aggregate 1.1B values, or about 3 cycles/value.

While that's ridiculously efficient for a traditional row-oriented database, for a columnar scheme as I'm sure OmniSciDB is using, it's less efficient than I might have expected.

Presumably the # of distinct cab types is relatively small, and you could dictionary-encode all possible values in a byte at worst. I'd expect opportunities both for computationally friendly compact encoding ("yellow" is presumably a dominant outlier and could make RLE quite profitable) and SIMD data parallel approaches that should let you roll through 4,8,16 values in a cycle or two.

Even adding LZ4 should only cost you about a cycle a byte.

That's not to denigrate OmniSciDB: They're already several orders of magnitude better than traditional database solutions, and plumbing all the way down from high-level SQL to bit twiddling SIMD is no small feat. More that there's substantial headroom to make systems like this even faster, at least until you hit the memory bandwidth wall.
The extinguish phase is supposed to come after the embrace phase. Even if Microsoft wanted to extinguish OpenBSD, it's no wonder they are still fine if MS just donated last year. That is not "this kind of reasoning" at all, that is just a strawman.
MS gaming division is also one of the most notorious for lock-in attitude and market manipulation (the whole DirectX push, refusal to support Vulkan and so on). So may be this move is neutral, but they surely don't deserve any trust by default.
Short answer: No.

This question comes up a lot. Someone should really write a blog post about how big sample size you need, and the dangers of using a biased sample (fit men), and spam it to death here.
I can't stand the thought of using Zoom after all the seemingly endless issues on security and privacy (and now this new issue with not paying a bug bounty).

For what might probably be a millionth time, what are the best alternatives (preferably free or easily self-hostable or priced low) for occasional calls of the following types:

1. Video calls with some people (say about 10 people max.). The free Jitsi Meet seems good for this.

2. Webinar platform where there are clear distinctions between a presenter and participants, and the presenter chooses what's visible at any point in time (video feed from camera or some file/presentation/screen sharing) and has control over recording the session.

3. Same as #2 but with two presenters on camera (different physical locations) switching back and forth (either as the main view or with the active presenter on the main view and the other in a smaller corner window).
I've never been attracted to audiobooks because of the really steep price (compared to ebooks), but I've just checked five fiction books from my to-read list and they all seem much cheaper on Google Play than on Audible and Libro.fm.

Out of five, one is $2.5 cheaper, while the other four are $10+ cheaper.
We shall build add tech towering stacks so high they darken the sky
Yes, economic slavery. Perfect word to describe the situation, regardless how hurt some might feel or think about it. Let's call it what it is.
I'll play devil's advocate and defend whiteboard interviews as compared to take home or online assessments.

Take homes are not very respectful of the candidate's time and, especially if they are not time bound, often leads to a candidate wasting a significant amount of time on these assignments. Plus, there's always the possibility that desperate candidates would cheat and have the assignment done by someone else.

I would only use take homes and HackerRank style quiz for applicants that are from institutions I don't fully trust with quality or applications that are very spammy in nature, i.e from a college/bootcamp that has an abysmal application-to-hire ratio [0].

For candidates from serious institutions I favor a two-step approach: a screening interview with a light coding question and a full whiteboard interview. The screening's purpose is really only to answer questions about the hiring process and check that the candidate can write very simple code by himself when given a trivial problem [1].

Now, a lot of folks do whiteboard interviews wrong. They often expect to get the exact implementation of an algorithm they found in a textbook and for code on the board to compile. This isn't the point of whiteboarding. Doing this only promotes rote memorization. A good whiteboard interview should be a toy problem that can be solved in several different ways by using different strategies or data-structures. The idea is to see how the candidate will break down the problem. Is the candidate able to formulate test cases, write a simple implementation, verify his code and correct the implementation should it fail a test? On the more meta side of things is the candidate able to take feedback and explain why a certain strategy was chosen? Of course it's not representative of real world engineering but it's a good way to peek at someone's ability to debug and reason about programs; these abilities translate well into debugging and design. Especially at the college level, I really can’t make any assumptions on what the candidates know. I’m not judging their knowledge of the standard library of X programming language or the framework-du-jour but their ability to learn it fast.

[0] https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/ites/95-engineers-...

[1] https://blog.codinghorror.com/why-cant-programmers-program/
Is native compilation of elisp going to be included?
If you're doing a lot of computation that's entirely on the client-side, you'll at least want to look at JS hooks.

However, if you're doing things that require a trip to the server anyway, such as navigation, form validations, etc, you should get significantly better performance with LiveView. Sending tiny diffs over web sockets is a lot lighter than doing JSON requests.
Microsoft supporting BSD and MIT licensed open source makes sense; this has become commonplace under Satya's leadership. Aside from contributions to Linux to make it work well in Azure or Git to make it work well for Microsoft's rather unique issues, their supporting GPL licensed products is yet another stark reminder that this isn't Ballmer's Microsoft -- and that Microsoft might actually be doing more for F/OSS software than the FAANGs of the world are at this point in time!
Theo: Homeless at Age 7
People have been filmed running over other people congregating in the street. Can those other people sue the car manufacturer?

Working as intended, but still sued was quite the bizarre position to be supported by a judge.
Yes, Google's search page was a work of art that would make Edward Tufte proud.

What we didn't know then is that Google would achieve exponential growth to reach trillion dollar status by surreptitiously harvesting each user's search queery history, tracking their browsing histories by IP address, scanning their gmail, surveilling their movements via android, and putting it all together to achieve an advertising monopoly the likes of which Hearst, Pulitzer, Beaverbrook, Ogilvie and Murdoch could only ever dream about.

All without the cost of employing a single journalist.
I never get runners high, but have always attributed that to me just being weird, as usual.
Ever sunce I was little I have a habit, reflex, or whatever one should call it, to breath quite slowly and deliberately during any extended exercise. Never thought it could be related, but maybe it is?
Clearly though neither Apple nor Google have thought TikTok problematic enough to not delist it from their app stores.

I don't think any app should be banned unless they indulge in criminality/illegality which needs to be proven in law.
It's a linter in an IDE it's actually not type checking and it's not even close to what Go can do.
> There’s no way they could generate similar revenue per user.

I'll take the opposite side of this bet any time.

TikTok will become a juggernaut on par with Instagram and perhaps even surpassing it.
There are tax implications, for both employer and employee, to paying the candidate, at least in the UK. It would be quite a lot of headache for not a lot of money.

Donating to charity has tax implications for the company too, but they're much simpler.
KropiT: My First Android AI-Powered Application Being a Python Developer
> Your data and life are not special in any way. The government will never be interested in finding out about you, and if they really wanted to they could do it with ease, and definitely don't need an app to do it

And yet your data is valuable enough for multiple billion and trillion dollar companies to build massive infrastructure and markets to siphon your data away from you and sell it to the highest bidder.

We live in an unprecedented time where true mass surveillance is not only nearly free, it turns a profit. It costs a fraction of cent to record, transcribe and store the data you produce, so why not collect it? It's just a rounding error on some government agency's balance sheet.

The infrastructure is there. The data markets are there. The value of your data is there.

But most importantly, the evidence is there. In the last 20 years, governments have been caught using technology and private data to propagandize, suppress, persecute, blackmail, kill and even round people up into camps, like China does with its Uygher population[1].

Yes, you don't need an app to do this if you're a domestic government collecting your own citizens' data. But you might want an app if you're a government or business collecting data on foreign users.

Economic and military espionage and sabotage are incredibly valuable. If I was a nation-state, yes, I would like to have my app on foreign government workers' phones, the phones of foreign military members, the phones of professionals in competitive industries, the phones of family of friends of all of those people, and so on.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/muslims-...
There is always a trained operator on the DLR.

Look around, you will see there is a person wearing a uniform who is perhaps helping tourists figure out where they need to change trains, or assisting a woman struggling with shopping and a push chair. These are TfL employees trained to drive the train, even though it's autonomous.

Before the train leaves, even under normal autonomous operation, this person in the uniform activates a "close doors" control and this is the only reason a DLR train will close its doors. When the doors are closed and the way ahead is clear the train will drive itself to the next station, and open the doors, the cycle repeats.

The person wearing the uniform is trained to safely operate a train. Any time they're on first shift they actually sit at the front (usually occupied by excited children) and unlock the onboard controls to literally drive the train for route verification purposes. Autonomous trains aren't looking, and tools or equipment may be left on the track by work gangs (despite a "count it out, count it in" procedure) so the first trip of the day is always done manually.

You can't drive a DLR train from the control room.
> The Patriot Act has been a big deal politically multiple times. Net Neutrality was discussed by mainstream politicians.

the patriot act generates a round of discussion whenever it's up for renewal, but I don't get the impression that there's emphatic popular opposition. IIRC, it actually failed to be renewed this year, but only because trump feared it might be used against him in an investigation.

net neutrality isn't quite the same situation. it's actually important to the big internet companies so it gets some strong support.

> I think the takeaway is that we need to find a better way to speak to the average American about surveillance. Speak in plain terms that matter to them. Or maybe they will just never care?

I honestly don't know what this would look like. imo, a large part of why police brutality gets so much attention is because there are concrete examples of police killing people who didn't do anything to deserve it. if you ask around, you'll probably find at least a couple people you actually know have had bad experiences with the police. what's the equivalent of this for surveillance? seeing toaster ads after you buy a toaster on amazon just doesn't bother people the same way.
I'm really curious how exponential the amount of signatures you'd get for a protest that brought 2 million people together would be. I'd bet it'd be 30m+ easy but I'm doing completely baseless twitter retweet math.

edit: I worded this strangely and tried to recover it, hopefully it makes sense.
USPS Plans to Slash Hours at Many Post Offices, Hoping to Save a Buck
I am curious to know this - how do various nations/ space programs ensure that the objectives of their missions are significantly different that they don't end up repeating the work/ results of other missions (from other nations)? Do all space agencies work together to determine what the focus would be (I guess not, but it'd be cool, if it were like that)!
The growth is focused internationally now.
What if you need that coworker to do your job?
India approves New Education Policy 2020; Coding to be taught from class 6
Edge TPU is not TPU in GCP.
Screwing Up Is What We Do
Wordpress. Downvote me, but you know it will be there 20 years from now.
What prompted the test - are you experiencing any symptoms? When you say we, I assume you mean a partner. Did they also leave the property? And what kind of test did you get?
I keep changing my addon list bar the privacy focused ones depending on the support an addon gets. These days I'm mostly using these:

1. Simplify Gmail: Brings the look of the good 'ol Inbox on desktop - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/simplifygmail...

2. Behave: Addon that recognizes DNS Rebinding attacks to Private IPs - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/behave/

3. Firefox's Multi Account containers: Lifeline of someone with multiple accounts that need switching. Also the superset of the facebook container - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account...

4. YouTube's search fixer: a HN user shared this sometime ago and it's been really handy so far. Removes suggested results and overhauls some UI elements to look cleaner on desktop - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-suite...

5. Web Archives: presents cached versions of web pages on more than 10 search engines- https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/view-page-arc...
Photopea doesn't look like FLOSS and it is just webapp . It also doesn't have much features.
Judging from the types of questions asked during last congressional hearing to these CEOs regarding privacy(They didn't even understand that Android & iOS were from different manufacturers), I would be really surprised if they really understood the difference between having single Appstore with 30% fee vs allowing 3rd party Appstores, not allowing native browser engines and forcing them to use your own browser with different skin etc.
Wow. But doing this with seeds is terrible. It has the potential to boycott the economy at national scale.

There are more than 230 viruses of useful plants that can be transmitted by seeds, and hundreds of invasive species... How can this packages be allowed to cross several frontiers and enter in a country?
Credit card companies (i.e., Visa, Mastercard) absolutely do refund fees on payments when the retailer processes a refund. This is why retailers generally require you to use the same method of payment to get your refund.

It's uniquely online processors that do not refund fees.