skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I travel in to Singapore to visit relatives, seeing WARNING DEATH PENALTY FOR DRUG TRAFFICKERS in big red letters on the customs card always gives me a warm feeling of nostalgia every time I see it, knowing I'll soon be landing in Changi airport. This is actually part of the cleverness of Singapore. With so many migrant workers from many different cultures with different social mores, the ominous warning signs everywhere make it pretty hard to inadvertently get in trouble with the law.

The weird zoning AFAIK is an artifact of the city being planned in the 70s-80s when the idea of mixed-use development wasn't a thing. One particular issue is the lack of high-end apartments within or adjacent to the financial district.
There are other machines, like rowing machines, for which an open solution is hard to incentivise, since the machine, the app, and the sensors will all come from a single vendor.

I'm a little surprised, however, that Peloton, and Peloton-alikes ever happened because cyclists have training devices with open interfaces: Bikes, mounted on smart trainers that have standardized wireless links and protocols, connected to a choice of apps.

All it takes is taking the rear wheel off a bike. Or not even that for the most basic trainers, which clamp the rear axle and provide resistance to the rear tire. A fascinating case of a market segmentation that is less susceptible to being breached than one might think.
Road biker here. I used to go to Flywheel classes and have done some Peloton IRL in NYC. I also own a Wahoo Kickr and have a Zwift subscription.

I get the appeal of Peloton. First, Peloton is fun. Zwift is so freaking boring. I listen to murder mysteries while on Zwift because I think it's so darn boring. I only do it because I feel like it's a more effective workout. And cost wise, I already have a bike. Second, I know tons of people who don't ever want to bike outside. It's too dangerous or too much logistics.
It's well within the rights of the president to negotiate these matters, and congress has increasingly over the decades encouraged it:

https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R44707.pdf
Are they though? ("Known for being exceptionally clever in how it manages engineers?") I've actually never heard something in that direction, in many signs it is not the case (starting with broken recruiting).

It is however I believe good at keeping engineers happy, and good and good at managing their engineer infrastructure (though it is very Google-specific, and not necessarily a good fit for the rest of the world). But that doesn't say that engineers are being managed cleverly or efficiently.
I commit my full force of being to craft the highest quality posts on my personal blog for you, this is really 1% stuff.
#2 always wants to be #1, #1 wants to stay #1. This has played out many, many times throughout history. Pick your loyalty.
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And 150,000 is more than twice 70,000.

Just stop.
I disagree with a few points here.

1. Most people could be trained to code. The most important trait in a programmer is persistence. Momentum built from solving past problems is a powerful force.

2. The idea of needing to be atypical in order to be successful is damaging and wrong. What matters is practice.

I understand what you are trying to get at, but there a lot of very smart people outside of the realm of software development. The ideas you are perpetuating raise the barrier to entry.
The new Apple Silicon laptop chips will be based on the same core used in the A14, not the one in the A12. Rumors have pegged the entry level laptop chip at 8 big cores and 4 little cores.

However, it will be interesting to see if that A14 big core implements the ARMv9 instruction set, which is said to be imminent. Apple did implement the ARMv8 instruction set much earlier than it's competitors, so there is a bit of a history there.

ARM teased new features like an up to 2048 bit SIMD implementation with SVE2 and Transactional Memory for the ARMv9 instruction set back in early 2019, but has mostly been quiet.

https://community.arm.com/developer/ip-products/processors/b...
> Many hardworking Singaporeans today resoundingly choose a government that promises economic stability even as censorship laws become more and more stringent and inequality is rife.

As a Singaporean, this is the point that sticks out as proof that the author has lost touch with local sentiment. In the recent election, young Singaporean citizens felt " especially agitated by Raeesah Khan being hit with a sledgehammer." and thus many voted against the PAP. [0]

Yet, on the author's point of paradox of cyberpunk... there is a kernel of truth. While most Singaporeans wouldn't scrape a temple for a new high tech mall like Jewel, (IMO) most Singaporeans would be okay if it was for a new train station so that we (ironically) can visit Jewel more conveniently.

[0]: https://mothership.sg/2020/07/inderjit-singh-pap-ge2020-crit...
What do you mean wrong? You just supported what I said, both companies decided to leave by themselves, one by not cooperating with authorities after the 9/11 of China, and the other by refusing to censor even though the requirements were very clear for google. They would still have services there if they cooperated like TikTok is cooperating with the US admin. TikTok is clearly a case of protectionism whereas the reverse is not true.

The government telling you not to do something is called blocking if you're not being disingenuous.
I pretty much agree here. I am an example of someone who simply does not have the genes for it, so to speak. I have loved programming since I was a little boy but am horrible at it. I can learn a language's basic syntax just fine (and usually in very little time), and have written many little tools/small apps that I have personally found helpful in automating certain aspects of my life and work. So I certainly value what little bit I can do. But every time I've tried to study a serious book on data structures and algorithms, it's been a disaster. I simply lack basic problem-solving skills. I try but I'm just not good at it. I mean, I can usually come up with working code to do whatever I've ever wanted to do, and I'm certainly thankful for that since it's ok if my personal projects aren't terribly efficient. But professional programming would never be a possibility for me. I'd get laughed out of an interview b/c of the convoluted/entirely-too-complicated ways I solve problems. I just wish I had a good sense of what algorithms/data structures to use where. That would certainly help me a lot! But I'm just not sure I "have what it takes", if you know what I mean, to develop that skill.
how do you offset the decay?
>Empathy’s gotta be one of the most important skills for an experimental social psychologist.

Or maybe the exact opposite? I would find it very hard to do research and empathize with the subject of my research at the same time.

This has also just made me realized that this problem with empathizing with my research is actually highly problematic when it comes to the research I am actually doing at the moment.
It seems like you’re making a couple of key assumptions about what the work environment looks like for the core Golang dev team, and then extrapolating from there to exclude them from your definition of Google’s “ethos”.

Separately, the idea that a manager having influence on a good engineer’s work is “broken” is one I don’t understand.

But I think, based on this comment thread, it’s unlikely we’re going to reach a consensus.
As we've seen recently, policemen are often also bullies. This applies to essentially all monopolies on violence, including the one of the US.
There was a story that i'm having trouble finding now, where researchers figured out a test for who would succeed in a compsci program.

It didn't matter how many questions you got right on the test, but rather, if you answered the questions in a consistent matter. even if you were wrong, as long as you were wrong consistently, you'd do well.

If you saw a question, and then a very similar problem 3 pages later, and answered them wildly differently, you wouldn't make it.

the conclusion was that if you were building patterns in your brain, or using logic to build up answers, you were good to go.
How did our parents survive with their stationary bikes in 1970?
They segment the market and de-empathize cheap stuff. Even so, as many iPhone 7s ($200) were activated as iPhone 11s as recently as January.
Hardware interrupts with Ben Eater [video]
Right. They buying a brand to make themselves feel cool. The quality of the product is irrelevant as long as it looks fancy.
Glad I wasn't the only one who thought that.
They're referring to how in js, the for...in loop includes properties from the object's prototype.

There used to be much concern around the idea that you might load some third party js that adds thing to the base Object prototype, which will then be enumerated with for..in loops on all your data objects.

I always thought this was a stupid vulnerability because if you're executing malicious javascript, you are already screwed in a much more direct way

[Edit: i was mixing this up with a slightly different vulnerability that is a bit sillier than the one they are reffering to]
May I ask for clarification?

Is my understanding correct in saying that this is a peculiarly JavaScript issue because you can overwrite language constructs on the object prototype?

Whereas in other languages I can't affect the language core constructs?
If you live somewhere temperate the single hose will cool from low 70s to 62 in a bedroom for less money/eyesore.
A lot of camper vans do this - it just looks awful, destroys any stealth value, has to be moved in and out of the opening any time you start driving, and takes up a ton of internal room when not deployed.
I really don’t think that’s true at all. Just think of all the spreadsheets out there in the world: they aren’t programming by the strictest definition, but they have most of the components.

To me, programming is simply an acquired skill. The vast majority of the population could do it.
Tesla Model 3 Driver Has License Suspended After Adjusting Wipers via Touchscree
If you have been getting Whole Foods deliveries, you may have quite a few insulated bags that could be repurposed, with some gaffer tape, to insulating cabinets and ducts.
Ask HN: What are some of the bad decisions you have made?
Just curious, what are some of the bad decisions you have made?

In retrospect, what would you have done differently?
I have also seen this example, where a man blinded by strokes still avoids obstacles and recognizes emotions, without any conscious awareness[1]. Is this the same phenomenon?

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/23/health/23blin.html
You don't need a $3000 bike for an indoor trainer. Everything that makes a road bike expensive is irrelevant or counterproductive in a trainer.
Also, even if you can catch the two birds for certain, it might not be worth it. For example, it could require more than one birds worth of calories to catch two birds, so the bird in hand that costs zero calories is the strictly superior option.
Interesting that no one talked about green or socially responsible index yet.
Same for me, going from Tokyo to Osaka was an amazing experience. It only saddened me when I returned (New Zealand) and realized how much better tourism would be here if we had a similar way to travel from Auckland to Wellington/ChCh/Matamata/Rotorua. I would definitely save just to travel within New Zealand (roads are narrow/hilly/curvy, buses take a long time, ferry not available everywhere, air travel expensive and limited too).
This is really beautifull!!
How many people are actually dying from Polio vaccine? Which kind?

There are two kinds of Polio vaccine in widespread use. OPV is more effective but involves an attenuated (thus, "live") polio virus in the vaccine itself, you are in effect being deliberately infected with a version of the virus that should be helpless long enough for your immune system to figure out what it is and wipe it out. Because it actually is the live virus and eventually attenuation will wear off if the virus isn't destroyed, it can "leak" working copies of the virus into a population. If everybody in that population was immunised that hardly matters, but if so why are you still vaccinating...

The injectable vaccine used in many developed countries is both less effective and more expensive, but it's "dead", so can't result in anybody getting Polio. Since developed countries do not have endemic Polio it makes sense to just bite the budgetary bullet and use a less effective and more expensive vaccine.

The killed vaccine will only be causing side effects that you'd get from injecting almost anything. Side effects like anaphylaxis - similar to if a person with a severe nut allergy ate a nut. That's a "serious but rare" one-in-a-million type problem, but in the developed world the people who administer vaccines all know about anaphylaxis and will "just" fix it like my friend with a nut allergy would if he's given food with nuts in it by mistake. It's not fun but death should be extremely rare even for that one-in-a-million if prompt intervention occurs.

A more common side effect is syncope. Especially in teenage girls, some fraction of them will faint. It doesn't really matter what's in the shot, they just do. It's often psychosomatic, so it's important other patients don't see it happen (e.g. use a curtain) or it'll spread. Alone and unsupervised syncope could be fatal (you fall down, maybe smack your head on something), but that's extremely rare when supervised, you're usually sat down to get a shot, so you should just sort of slump over and get put into recovery by the person administering the shots.

Some vaccines are associated with GBS but it's fuzzy, the numbers are all over the place - they might actually cause less GBS than not being vaccinated, given how mysterious GBS is that could even make sense, maybe getting and fighting off diseases triggers the syndrome more often than the vaccination does.
You cited various Asian countries, but literally every one of those countries paved the same path as China. Authoritarianism with protectionism (as allowed by the rules of WTO developing nations), followed by economic prosperity and democratization.
Fixes now available for RHEL, still waiting for CentOS.
In my experience, he/she is correct. I do a lot of "plumbing". Take data from one source (database, API, vendor), massage it (map/filter/reduce/tweak/translate), send it back to client.

Lots of frontend work is using the same paradigm (human input triggers events that interact with components to manipulate state and make network requests) over and over for different screens.
Who cares? It's an exercise bike.

If the high score is what you want you can play a video game.
I feel like there are two articles here one about politics and the other one about programming. I don't see how they are related in the way the author presented?
That's not happening, what will be accelerated will be regulatory approvals and reviews, not clinical trials.

The trials are most certainly accelerated. Take a look at Moderna's trial of their RNA vaccine.[1]

It's a 2 year trial, but data is collected on a rolling basis. They aren't waiting 2 years for final results, I'm guessing they do a few interim analyses until they see the two arms split in terms of infection rate. Then they'll go to the FDA and see if that's sufficient for approval.

And look at the N-size. 30,000 people for a drug that will be given (potentially) to billions of people. To make a comparison, Gardasil, the HPV vaccine was tested in ~28,000 individuals over 3-4 years.[2] And Gardasil is used in a much more limited population than the Covid vaccine will be.

[1]https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04470427?term=mRNA-12...
[2]https://www.fda.gov/files/vaccines,%20blood%20&%20biologics/...
I fail to see how domestic US regulations will help in this case, if users are willingly installing this spyware app on their phone in the first place and giving it the requisite permissions to access everything on the devices. Do you think China will comply with US protections?
That's actually a bad thing for non-secure arguments, and environment variables aren't much better for secure arguments.
Note that https://invidio.us is not the only instance, just the most popular one. You can host your own, or use one of the others:

https://instances.invidio.us
> I tend to write code in short (2-4h) but very intense bursts with plenty of rest in between

At any level it’s a great idea to ruminate and plan what you’re going to do. Alas, current management trends are about keeping developers busy typing — which is something of a vicious cycle.
I bought it and it broke within days, wasn’t motivated to go through all the support hoops. It wasn’t very cool even when working. Ended up getting a Fujitsu and it works well. Feels like a product segment ripe for better products to be fair, every model has mixed reviews and none seem well designed.
You just ignored what I said and straw-manned the specific nature of being banned.

As I said in my previous post, both can operate in China if they choose to comply with Chinese laws. Hotmail and iCloud do, and both works fine in China.

Google and Facebook being banned is no different than if they'd been banned for not complying with GDPR in EU.
This sounds like a bubble effect. None of my friends have ever expressed interest in trading their windows laptops in for a Mac. Some of them actively avoid Apple products with well reasoned justification.
It sucks that aspects of this pandemic undermine their own credibility to even us data-driven people.

Really makes it difficult.
The code can be readily adapted for other web services that use the MediaDevices API, so I didn’t want to tie the name down to Google Meet. On the other hand, having a unique name is counterproductive to an extension which is dependent on another service. People search for Google Meet; I’d have to try a lot harder to get them to remember Mercator. “Mercator Studio for Google Meet” sounds like a fair compromise though. I’ll think about that.
Perfect! I was going to say, without any consideration of risk, buy far OTM options. For maximizing your Sharpe or Sortino ratios, which is more likely what OP was curious about, well that is quite literally a trillion dollar question.

That said, modern portfolio theory and portfolio optimization is pretty easy.

Whatever you do OP, please don't put it all under your mattress.

https://youtu.be/sHSaUqoKjkA

My chips are mostly off the table right now, in bond ETFs, but we'll see if the market tanks or not. I'm quite surprised that Q2 earnings this past week was not a bloodbath.
Yep. Permissive licenses (MIT et al) maximize freedom for developers. Copyleft licenses place sometimes-frustrating restrictions on developers in order to guarantee more freedom for end users. I like to compare it to laws against slavery. Yes, they impose restrictions on would-be owners, but society is freer as a result.

or any abuse of power imbalances.
I think it was on this site that someone posted the very interesting perspectives on consciousness by Roger Penrose.[2] From that I found this video by Dr. Stuart Hameroff, M.D.: Microtubules & quantum consciousness.[1] Higly recommended.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5DqX9vDcOM

[2]:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXgqik6HXc0
> I am absolutely willing to die on this hill. We need a GDPR-sized hammer to fix this.

Any thoughts on a labelling system? Like, "re-flashable open source firmware", "cannot be remotely bricked", "API-spec and code examples included" stuck on the side of the box.

I'm surprised some hardware hacker supply company, like adafruit/sparkfun hasn't gotten on this yet.
Relevant to your interests: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/01/unauthorized-bread-a-...
Hmm, if you configure an option to take all args following, why would one be surprised by that?
I know of at least two. The Barenaked Ladies have been known to interject lyrics from "Jerry Springer" into live performances of "One Week". And The Presidents of the United States of America sometimes close out live versions of "Lump" with "And that's all I have to say about that" (the final line of "Gump").
FWIW I am an ex-Googler and I agree with you. The principal authors of Go are not really Googlers in the sense that other "mere mortals" are. Their engineering skills, practices, and decisions are not informed or subject to the strictures of the wider culture at Google.
I had to get the converter to sync with my (Garmin) watch, so I imagine that you'll need it to pair with apps. It wasn't really clear whether I'd need the converter or not, but turns out that I did -- I figured I'd return it if I didn't need it.

I haven't actually tried pairing it to my iPad or other devices.
I live in Japan. Wrong assumption.
Seems like a solid plan. Good luck, I'd love for this to take off.

Edit: Bah, brainfart. Do you have a repo where I can follow this?
Should white nationalists be allowed to march and exist in the public space?
Thank you for your effort. It clearly shows both in your work which is prolific and creative as well as in your writing.
A real life Flowers for Algernon :(.
Sure, but people aren't paying to go to prison. They are paying for a nice bed. Apple just happens to keep the bed in prison, which is where you must go if you want to use the bed.
> I can usually come up with working code to do whatever I've ever wanted to do

Been working as a programmer for 25 years, and I’ve never read (or considered reading, or felt the need to read) a book on data structures or algorithms.

Also, I’ve seen plenty of people who are employed as programmers who simply cannot come up with working code. I don’t see how you can write working code without problem-solving skills, as by definition you’re solving a problem by writing working code..?

(I don’t really have a point, sorry, this just resonated with me)
Why not Rust? :D

> Microsoft has developed an extension to the
C language named Checked C which provides new source
language constructs that allow the compiler to prevent NULL
pointer dereferences and spatial memory safety errors through
static analysis and run-time check insertion.

I thought static analysis/fuzzing/unit tests were supposed to catch these kinds of things?
Synfig Studio – FOSS industrial-strength 2D film-quality animation software
He can try, it will never survive court unless he can prove the chinese really were up to something and then it falls into his purview of Chief Executive/Policeman. He almost certainly doesn't have that evidence or he would have already posted it to twitter. He is currently in a panic right now to create some fear/successes for the November election. He's appealing to his base and hoping to pull in a few people who hate "the reds".
I think it makes sense. perl6 was a huge distraction that went on far too long, leaving perl5 to stagnate, and then it came out and hardly anyone had much use for it. now that perl6 isn't "perl" anymore, perl7 is basically a "second chance" at evolving perl5 after it was frozen in amber for over a decade

by loc I've probably written more perl than any other language, maintaining a massive legacy codebase at a previous job. I will probably never write perl again, and the idea of starting a new project in it is unthinkable to me. nevertheless I can see how it could find a new batch of users as a comfy expressive intuitive scripting language, if they can clear out some of the deadwood. it's certainly more suited for that role than python or js. and honestly I doubt it will break much given, as you said, no one running legacy perl ever updates their perl version anyway

the real reason why this is being done probably is that the maintainers love their language and want for it to continue to live rather than die a slow death. I wish them luck