skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is nightmare material. In one of the videos, the person recording is far away from the explosion, and he gets underwater in one second(!) after it detonates. A tragedy.
The Abominable Aberration of Starlight
I think most software is built with some level of tolerance for performance, and the stack / algorithms / feature implemented are chosen to meet that tolerance. Basically, as hardware gets faster, it's seen as a way to make software cheaper.
Surprised they didn't look more at zstd.

IME it's faster than brotli and often has a better compression ratio.
Doing it in software allowed the original MacOS to be much more extensible and live on far longer than would have otherwise been expected.
I love the Methow Valley. Have you ever been to the Methow Valley Chamber Music festival? It's run by a former EE named Howard Johnson, who wrote the book on High Speed Digital Design.
Wow, and for comparison the viral 2015 Tianjin explosions in total released 28 tonnes of TNT of energy, or 100GJ.
As a softeare dev who used to work in the contracting space, I cannot tell you how many stories I have of licensed, insured, regulated tradesmen going to jobsites and the outcome being burned down houses, flooded houses, oil spills, trees falling onto houses, and just monetary and physical damages galore.

If you have the time and desire to do things carefully, truly, then you will do things carefully. You'll find that tradesmen have plenty of expertise and money-- the only thing they don't have is time, and it really shows.
Thanks. Hopefully the SSD is accessible too. I have a ~2010 iMac 27" and I had to pull of the front glass of the monitor and disassemble half the computer to replace the HDD with an SSD. That was a gigantic PITA.
The grass is always greener on the other side. And sometimes you get to see both sides and you can tell that they're both brown and dry!

I live in a big house out in the country on top of a hill. Pretty much everyone who walks in the front door for the first time and looks out the living room window exclaims about the view.

What they don't see that we're so exposed that the wind can come howling out of the North so loudly that you can't sleep.

My wife is a horse trainer. People, women mostly, are envious of the lifestyle: being out in Nature, working with horses in the fresh air. No one asks about her broken bones and the titanium pins holding her ankles and wrists together. Doesn't occur to them that whether it's 100F and humid as hell or -25F and the wind's been screaming nonstop for days that you still have to trudge out there and feed and water them.

It used to bug me. Now I barely notice. I just smile and say, "yeah, we like living out here."
"Do fellow HNers also feel the need for speed nowadays?"

I stopped using graphical browsers many years ago. I use a text-only browser and a variety of non-browser, open source software as user-agents. Some programs I had to write myself because AFAIK they did not exist.

The only speed variations I can detect with human senses are associated with the server's response, not the browser/user-agent or the contents of the page. Most websites use the same server software and more or less the same "default" configurations so noticeable speed variations are rare in my UX.
I honestly don't understand why this made you angry. Is it because they are wasting wood?
JavaScript is not the problem.

Computers are AMAZINGLY fast, EVEN running JavaScript. Most of us have forgotten how fast computers actually are.

The problem is classes calling functions calling functions calling libraries calling libraries.....etc etc

Just look at the depth of a typical stack trace when an error is thrown. It's crazy. This problem is not specific to JavaScript. Just look at your average Spring Boot webapp - hundreds of thousands of lines of code, often to do very simple things.

It's possible to program sanely, and have your program run very fast. Even in JavaScript.
There’s a couple of other central entities which do actually decide what gets to qualify as a legally binding agreement and the WTFPL likely falls short of pleasing them.
Improving the Mobile Experience on Gov.uk
Are you speaking specifically about Washington state? I don't know the details up there, but I can tell you from experience that this isn't at all true in Oregon (both personally for my own property and from occasionally helping my dad, who is a GC).

First, remodels aren't nearly the same as new construction. Second, in either case it is true in Oregon is that rural counties are less likely to notice or care if you don't pull required permits, particularly for remodels or "repairs" (even if the repair is the Theseus-like replacement of a completely unsalvagable structure). That doesn't mean the permits are any less required though and I would be very leary of pulling those kinds of tricks on a property that I turned around and sold.

This is all doubly true since they sold it owner financed, which means the buyer missed out on the bank doing some due diligence for them. Hopefully the buyer did their own due diligence and knows exactly what they bought.
> ...licensing concerns. That’s why Ubuntu users can’t download JSHint via sudo apt-get install jshint.

Okay, this is misleading. You can install tons of non-free packages using apt from the official archive. They are in the multiverse section.

http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/multiverse/
I’m not a lawyer, but I don’t think “Donating your assets” would work (in any jurisdiction, but as I said, I’m not a lawyer, certainly not one versed in law in all countries of the world). Lawyers will argue that the fact that you set this up x months before death doesn’t mean that you still wanted it to happen when you died and/or that, at the time the assets were transferred you weren’t alive, so you couldn’t own the assets.

Yes, last wills do both, too, but they have a long history with lots of jurisprudence about what you can and cannot arrange for after you die, and how you should arrange that (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_and_testament#Requirement...)
Apple is easily the single most successful exercise in branding in modern corporate history, right up there with Nike and Coca-Cola.
I'm more worried about my pictures of the kids. A few generations will care about them.
I quit my job over a year ago. Been bootstrapped on savings. I picked up a gig last year and only made $30K in 2019.

Hoping my efforts pay off.
Microchip Implants, Mind Control, and Cybernetics
I believe the majority of uranium comes from Kazakh mines, a former Soviet state.
Worth noting that Beirut has already been suffering from hyperinflation and widespread poverty, and the port where this massive explosion took place is their "grain elevator", i.e. 80% of the country's grain comes through it. We might be looking for a real humanitarian crisis...
Hey brother, I made an account just to reply to your comment,
I enjoyed your website and grew my knowledge reading it.

Just wanted to let you know there's a typo @ https://anonyfox.com/tools/savings-calculator/

```Aside from raw luck this ist still the best```
Location: US/EU/Remote

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies:

Product Management - User Acquisition, Growth, Retention, Pricing, Agile, Jira
Design - Adobe XD, Figma, Sketch, UX Research
Programming - C++, Python, JavaScript, R, SQL

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/krishmunot/

Email: krishmunot@gmail.com

Website: https://www.krishmunot.com/career/
I have the 1.0 from 2015. Solid machine.

Butterfly keyboard still works flawlessly and even feels different from the butterfly on my work 2017 MB Pro which has worn out and misses keys.

But the 12” form factor gets too hot and CPU is weak even for browsing with just 20 tabs. But I’ve also been developing on it just fine.

And to me, it’s probably the most beautiful physical Apple product in past decade or so.
Disney streaming strategy is to use several streaming services. Each of them priced lower than Netflix (193 million global subscribers). When you combine few of them the price per household is higher.

Disney+ (57.5 million),

Hulu (35.5 million),

ESPN+ (8.5 million),

Hotstar (8 million paid
300 million active users)

Almost all Netflix competitors (Disney, Amazon, HBO Max, Peacock, Apple ... ) will have other sources of revenue besides streaming so they can afford to keep loosing money to gain market share. Netflix can't cut prices too much.
The mathematician who helped to reshape physics
> Well I'm kind of digital nomad so traveling very often and I also maintain a Saas platform

Sounds like a dream job really. The ubiquity of internet-everywhere these days - even in third-world countries - is quite astonishing really. When I was traveling in Kenya a decade ago I was able to blog (via 2G) in the middle of the Maasai Mara!
Selective and cross-reactive SARS-CoV-2 T cell epitopes in unexposed humans
Alignment of list on https://anonyfox.com/grimoire/elixir/ seems a bit off.

Love the style though. Very crisp, very snappy.
Totally agree with this, I replied similarly to the same OP. If a job is extremely complex and dangerous, but I have all the time in the world, I will find an extremely time-inefficient but safe way of doing it.

Contractors usually will cut a corner to save money and time, for example they may not tighten everything back up as well as it should be when operating on a furnace, only for you to encounter the smoke/leak next year when the machine vibration finally kicks those bolts loose.
I guess the basic algorithm for finding the most rural progressive places in the US would then require selecting the most rural liberal counties[1] that are also in liberal-led states.

[1] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/20...
MobSquad | Halifax, Canada | Full-Time | Onsite | Visa |

MobSquad pairs software engineers with scaling and innovative tech companies across North America.

We are currently looking for a Senior C/C++ Developer to join our growing team (https://mobsquad.io/join-team/?gh_jid=4807896002).

For more information, please reach out to us: info@mobsquad.io
I'm 36, and I have less of a plan than a daydream of financial suicide at this point. I just want to finish fixing up my house, sell it, and live in a van or something with my dog, some bikes, and maybe some low power computing kit for rainy days (maybe build that desktop operating environment that doesn't suck that I've dreamed of building for years now).

I have no plan for making money, and I doubt I have enough stored wealth to last more than a decade. Health care in the US being what it is, probably not even that long. These are so far the only reasons I haven't already done it.
Typing Is Hard
It looks like they did, but having an implementation in a memory-safe language was one of their requirements. Learning that was for me the most fascinating part of the article.
I agree. This has components of science and policy. There are people in the community who can contribute valuable insight.
Remote only within UK?
Cornell University Library Launches Hip-Hop Photo Archive, Nearly 20K Images
Not from my observation.

Most people seem to get more confused and hesitant when pages are loaded with more features, most of which are irrelevant to their neeeds of the moment. (Of course flat design makes this hesitation worse.)

And theory talks about "cognitive overload" and "choice paralysis".
Texas City Disaster (1947)
as a purist sim city 2000 player, i love this
That statement seems to general.

JS in of itself is not a performance issue in many cases. It can even improve performance in terms of speed/responsiveness.
This makes no sense. If I write a todo list app I bare no responsibility for what people put on their list.
How Much Does It Pay to Be a Mobile App Developer in 2020?
Landmark obesity guidelines in Canada treat problem as chronic illness
I did something similar after wifi and smartphones, and I don't think either made it any worse.
If Microsoft is successful in buying TikTok, it will be a loss for users
"The Moderators of /r/lockpicking" would be a more apt title.
From the blog:

> Pre-coding: Since most of the data residing in our persistent store, Magic Pocket, has already been Brotli compressed using Broccoli, we can avoid recompression on the download path of the block download protocol. These pre-coded Brotli files have a latency advantage, since they can be delivered directly to clients, and a size advantage, since Magic Pocket contains Brotli codings optimized with a higher compression quality level.
I've worked in public sector, they don't care. The same people who make decisions based on golf-course handshakes and frat membership in private sector also do it in public sector, only there's extra political pressures to deal with too.
E-Ink Pricetags
I like the Tosatti/WindRiver/Lameter patch. (Except the naming: _possible is the same meaning as _available, but they mean different things here depending if kthreads or user threads?) Just needs a proc interface.

With a patch like this you can force bottom half (interrupts), top half (kthreads) and user threads to all be on different cores.

The 'full task-isolation mode' seems wierd, because why should you drop out of isolation because of something outside your control like paging or TLB? Anyway, mlockall that. Its fine to be told I guess (except signals take time) but why drop out of isolation and risk glitches in re-isolating? It doesn't seem very polished.

Something else occured to me: you still have to be careful about data flow and having enough allocatable memory. E.g., a lot of memory local to core 0 will be consumed by buffer cache, it can be beneficial to drop it (free; numstat -ms; sync; echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches; free; numastat -ms).

I find it bizarre that all this THP compaction stuff is for workloads that are commonly run under a virtual machine, i.e. another layer of indirection.
If the U.S. was on top of things and firing on all cylinders I don't think countries like China would even have the leverage it has today. The reason China is "hacking your government databases", "cruising over the south china sea", and xyz other greviances is because it sees what everyone else in the world sees. The U.S. is weakening and nature abhors a vacuum. There wouldn't be margin for that to happen if the U.S. was not literally in front of our eyes blowing up in flames.
Previous discussions on this have gotten flagged.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24051326 E.g.
From what I've seen building PerfBeacon.com, it seems more like images in e-commerce sites are the worst offenders.

Slowest site I've tested so far had a page size of 8.5MB, 80% of that was images.
You just opened Dota Players Anonymous, it seems :-))
Read "Harrison Bergeron" by Kurt Vonnegut.

http://tnellen.com/cybereng/harrison.html
deepfake software will eventually be so easy that script kiddies can and will flood the internet with deep fakes. That will hopefully "cheapen" the value of online video and audio clips and force people to learn where reliable sources of truth come from.
Interesting to read all of the methods for determining the health of the cat at the time of death.

Sadly, the "pathologies in the skeleton suggest that the cat from Dzhankent had a physically challenging life."

The good news is that people cared about this cat, "They carefully cared for and tended to this animal throughout its life, providing high quality food and medical care."

That said, the funeral for the animal was "expedient" in that it was basically left in a dump or "midden" (new word to me) at the end.

It is some comfort realizing how entirely human it is to care for cats. Though, it is also possible cat toxoplasma has just been incredibly effective.
key word, recently. As in, within a week.
I realized a nearly 80% gain on my AMZN shares, and 50% on MDB shares, and a bunch of other wins as I managed to call the bottom of the V pretty well.

However, with the nasdaq fully recovered, yes I am realizing some gains and taking a more defensive position.
> the determinant is the product of the eigenvalues.

Ohhhhh, now I get determinants. I just thought they were some easy way to classify a matrix, not that they had any special meaning. Not that they were also all the eigenvalues multiplied too.
I think the focus on speed and bundled content is important. These are the two biggest weaknesses of After Effects today imo.
I don't get why any of these people stay so long in their roles. If you're SVP or CxO at any of these large tech companies for any significant amount of time, it basically means you've achieved perpetual generational wealth. You've beaten the game. Why keep playing? Once your net worth is eight digits, what really does the ninth digit get you?
I have a friend who started a bar in the past 2 years and his landlord reduced his rent to 0 during the peak of the pandemic. He's still afloat.

He also said that if his landlord had charged him his full rent or would want the full rent paid back he'd go under.
Estimating the Beirut Explosion Blast Yield with Dimensional Analysis
2015 base spec:

Though it never gets “too hot”, it does slow down perceptibly. Eg, a single YouTube or Netflix tab.
Before teaching our kids Java, let's introduce them to Spreadsheets
This is a deep violation that makes every user of 2fa _unsafe_. A mere $250 million? This needs to be the kind of violation that endangers the company. It's not a mistake or honest error when 2fa phone numbers are used for advertising. This is malicious. Should be scaled to 100X the amount the company gained in advertising for the violation.
Wow, that's unfortunate. Well, I can't do anything about that :)
Surely Dropbox would have the engineering power to re-implement zstd in a memory safe language if it was sufficiently beneficial.
Hey, You Free on Friday for a Meeting and a Bank Heist?
I don't think people are claiming javascript execution speed is the culprit. Javascript can be slow but computers are also fast. However, loading all that javascript takes a long time especially if the website isn't optimized properly and blocks on non-critical code.
Good old days with Lucene powered indices! So many memories. That query expansion trick would have saved me many hours of tweaking.
Sorry for commenting on the formatting instead of contents, but how could someone say "The following graph shows how many times JSHint has been downloaded from npm each week over the past five years" and then present a graph with four data points?

Frankly that makes me doubt the author's central piece of evidence (that JSHint gets much fewer downloads than ESLint).

* Graph from this URL in case it changes again: http://mikepennisi.com/blog/2020/jshint-watching-the-ship-si...
But the fact that _I_, could have made a higher return still holds. If I was 17 and broke, yeah the whole stock manipulation thing wouldn't be my first choice.
The key to such a business surviving is volume - there are lots of fixed costs and very narrow margins, so you need to be getting lots of people per operating hour. Driving around to various residential areas will just never get you nearly as many people as a busy street or an office district will, and the driving time itself will also kill your efficiency. (Generally, lunch and coffee places near offices do well, because office density is a LOT higher than residential density.)

This is part of why food in less-dense areas dominated by big chains - when all your customers need to drive half an hour or more to get to you and food culture isn't driven as much by novelty-seeking, it's hard to get a following before your runway runs out. Big chains are very experienced/cost-efficient, and have the capital to last if things start slow.
relatedly - a browser extension that shows you twitter convos about the page you are browsing https://github.com/round/Twitter-Links-beta
Responsiveness never, it does make complex projects easier but the problem is that developers often make them complex for the sake of it.
But then they always seem to not come in until I scroll to them, which is too late and just means I have to wait even more! What they ought to do is download as soon as the network is quiet.
I'm also part of the Apple cult for now. Every new computer hardware release just keeps getting frustrating. The only thing I like about Apple computers now is just Mac OS. Their hardware has been waning for the past few years. What people want is an affordable headless iMac in desktop form. They were just tone deaf when they released a $5k desktop. I don't want a headless Macbook ala Mac Mini

I still feel good about iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch at this moment. However, everything else hardware wise feels like a disaster to me. I mean where is the home pod mini? Homekit will never be taken seriously or as useful as Google Home and Alexa, until Apple finally releases smaller, less expensive smart speakers. "Hey Siri" just doesn't work well on current Apple devices.
One of my heuristics for video game quality is the main menu transition speed -- you only care about the menu animations once, on first view; after that, you want get something done (eg fiddle with settings, start the game, items, etc). So it should be fast, or whatever animation skippable with rapid tapping. Any game designer that doesn't realize this likely either doesn't have any taste, or is not all that interested in anyone actually playing the game.

This heuristic has served me stupidly well, and repeatedly gets triggered on a significant proportion of games -- and comes out correct

The actual level loading times of games doesn't matter all that much. Games go out of their way to be(feel) slow/sluggish/soft/etc
I blame tcp startup.

and the the fact that chrome hasn't added https/3 in mainline as even a flag even though the version that their sites use has been enabled by default on mainline chrome for years.
ESL is really really good. Absolutely cannot be recommended enough. I’ve worked through at few times and it’s a great book to have on the shelf.

ISl is good but as it being an introduction book — the lack of higher order math wasn’t my favorite.
Top 15 Artificial Intelligence Software 2020
How are those things paid for? Property and sales taxes, neither of which you save by not living in town?
Thanks for the 'Misbehaving' recommendation.
> Apple does not.

Well, I'm not _that_ familiar with BBM since it was never available in my country.

But what makes you think Apple can't read your messages? Do you have any encryption keys that you share between devices? Or you just enter login/password on a new device and voilà all your messages are displayed to you? If that is so, I guess I'll have to tell you something...

Anyway. Last time I checked, iMessage apps source code was not available, you can't verify fingerprints of your contacts in iMessage, so... how do you know Apple doesn't insert a very simple MitM agent that does e2ee both for your and your chat partner, having all messages nicely decrypted in the middle?

So far it looks like the only thing that makes you think Apple can't do that is because they pinky promised this to you. Sorry.
Can you not simply `export type T` and use `f<U extends T>`?
The official account for Blender on Twitter is now @blender
I can't believe they left the big fat bezel unchanged. It makes the machine look really outdated.
I think the timing might be right considering the massive shift that has occured in remote learning and work.

I had a startup that did something very similar about 6 years ago. The execution and timing were both wrong.but the idea had a lot of promise to not just be another lms no one cares about.

I think the concept is fantastic and I wish you the best of luck.
Who use Windows or Mac for Sysadmin things today? Am I missing something here? Last time I went to Sysadmin conference there were a bunch of nerds that running their own custom Linux distro based on Arch or something.
It would be good to add the info on super I/O chip maker there.

This is useful to know when selecting a motherboard since for example Nuvoton usually provide documentation for their chips and ITE don't, that's why sensors work much better on Linux with motherboards that use Nuvoton.