skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But again if you compare SC to SW.....

They are both pretty much failures?

Expect only one of them took money from customers before having anything to show for it.
But it sounds like the issue is that Google really wasn't using Genius's data directly. The problem is that Google is sourcing from "The Internet," and everybody and their grandmother is 'stealing' from Genius.

Here's an interesting question: if Genius closed up shop tomorrow, how long would it take Google to become the primary source of song lyrics online (by rebuilding Genius's dataset from general Internet harvesting)?
TypeScript is the obvious choice for an experienced webdev. It's worth spending extensive time on to get good. Learn generics and advanced types to the point of not needing to look things up.
I've been touch typing since high school, but I did switch to blank key caps and 60/80% mechanical formats about 15 years ago. The benefits I saw were:

I'd still occasionally glance at Function/Number keys, that was fixed within a week or two.

Switching keyboard languages/layouts was easier, no longer had incorrect labels to glance at (and generally annoy me that they were "wrong").

I remove as much clutter from my workspace as possible - blank key caps just look tidier to me.

60% keyboards reduce the distance my hand travels to use the mouse by a lot. I find that much more comfortable.
So a fair counteroffer would be to 2 times the salary, but not having to move to China.
Curious - why do you suggest this field?
Name one.

You are just repeating protectionist propaganda to justify overcharging customers to benefit protected corporations.
This is just complaining about naming at this point. An "extension" must necessarily be extending the language with something. That something is a feature. When the GHC devs add a new feature to the language, they put it behind a flag and call it an extension. This is the only way features are added to GHC Haskell.
Completely agree. I have played NMS on launch day. Played everything it had to offer. Even went through the grind and flew to the middle of the galaxy.

Biggest disappointment in gaming I ever had.

Recently played it again. Has it more content? Sure. Has it multiplayer? Well.. I guess you can see each other, but it's a terrible experience in so many ways. Has it most of the features promised to be in the game even before it launched? Not.. even.. close. It might be an "okay" or for some people even "good" game, but compared to what has been promised, it would still deserve the steam rating of "mostly negative"
Engineering is all about managing solvable problems. When designed and built correctly a composite aircraft can handle lightning strikes without issue. However, efficiency requires engineers to be very carefully provide sufficient protection without excessive weight etc.

In other words, it really is becoming a more significant problem.
Super common for everything happening with Iran/Sudan/N. Korea. Shell companies inside of shell companies. Demands & markets don't stop just cuz of sanctions...
I'm working as a webperf guy as a staff. I find the work interesting (although sometimes frustrating), but I'm not sure how many companies want to have full-time perf people onsite. As you mentioned, It's mostly consulting type of work now as far as I can tell (so might not be suitable to everyone), but maybe this will evolve or is already evolving (I've been only approached once for webperf onsite position on LinkedIn in last year, by Atlassian, but maybe because my profile is not that well LinkedIn-optimized).

Anyway, if someone's interested, you can start by reading articles from:

https://hpbn.co/

https://web.dev/learn/

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/Performance

https://calendar.perfplanet.com/

https://csswizardry.com/

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/blog/view/7/

And some of my own content:

https://calendar.perfplanet.com/2018/getting-started-with-we...

https://jakub.gieryluk.net/slides/rivieradev/
Really enjoyed using the tool when I was working on a React codebase, would love to see support for Blazor[1] at some point!

[1] https://dotnet.microsoft.com/apps/aspnet/web-apps/blazor
Yeah; I removed it. See my other reply on this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24132388
awesome, hope it works well and it brings value to your video call experience :)
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Abstract

The negative outcomes of COVID‐19 diseases respiratory distress (ARDS) and the damage to other organs are secondary to a “cytokine storm” and to the attendant oxidative stress. Active hydroxyl‐forms of vitamin D are anti‐inflammatory, induce anti‐oxidative responses, and stimulate innate immunity against infectious agents. These properties are shared by calcitriol and the CYP11A1‐generated non‐calcemic hydroxyderivatives. They inhibit the production of pro‐inflammatory cytokines, downregulate NF‐κΒ, show inverse agonism on RORγ and counteract oxidative stress through the activation of NRF‐2. Therefore, a direct delivery of hydroxyderivatives of vitamin D deserves consideration in the treatment of COVID‐19 or ARDS of different etiology. We also recommend treatment of COVID‐19 patients with high dose vitamin D since populations most vulnerable to this disease are likely vitamin D deficient and patients are already under supervision in the clinics. We hypothesize that different routes of delivery (oral and parenteral) will have different impact on the final outcome.
I always say that 99% of my IT issues are bad cables.

Looks like that applies here, as well...
A bit off topic but interested in (3). WHO thinks covid is most of entirely droplet and not aerosol spread. Do you have a link to the contrary please? Not the first time I’ve heard this opinion and I’m interested to see the evidence.
> now-defunct ThinkGeek.com

Noooo!! They had the best toys.

Unfortunately their shipping to Canada made everything double the price for me...
My Ridiculous Company Name – $100k App Challenge #5
Here's a Euler diagram on planets, dwarf planets, minor planets, so on and so forth from Wikipedia [1].

Alan Stern, who coined the term "dwarf planet," initially wanted it to be under the umbrella of planet as a distinct subtype. [2]

The International Astronomical Union (IAU), however, believed that what we call a dwarf planet — it was referred to as a planetoid — should not be considered a type of planet.

The IAU later held a session where they decided to use the term dwarf planets in place of planetoids, however they decided that a dwarf planet is not a type of planet.

It's semantically inconsistent, but that's where we stand right now per the IAU.

[1] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fc/Euler_di...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwarf_planet
Big 10 Defies Money and Politics to Protect Athletes
The entirety of law is an appeal to emotion.

Law endeavours, or let me say: should endeavour...

To be fair.

And fairness is entirely a human emotional pursuit.
If you're learning backend services, don't start by things like postgREST, it's just bad habbit, would be better to start by the basis with API servers / DB ect ...
thanks for the feedback, tomp. we didn't tailor the article for a specific audience, we tried to be as transparent as possible with our vision & mission. we'll think of ways of improving communication both for casual users and users like the HN audience.
what about doing your web on word and save as html? doesn't seem like any code at all.
Who identified Ive's importance and promoted him to such a key role in the company?
It's unfortunate that they don't support Linux. Drove me to a competitor, for myself and my whole family.
Flatdoc – a JavaScript file that fetches Markdown files and renders as pages
I think it was true then. I believe their claim was usage via third party?
Researchers smell a rat, say expensive remdesivir getting ‘subtle push’ over HCQ
While we now have the Arduino and RPi with convenient GPIO and other inputs and outputs readily available, you can do an awful lot with the edge connector on the speccy. You used to get books full of projects you could make. At the time, I couldn't afford all the components and tools to do this, so I missed out on that side of things. Today, I'm not sure what benefits it would have--no SPI, I2C, ADC or PWM. But you do have effectively direct access to the bus, so maybe there are interesting expansion projects you could work on, though the new hardware itself does a lot of the traditional expansion options like more memory, networking, storage and the like.

The storage factor is huge. Absolutely no one is going to miss the cassette tape. Or (worse) the microdrive. I wonder if any of those remain, or if they all got "eaten"! Likewise the 3" floppy on the +3. While a big step up from tapes, the media is simply obsolete and impractical. And the CP/M-inspired +3DOS is also quite primitive and obsolete.
Michelangelo said art is knowing when to stop.
> I get that you could cheat if you had a regular keyboard, but if you're learning to type, why would you do that?

I think for some folks it’s a real cognitive challenge to willingly ignore useful information.

I know it was for me; I needed a das keyboard to make the learn-to-type “metagame” have sufficiently imperfect information to become “playable” enough for me to stick with it.
Thanks for the detailed answer.

I do intend on staying technical for as long as I can.

I'll have to pick something around servers, UNIX, security and performance since those are actually the (seldom used and surely not deep enough) parts of my job I enjoy the most.
I'm asking myself the same question. WebAssembly (WASM) looks like something that might have some potential for the future, but adoption will be probably slow/limited.
Nonsense. I think Brexit was a particularly stupid idea but I've spoken to a number of people who voted for Brexit and every one had a perfectly sound reason that I happen to disagree with or don't consider an important issue. Interestingly (to me), not one of them voted for financial reasons.
Correction: Samuel Culbert, not Stephen Colbert.
Ha! You got them :)
Seems to be where I'm headed now. A new world of learning opens !
No lake is more lake than Lake Baikal (2012)
Jaybird 4.0.1 has been released
Do you use Google or Facebook or Twitter? Do you think you're not being precisely tracked/profiled with those services?
Try to get maximum Google Lighthouse scores. Get into functional programming and useful patterns (e.g. state machines). Try a TDD side project and get a feeling about test coverage. Maybe develop a view about next gen tools / compilers like SvelteJs. There aren't too many people who're able to write a well structured and maintainable, secure high performance web app with a high test coverage.

Career cheat: If well known open source projects merge your code, that's worth a lot!!111
How to make AI less racist – Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
maybe:
https://medium.com/shipharder/take-responsibility-dont-blame...

or:
https://medium.com/serious-scrum/the-subtle-art-of-avoiding-...
Mozilla has laid off their dev tools people and the entire MDN team
By "The Rust Book", do you mean "The Rust Programming Language" ?
Well I was thinking of agriculture subsidies, which are substantial in both the US and the EU. The US also puts significant subsidies into the Oil&Gas and Aerospace industries.
You can also just put a towel over your hands until you learn it.

The best thing I got out of typing club was an objective means of evaluating keyboards. I learned that my fancy keyboard wasn’t really serving me like I thought. Objectively, the best (fastest) keyboard I have is the plain-seeming one built into my PixelBook Go. The worst one, by a mile, is my MacBook Pro “butterfly”.
More GPT-3 spam. Don't care until they drop their attitude of being some weird-like guardian.
I'm willing to bet a not insignificant percentage of people alive today do also.
The more common maskless route is laser direct write. That is capable to micron level dimensions, and multicolor variants have been proposed to allow submicron.

Ebeam direct write is capable to NM level features. Just slow.

http://www.periodicstructures.com/

Has some neat papers on this.
Obviously very impressive, but I've been wondering how likely it is that someone would get this by chance. If we assume there's a 60% chance of getting it right on average (this could be lower, but a 10% increase in accuracy seems like a reasonable amount considering the amount of polling data available),there's a 1% chance someone could get that record by chance. Given the amount of individuals in politics, is it too far outside the realm of possibility that this is largely chance?
I use PDFs for engineering drawings of mechanical parts. It's been done for a long time and is a good fit. There's a specific sheet format and scale, and is meant to be able to be printed easily
My experience has been that that particular option was pointless as if there was compatible drivers it would have found and installed them without manual intervention anyway.
I used to work for NRAO. Arecibo is a transmitter, which illuminates the asteroid with very high powered radio waves. The asteroid reflects some of the radio waves, which is received back on the ground at Arecibo or at other radio telescopes like Greenbank or the Very Large Array.
> Some time back, I read all I could on procrastination, and watched dozens of videos on it

You should have not done this; and instead focused on what you wanted to do in the first place!! </silly sarcasm>
It's already the most expensive game to be ever developed at 250m dollars[0] with only 27% (self claimed) completion.

It looks like a fraud scheme[&] where the previous customers money is being used to gain new customers without actually providing the finished product.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_expensive_video_g...

[1] https://starcitizentracker.github.io/

[&] is there a specific name for this type of scam, it doesn't follow the typical Ponzi, pyramid scheme blueprint.
It appears to be the former because no one addressed my point that people have different viewpoints.

In my original post I stated that people would only eyeroll a reference to diversity based on how they view diversity. That's it.

I thought that was harmless and succinct. People have different points of view, and no person can anticipate how another person will react. Then people tried to explain to me that I was wrong, which means: people's views DON'T actually play into how they react, which is demonstrably false. See that? In order to argue me, you have to take the position that you know exactly how everyone will already react.
Yes indeed. The free online version (which has the same content as the printed version) is available here: https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/
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There are multiple projects which show significant promise to deliver this. In addition to Druid, I've been impressed by Iced, and there are several others that are seeing some development.
Yes. There's https://areweguiyet.com/

But I'm secretly hoping for a multiplatform GUI library that covers smartphones too. I realize that might be too much to ask though ;)
no need for embarrassment for you.

radical idea here: the point of language is for a person to put the ideas from his head into the head of another person. so long as the idea is conveyed, it is successful. piece/peace distinction in spelling only matters when there is a real risk of ambiguity in intended meaning. everyone new what you meant -- so it was OK!
Idk why but I just really like javascript. I am not the type of person that likes to optimize things or make a deeply viable and robust and performant output. I just like to tinker and have as many things as possible abstracted away from me so I can make stupid apps based on maps and if statements so that they can do stupid things in a matter of 20 mins.
I know the Mozilla layoffs aren't news, but 25% is a lot and I haven't seen any sources saying exactly what happened in terms of the reorg. The fact that both of these teams have vanished is a major gut punch to developers.
They are? Because you can see the source for the Serious Engine 1 here:
https://github.com/Croteam-official/Serious-Engine

Looking at that it has way more in common with an OOPish inheritance/composition approach to entities than the ECS view of an entity being a primary key into a data store of components with a pipeline of systems acting in a component centric manner to update the game state.
Did you have a look at LiveView for Elixir/Phoenix?
The founders of the US acknowledged that in a democracy it's possible for the people to be completely wrong about something. That was their entire reasoning for creating an electoral college and for having a senate and house of representatives. They wanted to make sure the electors, senators, and representatives represented the people who elected them, but they acknowledged that sometimes our best interests are only apparent to a sufficiently well-educated body with ample time to become educated on the issue at hand. They recognized that this could be difficult for most people.
They made the mistake of advertising LTI (life time insurance) as an exclusive feature for early backers. They had some events with LTI afterwards, but it is always combined with an outcry of some early backers that they should be the only ones with LTI, because that is their reward for backing early.

Personally I think LTI should not have been offered at all, since it could potentially break the game if offered on expensive Ships that people will then use as suicide bombers without consequence, but that is a different issue.
28 years old and just got diagnosed.

Do it - it makes a difference. I was amazed how much meds helped me. I'm far more productive doing tasks that are boring.
>They are both pretty much failures

If something is not finished you cannot tell :-)

But one of them are a failure.
I have gone down this rabbit hole, and I think neo4j is more suited as an analytics tool than a standalone production database: https://medium.com/@l_i/neo4j-is-a-great-platform-for-analyt...
Your response is to do nothing because of an extreme edge case?
Ask HN: I've lost respect for my boss. What can I do?
Disclaimer: it took me a few years before getting to this point and realising this, I'm not writing this hot-headed.

I lost confidence in my boss being able to be a boss. She's the nominal leader of a team of a few devs, and also codes some parts of our system.

A) Points in her favour (leadership): she's able to shield us devs from some of the bullshit that comes from the upper layers.

B) Points in her disfavour (coding): 1) her code is extremely messy and source of countless bugs; 2) she is very inattentive, almost oblivious, to details, when coding. This also reflects on how she's able to debug and address software or infrastructure issues; when debugging stuff with her I need to constantly remind and re-explain her about everything 3) she often messes up the production config files because she doesn't pay enough attention.

C) Points in her disfavour (leadership): 1) she has an extremely hard time keeping things organised, catching up with what us devs do, staying on top of her own tasks, etc... 2) she's not able to make decisions. She's just "meh".

If it weren't for point A she would be actively harmful to our work. However I like my job, I like my company, she's a nice human being, yadda yadda. And the upper layers LIKE her. Not sure why, because we roll out new features at an extremely slow pace.

Today I have two problems:

1) What can I do to not go insane? I don't want to organise our dev work for her, that's her job. But the utter lack of coordination is killing me.

2) What can I do to not let this feeling of lost respect show? I'm afraid it won't be long until I make a snarky remark out of sheer frustration, and things will start going south.

Thank you
> Because, let's face it, nobody in their right mind procrastinates if their livelihood is on the line or if it means letting someone down.

I see you've never met a person with impaired executive function.

It's frustrating and heartbreaking to watch an otherwise intelligent and capable person just...stop living.
~450 eur in total, I bought all of them used.
But most of the price came from maxed out ram and quad core cpus.

For something cheaper, I can find in my country lenovo tiny m72, for something like 40 eur. No SSD/Ram, you can configure it as you wish (and still will be cheaper then RPi, even after adding like 2GB of ddr3 - it's something like 4EUR per stick, there are 2 slots in each machine).

That is with Intel Core i3-2120T, so would expect much more performance then even RPi4

Edit: I see now that the same seller has them for ~72eur with 120GB of ssd and 4GB of ram if someone wants something ready to use.
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I've skimmed that page and I'm not entirely sure I came away knowing what it meant. It's good to see an open source project that can compete with large commercial companies in terms of inscrutable fluff.
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