skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure why the article mentions accessibility as a downside to this approach. If you use details/summary, it probably has some default behavior in screen readers to explain that it's collapsable. The alternative of using some show/hide element with an onClick handler probably doesn't work as well for screen readers without a bunch of aria tags.
> What's the current state of compilation times of Rust?

Still slower than we'd like. Some folks are putting in a heroic amount of effort to improve this significantly, but it's going to be a long time before it really happens. Smaller stuff is helping all the time, but has less dramatic impact.

> How many times slower than C does it compile?

Really impossible to say, because it varies along so many different factors. C will almost always compile faster though, it's true.

> Any links to statistics? I know it's hard to compare, but I am interested in developing a gut feeling of what to expect.

The closest we have is a few bits of basically anecdotal evidence; we have projects demonstrating that rustc got about 3x faster since 1.0, and we have had at least one (in my mind) pretty reasonable C++/Rust comparison that showed them as being roughly equal. But it's just really hard to get good data here.

You should expect something roughly C++-like.
Twitter have released an official conversations API
Since Google hates passwords, I can't imagine that they would support plain old metal keys for doors. Neither can I imagine how unlocking a Google door wouldn't involve an arbitrarily closable Google account. Other incidents have shown that once your Google account is closed, Google won't talk to you.
a) The post is written by a QEMU dev

b) It argues against rewriting QEMU in Rust

c) It was the start of a positive discussion on the QEMU dev mailing list
If you have a job at McDonalds, you can’t take 6 months off (without even notifying anyone!) and come back like nothing has happened. You can’t switch your schedule to a morning shift at Burger King and an evening shift at McDonald’s at will. Being an employee comes with certain benefits, but also certain responsibilities. Not everyone wants to be saddled with those obligations. Some of us want to be able to earn cash whenever we feel like it.

EDIT: To a reply saying I don’t understand how fast food restaurants operate, I certainly do, I’ve worked fast food in my life. While they certainly try to be flexible, you can’t just decide to show up approximately “whenever you feel like it.” The closest approximation to that is to only have 4 hours a week regularly scheduled (otherwise they can’t call you an employee), and then you call in whenever you feel like working to see if they need help (often they will say “yes” but sometimes they will say “no”). However, this arrangement only works once you have enough experience that you can come in and basically work any position in the restaurant, and it’s not something that can be scaled to every worker at the restaurant.
The RSTHD Keyboard Layout
Beautiful Pallasite Meteorites Discovered on Earth
This article dives much deeper than I expected. It sounds like a fantastic resource for a manager, especially in a startup, but a lot of it also relevant for tech leads.
>I expect you are one of those urbanites

Nope. Live in an exurban town on the other side of the country and don't think I have ever taken an Uber/Lyft that wasn't associated with travel to another city. And rarely take them even then.
In my opinion, the reason people don't learn to touchtype is that the QWERTY keyboard layout doesn't reward touchtyping. You have to beat yourself up to "force" yourself to keep your hands over the home keys, because the natural use for QWERTY is to wander away from the home row.

If you learn Dvorak, or, frankly, any layout designed to minimize movement, you will naturally learn to touchtype, because the layout rewards being on the home row. You don't have to try to force yourself to stay on the home row, your hands will be there anyhow. And from there, with your newfound hand stability, it's not hard to learn to touch type without looking. It'll just happen and one day you'll notice that you've been doing it for weeks.

It may literally be easier to switch to Dvorak than to whip yourself hard enough to learn to "touchtype" on QWERTY.
But companies are absolutely allowed to do things that cause other companies to go out of business. It happens all the time. Think of the buggy whip manufacturers.

"Unfair competetion" has a specific legal meaning. As I understand primarily in the US it's under state law. Here's a summary:
https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/unfair_competition

I agree that this Google practice looks dodgy to me. But the question is, what law specifically is being broken? This looks like a copyright case, and if that's the issue, then the copyright holder is the generally the one who has to bring the case in. (I believe there are exceptions such as when exclusive rights are granted, but I haven't seen a justification that they apply here.) That's what the law requires; otherwise the courts would be even more swamped.

Again, I'm not a lawyer.
Thanks for the kind words.

I agree we need to re-think our home page a bit. We initially focused on "OAuth" to really get specific about what we do, but it's had the unfortunate side effect of making us seem like an auth provider.

I like the idea of specific examples, and your headline ideas are great!
If you can wait Apple is coming up with own "A series" bionic chips for laptops . You can check the rumours about pricing .

I think it will worth to wait .
Customs City – Global Customs Platform
Congrats! Looks great, will keep an eye on this. Any plans to support mobile via Expo? That's one of the big drawbacks of Intercom right now:

* https://expo.canny.io/feature-requests/p/add-intercom-suppor...

* https://community.intercom.com/t/intercom-widget-dont-want-t...

* https://github.com/expo/expo/issues/335

* https://forums.expo.io/t/intercom-integration/761

* https://forums.expo.io/t/integrating-intercoms-js-snippet-as...

* https://forums.expo.io/t/is-anyone-using-intercom-and-having...
As we progress (and have 4K capable $30 computers) some of the things an FPGA does will become less important. It's now much easier to replicate the appearance of the PDP-1's P7 screen on a modern HDR monitor than it was just a few years ago. Another thing you won't get from a software emulator is (usually) support for real physical hardware (let's say you want to read a Spectrum cassette tape or an IBM DisplayWriter 8" floppy). I think that no emulator of the time could run the 8088MPH demo, for instance, because of the way it relied on NTSC artifacts.

Emulation is fine (and even better, arguably) if what you want to do is to write software for an ancient platform (because you'll have debugging capabilities well beyond our wildest dreams of the day) and much powerful tools. You'll also have fully decked systems with then prohibitively large amounts of memory, and ridiculously fast storage and processors that you can slow down to original metal speeds, but don't limit you to those.
Execute Program has a great interactive course:

https://www.executeprogram.com/courses/sql
I type without looking at the keyboard, but I think I kind of naturally “learned” from wanting to express myself quickly on MSN Messenger as a tween. Did anyone else have the same experience?
Yes, less fireflies and ladybugs, yet plenty of bloody tiger mosquitoes... I’d say is a typical case of “half chicken statistics”
Sorry, the actual article title goes "70% of surveyed Americans" but it has been edited here.
Because in a startup, valuation is generally calculated by the investor rounds rather than revenue.

An investor can raise the valuation by putting in more money for the same ownership percentage or same money for less percentage.

They wouldn't generally want to boost valuation for their round because that reduces their return. But there is probably some wisdom in hyping up valuations to get customers and future potential investors excited.

Additionally, if it is a follow-up round, they probably want to invest at a higher valuation just for their own investor confidence. No one wants to have a "down round" because it throws cold water on the hype train for all the other investors.
FBI Investigates Shooting of Military Helicopter over Northern Virginia
Do Californians get a lot of benefit for the high taxes they currently pay? Californians seem to be voting with their feet, moving to lower tax states: https://www.ocregister.com/2019/10/31/190122-more-people-lef...

Do you feel strongly that one more tax would solve all of California's problems?
Has anyone asked GPT-3 the last question? “How may entropy be reversed?”: GPT3
Well if those bots are able to login and prove they're real people, it wouldn't be a problem. I suspect, though, with bots, they'll just create new accounts and not even bother with any sort of appeals process.
Corporate influence stronger than ever outside of the limited domain of operating systems for mainframe computers at universities.

The opposition that was wiped out was closed-source, proprietary operating systems for the PDP-11.

It may seem an insignificant footnote to us, but if we look at everything built on Unix -- Mac OS, Linux, practically the entire internet -- the battle was universe shaping for computing.

Despite the huge influence, the moral and legal arguments made by free software proponents fall on deaf ears in 2020. My view is that those arguments don't have the same meaning outside of the specific context they arose in. Stipulating that people who extend your open source software make their extensions open source is meaningless in the context of 10,000,000 JS libraries that take a developer a few weeks to create, all are delivered in plaintext anyway, and all intended to run on Google Chrome or Safari.

It's more meaningful in the context of an operating system designed to run on 100s of computers and interface with 1,000s of peripherals, most of which are not known to the OS developer, which the OS developer wouldn't even have access to if they knew about it, and would take said developer months or years to support if they did have access to it. The GPL and other legal tools were developed for that context, and they succeeded to a revolutionary degree in that and to evaluate them in a different context is to miss the forest for the trees.

One of the best accounts of the movement I've read is "Open Sources." Highly recommend it!
> one cannot combine ideological utopia and a functional economy.

And still we should try. It's not like California didn't have a functional economy before Uber. Sometimes it's right to make sacrifices in order to uphold our ideas.
I did this but I learned with the Dvorak keyboard layout. One of the best decisions I've made. I did not do it bc i thought Dvorak would be faster or better, I just needed to type better and learning on a regular keyboard with Dvorak made me learn blind. Muscle memory for life!

I used this site: https://learn.dvorak.nl/
tried to do it every day for 30 mins or so when i first started learning.
Hey! CloudCustodian is such an amazing tool! Part 3 of this series would be focus on "audit and find mistagged resources" and cloudcustodian was already on our list to look at. Thanks for pointing me to c7n_trailcreator.

disclaimer: technical co-founder at CloudForecast
Detecting suspicious file activity inside a container
> 50AD

Curious choice of year, since that's about when emperor Nero married his former (male) slave.

From my amateur reading of history, your theory isn't very well supported; multiple ancient societies had no bans of same-sex couples, which only became widespread later (at least in the West).
Soo... don't do the blockchain stuff. They have a built-in ad-blocker and I see very few ads. You install a blank page chrome extension and you don't see their new tab ads either. Practically, a chrome downstream-mod that strips as much telemetry and google spying as possible is a simpler way to get rid of the parts of chrome one doesn't like.
Resigning from AWS on Ethical Grounds with Tim Bray
Where Will the Next Billion Internet Users Come From?
I thought you were linking this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dp9atyHwQF8

Both bits are quite nice.
Well, company towns are probably a bad idea too, if for different reasons.

But there's probably room for smart cities created by the public sector where no personal data is collected and the goal is livability rather than profit.
C11 has safer version of those bad boys(strcpy_s etc) and gcc/clang is more powerful about static checking and runtime checking these days, make existing c code better/safer might be more realistic than rewriting code size of qemu in rust.
Pricing differs on Timescale Cloud based on the cloud & region to reflect variances of the underlying costs of running infrastructure on those regions.

Azure Postgres and AWS RDS do _not_ include HA replication in their base price -- you need to pay extra for actual replicas. What they do provide is the fact that they use decoupled storage to automatically recreate the database in the case of failure (which we do as well).

But that's not the same thing as ~zero downtime from migrating to a synchronous replica, which you can also use for scaling read queries.
Congrats on the launch! Hope one day to need a chat solution for something I build :)

Elixir is interesting for the resilience of BEAM and being FP oriented, and LiveView is a neat concept for templating HTML, but if you are already building a react/typescript front end you wouldn’t get much use out of LiveView. My concern would be issues finding developers to work with that stack and lack of tooling and support outside core libraries.

C# has a very mature product called SignalR that can be used for real time communications with fallback to long polling / SSE for legacy browsers. It is a perfect fit for chat apps. Not sure how far you are into the backend development, but wanted to point out this competitor in case you hadn’t heard of it. .Net is cross platform, has a good ORM, and a ton of industry support as well. Kestrel performance is fantastic.
New Features to Supercharge Your Customer Support
I've noticed a sharp downturn in invasive species in my portion of the US this year (Japanese Beetles and Asian "Lady" Beetles especially) with an upturn in native species.

I attributed it to the really late frost. Maybe there's something else to this? I don't know anymore, everything is upside down anyways.
Setting noImplicitAny should be adequate to address that. Java is getting type inference soon too.
Can someone with legal expertise chime in but in cases like this, can a company like Uber lay out a plan for restructuring and be like "ok we'll comply but over the course of a year and here's the plan"? Or does it have to be done ASAP? The latter seems sort of infeasible. Curious about how these judgments are resolved. My feeling is that judges and the government aren't out there to hurt anyone since compliance is the goal rather than punishment but I have no real legal expertise. Thanks in advance.
This is really cool. One issue: I accidentally created a checkbox card with no text and there's no way to edit or remove it (Safari). I can tick the checkbox and move it around and connect it to other cards, but I can't bring up the edit window.

Correction: there is a small area just below the checkbox in the card that I can click to bring up the edit window. Was difficult to discover.
Why do you conflate corporate enforced moral positioning with people protecting themselves from a pandemic as well as police brutality? None of those 3 things seem at all related to me.
The Croissant Way of Life
I low volume keyboard alone costs in the range of $100. Custom keycaps cost another $100. Not saying it can't be made cheaper, but it'll need more volume for that.
Aye this was my experience too. Played it a bunch when I was pet-sitting for friends and my amigo was cool w/ me using his gaming PC & Steam account.

It was pretty cool for the first 4 hours, but got repetitive fairly quickly.

Caveat: I'm not really into the big open survival games anyway; Subnautica was alright, but Fallout 4 and Rust (the game) put me to sleep.

I'm still waiting for something on par with Freespace or the old Playstation classic Colony Wars (1 & 2).
>Recent reports of dramatic declines in insect abundance suggest grave consequences for global ecosystems and human society. Most evidence comes from Europe, however, leaving uncertainty about insect population trends worldwide.

This makes me wonder how much of the decline in Europe is due to the ecological side effects of two highly destructive world wars. Mechanized, combined arms combat moves a lot of dirt around, via explosions, and tracked vehicles ripping up the soil, which would kill or disrupt a lot of insect's breeding/eggs. Large swaths of mainland Europe were carpet bombed, or subject to intense artillery fire. Additionally, after the war, reconstruction efforts would have disturbed even more soil and insect habit, coupled with the Green Revolution's increase in fertilizers, pesticides, etc.

If the insect population in Europe was previously devastated, or diminished by physical upheaval, then it wouldn't surprise me that the population as a whole hasn't recovered from, and is still losing ground to, the more pervasive insecticide and manufactured pollutants (ie all the plastic derivatives, BPAs, etc) that have become part of our environment.
Case Gives Your Phone Robotic Legs So It Can Crawl to a Wireless Charge Pad
Isn’t that a glaring strawman argument?
To further add on, I doubt rich people die because of lack of kidneys and I think they'd be the only ones to benefit from that.
Be sure to read https://tc39.es/ecma262/ instead of the one hosted on ecma-international.org that has up to a year's worth of unfixed bugs.
> Indeed, that would be fast, but maybe the virus is in a category we have already seen and created vaccines for before.

I pointed this out two comments up, but the coronavirus family is common enough that something like 1/3 of the causes of the Common Cold is a coronavirus (the rest IIRC are a different family known as rhinoviruses). We've never managed a Common Cold vaccine or vaccines despite something like a century of work (at least as long as we've been fighting annual flu season with flu vaccines). In the immediate past couple of decades we've seen an increasing number of deadly coronaviruses: the first SARS virus (this being the second), the MERS virus, basically several of the things in the last few years people have been referring to by possibly misnomers like "avian flu" and "swine flu" have been in this family and so forth. So far we've not been successful in creating a vaccine for any of those. No coronavirus in human history has a vaccine, and there is a lot of history with the family (contrary to whatever racist and/or "animal jumping" theories people have that this is something very radically new; it's a "very uncommon cold").

On the hopeful side, Science often builds strongly on failure, and so it could be that we are perfectly set up for a breakthrough from all of this history of vaccine failure. (And again, I pointed out two comments above the hopeful optimism that a coronavirus vaccine puts us on a wonderful path to possible a common cold vaccine. That could be amazing for future humanity.)

Just that history so far with this entire family/category of viruses doesn't give us a lot of room for hope right now.
How did that load so fast??
Hopefully cultural changes as a result of lockdown will mean you don't have to make that choice.
Ya, intercom is untenable for most anyone with a freemium model.
Better advice would be to follow this simple rule of capital allocation: If you're stock is over-valued, sell it. If your stock is undervalued, don't sell any and instead try to buy it back.
The classic Predator-Prey Model demonstrates drastic swings in both predator and prey populations:

http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Predator-prey_model

This model was one of my favorite revelations in high school.
It's more complicated than that. The kid down the street can say I'll do it for $15 and you can decline. There's no negotiating with Uber. If the kid down the street says no to $10 you're not going to ban him from ever cutting your grass. With Uber if you decline too many offers you will be effectively booted off the platform.

More broadly, you can't compare 1 person trying to contract with 1 other person with 1 multi-billion dollar company contracting with 10s of thousands of people. Dynamics change when it's only a handful of companies hiring many people.
Dropbox launches password manager, computer backup and secure vaults out of beta
>Would the Israel of that world have escaped somehow all the consequences that would have been in place for decades

They would essentially be UN consequences, they don't have a great track record of enforcing things like that.

>Having escaped those consequences, would they then have subjected the globe to a rampage of nuclear holocaust

Looking only at nukes, dropping one more on a populated area is worse than reality so far. And it's impossible to guess what kind of warfare a world without MAD would gave faced.

>Nuclear power absent the support of militarists in control of public money would be, absent. Only by the most skewed of accounting methods does it even begin to pay for itself.

Nuclear power obtained without the focus placed on weapons would be a completely different economy. Not only are design choices often made allowing more bombs to be created, the control of information and resources drives the price up.
This is about pushing voters to approve Prop 22 in november. If Lyft follows suit, it will definitely put a spotlight on the issue!
You could make the same argument about electricity, or a phone line, or hell, anything except for a roof, food, water, and a mode of transport to work.

The thing is, for modern life, you do need more than basic necessities. You do need electricity, you do need a telephone, and, more and more, you do need the internet.

You don't need these things, at home, to get your actual job done, even if you're a programmer, in most cases. You need them to do all the other things, like pay bills, use bank accounts, and so on.
Your comment history is super questionable. Every time I see you commenting on HN, I wonder if you're one of the Russian boogiemen people talk about, or if you're an example of what happens when someone believes too much of what they read on the internet.
“I want to have an AWS region where everything breaks with high frequency ”
For anyone with domain knowledge, how applicable is Google's NeRF work here in comparison? Is there any overlap?

https://nerf-w.github.io/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24071787

EDIT: @bitl: Tremendous, thanks for the reply. Would be amazing to be able to build these scenes just by walking around scanning a room with your mobile phone while it records video for processing the frames into scenes (especially considering mobile platforms with a depth sensor for enrichment of the collected data).
Wouldn't you get into massive amounts of trouble for running this on an operators commercial network?
My father used to help design and build sonar of varying types for the Australian Navy (RANRL) when I was a kid. I used to love hanging with them all and even got to go on a submarine a few times. He had to be fully qualified for sea trials. I assume a lot of his work was adapted from other countries, but he still will not really get into details about what he did for them (70s and 80s). One little nugget he told me a few years ago: their entire UI/UX team were psychologists, engineers played almost zero role in that aspect.