skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry, forgot to check back here after posting... not 100% sure I have one source but here's one from a quick search:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/08/08/asymptomati...

Specifically this line:
> Or, as a paper published Tuesday in Science suggested, it could trace back to previous encounters with other coronaviruses, such as those that cause the common cold.
Are Huawei and Amazon/Google/Apple/Cisco equivalent?

Is the "spying" by the US on Germany as damaging to Germany's future as spying by the Chinese?

If you answer these questions honestly, you'll understand why you're making a false equivalence.
I'm sure you can see why "many of us are more concerned than we can publish" could be read as alluding to secret knowledge.

The problem with the argument is, well, why doesn't this apply to everything? Massive changes happen all the time in the world, and anything could be a disaster if our only standard for "could" is lack of knowledge that it won't be. If someone said "we need to focus our global efforts on stone-faced office buildings, because humanity might go extinct if we keep building so many all-glass ones", we'd demand more than a lack of evidence.
On Wayland it's difficult to disable the compositor :-)

With which setup have you been able to achieve the lowest latency? I'm currently trying to get an overview of the situation.
Besides processors, AMD knows how to design a good hype train.
That is true - the problem isn’t the photo though it is the false endorsement. A false endorsement in any medium is illegal.
It's really not. I work on Firefox. Just yesterday I spent some time helping a user debug an issue they had, and it turned out to be caused by them flipping a hidden pref in about:config. This is not uncommon, it takes up my time and my colleagues' time, which costs money.
I've also found that TikTok does a good job of throwing in unexpected videos to test the waters of what the user is interested in. This diversity is one of my favorite things about it.
As far as I know, the difference is that the first one will work with `go mod`, while the second one won't work, unless you have a replace directive.

As far as I know, `go mod` will simply connect to https://$MODULE_NAME and retrieve metadata and contents from there.
My firm does GPGPU programming for audio processing. Nobody in this area even thinks of using anything other than CUDA. It has far more support, tools, compilers, etc.
If this is true... then imagine if you had an unofficial business relationship with these curators to tag your videos over other similar videos. Obviously you don’t want them to be too obvious but when many with good viral quality just need a bump that could be enough to generate lots of revenue to split.
I agree. I ran a DMA/Equity algo and internal prop desk's tech at 2 major banks and you are 100% right. Any delay (artificial or real) would be what we would target for artibitrage.
This. AVR chips are not a great cost comparison point anymore, they're very expensive, especially for the speed you get.
I went on holiday to Spain once, bought an inflatable dinghy and paddled with a friend for a long time around the coast until we got to a beach. On the beach was a naked man. After we had convinced him to get some pants on (mickey mouse boxer shorts) he told us his story.

Basically he'd gone on holiday exactly like us once, found this beach, and just thought, "fuck it" and stayed. Fuck the job, fuck the family, fuck the friends, everything. He lived in a cave near the beach, the locals gave him food and he did the odd job when he could be arsed.

Ever since I've thought, "if it ever gets so bad I want to kill myself, I'm just going to get up and go back to that beach."

That simple thought alone has got me through some rough times.

As we paddled away from the beach other people started coming out of other caves to come and watch us leave.
Ask HN: Submit your technical project/RFP
Seems with quarantine, there are many engineers at home just itching to work on interesting things.

If you:

- need RFPs for custom technical/engineering work

- want collaborators on a side project

And you are looking for help/labor via:

- 1 to 1 exchange (exchange x hours of your skillset for x hrs of contribution to your project)

- pay (ie. one off projects/contracting per hour)

- open-source contributions

- some other forms of payment/exchange

Please reply with many details as possible so engineers' interests are piqued:

- project scope, motivation, goals

- task description

- tech stack (frontend, backend, devops, architecture, cloud infrastructure)

- estimated duration of effort (hrs, days, weeks, months, yrs lol)

- how you want to "pay" (1 to 1 labor exchange, $, open source contributions)

Email me (subjectline HN RFP) at my username at gmail if you would like to be added to the emailing list.

Based on mild interest off this post

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24394349.
My takeaway: in-person leadership is a charisma game where somebody fools everyone into letting them be boss. Perhaps to the detriment of the project and goals.

Virtual leadership is based on performance and productivity. It related directly to achieving goals.

Another big win for virtual work? It factors pointless, harmful charisma out of the equation?
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But nVidia was substantially ahead the last generation and are promising a greater performance delta than that.

AMD often has very high FLOPS but fails to translate that in to FPS in games, due to architecture inefficiency, drivers, or developers simply optimizing primarily for GeForce.

I would in turn urge you to take all of these figures with a large grain of salt until the third party benchmarks hit.
Decent programmers really don't have that much issue learning new stuff. That's not to say I haven't met a good number of people who have only ever programmed e.g., Java, and poorly at that. But I wouldn't even hire them to work on a Java codebase.

I'd say that the amount of Rust work is the metric I agree with. I think Graham's "Python paradox" is true and correct. If you post a job position that includes working on Rust, you'll have people falling over themselves to apply. What you'd really need, IMO, is managers to get on board. It's a chicken and egg problem. If it isn't Java, PHP, Python, C++, then it's "risky".

We do use Rust for a few projects where I work. Entirely because I had enough social capital and reputation with my boss to push for it.

I don't do Rust full time. But what counts as a "paid Rust job"? I get paid. And I do Rust for my company. Does that count?

And I don't understand why you're asserting that it has to shoot up by orders of magnitude to survive. I feel like maybe you're being biased by something, but I'm not sure what. Look at Python. It existed in the early 90's IIRC, but it totally exploded around 2005-ish (again, IIRC). Haskell and OCaml exist. They seem to actually be picking up a bit of steam if you go by social media such as HN. Ada isn't dead.
This article was popular here when it was published. https://www.eugenewei.com/blog/2020/8/3/tiktok-and-the-sorti...
It's a complete lie that industrial agriculture is the only effective way of feeding everyone. It seems to be that it produces the most yield of a crop, but therein lies the problem: The only metric that we look at is crop yield. Sure it yields a lot, but it's completely destroying the land in the process. If we continue to use industrial agriculture practices (which are completely dependent on oil) humanity will collectively starve when all the topsoil is dead and the water sufficiently poisoned.

We've created our own vicious feedback loop by planting massive areas with a single crop that has been bred for size and shelf life more so than disease/pest resistance and nutrition. The monoculture is ripe for attack by pests due to lack of biodiversity. Our response to this problem has been to double down by spraying the crop with herbicides and pesticides. The chemicals kill beneficial fungi, bacteria, and insects which leave the crop entirely defenseless against the pests unless it is sprayed again and again. The bacteria and fungi that make soil "soil" and not "dirt" also die, and the only way to grow the next crop in dead soil is to till it (which kills even more soil life) and dump synthetic fertilizers all over it. The fertilizer runoff pollutes water sources.

Much like how large centralized computer systems make everyone vulnerable to massive failures (think Cloudflare or AWS outages), large monoculture farming makes our food system very fragile and the resulting food isn't even particularly nutritious. We need to use regenerative farming practices, but that means defeating the oil industry, among others.
I think that tools like Emacs and Vim are aimed at people who recognize that very often over the next few decades of their careers they are going to have a need for powerful, complex, flexible text editing, and so even if they have no interest in learning the software for its own sake its worth putting in the up front effort because it will pay off later.

For a lot of tools, both in software and other fields, there are three different classes of user.

1. Those with fairly straightforward tasks that they just want to get done.

2. Those who mostly have staightforward tasks, but occasionally have something a bit more complex but not too complex.

3. Those that need to handle everything from simple to ridiculously complicated.

Take electrical testing tools for example. For a lot of people a simple battery tester is all they need (class #1). If you want to test a battery and have never used a battery tester before, it will either be obvious what to do, or a glance at the instructions will tell you.

Some people need a bit more on occasion, and for them we have a class #2 tool, the multimeter [1]. You can still pretty easily test a battery with one, but the first time you probably will have to spend a minute or two in the manual, learning what voltage setting you want (the V with the ~ over it, or the V with the dashed and non-dashed line over it?) and which holes to plug the probes into.

Some people need a lot more. They have a class #3 tool, the oscilloscope [2]. You can check a battery with an oscilloscope, but if it is your first time you are going to spend a lot of time in the manual before you get there.

Emacs and Vim are class #3 tools.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multimeter#/media/File:Fluke87...

[2] https://www.tequipment.net/Rigol/MSO1104Z-KIT/Mixed-Signal-O...
I've always thought the easy fix to the last problem would be to allow cities to be set to "auto" mode, and let the AI decide what to make. You can already get this effect by just always choosing what the advisor suggests.

The AI is certainly not very smart, but sometimes I have cities I really don't care about the minutae of: they are already fulfilling their strategic role and can suffer being mismanaged by the AI for a dozen turns.
if that rumor holds any water, that would be an impressive team of curators who have a pretty extraordinary ability to spot* globally favorable trends. I remember reading when FB tried to employ human curators for their news section, bias creeped in and was scrapped away. wonder what TikTok did differently.

* although with popularity of TikTok, one needs to wonder if that team have become THE trendsetters themselves...
There is also Spacevim https://spacevim.org/
Why Should You Analyze Your Competitors When Planning an SEO Campaign?
The fact is well known and obvious to anyone so I don't see how anything is being hidden by anyone.
Dune (2020) Official Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9xhJrPXop4
> the ability instantly scale upwards is difficult to do yourself.

If your business involves any amount of low priority bulk compute, this gets much much easier. You simply let the low priority stuff fall behind while your order to Dell for new servers is being delivered...

Also, if you have compute that could be on-prem or could be in the cloud, you can set up a kubernetes cluster spanning both and let non-privacy-sensitive overflow to GCP as needed.

All of the above rarely comes out cost-effective though, because while the raw compute is cheaper to DIY-it, when you factor in the staff time to build, maintain, and deal with the shortcomings of your bodged-together on-site solution, it's going to come out much more expensive.
I’d say it’s more likely they have super advanced/clever ways of doing the latter. The algorithm could be a simple dot product and the result could be great or terrible depending on how good the feature extraction is.

Pulling useful features out of videos is no small task. The fact that everyone raves about how good the recommendations are indicates to me that this is where their innovation lies.
> Fast forward to 2020 and the perception about AMD's video driver quality seems to be in a similar place

Maybe for Windows, but the same cannot be said of Linux or macOS, where AMD's choice to open-source their drivers has led to these OSes having great support; while Nvidia, having to support their own closed-source drivers, seemingly hasn't had the bandwidth to get their drivers for these OSes up to par.
It doesn't matter much if the manager dispatches the pings ASAP or buffers them up for later. You're still letting Slack chaos drive your process instead of leading with process and using Slack as a tool.

In some ways, having the manager buffer up the pings is even worse, because then each person has to revive the topic again if they want to have a voice. People don't want to be left out of important conversations, so the only solution is to watch Slack like a hawk all day. The people who spend all day in Slack instead of doing work end up dominating the decision making while the people who focus on work suffer.

Instead, don't hesitate to gather people for a scheduled call after lunch, at the end of the day, or first thing tomorrow morning to clear it up. Record important decisions in a single source of truth that isn't Slack, like your Wiki or ticket tracker.

Treat Slack almost like you would in-office conversations: If you have a spontaneous watercooler conversation about an important topic in-person, you wouldn't go gather everyone involved to come to the watercooler to continue the conversation. You'd send out an e-mail update to others who need to know. Or you'd scheduled a follow-up call or meeting to discuss it.

The in-person rules of communication and avoiding interruption are a good template for how to behave in Slack.
Yes my impression was that it lessened infection, not prevented it, otherwise it would basically represent a vaccine or an alternative, at least for otherwise healthy people.
It mentions that it also serves you from time to time a video from a different cluster and analyzes your reaction so you are not stuck in one cluster without hope to get out.
Midnight Commander is nowhere near where Norton Commander was in terms of usability. Some of that is because of platform restrictions (terminal and keyboard access limitations) and some because of a difference in philosophy.

Norton Commander was simple, but it got the simple things right.
If you only use one variable for comparison then the comparison is hardly valid.
Agreed. TikTok has very good built-in video tools, but the creativity and sense of storytelling in short form videos on the part of these kids is very impressive.
This is something Richard Stallman has advocated for. Free software was not just about the availability of source code, but also about making sure software can function well on lower powered devices, lower bandwidth environment, or people who cannot use the same kind of interfaces.

There was an essay discussing this ... but I do not recall it now.
Ask HN: How would you create a utility to open a custom file format?
What's the easiest language to use if I need to convert an arbitrary file format into variables in memory? (assuming there is no existing library)

Are there any languages that really lend themselves to this problem?

The data is very heterogeneous (think: underspecified file format spec with multiple independent vendors) with a header that is lots of text labels, and a body that is numeric data of variable bit depth, numeric types.
Never realised this was a problem. How so?

Tag your version v2.0.1, import it as .../v2 in project - done. You don't even have to read docs or blog posts to understand it, just look at the source code of a new project, notice the ../vN part, see the corresponding tag in repo and do the math.
Expecting the Netflix show of this book though.
You aren't wrong but to me you are focusing on the wrong things. As you say, the west is already dropping the birth rate and being more and more focused on sustainability, etc. Eventually, it will get there. Change takes time.

The big problem is the 3rd world. People there don't a have a choice. They don't want their family to starve. Women are largely forced into a reproduction role only. But we know that the way to reduce birth rate is to educate women and give them jobs and careers. We know that if we can create stable jobs in the 3rd world, they will stop clear cutting forests. To me, that is where the billionaires should be putting their money. If we raise the global standard of living enough, our high population problems will slowly revert.
Facebook reinvents Facebook with the launch of Campus for college students
Technical challenges faced while implementing SLO
Want to implement SLO? This blog post shows the technical challenges necessary to solve.
Usually less, actually.
ROCm and HIP - https://github.com/ROCm-Developer-Tools/HIP, as it has been for the last 3-4 years
I think it's related to the fact that emacs has multiple (very) small files and short-lived processes, which does not work well/fast on Windows. For a while, I ran Xubuntu in a VM just to use emacs, because the performance on my Surface book 2 was unacceptable.

I ended up going in the other direction: kept emacs, got mostly rid of windows (I have it in a VM for the odd occasion where I need to use a windows-specific program. The fact that my company is flexible on the work OS is a huge bonus for me.
> This sounds tinfoil hat crazy, but here we are. Not so crazy now.

Nothing about Amazon hiring a former NSA director to its board is "tinfoil hat crazy". It's in fact perfectly rational, since Amazon is literally in the business of selling services to the federal government.
Lets be honest: how many horror stories do we all have, about in-person leaders that were selected because they were the loudest, or most aggressive, or talked over everybody else, or sucked up to the big boss?

Does that happen 10% of the time? 30%? 60%?

If virtual work reduces that effect, its all to the benefit of the workers and the work, in my view.
It seems a slam-dunk.
I agree in principle and will use mailto: and tel: links on any project where I have the luxury of doing things properly without worrying about the consequences.

But at the same time it's not easy to explain to a client that their email link might not work for a sizable portion of their visitors, especially if they've seen solutions that work all the time.

I also agree about avoiding unnecessary bloat and this seems like a decent tradeoff. It's just a tiny popup that includes the native option, so you could argue it sits between a plain mailto: link and a full-on contact form with a backend service for sending emails/texts.
> Would it even be possible to make a truly Kafkaesque game? The primary elements of Kafka are all directly opposed to an enjoyable experience, if done right.

Isn't that true for any horror game, though? And yet people play them.
i've been playing a ton of CK3 and enjoy it a lot more than Civ, it really encompasses more actual political pressures with the whole dynasty management gameplay. love it.
It captured some aspects of the books, but diverged heavily in some baffling ways..

1. Everything with the Harkonnens is gross, it wasn't like that in the books. This aspect alone made the movie hard to take serious.

2. the stupid blaster guns that were added

3. the ending was complete nonsense and did not come from the book

Not sure how you can say this new movie is missing stuff, it appears to be a much more accurate retelling of the book to me.
They must be running low on good defensive options. As a non-expert, it kind of looks like the only mental disease she could possibly claim would be some variant of sociopathy, and I don’t think sociopaths get to use their disease as an excuse during criminal trials.
What are the realistic odds that someone internally at Amazon is going to break into your instances to look at your data if you're just a regular business?

Going to go out on a limb and say that the NSA is going to have an easier time breaking into your on-prem servers.

Hiring a retired General for influence is as old as this town. People are reading too much into this. This doesn't make it more or less likely for Amazon/NSA/CIA/whatever to steal your data.
It is not possible. Not now at least.

Even if they manage to get the display+motherboard under $200, there is a number of small parts that will end up being quite expensive if you can't do the economies of scale big manufacturers can do.

There is the 3D printed enclosure, lens, cables, straps, padding...

Also it is just a headset, you probably want some sort of controller too. Also, even if though they mention experimental "roomscale", it involves a camera that is not included. And as with any DIY project, you a probability missing a few tools you'll have to buy...

I'd say it is affordable as a hobby project, which, in itself, is really nice. It is the kind of thing you enjoy making even more than you enjoy using.

For cheap, you can't beat cardboard. And if you really want VR and not a new hobby, commercial offerings are hard to beat.

EDIT: one way to reach the target price could be to start with one of these cheap "cardboard+" headsets you can find for about $20 on Aliexpress. They already have most of the parts you need except for the display and motherboard. The optics may be tricky though as they are optimized for smartphone screens (if they are actually optimized for something...).
Humans are like that, not just "marketing guys". Indeed, two numbers is "too hard". Adjust your expectations of humanity accordingly.
I've had it a bit over a week. The E14 Gen 2 still seems like the closest alternative - slightly slower processor, more memory, less battery. Unfortunately the Labor Day sale is over so it's around $1200 now.
The major difference is that they have a product to back it up. Also, a large part of the hype comes from the "market" and you can blame Intel and Nvidia for that, since they have been screwing and exploiting said "market" for more than a decade now.
There's so much good meta-data (likes, comments, duration, sound used, views, like/view ratio, skips, loops, subscribes, etc.) that I'd be surprised if they were digging into the contents of the video at all right now.
I remember when the city had a real limit, you could leave it. Now the suburbs seem endless. Towns 300km away, were once distinct towns, now just part of one large metropolis - pretending that they are still distinct. If you want to know the real size of a metro, map out the delivery areas for furniture stores and restaurant suppliers.
https://archive.md/HpKZu
Does anyone actually trust any of this nonsense?

At this scale, TikTok, Google, YouTube, Twitter, Facebook.. it should legally be required to either:

- Open Source It

- Provide clear option to opt-out

- Provide the params to be 100% configurable

Wake up people!
While AWS is a different operational unit than the shopping one, it is known that they didn't play fair with some vendors. In the end, they cloned some, and ruined some.
So the vulture culture exists in parts.