skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Instead of giving away it all away, why not invest $8B which would generates about $800M per year in returns perpetually and give that as 0% loans for education, health and starting new businesses to people who needs it? This would be then perpetual giving that can outlast the donor.
The other replies make some good points about why people like squash, but here's more:

1) You only need one other person to get a high-intensity workout. This is much easier than reliably mustering 22 men for a soccer game, or 10 for basketball.

2) It's a medium-impact, mostly-non-contact sport that doesn't involve jumping, but does involve a lot of lunging motions. This means it causes waaaaay fewer injuries than e.g. basketball (esp. serious knee injuries), and also promotes flexibility in the hips and knees. That flexibility turns out to be important for general well-being and mobility as you get older.

3) You don't need a lot of gear, just the gym shoes and gym clothes you already have, plus a racquet and a 2 dollar ball. You can get a 20 dollar racquet or a 800 dollar racquet, depending on if you're a cheapskate or a gear nerd, or anything in between.

4) You can play it indoors, with or without the cooperation of the weather.
User goes to shoes.com. Adserver.shoes.com acts as frontend for adserver.com. Adserver.com sends a cookie and adserver.shoes.com sets it.

User goes to news.com. adserver.news.com loads ads from adserver.com . Adserver.com checks cookie from adserver.shoes.com and and generates ads server side and shows it with the news.
Brutal Honesty: The Developer CEO and Our Journey
Have a productive day.
Spain had similar problems to Italy early on in the outbreak where they shut down large chunks of hospital capacity by insisting doctors and nurses self-isolated, although it's now known that this was actively harmful: the virus is virulent and would have infected them sooner or later anyway, and the ones who weren't already elderly or sick wouldn't have been badly affected.

It's a debatable question whether this shutdown of hospitals was due to the virus, or due to the over-reaction to it. Other places where the virus started later didn't do this to the same extent (although the UK did and is still doing so!), and they saw less serious problems.

As for "many bodies of people dead at home/on the streets", can you show me reports of people dropping dead of COVID on the streets? I never heard that, it seems it hasn't happened elsewhere and sounds suspect.

Remember that basically all reports about people dying "of" COVID are garbage. The average age of death when testing positive is over the average life expectancy in most places (maybe all, I haven't checked). Almost all such reports are of deaths that were naturally happening anyway due to age or other serious health conditions, and COVID was just co-present at time of death - maybe it pushed them over by a little bit, but probably only by months. Correlation/causation mixups are a huge problem with COVID datasets.
Is Apple moving to a model where all the apps that matter come from Apple?
If you’re at the level you’re just starting out, there’s a good chance your home is your biggest asset. Forming an LLC won’t let you borrow money with no collateral, so there’s a good chance your gonna have to expose yourself to personal risk. If you have to put your home up as collateral, an LLC may not give you much.

My personal experience was that banks will start treating your LLC as an entity that isn’t an extension of you when you start getting up to a few million USD in revenue. Then you are likely to have assets like accounts receivable, signed contracts, inventory, etc. I may be wrong here, as I didn’t get to that level, but I remember conversations ending with “we can help you when you’re making 3 to 5 million.”
Apple has always given one week to use the golden master tools and build to run final tests on and submit your applications so they can be out before a million people try to install it on iOS 14. If your iOS distribution person is out on a camping trip for a couple days, you’re not hitting the deadline anymore. If you live in certain parts of the world where you wake up 7 hours after the event and Xcode takes fifteen hours to download, your don’t hitting the deadline anymore. There is absolutely zero reason why Apple had to do this.
Here is an article in English: https://lenews.ch/2020/01/14/swiss-get-more-pet-recycling-po...
Thanks for the examples!

However, I can't really agree that they are examples of software improvements being multiples of hardware improvements.

1. Compiler optimizations

See Proebsting's Law [1], which states that whereas Moore's Law provided a doubling of performance ever 18-24 months, compiler optimizations provide a doubling every 18 years at best. More recent measurements indicate that this was optimistic.

2. Compilers getting faster

Sorry, not seeing it. Swift, for example, can take a minute before giving up on a one line expression, and has been clocked at 16 lines/second for some codebases.

All the while producing slow code.

See also part of the motivation for Jonathan Blow's Jai programming language.

3. Matrix multiplication

No numbers given, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

4. h.264/h.265

The big improvements have come from moving them to hardware.

5. Concurrency

That's hardware.

[1] https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/On-Proebsting%27%27s-L...
Looks like the Pro is still 8-cores vs this new Air's 6-cores, so that is not a trivial difference, even if the cores are a little slower.
Here’s the iOS version.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/travel-tips/id1336372310
I understand that pl/pgsql, the sql function language of Postgres, is based on Ada.

I quite like it.
Some apps look broken or are actually broken on iOS14.
ME TO!

Especially because of the x86 oligopoly I would think that Arm is so much more important as an ecosystem.
That's basically how I taught my father to use a computer. It came down to two things:

1. He was terrified of breaking it, so I told him that there was nothing he could possibly do to it that I couldn't fix. I made sure to sound overly confident -- almost like I was challenging him to break it. That gave him the confidence to do whatever.

2. Every time there was a problem with it, I would Google the answer in front of him, and he'd watch me figure it out in real time. Eventually, he got the confidence to start Googling things himself. The tech support calls dropped off pretty steeply after that.
You cannot submit you application except using the toolchain that was released today, which is occasionally different enough from the beta tools that your app will no longer work. So now you have a broken app and just hours to fix it, and then somehow App Review is going to get through it while a thousand other people are submitting at the same time you are? No way.
The ability to just develop and deploy experiments to the wild was one of the greatest propellants of my career when I was younger though.

If I started my career in the current era, there is no chance I would have been able to afford to develop in the Apple ecosystem (not just yearly subscription, which is crazy to me, but also the cost of the hardware as you point out).
Never heard about the Creel Report before, but here it is: https://archive.org/details/completereportof00unit/page/8/mo...
Thanks for the tip.
Because a senator should know how to listen to others. They cannot be an expert on everything. Heck, these folks are making rules about medicine, pollution, car safety, tech issues, teaching, school lunches, interstate highways, commerce, military, child toy standards, what sorts of meat to allow in, and lots of other things I can't think up off of the top of my head. No one can be an expert on all of them - why we would suddenly expect them all to be an expert on this is beyond me. IIRC, an education in law is pretty common, which would be expected.

(I know the system isn't perfect and not everyone listens to educated voices and in a perfect world, there would be a range of knowledge in the elected body itself).

Edited for a missed comma.
Wishing people a productive day on HN is a little ironic.
This post suggests that they're using real curl.

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/containers/tar-and-cu...

> Tar and curl are staples in a developer’s toolbox; beginning today, you’ll find these tools are available from the command-line for all SKUs of Windows. And yes, they're the same tools you've come to know and love!

Running curl -V on my Windows gives me this. Is it wrong?

curl 7.55.1 (Windows) libcurl/7.55.1 WinSSL
Release-Date: 2017-11-14, security patched: 2019-11-05
Protocols: dict file ftp ftps http https imap imaps pop3 pop3s smtp smtps telnet tftp
Features: AsynchDNS IPv6 Largefile SSPI Kerberos SPNEGO NTLM SSL
A quick googeling only showed data for iOS 10 but I would belive that the ballbark is the same.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/ios-10-adoption-nears-15-after...

So 15% on the first day, with 1.5 billion active iOS devices. Thats a pretty high number of potential unsattisfied user experience.
If you’re not out on day 1 and your app has more than a few users, expect bad reviews and bug reports. The beta being out for months doesn’t change the fact that you have something like 15 hours to build and submit your app and hope it gets through review.
Yeah it's fucking bullshit.
Advanced partition matching for partition-wise join
> Changing the namespace means that the same project can depend on multiple different major versions of the same library.

Do you actually want that? Do you actually know that the multiple versions of the dependency you happen to be using do not conflict? If the dependency is in different namespaces their locks and other globals are also in different namespaces.
"Turbo<foo> had a great IDE" in no way refutes that Ada suffered from not having an IDE.
But they only released the XCode GM today.
It would still be a normal Stirling engine and not reverse. The engine only needs a large enough temperature differential. Where that comes from does not matter.
I'm not saying the driver wasn't negligent in watching TV, instead of the road. In fact, I don't think anyone in this thread is saying that.

I am saying that passively watching the road for hours on end is much harder than actively driving.
i think it was a really good choice, i'm certain i'm not the only person who saw that movie as a small child and decided thats what they want to be. it was exciting and cool back then and it still holds up now. i want to imagine that someone truly and deeply understood having a love and understanding of computer systems when they made the choice to express it with such artistic license.
Best it can do is 6 months
> there’s really no strong incentive for Apple to specifically set a launch date with developers

Except that they used to do it a week later every year? And that there is no reason to release it tomorrow, like new hardware that ships with that pre-installed?

> Presumably the iOS beta has been out long enough that developers could have pushed out an update if their app seriously breaks with the update.

You can’t push out an update for the new OS except using the blessed toolchain that Apple released today. That’s what we’re annoyed about, not that the beta period was too short.
A reverse stirling engine takes mechanical energy and produces a temperature differential. These kinf of setups are actually being used for quite efficient cooling.
Web is great for a lot of things. But not games, especially if you want efficiency.
Ruby 2.8 adds endless method definition
The first part of the essay does go into the question of whether what's happening can be truly called Marxism. I believe he argues convincingly that it can be, although indeed, everyone accepts that the "neo-Marxists" or whatever you want to call them don't call themselves that (BLM leadership excepted!), and they have moved on from an arbitrary notion of two economic classes to slightly less arbitrary notion of two races (white vs BIPOC/minorities/whatever it is today). A few other bits of jargon have been renamed, but otherwise the belief framework is intact.

Marx is by far the most famous proponent of this kind of dual class oppression/revolution based framework. Someone really deep into the history of that stuff might prefer the term Hegelianism, but it's hardly more useful for communication. There's a large population at least roughly familiar with what Marx believed and far more importantly, what happened everywhere his followers took power. The essay does acknowledge that the underlying worldview pre-dates Marx, and the term Marxism is thus merely a useful handle to describe that bundle of worldviews. It's not saying he invented the whole thing from scratch.

BTW: Quillette is not a liberal magazine and Hazony is a highly conservative Jewish nationalist.
I applied for jobs last year, after having been on the reviewing side of technical interviews for a good while (at my second job). I found a few things.

One, wrt the companies I worked for, I didn't feel like they were vetting my technical skills enough; at best it was an hour of chatting and going through some of the code I wrote, but in my head there's just so much more to it. I felt like they were easily impressed. I also felt like I was cheating because I had reviewed so many interviews, so I knew what to look out for.

Second, I initially went in there just to orient myself, to prove myself in technical interviews, but for both recruiters and employers, it felt like going into the process already meant I really wanted to work there. I never felt like I learned enough about the job to make that decision yet (although there is usually a one month grace period where you can quit or get fired without cause).

Third, wages varied wildly. One job that was interesting was right across the street from me, flew through the interviews easily etc, but their offer was at best 2/3rds of what I earned at the time, it would have put me back years. I wonder if their wages were just not that great in general, or if they were betting on me preferring a one minute commute over a decent wage. I couldn't afford to live here on what they were offering so I declined. They did get back to me a few months later, I wonder if they changed their wage structure. I might reconsider if they can go over my current income.

I did find a new job in the end, one where I didn't actually do a technical interview, but where I felt like they actually needed me (instead of just an ass on a seat), like I had a Mission to accomplish. Still working on that, slowly. What also helped is that while I work 4 hours / week less now (I was looking for that), I still earn the same as I did at my previous job - less taxes for a lease car, and income tax laws changed.
It reads like you have put a lot of time and energy into thinking the issues and possible solutions through. Here is a tip: as a first time potential user, this site gives an awfully complex vibe and its hard for me to get the layout, what should I do next, etc. Compare that to Facebook/Instagram sign up / onboarding / first steps experience. I suggest enlisting a UX researcher/designer who have done it before to tackle this problem.
>If Chuck Feeney isn't actually broke today, there is a fair chance that he will be on his death bed.

Aren't you forgetting that that he already "lost" the vast majority of his wealth? If he actually cared about the money he would have given it to his children. If he loses his last $2 million on healthcare he probably wouldn't care.
also, https://exercism.io/, my go to these days to try out a new language, or if i’m bored. other than building in automated solution checking, and of course more of everything, i’m not sure how else it could improve. as well as the true og, for me at least, https://projecteuler.net/
The difference is sports people don't really run anything. They sport. In a closed environment.

Software and start-ups are more like having to sports whatever you do, whether you like it or not.

Buy take-out? Pick up your sportsy phone and sports the heck out of that! Don't forget to tip your driver, because he's on minimum wage.

Order an airline ticket? So fast and sportsy! OK, so someone didn't sports properly and some of these planes crashed, but let's just [cough] pretend the pilots made mistakes.

Find somewhere to stay? Your accommodation choices have been so uniformly sportsed you'll get a properly sportsed touch of local flavour, but you'll be spared any unsettling cultural surprises.

Chat to friends? We've totally sportsed that up for you!

So now everything you do has been completely sportsed by people who just love sportsing.

And this is good for you. And for everyone. And especially good for the future.

No, really, it is.
Are there any examples of taxing goods that solved an environmental issue? My feeling is that these taxes do nothing aside from increasing the cost of the goods.
I’m starting to see a pattern where it’s always the same apps that are broken on each major release. I suspect the developers of those apps are simply incompetent.
> I personally recommend blacking out (add a black rectangle) instead of blurring

Real life document workflows can be really tricky. What if one is required to print or photocopy the obscured document? Devastating for printer's toner or cartridge lifetime... In some cases opaque grayish rectangle does the job.
Then they use the big multifunction networked printer’s built in scanner, which saves a copy to the “little” hard drive they all tend to have in them now, and forget to ensure these things get wiped/destroyed... years later they sell the printer once the lease ends and the surprise inside is months to years of raw scanned documents the new owner gets access to with very little effort.
> A pipedream would be an entirely differentiable image compression pipeline where all the steps can be fine tuned together to optimize a particular image with respect to any differentiable loss function.

Neural Image Compression? https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.08988
One of the reasons power structures can be so commonly screwed up is that they are usually inherited in some way or another from a time before anybody living was even born.

Young and old, so that's like a century right there, and some things can get out-of-date a lot faster than that.

That's what makes it such a long-term problem.

The equivalent in a corporate culture is a structure inherited from a time before any current employees were there.

Either way you can end up with some misguided systems which are not relevant enough for a modern situation, and it can be very painful to correct.

>Can you imagine: on the one hand post industrial countries are inhabited by a bunch or multi centenarians, on the other hand poor countries are overpopulated by youngsters.

Since World War 2 this has been the trend, not people living that much longer, but average & median ages diverging widely.

American, German, British, Japanese, Russian, Italian WW2 participants are finally almost completely gone. Their descendants of these participants as a group skew older than the general populations which are trending less youthful than developing countries overall.

Remember these entire countries (their population at the time) participated, not just the warfighters, that's one reason they call it a World War.

So these older-populated countries still have a significant cohort whose fathers & grandfathers were the participants in WW2, and the legacy of the devastation was not forgotten by as many generations since then compared to developing countries. Some of whom had much smaller percentages of WW2 participants to begin with, and now it's largely their great-grandfathers & great-great-grandfathers.

Seems to me those are the ones most likely to start WW3. In recent decades some have known more intense fighting than there actually was in their location during WW2 anyway.

>In the post industrial countries their minuscule pool of young people have no chance to dislodge entrenched old people who have the power.

It could be worse, you could have a teenage monarch, then you'd have to wait a really long time before you could expect a royal change.

>they should have the opportunity to shape their society in their time without obstructionist old timers.

This is so important to youthful accomplishment, the sooner people can have a society more suitable for its time, the better off everyone would be. Especially young people with a long future ahead of them, it's amazing what you can accomplish in a few short decades if you start early.

Fortunately not all old timers are obstructionist, but it does tend to be a technique for seeking & holding on to undue legacy power, and they're the ones with the most time for consolidation.
I did back when I had time for pet projects. It's a really nicely designed language where things generally make sense together yet remain clearly separated, once you get over the initial hump.

Granted, it's still a low-level language so I would use it for things close to the system or where performance and/or resource usage matters, and not quick prototyping. So think more along the lines of "alternative to C, Go, Rust, D, Java, C#" and not "alternative to Python, ECMAScript, Perl, Clojure, F#".
Kernighan wrote about the limitations of Pascal in "Why Pascal Is Not My Favorite Programming Language": https://www.lysator.liu.se/c/bwk-on-pascal.html

Note, however, that he wrote this in 1981; these days, when someone speaks of Pascal, they usually speak of a dialect based on Turbo or Object Pascal, which appeared in 1983 at the earliest and address many of Kernighan's concerns.

tl;dr the Pascal of the 1970s was a lot rougher than the Pascal you probably know.
Shouldn't those versions be compared to C++ though?
printf '\a'

or if you want to display a MacOS notification

function alert {
osascript -e 'display notification "'"$1"'"'
}
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And setup ads biddings, customized to you...
There's a good black mirror episode that sorta covers this : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smithereens_(Black_Mirror)

Is it the drivers fault?
Is it the company that put them in a situation which makes it more than likely to happen?
Is it big tech fault's for systematically addicting people to dopamine and nudging them into the belief that they can successfully multi-task without problem?

There are a couple of open questions for me :
Did Uber take the proper care to train and onboard this person and make it clear that their role was to be attentive at all times?
Why did they disable the built-in autostop without a back-up?
Why was there no system monitoring and alerting on the attentiveness of the driver? - This is surely easier in comparison to a fully automated vehicle.

I wonder whether if instead of checking a mobile phone, she had been distracted by lighting a cigarette how would this change the case?

These are the types of legal grey zones we will see more and more of with increasing automation of transport, weapons etc.

My own opinion is that ultimate culpability is with all three parties.
Hi,
Thanks for reading my post.
I would like to clarify that we have two different distinction when it comes to wastage.
One is the 'food wastage' (that I talk about) which happens at the end of the food chain.
Second is the 'food loss' that you mentioned above (supply chain wastage)

My major focus was on the food wastage in restaurants/cafes.
I hope this clarifies. Thank you.
Just let the distributions maintainers do their job. That's how you get a quality user-centered software distribution.
I've recently done a few things around dithering, and found this site good to experiement:

https://ditherit.com/

It's open source:
https://github.com/alexharris/ditherit-v2
Seems like the gains in pallete information is wasted in precise placement of pixels for dithering. Net loss IMHO, except for naive formats like bitmap.
Interesting nevertheless but I guess we could do better by optimizing against the storage format. But then we are at the state-of-the-art
Embarrassing product names averted: Windows Embedded POS