skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FaunaDB appears to have some kind of transaction support[1], so atomic updates of the sort you mention seem feasible. That said, I'm a huge SQL partisan, and I'd much rather talk to a SQL database than this custom thing.

https://docs.fauna.com/fauna/current/concepts/isolation_leve...
Historians say: the "argument that Konrad Zuse's 1943 Z3 computer was universal was an impressive party trick, but diverged entirely from the way the machine was designed, how it was actually used, or indeed from anything that would have made sense in the 1940s... To us, the real lesson of his analysis is that the Z3 could have been Turing complete with only minor design changes, but that it wasn't because the concept and its benefits were not yet widely understood."

I agree with that analysis and think Turing-completeness is overrated.
> But they are still buying it and still taking the risk that it won't sell.

I don't know about Costco, but the big box stores don't carry any risk. If the product doesn't sell then they return it and deduct that off your next invoice. The same happens for a customer return.

Depending on the retailer/product category you might get charged slotting fees, pay-to-stay, plus a share of promotional costs[1]. There are also other fees for use of distribution centers, discounts for paying early (even if it's not early), fees (or extended terms) for slow-moving products, and so on.

"Owning the items" feel less correct than "borrowing items with a promise to pay".

[1] https://traxretail.com/blog/quick-guide-shelf-space-costs/
3.3s here. Is it faster on your system?
I'm so downvoted here it takes ages for me to reply.

Frankly - I have ideas, but I don't know. You should do your own research and see what you find. In fact, I would suggest that everyone does their own research to confirm or deny what they are presented as truth. As techies here, we should be good at debugging the world right?

All the best.
The government has created this stressful event with it's actions.

The government can end this stressful event anytime it chooses.

As much as I appreciate yet another article telling me what to do, how to behave, and why I am wrong how about we take a step back and look at the fundamentals.

There would be no "challenge" without the government's foolish rules.
Although I get the point of dynamic linking (security, size...), I still prefer CLI to be written in a language that enable you to easilly build a static binary such as Go, Rust. IMO, the benefit of static binary is that I can literally using wget, mv, scp or other tools to move them to other machine and expect them to just work. To install a binary (not provided by my distro) locally, I only need to copy the result binary into my `~/.local/bin` and it simply works.
No, didn't know they were still a thing.
As far as I can make out, "blue ammonia" is a novel marketing term referring to synthesis process in creating NH3 ammonia chemically-identical to existing (now labled "green") processes (presumably Haber-Bosch). Bloomberg's article is exceedingly poor at clarifying this.

IBTimes (referenced by several others) ha the clearest definition I can find:

Ammonia contains about 18% hydrogen by weight, which gives it an advantage over fossil fuels as it releases no carbon dioxide when combusted in a thermal power plant. Blue ammonia is ammonia used as feedstock to make blue hydrogen, which is essentially hydrogen made from fossil fuels through a process that captures and stores the carbon dioxide produced rather than release it into the atmosphere. In the emerging ammonia economy, while blue ammonia is considered a first-generation fuel, green ammonia is considered second-generation.

https://www.ibtimes.com/what-blue-ammonia-saudi-arabia-makes...

Neither Wikipedia nor Google Scholar provide any evident sources.

My read is that KSA have succeeded in converting conventional hydrocarbon fossil fuels to a carbon-neutral form, which would presumably un-strand some portion of the 40 or so gigatons of remaining proved oil reserves, about $2 trillion in assets ($50/bbl assumed, very rough numbers).

As a widespread (transport) fuel ammonia has numerous disadvantages, being both caustic and lethal when inhaled at even modest concentrations.
Software Engineer seems a pretty safe choice.
As someone else said, as an employee my goals align better with investors than with bootstrap founders. I want good salary and equity that will grow rapidly in value and be liquid in reasonable time. I also want some reasonable measure that my equity is in fact growing in value. Even if the company doesn't go liquid in reasonable time with outside investors the chance of them being able to buy my stake at fair market value is decent.
SSL Server Test – Qualys SSL Labs
One super interesting startup in this sector: https://www.labtwin.com/ they completely automated lab reporting and made it voice-first
Reversible Dynamics with CTCs and Freedom of Choice
The study that the news is talking about. They're saying it proves time travel, perhaps someone more knowledgeable than me can confirm it.
But supporting Ubers tax evasion and exploitation of workers is then.
I've only ever spent time in (smaller) cities (Reykjavik, Gothenburg) during the winter and I have to say that with the sun very low even during the day SNOW was what made it bearable. The light (even street lights) reflecting off fresh white snow made it much brighter during daylight and less dismal even at night. This was made clear when I arrived in the afternoon just before a snow and began to despair arriving at a hotel, but woke to fresh snow in the morning and enjoyed quite a long day even into evening walking home through well lit white streets.
I am in Chicago and am taking a similar approach. Currently have an exercise bike on back order that's suppose to become available in a few weeks. Have no interest in going back to a gym, and I need something to keep me active this winter.

Bigger problem is gatherings. I already have family talking about Christmas and they just dont understand that things aren't going to be the same this year.
That quote not being true aside, john carmack seems to be focusing much more on interactivity instead of mixing so much passive entertainment into a game just because it is newly possible.

I think he was absolutely right and it is impressive that he didn't get distracted from the what made video games desirable just because there were new possibilities.
I actually got burned recently with something like this. The recruiter advertised the job as 100% remote except on the off-chance I need to go to the datacenter "which should be never, except during emergencies". So I was fine with the roughly 15% pay cut.

Turns out they have a monthly deployment after midnight Sunday AM where I needed to be, and in the 1st month the director basically said, oh by the way, after covid we'll need you to be in an office we're setting up there, and didn't even offer to renegotiate salary.

Wow, bait and switch. If the fit hadn't been so horrible I might have stayed if they took me up on a salary adjustment but needless to say, I got out of there as soon as I could.

Jerks.
Who knows what kind of 3d chess is going on behind the scenes. If they extradite without appeal, that would be problematic.
I come to keyboards from a slightly different background. I am missing a couple of fingers, on my left hand two fingers and one thumb can reach keys, on my right hand three fingers and a thumb can. I never learned "home-row" typing or any other fixed method, but I can comfortably touch type above 60 words per minute. This is a point of pride for me.

I resisted the idea of split keyboards for quite a while because my right hand, with its greater dexterity, was responsible for more than half of my typing efforts. However, I got one last year (Kinesis gaming, tented, wrist rests, MX Blues). It actually helped me retrain my typing to be more evenly distributed between my two hands.

Later, when I was transcribing interviews for my book, I was typing for hours at 40-50 words per minute. I started out doing this on my laptop, but I got substantial hand pain from doing so. I started only transcribing in my dorm room, where I had access to the split keyboard, and it fixed everything. One day I typed more than 9,000 words without pain.

In summary, the benefits of ergonomic/split keyboards are real.
Curious, why does it matter if your paycheck comes from VC money or revenue money? In the end the same amount comes to your bank account.
Similarly, LWN.net allows subscribers to share links to individual articles with non-subscribers. (I don't know if LWN.net has a limit, but non-subscriber links to articles are often submitted here on HN.)
Ask HN: Where are the good static site themes
One of the impressive things about WordPress is the ecosystem of high-quality templates like Elemetor, Divi, and Oxygen that have democratized website building to non-developers. Given the issues of security and performance, we would like to avoid WordPress.

I am unable to find a similar vibrancy of themes for static sites. Forestry.io showcases (https://forestry.io/showcase/), some beautiful websites as examples of what can be done. However, I cannot find themes that can be picked up and built like the showcased examples, without hand-coding or going through an agency to create similar high-quality static sites. For example, JAMstack themes (https://jamstackthemes.dev/) has some templates, but most of them lack quality and finesse.

Any help on where one can find good quality static site templates?
My manager was forced to go help his family in a foreign country for a month and they fired him before he returned. They did this almost routinely (and still do from those I speak to) to people who had to take time off. It’s a highly political and backstabby kind of place. It’s the only company in SV I’ve worked at (been at more than half of FAANG) where yelling matches were not uncommon in meetings. The culture slide deck was mocked internally especially for how many brilliant jerks were kept on payroll.

Oh and to top it off, the company is mostly Hollywood production people by sheer number nowadays. The focus of the company has veered so far from technology I doubt its a great engineering culture anymore. Internally they boasted they would become HBO before HBO could become them, but who the hell wants to be HBO? Quite the turn off. There were many of these.
bc calculator doesn't (or didn't) define pi, but has atan. I've used "4*atan(1) method" in bc to get pi.
>It demonstrates what can happen when you're on top but fail to innovate.

Sun did innovate, they didn't capitalize.
What Is BIMI Record?
No, was hoping a non-cryptographic checksum would be faster. Perhaps cksum isn't the one.

Edit: "sum -s" is faster for me, but the man page doesn't give much info on what the algorithm is.
Amazon Prime Video was this before fbrh got into streaming original content a la Netflix
That's different, and the actual transaction doesn't occur as you describe.

The stores had already paid for the magazines, books, etc. When they returned the physical media to the manufacturer, it was because the manufacturer accepts and destroys them or attempts to resale them to discount retailers. The manufacturer usually rebates the stores for the returns because they want the stores to keep buying from them, but this usually comes in the form of rebates/discounts on new inventory purchases, not as refunds on the returned products.
Really? Would love to hear more!
you meet many bankrupt people on luxury cruises and first class airline tickets?

What's astonishing to me is how we in the West have created this metaphysical alternative reality where poor people are taught to think they have the chance to live in mansions or fly on luxury airlines, if it weren't for the fact that they're poor, of course.

In contrast to the cruel Chinese, we also have majestic legal equality, where the millionaires and the poor are equally punished for sleeping on park benches
False, Equifax does not have access to all of facebook chat records.

China has access to WeChat.
in the name of "safety" and "national security".

And, paradoxically enough, in the name of suppression of foreign interference.
Not so. In some states, engineer is a protected term.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_engineer#United_State...

edit I may have been mistaken and the word engineer itself may be non-protected, but the term software engineer specifically is protected in Florida:

http://www.leg.state.fl.us/Statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Displ...
iOS browser app with support for Google Stadia
Nothing is stopping you, even if you don't run any kind of GUI session: https://github.com/Sweets/tiramisu
The article is talking about GNU coreutils. If this article was talking about how Docker behaves, I'd hope the article would refer to it as "Docker" rather than "Linux".
See, I feel silly calling myself a "software engineer" - it sounds like "sanitation engineer" or "domestic engineer" to me. I always say programmer or software developer.
Why? Its not like bus lanes are exactly overflowing with traffic would you ban cyclists from bus lanes as well.
Ah. It looks there are supports that I didn't see in some of the animations, but it still looks like the feet do contact the ground.
When Cramer coined the FAANG acronym, Netflix was included. That group of companies was grouped together by investors due to their performance and marked dominance at the time, which has by and large continued.

In addition to their stock price, these companies also pay very well. In fact, if you are lucky to get an offer from Netflix, their aim is to pay you and keep you at "top of personal market". That is, they do not believe anyone will pay you more in total comp. Netflix does mostly, if not all, base salary as opposed to equity grants.

From all my friend in FAANG, this has seemed to be true, Netflix employees make more than anyone else I know in tech.
The coprocessor uses 80-bit floats, that’s more than double precision. It even has a special instruction, fldpi, to get π in the full precision: https://www.felixcloutier.com/x86/fld1:fldl2t:fldl2e:fldpi:f...
Ever been threatened with a lawsuit by an Angel with full time counsel at their disposal because you haven’t hit revenue targets in year one?

Ever had that investor write up a pedantic missive about your startup to mock their own investment?

Hostile investors are real and awful. Shielding startups from toxic money is a thing.
Yeah. Hackneys weren't great, but ubiquitous and convenient in London (even if it was like travelling in blender).

Mini cabs were/are ass, in every UK city, and they deserved to get disrupted.

And the net effect is that the whole market had to compete for it's market share again, which meant a better experience for the customer overall.

I laugh when I encounter a super local minicab service that has maybe a half dozen drivers, you book them by phone, radios them to go to pickups and still only take cash. Who are ordering these jalopies? Meanwhile, anyone serious has an app, contactless payment/prepayment and real time ETA. Much better.
I have an irrational reverence for my moderately modded PocketCHIP and pull it out every few months, but the keyboard is just truly awful. This is possibly a spiritual successor https://www.tindie.com/products/arturo182/keyboard-featherwi...
The point is that the allocator CAN BE specified at call time for the entire stdlib.

And it doesn’t have to be just one allocator either, you can easily use multiple allocators simultaneously.
Amber Brown: Batteries Included, but They're Leaking (2019)
I have memorized 3.1415926 which is better than 1ppm and have been overkill for every practical use I ever had in my life.
> if 60 second short videos were ideologically useful

A single 60 second video is not materially useful. But steady repetitive exposure to the same or similar messaging videos, is the foundation of TV advertising. There is likely some useful weaponization in there somewhere when the videos can be made without the assistance of a Madison Avenue crew and contract, and the consumers are pecking at the screen for more videos for long stretches of time like a pigeon in a psychology experiment.

Someone is going to try something to achieve controlled/directed opinion shaping with that kind of mass population behavior in a relatively regulation-free context compared to conventional centralized media. It has to be too tempting a centralized target to leave alone. Opinion shaping in these channels already is being attempted commercially. I'd like to hear from domain experts whether the metrics bear out such efforts actually work in the commercial sector, and if other domain experts in politics and defense think such experience warrants those sectors dabbling in making their own attempts.
I saw it as dead at first (which was weird considering how on-topic it was), but it's showing up as "alive" now.
I think this is a problem not just for the lab community but for digital tools in general. There really isn't a good single app for doing many different styles of thinking and representation (text, drawings, formulas, tables, photos), organizing those things, and sharing them. Many apps get part of that problem right, but not all of them.
An interesting questions is - did Uber coming on the scene drive that change, or was it already in the pipeline?
Transracial adoption: 'I've been accused of kidnapping my white child'
Even some of the best quality scanners mimic this technique
Same old same old.
"Our systems have been compromised for a long time. How did this happen?"
Is this just storing data in memory and querying it with SQL?

I use DynamoDB Data Mapper in production (https://github.com/awslabs/dynamodb-data-mapper-js) - would be cool to see something like this for SQL. Effectively define a class with TS decorators to automatically generate tables and columns.
I think of technologist as being a term for anyone who works to develop new technologies, which would include the folks at AMD working on CPU designs, but wouldn't include typical web developers.

Of course, in reality it's a rather fuzzy term.
I've been using Microsoft Natural keyboards for 20 years now.

I used to suffer terribly with RSI from years of typing on crappy keyboards, with bad posture and not enough breaks.

The Microsoft Natural keyboard has been good to me - I haven't had RSI twinges for 10 years or so now!

I'm typing this on a Microsoft Natural Keyboard Pro which Wikipedia says was introduced in June 1999 - round about the time I got it. I wish it wasn't white as it really shows the dirt, but the media buttons are the best!

I've got two and I switched to the backup recently as my main one got really dirty and I haven't had time to clean it.

The MS Natural 4000 is very good too - I had one of those at work for over 10 years. I did wear the legends off but hey - who needs to see what key you are pressing anyway! Just don't press F-lock by accident as you'll be wondering for ages why your function keys aren't working.

I like the front stand of the 4000 to put the keyboard up a bit at the front. It is very good for encouraging good posture.

(The other thing I did to help with RSI is switch hands with the mouse. It took quite a long time to get used to using the mouse with the left hand but it really made a difference as my right wrist was worse than my left wrist. I'm now ambidextrous with the mouse - the only thing I can't do is draw with the mouse with my left hand!)
Hope your wife gets through this soon and gets better.
Unless you're talking to an FE/PE from another engineering field. In their mind you're nothing resembling an engineer.

Also, if they are Canadian they might get their goose feathers extra ruffled. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_engineer#Canada
Ar a private citizen do you believe that you're going to be unmolested by the US govt over your speech (and let's say there are a 100 statements test which include all kinds of speech) vs Norwegian govt?
It's terrible that the argument here that there are no 10x engineers hinges almost entirely on a single anecdote. Whether or not there exist engineers who are order of magnitudes more valuable is debatable (I lean towards yes) but defending point of view through non-rigorous perceptions is where all sorts of false beliefs originate.
Well in that case the problem isn't "working from home", its "working from this particular home which isn't setup in any way for success". Its not reasonable to expect everyone to have a living situation setup to accommodate working from home given the way the current situation was thrust upon them, but its just an unreasonable to judge the efficacy of working from home based on those same people's experiences. Its equivalent to removing all the desks and furniture from an office and then basing your assessment on the ensuing disaster.
Maybe we need an adjusted Hanlon's razor. "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by a combination of an indifference to ethics and corrupted capitalistic incentives."
Yes. I was fortunate to be in YC W19. It was transformational for our company. Should I be fortunate enough to start another company, I would do it again, even though I now have access to the YC network of investors. I can't recommend it enough.
Well, getting "weird results" is one particularly strong hint that the incremental build is not, in fact, correct. Weird linker errors, or better yet, weird resulting binaries. "I've just changed this routine and built the app, but when I run it the behaviour is the same?.. <attaches gdb> WTF, it has the old version of the routine! kill, q, make clean && make && gdb run, ah, now it works. Apparently, computers are haunted by the angry ghosts".
> A standard US credit score system may seem to be similar, but there are some important differences:

Also:

- it's limited in scope to financial accounts.

The end goal of the Chinese system appears to be to rate you on nearly every aspect of your life, which is quite different.
I hated that I couldn't find a good, split, long travel (mechanical) keyboard so I built my own. It was a fun, if expensive, learning experience. I use it every day (right now even) so it's worth it.

https://miker.org/building-a-better-keyboard/
Pedestrians generally have right of way. Singapore is pretty exceptional in this. Further, loads of Asian countries are pretty poor safety wise. I don't think a comparison to other Asian countries is beneficial. Singapore probably also benefits that owning a car is quite expensive, plus sort of ok public transport (a bus is terribly slow though!). Singapore still heavily favours a car. A public transport ride can be easily 2x-3x the time as a car trip.

From your link:
> Elderly pedestrians accounted for two-thirds of all pedestrian fatalities. (1 in 2 accidents involving elderly pedestrians was due to jaywalking)

Singapore does seem safe in a deaths/100k comparison. There's some EU figures where the best country does about ~20/million (so around ~2.0/100k). Singapore has 2.2/100k.

Things such as "jaywalking" is not a thing in loads of countries.

Also, the traffic lights are horrendous. You need to wait way too long. See e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knbVWXzL4-4 for various examples of way quicker lights.
along with its companion Horse Doctor Come Quick, suitable for the 2020 wave of self-prescriptions.
But you also had the option to go out and buy the day's newspaper yourself. Maybe I don't want a subscription, but you can't buy a "day pass" online for like $2 either. Sure that's about half a weekly subscription to the NYTimes, but I don't have to commit (and have to remember to cancel) a subscription.
‘Trojan horse’ treatment makes cancer self-destruct without use of drugs
Agreed re bugs. Netflix runs consistently more smoothly than many streaming competitors, and it really makes a difference. It's much easier to watch a slightly worse show on Netflix and at times I'm willing to make that tradeoff just for the reliability of the app.
Techniques to Avoid Cloud Lock-In
Sounds horrible. But I guess the fat paychecks are worth it to some.