skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We really ought to start officially standardizing the English language

"Standardising a language" never works. Prescriptivism rarely does because languages are living things and evolve no matter how many rules you throw at them.

> untangling the current written mess

Reforming the written language, however, is quite a possibility, and is often a good thing, because it actually follows a language's evolution rather than pretending that rigid rules reflect reality.
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and according to their website....

> Coming soon

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Flutter is similarly building a canvas based rendering system for the web, called CanvasKit.

I think it's neat that folks can skip the conventional web technologies & hypertext & use the web to create arbitrary systems. But I also think this is quite a malignant & user-de-empowering & tragic development for the web. The DOM has been extremely powerful as a common language, that users can make use of directly & via extensions & scrapers. Stealing this fire back from the users, renegging on the web's promise that it's the user's agent, for them to use to navigate the web as they like: that's a great & sad regression.

In my opinion the web is worthwhile & useful. Bypassing it, treating the web like thin-client, a way to push pixels in people's face, via some auxiliary rendering process, be it local (webassembly) or remote, is a terrible usurpation of user's agency. Projects like Flutter's CanvasKit & others are a great danger to one of the few piece of technology that has enabled users some level of control & freedom, the web.
Again bad snuck premise. If you leave your PC at Geek Squad there is a standard legal clause that states if you do not pick up the item within a certain amount of time then it becomes their property. Being that it is their property they can choose to dispose of it or do whatever they want with it, including reading the information and sharing it.

Geek squad is not a warehouse nor do they want the burden of holding the equipment indefinitely. This is common practice across almost all goods services such as laundry, shoe repair, instrument repair, etc. There’s an overwhelming legal precedence in this case. In this case the shop owner attempted to return the equipment several times but no response was heard, therefore the standard contract clause(s) are executed.

I think where you’re struggling is you’re confusing your emotions, clearly you don’t like this outcome, with legality. Feelings are not facts.

I could cite a whole bunch of legal jargon and cases to utterly destroy your weak argument, but I’ll have mercy keep it high level like above.

I won’t be responding to further comments because we both know you’re just pouting here and you got some free legal education on my dime.
IDK really. Income correlates to a lot of stuff though, and that makes measuring complicated. A lot of high earning jobs are also intellectually stimulating, high status, high power, etc. Those are the jobs people may do regardless.

For his part, I believe Keynes asked (poor) people at what salary they would work less and also observed the "leisure class" of his day.

For my part, I think the "cost of thriving index" is a good starting point. For most people it's $X plus the amount needed to they buy a house, car, pay tuitions, healthcare, etc.. If you add up all these "basic" expenses, the "cost of thriving" has far outpaced official inflation and even median salary.
So write it out in long form, maybe pitch it to one of the magazines. Them you use twitter so summarize with a few meaty parts.

The headline Tweet is good enough for an article in some NT or Vice or w/w.

But like I said better to have the
It's probably too late to start now. Those dialects are now considered part of the culture and if you tried to standardize them out you'll be accused of cultural whitewashing.
LOL..I knew the folks here would hate that. Seriously though, the idea that the Atlantic and balanced takes, particularly within the last few years can be used in the same sentence un-ironically is indeed a joke.
Windows Calculator Runs on Linux
Linux uses a lot of kernel threads (as well as a lot of code which runs on application threads). It's pretty synchronous in style for the most part.
They aren't many (most of it is closed source). The one package that is used a stupid amount is the Biopython package. Most synthetic biologists I know are pretty much only trained in python (because bioinformatics), so use that package religiously.

As examples of closed source software that there aren't good open source alternatives to, see Benchling and SnapGene. No good plasmid editors are open source and hackable.
I'm assuming English isn't your first language? Don't feel too bad - I see mistakes in native speaker's writings on a daily basis.
People naturally operate more socialistically on a familial and friend basis. Perhaps, when we were more dependent on our local community for goods, services, protection, etc. we were more willing to extend this boundary further, but this is not our current economic/social order.
Can you explain the market for this? Is this meant to be a consumer-driven replacement to (predatory) chains like Rent-a-Center?
Your company expects that you follow along the deliveries, setting quality standards, making sure the team has the support they need and upper management the feedback they need.

This part seemed a little weakly worded to me. An engineering manager should make sure their team gets things done. It isn't enough to "follow along the deliveries".

Sometimes that is things like setting standards and communicating. But it's also things like firing underperformers and hiring for open headcount. It's making sure you have enough budget and support from other teams to get the job done. Whatever it takes. It isn't enough to say "Well, communication was great, I gave the team a lot of support, but we didn't make very much progress."
>Why did Fairchild have to choose its epicenter as a one dimensional strip of land between mountains and bay with nowhere to physically expand to?

Possibly because the 8 engineers that formed Fairchild defected from Shockley Semiconductor. William Shockley chose that area to start a company partly because his ailing mother lived there.[1]

Another contributing reason was a Navy Research center was in the Bay area so the military was an eager buyer of the latest semiconductor technology.

The seeds of a few players starts a "business cluster".[2] Similar phenomenon as movie industry concentrated in Los Angeles. Country music in Nashville. Finance/fashion/publishing in New York.

I don't think COVID in combination with better telecommuting technology like Zoom will disperse business clusters as some think. It definitely will enable more remote collaboration but the concentration of business clusters will still remain.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shockley#Shockley_Semi...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_cluster
I spend most of my time on a computer with a 4790K and 32 GB of ram. There, admittedly, I don’t have any performance issues—but that’s because I have a ridiculous amount of overhead for something like Slack!

I sometimes use lower-end machines to test stuff, like a 2011 Macbook Air with 4GB of memory. There, I have all manner of problems—the fans spin up, and the whole Slack interface becomes extremely slow to respond. Simple things like changing channels and loading threads take seconds at a time.

These computers are inherently slower by modern standards, but there’s simply no reason Slack should require so many system resources!
To an extent we can compare with less developed countries where it's still possible to buy the equivalent of a 1960 education or 1990 healthcare.
Oh my, there've been so many stories over the years. One bookcase is 8' X 5' with double rows on each shelf. And there are others.

The Pluto-war story might have been part of a series, that's all I remember.
It is incredibly courageous for Cruise to test this in SF. Perhaps the less crowded streets in SF is a good opportunity, but there are some tough street intersections to navigate. One example is the Townsend and 8th street roundabout near the Zynga office. It is a hodgepodge of cars, bikes, scooters, pedestrians all entering the roundabout at the same time. If there are any Cruise folks here, I am super interested in hearing their thoughts on handling an intersection like that. Also, SF has massively expanded biking infrastructure with quick builds throughout. These are incredibly well striped road, but you have to pay attention when the bike lane merges, especially while making right turns. I want to learn more on how Cruise can handle that
For this particular data and on my machine, that was certainly the case! I've been shown other benchmark results (such as this one: https://h2oai.github.io/db-benchmark/) that demonstrate otherwise. I'm not really sure what to make of it - maybe try more cases?

One possible explanation I could think of is that Pandas support for Parquet is pretty good compared to data.table and Julia. I've been asked to split the read/write part and the groupby-agg part for a more complete picture. I'll be sure to work on that in the coming weeks.

Another hypothesis by u/joinr about why Pandas performs better in the smaller dataset:

"I wonder if there's some default column size allocation that happens up front for the 2^6 case that helps prevent growth in pandas, and maybe the hueristic falls down a little as the dataset gets larger leading to more resizing."
We’re not as divided as we think we are
You must use a different Slack than I do, because I use nothing but the browser client and have had zero issues like this or the parent comment. Get up in arms about the outages, because that’s a bit more justified, but this feels a bit contrived?
Pixel 5’s new Google Recorder app starts rolling out with new editing features
From a sample size PoV, 12 does not even matter, because they are looking for specific phyisiological responses and correlations. Its also good that they don't have a causal hypothesis statement:

> These results could have important implications for the treatment of conditions associated with excessive or persistent inflammation, such as autoimmune diseases.

Because there are a lot of confounds in making causal inferences. I hope they will they do a larger N study..
I would recommend backing up with Google Photos and Backblaze.

For a local storage, I would invest in a hard drive. This way, you have two cloud copies for every local copy.

Family pictures are really really important, you will look back on these 10 years later and smile when you come across these again.
None of that refutes the comment you are responding to.

The suspected drug dealer did have a weapons charge, and the baby was placed in the way of the the front door of his residence.
> Cuba

An island nation that the most powerful country in the world has been trying to cripple economically for half a century.

> Ecuador

A country with a smaller GDP than that majority of US states.

These are probably not good or representative examples of how this would work writ large.
It is much more than just saliva.
It's very worth remembering that the abundance of Silicon Valley is fragile, and temporary. But I think many articles surmising that the peak is now have the timescale wrong.

I'd compare Silicon Valley to Detroit with a century time lag. The American automotive industry started in the 1890s, just like the Internet industry started in the 1990s. Like the Internet, it built off a constellation of related technologies that had been under development for 30-40 years. The automobile industry was built on the iron mines in Duluth, coal mines in Appalachia, petroleum industry in Ohio, steelworks in Pennsylvania, and Great Lakes transportation infrastructure that had been setup throughout the 19th century. The Internet was built on software from Boston; microcomputers from Albuquerque, Austin, and Houston; an OS from Redmond; semiconductors from Oregon; and so on.

In 1910, the population of Detroit was 465,000. It had nearly doubled from 285,000 in the previous decade, fueled both by international migrants looking for then-high wages and Black migration fleeing persecution in the rest of the U.S. (sound familiar?). The auto industry was well established, with Model-T production in its heyday. Supplier networks were already starting to grow up around the big-3 automakers.

But Detroit's population didn't peak until 1950, at quadruple its 1910 population. In between, Detroit would be key to winning two World Wars, and the automobile would fundamentally reshape society. Most of the growth happened between 1932-1960, and only after key government & societal infrastructure changed to be built around the automobile rather than the automobile serving as a luxury novelty for Gilded Age technorati.

Eventually Silicon Valley will end up like Detroit, with abandoned 4-over-1 condo complexes and empty office parks where the software industry once stood. But we've got a while to go. We haven't had our war yet, and the basic infrastructure of society - transportation, legal, military, government, etc - is still based on pre-electronic conceptions.
How many of these examples are just perception of a rosier past?

The "everything is getting worse" narrative ignores substantial improvements in life expectancy, literacy, health, yes, and even homelessness. Homelessness is down over the past decade [0]. So yes, many of these things actually are getting better.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homelessness_in_the_United_Sta...
How would you design a scenario where the subject makes a truly random choice?
>What services are costing more now outside of healthcare?

Infrastructure. Our (USA) costs are COMPLETETLY OUTRAGIOUS compared to the global standard. We're talking multiples.

Things like the gateway project in NJ/NYC cost 4x what they should for a crappier outcome.
But this isn't a VPN, it's just a glorified p2p "residential proxy" service (only forwards HTTP/S traffic and optionally DNS). And when you run this you become an exit node for other people. Scary stuff.
I think what Trump did was run a far more efficient campaign in terms of what his money provided in the media. He was able to to leverage free publicity by aligning his personality with the incentives of the attention economy.

Thanks for clarifying on the "neither" issue. I would be an advocate of a "none of the above" vote option. In my mind, it does much as the same as if people voted third party. I wasn't equivocating a third party vote to a protest vote. At a certain point, when the percentage of third party votes reaches a certain tipping point those who feel like it's a wasted vote may be convinced it's a viable option. But I also think there are other (possibly more pragmatic) voting schemes like ranked voting that are being implemented at lower levels in the country.

I would be strongly against mandatory voting and I think it could make the system even worse. I think it's important to recognize that you also have the right not to vote just like you have the right not to own a firearm, have the right not to speak up even though you have the freedom of speech etc. A "right" is not equivalent to an "obligation". I think there's issues with uninformed votes as it is and this could be exacerbated by mandatory voting. Sometimes the appropriate choice is to refrain from voting rather than casting an uninformed vote.
The highway tunnel was failed execution. Between using the largest boring machine ever built and feeding multiple steel well-casings into the cutter-head of said machine, the errors were of engineering and management.
This is not a new phenomenon. This sounds like a rehashing of Systemantics by John Gall (1975), except attributing the causes to things the author sees as problematic rather than recognizing that these are problems inherent in complex systems. "Systems tend to oppose their own proper functions"
I'm just going to go ahead and threadjack here with a CDN question since the article isn't all that informative.

What's the best way to utilize a service like Cloudfront or Cloudflare when you need low latency access to static files that aren't getting a lot of traffic? I'd pay more for a service that lets me serve 12kb-10MB files with <50ms latency on Cloudflare edge nodes but some of them are only going to be accessed once a day or less. My understanding is that most of the time these files would just fall out of the edge cache. There'd still be the advantage of going through Cloudflare/Cloudfront's private network but I'm still going to be limited by S3's latency.
I think the postmodern intellectual narratives are breaking it all in the West. The denial of objective truth, the rise of moral relativism, the notions about expressing the individual via many group identities, etc. It's a demoralizing view of life that is far-reaching in our contemporary culture. Even if you look at architecture, design and urban planning, you can find bits of that "wisdom" everywhere.
You have that exactly backwards: the tunnel was a fixed price design-build contract and somehow the courts held it to the original price (still $1billion more than fixing the viaduct, the benefits which accrue to private land owners downtown). The light rail was originally going to be to the University District by 2006. Ridership wasn't even close to original predictions. It's slow and will never replace more than a small fraction of traffic by design; the stations are too small, the area around them isn't zoned dense enough to bring in more more people, and there are no express bypasses so it will always be slow.
You write this in jest, but realistically if one were designing a language and wanted to maximize for certain attributes (ease of spelling!), English ain't the language they would develop.
This is the "playback code" you generate for one of the sounds:

// import Gen from 'wasgen'
// var gen = new Gen()
gen.play([
{type:"n0", gain:{a:0.027,h:0,d:0.013,s:0.45,r:0.054}},
{type:"bandpass", freq:{t:2,p:0.4,q:0.01},Q:0.8},
], 999, 1, gen.now(), gen.now() + 0.084)

This is structurally extremely isomorphic to SC or Chuck etc., and could become more powerful if it was SC with a WebAudio backend for output.

I know what the differences are - I've worked in this field for 20 years. I was just trying to give you a gentle smiley faced nudge to jump in on a "better" version of what you've already done in order to Make The World A Better Place.

Really :)
Weird caterpillars that look like toupees are turning up all over Virginia
Yeah, it's difference between efficient vs robust. Totalitarism might be more efficient short term but long term it will be set back much more. It just places too much responsibility/power on too few. You might get lucky or might not.

Problem with democracy is that it's susceptible to neocolonialism(bribery, power and economic diff, dissinformation, non-competive local market), that's why I guess all Asian economic miracles happened with good faith authoritarian government and with good geopolitical location that allowed them to close market without wars.

This would suggest that having big country nearby powerful neighbours is not a good place to be, which brings India to my mind. Wonder how it will turn out. On the other hand Canada and Mexico are doing quite fine.
I expect big changes on governance when most of the world catches up od when we get fusion.
Fair enough. Who/what organizations do you trust then for public health and covid related recommendations?
This is so true in software development. Everything in software these days are about; "how do i avoid doing any work?" No one implements anything, they just use what someone else has written. Nobody wants to learn of understand how things really work. Nobody cares how well something is written. We write single threaded applications in interpreted languages that could literally fun 1000x faster on the CPUs we have (add a few zeros of you add the GPU).

So often when I talk to programmers they excuse their code with "Its just a toy implementation", "Our customers dont need all the features", "its fast enough", "we can re-implement it later". Rule one if you avoid failure: Aspire to be good.

Why are we fetishizing mediocracy? Why are so few people aiming to implement things on the beading edge? Why are we trying to avoid anything that is hard?
My suggestion is that the project should be open source, like Electorn or RN, otherwise will be hard to get adoption.

Revenue streams ideas:
1. Build a deployment tool, where you take care of building the apps for the different OS, basically bridge the gap from code to final binary
2. Offer support / consulting hours "from the experts"
3. Force some kind of ad/watermark/screen on the app where you can see the name of the project and website. In order to remove this you will need a key or build the project using the service I described in point 1.

Happy to chat and discuss in more details. Good luck!
> "I gave up on sheet music altogether and started working off lead sheets instead..."

I've not taken the plunge yet, but I was convinced this was the way to learn by Scott the Piano guy infomercial on TV.
https://youtu.be/k50uk8elR0M

Some day...
Nim is my mistress. I work with Elixir and Javascript, but something about Nim is so pure and exact and precise. I love it.

I'm hoping someone builds a great web framework with it, and a library like Ecto for better postgresql access. This language great potential to build faster software.
More oxygen is not the underlying science here. Oxygen saturation is almost always at, or close to, 100%. See the Bohr Effect [0][1].

TL;DR Increased CO2 aids in Oxygen delivery efficiency.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohr_effect
[1] https://respiratorycram.com/bohr-effect/
Just filmed myself pressing a key on slack (linux client). Framerate was 30fps.

5 frames / 160ms for the key to appear at the start of a chat line.

3 frames / 100ms for the next key to appear

Firefox in a plain text box takes 2 frames / 65ms

What OS you using? I haven't noticed an issue on the rare occasions I use my (7 year old) mac
There’s a ticket in the backlog for that. For now the price is assumed to be inclusive
I think you are arguing from outliers here. contrary to how it may seem on the news, mass shootings are quite rare events, even in the US. the fact that you and I have registered accounts and made at least one post on HN makes us outliers even in this community.

are there some people for whom virtual spaces are more real than their neighbors and IRL friends? sure, but most people don't seem to be like that. as far as I can tell, most people use social media to interact with an extended network of IRL friends/family. some people do try to get tons of followers that they don't know on instagram, but I think even this is best understood as jockeying for status among IRL peers.

note: IRL is a somewhat antiquated term this days, but I use it as a shorthand for "relationships that originate in in-person interactions". so if I had a friend A who moved away and befriended B there, but we all play video games together, B is still an IRL friend to me.
No, it's just good sense. If you're adopting an open source project then you clearly think the project has merit. So the people who created this project should be considered for maintaining the company fork, since they clearly know what they're doing.