skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The interesting one I think about is if the current CEO is basically their version of Steve Ballmer at Microsoft. Not highly loved by tech, media or finance, but basically held the ship together long enough to enable Microsoft to figure out how to transition away from the sinking ship that was Microsoft Windows and into new markets.

Basically he just needs to keep it afloat long enough for Intel to be able to find its version of Satya Nadella and Azure to unlock the next leg of growth.
Java mixed-mode flame graphs (2015)
It’s not an internal detail, it’s fundamental to understanding it from a user perspective.
>Actually your own cited source challenges this.

No, my link does not challenge this. WE is a registered charity (as designated by CRA). It's public information, you can look it up.

I initially chose not to bring this up precisely because it detracts from the fact that there is likely corruption (as you point out). I only brought it up when pressed for why I endorsed the gist of the parents comments, but not the stated details.

You know, it is possible for someone to believe that corruption occurred but also believe that getting the surrounding facts correct is important. That's all I was advocating for.

You've totally misinterpreted this entire thread.
I refer to "antisocial behavior" - not "poverty".
Ask HN: MoocLab, a reliable place to find a study mate?
I am a self-taught computer science student and I realized that studying alone I am incredibly unproductive, so I tried to find web pages that would connect me with other people with the same level of knowledge (I study all languages rigorously from the specification and I am currently developing an extension for google chrome).

But I'm not sure if I'm looking in the right place, are there better sites to find study mates or is this the only one?

(Maybe I can meet people on Hacker News but I can't find people who are currently studying and are not business owners (like most HN users))
Ethereum 2.0 Specs, v1.0.0
A court COULD make that decision, but there're centuries of precedent that this is not the case, which is tragic. The court will assume that no reasonable person would agree to a contract without reading the contents and consulting with a lawyer on anything that is unclear during the contract's negotiations, and for major contracts between large companies, they would be correct.

It would be a nearly revolutionary change to introduce a law like "you cannot meaningfully agree to any contracts or agreements without a lawyer advising you and a representative of the other party empowered to negotiate the terms." I'm all for it, though.

You'd need to fix several other kinds of laws around liability for negligence and the like, but those things need fixing anyway. The current hack where everybody agrees to waive their rights to sue for negligence is stupid. You would, however, need a new kind of thing that handled common agreements like terms of a credit card. There need to be terms, hiring lawyers for each person is ridiculous, but "contract" is probably the wrong model since no customer could be expected to understand it all, meaningfully consent to it, or negotiate the terms. I would be interested in what an alternative system could be. I kind of imagine a government body deciding on acceptable terms for various forms of business, effectively acting as the customer's agent in negotiations, but that seems ripe for corruption and also really inefficient and hard to innovate around. Suggestions?
> > YOU PUT THE FARAH IN PHEROMONES. (!!?)

"Farah" and "phero-" are both pronounced ˈfɛrə ("fair-ruh").
I would have posted sooner, but Hacker News bars me from posting too often. Here is the report, with an e-mail image:

https://www.rebelnews.com/international_elecion_observers_ba...
That is indeed conventional wisdom.

But as https://www.foxnews.com/science/musk-4-year-timeline-mars-mi... reports, in mid-October Elon Musk was claiming a fighting chance of launching a rocket there by 2024. With that being a type of rocket that he intends to be making in volume for uses near Earth.

Given his past over-optimism, I'd take good odds against him in 2024, but would take an even money bet that he makes it for the 2026 window. And given that he's already gearing up for mass production, he'll be able to send a bunch at the following 2029 window. If he misses 2026, shift those dates to 2029 and 2031 instead. (The windows come every 26 months, see http://clowder.net/hop/railroad/EMa.htm for a list of dates.)

Either way, SpaceX is apparently on track to launch a fleet of ships to Mars in a decade or so. With plans that the first launch will get there and explore, the second will be a bunch of ships that land and set up a base, and the third will hopefully be able to make a return trip using fuel produced on Mars. From there, he's aiming for serious colonization.

You may call him delusional. I certainly did in 2008 when he was trying to get a rocket program off the ground using his private fortune. But I would suggest not underestimating his ability to achieve on his vision (if not on the timeline that he pushes for).
Spotify hints at subscription podcast service
By "scanner" app do you mean Preview? My several-year-old Brother laser printer works fine in B&W mode on Catalina. Maybe this is just a thing with newer models.
I'm not qualified and get that rate
Intel’s Success Came with Making Its Own Chips. Until Now
The architecture is convoluted and they couldn't even be arsed to read or understand the crypto they were using, so if they failed at that implementation why believe they didn't leave holes in such a complex architecture setup. I'd prefer simple and reliable.

It seems like infra playboys trying to make crypto. Go ahead and make stuff like this, it's great, but don't call it "Ultra Secure". A more apt description would be "Completely unproven and experimental while built on crypto primitives approaching obsolescence".
> in my mind variables are their bindings

This feels like flawed thinking to me. I know what you're saying, but claiming that variables are mutable would lead me to believe we could have things like counters. I would say it's best to think of variables as the memory address of their binding. We are allow to rebind the name. That's how I see it, at least.
Yeah, I think the currently allows 1-phoneme differences. I think it would be better if it only allowed 2-3+ phoneme differences when at the end of the word. -s -ies -y arent interesting suffixes.
> The two-axle Volvo truck is comparable to a Freightliner M2 106, a straight-truck, not a package car. And the Volvo truck has a maximum GVWR of 16 tonnes, the final configuration would be lower, and you could operate it without a CDL. The poster is correct about licensing requirements. I do not have a CDL, but I can drive the straight trucks and package cars because they are under the 26,000lbs GVWR limit in my state.

Note that within the EU, in general "large goods vehicle" licenses cover everything over 3.5 tonnes, so these Volvo trucks are _well_ into that category. Package delivery companies avoid such large vehicles for last-mile deliveries.

But yes, two-axle trucks like what Volvo is proposing do of course see heavy usage for deliveries in commercial/industrial settings. Most smaller supermarkets are supplied by such trucks, for example, especially within cities (where loading bays are rare).
I think that metaphor is not very apt, because it doesn't capture the drag on future work. Bridges and roads are stationary.

This is why I don't like this kind of metaphor, and I don't like the Technical Debt metaphor. Because it doesn't convey the right concept. It conceals, obfuscates actual truths.

- Bad code
- Bad decisions
- Bad design
- Lack of maintenance
- Lack of proper business concept understanding

Those things mean something, you can make them more precise, but they could be actionable. Technical debt always needs a follow up question: so what is actually going on?
That really inspires confidence... infra playboys can't even setup a blog page to handle decent traffic, but trust them with their enclave work.
that is pointless. It isn't about message, it is all about messenger. If they don't want to listen to you, they wouldn't. My friend who has made his way pretty high here in the SV told me recently how the same CXX/"boardroom" people who wouldn't listen even to his 1 sentence, now have all the time and attention in the world to listen to him all day long.
If you'd like to use something like this in your own APIs to let your clients filter requests or on the CLI (as is the intention with gron), consider giving "json-mask" a try (you'll need Node.js installed):

$ echo '{"user": {"name": "Sam", "age": 40}}' | npx json-mask "user/age"
{"user":{"age":40}}

or (from the first gron example; the results are identical)

$ gron "https://api.github.com/repos/tomnomnom/gron/commits?per_page=1" | fgrep "commit.author" | gron --ungron
$ curl "https://api.github.com/repos/tomnomnom/gron/commits?per_page=1" | npx json-mask "commit/author"

If you've ever used Google APIs' `fields=` query param you already know how to use json-mask; it's super simple:

a,b,c - comma-separated list will select multiple fields
a/b/c - path will select a field from its parent
a(b,c) - sub-selection will select many fields from a parent
a/*/c - the star * wildcard will select all items in a field
Pictures from Inside the Flat Earther Community
A pretty common way to get a fake id is to borrow a real id from someone else. Bouncers ask you how old you are or what your house number is as a check on that.

That seems like a plausibly useful feature, or are there other ways to tell that the virtual id matches the real person holding the phone?
Epson Ecotank.

Just put in ink. Really - the ink come in bottles you just pour in. The ink is really chip, and it prints just as pretty as another inkjet, including quality photos
The latter was in Stranger Things: "You can't spell America without Erica"
I appreciate your prospective. I have to respectfully disagree though.

Building an apartment of affordable housing in an affluent community or building a condo of upscale units in a poor community clearly evokes feelings of NIMBY from some of the entrenched interests in both communities.

Some feel that helping 10 poor families find affordable housing in the affluent community does the greatest good. It certainly does for those families who can get the assistance to support their new lives. It does absolutely nothing though for the vast majority of the residents in their former underserved communities.

I personally feel that a greater good can result from 10 affluent families providing a cornerstone for the gentrification/improvement of an entire underserved community.

I believe we are both advocating for better services, increased safety, and affluence for historically under served communities. We just have a different perspective on how that might be done.
YOU PUT THE MARTYR IN SMARTER.

nice

Also,

YOU PUT THE NATION IN EXTERMINATION.

YOU PUT THE SEWER IN PURSUER.

YOU PUT THE SIGH IN UNDECIDED.

YOU PUT THE ARREST IN OVERESTIMATE.

YOU PUT THE TROLL IN UNCONTROLLED.

YOU PUT THE GODLESS IN IRREGARDLESS. (Kinda need a Boston accent for this one)
If you're talking about what I think you're talking about, IBM's VM is a hypervisor, which is a world away from cgroups, chroot, jails, or, say, the Java VM, before anyone brings that up.
As a sibling reply pointed out, this doesn't necessarily mean as much as you think it means.
> They based their designs off of what TSMC was already delivering to Apple. Since TSMC leapfrogged Intel in technology, AMD can now benefit from TSMC (indirectly benefiting from from Apple's investments).

Did Apple actually buy a significant stake in TSMC or are you just referring to the fact that Apple is one of their large customers along with Qualcomm, Nvidia, Huawei (until recently) etc.?
It's weird that it's so buried, but I actually like the proposed idea of separating the noun and adjective forms of roguelike. "Run-based" is never going to catch on, and there's some adoption already; just roll with this.

> It seems that most roguelike fans accept using “roguelike“ as an adjective, for example “roguelike platformer” or “roguelike first-person shooter”. While slightly confusing, this makes sense: a game is a combination of two genres, it has all the properties of the genre appearing as a noun, and the compatible properties of the genre appearing as an adjective. We can also have “first-person shooter roguelike” (DRL) or “platformer roguelike” (a grid-based turn-based game where the structure of the level is similar to that of a platformer, e.g. Fuel or Bump). Although some people do this incorrectly (e.g. “deckbuilding roguelike” is wrong, “roguelike deckbuilder” is better).
Ah yes. Current zoning laws are pretty terrible in a lot of places.
> One of its founding pillars is a teleological universe which, thanks to advances in science, we now know to be false.

Science (aka reason) fundamentally cannot invalidate a theory of a teleological universe since it is a metaphysical claim.
Wow, this is pretty much what I've been going through for some time now. I am usually not very emotional being but off late I am on the edge.

Thanks again for being so open and sharing your experience.
Netflix Tests Linear Web Channel in France
Shameless plug, check out sokol_gfx.h (and maybe sokol_gl.h, which is a simple GL 1.x style API on top of sokol_gfx.h):

https://github.com/floooh/sokol
I'm working on private repo support. chat with me at django.doctor if you want to get in on the private beta
Study finds DMT from Ayahuasca promotes neurogenesis
Right

Because windows, word, pages, apple, oracle, chrome, snort, evil-mode, mongodb, cockroachdb (etc. etc.) are all great names that make you think of real professionals at work that infact failed because they are childish
Yeah, basically any modern KDF not being misused trumps this... I feel bad for the people that worked on this, since it definitely required a lot of effort, but I don't see any widespread adoption for it, since most engineers won't be able to keep up with it.

I'll give it some proprs over the current mainstream stuff, which you have no idea how it works, at least there's some spec here.
Adding: in fact, gron's simplicity is downright inspired. It looks like all it does is convert your json blob into a bunch of assignment statements that have the full path from root to node, and the ability to parse that back into an object. Not sure why I didn't think of that intermediate form being way more greppable. Kudos to the author.

Just as an example, this just took me about a minute to get the data I wanted, whereas I probably spent a half an hour on it yesterday with jq:

curl -s https://static01.nyt.com/elections-assets/2020/data/api/2020-11-03/national-map-page/national/president.json | gron | grep -E 'races.*(leader_margin_votes|leader_margin_name_display|state_name)' | grep -vE 'townships|counties' | gron -ungron
Yeah I agree about the keybinds. With blender, something as simple as left clicking to select objects can make a huge impact learning and using software when you don't have to reset your brain constantly. It can be tough to have like 3 different sets of keys used to navigate different 3d viewports.
I'm curious of your views on accessibility in programming languages. Since programming languages are ascii text, shouldn't a screen reader do well with it?
What the hell is going on in that stock photo?
I chuckle a bit when they put PCA as being the very last thing you learn, way after dimensionality reduction (PCA is the classic and most "simple" dimensionality reduction technique)

Also, the reality is that very few full on AI experts (and yes, this means Ph.Ds with a lot of publications at top conferences who are also FAANG applied ML engineers) will have more than 70% of these skills. Luckily, this is a field which highly rewards specialization. They don't need the breadth if they have depth in their particular areas.

My experience has been that in the vast majority of applied roles involving AI, there is not enough emphasis on the software engineering skills necessary for productizing the models, leading to situations like baron_harkonnens critique.
TV providers on track to lose around 5M subscribers in 2020
Apple MagSafe Duo Charger and Leather Sleeve 'Coming Soon' for $129
It's a symptom of the sickness.
Will Covid-19 lead to better digital healthcare?
Same here! There are plenty of people I would happily give a one time donation to, but signing up on Patroen or giving up details beyond my email address are too big of a step. I’d even settle for a Venmo address.
Makes this recent "oops, we disabled your printer drivers totally by accident" move on HP's part seem even more suspicious.

https://www.theregister.com/2020/10/23/hp_printer_macos/

I was able to reinstall Apple drivers and get my HP color laser back online, but it did make me wonder if this was another underhanded move on HP's part to retire some of their inconveniently inexpensive (from their point of view) to operate laser printers.
I'm maybe not the kind of FANG(m) hotshot HN user your seeking an answer from here... But...
Time spent in the selfless service of the betterment of community and humanity, the assistance of those less able than oneself, and the propagation of one's values into the future, on reflection doesn't often feel meaningless. Maybe think about how you can expand your thinking of your life to be more than just your own successful career path and you will find more fulfillment, and be more comfortable keeping high expectations.
As FANG and software eat the world, there is a lot of community, open tech, open source, decentralisation projects that need peoples help to keep the balance of power slipping away from us common plebs.
Another option is to look into the cosmic perspective.. get some sense of scale of humanity, and it's interconnected place in the long time line of the web of life in the world.. botany and geology are great for putting humans into perspective, and spending time outdoors looking at plants and rocks will also fight depression in many ways.
Maybe search of some blog where people write about their career paths in IT to get an idea of what others have done before.
Just pouring some salt into your wounds: this video <https://youtu.be/RBL1cVzIQik> is over nine years old :^)

(I don't think it's exactly the same, but at least similar)
And DMV will get, by default, all our contacts, location history 24/7, installed app list, clipboard texts, what more? But of course we as developers will be the first to deny because we know how to disable most of that. And 10 years from now, Facebook will upload everybody’s license by mistake, oops. But by that time, DMV will already be selling everything for a couple of dollars. And everybody will say well, nothing illegal was done. But of course, downvote me, everything I’ve said is speculation and we are so smart that we’ll never let that happen
How does it "clearly read like it was meant to be published?"
The troves of people that flag any news that offends their ideological beliefs is easily the most enraging thing about how HN deals with politics.

The way I see it, you can either have politics on the site or not. You can't have politics, but then filter it out to the point that the front page is an alternate reality bubble where Trump doesn't lie daily.

Stuff like this will get consisted flagged to the depths of HN while conservative victimization porn from tabloids about how Mailchimp and the liberal elite are coming to take away your conservative values and censor your views will linger on the first few pages for days. You can't have it both ways.

IMO, HN needs to rethink the way it's flagging system works to prevent abuse.
Interesting. Seems like their account does indeed get auto-flagged. Thanks for the tip. Next time I know how to check for it.
Maybe? Intel is in a high-technology field, where research can take a decade to bear fruit. I hope they're already planting the seeds for that growth today, or else that they have plans that will keep them afloat for a very long time.
Oh it's definitely arbitrary, the reason why dwarf fortress made the "sorta" list but other strategy games that are technically just as perma-death (i.e. every RTS ever from Starcraft to AoE2) don't... in fact Dwarf Fortress is notably _less_ roguelike than those other games - it's just more "brutal" almost certainly because there is no ability to tune the difficulty and some gameplay requirements are not clearly explained as necessary. In DF the presence of your prior fortress can potentially make your life a lot easier (or more difficult) by tackling overworld threats and providing security (or becoming a hive of scum and villainy)... And there's even a "recover my save" sort of game more in launching an expedition to reclaim your fortress.

Everyone who has ever played a dwarf fortress game for longer than four seasons will tell you "Oh yea - I realized you're going to need plump helmet" - compare that to starcraft where often times players will realize they'll eventually need a military of some form in their first game.
Exactly. No amount of physical activity, regardless of how time efficient it would be, does any good if people don't do it. By making it enjoyable (e.g. walking with a dog), that makes it more likely one is going to do the activity. It doesn't matter if you can get the benefits of 2.5 hours of walking by doing 15-30 minutes of HIIT if one simply doesn't like HIIT.
Moral relativism is a black hole. It's hard to say the actor in one atrocity is better or worse than another actor in another atrocity. But I think it could be said that the Aztec civilization was complicated, and of which the kidnap and brutal sacrifice from its neighboring tribes was one (rather sensationalized) aspect. And I've said it elsewhere, but the podcast really gives you a sense of what it was like to live in the place and time - as much as one can from researching the extant artifacts.
> pymc3 is going the way of the dodo

on the contrary, i recently was looking for python libraries for some bayesian computations for some greenfield development and pymc3 was at the top of the list. with statistical libraries, i prioritize well-tested, large community, and extensive documentation. if others share the same priorities, there's a long future for pymc3.
I got: YOU PUT THE BISCH IN AMBITION :)
Yea, that's well known. Not just from federal law enforcement with proof of it, but twitter, youtube and facebook know it and admit to it too. Smarter Everyday interviewed all 3 and their folks talk about this directly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FY_NtO7SIrY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PGm8LslEb4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-1RhQ1uuQ4

The actual social media platforms saying it's happening.

At the same time though, it's not all their fault. It takes two to tango and if you're gullible enough to wreck your own life on the words of someone you've never, and will never meet... that's a special kind of stupid.

Here's my hope. All of this gets out of our systems. After whoever wins this election, folks are going to go, "Hold on, we're all acting like crazy people. Let's be sensible and stop going to the extremes and work together." This is the fantasy that fills my dreams. Not flying, being rich or anything like that. That, society being sensible and taking some personal responsibility. That's my crazy, wild fantasy...
Funnily enough, reality also seems to be pretty anti-Trump.
Ask HN: How to Find a Study Mate?
Repost:
I am a self-taught computer science student and I realized that studying alone I am incredibly unproductive, so I tried to find web pages that would connect me with other people with the same level of knowledge (I study all languages rigorously from the specification and I am currently developing an extension for google chrome).
But I'm not sure if I'm looking in the right place, are there better sites to find study mates or is this the only one?

(Maybe I can meet people on Hacker News but I can't find people who are currently studying and are not business owners (like most HN users))