skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Using cubicles a symptom of a sickness would mean that Google and FB are sicker. Intel has better workstations.
Since you're already on the dad joke train, what's the opposite of "con"-gress? Progress.
A lot of freeways got built right in the middle of poor neighborhoods. I'm not saying there is a direct causal link with that and murders, but it's pretty hard to ignore the socio-economic effects of those massive infrastructure projects.
Ah, yes. I once left my mother-in-law's suitcase behind in the Harrisburg suburbs, discovering this only once I got back to Maryland. My brother-in-law kindly dropped it at Greyhound, and we had it the next day.
H1B migrant workers building empires inside the company instead of delivering good products.
Trouble is that we can't always tell what's in our control and what isn't. Who would've thought a thousand years ago that we could fly to the moon?

I'm reminded here of the beautiful quote by Bernard Shaw:

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."

― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman
Ya there certainly isn’t and hidpi windows or Mac users
An interesting piece, though I would have liked more about the failures of YouTube/TikTok and other platforms that simply aggregate user content.

The author suggests a fund to help develop IP, but YouTube and TikTok don't need that. The YT/TT approach is "let a thousand flowers bloom and users/algorithms will pick the best".

I think a lot about the teenage girl who went viral on TikTok for writing musical numbers based on the 2000s TV show Avatar: The Last Airbender [1]. That is not content anyone would fund up front. If you're not a Zoomer/Millenial with nostalgia for the show, the idea doesn't even make sense! And yet it was a brilliant idea, hugely popular, and it didn't cost TikTok a dime. That's the future.

[1]: https://nerdist.com/article/avatar-the-last-airbender-musica...
> Ah I see what you mean, but in this case they could've gone back and added -P as an alias for -p in ssh for instance.

Yeah. It's one of the 13 (of 52) unused one-letter options, but such a common one you'd think they could waste a second letter on it.
> it would be a matter of time AMD would have to produce special versions of processors that only Apple could purchase

How is that supposed to affect anybody else who is still buying the regular stuff, or be better for Apple customers than the same thing but with an architecture transition and the inability to natively virtualize the x64 editions of Windows and Linux?

> and a lot of manufacturing power would have been wasted on Macs making it more expensive for other people.

Apple and AMD are both TSMC customers. They come out of the same fabs.
This stat is skewed because you can't use ads until you have lots of subscribers / partner status. Also since twitch stopped preserving old videos, that number will be lower, but it doesn't have to be on peertube. But, again, in-stream ads can't get measured viewership and get stale for the usual twitch use ads (new hardware/software) so you need them out of band to perform well.
>The primary purpose of the tool to is to surface what a software application is good at by bench-marking the features & functionality across the whole category(s) that the app in question belongs to.

> 1. Which product is a dominant product in a particular category?

> 2. Which feature dominates a product/category?

Like Gartner Quadrants and Forrester Waves?

Is there an early version we could look at and play with?
This is from a Council on Criminal Justice report from September that looked at crime rates in 27 US cities:

"Homicides and aggravated assaults rose beginning in late May and June 2020. Homicide rates between June and August of 2020 increased by 53% over the same period in 2019, and aggravated assaults went up by 14%—and both increases were statistically significant."

What demographic changes from 2019 to 2020 explain an over 50% increase in homicide rates?
The Incredible Story of the Bugatti in the Lake [video]
> every type checker in the world will reject this program due to the mere presence of the 'return 123' branch

Just to expand on this a bit: It would be trivial to extend a type checker to cover this case. But a) It wouldn't be terribly useful because this is a rather stupid way to write code, and b) It would always be possible to contrive yet another example that the "extended type checker" would fail on, because static analysis can never completely replace running the program. That's basically Rice's Theorem.
When I had HP printer I remember having debates whether to print something, draw it by hand to save money or how to avoid printing altogether. At one point it was cheaper to buy a new printer with ink than ink.
This context is very weird. I don't really have a problem with this tradition. But I do see how it can be political. In the U.S. there is memorial day and veterans day and they are very political.

My main issue is I do not get the analogy. Those two things are very different to me.
A Global Breakdown of Greenhouse Gas Emissions by Sector
YOU PUT THE WHEELCHAIR IN WHEELCHAIR.

Might want to exclude this kind of trivial case.
To be fair, that's part of why I use Linux :)
Can we dispense with the use adjectives like "terrible, horrible, no-good" when it comes to the fortunes of those in the top .05 percent earning tier globally, please?

What does "terrible, horrible" mean for these people, anyway? "Won't be able to retire on a $20M package by my 39th birthday - I may have to work until I'm 40 or 41"?

Someone please explain.
Yeah - I looked it up. Thanks!
It is truly amazing to see good painted as bad. Rather than anecdotal stories the research shows that it has a net positive benefit to residents.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/08/study-gentrification...
Covid-19 Mood app to share your feelings
So in London, our second lockdown has begun. I've seen many data visualisation apps for Covid-19 stats, positive cases and deaths counts, but I thought it would be nice to collect and visualise some thoughts and feelings from people around the world during this pandemic (Got inspiration from InsideOut too, that simplistic yet effective emotion balls).

It's not trying to be statistically useful - rather, it's a place where people share post their feelings and possibly get some condolences(?).

There's still works to do as it's at MVP state. It would be great if you could share your moods too and give me any feedback, keen to improve things!

It was a project for me to stay sane during this winter.
Software development looks a lot like evolution. The market and business requirements are the environment that weeds out the unfit software. Adapt or die. Codebases that are slow to adapt to outside changes are like species that are slow to adapt to selection pressures. So like the vestigial organs bursting from infection, so are companies that are unable to ship because devs are slowed down by messy code.
Suggestion: regulation. There are already many industries where what you can agree to is regulated. There should be more.
There are patches for openssh when using it over LFNs: https://psc.edu/research/networking/hpn-ssh/ (which seems to be in a sad state currently). These patches might interact poorly with other implementations (e.g., it didn't interoperate with paramiko (2 years ago)).

Also, make sure TCP window scaling is working. I was making transfers through a F5 Big-IP which was running a profile that disabled it.
Flat vs. Round Earth Calculator
It hardly makes sense to speak of the US as a monolith in this respect. In some parts of the US, people don't lock their front doors during the day and unattended vegetable stands have money jars for honor-system payment. In other parts, they put bars on all their windows like prison cells and lock bicycles to anything bolted to the ground.
Roguelike is my favorite genre and I find myself able to really enjoy the facemeltling, perpetual obliteration of my efforts with every restart. Games with tireless agonizing to detailed layering (shoutout Noita) are what defines the genre. It's less of a templated category, and more of a culture. I suppose it resonates well since my childhood was absolute hell and unstable.

DawrfFortress really does a great job of defining losing [FUN]. Nethack captures movement and packages the inevitable illusion of choice perfectly. It's funny how this entire list I've played relentlessly for years daily, and how paradoxical it is by design that hardcore roguelikes are the only times I feel alive and well.
You could grow a food forest and teach people how to grow their own food. I'm attempting this on a small downtown property. I'm in the very early stages.
With the correct materials, in theory you could slow down light enough to control its flow through a circuit with a series of nano reflective materials and its overall carrying capacity for speed of information would far outmatch electrons which require a medium to travel through which ultimately renders it many times slower than the speed of light depending on the properties of the material. Even super conductors have a far greater resistance for an electron than a room full of air would on a the flow of a photon. If I had to venture the guess I would say we mastered the electron as we could control and produce it very easily, we have just begin to explore the exotic nature of photons and the potential impacts on technology they may hold
You've got three choices. You either make it easy for people to make their own content, sell them content they already want but in a better way, or be the only way they're getting that content. Apple didn't try to invent a market for purchasing music when it didn't already exist; they said "hey, this is like buying CDs but easier and better." Netflix said "hey, all those shows you like? Come watch them at one place with no commercials, on demand." Youtube Red/Premium/Plus/Whatever the hell they're calling it now is just paying for a better version of the same experience. Whoever invents and patents a way to put a sticker on the side of your head and make you feel like you're having sex with a pornstar will make a billion selling it however they want.

Quibi picked the worst of every possibility. They weren't freer than Youtube. They didn't have the library of Netflix. They weren't more convenient to watch than either of them. Quibi would've worked great if it'd launched in 2007. Now, not so much.
Man I hate that attitude. My company pulls that on absolutely every benefit asked about.

"We've done a survey and our pay and benefits are on par for the industry" = we are proud to be a profoundly mediocre place to work in every possible way.

Can't wait for this pandemic to end and the market for my industry/region to pick up again.
Yes, this makes sense. I'd suggest retitling the article to be something along the lines of "ML Expert Roadmap", and then continue to flesh out all avenues. As it stands, the roadmap has really nothing to do with AI at all, but your point about not just jumping to the shiny hammer certainly rings true and makes sense. I certainly think that's the right approach algorithmically, especially if you're looking to be a more generalist data shop.

In a world of senseless marketing hype, I think it's a good idea to take the high road on this one. Reputation alone, even if less-buzzy words like ML are used in favor of AI, really carries a long ways. Plus, we're nearing the disenfranchisement hump, and AI's going to start taking a negative connotation with many businesses, I believe. Just shoot straight and I firmly believe it'll carry you for a long ways, there.
Here's the important bit for me.

Roguelike, as much as the term refers to a game style rather than a development process/community thing, describes a game that is turn based and tile based. I find the turn-based nature of roguelikes core to the genre, because they define so much about how you interact with the game. "Real" or "traditional" roguelikes allow you as much time as you need to decide your next move.

What this means is the genre is completely removed from any sort of mechanical or reflex skill. If reaction times are at all involved, to me, it's not a roguelike. Under this rubric I find FTL is mostly a roguelike due to its pausability, whereas Spelunky is definitely not, given the required mechanical skill.

(I may even consider being turn-based to be more core to the genre than having strictly no between-run progress; FTL gates off some ships behind multiple runs but this barely registers for me. Some people take this 'requirement' a little too strictly for my tastes.)

Why this matters, beyond pedantry, is that blurring the genre lines has made searching for new games in the genre almost impossible. Some great roguelikes have found their way to Steam (Caves of Qud, for example), but finding them amongst the 100s of games that get the "roguelike" tag is difficult. Not a huge issue, of course, but it's why it matters to me.

Beyond that, the term "roguelike" is really not very descriptive unless you're already part of the RL community and are up on how the community defines the genre, so I'm just clueless as to why it has become such a marketing buzzword. "Run based game" has only one extra syllable and provides such a cleaner description of what the game is actually like. And can we really say that a game like Slay the Spire (a game I love) is anything at all like Rogue?
I think this may be the case of "too big too fail", that is law does not apply to large companies because they can easily wiggle their way out of anything by pouring money at lawyers or they can stop supporting political party or individual politicians if they won't get their way.
I also like the way that on first run Blender will let you select the keybindings that you want to use.

That seems like a good compromise to me.
> "Many minor roguelikes have been created around that time, such as Alphaman, a 1995 game set in the post-apocalyptic future when Donald Trump became the president."

Has everybody predicted this?
That's not enough. You also have to constrain what the mapped function is doing. For example, it could create one or more brand new arrays or for that matter perform any infinite computation without mutating the original array. Proving that the mapped function does not do any of that requires that it not be Turing Complete.
How would you send someone a Venmo payment without giving out any personal information?
Arguably that has worse connotations but if you think it's better then whatever.
> All most people need to do is run a couple processes on a couple hosts … You can have all of that with, say, systemd (ugh)

Why ugh? I do have all of that with systemd, and it’s great. Rather than running each service in a separate filesystem and requiring them to communicate over a virtual network, I use ProtectSystem and ProtectHome to keep services as isolated as they need to be. Rather than creating a network bridge and doing NAT inside my server, if services require network isolation, I use NetworkNamespacePath to assign them to namespaces that contain different VLAN interfaces, which are configured in my router just like physical interfaces. Rather than building a huge container image for every application, I use my OS’s package manager to install apps and manage their dependencies. The skills required to do this can be applied to any systemd-based Linux distribution, and are needed to properly understand and troubleshoot systemd-based Linux distributions running in containers anyway. I’d need some new tools (eg. Ansible) to scale this setup past one or two hosts, but I’m baffled by the people setting up complex Docker/Kubernetes systems just to self-host a few web apps.
This post is missing some numbers to put the size of Quibi's failure in context. "Quibi spent over $1 billion on commissioning original content in its first year, totalling 8,500 short-form episodes and including over 175 shows." according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quibi#Content. This is a cost of about $10k/minute.

(For comparison, SpaceX spent ~$85m (https://craft.co/spacex/funding-rounds) to blow up three rockets and launch a fourth one into orbit.)

Quibi's failure is on the same level as Theranos & Magic Leap given the amount that was spent. Quibi might not be a scam like the other two, but it's strange that they spent so much money before they had any users nor revenue. The most important lesson here is probably that launching & iterating will result in better outcomes than a giant investment on a speculative product.
Go in Production – Lessons Learned
> 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.?

I'm talking more like the later: all of these companies (Apple, Qualcomm, NVidia, etc. etc. and of course, AMD) are effectively pooling their money together to fund TSMC.

I don't mean to single Apple out as if they're the "only" ones funding TSMC's research. (And I can see how my wording earlier mistakenly can be interpreted in that manner. I was careless with my wording). Its more of a team effort (although Apple does seem to spend significant amounts of money trying to get first-dibs on the process).
> The explosion of AI/ML/Data Science teams in places that they really don't belong is going to have major backlash soon

I'm not disagreeing with you, just curious, did that happen with Big Data teams? If not, what happened with all the people working around that concept a few years ago? Might be an indicator of what could happen to DS teams.
This is nothing for a big company, they'll just pour insignificant amount of money (to them) until it goes away. For a consumer this is a huge waste of time and money for no benefit. Only thing you can do is take your money elsewhere - stop supporting companies who do these kind of things and make sure that all your friends know about this.
Why does it have to be tile-based? Enter the Gungeon seems very Rouge-like to me.
there is a lot of hype w/manuka here and i dont think we have ever heard of australian honey here stateside. a lot of honey is malted sweet syrup sadly. i had to label my honey 'gluten free' and 'organic'...both claims are ridiculous, but labeling is such a headache. we do not have AOC type labeling tho'...except for lavender and orange blossom honey etc that have single floral flavours and not blended, then a radius of 5 acres worth should have the same varietal as advertised. entirely ridiculous. bees dont understand borders or labeling. i even got a bottle of poison oak honey. and no, it wasnt the name of the company. wasnt brave enough to try it.

on a slightly diff note: australian father and son duo have come up with flowhive that is the scorn of old fashioned 'beeks' because it seems to make it too easy to collect honey. i do agree that apiary business can be exploitative and with bees on the loser side.

having had colony collapse for a few years and having had to pay for a commissary kitchen to extract honey, the flow hive design seems more and more appealling. the australians certainly understand their bees.

https://www.honeyflow.com/ : i am pretty smitten but false pride to be a 'real beekeeper' stops me from adopting this obviously clever and elegant design. Beek shaming is real! it's a thing.
Build config driven modern presentations
I think it's the code underlying a sign-up page, but the repeated attempts to get a firstname are definitely weird.
> In this way, Jeffrey Katzenberg said to us, “I understand something about the world that others do not.” And yet, in saying so, he missed the essential lesson that could have been gleaned from his own industry: Popular culture is an existential conflict between what is “good”, what people like, and what people watch. This dialectic is the central feature of cultural businesses.

Dialectic and existential conflicts aside, I don't think the "gray area of public taste" really applies here. Quibi's content was BAD. [1,2,3] If there is an existential lesson here about entertainment platforms, maybe it's Don't:

* launch a $2B app

* with no library of content

* that is strictly walled off from your customer's social media

* and your customer's TV.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3IRvX9UaIk

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKyZWJ75nDM

3. https://twitter.com/zachraffio/status/1250273191810875392
I think we've hit peak mental masturbation....
It wasn't a completely stupid idea but:

- The price for the juice packs was outrageous

- The juicer was overbuilt. There was a hilarious teardown and BOM estimation[0]. Should have been way cheaper

- The IoT aspect served no real purpose. It added to the BOM.

But I could totally see a subscription model with an inexpensive juicer that's subsidized by a subscription to juice packs. Sure you could also buy some generic ones and someone will come up with a re-usable pouch, but really you are paying for the convenience. Nespresso did it (but coffee has way better margins than juice pouches).

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Cp-BGQfpHQ
Please do not wear a baby to work. The screaming banshee will prevent your coworkers from getting anything done. If you bring a bring a baby to the office I'm supposed to work in, I will kill you dead. Seriously.
At sea-level, Earth's atmospheric pressure is 14.7 psi and Mt Everest summit's is about 4 psi. Mars' atmospheric pressure is about 0.087 psi. Apparently a pressurized suit is required to survive on Mars[1].

Also, Mars' soil has toxic amounts of perchlorates[2]. You wouldn't want to breathe them in or have them touch your skin.

[1] https://www.quora.com/Is-it-possible-to-breathe-and-survive-...

[2] https://www.space.com/21554-mars-toxic-perchlorate-chemicals...
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-01-21/native-honeybees-prov... : thanks for the headsup about sugarbag honey! stingless bees even!

[..]Unlike harvesting from a commercial or hobby hive, taking honey from a native sugarbag hive often means the entire colony is destroyed.

But Dr Smith said land clearing, rather than traditional hunting, was the biggest threat to native bee colonies.

He said sugarbag hunting had a minor impact on the overall population of Australian sugarbag bees and the skill should be preserved.

"What a shame it would be to stop having this practice, this culture, that's been going on for thousands of years and is probably one of the longest honey cultures of the world," he said.[..] < altho this is discouraging. for the bees too.

very interesting. we have many more native bees here in ca than italian honey bees. there is a fallen oak in one of the hiking trails. it was buzzing all the time and the hiker who was with me(and part native american) told me that bees sometimes form hives inside dead hollow trees. and not to tell anyone so they can be undisturbed.

i have a lavender field and also maintain hives. the italian bees are pretty aggressive and native populations have gone down. also..a lot of california native vegetation is actually toxic to italian honey bees. like california buckeye for example. and i think in the south, yellow jessamine. their pollen can kill the italian bees.

thats one of the reasons for bees disappearing too. we also truck in millions of bee cross country for almond pollination which is a bee genocide of a different kind. this is why i feel like if we dont manage habitat we are shooting ourselves in the foot.