skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those are pretty old dates considering how much has changed with the pandemic.

It’s also possible for something to have many users and have them casually brought up as unusable. The OP doesn’t literally mean unusable. They are exaggerating for effect.
That's an excellent 30 second demo
This is personal laptop - I've got >250GB in Photos which, even on "store originals in iCloud" mode takes up a huge chunk of the 512GB. I've got several x00GB folders in Dropbox that I can't currently have on the laptop (fonts, assets, etc.) 50GB+ in ~/git. I hover around 5-10GB free space these days.
Is it? There are non-spatial terms for time, eg. "the day after tomorrow" or "earlier today"
Ask HN: What does “platform” mean for software/web?
I've worked at FAANGs and startups over the past half decade and repeatedly heard internally and externally on blogs about building "platforms."

But it seems like different people have very different meanings for the word - what is your definition of "platform" (specifically in software or web dev/businesses) and why is it higher leverage to build a platform than a non-platform?
I'm surprised DO even allows you to add 20 thousand domains to your account in one go without prior communication.
> Nothing particularly Satan worshipping or Democratic party about it.

Isn't that the core idea behind QAnon?

I think our differing viewpoints on this perhaps point to the notion that we don't see things as they are, rather we see them as we are.
The article mentions "China based employees [of existing EDA companies]", so by the sounds of it they found the limited set of people who've already relocated and made them a better (or non-refusable?) offer.
> Surely you have a day or two where it gets hot.

That depends on what you mean by hot: the highest temperature ever recorded in Mexico City is 38C, so my friends from northern Mexico and from, say, Arizona would say that no, Mexico City does not have even a day or two when it gets hot. (Of course, 38C is probably much too hot for comfort if you are playing football.)

But back to June 22, 1986.

I'm pretty sure the Mexican national weather service knows exactly how hot it was on June 22, 1986 in Mexico City, but unfortunately their website doesn't seem to have day-by-day data available for download (at least not that far back). I did find a table of monthly average high temperatures [1], and for June 1986 in Mexico City (see "Distrito Federal" in the table) the average high temperature was 23.6C. The Weather Underground says that on June 22, 1986 the highest temperature was 75F [2], which is 23.9C. (Why doesn't the Weather Underground default to Celsius for visitors from Mexico?)

So it looks like I would have won my (very conservative) bet that the temperature was somewhere between 15C and 25C that day.

> Maybe the TV commentator said it was a hot day.

This is definitely possible!

1. The commentator could have assumed that because the game was in Mexico it would be hot! This happens all the time. I have explained to dozens of people that Mexico City doesn't really get hot, most are surprised. Of course, when I remind them Mexico City is at an altitude of 2.2km they usually believe me about the lack of heat.

2. The commentator could have known it was 25C and still thought that was hot for a football match.

[1] https://smn.conagua.gob.mx/tools/DATA/Climatolog%C3%ADa/Pron...

[2] https://www.wunderground.com/history/daily/mx/mexico-city/MM...
Outperforming Python Dictionaries with Microdict
Microdict is a new, high performance hash table library for Python that consumes significantly less memory (upto 7 times) and runs faster than Python Dictionaries. Even its underlying optimized C implementation outperforms Google's Swiss Table and Facebook's F14, both of which are state-of-the-art Hash table implementations. Along with benchmarks, Microdict is available here : https://github.com/touqir14/Microdict
Ingersoll Lockwood predicted Trump 100 years ago
In the computer weekly article linked in another comment it states the players are not claiming they own the data - but that they have data rights and are seeking to address the issue of people using that data without consent.

That sounds a little less clear cut, I'm not a legal expert but I guess a case might be able to be made about privacy and GDPR conformance. But probably not that they can be paid for the data.
> "Html for common folk" is just a particular instance of "programming for common folk".

Only sort of. "Html for common folk", with good tooling and strong templates, is more like "paint by numbers--on the internet".

The barriers to entry at lower. The cost of failure is lower. And nobody building their own "Magic the Gathering webring" is trying to take your job.
I think the argument is that if you’re knowledgeable enough to write an extension you can switch to the “I know what I’m doing version” and let everyone else reap the benefits of malware protection.
What does google use for calendaring?
Rebase is only dangerous and problematic if your team shares ownership of feature branches. I have yet to work at a place where that is the case.

I have, however, seen many git trees that are a complete mess to grok because of merges into feature branches.
Not the GP, but I will take up that offer if you don't mind! :)
That's the point. Each line violates the rule it states.
> integer in the range [-2, 2] for some reason

This sounded awesome to me (imagining some Fortran code behind it), but disappointingly the cited screen shot only has the range [-1,0,1] which is hardly the same.
It does not contradict, no. I can lose weight eating moderately but you may not. You may need to eat bordering on starvation to lose weight, which in my book is not "moderate".

Basically, my point is, some people have to suffer more to lose weight. But all people will lose weight regardless if they stop eating, because physics.
> cheating physics engines in Stunts

You mean this one?

http://www.ibiblio.org/GameBytes/issue20/misc/stunts.html

Oh, the hours I played creating the craziest tracks in the undocumented editor barely hidden away behind Shift+F1, reliably making the car hit the ground at a certain angle and speed, triggering a bug (probably an unchecked signed wraparound) that would make it accelerate infinitely into orbit.
Well, from my experience there were professional teams using these sorts of tools at the time.

My first gig was hand crafting html pages and the guy I replaced (a "programmer") used one of these WYSIWYG tools.

It wasn't that uncommon in the early days of web shops
A Small open-source Game In C++
The quote here is the main point. "But if you want to engage with 20+ exchanges, to go to market quickly, and implement continuous performance tuning, you'll choose Java."

The amount of changes you need to make due to customer preferences and regulations is continuous. If it's ok for your system to run in the 100 microsecond range then Java is a clear winner. If you are just focused on a single exchange, running in the same rack as the exchange then of course C or lower is what you will want.
5.2 is not close to 7.25. That's like 30% less than the minimum wage. Minimum wage itself is a massive struggle but 30% less is just plain offensive and dehumanising.

> So I guess this must be a fairly decent way to earn money if you're young/poor in Bangladesh...

Solving dumb captchas is never a fair or decent way to earn money, not when you are poor and definitely not when you are young. Creating living conditions for other human beings where they can be easily exploited and used for mindless degrading work such as solving dumb captchas is one of the most grotesque things of the 21st century.
Joseph Kennedy was a bank owner (at least part owner) before WW I, and made a further pile in the stock market--getting out before the crash--and some I guess in movies. He bought up a bunch of distilleries, and he had booze stored under bond, but the notion that he was a bootlegger is wrong.

Was he more scrupulous than the next businessman? Maybe not.
Was he in bed with the mob? I doubt it.

Mobs have attempted to rig elections, but not I think The Mob. The most conspicuously rigged election in US history must have been Hayes over Tilden, at a time when organized crime was pretty small beans in the US.
Sutures: https://www.amazon.com/Non-Absorbable-Surgical-Practice-Vete...
> What is happening right now in Belarus likely wouldn't have happened if the citizenry had been armed

As you can see from nearby Poland, this just means that you have to get the armed rightwing section of the populace on board first.

I think the thing to learn from is Amartya Sen's "capability" model: how well does the theoretical freedom to do X and Y match up to the practical ability to achieve it? For many people, the lack of an economic safety net is a far more immediate and pressing problem than a theoretical government coup.
How to Be Lucky in Life?
Apple also has a nice statistics of >>all used apps on Macs<< since 2017 - every app start is reported back to apple. One could see from such stat what is being used more, what is being used less and then make business decisions... Maybe somebody will sue in the future...
Hadrian’s Wall – The last stone of the empire
> I could do quick bug-fix sessions, sure, and write emails, and jot down ideas. But it absolutely did not replace a laptop

Honestly that is basically what I want—a few hours here and there for when I can't be at a desk. I currently use a 16" MacBook Pro as my primary machine. I purchased it shortly before the pandemic, because I needed to use it both at home and in the office, and I didn't want to buy two machines.

Since COVID, my department has transferred to permanent remote working, so 99% of the time I'm at my desk. I would love to ditch the MacBook for a desktop machine and fill the remaining 1% with the iPad, even knowing the limitations of the form factor.

When more desktop Macs are updated with the Apple CPUs I'll probably look into the feasibility of VNC-ing into a machine at home from the iPad, but it just seems like a shame to squander all this potential.
The whole two shooters thing seems like the perfect thing to keep conspiracy theorists busy if you were trying to actually cover something up.

I.e. create some confusion around an unimportant detail. Instead of who ordered Kennedy dead
Here is an excellent talk about the Xbox One security (and Series X|S should be quite similar) by the person who is in charge of security on the Xbox platform.

https://youtu.be/U7VwtOrwceo

Basically it boils down to trust NOTHING outside the actual SoC chip (so stuff like RAM, Flash/HDD, optical dics, etc cannot be trusted). The SoC is made on 28nm (Series X|S 7nm) process so physically attacking it is very hard/expensive.

Also goes into the difference between Windows (PC) and Xbox (Console) security. On PC the owner/admin wants the help keep the system secure as it gets attacked by malicious parties from the internet. On console the owner is usually the bad guy (the one doing the attacking) and thus needs a very different approach.

Also stuff like Microsoft Pluton are direct descendants of the stuff done for Xbox and Live.
More recently, half the time I can't even find a datasheet in Chinese.

Is there a Chinese website/repository similar to wikichip?
But isn't scuttlebutt User centric vs. content centric? So I will only easily find content from people I already know?
And I guess I can find new people if they are somehow connected to me, but can I search just for content on the "whole" network?
Does this really provide a network effect like medium or facebook, or google search, who offer a large existing network for discovery?
MHealthCare and ADHD/ASD Practice
It seems there's a huge difference if your data is collected when you engage in a private activity (i.e. was not intended for public consumption)and participating in a public event where your behaviour is intended to be consumed by the public.

Does GDPR make this distinction?
Article: About Factom
If I were very cynical, i would see the reason for the great stagnation in the fact that the USA wasn't able to either rob any country blind or profit from some widespread unrest in the last decades. A lot of the technical leadership the US has maintained in the 20th century was built on the shoulders of others. Be it the german pharmaceutical industry after world war 1, jewish immigrants from europe, operation paperclip, east european intellectuals during the cold war, asian immigrants fleeing wars, the US has always attracted or coerced these people. And I think atleast voluntary immigration to the US is declining due to the political and social issues with which the US is associated more and more. At least in my wider social circle (Engineering/Sciences), very few people are even considering the US to emigrate to anymore, which is a major contrast to 10-15 years ago.
>That omission almost seems too perfect

It is perfect -- because William Safire was a wonderful writer[0].

I didn't care much for his politics, but that man could write!

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/by/william-safire
The forum perhaps but I read nothing of that sort reading the 3 pages of the linked post.

And the post contains more information than the tweet. Forum users are sharing attatchments, repo links and their experiences.
Who is WE? We software/web/website developers as opposed to common folk? Then we don't need this, as it would take our jobs away...

Anything else like doctors saying "I want patients to operate on themselves." or "I want patients to vaccinate themselves.". What is it about the software world that created this notion of giving everything away?
They are in fact an EY client (as is Coke). Not sure about Amazon
Support is a non-trivial benefit when mistakes or delays cost money. The feature set of proprietary EDA is huge, and the place & route optimisers have been tuned for years.

Sure, it costs $250k for a Synopsys license with the full suite of tools; it also costs far more than that to have to redo a mask set, lose your slot in the fab's calendar, etc.
How to Develop a Custom ELearning Platform: Functionality, Tech Stack, & Costs
None, hopefully. Facebook should not give in to censorship campaigns.
It's surprising that the fact "Something that works for Google doesn't necessarily work for company X" is not common knowledge.
Article is about tools for synthesizing ASICs, at least one layer deeper than FPGA.
https://youtu.be/RYZuagiyW_w?t=225

That's showing a 45W AMD Zen 2 mobile chip outperforming the Macbook Pro M1 11k to 7.5k in Cinebench R23.

Apple Silicon M1 does not outperform "many" core high TDP processors. Yes, they have amazing IPC, but they have 4 cores and a low TDP. I didn't dispute that. It's really incredible. But I'll repeat that it's not a foregone conclusion that they can translate that into higher core, higher performance and outright win/embarrass AMD. Maybe they will - we are just putting forth conjecture. Extracting all that performance with low power usage is certainly winning half the battle, and making bigger chips with more cores will get Apple a long way. Remains to be seen but it's far too soon to say "the rest catch up..." when it comes to those markets.

And I mentioned gamers and dedicated graphics - you countered with a comparison with the 2018 Mini at 768p resolution and a Radeon Pro 560? Meanwhile gamers are playing 2k and 4k games with RTX 3000 series and RX 6000 series cards (if they can get their hands on them.) And many games simply cannot be played on macOS.

Neither the M1 nor the above crazy expensive power-hungry graphics cards are a one-size-fits-all solution. And it may come to pass that Apple starts to compete in those areas and really does embarrass all competitors. But it hasn't happened yet, so I think such proclamations are premature.
Am using protonmail, because at the time got it, it was the only encypted email service i knew about.

I also trust the company, but this trust is soley based on my feelings.
The idea that everything remotely involving data is forbidden under GDPR is giving it a bad name. I'm reminded of every Comcast sin being labeled as a "net neutrality" issue.

Here, specifically, GDPR prescribes exemptions for journalism: https://gdpr.eu/article-85-right-to-freedom-of-expression-an...

There are probably other exemptions that would apply for innocuous activity freely done in public, with the explicit understanding that it would be filmed.
An overview of the most useful builtins data structures.
They offer productivity. Commercial tools have simulation speed and a half decent visual debugger for example. The bar is not that high, but Icarus is behind in these two areas
Yeah, 23 commits into master from one feature branch is not normally a great idea.

When I worked at a large FAANG they enforced only one commit from a feature branch into master. I didn't realise why that was a good idea until I saw the alternatives ;)
you are comparing apples with oranges. You cannot compare football from the 50s,70s with football from today, simply because the whole society changed. If football wasn't as polished as today, to out stand in this environment is even harder. Every injury could mean the end of your career. Pele was raised poor, served the army, played professionally from 1950 - 1977(!!)

Messi in another hand is "professional" since he was 6. He moved to Barcelona at age of 10 to go through an hormonal treatment and since then he is exposed to professional football. Such chance was impossible back in the 50s for a black kid in Brazil or anyone else actually.
Colorado County Refuses to Enforce Lockdowns as Civil Disobedience Spreads
SCO wasn't released until 89. Before that it was Xenix.

I remember my high school gf's father had a SCO Unix machine in his office. This was about 1991 I guess. At the time I was an Atari ST user, and just salivated at Unix machines (my luckier/older/wealthier Atari user friends had TT030s and got to play with Unix on them). Once she let me sneak into his office and play with it when he wasn't around, illicit unixing... was very exciting for me :-)

A few months later I got a 486 for graduation present and installed Linux 0.97 on it.
Golly, the Rothschilds and the Freemasons. I thought that the conspiracy theorists had retired them fifty or sixty years ago.
Life on the Inside as a Locked-In Patient
There are definitely several ancient and recent cases of bad design or execution in civil/mechanical/chemical engineering. The difference is that there is a very strict regulatory body that reviews and sanctions such malpractices (not to mention the exams you need to write to become a member of such bodies).

Unfortunately, when it comes to software development we have people who modify wordpress templates and call themselves engineers...

I cringe whenever I read about the new 'engineering disciplines' such as 'react engineer' or 'dev-ops engineer' or 'gis engineer'.
Culturally, Frontpage was an internet gentrification tool, which is part of what seems to be every social cycle.
Check out static site generators like Zola [0]

I use 'even' theme [1], which has math formula support using KaTeX (not sure if you need full latex support). I host it via GitHub pages. You can set up GitHub to point to your own domain. To host it yourself, copy paste the 'public' folder output from zola.

[0] https://www.getzola.org/documentation/getting-started/overvi...

[1] https://www.getzola.org/themes/even/
> so your data stays local.

That's very interesting. Thanks!
There are different kinds of long windedness. One kind, that people most think about, is rambling, bringing up unimportant points, repeating something you've already said etc. The other kind is more on the wordsmithing level of formulating the same thing in fewer words by switching out longer, less dense grammatical structures with snappier ones.

It's very much like refactoring code. You can do it on a higher level by cutting out entire chunks of code that don't really need to be done, or on a low level by being familiar with the language's helpful syntactic sugars, best practices, to make the meaning clear and less obscured by boilerplate and "syntactic chores".

I noticed the effectiveness of low-level refactoring in prose when I first started writing academic papers. Since page limits are strict, you need to pay attention to eliminate any words that aren't necessary and are thin on semantics. This doesn't mean writing in staccato. But when you spot a paragraph where a single word spills over to an extra line, it requires a specific learnable skill to rewrite a sentence or two to eliminate the extra line. You can often tell how much someone wordsmithed around on a paper by seeing how long the last line of each paragraph is.

Of course sometimes gains are on the high level, I'm not saying that good writing is just about messing with the low level of the actual words and the grammar. Similarly to the debate whether premature optimization is the root of all evil, it's about a balance in writing too. First you must have clear thoughts on what to say and what you can leave out. But at the end, when things have settled, it is worth to go over it once again at specific places and low-level edit things to be snappier, counting words, letters and millimeters on the paper.
> raw, unshared access to devices

Get to OS to set up DMA for you.

> no more interrupts

If the OS has no need to interrupt you, it will never interrupt you. The OS doesn't context switch from a usefully running application on its own core unless you ask it to.

Don't need virtualisation.
It's often possible to do "better" by tuning something toward the data set. Finding something that is always better is hard.

One thing I have done is a double binary search.

Store prefixes and suffixes seperately. A binary search of the prefixes identifies the suffix clump to search with a binary search. This involves a slight increase in storage --- each prefix needs a suffix pointer.

But maybe I will now try an interpolation search on the suffixes.
But Apple is clearly headed in the actual opposite direction when you looking at iPhones and iPads. So incredibly similar in terms of hardware (basically a few inches of screen is all that distinguishes them). Yet Apple chose to bifurcate what was once a common OS. Recall they both used to run iOS. Now we have iOS and iPadOS. If Apple can’t unify the operating system for iPads and iPhones, how could they do it for macs and iPads?
> not because software engineers are worse human beings than civil engineers, which is all too often the undertone of these discussions

I think the undertone is usually that the software developer at fault had no idea what they were doing, and had no place working on critical systems, rather than that they had ill intent.
This reads like GPT-3
Cuban doctors and nurses had great reputation some time ago. Probably you're getting more than what you think studying there ;-)
I think we instead need a simple hosting solution wrapped into your phone plan or internet service like it was way back when. It is the hosting upkeep that killed old internet.
If we go from GPUs to CPUs and memory or even generic IC. Faster CPUs meant also more efficient and smaller CPUs meaning cheaper CPUs. Brining down the price of mobile phones and computers. And even increasing the rates of data transfer.

I can't say that there has not been massive change for average Joe in last 30 years due to this...
> for which native implementations are going to be the favorite

...but the point of the article is they aren't always the favourite.
It would have been fine in the UK, the difference would have been waiting time (we'd definitely not be in and out in 90 minutes here). Also we'd have had a junior doctor or nurse do the stitches.

End result would be roughly the same.

In some parts of the country it may be a longer wait than others. The NHS generally though are very good when you visit with very young children.