skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the winner takes it all, what good is it to help the 99%?

Parents don't need daycare if they only work half of the time. (Of course, this means owning less.)

Offshore money doesn't matter for the economy. Actually it improves the life of the 99% because the value of their money would decrease if the offshore money would join the onshore money circulation.
And - in case of need - on Windows there is Trid:

https://mark0.net/soft-trid-e.html

which has also a couple online options and a database of signatures/magic numbers:

https://mark0.net/soft-trid-deflist.html
Custom attributes are used since many years now and work on every browsers. Maybe the spec should be updated to reflect the usage.
In an ideal world with zero friction, zero wind, constant air density and no other losses that would be true. There are a few outfits using this approach, so we are the outliers (being the only ones doing it via direct force measurement, for which we have the patent).
Vacuous character assassination.
Well trickle-down was always a matter of how much, not if. And yes, it seems pretty much established that it is a lot less than what we usually plan for when using it as argument in an economic plan.
This was a bizarre read. On the one hand it came across as a (well-tempered) rant against Bill Gates.

On the other hand, the author seems to want the world to produce more people like Bill Gates:

> He looks at education from a societal point of view, while I look at the brain of an individual. He wants to move the masses to high achievement, while I want to produce more little Bill Gateses.

> Unlike myself, Bill Gates does not focus on having more Bill Gateses. He focuses on helping the poor, in boosting qualifications of the middle class, and adds "you can't run a society on top 5%". He is right, however, that top 5% can forge a path in education that would inspire all the rest. They cannot be run through a compulsory system set on pushing through the remaining 95%.

I see where the author is coming from here, but I question whether "the education system" is at fault for the lack of excess Bill Gateses in the world. (I would attribute it more to things like genetics, money and luck).

My own view at the moment leans towards "a rising tide lifts all boats". No, the education system doesn't work for everyone, and it's certainly not just the top 5% that it doesn't work for. (Sir Ken Robinson has had some interesting things to say about this - I highly recommend his books and TED talks.)

The education system in every country (and state in many cases) is different, and every individual's experience of their education is different.

> My approach is probably more suited to well-developed nations where the industrial approach makes people sick of schooling.

This is a really interesting observation - let's just talk about ways the education systems can be improved in Income-Level 4 countries then (https://www.gapminder.org/topics/four-income-levels/), and leave Bill Gates out of it completely.
You can't work at getting a balance unless someone does a detailed cost/benefit analysis. I've seen no such thing. In Britain supposedly highly educated people in government and the civil service have been acting it seems, on whim and dodgy statistics which have been utterly refuted by respected independent academics. I suspect that many thinking people in the UK would concur with the view that sections of their government would be hard put to it to run a drinks party in a brewery.
Looks like it's down.. Why do people have webservers that fall over after a few hundred requests?
I use Joplin heavily, for media queues and all of the information storage that I can. I even keep Web addresses there, rather than in the favourites of my Web browsers.

It's an Open Source note-taking app that stores Markdown and Web clips in SQLite databases, and can sync between instances using a variety of options, including generic WebDAV services. It has desktop and mobile versions, so the information is available to me everywhere. I still keep my emails on IMAP and my Website in Git, but I will draft any long text content in Joplin, and then just copy the text into the final location.
Imagine the US and France are in open war. Then what you describe makes a lot of sense.

Imagine the ruler of a county calling for your country to be destroyed, and the global community expecting you to accept it as “Sabre rattling” [1]

[1] https://mobile.twitter.com/khamenei_ir/status/53136666737771...
Japan hasn't really locked down in any real sense of the word though: some local governments have "encouraged" businesses to close, but there are essentially no legal levers to force them to do, much less require people to stay at home.

https://asia.nikkei.com/Editor-s-Picks/Interview/Tokyo-gover...

The one thing governments did do was close schools, which wreaked havoc on single parents and dual income families. The complete decimation of the tourist industry plus people staying at home due to general fear of the virus have also caused considerable economic damage, hence the job losses and insecurity.
...assuming you know a second language, which odds are children are gonna learn in school.
Reliable Electricity in Winter? FERC, Are You Listening?
Instead of outputting a flash object file the Flash tools could have output actual HTML.

The Flash Player is, at the end of the day, a proprietary Canvas widget with a ECMAScript based VM powering it. With HTML5 they could have targetted the actual real HTML5 Canvas and completely eliminated the flash player plug in whilst still retaining the tools.
You fumbled the math.

>doubling wind speeds gives ~8 times the power

This describes a cubic relationship; 2 cubed is 8.

>doubling the length of the blades gives something like 4 times the power output

This describes a quadratic relationship; 2 squared is 4.

0.9^3 * 0.9^2 = 59% of the energy, much better than the 20% you claim.
Mandatory xkcd;

https://xkcd.com/326/
That's called having a privileged reference frame, and yes, if your FTL jumps all use the same reference frame then there's no way to violate causality.
There was a paper that came out of Germany earlier this year that said the optimum replication rate in terms of keeping the economy going was 0.63. This idea that there is a trade off between health and business is false.
> but on the other hand what harm does it do to learn it?

None. In fact, I personally thought this was an interesting little fact to learn. I didn't get worked up about it, all I said is that you shouldn't have to know it.

However, because Americans aren't very culturally sensitive with respect to foreigners, there's lots of little things that we do have to learn to access the so-called global internet.
Do you have a source for your second claim?
In the whole article the word Intelligence or IQ wasn't mentioned once. The whole Bill Gates success formula is "healthy childhood and no daycare" is complete bullshit. You know what enabled him in the first place to be a genius? Being a genius. For outliers like Gates, Goethe and Gauß you don't need any of these mentioned factors. It is close to 100% just genetics. Also survivor ship bias is a huge factor.
Why is it necessary to respect someone who is dead? They are dead, after all. Seems like we should probably respect people a little more when they are alive and a little less when they are dead.
You’re ignoring reality. There is a dedicated bike path that I ride every day with painted bicycles on the path and a separate sidewalk next to it with grass between. There are always people walking on the bike path. This is even understandable with covid, people are trying to keep their distance.

There are also people on ebikes going faster than everyone, swerving between the bike path and the sidewalk.
Why do you have to:

1. Incorrectly quote the statistic (two thirds of suicides are male)

2. Come up with a BS narrative (domestic abuse, when japan isn’t even locked down) to explain these statistics after the fact (instead of a falsifiable hypothesis that can be tested)

Funnily enough, this is exactly what is wrong with social science in general.
Fixed in https://github.com/susam/tucl/commit/b2abf75eefb34601bc38618... (commit b2abf75).

Thank you for proofreading the Markdown document.
so,here it is:

Google backs Go.

Apple backs Swift.

Amazon is trying to back Rust.

Edit : What I am trying to say is that Financial Backing and adoption by FAANG companies can really improve ecosystem of Programming language. I am not here to tell that it will be product of certain company.
Headline begs the question - what the hell did we think we were doing between August and November?

Numbers were low which makes R very hard to calculate. When numbers are low, it doesn't matter much if there is some growth. And, finally, we were under tiered area restrictions depending on local rates (though I felt the chosen restrictions were a bit odd). Finally, in some parts of the country, a full lockdown didn't really make sense even when it was ordered (though arguably, this is lockdown-lite compared to the spring).
Couple finds Prohibition-era whiskey hidden in the walls of their New York home
Genode OS Framework 20.11
I don’t understand what you’re arguing. Here is a guy trying his best to make his cheese as similar to an authentic cheese as possible in taste, texture, etc. You’re saying that shouldn’t be the goal because he will have trouble getting the exact ingredients? So what? He knows he doesn’t have the exact ingredients and is trying his best anyway. All of the limitations are known to all involved. That’s a problem because?

What exactly is your point?
Only if you run it on your production instance? If you run it on CI in a fresh test instance you should have a fairly good idea.
Happy to answer any questions you have regarding the license and why we chose it. Is your concern the copyleftness of the license?
That's how I've been doing presentations for years!

Made me really excited and happy when I discovered it.
This very much depends on your available hardware and the complexity of the load test. Following the advice in https://k6.io/docs/testing-guides/running-large-tests, and having a beefy load generation machine and network, you should be able to run many thousands of VUs on a single instance pretty comfortably. How many thousands precisely depends on a lot of factors... :)
Why This Year You Need To Start A Blog As A Developer
On the Apple Silicon M1 MacBook Pro
At that point you're performing ridiculous contortions of physics mostly just to avoid engineering a better cryosleep?
When I code something myself I am not reinventing any wheels and I am not building a creaky wooden wheel. As you say, the world is full of technically marvelous wheels that I can crib off of and I have access to fabulous tools that allow me to easily synthesize new wheels.

Unlike actual wheels, the ability to quickly and easily tear down, reconfigure, and rebuild my digital tool box is the defining hallmark of software.
If you have a hub motor ebike, installing puncture resistant tyres are essential in my opinion. I also have had bad experiences with local bike shops, and the cost of replacing a normal tyre with puncture resistant ones is made up as soon as you roll over glass (very common on my commute). Battling to get the rear wheel off and back on correctly again on my rear hub motor bike isn’t something I want to do again!

https://ampedcycling.com/puncture-resistance-what-can-i-do-t...
Leaning Against the Wind and Crisis Risk
Wikipedia is translated into many languages.
Soft lockdowns are a problem, too: if the abuser in your home suddenly starts working remotely and is at home 95% of the time, arguably that’s not significantly different from a full lockdown with restricted freedom of movement.
Gatling is super slow. Suspicious slow in fact. You will likely not be able to really hit your endpoints hard enough by using one machine only.

Personally I use autocannon which in my testing is faster than k6 and easier to use with a node.js environment. It is only a npm package, not a full software you need to install on your machine. Autocannon in my testing is 2 orders of magnitude faster than gatling, but you should do your own testing. PS. I have no affiliations to autocannon, I'm just a very happy user.

The only drawback compared to k6 is lack of websockets, which is unfortunate.

https://github.com/mcollina/autocannon
Beware what you wish for.
One other thing I always found iffy is the comment section. Why is the information there not reviewed and back-ported into the documentation? Sometimes, as on the page of the `DateTime` class, they actually contain crucial details!
Used artillery at work but it's rather pricy, I ended up using locust to load test.
I've been told by people with direct knowledge of the situation
It’s maybe something about having tools that are intrinsically more powerful.

To pick on an example given in the article:

File managers that “seamlessly” (air quotes intentional) support multiple network protocols and archive formats have a supposedly flat learning curve; so flat that no mental effort is expected.

Indeed there is plenty and very confusing for anyone not prepared to it upfront.

Firing up a dedicated - specific purpose - application primes the users’ attention and makes eventual struggles expected and even gratifying to solve.

It’s a hunch, no hard proof for this; maybe some behavioral scientist can chime in
Lolwut. Please. This kind of boundless credulity, which is unfortunately quite widespread, has sent innocent people to their executions.

You are ascribing a "kernel of truth" to a completely unsubstantiated claim because the comment includes specific details and because of the username of the poster, which they themselves chose and did not have to justify.

There is absolutely no evidence that the claim by "exzappos" is true or false. Please don't imply anything else.

> the real reason I believe these claims is because my gut says it is true. Not the best reason, of course. But not a bad reason either.

Yes, a bad reason. A very bad reason.
I know some of the people who have ended up there, they are some of the very best people.
Indeed, I feel compliance where I am is fairly low, already. Yes, people largely follow the rules, but they are looking for every loophole they can find, and they are completely ignoring basic things like physical distancing and limiting the number of people they interact with.
> This cult-ish mode isn’t antithetical to individualism. We freely choose to associate this way. Unlike cult members, there is an out.

There is an incredible amount of social pressure to conform, whether it be to cheering for school mascots, or daily pledging your unconditional allegiance to a nation, years before you are old enough to understand what half of those concepts mean.
I think we were raised in very different cycling cultures. I was taught to be embarrassed at much less than 15mph under my own power. Being lazy, I usually rode closer to 11-12 when alone, and the only slower bikes I encountered were small children. Many athletic cyclists zoomed by at 20-25.

I was also taught to assert my right of way when I have it, and be deferential when I don’t. So the designation of the path does matter.
Except the protocol/format we use for communicating text in the public is terminally convoluted, requires executing arbitrary code, is laughably energy-inefficient and has only one or two apps left that can deal with it. When SGML on which HTML is based (also released in the 80s) was a "humanist" idea to prevent exactly that from happening.
I am one of the k6 developers. I've commented in a bunch of threads here, but if you have any questions, feel free to AMA :) I'll be around for the next ~1h and then probably later in the day as well.
The Technology Connections YouTube channel did a really good video on this and the mechanical TV: https://youtu.be/v5OANXk-6-w
The graph on the second page is really low quality (I can't read the X-axis, the highlighted section is a different size, and the highlighted section has 2 additional series that don't show up in the key), so it's really hard to say for sure, but it's totally possible for both to be true: If most of the deaths so far were a "culling effect" of people likely to die later in the year, then the net by the end of the year could be "no difference".

Given the average age of deaths by COVID-19 being above average life expectancy, this totally seems possible to me - lots of excess deaths early in the year, but the opposite later in the year, resulting in net "deaths as usual" over the whole year.
Where are the UNIX APIs on watchOS?

Having fun with writing CLI apps and daemons for the watch?

Plus POSIX support in IoT like devices exists since ages.
Yes, agreed on all points with both of you!

During the summer, when they talked about opening schools and claimed that young children weren’t major vectors for the virus, I was very skeptical and assumed it was mostly just an excuse -- but it does actually seem to have worked out! If primary school children were spreading the virus en masse, the current spike would be vastly bigger.

(It’s very unfortunate in the US that school opening has been so strongly politicized.)

Opening the universities is another matter entirely. That definitely shouldn’t have been done. I was going to say “in hindsight” but in fact that was pretty obvious right away.
Is this article about defining a term independent-minded which is strongly related to curious and a lot more talk about some aspects of the life and ideas of an independent-minded nerd?
> Here is my formula for success (in case anyone cares): Enjoy life, try to make the world better, be a good person, go towards your passions (whether for hobby or career) and cultivate relationships because that seems to be the thing people regret most when they die.

A nice mantra. Not dissimilar to the top of PG's to do list. There he also describes "the biggest regrets of the dying"..

"Don't ignore your dreams; don't work too much; say what you think; cultivate friendships; be happy."

http://www.paulgraham.com/todo.html
The web is an incredible resource.

I fear that people in america have equated the web with profit
, not because it's true, but because all they care about is profit
In 2008 I was consuming as much entrepenuriship content I could (while building my first company). For obvious reasons I ended up watching a Tony's presentation. He was sharing a lot of stories about Zappos and in the end he talked about their Culture Book (a book entirely written by Zappos employees, with no editing).

Immediately after watch it I sent an email directly for him (at the time a CEO of a company that would be sold to Amazon for 1.2B 8 months after) asking if I could have a digital version of the book since I was living in Brazil. For my complete surprise I received a response in less than 1 hour just asking for my address. One day after I received a physical copy of the book, signed by the very own Tony Hsieh. He even invited me to visit Zappos offices if I ever were in Las Vegas!

Today I woke up with this sad news.
Definitely, a huge loss to the world. I'm sure you'll always be an inspiration to many.

Rest in peace Tony Hsieh,
A big fan
Yes! This! Sooooo much time tweaking extended vs expanded memory (who came up with those names?) and fiddling with sound card IRQ settings to get a new game running.
”Extreme micro-management, incompetent managers don't trust what they don't know.”

This feels like an eye opener for me. Not in a negative way, but it explains why some get the praise of all the colleagues around them but never from the boss. Which also explains why priorities are sometimes out of whack.

Is there any books about this?
I've been coming to terms with both my parents dying this year, and one of the eye opening things is how much worse it could have been.

Seeking a bit of comfort, I went to different friends who I knew had lost a parent to speak about the experience.

I hadn't expected it, but a couple of friends had truly traumatic losses. One of them was due to locked-in syndrome.

After a stroke, my friend's dad had this happen to him. It really changes what you feel about death. Initially, there's the fighting stage. You want to do everything for your loved one to survive. I wanted my dad to eat better and exercise. He wanted just for his dad to wake up.

He'd get ill often, and the doctors would give him antibiotics and whatever therapy was needed. It lasted for years, no wake up. Time passed, numerous visits came and went. Eventually the family decided it might be better to let the next illness end it, so they agreed with the medical staff on what to do, and made their final thoughts.

Incredibly, the next infection took years to come. In a twisted irony, the family spent years hoping for improvement, then years hoping for the end.

Weirdly this wasn't even the worst story of the ones I collected. It's just a reminder that things could have been much worse. We tend to not think about death too much, it's grim and challenges our ideas about who we are and what the good life is.
What do you mean "very long article"? You could have used "extensive" or something ;)

Anyway, what I've seen when comparing the performance of tools, is that Artillery, which is running on NodeJS, is perhaps the wors performer of all the tools I've tested. I don't know if it's because of NodeJS or that Artillery in itself isn't a very performant piece of software (It also consumes a lot of memory, btw).

If you want the highest performance, there is one tool that runs circles around all others (including k6), and that is wrk - https://github.com/wg/wrk - very cool piece of software although it is lacking in terms of functionality so mostly suitable for simpler load testing like hammering single URLs.

(I don't know how fast wrk2 is, haven't benchmarked it)
If you’re in a rush in the morning to get to work, arriving sweating after cycling intensively isn’t a nice experience especially if you don’t have a shower or changing facilities at work. Maintaining a higher speed while reducing or eliminating sweating, while taking cars off the road is a huge plus of ebikes. Maybe it’s a positive social change that will come out of Covid.
Sure, my daughter has access to more knowledge than I could have ever dreamt of in my youth. But left unsupervised, she'll spend probably 99.99% of her time on TikTok and Instagram and 0.01% on Wikipedia. Access is great and necessary, but far from sufficient.

edit: I don't know if I would have chosen differently, if all were available in my youth.

edit2: I think do know. I probably spent much more time on video games than on Encarta.
Japan never had any lockdown so not sure what alternative you're talking about. There's no decision causing this. Sounds like you defensively interpreted this as an argument against lockdowns and started downplaying the numbers for no reason at all.
Of course you can create white collar jobs and have your employees hate you. My claim was only that it's impossible to have your employees NOT hate you if you are the richest man in the world and they're doing blue collar labor for you. If you create only jobs where people are earning six figures in front of a desk and living comfortable lives, they might envy but don't begrudge you $100 billion. But if you're asking someone to do tough physical labor for $15 or $20 an hour while you make a billion dollars a day or whatever, no way they won't try to knock you off that pedestal.
> Can you point me to a sustainable website with useful knowledge?

https://wikipedia.org