skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anybody remember the Zune? How different is Microsoft nowadays to make this actually work?

Most of their hardware products (not all... but most) end up being good, but not earth-shatteringly so, and either keep kind of moving on without taking any crowns (like Xbox), or slowly wither and die (Zune, Windows Phone).

Surface seems to be a good Halo product (not the game, ha!) so far, but I see very few Surfaces in the wild compared to any other laptop/tablet/desktops (mostly HP, some Dell, etc.).
Audio Sampler for MacBook Touch Bar
There was a pretty serious-sounding contingent of commenters here in a recent thread about RSI. To them, the main cause of RSI was some sort of unconscious tension they were holding in the affected areas, and they needed to relax to make the pain go away. I wonder if that was placebo too
Microsoft adopts Ethereum blockchain for gaming royalties
all google products are interlinked
> And if I know, the placebo won't work.

This is not a given:

https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/placebo-can-work-even-kn...

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/10/27/4994752...
Other sites have an incentive to drive (sometimes hostile) engagement for revenue. Maybe removing that mis-aligmnet with visitors and operators is a good first step
Ideal Chess – drop chess perfected?
I work for a university, both as a teacher and as an internal employee, I also studied at the same university. It's not unusual for staff to have studied at the uni and many of my professional colleagues guest lecture, though I am the only tutor as far as I know. (Australian uni, so words may have different meanings to American's). Prior to joining the uni I was a big4 consultant and general know it all :D

Anyway, as a strategy consultant I often ask myself what would we do differently if we were starting higher education from scratch. Every country I've looked at has a slightly different take on tertiary education and my own ideas are clearly biased by the Australian experience.

In Australia we usually have to pick our major before we finish high school. There is, as far as I know, nothing comparable to the US 2-4 year degree that is basically a choose your own adventure (I could joke about Arts degrees, but sadly not enough people do them and even then my story below holds true). This puts a lot of pressure on people to pick the "right" degree to support their career goals, often before they know what their career will be. (Heck I'm almost 40 and still trying to figure it out). However another side effect of this is you end up in an echo chamber of classes with other like minded students studying basically the same things, and you rarely get the wider experience outside of your major.

Example: I start a degree in Computer Science, in most of my classes all my peers are also CS students, and while sometimes there will be a few randoms who pick a subject for complimentary skills (Maths students studying programming so they can get better at R; economics students, same reason) these students aren't as 'good' as the CS students so no one wants to group with them, and they don't sit in any of the existing cliques.

Ultimately this leaves a lot of people with a very limited network of people after uni. The CS majors don't have the contacts they need from the Business school or the Law school to be able to find opportunities for new ventures, or to recommend them into other opportunities and vice versa.

So I think I'd start by looking at how we can encourage the development of these communities further. For now I give most of my mentees a copy of Never Eat Alone and hope they read it and take it to heart.
Stanford hospital erupts in protest after vaccine plan leaves out residents
> It feels like it shouldn't be possible nor work as well as it does, and yet apparently I'm having a much better experience than people with much more capable hardware.

I often use screen sharing to work on my laptop from my desktop. Both machines are connected to the same switch with gigabit ethernet, but it performs worse and has more noticable input lag than the Stadia games I'm playing over the internet. It must have something to do with the video encoding I guess, Google doing things in hardware and my laptop trying it's best in software.
I think it shows how quickly the virus can rebound when restrictions are eased.
> I've got only limited patience for people being stupid and/or mean. Can't we tell stories about good and smart people? Those stories exist, but they're depressingly rare.

I don't think there are good or bad people. Every person contains both within them.
> its sort of ironic for them to be trying to apply US law in China to punish Chinese law being applied to people in the US.

There's no irony.

This is some general information for HN readers to have some background context to unpack comments like the parent.

1) The entire Chinese legal system is beholden to the CCP, so you cannot compare Chinese and US legal systems or courts.

2) It's important to understand about the non-kinetic warfare doctrines of the CCP.

One of them is "lawfare" (law warfare), which is using a target country's laws against themselves. This is very effective against an open society like the US.

An example is that the CCP has funded US shell organizations to block the banning of Chinese apps in the US, in US courts.

Also, WeChat is used as a means for the CCP in mainland China to exercise control over diaspora, so it really needs to be banned outside China. One of the abuses was using WeChat to have American Chinese hoard PPE supplies this spring and mail them to China.

So when an open society tries to defend itself, you end up with what appears to be an "ironic" situation, but was actually choreographed by the CCP.
No, I’m saying for a node.js developer all of their dependencies affect how their applications work. If they can get away with a statically linked node binary and no other libraries, great!
Ask HN: How do I get out of data science?
I spent a few years trying to land a job as a data scientist, and now I want to do something different in the tech field. I haven't had luck finding a new position :(

I've looked at data engineering, systems engineering, signal processing, project management, and architecture roles. I've done some of each of those in my current position and I've enjoyed them much more than the machine learning I've done. But I also don't feel like I know enough of any of them where I could make a lateral move and have any degree of success.

When I've applied to jobs, I've sometimes gotten an interview for the role I applied for and got one job offer that turned out to involve a substantial pay cut. When I hear back, I feel like most of the time the person who calls me wants me to work on their data science team and then gets kind of confused (and sometimes offended) when I tell them I don't want to work as a data scientist anymore.

How do I make this transition? Is it just a matter of time or do I need to approach things from a different angle?
its a paradox because they should be slower when they have so many things depending on them and they can't afford to fail. so being quicker would actually be dumb of them.
This is dangerous thinking. For example when it comes to chronic pain, there is that belief being pushed that opioids are actually a placebo and they don't help. Then people are being sentenced to a talking therapies instead. These therapies try to implant the thought that all the pain people experience is in their heads and it is not real. If only they could just stop thinking about pain, then they wouldn't need to take any pills. This is one of the reasons why people turn to dealers, if doctors start to believe this and are made afraid of prescribing anything. Also organisations who get involved in such "therapies" promote them, because that is, let's be honest, rather easy money from the public health organisations. It fits the western perception of suffering, that it is noble and virtuous. I wish this topic was explored more by investigative journalists.
I've done dev in Xcode on the original 12" fan-less MacBook with 8 GB and it was fine, simulators and everything.
Sadly this is trending at #3 - https://sqwok.im/p/QwqOd1D0x2HvKw
I believe the placebo effect can also work just by telling someone about it (and then giving them the sugar pill or whatever). However, the whole placebo effect may just be (poor understanding of) statistics, namely regression to the mean. Here's an article [0] (found via Wikipedia on placebo [1])

[0] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1365-2796....

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placebo#Confounding_factors
Exactly this. One thing is to have (today) the same behaviour, another is to (forever) be the same thing.
I think your right on with the dynamic oscillation between convergence and divergence. All real oscillatory systems exhibit precisely that behaviour, especially pronounced during step changes.

Also, it gives new meanings to the term ‘on the same wavelength’.
What strikes me is
“ On 2020-12-14, Google Engineering began receiving internal user reports of delivery errors.
A code change which updated the configuration was identified as having a compatibility issue. Believing that this was the root cause, Google Engineering reverted the code change, which resolved the immediate issue”
So they didn’t investigate, just believed that this is an issue. That’s crazy. It tells me about how slow processes can be at google
which is also very remarkable. If I had a painting worth 340.000 $ with me, I would not leave it out of my sight, much less forget about it.
Author of smol async runtime leaves Rust
How do you battle test a RAD prototype? Stick it in microwave like device with ionizing radiation and see how many bit-flips occur?
Even though the specs says nothing about it, modern JavaScript is almost always JITted, i.e. V8 that powers Node and Chrome, the rest of the browser js engines
The Trump administration placed a number of sanction on Russia. The collusion accusation was a plot and that's well known by now.

The only thing I'm going to be happy about in a month is that media propaganda is going to have to look for a new angle and hopefully there will be less baseless comments like this floating around the internet.

But is it even known for sure this was Russians yet? Pardon me for having grown a bit skeptical of claims. It's sad it's come that because certain parties wanted to discredit a political opponent and drum up support for further military actions in Syria and elsewhere.
> Design Patterns are a massive code smell.

Are you really trying to argue that a collection of terminology aimed at describing high level concepts, or standard solutions to commonly repeating problems and requirements, is a code smell?

What other good engineering practices are also code smells?
If they are truly designing chips for Surface PCs... I have hopes, but Apple has a, what, 10-year head start?

Plus, it's very likely that unlike Apple, Microsoft will not be able to find a way to economically design their own CPU cores. They'll just be premade Cortex X1 or whatever licensed ARM core, but Apple will remain ahead with Firestorm/Icestorm and whatever comes after. Kind of like Qualcomm right now.
Java support has been much much better for the last year in vscode.
You can get charged with far more than fraud in the US, depending on the state. In Illinois, selling "look alike" drugs is a class 3 felony. [0]

> A look-alike drug can be any substance that would lead a reasonable person to believe that the look-alike is the real thing, such as its color, consistency, dosage amount, shape or markings. Or a drug can be considered a look-alike if you imply or expressly represent that the look-alike is real. For example, a court can consider any statements you made in advertising or distributing the drug, whether you asked for money and how you packaged the look alike. [ibid]

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[0]: https://www.skokiecriminallawyer.com/2013/01/look-alike-drug...
Be sure to mention this on the web site under the "I get the idea, but why bother?" section. I just saw a reference to the JD system on the Evernote subreddit, and I'm very excited to try it. I am trying to figure out my Areas and Categories now, and I think one of the values of the system is applying it everywhere. That's a great idea. Right now I have different folders on my drive, different folders in my browser bookmarks, different folders for email, etc. Unifying them all to follow the same Areas and Categories makes good sense so the brain doesn't have to ask itself "ok, where am I and what naming convention does this tool follow so I know where to find something."
Thanks for sharing your system.
I talked about this elsewhere in this thread (just with gloves instead of colored balls).
I thought placebos work even with open labels?
This seems to support it being adjusted not unadjusted. There is no unadjusted column and the Saturn V is listed as 5400 adjusted which lines up with the graph, if it were the unadjusted number it'd be ~7x off.
And here I thought it was going to be a Trump thing. At least this made chuckle. ;)
> heh, that’s because the dev dependencies (prettier and the test suite) have been accidentally added as runtime deps.

fixed - thanks akx (and congrats on the first PR to cerulean :D)! https://github.com/matrix-org/cerulean/pull/30
One thing being expensive doesn’t make another thing not expensive.

It’s possible for them to both be independently expensive, and I’m saying that unless you can prove that the performance difference makes any difference to company profits, it is literally a huge waste of company money to buy those expensive machines.

A lot of applications will actually perform worse in NUMA environments, so you’re spending more money to get worse performance.

Reality isn’t as simple as “throw unlimited money at Intel to save engineering time.” Intel wishes it was.

Engineering effort will be expended either way. It is worth finding the right solution, rather than the most expensive solution. Especially since that most expensive solution is likely to come with major problems.
Do we know if diet plays a factor in methane production?
Well, this is life changing information. Thanks for it.

I have knee pain when running with no physical explanation (MRI found nothing) I'm sure a placebic treatment would be helpful, but can I treat myself with a placebo? I wonder if an authority figure giving you an open placebo is more effective than me just telling myself that I'm cured, but I'm going to start with the latter.
If you write it once, you eliminate the chance of a small fix not propagating properly. This is particularly common when handling files and network connections, as those tend to develop edge cases over time.

DRY reduces the number of potential lose ends when you update your code.
Ok. How much kg of CO₂ is that per kg of payload?
So much for the theory that "the FAA lost so much credibility because of the 737 Max certification that now they're definitely being super careful and doing their job, so we can trust that it's fixed", which I've heard quite a few times around these parts. Nope: the FAA is still useless and you still should not set foot on this plane.
Delphi compile times are very slow on a reasonable 10 man year project. It doesn’t help the the IDE (and compiler?) was still 32 bit last year (even though it can compile 64 bit apps). Apart from some other toxic problems!
So now they do have an incentive, AMP, and we're here arguing about how amp is not the solution..
You may just need to tweak your cache & RAM settings. I had similar issues here, and I just juiced the RAM to 4096 (that's 4 GB, a number I chose arbitrarily). Haven't had an issue since.
It doesn't sound like he was working either during the first two attempts where he dropped out. It looks like it took some real world experience to create the motivation to get the degree.
1, 4, 5, 9, 10, 12, 18, 19 don’t seem accurate.
> Familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) is a hereditary inflammatory disorder... an autoinflammatory disease caused by mutations in Mediterranean fever gene, which encodes a 781–amino acid protein called pyrin.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Familial_Mediterranean_fever
Be careful with anecdotes! Even your own experiences! The world is a very big place. The few different jobs I've worked over the past, say... 5 years... I've seen lots of places that were Dell from door to door, a mix of Macbooks and Surface, all Macbooks but a few had Surface as personal/toys, etc. At some places, they are popular and I think when you see them all the time you're more likely to buy one yourself. When no one you know has one you're less likely to get one. So it's helpful to dig up sales statistics if you can find them...

Perhaps the closest thing to a Zune that Microsoft makes today is the Surface Duo. It's very expensive with nice hardware, but the initial launch got some bad press from mediocre software. The software has likely gotten a lot better over time, so it will be interesting to see a version 2 here. But no one will be buying a $1400 Zune :)
Depending on the engine, yes, it might need to be made relatively early. But in practice it's, as everything, design. Some games want to have that element in their gameplay, some do not, it changes things a lot as lighting is used to make things visible (obviously) and to steer attention, it's a fundamental part of level-design, so things change considerably in terms of the game you're playing based on if you want to allow lighting to change or not.
While I don't disagree with the idea that larger and more powerful states get cut more slack, this is an instance of fraud. Some entity is misrepresenting themselves as Facebook and the rest. This is a technical reaction to a straightforward error. Failure to react would put the entire TLS identity system at risk.
> Plenty of negativity in the comments here.

Mostly fear. There are a lot of people suffering out there right now and the risk of that leading to a war is real. This is a salient reminder that militaries can send a drone anywhere and mow people down.

The forestry industry is nice and all, but tech like this is going to literally kill people. That will be the most interesting application in this decade.
curl https://sqwok.im

It's not TXT, HTML, JSON, XML, GZIP, JPG, PNG, GIF, ...

Would be nice to have a hint. Nothing useful in the headers except something about AWS Lambda.
>>Should we call passing a boolean flag "The Flag Pattern"?

You mean like a bit field?

Did you realized that with only two words you can convey amultitude of information regarding it's use and implementation and properties?

Two words.

Perhaps there is more to design patterns than mindlessly complaining about stuff you don't fully understand.
Ask HN: Best resources for learning about commercial “IDE grade” parsers
The fact that neither the traditional CS curriculum nor the research literature covers "real world, production-grade" parsers - especially ones suitable for use in commercial IDEs - has come up repeatedly on HN. That begs the question: are there resources that do? This is not a question about how lexing and parsing works, the merits of parser generators and specific grammars, the implementation of canonical parsers, or codebase examples, e.g., JetBrains community edition. It is a question about design patterns for practical concerns like evolution and maintainability, generating great error messages, operating incrementally, and remaining snappy when used on real (not pathological) PL sources. Thanks!
I don't think there are any doctors, except perhaps a handful of cranks, who believe that opioids are "a placebo". Perhaps you mean something else? There are definitely doctors who underprescribe pain medications to certain groups of people - as I understand it, women are notably underprescribed pain medications for example - but that doesn't mean that those people think opioids are a "placebo".
Means of Descent (2016)
All their managed services will be running off them in time
Do we actually have much data on the failure rates to different kinds of chips to radiation in space? If so ... how?
What conditions have to hold so that when a chip is damaged by radiation you get enough information about it to know which chip had what kind of problem?
As if VCs would ever invest in something as unsexy as an IDE. Hoe are you going to blitzscale an IDE?
"Does anyone have any examples of surgeries that are done today in modern medicine that are basically placebo?"

Spinal fusions for injuries not sustained in car accidents or horse throws or ... other literally back-breaking trauma.

People with plain old uninteresting everyone-gets-it back pain get spinal fusions - a major, invasive surgery. There is a complicated nexus of obesity, refusal to do PT exercises, and huge economic incentives for surgeons that lead to these procedures.

This critical review even mentions a Cochrane review[1]:

"... and often does not even result in the spine being fused. That last one is not a big deal, because the results of the surgery are not well correlated with whether or not the spine fuses."[2]

[1] https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD...

[1] http://doctorskeptic.blogspot.com/2012/08/is-lumbar-spine-fu...
Not really a placebo, but broken collarbones are an example of this. The most common injuries can be healed with just a sling and rest. With surgery it makes sense with compound fractures or bones that are overlapping significantly or not where they need to be as it might not heal at all with a sling. Compared to just healing with a sling, surgery has increased risks from complications, the metal plate that can cause discomfort and a noticeable scar. With surgery the healing time is usually faster too
> Your site messed with a lot of the ways their business generated revenue, in an industry that was already struggling to adapt to "the internet".

In 1972 Alan Kay predicted that one of the first programs the user of a global network would write would be a "filter to eliminate advertising."

However, I don't know if he foresaw that opportunistic republishers would strip the original ads and replace them with new ones.
There's so many things to love about this video. The guy on the mixing desk vibing like a DJ, the other guy's home-made wheely-chair, the sounds. Awesome.
And what if suffering does actually promote noble and virtuous thoughts? You left the most influential thought in the western tradition unexamined.

From experience suffering, in any form, certainly enhances the idea of the golden rule, that is ‘Treat others as you would like others to treat you’.
The YouTube channel from SeaLemon (https://www.youtube.com/user/SeaLemonDIY) also has quite a few good bookbinding videos. I've used them to help me through a few projects, and they're quite practical.
Seconded. Love the fact that they don’t get petty about different machines etc.

I started using their free versions for non-commercial projects and have paid for commercial use.

It’s really worth trying JetBrains, even if you’re a vim/emacs devotee... I’d say I’m at least 10x productive in IntelliJ compared to other editors, for example, after coding Java for 20+ years. I’ve watched programmers I consider way above me in ability move so slowly compared to hopping around / refactoring / debugging in JBs.
Huawei releases HarmonyOS 2.0 beta for select phones
Much less - then you get to the same brand name effect but for companies you've worked at. Though those brand names probably correlate a lot more heavily to real employment value.
A massive contributor to that would also be a lot of prefabrication. Which also fits well, if you can some how have much of construction standardised and ready to go. The brick was that what at a very granular level.

I think this can still relate to software in many ways as well.
Do you blog? I really enjoyed reading that.
I tried it for a while but, although there was a lot to like and it's streets ahead of the more well known Pathfinder, the inability to set view options on a per-folder basis got so annoying I eventually ended up going back to Finder —for all its many flaws.