skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Their open source free pack is so great, many many thanks to them!

And they kill two birds with one stone. First, they support open source, which is great. Second, they increase conversion and loyal userbase. At my job I had a choice between Visual Studio + Resharper vs Rider, and I was reluctant to move from VS to IntelliJ IDEA based IDE, thinking R# is good enough and gives the same benefits inside a familiar IDE. I was so wrong, after trying Rider at home occasionally and pair coding at job, I gradually migrated. The IDE itself is much better, faster, nicer is big and very small details. Now there is no way back to VS, but that may not have happenned without the access at home. Other tools from the Toolbox are doing the same for other languages. Very smart of them to be so generous. Now even if my free pack is not renewed, I will pay for myself. And for foreseeable future I will generate at least one license at work for them.
Ads being "relevant" seems like a misnomer these days.

In a discussion once about viral diseases there was a discussion about RNA versus DNA viruses, so I searched up various viruses included HIV and Herpes, reading about how DNA viruses hide in the body. Now on Facebook my ads are 50% HIV/AIDS medications.

I bought a soundbar at Best Buy, so the other 50% of the ads are bizarre Best Buy soundbars, primarily the exactly model I already bought. To make it doubly detrimental for Best Buy, I occasionally click the ad to see if the price has changed.

The myth about the useful, relevant ads seems like it doesn't share a lot with reality. While my example is an anecdote, can anyone seriously saying that ads have actually been useful or relevant? When I'm not blocking them they seem to overwhelmingly be things I've already bought and services I already use.

The ad industry seems to be overwhelmingly a lie that we've all bought into. The personalized ad industry seems like a grotesque abuse under a promise that it never actually delivers.
> Given that Apple now deploys backdoors by default for their own apps which will always inevitably result in exploits

You're talking about the certificate revocation check that bypasses VPNs? That one is to prevent malware from being able to hijack and block certificate checks.
I've used it with TypeScript exclusively. My qualms are more about debugging (VS Code creates a temporary Firefox profile in seconds and that's it; in WebStorm you need to configure Firefox to launch a certain way and then setup the debugger), the absence of refactoring options, framework support, etc.
Distributed Systems, Microservices and Interstellar Travel
Asymptomatic Spread Revisited
The €125M Italian Climate Moonshot Factory
Could be possibly because they were Czech? The culture is very different from what Americans are used to. Very reserved, very matter-of-fact, no smalltalk.
I’m doing a postdoc in stats/ML and mainly writing MCMC algorithms. Background: phd in computational statistics. I’ve used a lot of Python and a bit of Julia.

I’ve recently started using JAX and I’m really into it! It’s really fast even on my laptop (cpu) and can run even faster on GPU.
I’m now using jax even for random scripts as well as I prefer the random number generator to numpy’s one. This is because you pass the random keys explicitly to all random functions so everything is reproducible.

I really like programming side the research; especially trying to get algorithms to be fast! So Jax is really great for that
1) I think U. of Waterloo (Canada) had several CS coop students (paid interns) at Parc in the mid-80's, so I'm surprised there was a citizenship issue.

2) I later worked for Incyte, who leased space next door from Parc around 2002. I smiled whenever I got a meeting invitation at Parc. :)
FYI: Find some CSV format specifications (and tests) @ https://github.com/csvspecs
Thanks for clarifying. And that article was informative too.
Understanding this further does make me less hesitant to side with Apple here. I use Duolingo (spinoff of my alma mater), and I understand that they depend upon ads to fund their business. But my understanding is that user consent is only needed to get the unique advertising id. So apps just need to be more creative with contextual ads, and get to know their users directly instead of depending on Facebook.
Not to invalidate the way you feel about that interaction, but putting myself in their shoes- I’m not sure my response would be much better.

Running a booth at a conference is EXHAUSTING. Also, that was your first interaction with them and you were at peak excitement. That might’ve been the thousandth time they had heard similar and their spark may have faded by the time you got there.

I get it though, we feel the way we feel. It sucks when your enthusiasm goes un-matched. I’ve written off companies for interactions a more objective bystander might charitably forgive.

BTW- I’ve got no relation to the company or product. I’m just a happy customer who’s run a booth or two in my day and also felt the same way as you about other companies too.
I know it's just a song, but does the unhappiness come from having scripted rather than genuine social interaction?
Apple cares about money, everything else is secondary. Advertising is a lot of money so they have no incentive to not try to take that part of the ecosystem over like they did with other parts.

Apple isn't altruistic, they simply found a slightly different equation for maximizing revenue than Facebook or Google. But don't confuse that with them being fundamentally different from their competitors.
Homeless people eat burgers and drink Coca Cola at the food banks and become fat?

I think the population under concern here is the lower middle class, who have disposable income but are strongly marketed to and manipulated so they use their disposable income in ignorant ways that come back to hurt them and help corporations. Including taking credits to buy stuff they don't need, getting another credit card to pay off the previous one, eating marketed and advertised junk food, consuming junk media, having no financial literacy etc.

They still aren't poor, they have cars and all kinds of household appliances (perhaps more than they need, from TV shop etc) and so on.
Sounds cool! What's the company? I haven't heard of many companies needing CFD
Not really (that i have seen). I am not an analyst though, so not a guarantee.
Die real estate is extremely expensive. Plus it wouldn’t really throw us off the scent due to the techniques we employ.
The performance issues might be fixable the gameplay issues won’t be.

The combat is broken and gets really really boring, the AI is buggy as hell and too simple and it almost seems like they used the same AI from TW3 and it doesn’t understands guns.

You can hide behind cover and headshot everyone with the sniper rifle on hard 10-15 levels above you can kill everyone with one shot.

I’ve one shotted a boss with the sniper rifle (the kingpin looking pimp guy) whilst the quest was still rated as “very high danger”.

Other things are also simply mind boggling for example you can get a rocket launcher upgrade instead of grenades that has infinite ammo and no cooldown basically allowing you to spam as much as you want, you can also replace the HE/incendiary warheads with a tranq dart allowing you to basically one shot all human enemies too.

The narrative mechanics are also completely boring and they do not work.

And there is an extremely obvious solution to that that not only works perfectly from a narrative and story progression perspective but also introduces a lot of interesting game mechanics.
Oh how I have wasted days configuring build and deployment pipelines in TeamCity. Brings back some arguably bad memories!
> I realize there is a large contingent of HN numskulls who just luuurb to chime in with a list of their "meds," for conditions imaginary and otherwise, whose idea of activity is playing video games while subsisting on a diet of microwave pizza rolls.

First thing I thought of was Ray Kurzweil.
Yep! Absolutely. Just like Unix VMs (and containers, etc.): recursive whole-system composition makes perfect sense. Smalltalk hasn't been taken in that direction yet by anyone, though, as far as I know.
I was wondering ten years ago if online advertising was a bubble. This was sort of a big deal because of both the direct (Google, Facebook, etc.) and indirect (employees, startups snapped up at insane valuations) beneficiaries.

Take that source of money away and it's not clear if you have fewer tech jobs overall. But, while there are other large tech employers who pay at the top tier in this world, I'm guessing there are a lot fewer jobs at that comp level and a lot fewer opportunities for rich startup exits if that particular money faucet were much reduced.
Brave currently offers all the benefits of Chrome with few of the downsides.

They are one of the few companies actually trying to change the spyware model of the web into something much more in line with its original principals (p2p ethos)
On PC it is a pretty decent game, nice missions, very nice graphics and art. Personally I like it better than other open world games that I played. It feels more immersive than most of them, as long as you don't go out of your way to break the immersion. In GTA and Red Dead Redemption 2 it is far more fun to create havoc than to play any of the missions in Cyberpunk 2077 there is basically almost no point doing anything but the missions, but I still feel far more connected and invested in the character than in either of the two other games.
> Never used any of their TeamCity/Spaces stuff but it looks cool. I can definitely say I'm a fan of their IDEs though. Use them every day.

I looked into the cloud offerings they have, the CI system is way more powerful than what I am using (bitbucket pipelines) and I'm actually pushing the limits of what I can sanely do there, so I may actually move over soon.
It looks like step 1 of integrating supertokens is writing a driver, and if I would like to do this the docs invite me to chat about it on Discord.
How the Belief in American Exceptionalism Has Shaped the Pandemic Response
This is the basis of the GDPR, which requires explicit, freely-given, revocable, and opt-in consent before any tracking can be done. I wish the US would get its act together and pass something similar for us in the US.
But his story has "New Testament" shape - he worked on his thesis, and then it was rejected by his fellow academics. Now, a successful author, he became vindicated by these popular articles.
Sustained, high-fidelity quantum teleportation
Or we'll have a deep learning tool that can show us what we will look like.
I don't know the details unfortunately, other than "force-reload fixes the issue".
AI Discovers Surprising Patterns in Earth’s Biological Mass Extinctions
I’d restate this advice as “be a specialist in several areas, start with one. Don’t be a generalist, while that is sometimes valuable, it’s not always.”

It is good advice. I’m doing pretty well in my career at 43 as an individual contributor. Next year I’ll be earning $500k easily (and I don’t live in NY or SF). I started as a coop student out of university which helped me focus on individual specialties. One of my very first jobs was as a database design analyst. I wanted to be a developer, but, i hit it off with this hiring manager in the interview.

When I started I had no idea about entity relation design, normalization, the great relational vs networked vs hierarchical database wars, data warehousing vs operational datastores, star schemas, reporting vs OLAP cubes, ETL tools, etc. I got very good at understanding a few of these tools [edit: specifically datamirror, informatica, Cognos, and Oracle RDBMS] very deeply, and became something of a technical expert on the topic of data warehousing, eventually meeting the pioneers of the field (Inman, Kimball) and eventually working for one of them (Terdeman). This was over the course of 5 years, with a sidestep into coding a large scientific test and measurement system on a Gemstone object database platform (a new area that benefited from my prior specialty). It was all a mix of serendipity and ability to focus.

My career moved away from data/analytics after that into middleware and REST architecture, and now cloud computing, and Kubernetes.

Tl;dr:

Knowing a few tools or subject areas super deeply comes across as having super powers. It really is about focus and curiosity.
ah! this is cool!
Since their HQ is in Russia is no one else concerned that their IDE may be subject to Russian spying?

I mean, I'm currently reading the book Sandworm. And it is known in the cybersecurity world that Russia coerces or intimidates companies and devs to work for them as spies.
Remember when <center> was all you needed? Maybe with a valign'd table if you wanted to get fancy.
to downvoters: can you explain why? That's not passive-aggressive, just desire to understand. The intent was an objective analysis of the revised privacy wording from the perspective of tracking. Do you disagree with the conclusions? Something else? Thanks.
Why would the citizens install the malicious certificate as it is? Because without it, they won't be able to browse the Internet
I wouldn't call that dense forest.
That statement doesn't even say whether they were actually checking. It's easy to have no knowledge when you aren't looking.

I don't think the statement was meant that way, but it just shows how defensive the wording is.
There are CSV specs - see https://specs.frictionlessdata.io/csv-dialect/ and https://github.com/csvspecs , for example. Note: Both initiatives are ongoing and alive and kicking. The trouble is almost nobody cares - as your ignorance shows - just complaining and playing the know-it-all is so much easier and more fun, isn't?
Same with WebStorm editing JavaScript & TypeScript!

I'm so impressed that JetBrains can put a reliable pseudo-type system on top of dynamic languages like Python and JavaScript.

My co-workers wonder why I don't just use VSCode like everybody else. I mean it's not _bad_, but it's not JetBrains. You will have to pry my all-tools JetBrains license out of my cold dead hands.
I disagree. I use it daily as my tool to manage data in MySQL, Postgress, Sql server and Db2 databases, and it's probably one of my favorite JetBrains tools. As a Linux user there aren't that many good options available, and I am very grateful that they added this product to their line.
I am not sure that the archetypical detective or mystery story would fit easily into this framework, as there are two concurrent stories: the misleading one that the author is stringing you along with, and the 'real' story as revealed in the denouement. The signature element of this style is that the 'facts' presented as part of the former are still there, but viewed differently, in the latter.
The fact that Facebook can even make this kind of argument seriously in the public sphere is a sad commentary on the prevailing ideological environment. Everything ultimately has to come down to "economic cost" and "economic benefit." I truly hope we're able to transcend this way of understanding value someday.
I've walked away from software development
Hi,

Where can I inspect that path? Could u help with a link?
While a nice story my own experience with religion actually contributed to suicidal thoughts. And it's because of the risk of these "supernatural" experiences that I'm not a fan of certain drugs.

So good for him for changing his life and doing some good. But I wouldn't encourage others to put their trust in the unprovable, especially with all much baggage as Christianity.
You stopped using their tools because some people at a conference didn't respond enthusiastically enough to your praise?
I would say that wikipedia is a good example of an honest way of using ads.
Currently use a Rift S but I have two Oculus Quests on the way one for the boy and one for me (it was originally just one for him but then amazon/hermes dropped me in the shit so I went and bought one for him so I'd have it for xmas and am still waiting for the other to turn up at some point).

In the Rift S on a 2080 it's jaw dropping, I'm hoping the 50% res boost on the Quest 2 will make it more so.

I also have a T16000M on the way because of the limitations of VR is you can't see the keyboard so I need more buttons to map everything plus it's a full HOTAS so will work great for DCS.
Their headquarter is in Prague, Czechia and that's part of the European Union.
The timing is terrible.
Portable Setup Lets You Draw on Anything with Lasers
A couple of months ago I started transitioning some of my oft-used scripts into podman builds (eg. convert picture.png picture.jpg)
NSA: Malicious Actors Abuse Authentication Mechanisms to Access Cloud Resources
Flex and grid finally made everything make sense. It's like I'm out of Plato's cave now.
We need companies like Coinbase, I think they provide great value, although what they did with the BCH push and trying to centralize Bitcoin was a huge overreach.

Bitcoin is stronger than the current financial system, so I'm not afraid of companies that bridge the two systems.

Personally I stay with Bitcoin, as it has a monopoly position, unlike Coinbase that has great competitors for all their important products at this point.
Maybe is a culture/language thing. Because I am not a native English speaker and I almost never have to speak (only read and write) when we have a video conference I always express myself with few words because I am aware how terrible I sound so I will use a lot of OK,Yes, Sure ...
Researchers Have Achieved Sustained Long-Distance Quantum Teleportation
Yup, so still an ad company.
Yes evidence, more evidence, just like the good ol' time that US had evidence from Nayirah, and Powell wielded a tube of wash powder in UN claiming that was WMD.

I do believe that President Trump deserves a Nobel Peace Prize, because with so many evidences, his precedents, including our be-loving Obama, would have bombed the hell out of our designated enemy.
The removing of 32bit support in Catalina was definitely a bad thing for many, who are using x86-Macs, but for someone interesting in an ARM-based Mac, shouldn't play a role.
Let me guess, you did not do any iOS development?
To claim that web has better abstractions is insanity.
Even before autolayout to say that was a stretch.

And I say this because I do have that cross-experience: working with web since 1998 (1996 non-professionally) and with iOS since 2010 (professionally since 2012).
It’s rare these to read stories of software billionaires and think it’s well deserved. This is one of those rare cases.

Also, IntelliJ runs on Java, for all the bashing that Java gets on HN, it’s an example of how “what technology you pick is less important than your focus on user experience”. It’s amazing that their products are so performant on Java
Love the fact that this AMP nonsense might be the final straw that really got Google in hot water with various entities.

Sadly, the only meaningful way to kill the Google beast is to break it up. If they're fined, even if it's a significant sum, it will just be a rounding error on their balance sheet and another cost of doing (sleazy) business.
Good read.

It fails by calling C++ a object oriented language, which is false. C++ is a deterministic destruction language.

But in the end it doesn't matter, sqlite has been in C long enough that all the hard things C++ gives you for free have been coded manually anyway so there is no real point. For new code C++ might be better, but that is debatable. Just like rust might be better, but that is debatable.
And their pricing model is great. All products subscription stars $250 but after 2 years its only $150!
> Microsoft Store against their policy to give me a refund because the game was basically unplayable

They went against their refund policy? What was the reason?

As for the game, I'm personally having fun with the main and side quests. Unfortunately, that's really all there is to the game and it feels like an Outerworlds-like game. If the cost of this game was 50% cheaper, I would definitely not be complaining. Still, it's sad to see that vehicles are all the same (except the ones you own yourself) and losing assets when looking away is always immersion breaking.
No one was excited for Watch Dogs Legions, people were talking about Cyberpunk for like 6 years.
I heard it was Sydney Morgenbesser
U.S. Treasury Department to Release Catastrophic Regulations in Days
No it isn't. Those concepts are a fetish of a very small (yet influential) group of people residing exclusively in the West. 90% of the world doesn't care.

And as a Polish person myself, I can assure you this is not a condescending and not wrong about Poland at all.

And just because you are offended it doesn't make you right.
From my perspective the point of the book is to shed light on some of these macro trends that are not typically intuitive. So we expect walking speed to be random, but it is driven by the population of a city. So a lot of decisions in business or urban planning for example could learn a lot by knowing these macro trends (West has been one of the first to explore how these trends relate to scaling)
Why people don't see other POV ? Maybe, Sony forced CDPR to release ps4 version as ultimate for ps5 release. Like than "CDPR, you want to ps5 release? So release both versions together.
> You could also just keep using <table> tags.

No. This often repeated and it is always wrong. I just won't bother anymore to tell why it is wrong, there is no point talking to people who will not listen.
Reasonable is relative to what you want to do: Cloud instances are only cheap if your machines are usually idle, and you overprovisioned your datacenter massively. Cloud instances are only cheap if there is no great amount of output/input data to transfer like simulation results or large model input datasets. Cloud instances are only cheap if you don't need assurances about locality or security for compliance. Cloud instances are only cheap if you can live with a slow network between the instances, as soon as you want Infiniband or at least dedicated Ethernet links, you are either out of luck or in "really expensive" territory again.
It was added before release, but after review copies had went out. AFAIK, only one person had a seizure from it.
The problem is those branches CAN be taken, otherwise the compiler would optimize them out. So now SQLite needs to figure out how to cause them to be taken to verify that the right thing happens.
You might need to enable cookies in wikipedia, otherwise they won't know who you are and that you've already donated.
This is technical, but the speed of light is constant. This is important to point out because people often get confused with different wave propagation speeds.
Well, SpaceX isn't exactly considered "Africa's Space Programme" either. (But Jetbrains is surely far more Russian than SpaceX is South African)
Hope they will increase even more human resources dedicated to Kotlinc :)
navigator.deviceMemory
navigator.hardwareConcurrency

Oh great, more ways to track users.
How different is podman from docker?
I wouldn't call that flying in formation either :))
Really interesting:

> With the exception of the current RTX 3000 (Samsung), all market launches of the year 2020 rely on the 7-nm chips from TSMC. ARM-SoC manufacturers such as Qualcomm also use 7 nm and have only recently moved capacity from Samsung to TSMC. TSMC is currently pretty much alone in the market with this technology and the production lines are therefore working at full capacity. A sudden increase in production is therefore not possible.

> A special insulating film, the so-called ABF substrate (Ajinomoto Build-up Film), which is indispensable for etching chips in 7 and 5 nm, has also become increasingly scarce and scarce in recent months. The prices for this film are said to have risen by 40% and the waiting time is said to have increased to up to 4 months.
Mast attacks cost UK operators 170000 hours
I know it's mental. Their yearly cost pays for itself in productivity boost in like 1-2 days. It's such good value ...