skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The emulator VICE emulates the video chip's interference with the audio output.

When I heard that faint hum again, that changed in timbre with the flashing of the cursor, I was floored.
EA developers weren't happy with STL, so they created their own version, EASTL. One of their complaints had to do with custom allocators: STL allocators combine allocation and initialization.

Reading their critique of STL design decisions, as well as of their own, might be useful here: http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2007/n227...
Interesting to see how Microsoft is resurgent again with their Office 365, Azure, MS Teams, Xbox services and vibrant participation in the open source ecosystem since this article was written in 2007.
Abortion is evil. Placing it alongside education (a moral good) and contraception (bit of a toss-up, depends on who you ask) is dishonest.
The writing was not that great IMO. Would still like to read more about Penrose.
OSM uses a different, also incorrect, name for the road. At least the name OSM uses was correct at one point (about a decade ago - also when that feature was last edited).
AT&T and IBM in 1985 = Microsoft and Intel in 2005 = Facebook and Google in 2025

There are always differences, of course, no analogy is perfect, but this is the basic pattern.
Note that AT&T and IBM both fell from alpha predator status, but ended up in very different places, and the same is true of Microsoft and Intel, so Facebook and Google will both fall, but how far is not so easy to say.
I went to look at apple maps

https://www.apple.com/maps/

All I see is an advert page telling me "You’ll like where this is going" and "get much easier"

There's a tiny "open maps" in the top right corner which links to https://maps.apple.com/go, but that just reloads the advert page

OSM and Google Maps work just fine
Dead-declared live longer.
More like "Those who are said to be about to die live longer", I guess? (Love how compact German can be, by the way)
Nice! Are all user inputs mixed into the same stream?
Handling Audio Sessions with Bluetooth in Swift for iOS
2020 - /s/Microsoft/Intel/g
Microsoft isn't dead, but Windows is. They've allowed the web, and more specifically Chrome, to take over for desktop apps.

On the other hand, Azure is the closest thing to an actual competitor to AWS, and in that sense Microsoft is very much not dead in the sense that pg means it.
Investing is one that is pretty easy to visualize/quantify. You could also say reducing unnecessary expenses and using that money to invest could be good too.

I'm not sure that there are many other things in life that truly compound. Pretty much any skill gets easier to do after you gain basic knowledge/practice of it (your knowledge seems to compound), but eventually it starts to plateau as you reach your knowledge/skill limit.

I guess you could view it from an overall process efficiency prospective and find the longest poll that could be reduced. Sleep is a huge one, but it's also important. You might be able to reduce this one by getting higher quality sleep but for a slightly shorter duration (better sleep habits, the right mattress, etc). That time (30-60 mins maybe) could be spent on productive things, like a new hobby or devoting more time to exercise and health. Exercise and health could be another overall efficiency factor (hence the 'compounding') - extending your useful years by staying in shape potentially gives you more overall time to devote to other activities.
How do we know that he was found? There is no proof.

Also the text says about a password, but then it never says what it was.
The claim was that 70k is when additional money does not improve wellbeing, not whether this is more than most people earn. Obviously the number has to be quite higher than the average income.

I live in the UK and I can assure you than earning £52k or £70k a year is not an insane salary and is certainly way below the income at which money no longer makes a difference.

Or this is £50k-70k after tax and per person in the household. In which case this means earning well in excess of £200k a year for both parents for a family of four, which is probably more realistic but also probably means this only applies to the 1%...
I would say a good path for it is to first prove yourself and then ask to work less hours. I’ve seen that work a couple of times.
I'm really happy for all Argentinean women, including my two little daughters, this law makes Argentina a freer (better) country.
So it found me in some conferences and also a few pornstars that remotely look like me in uncomfortable positions. Looks legit.
This website doesn't seem to be ADA compliant. There's a CAPTCHA, but no audio option. I guess blind people have to stay in that database, whether they want to or not.
> - If you handle local outbreaks quickly, you can get infections down to 0 in the affected region.

This is not true for a country like Germany, you would have to hard lockdown for some time and close all borders, and then verify any person who cross the border, and free move in Europe won't make that possible unless all EU countries do it. If you are an island things gets easier in that matter.

The ONLY country which were able to go to zero after a big outbreak is China
So how is Ms teams doing?
> It's hard to argue with that logic, TBH.

If you can't come up with an argument against that then you're not trying hard enough. The most obvious is that sharing a mod is free speech and ought to be protected as such.

It's also unclear how mods contribute to copyright infringement in any meaningful way. I'm having trouble finding details about exactly what Neimod's mods entailed, but most mods I have experience with require an existing copy of the game.
The News You Missed in 2020, from Every Country in the World [Wendover][52 mins]
Hey, that was pretty cool to hear. Thanks for sharing that experience.

The one thing I have continuously relearned about this virus is that pandemics are incredibly complex. It makes sense the pandemic spreads into every context humans place themsleves in.

I feel like Sweden (the world?) wasn't well prepared for a pandemic. Hopefully we can prepare better for the next one.
It's not clear (from the talk) if they were in his home at all. He uses a stealth key, I guess the one from UrbanAlps where the key is 3d printend outside in.

https://www.urbanalps.com/
The tech preview[1] works and you can run x86 images (though you get a warning from the CLI).

[1] https://www.docker.com/blog/download-and-try-the-tech-previe...
That's a very good point, latter should be P(death ^ covid) I suppose!

I still think the numbers would arguably work out well given the general safety especially of the mRNA vaccines (as I understand it).

It wouldn't be a simple or easy decision but it's one that should be considered (very carefully!)
Did Zach Tellman post this?
Good point, edited America to USA. However, Americans (as in people from the US) should note that there are similar provisions throughout Americas (especially Mexico and Brazil).
Isn't safety the result of phase II tests? Weren't those complete in June for those vaccines that are getting deployed now?

And, anyway, I'm sure getting safety data from a large scale trial, where every vaccinated person is a data point is much faster than getting effectivity data, where only the people exposed to the virus count.

Shouldn't vaccines made with proven technology carry a somewhat high prior of efficacy?

(And, anyway, with all those problems people are finding on the trials, we are still green lighting them. What's only fair, because it's very likely that the problems aren't important. But why can we make that calculation now, but couldn't in June?)
> Now, why, when and how it works is a complete mystery.

Even when you're dealing with their non-public products!

Every holiday, Google reminds me I need to check the holiday hours for our business on the Google My Business page. So I do.

Every time, despite being the only authorized user on this page and despite the changes I make being nothing strange (things like being closed on christmas, and not to mention their system asked me to check it)......it sits there saying "pending review" for a week or more.

I don't really know what to think about it when they don't trust the business page's actual manager to get the info correct.
Rings a faint bell. But one game I loved that I didn't mention was Konquest. It came with KDE on RedHat 6 or 7.

It was a turn based space strategy game. I absolutely loved it and spent a large part of my adult life looking for a modern alternative.
Hey if I could fast-travel IRL I probably would :p
Crushing Slack
I think you're thinking of Opera Mini, which was a (set of?) thin client(s) that ran on feature phones and rendered a proprietary lightweight binary transport (OBML) that those phones could handled. OBML was generated on a proxy server running a fully featured web rendering engine (which may have been Presto).

Opera's Presto engine was mainly used in their desktop and smartphone browsers. It was not used directly in Opera mini on feature phones.

> Raise of cheap full featured ARM CPUs made it obsolete.

Not sure what this means. How would ARM make a browser obsolete?
> the shady businessmen using it for amassing ungodly amounts of money without second thought for the long term consequences of their actions are

Could you elaborate on that?

> Sorry for the early Godwin, but forcing vaccination is what the Nazi would do.

Quite the opposite, it seems - https://www.quora.com/Did-Nazi-Germany-really-force-vaccinat...

"So no, the Nazis did not force vaccination on the German citizens, at least not to the degree the gouvernments before and after the Nazi rule did."

> people that will take the vaccine explain me why oh why they fear that others aren't vaccinated?

For the same reason why they fear people not getting vaccinated for measles - unless you get it out of a population, it'll keep coming back and doing damage or, in C19's case, mutating into a more infectious variant which guarantees we're going to be dealing with this for yet more months.
Hah, I am doing the same thing on my chess site [1]. On my site you play against an opening repository so there is not even any real calculation done just a lookup into the repository what the next move should be. It feels really weird having the computer respond when you feel like you haven't even finished your move. That is why I added a 300ms delay [2] to make it feel more natural.

[1] https://listudy.org/en
[2] https://github.com/ArneVogel/listudy/blob/master/assets/js/s...
You can escape this room, but you’ll never escape Google Docs
The Earth Is Round [pdf]
What's truly pathetic about AT&T is that all they had to do to maintain dominance was take the literally hundreds of billions of dollars they were given in tax breaks over the past several decades and build out fiber to every home in America.

The mismanagement of AT&T should be a course at Harvard Business School.
Aye that is fair, I mostly dislike intercom because I I've only ever interacted with it when it's been telling me the bleeding obvious (to me)
Thanks for all the feedback, it's been really useful.

I'm now thinking of 4 potential ways forward:

1. Contacting companies and asking them if they would consider compressing their 5 day role into 4 longer days (e.g. 4 x 10 hours) - certainly not my ideal but a slight improvement

2. Flipping the problem on its head: A website which (anonymously) lists developers who are looking for 4 day / week positions (e.g. A dev is searching for remote Java backend roles @ $50k for 30hrs per week)

3. Continuing on the path I'm already on but changing my pitch slightly

4. Giving up and trying something completely different

Thoughts?

If you prefer to contact privately, feel free to add me on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/phil-mcparlane-80606727/
Is there any culture in which claiming credit for the ideas and innovations of others is considered positive?

And how many would agree it's healthy?
That's hilarious because nearly all the young people live streaming on Twitch are running Windows. I'm surprised when I see a Mac there. Even a wide majority of programmers hanging out in the Science & Technology streams are mostly on Windows although I do generally see slightly more Macs in that directory.

I can't imagine an OS that is very closely associated with pro gaming also being associated with grandmas.

A Mac is very definitely what you'd still give to your grandmother these days.
"Microsoft's choice of codename for the console project – Midway – was a deliberate statement, one that may seem problematic in a more enlightened age, referring as it does to the World War II battle in which US forces defeated the Japanese. "

Hard to believe someone wrote that non-ironically...
If you want to hear an opinion that argues not from a moral standpoint but takes the view of someone who actually has to make such a decision, I can recommend listening to the very concise (< 2min) and thoughtful argument Pete Buttigieg makes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKOoWYfIzIw
> ”If you're the first to call something, you'd better be right. If the monster turns out not to be dead after all—if they can somehow morph themselves into something startups have to worry about again—I'll look like a fool. But I'm willing to take that risk.”

I do think that startups worry about Microsoft. Slack worries about MS Teams I believe. So I think Paul Graham looks like a fool on this one. And that’s ok, he knew the risk, and even laid out the terms which would make him look like a fool.
They still have a tremendous amount of power and other companies should still fear them. For example, Microsoft Teams versus Slack.
>involvement with the US military and the corruption inherent in that terrible choice.

Can you elaborate?
> Isn't this the point I was making?

I don't think so - let me try to make it more clear, hold on.

> You need support in the language to do this. If you're writing a library routine from scratch as Future<... with the compiler knowing nothing about how to handle it specially then you aren't getting a future as they were originally envisioned and you're missing out.

You seem to assume that the programming language needs to know of the existence of Futures to help. But that is not the case and probably the reason for the misunderstanding.

It is sufficient that the language supports generics/type-parameters as well as a lightweight syntax (such as in the example I gave) and optimally higher kinded types or a similar mechanism.

If that is given, the language can be totally agnostic of Futures or async programming in general and it is easily possible to define a Future type as a library-type and use it in the way I described. Scala is a good example of such a language.
How is Windows dead? How else does over a billion people access tools like Chrome and Google Docs, if not through Windows? iPads? Android Tables? Windows don’t have to be the dominant force, they just have to exist as the glue (or foundation) for everything else to work.
I really don't understand why anyone would waste the energy to target Linux beyond making sure that your Windows build also works on Wine.
4chan /pol, the original cesspool for this stuff, was created as a “containment board” to try to get the Nazi edgelord shit off other boards on the site. It didn’t work. Instead it grew there until it about took over the whole site.

A separate site like Voat may be a bit different though. That is more of a closed ghetto for it.
Nonuniformly so. I wonder if there's a single word that would stand for "live longer", that would expand to "live longer than [the other thing]" in longer sentences?
for me the most sad part is that, at least in Germany, in my opinion, part of the Seniors are not really caring about masks (mask under the nose == no mask). Sad to go to the supermarket and see them really not respecting the necessary distance or using the mask wrongly just because they don't want to use it.
In the case of highly vulnerable patients the death rate is vastly higher, easily into the double-digits, e.g. https://www.manchester.ac.uk/discover/news/frailty-old-age-a... - with extreme risk factors and old age the death rate is staggering.

If you had e.g. a 75% chance of death but the vaccine had a 0.01% chance of killing or seriously impairing you, even taking into account all the issues and the risk of actually catching it the risk seems worthwhile.

However this discussion does make me think that the candidate range is going to be pretty narrow, and of course all concerned would have to be able and willing to give informed consent many of whom presumably would not.
I don't.

I approach moral decisions from moral principles. Letting your emotions run you is a recipe for disaster and a mark of immaturity.
Doing Nothing Is Hard
Exercising. Can't stress on this enough! It's known to improve mood, lend a hand in fighting depression and helps your brain health and memory[1] so that you can find other compounding habits

[1] https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/10-benefits-of-exercise - this article has citations embedded.
My team tried it out at the beginning of Covid. It performed really bad for me. I've heard it's better now, but that experience really turned me off to it.
It's hardly any better since he still writes "But it probably means there is trouble ahead"

A little weaselly since that can be said about any company.
It is reused many times as this super interesting article that I highly recommend [0] explains and I'll quote:

The very end of mRNA is polyadenylated. This is a fancy way of saying it ends on a lot of AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA. Even mRNA has had enough of 2020 it appears.

mRNA can be reused many times, but as this happens, it also loses some of the A’s at the end. Once the A’s run out, the mRNA is no longer functional and gets discarded. In this way, the ‘poly-A’ tail is protection from degradation.

Studies have been done to find out what the optimal number of A’s at the end is for mRNA vaccines. I read in the open literature that this peaked at 120 or so.

The BNT162b2 vaccine ends with:

UAGCAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAA AAAAGCAUAU GACUAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAA AAAA

This is 30 A’s, then a “10 nucleotide linker” (GCAUAUGACU), followed by another 70 A’s.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25538820
"They've allowed the web [...] to take over for desktop apps."

Nope. Once the net became fast and mobile devices became prevalent, it was inevitable.

True, they were late to the game, but they still had enormous piles of cash, existing relationships with virtually all corporations, and a strong brand.

Nadella finally stopped leaving all the money on the table by pushing to embrace open source, web-based apps (Office 365), and Azure, and now Microsoft is back to being the third-largest company by market cap.
The moribund live longer.
The+Best+Proven+Ways+to+Eliminate+Bloating+Fast+|+Health+Lines
Valve seem to have been addressing that with their runtimes.

See https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-runtime
The article is from 2007, right in the middle of Ballmer's lead when I think the writing on the wall seemed much different from today. :) Hell, didn't the Microsoft stock take a jump when Ballmer left before investors even knew who'd succeed him?

I think Nadella took Microsoft for a turn no one had expected, especially tackling open source software so differently that they now drive the leading open source hub on the web. Given this, I'd say this article is an interesting historical document that bears little relevance today. It's one that would probably hold true if Microsoft had never reacted and still tried to drive their company mostly through Windows and Office sales.

The one point that I think still stands though is that "No one is afraid of Microsoft anymore" -- this is true especially because they couldn't enter the mobile market like they intended and that's where computing is radiating from today in so many respects (and especially those of which where Microsoft has traditionally often operated in).

But they're absolutely alive and kicking!
We are actually kicking off an Android app in January, and we want to keep native app development (so far, we’ve seen that it helps us in building better UX, even if it takes more effort)
I believe this video is slowed down, meaning the music was “playing” faster when they filmed the video, and the robots were dancing faster in real life.

Why do this? It smooths out motion.

The “dog” jumping with too much hang time would be explained by this.

This was sometimes done in 90s music videos. See the first 20 seconds of the Beastie Boys “So What’Cha Want” video: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ru3gH27Fn6E In that video, I believe the Beastie Boys were lip syncing to a much faster version of the song, then the video was slowed down so it matched the normal tempo of So “What’Cha Want”. (Another example is Len’s “Steal My Sunshine” video.)

I think the same thing was done in the Boston Dynamics dancing video. I haven’t measured the hang time of that dog, but it doesn’t look like it’s in Earth’s gravity.
I do not understand why there is a strong sentiment in the comments here about how a 63% efficacy rate is dissapointing. First of all, this is for the 2 doses 4 weeks apart regime, there is already some evidence to suggest that a 1.5 dosing regime results in a higher efficacy, along with other evidence about a theoretical 3 month wait time between the two doses for a higher efficacy rate.

Secondly, this vaccine already prevents hospitalisation and severe illness! That's already a game-changer in and of itself. If you vaccinate the 20m or so who are the most vulnerable to COVID-19 and the most likely to require hospitalisation, then you immediately solve the hospitals-may-be-overflowing problem out of the pandemic (which is the only reason we go into lockdown in the first place). This will allow life to return to normal!
Pain tolerance.
You can increase your pain tolerance by pushing yourself physically and by doing martial arts. This decreases your aversion to pain and your risk tolerance increases. I find this compounds over time, and even if you take long breaks the pain tolerance is still there on some level. At least it is for me.
Good points, this would be out-of-scope of DMCA. However, I don't know if the modder would not be prosecutable under IP laws (violation of copyright) since interoperability seems non-existent (not building a 3DS clone or emulator) and Nintendo has done their due diligence on marketing it as a limited game console, not a general-purpose computer.