skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The world’s current and next innovations depend on a single country: Taiwan. It’s probably one country you might never hear about, or perhaps confuse with its neighbor, Thailand, or even think it’s a part of China.

>I’ve been living in Taiwan for 3+ years, and am baffled that I never pay attention to semiconductors.

I can't imagine how baffled he's going to be when he discovers Taiwan considers itself part of China.
If Scotland leaves the UK, how many Scots do you predict will leave Scotland so that they can continue to be citizens of the UK?

(Please assume that Westminster will offer UK citizenship to any Scot that moves to England, Wales or Northern Ireland and applies for UK citizenship.)
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It's been longer than that. I would expect this is a sore point with people because few professions allow their practitioners to knowingly ship defective products to meet a deadline.

Alternatively, why understand sarcasm when the lack of understanding provides some folks with an amazing weapon?
I feel like what is ignored in these conversations is that the vast majority of users just play this game as an entertaining piece of art. ~1% of problem users get addicted to games, whether they are FarmVille or smash brothers.

That is just the way it is. It isn't right to squash the freedom of the vast majority of people because a small subset of users lack self control.
> Bitcoin is not a USD replacement. It's more of a gold replacement: finite supply, great malleability, but with modern benefits regarding storage and transfer.

This is an opinion that Bitcoin advocates throw out every time someone criticizes Bitcoin's ability to be a currency. As soon as someone criticizes its ability to be an asset, someone trots out that its actually been a currency this whole time. It's bad at both.

It's bad at both in no small part because it tries to bring back the asset-backed currency approach, which was dreadful last time around, and that's why it was ended.
Solve a charity's problem with the Julia programming language
I just love their alternative to go's error handling:

['/post/:id']
fn (b Blog) show_post(id int) vweb.Result {
post := b.posts_repo.retrieve(id) or {
return vweb.not_found()
}
return vweb.view(post)
}

They also have generics, sum types, etc.
The swiss watch industry is also a small part of the total watch industry. Japanese watches sell way more than swiss watches as well. Think casio gshock (just the gshock is about 10mm/year), citizen echo drives (Citizen sells 200mm watches/ year), They are also usually the movement supplier for the junk fashion brands.

If you wanted to count apples share of the watch industry, not just the swiss watch industry) it would be less than one percent.

It's making a new market and gaining some ground but it's not the 'watch industry killer' that people like to make it out to be.
> As far as I can tell nothing since was able to match that kind of value

I mentioned it upthread and I don't want to look like I'm shilling but ... the Orange Pi zero board has 256M or 512M of ram, 4 cores, ethernet, wifi and all sorts of other stuff, for about $10. You have to provide storage though, and while it does have a graphics capability you need an expansion board (another $2) to use it.
I'm not sure why liquidating the assets is taken as given.

I would be much more amenable with the idea of destroying them.

Any trademarks are revoked, any copyrighted works are now PD, etc.
Physical assets are destroyed and put in landfills. If they own a building, tear it down, make it a park.
I think it's a matter of expectation more than anything. Someone who orders food from a restaurant might expect that the restaurant has recipes designed for delivery. I wouldn't expect a top quality restaurant burger when I order delivery, but I'd still be disappointed if it were a soggy mess instead of the 5-8/10 I've come to expect from decent delivery options.
This is the actual paper, which is not open access:

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/371/6524/72
"it is difficult to make a man understand something when his salary depends on him not understanding"
Thanks, I was hoping it would. I understand that raid is not backup. I have two external drives and will probably also use a cloud service for off-site. I was also considering htl blurays for archives, but we'll see. The NAS will become the central storage hub so we don't keep files scattered around on family laptops and smartphones.
Design Golang Failpoints to Improve System Fault Tolerance and Stability
I always find these discussion around the business of chip production interesting and since there's always many knowledgeable people on these I wanted to ask if anyone has a good recommendations for books on the business of chip production?
> Eleventy is "Jekyll but in JavaScript" and way closer to what I want, but its flavor of Liquid is just slightly different from Jekyll's to the point where I would have to update a bunch of posts, plus there's no incremental build yet.

So much for

> bamboleo 3 days ago [–] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25561177

> You can’t be serious. Jekyll blogs are pure text files you can download and view in a thousand ways. Good luck extracting sensible data from WordPress’ database without losing metadata.

Unless SSG get a common metadata and/or post format I don't think migration is as smooth as some say it is.

In the XML days we had ATOM. I don't know if we have any JSON/MD things like that ?
And this is quite honestly a good things.
Wait before you downvote.
Hear me out the current system is horrible and what it determines as insane people is a product of such system.
Back in the Middle Ages when we had a different approach to mental health non neurotypical people were regarded as different, yes but not as garbage or plainly wrong just because of being odd. Instead in some cases they were even regarded as wise as a result of this. Think about alchemy for example something like that could only have been tried by very very mentally ill people and if they weren’t so at the beginning their handling of mercury sure made them crazy after a while. Modern society easily ditched the mentally ill. However they can give a lot and if that makes a couple companies in the internet mad so be it.
I recommend you watch the following video on Foucault https://m.youtube.com/watch?list=PLwtCVTcEu-8-3urANmn5Tm6coT... it is an over simplification but it will help you understand.
I also recommend reading the anti edipous from Delouse and Guatari to get an insight in how the current system hides and destroys the mentally ill in spite of how much they have given to history and humanity. The truth is without mentally ill a people society would be different and thus anti mentally ill sentiment of modernity is but a depravity as non neurotypical variations are for memes(social culture and the academia for example) what mutation is for genes
The book was a good light read. I was unaware of the documentary. Going to check it out. Thanks.
All Programming Language Suck? Just Build Your Own [Racket]
The first buyer is DoorDash however, and if they somehow want to take vengeance on you after you managed draining their funds in an otherwise perfectly legal way, they might just use the non-fulfillment of their initial purchase contracts as a wedge to take you to court (of course this assumes they somehow learned about that detail of your plan). I don't know if they would have any luck with that, but it's easy to prevent this from happening by actually delivering something that's basically a minimally viable pizza.
I work at a government r&d/systems engineering center, and it's the same case here. The engineers who went through college with Matlab use that as their default (i.e., when the project doesn't call for something else from the start), while newer engineers don't. As that generation ages out, it'll be more and more sidelined. It's their inertia keeping it around at all.

Proprietary features don't matter here like there. We get MathWorks employees here at least a couple times a year hawking their latest (paid) libraries, but at this point they're always something 5+ years too late, something that already exists in preferred languages--often for free.

Since our clients never deploy Matlab, it doesn't matter if their libraries are fractionally faster in any case besides mockup/experimentation in R&D, and for that I've never met anyone who chooses it for speed there. Plus in this day where even laptops are fast and cloud instances spun up in a few seconds, there's no point. It's also nicer for the dev to complain about not having enough ram to get a better machine than take the time to learn a new language for a specific use case. Likewise the project manager will prefer the quicker solution, buying.

The one item close to a "tie" with Python here is probably migration. Matlab always and Python most of the time get rewritten into something else, Java in my department.
Probably because of the 1% rule(Internet culture)[1]

> stating that only 1% of the users of a website add content, while the other 99% of the participants only lurk

Currently there's a topic on the front page discussing this in detail titled - 'Most of what you read on the internet is written by insane people' - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25600274

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%25_rule_(Internet_culture)
No, Bitcoin provides no value because it's bad at everything it tries to be. It's a bad store of value (-86% swings 3x in the last few years), it's a bad currency (7tx/sec) and it's bad for the environment (as much power consumption as Chile).

The internet provides utility. Bitcoin provides speculation and crime.
Yeah, i find that using a library (like Stateless for C#) where it makes you "spell-out, upfront" each of the states and the transitions that are permitted from this state, it makes it easier to reason about the code.
You very well may have a study that shows women produce a fraction of the science men do, maybe even per-capita, and that's not sexist per your own comment. You agreed it's only sexist if it attributes it to innate biology.

I'm done responding to you though because you're tone is confrontational and emotional.
Well, the current European culture is deeply shaped by a immense counter reaction to those times when daring and enterprising men blew up the world twice.

That's why consensus building and failure avoidance are common in Europe. People want good enough without moonshots.
This will be a good thing initially for consumers as it will allow people to comparison shop for the less complicated, non-life threatening medical treatments. It puts into place the other piece of consumer-driven healthcare[0], which is meant to put market pressure on medical services.

Note the new transparency rule only affects hospitals, so the new rule won't cover services performed at local doctor's offices or clinics.

There will be several knock-on effects where the overall impact is unknown:

1. The transparency rule not only reveals prices to consumers, but also to other insurance companies and other hospitals. Since these price arrangements were typically conducted in private, this will impact negotiations between insurers and hospitals in competitive markets, which are typically in major cities. This is likely to force outliers on both the cheap end and expensive end to bring their rates closer to market. To the extent that either the hospital or the insurer cannot bring their rates closer to market, this may accelerate consolidation of hospitals into larger networks to improve negotiating power, and/or cause smaller insurers to drop hospitals from their network.

2. Since the transparency list is not comprehensive, and not all medical services are shoppable (i.e. scheduled in advanced, typically non life-threatening), this may cause hospitals to shift costs to services that consumers have no control over, meaning the emergency and unlisted procedures. It will take a few years for hospitals to understand the impact the rule has on their bottom line.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer-driven_healthcare
That isn’t necessarily a state machine problem, a state is an abstraction that maps to part of your business semantics. Naming becomes hard when your state abstraction isn’t clear, which in turn is probably due to how business semantics are modeled. One the most important things in implementing state machines is to draw it up and make sure every state and transition has clear meanings before actually implementing them. There usually will be multiple iterations of modeling before arriving at a good design.
This I believe is standard practice at major insurers. It's called an "explanation of benefits" (EOB), and I have always been able to see them easily on my insurer's website.
LA built the $600M high school[0] (to be fair, it's a collection of smaller schools). we don't lack for money.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_F._Kennedy_Community_Sc...
I’m not sure what transfer rates you’re looking for but modern SPI slaves can do > 120 MHz (roughly 15 MB/sec); if you give it two more pins you can do 66 MB/s (bytes, not bits) via quad spi (cf the datasheet for this very run-of-the-mill NOR flash that can do SPI, Dual SPI, and Quad SPI [0]). Of course that’s a unidirectional transfer rate - you won’t be able to simultaneously both send and receive at that rate, but you can alternate symmetrically between the two.

You won’t be able to bitbang at those speeds, so you’ll definitely have to drop down a layer in your stack/abstractions but since you mentioned I2C I figured you’d probably be OK considering this.

[0]: https://www.winbond.com/resource-files/W25Q128JW_DTR%20RevD%...
I experience the same color dullness, although warm colors like red are more vivid for me.

Something I've noticed that I've never heard anyone else talk about is text-based dreams. That is, the dream primarily happens in a text interaction where the visual space is completely engulfed by a chatroom-like interface. The visual element is not the primary aspect of the dream, instead the text in the dream is projected into the visual space. Obviously this is because I spend a lot of time in chatrooms.
> .. I won't say the whole budget will be wasted away, but I hold no hope of something useful coming out of it.

The ECB has been buying trillions of euro's worth of dubious government bonds and bank debts for the last couple of years. Also every year the EU pays hundreds of billions worth of subsidies to European farmers so that they are able to sell their goods below global market prices. I would say that this 145 billion is as good an investment if not better than what EU money has been spent on so far.
It's funny that the educational system complains the most about helicopter parenting yet they are the ones setting unrealistic performance expectations for students.
No TLS in 2021.

Side note: Why is everyone into job boards in 2020/2021? Was there some event or article to push this as an untapped market? Seems like so many people recently came up with the ever same variation of job listing services.
The tricky thing here seems like customer acquisition of a two-sided marketplace: you need job searchers to get job posters, but you need job posts to get job searchers.
> I think no government has the right to determine what information people do or do not see

The immediate consequence of this stance, if you take it literally, is that you think distributing child pornography should be legal.

Either you think that, or you actually do think it's OK for governments to limit some information.
Yeah, it’s amazing how painful Google makes any sort of developer support for a company that’s supposed to be “developer-centric”.

With Apple, you may have to convince them of your opinion, but you can very quickly talk to a human who will reply with an actual, thoughtful response.

With Google, if you manage to get a human on the other side of the line, you’re probably weeks or months later, several automated forms and replies deep, and completely confused.
I've been watching Mozilla's actions because they often seem to be incongruous with what you would expect them to be from their publicity. In other words they often say one thing, but do something else.

Opening the user research would make this more obvious, so that's probably why they don't allow this visibility, even though it would make sense according to their published principles.

Why are they doing this? I've no particular inside information, but occam's razor says it's follow the money - that Mozilla's true reason for existing is as a protection for Google, and that Mozilla's published positions are virtue signalling, but their actions serve their real masters at Google.

It sounds controversial, right? But if you are ever interested in the red pill, explore this possibility by considering these facts.. (and if you're not - leave this post up so others get the chance to think about it for themselves)

- Google provides 95% of the money for Mozilla

- Mozilla is a lightning rod that attracts and focuses the user centric parts of the ecosystem/market, but ultimately fails to achieve the goals of giving users power and instead year after year the power remains with google

- Mozilla must play a fine line between virtue signalling to prevent competitors who would truly organize for users benefit, vs actually doing things that would tip the balance of power towards users

- Mozilla thus talks about lofty goals to capture the idealist mindshare, but consistently fails on good execution so the pragmatic choice remains to use google products instead

- This pattern has been so consistent over the years I've come to the conclusion it's deliberate .. and the reason is probably because: follow the money, ie Mozilla is funded by Google

- If Mozilla leadership isn't doing this intentionally then they are being used/played by Google, however Mozilla's CEO is now a corporate lawyer not an idealist, who's taking home big bucks, so that's an indication that Mozilla's leadership is in on the game

.

So in answer to your question, Mozilla's user research can't be open because that would increase visibility of situations where Mozilla's conflict of interests cause Moz to do things that benefit Google rather than general web users, and Moz's leadership don't want their hypocrisy to become known or their game will be up and the paychecks stop.
I love this analogy!
>> Bitcoin, or any cryptocurrency, is nothing of the sort. Far from it.

For some random guys on the internet. yes. Some other guys are using it without waiting for it to be everything the previous system had. (deferred payments etc.).
What's one inaccurate assumption (that stands out among others) about the news business the HN crowd has made in 2020?
Is there any theory or data that more the R or transmission rate less deadly the virus is in itself?Because then this might be good news.We reach herd immunity sooner with less chaos.
You do know that actual socialists hate Biden, and that he has openly walked back anything remotely socialist in his platform, and that none of his policies were anything more than a glance at socialism to begin with... right?
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why are you comparing a currency (bitcoin) to a stock.

USD vs Bitcoin is a comparison of currency.
Ah, then move along.
One theory I had read a longtime ago was that nightmares were a way for the subconscious mind to wake-up the conscious mind.
> The real innovation of FarmVille was in making games accessible to busy adults, giving them a place to invest and express themselves and be seen by people in their lives as creative

Zynga was ripping off games that were popular in places like china, they had zero innovation, not even in their slimy tactics to recruit users. They used to have those "invite 10 friends to be able to play" that everyone had back then. they abused every possible channel to the maximum degree, that's their only 'innovation'. They were the reason that facebook created rules that ban those shady tactics, even though they had a special agreement with facebook (basically so they can spam more than indies and competitors). And a lot of more shady antics i can't even remember, they were all discussed in facebook's old developer forum which has been shut down long ago.

Zynga was not "the first" in anything
Books I Read in 2020
I disagree. Even with insurance, it can be impossible to know how much you're going to pay in advance. I had a surgery a few years ago, and my insurer sat me down in advance and told me what was covered and what wasn't--the upshot of which was that I was told I'd only owe a $25 co-pay for the entire thing. And then after the procedure--wham--I was hit with hundreds of dollars of bills for things like an ultrasound, mandated as part of the procedure, performed in the same building by the ultrasound tech they sent me to ... who happened to be an independent contractor. WTF. The additional cost was mostly irrelevant to me, but the surprise billing, after the consultation, was maddening.
YEs the classic chicken and egg problem, the hardest problem to solve
Russ Cox's article in question:

https://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp3.html
Thanks, this is great feedback, will add this feature.
This one gets kind of close: http://photonkit.com
Anecdotally, if your parents treat you like an adult and someone who deserves responsibility, you quickly grow to fill those shoes. I think you live a very different mental life as a child when are taught to evaluate situations and make decisions.
I included Twitter because I predict an amendment to section 230 will be passed. I don't have much faith in Congress to carefully consider the effects of their technological legislation on an open and free Web.
> Earlier CD-i games included entries in popular Nintendo franchises, although those games were not developed by Nintendo. Specifically, a Mario game (titled Hotel Mario), and three Legend of Zelda games were released: Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon, Link: The Faces of Evil and Zelda's Adventure. Nintendo and Philips had established an agreement to co-develop a CD-ROM enhancement for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System due to licensing disagreements with Nintendo's previous partner Sony (an agreement that produced a prototype console called the SNES-CD).[36] While Philips and Nintendo never released such a CD-ROM add-on, Philips was still contractually allowed to continue using Nintendo characters.
Japan's Brand New Anti-Piracy Law Goes Live
> Further research is needed to understand why the variant is spreading so quickly. But early indications are that vaccines should be effective against it.
Shell scripts are obviously imperfect, but I don’t necessarily agree with this absolutism view. In the right circumstances, you can quickly prototype an idea or process information in a shell script with such low friction. Truly the hacker mentality, which I don’t think a “real” language can always provide in the spur of the moment.
Tori here seems to be the Japanese word, meaning bird, which has the kanji 鳥, used in the interpreter examples.
Dissecting A Plague Tale: Innocence (frame analysis)
>"Both India's and China's push for a native self-sufficient industrial capabilities have been a huge success in spite of not delivering a cutting edge processor."

Could you elaborate on these huge successes in these two countries? I do remember hearing that India had produced a SPARC-based chip.
Assume fat loss, no longer weight loss
Blocking bluechecks is the greatest thing you can do for your own mental health.