skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is so obnoxious to tell someone that they should read an entire book to know what is wrong with a single statement. At least throw a couple points out from the book.
Is it realistic that vaccines can out-run the new variant? An Rt which is 50%-70% higher means it can duplicate every week. Which it seems to do in the UK (which does not have a very effective containment strategy).
What did you do at Zynga? It's surprising to think any gamer let alone an employee at a game studio (let alone a studio where whale hunting is the dominant business model) would think this is a new phenomenon and be confused in any way about what happens next. But anyway, nothing happens -- the servers shut down, the game is no more, no one gets sued. I don't even have to go find the EULA to be sure that it contains a clause about waiving class action rights in case anyone wanted to try. FarmVille isn't the first game and won't be the last game to do this. If anything, it's rather refreshing to see a non-gacha game in the long chain of shutdowns.
EU haters much, eh? It takes 30 mins to 3 hours to establish[1] an LLC in EU (Estonia).

[1] https://investinestonia.com/business-in-estonia/establishing...
Struggle seems to be beneficial — TFA reminds me of a chapter in a book I'm Reading, Range by David Epstein [0]: When it comes to long-term retention and application of information, students seem to learn better if they have to struggle with the material, whereas if they have it beautifully explained to them by gifted teachers, they (the students) enjoy the immediate feeling of understanding, but later they don't perform as well in terms of recall- or use of the information.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Range-Generalists-Triumph-Specialized... (not an affiliate link AFAIK)
Less fraud than the US treasury.
Cool website, utterly unusable. Please make it more normal. Would love to actually read it.

Specifically,
- Don't start pages with no content above the fold. If I have to scroll before seeing any meaningful text, it sucks.

- Don't suddenly navigate me away from what I'm reading because I clicked a button 5 seconds ago. Button clicks to navigate should be instantaneous.

- Don't change what page I'm on by scrolling. Scrolling should be scrolling, not page navigation.

For. The. Love. Of. God. Please don't build websites like this.

Love the idea! Hope it improves so I can share with all my math entrepreneur friends. ;-]
I ran TAMU Linux on a 486 with 4MB RAM in 1994. It wasn't much fun- you could start X windows, and emacs, but if you tried to compile with g++ at the same time it would page.

I spent $250 of my hard-earned money to buy an 8MB upgrade, and ultimately upgraded that machine to 32MB, at which point it "flew"- no paging during development.
concurrencpp is inspired heavily from the Java executor API on one hand, and C# TPL on the other hand.

This library just fills in what other languages already provide in their standard library while C++ still doesn't.
Your criticism could basically be directed at any programing language that provide high-level structured concurrency that doesn't rely on raw threads and locks.

I do agree that basic understanding of classical concurrency, the correct use of threads, locks and condition variables is essential for every developer who wants to write any correct concurrent code.

Another thing is, that developers can not learn everything.
The chances that a non-concurrency hobbist/expert writes a correct and efficient thread pool, for example, is slim. Developers should not write their own concurrency infrastructure, they should use something correct and efficient. this is what concurrencpp provides.
>> So someone could publish a version of 1984 that had certain characters completely expunged from the text, and others added.

No real need to publish anything, we're living a variant of it every day. Without much creativity, we could map so many day-to-day things in 2020 to items in 1984.
What? You are basically discount AMD design. The manufacturing and process tech are critical but not enough alone. You need good design.
"Passing off" in this context doesn't mean something being passed to another party, like a sportsball player making a pass.

Rather, it's a common law term for selling an item while misrepresenting its origin [1] - for example, if an ebay seller claims to sell real rolexes and sends out fake rolexes, they have 'passed off' the fakes as real. This can happen even in the absence of registered trademarks.

Of course, most of the historical examples are of copycat products - but the definitions used on Wikipedia sound like it might cover misrepresenting restaurant partnerships - particularly if the restaurant's reputation is besmirched by inept deliveries.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passing_off
> The smart thing to do is krep taking

I think the smart thing to do is to trust that people who have spent years doing a thing have more insight into the topic than a random internet forum participant.
Nope, Telligent, Xerox PARC workstations, ETHZ Oberon based OSes, and Solaris already had this idea surfaced in different ways.
The best decisions at the population level may not be the best decisions at the personal level. I think physicians should be able to make a decent call at the personal level.
That’s after the fact, though. You don’t get to see any of those numbers until it’s too late to matter.
Everyone is an online business in 2021. This bill in effect requires all food order and pickup businesses to get permission from restaurants.

Clearly this looks attractive to many commenters but it won't solve any of the problems, real or not, and will only raise barriers to entry and entrench incumbents without providing benefits to consumers or restaurants (apart from allowing restaurants to seriously limit the number of customers, which is their right and some do wish to do that)
Learning from Heterogeneous EEG Signals with Differentiable Channel Reordering
I think this is a common cognitive bias though: just because someone seems to you as if they don't do anything does not actually mean that they don't do anything. It might be that you, yourself, are not affected by their output.
Finite element assembly is one I see daily. There are many times In computational mechanics and also mesh manipulation (graphics programming, shape design, etc) when inserting into a sparse matrix is useful.
The general issue is that FSM require a lot of naming, since you want to give every state a significant name, and naming is hard.

When the states are clear enough, modifying FSMs is very nice.
> I wouldn't mention that not taking care of their health would reflect poorly on their performance review. In fact I wouldn't want them to think about the performance review. The goal is for them to rest, recharge, and not get burnt out,

I know you are trying to be considerate, but please do not ever assume people “are not taking care of themselves”, even if true. In the US, there is always a deeper story to it. Generally speaking 50% of the American population has a pre-existing condition. 30-50% of Americans avoid some medical care yearly due to the cost of care.

The third leading cause of death is believed to be preventable medical errors (caused by the for-profit nature of our system: our doctors and nurses have excellent training), and the vast majority of these victims likely had pre-existing conditions. We just don’t attribute “preventable medical error” as a cause of death on US death certificates like we should. See: https://www.bmj.com/content/353/bmj.i2139

Also, the system is not designed to ensure the health of the populace, even if you are “rich” and “have good insurance” and “can afford to pay for healthcare with insurance coverage”. Pretty much every other industrialized and developed country is outpacing us in longevity.

The system is not meant to prevent disease and it is very ineffective at it. It profits on the already sick. It really is a grotesque system. For more info on this (and the previous 2 paragraphs consult the publications on http://healthdata.org

According to the book, “Dying for a Paycheck”, the fifth leading cause of death in the US is overwork: https://www.baltimoresun.com/health/bs-hs-workplace-cause-de...

When your health insurance is tied to your work, you are screwed if you have a pre-existing condition.

This is why I will never work in the US, as a dual US|EU citizen with 2 rare immune mediated neurological diseases affecting my peripheral nervous system plus type 1 diabetes (autoimmune and insulin dependent). The neurological diseases are in remission, but I have to take a certain blood product, administered in a certain way, in large quantities, for life. It is known as subcutaneous immunoglobulin. It is far easier to access this is western/Northern European countries than the US, too.
Copycat - the keyboard. I remember a person creating short term virtual holographic keyboards and reconfiguring them along progressing with some task, traveling in space. The author of it? - I'm not sure yet - could be Orson Scott Card?

I guess that boring patent could be about simulating such keyboards on some displays - and there no need for that: you can get same result with state of art (in SF) just closing one eye and adjusting POV.

Projection keyboards are available already and can provide feedback like displaying adjusted layout. Is this patent about not allowing to configure them?

The case that pressing a key result in displaying set of other options which you can press too it's called a menu in UI and is already mostly being made on pixel arrays (like touchscreens) and you can have different menus with different tools for different tasks.
It may be legal to steal digital items from users because of antiquated laws that don't recognize digital items as items worthy of protection, but it certainly isn't moral.
OpenWRT no longer supports devices with the 4MB ROM or 32MB RAM
The problem is that too many dump GNOME and KDE for their twm flavour window manager and then it is no wonder that these ideas get lost among GNU/Linux users.
I think it would have been much better to outlaw misrepresentation and advertising without prior agreement (ie the pizza place that did not agree to partnership should only pop up in the search results if the user searches for it) and there should be a warning mandated like "Startup Inc is not affiliated with the Moms and Pops Pizza. If you proceed, we will place your order by calling PHONE_NUMBER and pick up your order from ADDRESS". It should still be legal for the end users to have a service do chores for them including picking up food but only if there is no confusion on the side of the user what is happening here (incl. the fact the pizza may get cold through a no fault of Moms and Pops Pizza).

Edit: oh, the law would also outlaw food picking apps from delivering from Walmart too ("The code defines food facility [...] as an operation that stores, [...] or otherwise provides food [...] at the retail level.")
Some time in 2021 the public may have to accept that Covid is never really going to go away. It will be interesting to watch the Democrats be forced to be the ones to force society back to work after being the primary political force for lockdowns
He didn’t face zero consequences for it, but I’ll admit that $20m is close to zero for someone of his means.
An option to try is making a mixed merit+vote system instead of just voting.
Both efforts are great and well worth pursuing, but Purism don’t really talk at all about their hardware supply chain. Their focus in on the software and end user privacy, so they’re exposed to exactly the same hardware supply chain risks.
I would add to this that the presumption that private school tuition reflects the cost of private school on a per student basis in its entirety and can be fairly compared to per-student funding of schools is probably incorrect. (Even more so if only comparing based on the tuition of one particular kid.)
"Sovereignty" is an important concept that dropped out of American discourse in the 1990s. No self-respecting country relies on foreign cryptography to protect its diplomatic communications.

Similarly, no self-respecting country in 2030 will rely entirely on foreign integrated circuits. FPGAs will play an important role for small countries, but large groups like EU can afford to go big.
I’m incredibly perplexed why people do this. Even pre pandemic it was patently obvious to anyone who paid attention that certain foods just don’t deliver well. Before the internet became a thing, the only places that regularly offered delivery were pizza joints and Chinese food, because both of those survive delivery well! I ordered delivery burgers once, from a restaurant close by, and learned my lesson that burgers are best enjoyed immediately and not 10 minutes later. Why should I blame the restaurant for that?
What? Where? Most sane people write FSM as switches inside an infinite loop
Why don’t you demand the abolition of the monarchy while you’re at it? This sort of talk delights Brexiteers because all but a tiny number of hardcore pro-EU zealots will respond with a raised middle finger.
I think the latter. And users of static site generators like Jekyll tend to like to tinker a lot within Jekyll. It’s a natural transition to try and build your own.
It would be interesting to compare what percent of the time criticism of President Trump’s official actions used his name, vs what percent of the time praise of his official actions said “White House”. I suspect that there would be a vast discrepancy within publications.
well, the gig worker law never got to do it's intended thing, first cause the stays, then cause prop 22, so now it should just be repealed. Had it, at least the distortions for musicians that are also Uber drivers would have been the same.

I would by the other's argument that this is about preventing misrepresentation. In fact, perhaps it should have already be covered by trademark protections anyways.
Slackware 2.0, Pentium 166 MHz with 8 MB RAM and 256 MB HDD, running fvwm.

Progress.
I think "growth hacks" are "anything goes short of breaking the law".
I can't upvote this more. Leadership comes from confidence, confidence comes from expertise, expertise comes from learning and practice. Confidence without expertise is hollow; leadership with hollow confidence and no expertise is quite dubious. A certain guy who likes to golf comes to mind.
I always assumed Q was just a troll, screwing with people and laughing his / her ass off. I figured the name "Q" came from Star Trek NG.

I honestly don't know much about it though (I don't pay attention to most social or mainstream media crap). Is the current thinking that it's a serious and well-funded disinformation campaign?
Is all the combat training the US military gives its own grunts and leaders not effective at making the US military more formidable?

Didn’t these mujahadeen stick around to train the next generation of soldiers? Aren’t there consistent conflict in the Middle East to harden that kind of training (eg Chechnya)? Aren’t there mercenary opportunities to deploy and evolve that training?

Whether they would have developed it on their own is unclear but the US didn’t develop that knowledge on their own either, instead synthesizing it from experience of Allies during WWII and likely observing other insurgencies and criminal enterprises they helped back.

To me the playbook is the same “drug” but way more potent and mass produced and perhaps the first to market in this distributable form.
Lol I'm at -7 now, cheers my friend
> For instance creating a company that never makes money isn't a problem in the US thanks to a mix of this culture and bottomless VC money. Whereas that would be perceived as failure by family and friends in Europe.

I guess that's related to the US dept culture too.
Not having money but borrowing it for all kinds of things and with that stacking dept upon dept is quite normal in the US while over here at the continent you usually want to pay it back asap.

So not having money or working for a company which doesn't generate any must feel much better in the US.

I would be terrified. I also wouldn't work for some startup which won't pay be but instead preach something about family values for example.
Earning money and owning stuff that I buy feels great. Wouldn't want to miss it.
Yes of course it depends on the size of the deductible and predictability of spending.

Average deductible is ~$1700, at that point the differences either need to be huge, or additional spending needs to be very predictable.

Source for $1700: https://www.kff.org/health-costs/press-release/benchmark-emp...
Does it syndicate content from HN or just happen to post a lot of the same links/content?
This title really confused me. First I read Tori as Tory.

Then I did not realize that 'ersatz' has a slightly different meaning in English than it has in German. In German it just means replacement, so I was wondering what it would replace.

And finally I did not get what 'tiny birds' are in this context. Can anyone enlighten me?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tory
UK to End Vat on Tampons
Xbox System-Link works across four console generations
Because what the EU countries need to do is to get out of the way.
I was reading your comment and was thinking who would praise dang's overly capitalist ideological Silicon Valley moderation. And then clicked on your nickname. Of course you would, people like you is people dang likes to please for whatever reason, maybe it's a YC policy, I don't know.

In reality many of us came here because of other programmers, not for dang or his shitty moderation, moderation was always an obstacle to discussions here, a censorship system where moderators invent fake excuses to shut down discussions of something. And it's a miracle some of the programmers are still around after being constantly pushed out for ideological misalignment reasons by mods.
That's what came to mind for me as well. The games have some fantastic elements, but a lot of the gameplay loops are designed to be slow.

I recall reading that preventing 'assembly line' mechanics was a deliberate choice. As a result, in New Horizon you can't do bulk crafting, you need to perform multiple button presses and watch an animation for every single one.

Shopping is equally bad, where buying stock from a visiting NPC takes orders of magnitude longer than it might in an RPG, because you need to button through multiple pages of dialogue after each purchase.
The foundation just coordinates the standards process and sets rules for using the trademark. It has a tiny budget and few staff. All substantive R&D is done by its members, which are companies of various size with headquarters in various countries: https://riscv.org/members/

Changing where the foundation is incorporated doesn’t change where this R&D happens.

Also Switzerland isn’t in the EU.
How about opt-in for _literally everything_? That's called consent, a concept Silicon Valley doesn't understand.
As long as they are still readable, and not hidden, it can be reconciled.

When things start ‘disappearing’, that makes it much more difficult to contrast.

I have been on HN long enough to know that points != facts.

But, yeah, I have noticed lots of downvotes for people stating facts or their own personal observations.
I keep a few tabs open, and close the browser regularly.

A friend of mine keeps basically infinity tabs open. I sort of rolled my eyes, but accepted his rare behavior.

However as time has gone on, I've been surprised to find I may have the rare behavior and it is common for people to work this way.

So.. maybe this is a way he can backup his "filesystem" and not suffer a nervous breakdown when his machine reboots or some othe browser failure where he loses his world.
It matters in the sense that the payments made by the insurance company are already transparent; the other poster is speculating that it will be revealed that the patient portion is larger than the insurance portion, which people in (at least) Michigan already know isn't the case.
Sonic the Hedgehog (Prototype)
I got nothing against Palantir (disclosure: I'm a shareholder) but you do have to acknowledge that people have very different definitions of "good" that factor into their opinions.

Some people find that bringing technology into the government is of course good, others are vehemently against agencies like ICE or the military industrial complex.
They have to claim that they made something that met the definition of pizza, but with the “buyer”, driver, and store colluding they could just lie.
I think they squandered that recently. We will see with Biden but the Trump administration basically encouraged Brexit and repeatedly adopted anti-
EU positions in key geopolitical issues (Syria, NATO, Iran, Israel, and Ukraine). These things come with a cost and the EU will try to rectify this. Enhancing Chinas CPU tech by a few generations might be worth it if it can advance EU interests and ensure future good-faith from a supposed ally.
we make this kind of mistake all the time. it's the basis of the "you get what you measure" aphorism. confidence and charisma are secondary signals, loosely correlated with wisdom and capability. once we emphasize confidence and charisma over wisdom and capability in our leader-choosing algorithm (how political contests have evolved, for instance), we're pressuring the system to weaken that correlation even further, as it's very hard (likely impossible) to maximize all desirable characteristics at the same time.

we can see this with popularity itself, which has changed over the past century in the (american) culture from emphasizing capability to emphasizing confidence (with the concomitant rise of mass media and the concentration of mass attention and esteem).
What's wrong with Reddit?
One bad analysis tops them all and it was the original model that 1970s reactors were licensed by.

The one threat considered for probabilistic analysis was bursting of the pressure vessel, something which almost never happens because we know how to design and operate pressure vessels. (Hundreds of storage tanks get sucked in for every pressure vessel failure.)

In the 1980s it was determined that the most likely failure mode was a power outage at the station which would prevent it from cooling the reactor after a shutdown.

Had there been some spare diesel generators staged inland, these could have been helicoptered in and the damage greatly reduced if not eliminated. Post 911 there was a safety review of nuke plants that introduced this and other reforms.
5MB and it ran SLS! I even managed to run X11 and emacs (xemacs I think?), although it was very much a matter of either running X11+emacs or compiling but not both.
We won't really know until the election, but for what it's worth opinion polls have Johnson down compared to when he started his term.
Why should regulation like this be enacted due to shitty consumer behavior that is evident everywhere, not just online reviews?

I really don’t know who this is helping because I’m not going to start using a more inconvenient way of ordering because these restaurants want things their way.

It’ll only result in these local businesses losing access to the $750 I pay in delivery each month.
When you can use the twice the number of transistors and they use 1/3 less power that is a pretty big advantage to work with.

You might have the best car design in world, but if all could use was wood vs someone else who had a crappy design, but had aluminum the crappy designed car might work better.

Not saying this is the case with AMD vs Intel, but right now Intel's manufacturing is hurting them.
I've had recurring dreams that were entirely in math. And by that I don't mean a dream where I was sitting in math class or something. I mean the actual substance of the dreams were equations that I was trying to make sense of.

In my awake life I like math a lot and am comfortable solving equations. The dreams themselves, though, were terrifying in ways no other dream has ever matched.