skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly as a follower those are commonly praised, but bad signals. You want a leader who is loyal to you and materially and socially supportive of you above almost all else. It's such a mind fuck to work for someone who is empathetic but doesn't stand up for you, or even undermines what you are doing (whether or not deliberately). You can wind up sinking years of your life by being stuck in that situation without even seeing it
No, the code is executed in docker containers hosted on Azure VM.
> there is a lot of content built with Flash that is absolutely worth preserving.

True, dat.

I remember a stick figure animation interactive story, called "Time to Die," that was a riot.
It is already bearing chaos in British hospitals, and it’s early days.

With 50k infections a day, say the true number is 100k, in 3 months only about 1.5% of the UK popularion get infected, not really significant for her immunity numbers.
This seems like a very broad solution to a very specific (albeit large) problem. The main thing I keep seeing mentioned is impersonation. That can be solved without requiring explicit agreements, and may be counterproductive in some cases.

Imagine Joe’s Tapas actually needs to rely on deliveries during COVID and isn’t equipped to do it themselves. With this law they’d need an explicit contract with GrubHub or the like and that would surely include “we can do business using the Joe’s Tapas name for X”. There’d be no room to change the contact and even less protection for Joe’s Tapas having their brand ruined.

Why not solve the more narrow impersonation problem? Explicit transparency requirements and hefty fines for companies that run aground of them.
In another kind of "weakly lucid" dream type I know I'm dreaming but I don't have (full) control. So I can't make people answer what I want, but it feels like I can "mentally manipulate" them and push their answer to a certain direction, like make an attacker friendlier or so.
Even if that’s true (which I wouldn’t know), I don’t see how that can be sufficient to declare a project that aims to improve things a failure.

Let’s assume that project was for the poorest 10% of the EU. That would be 44 million people. €133 billion divided by 44 million is about €3000 per inhabitant.

I don’t think one can expect such an amount to bring roads, rails, bridges, and sewage treatment systems up to standards of the richest parts of the EU.
Where do you buy them from>?
Lots of identical twin and adoption studies make a very convincing case that almost none of this stuff comes from parenting style and upbringing. It's all genetics.

https://www.todaysparent.com/family/nature-vs-nurture-does-p...
Hey Michael, very cool!

I liked the support for currying (where you mapped the partial function (+ 10)).
> have been a net good for the world
?
Even that statement "creators are outliers" doesn't really seem supported by the evidence from the article. Seems just as plausible that most people create in a singular or small set of domains, but consume from a much broader set.

I mean, sure, only .2% of visitors contribute to Wikipedia, but that's because Wikipedia has huge general applicability. I bet the 99.8% of non-contributors also includes the guy that streams on Twitch 12 hours a day, or folks who moderate Reddit forums, or lots of book authors.

Far from being "outliers", could be that most people just focus their creative pursuits on one thing.
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Nothing, just a polite way of responding "nobody cares" to "thanks I'll pass."
This would be great for me (I am in my late-twenties and would like to settle down soon), but sadly I don't think this prediction will come to pass. Urban real estate prices will continue to rise in the US as more and more people move to cities, chasing economic and social opportunities.
neat, and thanks for the historical context! i didn't realize 4-level logic had been used in mass-market chips like the 8087.
Pretty much. All big players (US, EU, China) must maintain domestic strategically important industries (aerospace, energy, semiconductors, telecom, drugs/biotech ...) even with government subsidies.

The goal of strategic investment is to stay as one of the major players in the industry. Being the leader is not necessary, but letting the deep core and knowledge in manufacturing to erode is strategic weakness.
Good protocols are usually made in layers. You would typically want to have some state machine describing lower part of application protocol on which you build higher level of your application protocol, composed of specific functions.

This way you can modify functionality without necessarily touching low level implementation.

I can give an example.

I have worked with credit card terminals and I have implemented entire application from scratch.

There is a protocol to communicate between the terminal and the acquirer's system (ISO 8583).

This protocol specifies a flow and format of messages. For example, if you send a transaction request, you will get a response. If you don't get a response you may or may not retry it, etc. If you send a transaction advice (ie. transaction has already happened) you must be retrying sending it until you get a response, but every retransmission after first must include a bit that says it is retransmission. If the request or advice has been sent and transaction was cancelled, you need to be sending cancellations until you get an acknowledgement.

Now, all those messages have a huge amount of fields that change regularly as requirements change, but the basic flow of the protocol is fairly constant and has been constant for many years.

I have implemented the protocol as a tree of state machines telling the application what to do based on events and I believe the code has not been touched in over 10 years even though the application was in constant development.
>the people in my feed in serious need of a wellness check.

Like, uuh, the president of the United States?
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The RISC-V foundation moved to Switzerland primarily to help the big Chinese processor companies to work on RISC-V.

Regarding the EU heavily betting on RISC-V, what gives you confidence that this will work?
The history of EU funded projects to catch up with the US in AI, in cloud computing (like GAIA-X), in quantum computing, in the space race? HPC is not a mass-market, how should this niche be economically viable to amortise the huge cost of processor development? HPC in the US (and other countries) is often connected to military spending (although this is not always openly expressed). Processor development is extremely expensive, to the extent that Intel is now struggling to finance catching up with TSMC's fab process.
Where is the EU's micro-architecture design capacity? ARM is about to be swallowed by Nvidia, and a lot of Arm's micro-architecture development is done in the US already. Now compare the micro-architecture design capacity with that in China (the world's biggest processor market).

I really hope it will work out.

I do too.

Given 40 years of failure to catch up with the US, and now China, I am sceptical! I expect this to end up like previous EU attempts at catching up: the monies available will be much smaller than originally announced (by at least an order of magnitude), spent over much longer a time-frame, but more importantly, mostly flow to existing EU-based companies that are good ad lobbying, e.g. Siemens, and French conglomerates.

Another prediction: China will soon dominate RISC-V, since they are now forced, by US sanctions, to move away from Arm. I cannot see big Chinese processor companies moving to local ISAs such as Loongson. Alibaba announced a RISC-V processor at ICSA this year [2]. The big US players (Intel, AMD, Nvidia) have much less of a need to move to RISC-V.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loongson

[2] https://conferences.computer.org/isca/pdfs/ISCA2020-4QlDegUf...
We should definitely chat. You can send me a mail to jonathan.garreis@paperless.io
I don't know but Bitcoin is definitely not it, it's seen multiple large improvements over the years.
"..decades of content built with Flash and published as SWF (Small Web Format) files.."
The SWF extension was originally an acronym for ShockWave Flash file, not Small Web Format (however, this was adopted later as a "backronym").

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWF
There are a few problems with this setup.

1) Part of the reason why Americans are so sick is that they don't have access to preventative care in the first place. Just getting a check up at the doctor should not be a financial burden.

2) It breaks the basic model of insurance, wherein risk is spread among many parties and the premiums that come in can pay for the losses paid out.

3) Employer sponsored insurance just handcuffs people to their jobs. This is bad for all kinds of reasons.
-One or more assassinations of prominent political figures in the United Stated.

-An uptick in private security services.

-Bitcoin corrects into summer. 2021 is not the year of 6 figure BTC. (although that is probably coming in the next few years).

-I plan to make a bunch of changes and do dramatic things but do not. I do however do some unexpected things that turn out wonderfully.
I've read that the viral load is 10-20% higher on average, so if anything it's the opposite, but so far no one has gone on record saying it's more severe. It's more the compounding effects of higher viral load and easier transmission. Unfortunately, the UK hospital situation will probably get worse based on those two assumptions.
The blog post seems to have good logic reasoning regards semiconductors, but it is wired to open with statements that involves political views.
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No, not really. The letality of the new variant seems to be the same but of course, more infections will mean more causalities
Replied! Thanks for the suggestion.
Do tactical nukes break international law? – Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
The Playbook is helpful. So is the DoD’s Detecting Agile BS. More publish references similar to these that can be presented to management. Another Avenue would be to engage GAO and OMB in order for their reports to align with above. Thank you!
It supports (and I've run it on) some allwinner families. Apparently not this device, as far as I can tell.

https://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/evbarm/allwinner/
I have found interviews and podcast to be a better source now.
Intel must be thrilled
> As in, why would I buy from a Shopify store, if an equivalent product were offered by a bundler?

Simple. I know I'm going to get a genuine product. That's the problem with Amazon, people regularly get cheap imitations.
Phoenicians circumnavigated Africa, Greeks knew about that.

https://www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2018/11/the-egyptian-phoen...
Why do you think Netflix stock will fall?
Lots of items have incredibly short shelf-lives as well. I spent nearly a decade in the live event ticketing industry so I'll focus on that.

A significant precent of ticket sales are last minute. A friend tagging a long or someone waiting for prices to drop. Food spoils and looses quality fast, but so do good from many industries. I think carving out an exception for food is potentially a slippery slope.

It would probably be better to carve out exceptions for any item that could potentially be worthless after some amount of time. Live event tickets, food, travel, etc.
This feels kind of like some sort of regulatory capture by DoorDash, etc now that they are big enough.

Is there any way that this wouldn’t stifle any new competition?
This is misleading. The two dominant parties are the KMT, the descendants of the post civil war military dictatorship that wants political union with the People's Republic of China, and the DPP, which wants to preserve Taiwan's independence as its own liberal democratic nation.

The DPP has won the last 2 elections, so it is fair to say that more Taiwanese believe Taiwan is an independent nation than not.
Confidence is usually confused with competence, and charisma with vision and direction.

I've seen this enough that I've come to believe it's hard wired to some extent, though it can be overridden rationally. Confidence and charisma seems to tell our so-called "reptile brain" that this is a big alpha that should be followed, and I strongly suspect that the effect also tends to down-regulate the rational mind in the same way that stress and fear do. I've experienced the "if they're in the room you agree with them" type of charisma more than once, and personally I always found it creepy and disturbing.

Looking past superficial confidence and charisma is something that should be explicitly taught.
Afaik Taiwan considers (or considered) itself to _be_ China: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan,_China#Background_and_a...
I definitely feel like I have "executive function" even in many non-lucid dreams. It's just that I assume it's reality but I'm still solving problems, fighting, running away, talking to people to achieve things. Yes the world changes in weird ways and the distinctive thing about dreams is not noticing that this level of weirdness is implausible.

But I'm distinctly not "purely emotional" or animalistic in my dreams.
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Does the fact that you feel the need to attack the person means that you are out of arguments against the idea and thus you agree with me?
> Taiwan considers itself part of China.

China, not the CCP. They view themselves as the rightful leadership party.

This is very historical though. When polled on whether Taiwan would want to become part of China, remain independent, or become part of the US (!), the majority wants US Statehood.

I'll go look up sources and cite them in just a bit.

Edit: Wikipedia cites https://web.archive.org/web/20090326142909/http://www.tvbs.c...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/51st_state
I think it’s the same “build your own blog” project we all share only with modern tools and architecture.

Shout-out to the ancient “Staticmatic” Ruby gem, first open-source project I even contributed to, and still got the best name
What if the backends announced their load via multicast? Then every client could know the load of every backend, and could continue to use P2C or something like that, without needing to maintain a socket for every backend.

There's still a problem to solve, because you don't want to be opening and closing connections to backends all the time - you want to reuse a small number of connections. So maybe you keep a set of connections open, distribute requests between them using P2C or a weighted random choice, but also periodically update the set according to load statistics.
I negotiated a contact using DocuSign (I think, maybe it was a similar service). I could leave comments on points if the page but I often just sent them suggestions via email. DocuSign is focused on signing documents. When we were discussing the details we primarily just went back and forth via email.

I'm not sure where feel that the "or leave it" option is any stronger than a paper contract where you send it back unsigned with modifications.
Speculation - You need to be asshole some times in real life, or you become passive aggressive and take it out somewhere else.
They were using SLM (Slime) but I did not have access to the server since I was on a different project (Microsoft Systems Management Server).
Wikipedia says this:

"The term "SWF" has originated as an abbreviation for ShockWave Flash.[5] This usage was changed[by whom?] to the backronym Small Web Format to eliminate confusion with a different technology, Shockwave, from which SWF derived.[6][7] There is no official resolution to the initialism "SWF" by Adobe.[8]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWF
I'm not sure how I feel about shelling out to pandoc when they could've used something like mistletoe. And pushing to a CDN needn't be a part of the tool.

I too recently (re)wrote my SSG, in Go: https://github.com/icyphox/go-vite, ditching my old Python one.
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> it’s front page news when they find someone who has been re-infected

Absolutely false. As I pointed out, I've seen multiple cases myself, as have many of my colleagues. Not only are they not newsworthy, they are hardly interesting at this point.
> So I'm still sticking with Jekyll for now.

This is where I'm at too.

I've been using Jekyll to manage a few sites (some with 300+ posts and 100+ drafts). It's really not bad with incremental builds. It's about a 3 second turn around to see live reloads while writing.

It's definitely not perfect, but I still haven't found anything that comes close.
Let's explore some possibilities.

1. Should Zynga buy back those items at a lower price because they are used items?

2. What happens to cars (because we love car analogies) when the manufacturer stops building spare parts? In this case they are either collected from old cars or somebody else build those parts. Maybe should Zynga at least try to sell the game infrastructure with data? That would be like relying on third party spare parts but the car keeps going. Of course if nobody buys the game, maybe even for free, that's it

3. Other ideas?

By the way, this isn't the first time an online game shuts down and players lose everything, right?
It's worth stripping DRM off your Kindle books if you have a large library. Pretty easy too!
Thanks for the information! I will keep in mind next time!
I think this is an important topic, but couching it in this brief cultural moment or one political party is cutting scope a lot.

For example, rather than rants and raves about a particular ex-president or party, there are plenty of highly-auditable voting systems, which I remember being pretty vocal about 10 years ago. Things like paper trails matter a lot [1]. Theoretically, both sides should be in perfect agreement on the importance of that...

>>> “If only 20% of the population is like, ‘You’re not my president, I’m going to double down on my mask resistance,’ or ‘I’m going to continue to have parties over the holidays,’ that means we are going to be even less likely to bring this thing under control,”

No. I think this kind of whining is only giving/attributing power to the losing fraction. 30% of Americans still supported Nixon even AFTER he got caught at watergate. Certainly 30% of Americans were unhappy about desegregation in those areas. Too bad for them.

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End-to-end_auditable_voting_sy...
I didn’t read the grandparent the same way, but that makes sense.

Still, I don’t think it’s accurate to say that the prices are transparent when you can’t find them out without first signing away an unknown amount of your own money.
So, I see this story is on the BBC, but seems to reference US based research.

So, I wonder, how culturally relative is this?

I remember reading a comment here where Americans portray confidence even when lacking knowledge, whereas in other countries, that behavior is perceived as off-putting, not admirable.

I can’t imagine that inspires confidence in leadership.
I’ve worked for two companies now that are high-profile HN fodder. Discussions of both of them have been complete batshit—from the technical engineering to the business decisions, and everything in between.

I will never understand why it’s so hard for people to realize and admit when they don’t know what they’re talking about.

One thing that helped me was when I was taught how to answer questions in a legal context. (Patent deposition.) Every answer has two parts: the answer to the question is the second part, to be preceded by your confidence in the answer. “I believe,” “I think,” or just plain “I don’t know,” and so on. Ever since then I’ve just habitually asked myself, “do I actually know this, or do I just think this, and on what basis?”

Do this enough and you’ll be surprised at how little you actually know.

Especially about what goes on inside companies you’ve never worked for.
Viral load is a poor metric. It is higher before major symptoms start (before it moves from UR to lungs), and so it goes down over time. You can be dying of COVID and test negative altogether if you’re fully past the initial stages (though you won’t be contagious, which is arguably the real point of the test). So a) a newer variant will definitely have a higher viral load on average just because people are more likely to be at an earlier stage in the infection cycle, especially if it is more transmissible, b) if a virus theoretically stays in the upper respiratory for the duration of the infection, it’ll have a higher average viral load while being less dangerous (in that sense, they are inversely correlated).
I think the statement is that some people shy away from leadership since they don't know how not to be bossy.
Bossinesss isn't exploitation, it's a style of leadership -- giving orders (often orders that are too specific), taking down someone when something is not done in "just the right way", etc.
Trump has played 308 rounds of golf since becoming president in 2017. Obama in his 8 years in office had played 333.
Fascinating. Had to look it up — the photos of it are mind boggling.

I have to say though, from Wikipedia, sounds like there are only a few of them? Sort of one-offs, each of them (so to speak). I kind of think that might disqualify them.

Like calling the ISS the most expensive machine?
Yeah I remember when there weren't dozens of services running in the background just for basic OS functionality.
Agreed. Misrepresenting the relationship with the restaurants is the problem, not the existence of the delivery service.

As written, the bill seems so poorly thought out that I wonder if the authors has some alternate motive. Regulatory capture, maybe?

Also, this doesn’t ban setting up fake websites to take orders, and then forwarding them to hapless restaurant owners.

Honestly, just enforcing existing trademark law would be more effective.
I think you have it backwards; China considers Taiwan to be part of China. https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/china-taiwan-relations
He was so far ahead of his time.

I just started reading “Burmese Days” which reflects his life as a policeman in the British Empire, experiences that affected his views on life.
TSMC is in a league of its own. Only Samsung currently has the capacity to compete on a similarly international level. There are a variety of startup competitors from mostly China and the US, but TSMC is so technologically advanced, and the demand for ever faster chips is so great, that they will easily retain the dominant global position for at least the duration of the 2020's.
A tiny yet powerful C library that emulates the functionality of C++ vectors
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40 million lines of 80 characters would fit in 5 CDs. With a more reasonable average length, it'd fit comfortably in 3.

And 40 million lines for an OS is a crazy amount of code.
Yeah. The increasing reliance on BankID in Sweden is a blessing and a curse. For us swedes born into the system it's incredibly convenient.

On the flip side I've heard my fair share of horror stories from expats that get locked out of necessary services only because they don't have a social security number and bank account (yet). And that process can take a while.