skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At least in my experience, if you sit far/close enough, you can "overcome" the limitations of each display variant. I can definitely see the difference between 4K running 1440p at 1.5x compared to a proper 2x scale factor, though. I can tolerate 1.5x or variations in between, but I'd vastly prefer 2x. If you play with enough resolutions and look at enough displays, you'll develop a taste which cannot be quenched without an LG 5K display, which is ill-advised.

At least to my eyes, my Dell U2715H with EDID override looks worse at 1440p than my LG 27UL850-W. I'd prefer to have a 2x scale factor, but at 1.5x, I can't see scaling artifacts or I'm used to them for still text. My poor GPU can't handle this though, so all motion and movement is terrible, and thus, I can't distinguish "shimmering" from just regular poor performance.

I'm really bothered that Apple sells an LG 5K display for the price they sell it at. Pro display XDR is joke-tier pricing for a developer. Even the 5K display is too expensive. The Ilyama 5K (XB2779QQS) was sold at the $999 price point, which actually kinda makes sense, but it's gone.

So practically speaking, either shell out $1,200+ for a good display or settle non-ideal retina or 1x.
yup, definitely, it's pdonat@seznam.cz
How much do you earn and is the space not saturated already? Are you expanding to new niches ?
I've written about the other challenges in another post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25252022
Bias in the statistical sense is usually E[\hat beta - beta]. By which I mean there’s a specific aspect of this thing I’m trying to get. The whole field of causal inference is based on the fact that if you do things naively, you might mix your signals. Like how linear regression can get you biased or unbiased coefficients in different settings. Sometimes you
need something like IV because just plugging in your data will tell you that ambulances are bad because it indicates the patient will more likely die even after conditioning on everything else catalogued.

It’s not opinions I disagree with, it’s aspects and behavior I don’t want, which is the statistical sense.
No not yet.
You need at least Win 10 version 1903
I tried to build two projects in WSL1, one using the Z3 theorem prover, and one using Chrome for scraping. Both ran into kernel issues. So for me it failed about 100% of the time on anything non-trivial.
HiSmile is definitely one of the greatest influencer marketing success stories, alongside Fashion Nova and a few others.

The same opportunity exists on TikTok today, I think the next e-com giant is being built on TikTok right now, right under our noses.
Now I'm really intrested in which ones there are kernels of truth - FEMA death camps, hollow Earth, false-flag Sandy Hook?
The problem I have with "kernel of truth" is that every loosely connected scandal becomes proof of conspiracy theory being "real" when in reality the shady actions are made elsewhere and no one is really intrested, or worse, conspiracy is more intresting than truth. For example, when USA spend milions of dollars during satanic panic trying to prove conspiracy theory true (and ruined innocent people lives), the Catholic church was doing it's thing freely (in my country we have hundreds of people fighting with sex-ed because it's "child abuse and LGBT indoctrination plan", when information about Church officials hiding cases of abuse is just another Monday). We have people scared to death by toothpaste and fluor in water or vaccines (another example of innocent people being in risk of harm due to conspiracies), when opium crisis and dubious antidepresants are basically ignored. I really doubt that looking for children hidden by Hilary Clinton is not going to help with finding another pedophile circle.
> Mixing content and presentation in scripts misses any of the lessons from the last couple of decades

If you're using React or Vue, chances are your content is coming from JSON in fetch requests, etc, not from the HTML/JSX in your components. In those cases HTML/JSX is the presentation. The content/presentation separation still exists.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25539876
In some ways, I'd argue it is better today. I find using an OSM-based app is far more likely to show trails than Google Maps is. (Probably because Google 1.) Doesn't really care and 2.) Official data for trails is pretty fragmentary.)
I'm more concerned about 3.3(c) "[you will not] use the Cloud Products for the benefit of any third party".

Surely if I'm tracking bugs in Jira, that is to the benefit of my users?

What if I am using post-it notes to keep track of a client's request and they demand I use Jira instead because I keep losing the notes. It's extremely to their benefit that I use the cloud services...
I bet you could find some interesting guests in this thread. I'd be happy to share my experience, for what it's worth — feel free to contact through my profile.
This totally misses the main point: Apple could absolutely have brought this up within a reasonable amount of time. The issue here is reliance.

Granting app store approval to an app encourages the company to build around the app and around the brand. And Apple gave that approval for many years. And then, after all that time, decided that the brand is projecting an ethos that they don't approve of?

Apple's process doesn't just involve tacit approval. It's very active. They had so many opportunities to not give approval, to not hit the button, but they did and for quite a long time.
That tallies with the experience I had using Jira cloud a few years ago. It sounds like it's still a great case study in how not to architect an issue tracker.
I just looked at it, couldn't exactly figure it out. It seems like if the code quality was good, large engineering organizations would use a code generator to decrease headcount.
Not involved, but it's nice to see alternative browsers that break the firefox/chrome duopoly.
It's good to know they care about optimization. I had the assumption that all CGI is a rather wasteful practice where you just throw more hardware at the problem.
> A company town is a place where practically all stores and housing are owned by the one company that is also the main employer.

I'm not familiar with varying types, but AFAIU (or hope), the organizer / owner is not usually the main employer. It's foremost a community where people live. Some people work there or self-employ, but it's not usually a corporate-dictated, top-down governed establishment, which would be something quite different. At least in the examples I know of.
> there's not a single person in the organization who actually fully knows what is being released.

Sometimes there is, but as siblings point out, it's difficult or not cost effective to distill this information into an app store changelog blurb.

More often (in my opinion), it's the terrifying situation you describe. Nobody know what the heck is going on at an overall level. Which can work surprisingly well, but often means efficiency (network, memory, cpu, disk space) is very hard to come by.
I don't have the necessary financial knowledge to learn how to trade efficiently. I know it's now just buy low, sell high. The problem is when and what to buy.

The only thing that I could do regarding this is use a platform like etoro and their copy feature.
the `random` package is one my favorites. I like getting a random string from a list:

strings = ['uno', 'dos', 'tres']
print(random.choice(strings))
If you want to make performance a feature, you need to (in order!)

* define a metric

* measure it automatically with every commit

* define a success threshold

* make changes to get yourself under the threshold

* prohibit further changes which bring you above the threshold

Just do it like that for pretty much every view in the system.
Interesting that you have more lawyers than therapists.
There are not enough billionaires to fix the budget, even if we doubled their taxes. There are only 600 their annual income isn't so significant in comparison to the budget.

Take Jeff Bezos, the richest man on earth, for example. His total compensation is 1.7 million and His capital gains from stock sales are about 1-2 billion per year.

The salary is is essentially negligible, and even doubling capital gains would provide an extra 200-400 million. The federal budget for 2020 was 4,790 million dollars.
I work for a large ISP as a software dev and still have to wake up at 11am to fix server issues, I also got called to fix something on Dec 31 while I was on leave. I'd rather be working after hours for myself than for my a-hole boss
FreeBSD has native support for Linux binaries by mapping system calls, and it's fairly reliable when it works. What's nice is that when it works, it works, adding support for system calls improves coverage, and since underlying things like the FS aren't virtualized, it tends to be pretty reliable.
crypto...I wanted to buy btc when it was 16k, then thanked myself I didn't (it crashed to 8k) and now it traded for 25k+...same with XRP
Some local public transportation "companies" in Germany (which are called "Anstalt des öffentlichen Rechts" - literal translation "entity of public law" - and are more or less non-profit businesses funded by the city) are using OSM data for their apps and websites and they often edit the bus/tram/train routes and stops if they change them. This is where OSM shines: public entities keeping their data up to date for the benefit of all.
This is great (and thanks!), but if congress really cared about this stuff, they would have big teams at the IRS working on tracing sophisticated money laundering. As it is, those teams are underfunded, headed by revolving doors of people, and threatened whenever they do something bigcos don't like.
Trip times, but how many trips were taken? Make the roads painful/expensive enough and the one car still using them will have a very quick journey. Conversely, filling up the bike lakes with lots of bikes will increase bike trip times. I prefer to measure the efficiency of a road by the number of people it carries across all types of vehicles. Bus lanes over bicycle lanes imho as buses can more more people per hour down a single lane than anything else.
Any chance that payment platforms like Stripe will provide some APIs for this?
Doesn’t the 4G Apple Watch support all of your requirements? I suppose if you had to a buy an iPhone to set it up that could be a substantial investment but an iPhone 6S would do the job.
It's actually quite an interesting dynamic: USA OSM data was largely bootstrapped from public domain government data. European data was, in many instances, created from scratch.

Serbian OSM is generally more up to date and more correct than Google Maps.

I believe that one of the approaches has led to people who are more invested in the result and you can guess which one is that.

But to be honest, I find OsmNav better than Google Maps for in car navigation, though they both suck. Perhaps Google Maps is not bad when you can voice control it, but you can't in Serbian.
It's meant for header files only.
Pass-share: Securely split a master passphrase into shares for recovery
the point isn't to understand conspiracy theorists -- the point is to crush and humiliate them such that the owners of society can safely continue engaging in hostile endeavors without criticism or awareness.
My understanding (I am not an authority) is that for a long time, it has taken Pixar roughly an equal amount of time to render one frame of film. Something on the order of 24 hours. I don’t know what the real units are though (core-hours? machine-hours? simple wall clock?)

I am not surprised that they “make the film fit the box”, because managing compute expenditures is such a big deal!

(Edit: When I say "simple wall clock", I'm talking about the elapsed time from start to finish for rendering one frame, disregarding how many other frames might be rendering at the same time. Throughput != 1/latency, and all that.)
DANGER, Will Robinson!

I could really use something like the Great Suspender. However, looking into it, I found quite a bit of controversy surrounding its new (since June) "maintainer". This issue sums it up well: "SECURITY: New maintainer is probably malicious"[1]

Here is the gist of it:

> Using the chrome web store version of this extension, without disabling tracking, will execute code from an untrusted third-party on your computer, with the power to modify any and all websites that you see.

So, installing from the Chrome Web Store is a complete no-go.

One can still install the extension from GitHub, but with Chrome constantly evolving and the now, unmaintained-on-GitHub extension having known issues with losing all your tabs (to which there are workarounds), I'm very wary of using this extension.

[1]: https://github.com/greatsuspender/thegreatsuspender/issues/1...
I appreciate the intentions behind this bill, and I'm sure we'll find far more corruption than we ever expected through this bill.

I'm reminded of the Patriot Act, and the ways the data collected were used (beneficially), and abused (for personal reasons) by people trusted with high-level clearance. How is access being limited and audited to the data collected by this new bill?

I feel the same way about the government grant system relying on the DUNS system (run by a private company) for business registration. I also feel this way about credit agencies like Experian and Equifax being the trusted source of truth on creditworthiness for Fannie Mae loans, and collecting records on essentially all Americans (no consumer choice and limited opt-out) which inevitably gets leaked. The liability of Experian and Equifax should have been their entire businesses, not a few slaps on the wrist and the offer of credit monitoring for just a year.

With all that in mind, I want to know--when this bill is implemented, how is this not inevitably going to result in abuses or harmful massive leaks? Or do you just assume that entities below a certain threshold of activity don't deserve privacy or some level of property obscurity to help people avoid criminal attention?

The kind of info this bill is collecting could be easily be used by identity thieves. Sharing this info with foreign entities makes the problem worse.

Civil forfeiture started off with good intentions, but in many places has a serious lack of recourse and oversight. There have been some reports that it's abused as a quick way for police departments to pad their budgets. Those doing the seizing don't even need to prove guilt of a person, since civil forfeiture is a dispute between police and property, not police and a suspected person. Sure, these policies let police cripple the more clever criminals that they had trouble bringing to justice, but it also gets used all the time in ways against people (I guess against property) that would reasonably argue innocence.
What a brilliant idea :) Plus I like the name, it very nicely summarizes the product.
> Unproven theories that threaten someone's worldview are typically met with the same reaction as an opposing political opinions, and for similar reasons. Rarely is it based in logic and consideration, since adjusting one's worldview takes a lot of energy.

This is the proverbial two-way street: unproven theories that reinforce someone's worldview are typically met with the same reaction as supporting political opinions and for similar reasons. Rarely is it based in logic and consideration, since adjusting one's worldview takes a lot of energy.
> Would you be willing to share more specifics

That's something you could easily figure out yourself. E.g., just grabbing some random JIRA:

https://hibernate.atlassian.net/jira/software/c/projects/HV/...

Opening an issue in that tracker takes 24 seconds for me. Twenty-four.
The obvious way to deal with this is to write a passive github repo that contains a performance test harness and test plugins that run against Atlassian servers. Make it trivial for any customer to download and use (I'm going to guess that Atlassian has some license terms about API use that could make this tricky).

Simultaneously, tweet results from anonymous twitter, post to hacker news, get picked up in the trade press, make it big enough that it's embarassing for atlassian when a bunch of customers measure latency and realize the product is crap.
Divjoy [0] is now profitable and my full-time thing. It did $50k in year one and my goal is to break $100k this year. It all started with a Show HN [1], so thank you HN :)

It was rough going at first, but I won the $15k YC Startup School grant [2], which let me jump into it full-time and give it my full focus. I managed to hit ramen profitable before having to go back to freelance.

The conventional wisdom is that devs won't pay for software (especially code!), but I've found it to be the opposite. There are a lot of employed software engineers who have disposable income and who are happy to pay for a dev tool if it means they can actually build and launch an idea in a weekend.

[0] https://divjoy.com

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20688044

[2] https://blog.ycombinator.com/announcing-the-startup-school-2...
Good to know. Thanks!

If someone from there reads this, I'd suggest also updating the product page with a clear statement. Right now it just says "Estimate dispatch in late July, 2020", which makes it look abandoned.
Compilation is designed to be a one way process. Without optimizations, it’s relatively easy to get the general gist of the code back, but once -O3 is added, the code doesn’t decompile easily.

If a line of assembly is:

mov eax, ebx

...that doesn’t tell you anything about what eax and ebx refer to. They’re just x86 registers with no clear relationship back to the variables.

If Apple was demanding the debugging symbol database, that’d be something else. But they aren’t.
Screenjar looks very cool. Great idea! Bookmarking for later use
I've been following the author on Twitter ^[0] for some time now. He's also working on an interesting city generator project.

[0]: https://twitter.com/andrewmanq?s=09
WARNING: The Great Suspender as distributed from the Chrome Web Store appears to come with malware. See this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25615971
JetBrains recently announced Space and it looks pretty cool (and fast): https://www.jetbrains.com/space/
How to Read a Book – Hamza Yusuf (Mark Hanson)
Why are Thermal cameras lagging in resolution? Visible wavelength cameras can be had upwards of 50MP for $5k.
Which is, in turn, caused by the unsafe shortening of the yellow light commonly used in combination with red light cameras in order to maximize ticket revenue. Because with an adequately timed yellow light, few people actually run the red light and the cameras become an expensive money pit that can't pay for themselves.
Would you buy the whole company for $1? $100? $1MM? $1B? Why price matters
It is always a pleasure to watch/read about something that works very well it it’s domain. Nice that they put so much heart in optimising the rendering process.
It’s a 1:1 ratio with those units. Hard to imagine anything less mind-bending/error-prone. Set your body scale to pounds and your food scale to grams. Done.
OSM:s biggest problem seems to be that it offers a product — a map database — that very few people need, and even fewer people can use, while still relying on millions of ordinary people for data collection (which means understanding the data model, which is getting hideously complex, because it tries to encode everything that can be located).
Most of these studios are tech first since thy wouldn't be able to have gotten where they are now without prioritizing tech.
Well it can't just be one frame total every 24 hours, because an hour-long film would take 200+ years to render ;)
There is a water border between long island and Rhode Island.
Isn’t this almost a zero sum game?
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Perhaps you don't owe Steve Jobs et. al. better, but you owe this community better if you're posting here. Much better.
I know quite a few people who answer emails on vacation and who do on call rotations at their "normal" jobs. So I think part of the appeal of these types of questions is that the individual gets to reap the benefits of their extraordinary effort instead of passing the profit upstream.
In the end it’s still more profitable to hire performance engineers than hardware. For the last decade I’ve heard the “toss more HW” argument. It hasn’t held because the amount of compute and storage goes up too.
Agreed.

It just has a cluttered and sometimes confusing interface (in my experience) which makes it difficult for me to intuitively use it for routing especially. So I typically use Apple Maps for routing—because it just works and is easy.
BBC doesn't make money from it's pageviews from it's main audience though.
Acked by the MSFT folk: https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/5026#event-416012748...
Given the comically poor quality of Stephen Lewandosky's best-known research on the topic [1], I doubt that this "handbook" deserves any serious consideration.

[1] Lewandosky et al. "NASA faked the moon landing, Therefore (Climate) Science is a Hoax: An Anatomy of the Motivated Rejection of Science"
Ironically it's the actual owners of society who have benefited from the BS conspiracy theories tied to climate change.
I'd pay more than for mass produced consumer gear, from any manufacturer.
My biggest critique with OSM and OSM-based maps is that contributing an OSM change has an unknown time delay between "OSM change" and "actual map software updates to have it." I was infuriated to find multiple geography issues in Apple Maps in my area. I went to OSM, and the underlying source has already been corrected. The satellite imagery is correct, but the map layers for navigation and travel are wrong. How long will it take for OSM changes to make it into Apple Maps? No clue.

You can submit corrections for some info (like place details) to Apple and Google and they'll change within 24-48 hours. If you update OSM, however, it'll take you an unknown amount of time. Some iOS apps proudly champion being able to update OSM data monthly -- but that's still huge compared to basically over a weekend.
I’m going to guess they have more than one computer rendering frames at the same time.
Shoutout to MapOut on iOS! An excellent outdoor map implementation (including fully offline), and I use it all the time.
I wouldn’t call that a kernel of truth so much as having a tenuous connection to some pre existing collective schema.

Companies lobby the government to get laws passed that positively impact their bottom line. However I would not consider this some kernel of truth supporting the theory that “big seatbelt” is trying to take away your freedom, and seatbelt laws are part of a boiling the frog approach to turn the US into a totalitarian state.

Another class of BS “conspiracy” theories are simply contested political issues. Here the wacko conspiracy part usually comes into play as some erroneous motive ascribed to one of the parties.
Wait, what? 24 hours per frame?!

At the standard 24fps it takes you 24 days per film second which works out to 473 years for the average 2 hour long film which can't be right.
Pizazzy funny and interesting news and quizzes
As insane as this sounds, we've seen time and again that conspiracy theorists are fundamentalists. It's like trying to convert a Taliban member to Christianity. It is not going to happen no matter how hard you try with soft methods.
Since the author is willing to still use Google services, an alternative time saving technique is to use Fastmail for custom domain and forward email to gMail. Configure GMail to send-as your custom domain. Once every few months do a Google Takeout. Leave forwarded custom domain email on Fastmail as another backup.

You could lose your GMail account, and not Lise much data if you try to get people to not use your GMail address.