skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
VGAC shareholders will only get 11 Percent of the combined company: https://vgacquisition.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/23andMe... - so the current VGAC market cap with 876.30 Mn is way higher than the $3.5 billion valuation.
>Eugene gets a fair number of things right for being a fairly backwater city

Well of course. They don't have seemingly unlimited money to piss away. They have a defined amount of resources and a problem to solve so they figure it out the best they can.

It's never the SFs, NYCs, Austins or Bostons on the world that come up with novel ways to tackle problems. They're rich enough to afford bad government and to try and spend their way out of their problems. It's the Clevelands and the Buffalos and the Newarks of the world that innovate. They don't have a choice because they have to figure out how to do more with less.
I think "software company" can probably hold the weight of the argument, if defined well.

ie., a Bank maybe finds most of its value in that its code runs, etc.

A software company, perhaps, we could define (1) simply as any company where this is true; or if that's cheating, (2) any company where its competitive advantage derives from its software developing over time.

I think the claim of this article is that (1) and (2) refer, aproximately, to the same companies: ie., that software which is changed to adapt to ever changing needs derives that capacity from the "theory of the programmers" and not the code.
I am not convinced this is true.

The reason Mozilla has not text-to-speech is because the guy behind RNNoise and LPCSpeech (JM Valin) has been bought by Amazon so that they can build even more privacy invasive Alexa & friends device.

So yeah, in a way this an issue of money, but not because you can't afford GPUs & Data, but because you can't buy the right people
I’ve done a fair bit of contract work with a few law enforcement organisations. One department I was working with was getting a lot of pressure because emergency callers were waiting on the phone for way too long. The commissioner hired an outside agency to triage emergency calls. They’d basically just answer the phone and put you back on hold. They started tracking the time the call was answered from when the triage call center picked up. Reported a huge improvement back up the chain. I read a news paper article about how successful they’d been in reducing wait time a little while later.

All the derision we give KPIs in software development applies just as equally to other areas of society too.
Are you annoyed / confused because of <_,_,_> ?

It seems rust compiler team didn't write a proper error message or I cannot find meaning in this .. usually _ means 'whatever type' but <_,_,_> is useless if all types are the same whatever.
But self-host only, unless there's also a free remark42-as-a-Service?
When is python to appropriate language to pick?

For almost every science or engineering domain, python has some of the best in class libraries available (either native or as bindings to the standard C libraries everybody uses). It is more likely than not a plug in or scripting language for the engineering desktop application you use. It will let you do everything from interactive data analysis to web development, to scripting and devops, to cutting edge ML research in the same language using mature and battle tested tools. This is extra nice if you are combining many different domains, like doing Machine Learning and Computer Vision on GIS data and presenting the results on an interactive web site.

Especially if you're ambition in life isn't to be a professional programmer, but rather a professional that uses programming to do his job, then learning just one language is very enticing and python is probably the language that is most likely do have everything you need to get the job done, no matter what that job might be.
Yes? Just because other things happen more often doesn't mean something isn't an issue.
(2018), not (2020).
To silence someone being inconvenient to the powers that be, no less.

It always reminds to the USSR where critics where put in wardens as well, instead of arresting them.
Firefox can be configured[1] to never send the header or always send the target URL as the header.

[1]: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Referrer
I once had a partner that was a serious orchestra player. She had a technical degree but chose to work in an industry that was exceptionally stressful and paid poorly. She once asked a New York Philharmonic player what would happen if he missed a note and he replied that you could lose your job. I couldn't really understand her choice of career until I was hanging around after a performance, and I saw the camaraderie and the fun that the musicians had back stage. They loved music and loved making it. I imagine, that for some people, being a chef is just a job but for others it's the camaraderie and the pleasure of creating.

I have one good story about the kitchens of top restaurants. I have a friend, charming, smart and funny. When she was younger she attended a one of the world's most famous cooking schools and was happy to land a job in the kitchen in a Michelin rated New York restaurant. There was a chef and many sous chefs, but she was assigned a workspace with a small oven where new recipes were tested. She would have to prove herself before she would allowed to work on food for the patrons.

At some point, the head chef approached her and told her that she might be ready to move to the main kitchen, but first, one special test. She was supposed to prepare a kettle of stock, made from all sorts of unusual ingredients. She even had to visit other restaurants to ask for some of the ingredients. After running around town and cooking for hours, she told the chef that her carefully produced result was ready. She brought it to the main kitchen; everyone stopped working and watched as she brought it over to the head chef. He took one look and said sternly, "But where are the vegetables?" With alarm she realized she was supposed to keep the vegetables and not the stock!!! She was so surprised it left her speechless. A few seconds passed, and then the audience of under-chefs couldn't keep quiet and burst out in applause and laughter--it was just a silly initiation ritual that marked her promotion.
Why not just use git submodules feature ?
When I need my programs to use specific colors, I tend to use the RGB variety - which works regardless of preferences: "\e[0;48;2;R;G;Bm"

While my "color1" might be different than yours, terminals don't usually fiddle with RGB.
Big if, specially if you haven't tested all use cases.

It is the same fallacy as C code is safe if everything was checked, while CVEs keep happening.
They could ask their users to donate cpu/gpu if this is an issue.
>A new, general-purpose, beginner-friendly language focused on readability

Sounds great. What made Python so beginner-friendly and readable? Most of the "let's improve Python" gang I see can't begin to answer that - by their metrics, the language must be a failure.

Beginners have the advantage of not thinking "this is the best way to do it because that's how C/C++/Java do it".
literally yesterday I installed the above from nothing and was trying out some F# for fun and profit code within moments...amazing how far the tooling has come from even 2 years ago
Here in Florida it is mostly "what kind of snake is this?"
It's not doctor pay, it's economic repurcussions of monopolies. It's also not just limiting the numbers of physicians, it's locking out alternate providers of care and other models.

Right now US healthcare is very hierarchical, with physicians at the top, nurses close by. Other professions and services are subsidiary to them. You don't get to choose a provider based on skillset per se, you are forced to abide by this hierarchy.

That's the real economic cost, the restrictions in provider and service choice.
Recommendations for especially inspiring and/or informative videos on McCLIM?

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=mcclim
Does any other service deliver music and podcasts at a much lower price then?
While I have no specific source for VR, it's been kind of a meme for a long time that porn has been one of the major driving forces in the tech world and for tech adoption [0]

I guess the nature of the content makes it difficult to actually surface that because only a minority of people are open/vocal about their porn consumption habits or in what ways they are consuming it.

Case in point: Most people have no issue letting their online-social circle know that games they are playing, like in the way Steam surfaces it to friends.

While at the same time there is some demand by people to hide the more "embarrasing" games from their library they don't want others to know they have in their library [1]

On a personal note: I have to agree with the parent comment that porn is actually the kind of content that makes the advantages of VR really shine on the immersive end, particularly when coupled with 3D audio like that of the Index.

Fitness games are cool too, but they suffer from usually being very fictionalized in setting and art style. So while they take you to a place, you inherently know that place is fake.

With porn VR content its usually a real setting, with real people, and you are suddenly right in the middle of it, which adds a lot to the feeling of being immersed in an actual place, and not just some virtual space made up of virtual polygons.

[0] http://edition.cnn.com/2010/TECH/04/23/porn.technology/index...

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Steam/comments/9wvfbw/a_way_to_hide...
I've been pushing our engineers to avoid using GiHub's web UI for PR review. Checkout the branch, open it in the IDE, and walk through the code paths. IDEA has a great way to do GitHub PR line comments from the IDE, others likely do too.

I've seen more bugs than I like OK'd because the single line change looked innocuous in the web UI review tool.

Tools like Pull Panda are worse still, for game-ification of PRs, with leader boards for most PR reviews and fastest reviews. :(
> I’m sure they want to get that number down before they really go into mass production.

For what it's worth scale matters a lot in pricing - the more you order of chips, the cheaper they get. I've seen 30x differences in per-unit price for 10 to 10k pieces for chips. For PCBs and injection molding of plastic cases, the situation is similar - especially for plastic cases, where the actual material worth of the plastic is negligible, but the setup costs for (sometimes multiple) rounds of milling molds until the quality of the parts is sufficient are enormous, to the range of 80-100k per mold.
> I would instead describe `points` as being something like an `Iterable of Pairs of Numbers`.

Yes, Iterable[Tuple[Number, Number]] is a valid type, though 2D points are probably Tuple[Real, Real] or just Complex, not Tuple[Number, Number].
The majority of minorities are not Asian and likely will not be anytime soon.
Most CDN providers set TCP/IP initial congestion window to boost performance. TCP/IP initial congestion window is how fast TCP/IP first sends the data to the client. TCP/IP has slow start algorithm normally that slowly starts sending data and then its goes faster and faster. I would say most CDN providers have tuned the TCP init congestion window Linux performance setting properly that speeds up the initial sending speed.

One could compare CDN and HTTP server with setting TCP initial window or without.

Linux command to change initcwnd
``sudo ip route change default via 192.168.1.1 dev eth0 proto static initcwnd 10```

For more information about initcwnd see:
* https://blog.imaginea.com/look-at-tcp-initcwnd-cdns/
* https://tma.ifip.org/2018/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2018/06...
* https://www.cdnplanet.com/blog/tune-tcp-initcwnd-for-optimum...
> The headset (which the report says is codenamed N301) will be able to display rich 3D graphics at that resolution, the report says, thanks to an ultrafast M1 chip successor and because Apple will liberally use an already-known VR technique that involves using eye-tracking to render objects in the user's periphery at a lower fidelity than what the user is focusing on.

That would be superb. I could consider paying $3k for the dual 8K headset if I can skip buying a separate gaming pc for running a flight simulator. (Not to mention that 2x8K capable rig would cost a LOT!)
This kind of thinking can be a problem. Spending outsized effort on unproven theories. Would it really have a serious impact if the shutters were bad?

On the flip side, if it was truly so impactful, relying on the faulty shutters would have been a very irresponsible thing to do. They could have paid some humans to use a pulley system out of sight at that point.
> traveled around the city in a white van handling low-level incidents, like trespassing and mental health episodes

In many (most?) other countries, the police may not even get called in for such cases; and anyway, an arrest would not be made. At most, the police officer might demand the trespasser vacate the premises, escort them out, then give them a threatening talking-to.
Lost Alaskan Indigenous fort rediscovered after 200 years
Well, that's unfortunate. I get why developers do it but man, it always stinks.
I would add that the same is true for braces in c++. Debugging the differences between }}))} and }))}} can be quite difficult , as nested scopes is never easy in any language.
I hope nobody at Harvard reads about this. They'd respond by developing their own strain of metastatic brain goiter.
The 5 points you list are all about making good systems to solve the problems a business faces. The level up from that is a role where you're deciding on which problems to solve.
EU denounces Israel's demolition activities in occupied West Bank – Daily Sabah
This comes across as (perhaps unintentionally?) overly cynical to me.

I purchased Factorio some years ago now, and have always had the feeling that I underpaid for it over that time despite playing a lot less than some friends I know. (I think I have a mere couple of hundred hours playtime which for any other game would be crazy high!)

The devs have continuously worked on it in all that time. It’s not as if they had a bunch of expensive DLC lined up from day one as some AAA titles seem to these days.
Yes but in factorio :)

I like Dyson Sphere Program but factorio is vastly superior in regards of gameplay IMHO.
A $.10 pill that the person has been taking for years and is maybe even safer than many things sitting on the shelves of the hardware or grocery store.
I want to point out excellent koreader[1] program for e-readers, that features RSS client. So you connect, fetch your articles and start reading without distractions.

For such use cases RSS is god-send and I am glad that substack and many blogs do support that.

[1] https://github.com/koreader/koreader
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I don't agree. 99% of games on ios are cookie cutter or trivially small. I'd wager the average engineering hours put into a steam game is >100x the hours put into an average ios game.
> Had NASA not allowed this, the landings would have continued for at least a few more years.

Hardly. The number of missions was primarily capped by budgetary constraints [0] and the fact that they had only budgeted to build 15 Saturn 5 launchers. Flights after Apollo 17 were used for Skylab and the Apollo-Soyuz mission.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canceled_Apollo_missions
That'll be gone soon: https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/modules
Yes. Co-op, pvp, team production challenges, modded games, you name it. The default is co-op building the factory together. Can personally recommend the wave defense.

Either start a server from the GUI or setup a headless linux server. Against griefers there is a permission system (if you're not online yourself to watch out, and if you are, you could also do it the KISS way and roll back a few minutes with the non-blocking autosaves).

Not sure I ever typed a comment that must have sounded so much like an ad. Just a happy player... :-)
Rustonscript :-)
Populations with high birthrates are in many cases spurred by the need for laborers on the family’s subsistence farm. Giving anti-conception and medicine isn't enough, they need to be offered opportunities beyond subsistence farming.
They should write more lines of code, they'll be rich!
Productivity strongly correlates with screen size. Immersive VR/AR experience would replace all large displays, and could allow complete redesign of a human-computer interaction. No more trying to fit windows on a screen.

I think that the Apple AirPod Max is an experiment to test the structure. That's why they are so heavy.
The maintainer made this demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfBmRsPRdGg
What WebRTC Means for You
A rust room was actually the first thing I was looking for. But I can understand that not everyone shares our enthusiasm, because there are also a lot of other cool things to talk about.
> the A students maybe will finish college hamstrung with mountains of debt, and the rest? Walmart/Meth if they're lucky, prison if they're not.

This is the false dichotomy that’s causing students to incorrectly go to college when it might not be the best path. There is a massive gulf of the middle class you just glossed over between college and Walmart/meth: the trades. Working in skilled blue collar fields (electrician, contractor, plumber, diesel mechanic, etc) will likely give you a better life financially than someone who graduates with a 4 year BA.
That's fair, but singling out Robinhood while ignoring all the other companies affected like WeBull doesn't make sense.
I've read somewhere that Starlink has the potential of replacing private optic cable connections between world stock exchanges, providing its customers (read micro trading companies) latency advantage.
Julia is probably excellent. How large are the benefits to using Julia compared to Python? Are the benefits great enough to compensate for the time spent:

- Training your entire team to use Julia instead of learning about other relevant things

- Re-writing your Python-infrastructure (or dealing with Julia to Python-interoperability, which means new employees now have to learn or know both Python and Julia)

- Replacing Jupyter and learning new, similar tools

- All employees making their favorite IDEs function well with Julia

- Figuring out how to make Julia talk to software that already has an existing Python API (Wireshark, AutoCAD, GNU Radio, ... just about everything you can think of)
If you are going to compare your situation to the homelessness in California you should really experience what Skid Row is like first.
Startup time isn't really a minute thing. Its a huge factor in conversion thats widely measured. Like the load time of a web page. People always prefer to wait less.
>One might think Steve Jobs was an arrogant, perfectionist prick.

Because he was worried about an important aspect of an important presentation his terrible behavior towards others is justified? C'mon, there are almost a hundred examples of him treating others like crap. Was every case justified as 'something very important at Apple will crack if I'm not all over this employee'? It that was so, then they were the worst hirers of talent in Silicon Valley.
Regulated drugs have killed, and will likely kill more than unregulated drugs, and with dangerous devastation because the usual skepticism that surrounds anything novel will be assuaged by the stamp of approval.

So, if we eventually decide to count death by regulated drugs (not counting death by the regulation process itself) we might not come to a happy conclusion that it has worked as expected.
Quit my job, finished a bootcamp and launched my first product. AMA
For a year, they have been reporting reports of the issue wit the IME keyboards. See: https://community.signalusers.org/t/signal-should-warn-users...

If you are serious about privacy and secure messenger, you just can't brush off such issues.

[1] https://twitter.com/realsexycyborg/status/119769536810582425...
[2] https://community.signalusers.org/t/signal-should-warn-users...
[2] https://www.theverge.com/22249391/signal-app-abuse-messaging...
A lot of these comments read kind of like the ones when dropbox did a ShowHN. "Why not just use rsync?"

I suspect starlink will change the course of human history in substantial ways. It already stands to be the most positive technological development for my life since I've been living.

At the very least, until the market adjusts, it will provide a verdant field of lifestyle arbitrage.
yup,im watching f1 for the last 20 years mostly alone. there are boring races but those would not be fun even if i watched it with somebody else.
The Global land Subsidence threatens the lives of 600M People in 34 Countries
Node.js 14.x runtime now available in AWS Lambda
I know a lot of people who enjoy this game, and I am trying to get into it at the moment. I played a couple of hours earlier this week, and this is my review:

The premise of the game is excellent. You have crashlanded on a remote planet and have to start from nothing, acquire resources, build tools, build machines, automate the acquisition of resources, etc., until you have developed enough technology that you can build a spaceship and flee the planet. Wow.

There are 2 things I don't like.

Firstly, I don't like the "biters" that come and destroy your base. I don't really think this adds to the game in any way. It feels like it was added to the game to make it appeal to the "gamer" demographic rather than the "programmer" demographic. If I'm working away on one corner of my base trying to solve automation problems, I don't want to have to run away and piss about shooting some pointless biters who are trying to destroy my stuff. I know the answer is "that's an automation problem too! build turrets!". But I just want to calmly play the game at my own pace, I don't want to have to be attending to urgent biter problems.

I stopped playing the other day after biters destroyed a load of my stuff and I no longer felt invested in the game. That's not fun for me. I want to play the game, but I don't want my stuff getting destroyed if I do a subpar job of defending it.

Secondly, (and this is partly related to the biters, but not completely), I find the game surprisingly stressful. I think this comes from the interplay between short-term and long-term problems. I don't know exactly what game mechanic causes it, but I think I would find it much more enjoyable if I could calmly work on problems without having to run around topping up coal and otherwise putting out non-automatable fires. Perhaps it's just the visuals of loads of materials stacking up on conveyor belts and going to the wrong places, and the kind of visceral feeling that the problem is getting worse for every second that it's not solved. I don't know. I don't find that relaxing.

I will have another go though. I love the concept, and I haven't actually got to the end of the tutorial yet. I understand that when you start the proper game you can ask for "peaceful" mode which turns off biters, which sounds ideal for me.