skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also: maintaining a work wardrobe (more important for some than others), dealing with meals (packing, transporting, etc), forced social interactions that have no work value (Larry stops by every morning 15 minutes after you are in the zone and won't leave), pets being left alone for 8-10 hours a day (again, many people won't have this), traveling to the office when roads are icy, and so on.
And here, ladies and gents, is why companies like Microsoft, will eternally resist getting aligned with internal employee groups Resisting selling to government entities, whether ICE or the Army.

There is way too much money to be lost.
> And because "concise" should be measure in the number of tokens needed to achieve certain functionality, not by excessive use of single character tokens.

That makes me wonder how this would shake out differently if we didn’t use Latin-based writing as the foundation of our programming languages. If you had a programming language that used Chinese characters, would that be fundamentally more usable, assuming that you understood Chinese characters to begin with?
Imagine being given a mission and being able to recreate the target area in VR and walk around while you conduct your estimate, orders, and rehearsals.

Or imagine being able to look over a piece of ground and see the location of your people annotated through AR. Or driving a route and seeing your planned route annotated.

Yes please absolutely get this into my hands.
It's full screen, edge-to-edge in iOS (iPhone 11). In landscape it's acutally 100+% of the screen (which isn't great) I also use in Chrome where 40ish% of the screen is album art.
Apple legally bought Cover Flow from the inventors, but was sued by patent troll Mirror Worlds LLC.
Mirror Worlds was awarded $625.5 million in damages, but Apple appealed and won.
Apple then got their own design patent on Cover Flow, but doesn't seem to use it any more.
Besides, what in the digital realm is not skeuomorphism to begin with?

Every single item in the digital world down to a pixel (off of the `pt` points system) we see online is skeuomorphic inspiration off of something! Typesetting and the alphabet is skeuo off the typewriter systems/foundry, buttons––of course skeuomorphism, web-page and scrolling follow from pulp and physical scrolls, header, footer, body inspire off of letterheads.

Anyone who claims 'skeuomorphism this, but !skeuomorphism that' is a digital noob and doesn't quite understand where the world has been and how it got here.
Language server support can be considered as another plugin API.

This is what makes it special.
My father has been going bonkers about trying to just set his own album art in itunes about the library he maintains of cd rips.
The dialog for setting the cover art just doesn't work. You can choose the image, it doesn't report any errors or anything went wrong, but it never sets the album image.

The only thing I managed to get to work was if you can find the album in the itunes store, and match all the metadata, you can get the automatic metadata logic to set it properly for you.

But he has some esoteric versions of albums, and he wants to use those album covers that itunes doesn't have in their db.
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I think it was meant in the way that performers need to be talented in singing, performance, charisma and dancing. Stuff like that. Singing well isn't easy, doing all of these things is way harder still.

Disclaimer: I have perfect pitch since I was a kid, can hold a note when singing, made a lot of music as a kid (guitar and electronic), had some singing lessons and yet I'm at best a fun karaoke singer to listen to when you're drunk.
For what it's worth (and I know this is getting extremely meta), but as it stands this writeup has had 21,963 visitors from Hacker News. (205 comments as I write this).
I agree, but nothing short of borrow checker is considered memory safety to Rust advocates and they probably think that we segfault at least 10 times an hour with use-after-free's, double-free's and buffer overflows.

I don't think Zig is meant to replace C++. It's a cool language on its own.

By the way, you've been shadowbanned if you haven't noticed it yet.
Prevention of domestic crime and violent projection of power in international affairs are unrelated uses of the sovereign monopoly on force.

It is reasonable to object to USA's use of the latter while enjoying the benefits of the former. Indeed I do so.
> Deflation doesn't discourage investment and consumption...it increases the bar at which you will part with your money

Euphemistically rephrasing something is not a refutation. Inflation does not make investment decisions "mindless", but deflation does make the average risk adjusted return on an investment negative.

> It increases the bar at which you will part with your money, as merely holding it has a high level of return. This is a superior system to me.

The "high level of return" is at the expense of people who are not freeloading, who are forced to create this return for others by making more stuff for less money. Why is it superior for the monetary system to be designed to reward those who put in no effort and take no risks at the expense of those who do?
This! Job-hunting is so ridiculously easy when everyone is working from home.
Have you ever taken a step back and realizing how much hate is there in your speech and why is it so?
If that is the ultimate purpose and you have a way to slowly progress towards full understanding sure.
Blue screen of death can have whole new meaning.
I thought I'd seen almost everything in bash, but I've never seen |& before. My attempts at googling it aren't coming up with anything, can anyone advise what it does compared to a normal pipe?
I wholeheartedly disagree. Compiler engineering is ultimately about taking data in one representation and converting to another, in practice much of the job is figuring out what data you need to have access to in order to perform a transformation and test that it is sound - the plumbing is usally uninteresting and straightforward.

Code generation and optimization are just the task you're trying to complete, the actual implementation of it is not so different from most SWE grunt work. But many of the abstractions you build when trying to do it are useful to understand and use in practice everywhere you right software.

If you've ever worked on an application that ingests data and spits out meaningful output, you've written a compiler. Failing to understand the shared abstractions is not good engineering.
I agree that cover art should be shown as large as possible for older works. I remember looking at my Lateralus CD cover art over and over again. It’s sleeve and a series of holograms and transparent pages that really push the limits of what you can do with 2D. In a static image in Apple Music, you won’t ever get the same feeling even if the image was 3 times larger.

That said, someone developing art for music no longer has to stick to sheets and 2D, Spotify or Apple Music can provide visualizations and info with the music that can do far more than the album art can. Tool was dealing within the confines of a jewel cd case, but that’s no longer a constraint.
They are actually pretty normal, but I guess not well known outside of the investment world. These are two of the largest groups making private equity investments.

Partners Group is a very large investment management firm with $109bn assets under management (AUM), of which 48% is in private equity. It is pretty common for pension plans to invest in private equity firms, but the larger ones also make direct investments, usually alongside a large PE firm such as Partners Group.

CPP Investments, the entity that manages all of the assets of the Canada Pension Plan, has US$378bn AUM. ~25% of that, $90bn, is in private equity. Some of their direct investments, which you can see on their website[1], are Blackhawk Networks, Jimmy John's, Neiman Marcus, Petco, Qlik, SUSE, and Waymo. They also have investments in VC firms, such as A16Z, Sequoia Capital, and even Y Combinator.

[1] https://www.cppinvestments.com/the-fund/our-investments/inve...
See also "Clean bathrooms!" billboards when road tripping.
Training - simulations.

Eventually, a Danger Room anywhere.
Not anecdotal, please see links to research in other comments.

Furthermore, just because something doesn't work for you, doesn't mean it doesn't work for others. Additionally, unless you've been keeping a log before and after you started the interventions, you should be at least skeptical about the difference you expect. It's entirely possible you got better, adjusted to the norm, and just think you feel as good as you normally do - while your "normal" is better than before.

Finally, the effect is more likely to be pronounced in people feeling worse than average. If your life is fantastic, you might not get much of a benefit from an intervention that has otherwise strong effects on people.
Ask HN: How to Sell APIs?
Hi, I'm preparing to reach out to companies to sell an API-based product.

If I were to send cold-emails to a bunch of companies, what should I include in that short email that are the most important to close a sale? Is a demo important, and what kind of demo is the most effective? Who within the company is best to contact? What is on the minds of the companies, that I can help answer? When should I follow up again?

Please give me any pointers you have if you have built API-based startups, and particularly have experience selling APIs.

Thank you!
Are we in disagreement here?
I saw three hand surgeons, all extremely well-regarded, but who ultimately didn't know what was going on with my hands. It's been super frustrating for me because they're loathe to even acknowledge the problem. It's either "all looks to be okay structurally" or "I'm stumped". That being said, even though these were extremely well-regarded surgeons, I didn't feel much confidence during the visits. I didn't get the sense that they really wanted to get to the bottom of it and help me, and the visits felt rushed. I have an appointment scheduled with a physiatrist in a few weeks--a hand therapist recommended that I get my upper spine/neck checked out in case the pain I'm feeling is referred nerve pain that originates in the spine/neck somehow. Crossing my fingers that I can come to some resolution with this--I just want my life back.
Worth pointing out that the parent comment said conservative "idea", not conservative people.
Same reason that WeWork was magically worth 100x equivalent real estate companies because Adam Neumann was so cool and quirky.
good for R&D I suppose
I don't work with the tech, but is there a use case for operating drones in the field?

You want to peek around a corner or under a door, drop a tiny robot. Operate it with a handheld joystick and get a camera feed into your headset while still maintaining your regular field of vision.

Final product won't necessarily take the form of the hololens. Might just be an attachment to whatever standard equipment they have, more like a Google glass.
I haven't posted anything publicly yet, but it's on my to-do list.
It's nothing more than welfare and stimulus that republicans can get behind.
You need to defind partial, because 90% of the codebase is still C++.
Macron orders Covid-19 lockdown across all of France, closes schools
This still happens a lot with some more mundane things. I picked up a bag of sugar the other day that said "gluten-free sugar!"
The FSF as an incorporated entity holds copyright on software and authority over the GPL. Individual board and voting members can't really do anything, especially with RMS and his supporters on the board.

Also, I don't think the corporate/proprietary side feels threatened at all by the FSF; this would be a lot of work when it's much easier for the FSF to drive itself into irrelevance.
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Even making that comparison suggests that there is a situation in which cryptocurrency is effectively and widely used as currency side by side with fiat.

I don’t see that ever happening. I don’t think governments can (or should!) give up that much control over the financial system.

And this argument actually reaches back to prove itself: since crypto will always be used for speculation and not fill a useful role in transactions, all the energy used is effectively wasted!
"You can leave your hat on"

"You don't have to put out the red light"
Oh, that makes sense. Sorry for assuming they're the same as Android's.
OK, let's assume what you say is true. You spent the $100k or whatever to compute a SHA1 hash collision and you can replace the bits 11011 with the bits 1010. How is this useful? It *MIGHT* be useful, but chances are it's not very useful, as lots of data formats are pretty lossy and a random bitflip here or there doesn't matter that much.

Just because you have a SHA1 collision doesn't mean you can put any bits wherever you want and still have it be a SHA1 collision.

The really hard part is being able to flip whatever bits you want(to achieve some goal, like a RCE or whatever) AND make it a SHA1 collision. This is currently very much an open problem, nobody has been able to demonstrate(that we are aware of).
Is it? I thought micelles formation improved as temperature went up.

Also depends on how cold your cold water is... ours is under 10C.

Probably unnecessary to do a perfect job for an unstable respiratory virus. Skin-colonizing bacteria is a different story.
So its fine to be "only following orders", as long as you get a payday?
There's a very obvious analogy here that proves you wrong: nvgs
The benzene is the money-saving opportunity. Per GP it's added to avoid a costly drying process. The cost of removing the trace benzene would nullify those savings.
Well, all optimization problems are equivalent to a maximum likelihood estimate for a corresponding probability distribution so you may make more implicit assumptions than you think.

Typical ML methods just have a huge distribution space that can fit almost anything from which they pick just 1 option. This has two downsides:

Since your distribution space is several times too large by design you lose the ability to say anything useful about the accuracy of your estimate, other than that it is not the only option by far.

Since you must pick 1 option from your parameter space you may miss slightly less likely explanations that may still have huge consequences, which means your models tend to end up overconfident.
On the plus side, this means we are much more likely now to get actually awesome prosumer/consumer-grade AR systems with many of the current issues worked out in the next N years. It's starting to get to a point where, though it's still kind of lame, you can see how it would be awesome, but still needs $B of R&D so... I'll take it.
Oh wow! I have some reading up to do - thanks!
“That war only made billionaires out of millionaires. Today's war is making trillionaires out of billionaires. Now I call that progress.”

― Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country
This is amazing news, hundreds of thousands of people are realizing California is a horrible state to live. It's impossible for most people to afford decent housing, I met folks who would live 20 to a three bedroom. Homelessness is off the charts, and it's not uncommon to meet people who don't exactly have a steady address and just crash at different places for short durations.

I was making 100K in LA , no prospect of being able to ever save, ever buy a home, ever meet someone with a decent job. Moved to Chicago and instantly I was able to price homes in the area, save tons of money, date a truly amazing career driven girl. I also didn't need to drive! Los Angeles is uniquely horrible because housing cost around what it does in New York, but you're still paying from 5 to 800$ monthly on car expenses.

My biggest tip to any young person is to go where you're treated best. No one should live in California in its current state. We've had decades upon decades of counterproductive housing policy. But at this point it's like trying to stop an avalanche, the politicians in the state have no real way to undo the damage.

With remote work rapidly becoming normalized, I can imagine tech workers, particularly those with families moving to better States. I'm particularly passionate about this because I had a nasty falling out with most of my family about my moving, but my life has gotten so good since.

You can't make a tenable situation when you're living in hell. I encourage anyone thinking of moving out of California to book that ticket, do it now.
BSOD on your face.
I'm not the person you spoke to but I can answer this question from my own perspective:

I'm Chinese, grew up in the UK, but I do consider moving back to China as a long-term option that I'll have to think seriously about. The main barrier for me is language & culture, my Chinese skills are awful; for other similar people I'd expect finances too but luckily that's not the case for me.

My parents came to the UK from China to study because they wanted a better life. That was in the 90s where China was admittedly a bit of a shithole, relative to other countries including the UK. My dad went back to China after a few years of working, because he felt he'd do better in a country where he understood the culture better. My mum stayed in the UK because she really really dislikes the Chinese government (for historical reasons). These days they occasionally mention that some of their classmates, that stayed in China, are doing better than them. My mum is quite stubborn though so she doesn't consider moving back as an option.

My cousin visited the UK a few years ago and told me "oh is that all it is" - there's still a cultural impression that western countries are really great, so he thought it'd be way more impressive (he only visited Aberdeen and Manchester, never London, but still London is not that much better), and that's why rich parents still send their kids to school in the west; similarly there's still a cultural impression from western countries that China is a bit of a shithole & authoritarian to boot - but reality has changed a lot in the past 30 years.
Care to provide any background or supporting information, for those of thus that don't know who that is or about this project?
I keep hearing this! Can you recommend some weight lifting exercises that you think may have helped most?
And everyone will wind up using it, paying for it, and hating it. Lol.
We only began thinking of it as 'album art' in the iPod age, 20 years ago. That's because digital products could only show the front cover, and not the liner notes that accompanied it.

I think the last CD I bought was in 2005, and there was a 7 year gap before I bought my first vinyl. I had completely forgotten that albums used to come with lyrics, trivia and pictures of the band.
I also like that it's 3 rather than "list 10". There's some research on this: when people try 3, it's rather easy to succeed. If they try 10, they might find it hard, and if they run out of "good" things to list before finishing, they may erroneously conclude they have it pretty bad.

Psychology is rather funny - good to study it empirically! I'm so thankful there are so many Ph.D. researchers who take it seriously and contribute to the general knowledge by writing books for the general public.
The whole ridiculousness of the Covid paranoia...

People get the governments they deserve.
Yea who knew there are thousands of Russians with similar names supporting the FSF and RMS..
I can confirm that the second edition gives a quite-good treatment of data flow analysis. Not as thorough as you'd find in a proper program analysis book (where Nielson is the usual choice, though the recent Rival/Yi book on abstract interpretation is fantastic IMO) but it's well-written and at around the right level of detail for a compilers course.

Source: PL PhD candidate, used (parts of) it to teach a graduate compilers course.
BBC China correspondent John Sudworth moves to Taiwan after threats
Excuse me, asshole. I've read plenty on the subject and spent significant resources on security, but I'm curious what other people here are doing. I don't appreciate all the snark.
> I'm a former infantryman and ... let's just say I'm _extremely_ skeptical of this kind of technology

The question is how integral can you make this, without retraining everyone for it.

For this to be successful there needs to be a whole generation who is probably 16 or 14 right now, who are used to putting on these headsets and be habituated to moving around in a VR world - wait till they turn 18 and put them on the battlefield at 19.

I'd imagine this is already present in CAG or some other secret division, but we've always seen how it "should work" for friend-or-foe in the Terminator HUD clones[1].

[1] - https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2017/03/06/buildi...
Not really possible with HoloLens. This is AR not VR or a HUD.
From https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Pipelines...:

> If ‘|&’ is used, command1’s standard error, in addition to its standard output, is connected to command2’s standard input through the pipe; it is shorthand for 2>&1 |. This implicit redirection of the standard error to the standard output is performed after any redirections specified by the command.
Unfortunately I haven't worked with Python in some time, so I can't say. If my Go experience translates, then the basics (code navigation, completions, definitions...) have gotten much better, both in form and function. Those could be worth another try. I'm less sure about debugging, and as far as I know, there's no equivalent to VSC's remote editing. I've heard great things about that VSC feature and been meaning to try it out.
Closed source to an open-core model, fwiw.
I don't look like a hippie, but I totally subscribe to the idea of "make love, not war".

I imagine what the possibilities would be if we funded general non-military projects with the kind of money that goes into the military.

Trillions have been spent on wars or war preparation, and of course the net result is worsening for humanity. What if instead that money were spend on helping humanity?

Do we really need a conflict to be willing to stand behind an expense?

Now in the case of AR, most of our lives are not lacking because we don't have AR headsets. But there are a lot of workplace (and entertainment) situations where good AR headsets would be beneficial or simply fun. Wouldn't it be great if that were a technology funded for the general benefit of all people?
The Silicon Valley rockstars you are talking about are usually customer facing, therefore media coverage is of interest for a broader mass. GlobalLogic provides services to companies, which makes them less commonly known. Meanwhile Hitachi is known in a certain niche at best...
A pyramid is a more psychologically powerful scam as many people actually get big returns and become true believers. Made up assets are more akin to the tulip mania and such.
they're running Windows 7 because Candy Crush isn't preinstalled
> “My successor, and the board of directors that have supported him, have basically tried to transform the organization from a politically neutral, nonpartisan civil liberties organization into a progressive liberal organization,” Glasser says about Anthony Romero

I’m surprised but then not to see Glaser has the same opinion of Romero that I do. I’m a card carrying member of the ACLU but even a decade ago I realized Romero was not a straight shooter. The ACLU newsletter had become a work of propaganda. Before I started sending it to /dev/null I would open it up, work up a frothy outrage at some documented injustice, only to be left annoyed when I googled for further details and realized Romero’s team had completely misrepresented the facts. It’s not that I disagree with defending someone who murdered a pizza delivery guy in front of his family (read up on the Juwan Wickware case). That’s what lawyers do. But the ACLU didn’t misrepresent the facts to make the Skokie Nazis seem like they were Boy Scouts.
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