skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those companies, maybe with the exception of Facebook and Microsoft, are literally only possible because of paper money. Take out the paper they hold from their balance sheets and their size goes down in half. Take away their ability to own their markets by issuing debt bonds, which would mean competing with the revenue generated by their own products, and you kill them.

Apple became the biggest company in the world not only because they create products everyone wants, but equally because they are masters at managing money and debt. That is what gives them the edge in production as they barely produce anything. They are probably the best at managing financial assets by far.

And Tesla, well Tesla is very bad at building cars, they are bankrupt without paper profits. They shouldn’t be on that list.

Semiconductors is not harder than any other cutting edge industry that has come before. Taiwan is not special, they are 20 million people. A good chunk of them trained and educated in the US.
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Hahaa. So true
HN should have a separate section and do the annual re-post of the most cool stuff =)
> Most people feel alone because they lack the social skills to make friends outside work, or just lack the initiative

I'm not sure that's how I'd put it but the alone-ness is a real problem for many people but I don't see how some new startup is going to solve that problem.
That whole mug throwing incident did Perl no favors. They needed to continue competing with PHP and Python at the time with full focus, not start gazing into the future of computing.
Doctors always need stuff done in their practice that requires tech knowledge, maybe trade that for the surgeon fee and knock off a big part of that 30k in one shot. (Son of a doc, and have seen those types of offers sometimes work)
I think we’ve got less than 3 years until that’s no longer true. A lightweight, wireless VR headset that you can easily put on when you want to talk to someone gets you all the presence you need for work related tasks. Transmitting points that track head and hand positions take far less bandwidth than video. Video calls have terrible lag compared to any of the VR social experiences I’ve had. The hardware is going to be key though, battery life, weight, hands tracking without controllers, and comfort. There’s good progress on all of those.
Oh it's been going on for decades with all the communists and socialists. They've fully infected the education system as they've wanted to starting back in the 1950's. Bravo snowflakes!
Yep, in a newer perl you can say:

$hash->{$key}->%*

to do the same thing. And you can replace the * with stuff to do slicing or whatever if you like.
If it makes you feel any better : I have very fond memories of these shows ( I was very small still ).
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26642735
This whole thing has been obviously dumb for a number of reasons not even related to physics. You could almost use it as a good litmus test for who should be running a company, or working at important positions in government.
Most photo cameras which have a HDMI output are designed for both use cases.

A camera shutter is more likely to wear out than the sensor stopping working
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It’s often nastier, because the trailer is often rent to own or mortgaged by the owner. It’s a depreciating asset, so these arrangements are often exploitive, and the more slumlordy types will find ways to get liens on the trailer.
Yes, the color of the spoon DOES matter.

In fact, the color of the spoon (the syntax and expressiveness of the language) is probably why Python won out over Perl; it is certainly why I switched somewhere in the late 90s.

Also... If your niche language isn't well supported by those who build language bindings for libraries and systems, fix that by making it extremely easy to create language bindings. If building a Python-to-Your-Language bridge is the only way to achieve this (it isn't) then build that.
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> This just takes for granted that throughput is more important than latency.

It's not about throughput or latency. It's about cost. Shipping is _way_ cheaper than anything else. Trains are quicker, but also more expensive. Barge/Train is again cheaper than a truck, but in various cases only a truck is a good option.

> I also think that is true generally today

It's not true in the slightest. If something needs to arrive quicker another modality can be used. What's important is than it is predictable. Meaning, something arrives every week around the same day. Latency can cover up scheduling issues. It's much cheaper and better to control the scheduling issue.
> You truly own the means of production

depends on how replacible you really are.
Only if we build things like we used to... West Germany and Germany in general has been known for the reliability and durability of their goods. German quality is top notch.
> I keep hearing the argument that the plugin community appears to be dead, but I've never had any issues.

As someone who moved from Sublime to VSCode, my experience was that I didn't exactly 'miss' crucial stuff in the former, but found things to still be better in the latter.

If I wouldn't be using VSCode, I'd probably not miss too much, but using it and its plugin ecosystem, it's hard to go back to Sublime as my main editor.
You're missing that the point of being around people for some of us is to "interact" with them. I can easily interact with co-workers. I can not easily interact with strangers at a co-working space.

Also I work on console games. I can't hand the person on the chat the controller and say "how does this feel?"
And what happens if trains become significantly larger than segments.

Trains cannot occupy a whole track from China to Vienna for themselves, right? You need bypasses, stops, segments, etc.

Edit: typo
Anti-unionism is political
oh, I see, thanks.
Where is the who-is-hiring thread?
Hello HN, did I miss the monthly who is hiring thread or is it still going to be posted?
> it consumes the battery (increasing carbon footprint)

Using web-searched estimates, the carbon cost of leaving this on constantly for a full year is approximately equivalent to the carbon cost of one single liter of petrol.
For my taste, Wezterm is much more configurable: I can change key bindings, mouse bindings, make custom actions/behaviors, write the config file anyway I want if at the end it generates the needed Lua table,... And it's not gonna stop here.
The code is beautifully separated in layers, Rust is used at its best for terminal reading/interpretation..

The codebase is flexible: I could write my own frontend if I wanted or use the termwiz crate (included in the codebase) to build cli apps using the same nice layered architecture..
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There are plenty of cases where someone who doesn't understand the underlying theory has contributed due to the outsider effect or just pure luck. The hype, and the swindling are not ok, but when an organization like NASA thinks they maybe successfully reproduced an experiment that invalidates a law of nature you have to keep trying. Sure I'm hoping for new science, always, because that is more fun, but mostly you need to know for sure what the experimental error was so that you don't repeat it in an experiment whose result you aren't as skeptical of.
So, some devil's advocate perspectives:

A career at one company might span 5 years rather than a lifetime, and that's plenty of time to be affected.

One form of interaction benefits one type of employee. A second form of interaction benefits a second type of employee. Both benefit the company. Which form is best?
interesting, thanks.
Isn't this also how a lot of friendships start? People finding themselves in a similar place/situation/habit/interests. So to me it seems a bit natural that workplace friendships would naturally develop. It's healthier to make an effort to have friendships outside of work as well, of course.

Maybe I'm being naïve, but I don't see how "toxic atmosphere and disruption of team dynamics" would result from these casual friendships. If anything, I'm more likely to hold myself accountable to my team members when I know them better personally.
Agreed. I wasn't saying exclusively. I just feel that swinging from one extreme to the other doesn't solve any problems.
Perl was my first programming language, however ill-advised, it was what my computational linguistics professors used in 2012.

It was a trial-by-fire implementing new modules in a codebase written by a seasoned Perl programmer who didn't shy away from its esoteric features. Having mostly moved to Python, I can't say I miss the whackiness of the language.
Periscope Shuts Down
Any recomendations for current spec phones that work with lineage?
My mom had the real thing :)

She'd outpull Porsches just for fun...
I’ve heard this a few times but never really saw any of that creative culture working close to a few Perl folks, besides a few funny package names. More a culture of roughness, “hacker cred” and a defensive, short-sighted, we-know-better attitude that left people stranded and is totally not welcoming to creative types. I learned very little during this time.

What you describe is what the Ruby community was in the early 2000s.
This was the problem. It's now been fixed. Or do you think Perl 6 was the more meaningful name?
I think that the code could make one change to get rid of the additional height array. It just needs to flip the nested loops. Walk along the height field for each vertical line on the screen (2d line walk through the height field image) and keep track of the projected height at each step. Draw only the the difference between the previous projected height and the new projected height if the later is higher.
My first reaction to this plan is that it’s for the birds. The government would be better off just building a fab themselves. The raw materials aren’t that hard to get hold of; integrating consumer electronics into military systems would likely take just as long, if not longer (with all sorts of other negative effects on quality and security). I guess the analogy is with scrap metal drives in WWII, but this situation is nothing like that at all. It’s a fantasy scenario that makes no sense.

We defend Taiwan with everything we’ve got. There is no plan B, and it’s not just about semiconductors.
Side topic - Roman Mars does a great job hosting this podcast. Has many, many different takes on the status quo.
iMessage sends the original photo/video quality, unless you select the low quality image option in your settings. As far as I know.
The author makes no mention of immutability or the contrast between a sql database. The author misses the point for which a blockchain db is more useful for recording a record of history and the lineage of any subsequent transactions or transfers. I never even saw a real argument as to why enterprises shouldn't use it.

Furthermore the analogy with the birth certificate is misleading. The blockchain doesn't determine your dob, the person who enters it does, and now it can't be altered later and if it does there's a record of it.

Blockchain is really just an ultra logging mechanism that's already setup where you would have to design that setup yourself in sql. Throw in immutability and voila you have something that is designed to be more dependable and trustworthy.
To all the nice people downvoting this, it was an April's fools joke.
It's cost/latency problem, throughout eventually scales with market demand.
yes it was https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/30/volkswagens-name-change-of-u...
It's interesting to see the stories about Periscope over the years: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
It was April Fool's https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/30/volkswagens-name-change-of-u...
Is there a specific scenario where you notice latency?
Firefox uses the same "safe browsing" centralized censorship service from Google. Using a different browser doesn't solve this problem.
OnePlus devices have been always recommended on their Reddit, but personally I've been using a Xiaomi Mi 8 for nearly 2 years with no issues.
Sound like the EFF could use a mirror. They're basically griping about legal behavior of the crowdfunding sites in their complaint that crowdfunding sites punish legal behavior.
Anything from OnePlus, they're consistently friendly with the custom rom scene.
Having started with more modern scripting languages, such as ruby, javascript, or python, every time I touched perl I felt it was actively fighting me. Those sigils! God, those sigils! It's bad enough that we have to prefix variable names with a dollar sign in php, as if a language parser can't be smart enough to figure out whether you mean a variable or not; but having to use three different sigils for scalar variable, array variable and hash variable, and needing to know when to refer to the same variable with the array sigil or the scalar sigil — this is just vile. Things like $_ or @_ didn't help either.

Probably people who took up perl after something even more adversarial can learn to love it. I doubt I ever can.

What I did love about perl though — something I don't find in modern languages — is its carefree playfulness, which must have stemmed from the hacker culture associated with it. I still chuckle every time I use Carp for debugging. Carp::croak, Carp::confess, or Carp::cluck are genius!
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> Absolutely - in knowledge economy, insisting on physical presence is darn damn stupid.

Insisting on presence is the only reason knowledge workers in western countries can claim income they have right now. Because in knowledge economy without insisting on presence, there is absolutely no reason to pay a westerner more for the same job that can be done by someone in India, China, East Europe or Africa.

Unless you can claim with a straight face that westerners are more knowledgable.
I find these "services" that some companies offer degrading, as they decide for me what should I eat or where wash my clothes etc. They should instead pay employees more so they could afford these things on their own if they wanted.
Probably a lot of things that are way healthier than anything online
So, like an apartment, then? No real loss, considering the apartment is the alternative.

On the other hand, in many places I've lived, owning or renting a trailer was the closest folks can get to a house or the easiest/cheapest way to get a place with space.
There are many reasonable requests like this - I would love an option to take a scenic route when I have time, to see a new countryside just behind a hill from a highway I usually travel through.

Or city transport route with as few changes as possible, to enjoy the booknor to make travelling with toddler easier.

Guess these won't get a middle manager a promotion for rising some key metric, though.
Metabase is amazing at doing basic things in the UI and dropping down to SQL easily if you need. More for reading and analysing though so might not work if you need a lot of the other CRUD stuff
Nice idea! I remember in my first month or two of therapy, my therapist basically kept training me to list 3 things to be grateful for, and I was mostly annoyed about how much of the therapy was about that.

But, it turned out to be very effective, and being 'forced' to do my homework paid off. She later explained that she usually starts out with this 'exercise' because most of her clients are not just dealing with their particular issues, but also with those issues festering and affecting their sense of self-worth and day-to-day thinking process. And helping her clients improve in that area generally made it much easier and effective when dealing with the particulars.
Citymapper at least tries, but is still bad for bike+public transport.

I look at the options that Citymapper gives and then have to recalculate the route, in my head, correcting for wrong decisions about where I'll have access to a bike.

(Yes, it'll be quicker if I cycle my own bike from my home to the nearest station. No, I won't be cycling a hire bike 111 minutes away from its closest docking port.)
> isolation is just murderous and it takes a long amount of time to actually start showing its teeth.

i wonder if people who feel this way aren't getting socializing done outside of work, and is using work as a form of socialization?
OpusBBS FTW
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Like this one perhaps? (April fool...)

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/01/suez-2-ever-gi...
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Pro1 X: A Linux smartphone with slideout keyboard
Probably dereferencing, since Perl never had multidimensional datastructures. You'd put a reference to an array into an array value, and then access it with $array[0]->[0] (iirc) to get the first value of the first array. That was the easy way to write it, the much more annoying way was like ${$array[0]}[0] (or $$array[0][0] if you really wanted to? my memory is fortunately fading), I believe, which got really out of hand when you went three or more levels deep.
For me Python is a more ergonomic language. It is easier to read and write. And that led to a sustained growth of Python. Python's popularity exploded in recent years due to data analytics tools using that language, but there was a reason why these tools did choose Python in the first place ...
> You're completely ignoring that I'm complaining about the move to the cloud, and the restrictiveness of the contract. Even just continuing the old contract and staying with offline-Office would have been better.

a cloud is a necessity. it's basically impossible to have a local solution, for every fucking university and most stuff is basically serices built together with closed and open source software, which is a managemend disaster.

> I never even hinted at this being about Microsoft being American. I don't want my University to upload my PII to "the cloud" so I can use Word in a Browser.

your PII is uploaded to so many companies, besides microsoft. microsoft is probably the lesser evil of all these.

> You're basically saying we shouldn't even be trying anymore. Why not shut down the CS departments of universities entirely and just hand out accounts to Skillshare et al., so those still interested in CS can learn from there? There's nothing left a University could offer that you can't access from there. Maybe a couple credits for the Azure cloud if you need to do something computationally intensive.

we should but as of now we should have a intermediate ms solution. btw. the cs departments most of the time do managed services, they do not develop stuff. often they already manage microsoft solutions, so they already use microsoft active directory and exchange.
most of them were also breached by hafnium.

what we should do is built a edu cloud (SaaS/PaaS/IaaS) with services (open source) for students and profs, which has a central mail system and is managed centrally. but until this is built you need a working solution.

> Your University surely doesn't have anything left in-house for this anyways.

I'm not a student anymore, but most universities do not have that much selfbuild code lying around anyways. I mean most people working at universities don't care what they os is, they want to use their ms outlook or ms word. of course some universties are way more science oriented and thus more personal wants to use linux & co or write stuff in latex, but that is a minority.

also as soon as you are leaving your university, there are only a handful of corporations where you won't be using a ms product. after hafnium tons of them are also moving to m365.
Google rejigs remote working as it reopens offices
Seconded. Thanks to these guys I'm still using an 8 year old phone as my daily driver. Galaxy S4. Only thing that went so far is the battery.
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At first, I thought accellion is a software for managing students programs, schedules, courses, etc.

I decided to check their website and was stunned to learned that it's:
an Enterprise Content Firewall that prevent breaches and compliance violations from risky 3rd party communications.

I guess they will need to review some of their core business model because they failed to fulfill their promises to their clients and customers.
> Everybody knows that the Tech Industry are full of people worse than RMS. Tech industry are full of CEOs, CFOs, CTOs, COOs, manager, <put your role here> that are sexists, racists, transphobics, misogynists and <put your word here> and yet there is no public campaign to remove them from their roles. The same companies that are promoting this campaign against RMS are the companies that don't hire women or black, asian, latin, trans people for leadership and executive roles and yet, no public campaign. Why?

Very, very true, if not characteristic of every industry high on power play. With bizarre rumours about personal lives of people in dotcom C-suites, we all know too well about, these people surely should've had people to poke before this.

They should try really.

P.S. RedHat is a very funny company name to hear in this context, especially given the exodus of women from the company, and its own work ethics scandal a few years ago.
Permanent buildings also lose value over time, and you have to spend money to repair various portions of it at some point.
An example of a partial order that blew my mind recently are the ordering of "events" in special relativity. Two events can be ordered in time (i.e A happened before B) if their spacetime interval is positive. But for two events that are separated by a distance than light can't travel in the time by which they are separated, then nobody can give a before/after order to these events.

This fits exactly into the partial ordering system.
I don't think in Comanche they painted back to front, or at least I hope they didn't. It's best to render front to back, tracking the highest (in screen space) pixel you have drawn, and as you move further back, only drawing lines from that height. That "max height" is a zbuffer of sorts for each ray. [edit: I just read further down and they mention this]

Also, you want to render each ray/vertical screen line one at a time, rather than running each single step of the ray for all rays/vertical lines.

Once you are rendering each ray at once, it's easy to do a circular rather than flat projection, which feels a lot more stable when you rotate and admits higher fields of view without distortion.
Thank you for your efforts!

That book is more than 2600 pages! How long did that take?
I’ve tried Retool in the past. Really enjoyed it.

https://retool.com