skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Thinking from this perspective led us to...

> the average mobile engineer’s velocity remained stagnant

> this could dramatically reduce our overall staffing requirements...also have to deliver improved quality and performance for our customers

Honestly it sounds like Coinbase is quickly turning into a shitty place to work. Sounds like all the ingredients for a race to bottom in culture. It's so easy to tell that this was cooked up by primarily non-technical management types whose only actual "first-principle" is penny pinching.

Obviously you can get work done faster across multiple platforms on a per-engineer basis if you use a single technology. The cost of that speed is quality to the end user, and being in a perpetual state of "1 step behind" the capabilities of native app development. There will be regular instances of shoehorning in functionality as each underlying platform makes updates to their respective operating system. The unforeseen issues are that their engineering department will eventually turn into a technology echo-chamber...and this close-mindedness in regards to technology will likely lead to losing out on top engineering talent.

Also, expecting ever-increasing velocity for each employee is insane. (not to the penny pinching execs tho) There's a finite amount of time and mental energy a human has each week. It's one thing to say you want to build software that can accommodate massive business growth...but it's another thing entirely to represent that by measuring rate of acceleration of velocity per engineer. That in and of itself isn't scalable.
Try seaborn. It's a decent wrapper.
There’s a huge incentive for the company to invest in this. Being multi-platform has a huge cost to small and big companies alike, as the blog post was alluding to.

The way I see it: in the early days of the web, JavaScript was very slow and browsers were operating on weak CPUs. But there was a turning point and suddenly JavaScript was now fast enough and Web 2.0 was born.

A similar thing is happening with React Native. It is kind of slow on older phones, and it felt very kludgy when it was first released. But things have gotten better and most important of all: phones have gotten substantially faster.

You still have to learn how to make high performance React Native apps, compared to React in the browser where it’s more forgiving. But this is no different than native. So I think there is reason to believe it has gotten to a point where this could be a long term decision.
> Homebrew's very up to date, ... and has an incredible number of supported packages

Package stats from Repology seems to contradict this claim:

https://repology.org/repositories/graphs

It's not bad, but it's not the best either. Not even close.

> including tons of closed-source stuff

Homebrew doesn't ship any proprietary formulae at all. They have a clear policy against it:

> We don’t like binary formulae

> Our policy is that formulae in the core tap (homebrew/core) must be open-source with an Debian Free Software Guidelines license and either built from source or produce cross-platform binaries (e.g. Java, Mono). Binary-only formulae should go to homebrew/cask.

> Additionally, homebrew/core formulae must also not depend on casks or any other proprietary software.

> This includes automatic installation of casks at runtime.

https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/blob/master/docs/Acceptable...
I worked at a place where design was expected to take a free weeks for a new server project that would take say three months. From what I saw we produced software that was easy to maintain and easy to add new features too. But we rarely had to rip out and redo old features or old libraries. People were much more
Likely to come up with the right layering of software to solve the problem, including the problem of high velocity changing produce specs. We also figured out the right place to put in some
DSL templating engine or easy to edit configuration. Working there for years and watching the system scale over many orders of magnitude user traffic and feature growth left me with an appreciation for deep, clear thought, in the face of uncertainty.
I didn't think it's controlled by Stripe, I thought it's some micro-SaaS. Not a bad thing. Now I know that it's Stripe after trying to open it.
The only problem with YYYY-MM-DD is that most of my non-digital use-cases don't require the year, and often not the month. Truncating information from the front-end isn't as intuitive.
They steal research from "the many countries" that haven't been to Mars? That seems quite an odd accusation. You just handwave the need for evidence away as if such an accusation can be assumed to be true. Arresting people on charge of espionage doesn't mean that those people actually engaged in espionage: proper due process must be finished first before that conclusion can be drawn. Also, stealing trade secrets in certain areas has got nothing to do with stealing secrets in space technology, so it's whataboutism at best.

How exactly are they supposed to steal research when they've been banned from space collaboration programs? Assuming that even if they did manage to steal some research, how can that strategy possibly be more successful than countries that haven't been banned from collaboration? That makes absolutely no sense.

No, China developed their space technology on their own, with their own research, by their own hard work. This is the result of accusing them of stealing and banning them: they go their own way, successfully.
The massive expansion of the chinese military is recent.
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It's mostly a marketing term right? They might do something like 0.5 or add some letters like X or whatever.
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I used Amiga with Amiga OS 3.1.

I'm puzzled though, because I heard there was Amiga OS 3.5, 3.9, 4.0, 4.1, 4.2.

How come now it's 3.2?
No, the person doing the wiring is not typically an engineer. Even the person planing it might not be, in German speaking countries you would have to be a Meister or a VEFK. This roughly translates to other nations definitions of engineers. E.g. look at civil engineering
How large are you talking about? Most of the time, your best option is to plot a representative sample.

Datashader can handle some pretty big sets. https://datashader.org/
This idea comes from Modern Monetary Theory (MMT). Most mainstream economists do not agree with it. But the MMT claim is that at base, people only need USD because it’s how taxes are denominated. The notion is that without the driving force of compelled taxation, no one would use USD or other sovereign currencies. MMT also claims, through similar logic, that a monetary sovereign can print an extreme amount of currency without causing inflation. Which MMT’ers use to justify massive government spending programs.
Exactly. I well remember the green or amber 24x80 terminals. Televideo, Lear-Siegler, etc. Bundles of twisted pair cable for tty lines back to the machine room.

Good times....
I think Rust is popular because the end product is nice: It's usually fast and safe.

However, I'm not sure if it's reasonable to pick Rust for programs which contain a lot of 'business logic' compromised of complicated domain models. It's just really hard to model it with the enforcements of the borrow checker, even a doubly linked list is hard.

I wish more people would consider languages like Nim instead. Having tried both, Nim is just more pleasant to write and read as you can capture the intent without polluting your code base with technical artifacts like Box, Rc, Arc, .... When I write Rust, a week later I don't understand my code anymore. Without the (very helpful) error messages from the compiler, I couldn't write Rust without compile-time errors, ergo I've got a hard time understanding already written code. Give me two programs in Rust and Nim and I will be able to understand the Nim code in a fraction of the time... and I learned Rust for several months and Nim only for a week. And Rust is also very inflexible, library authors must take great care in designing their APIs as the degree of freedom is quite high and can quicky diminish certain use cases. Nim on the other hand is pretty straight forward, not many ways to shoot yourself in the foot.
And the final product is so similar in performance that it really doesn't matter for many use cases.

So I cannot explain the bias.

Try Nim: https://nim-lang.org/
> The other thing TikTok does well is that it removes choice.

So its like a millennial TV? :)
I would not call supporting people unwilling to do any work "unmitigated good".
Interesting article.

When I visited North Cornwall I noticed some dark grey but slightly metallic looking rocks. I was surprised how heavy they were, although they don't make good 'hammer' rocks because they break quite easily. They were usually embedded in other rocks, but occasionally you'd find one free.

I always assumed it was a type of coal.

Maybe I shouldn't have been playing with them if uranium is a main constituent...
We already ran out of microns in the 1990's.
If you like Quake-likes, let me recommend Xonotic. It's a free and open source game based on a heavily modified Darkplaces engine.

It's a friendly community, with a wide age distribution (lots of old quakers like myself). If you don't like death match, clan arena or CTF, login to a CTS defrag game (time races for movement training).

https://xonotic.org
NO! Bad unit!
Late reply, but Vox had a piece on this a couple days ago, "Here are the most effective ways to donate to help India": https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/22432413/india-donate-cov...
>So…who exactly do you buy from, then?

Nobody.

>Seems to cast Hyperion as the (relative?) villains and Cloanto as the (relative?) good guys

They're both spending all their cash fighting each other. I support neither.

>but it seems if you want a version of AmigaOS released this century, that means Hyperion.

Support AROS. Copy AmigaOS, don't support it. That is the conclusion I arrived to.

This is one way of many possible: https://www.power2people.org/projects/overview/
I loved Q3, and Instaunlagged ctf was my favorite mod and gametype. Here's an old demo from the day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGWcoYM6o7o

Lately, I've been learning modeling and ue4. My first map attempt is a remake of old q3ctf1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWJJu3Jov7Y
This view is forced and implicitly claims there are some actual trends going on with some handpicked examples, and even then they're quite false. Give me a break. I think this complex/simple notion is black-and-white kind of wrong at the root of it, just throw in "powerful" in there and see how well that view fairs then.

> “I’m not writing it down to remember it later, I’m writing it down to remember it now.” The friction of having to write, to structure thoughts in plain text, to remember the name of the person I need to reference on this page: that is the point.

How about writing to forget it? For me, the point, more often than not, is to not have to remember what I am writing down. And if need be, come back to it later.
I'm to tired for a debate, but this is a start:

https://defense.info/re-thinking-strategy/2020/10/the-fight-...
Longtime Apple Designer's Latest Project Is a High-Fidelity Speaker
I think some evidence is needed for the accusation that they stole significant space technology research.
isn't using RN over native ultimately just optimizing for their developers and not the product? RN is great for start-ups that need to build and launch quickly for multi-platform, but for an established giant like Coinbase it seems like a misstep.
Valve as a company needs fundamental change. It’s pure luck that CS and Dota2 are still #1 and #2 on steam. I don’t even know if I would call valve a game developer anymore. They are mostly a service provider who happens to own some profitable IP.
> All of that involved consciously causing physiological changes in your body for the computer to sense.

No, you missed the point. You use hypnosis so the physiological changes are done unconsciously; subjectively you just "think to type".
It had some coverage here, it was one of the three probes headed for Mars this year, other two being the US and UAE probes.

The rover itself is not as larges as the Perseverance or Curiosity, but their orbiter seems a quite heavy probe. Hope we will get some detailed high-resolution images of the surface from the orbiter, so that we can have even better surface maps of Mars.

Also the CNSA programs don't get as much coverage in the West. Their Chang'e 5 lunar sample return probe was quite a good achievement, with they being able to do an autonomous docking in lunar orbit.

A video of the sample transfer in lunar orbit:
https://youtu.be/iABFC9V3cPc
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Most of the dust is extremely sharp, not having water break up the edges.
Sure, not killing people plays a big role. However in ELV consumer electronics there are also norms you have to follow and liabilities that could happen (burning batteries, EMI interference, etc). Usually extensive testing and processes of certification get rid of auch a thing.

I know certification in Software can be a flipping nightmare, but sometimes I wish they just had some hacker and data privacy lawyer look at it for a weekend and if they find something they cannot release it to the market.
> Why should they prioritize people who break their hard work and coerce them into paying for protection?

Because they voluntarily joined responsible disclosure programs and promised rewards?

Their hard work wasn't good enough to survive in the extremely hostile world out there. The fact is online gaming is a form of distributed computing and so people are exposed to network attacks. By failing to prioritize security they are putting their customers at risk. They can either start taking this seriously or watch people make money off of the vulnerabilities in their hard work.
As far as I understand, both Tesla and VW use the same older automotive chips (in the thousands). The self driving and infotainment chips are of course newer but very few. They send messages to the older more reliable chips.
The thing is ... nobody knows, since what every user sees is a somewhat random and unique collection of videos.

My profile is like 50% silly/funny/hot-takes, 30% related to ethnicity-tok for my ethnicity and 20% niche stuff like a Texas Beekeeper who likes to remove bees safely, a pool cleaner who shows videos of his "worst jobs" etc.
Who is the woman in the photo? Is that his second wife?
Tesla Model S is a 2009 design if you think about it, though they did upgrade the touchscreen computer once in 2019
What makes you think it’s PMs making architecture decisions? That’s usually the engineers and engineering leaders (as it should be).
It's not weird. It's not even a frame. It's reality.

All regulation is created for the purpose of protecting people. California has more people protecting laws than Texas therefore California favors people over Texas.

There's literally no other reason why regulation exists. And all businesses that have less regulation have more options to succeed financially that would otherwise be restricted by regulation. Regulation therefore exists to serve people. So by logic less regulation means conditions more favorable for business and less favorable to people.

Unless you can think of some other reason why regulations exist this is the only possible logical deduction. Does California create laws that don't favor business because California just wants to screw with businesses for no reason? Let's be real.

Make no mistake. There is no frame here, this is reality unfiltered.

Additionally keep in mind businesses cannot directly screw people over. Profit comes from people and companies cannot directly screw over the thing they derive profit from. When businesses screw people over it's usually obscured in some way. Think again to the antics of big oil and big tobacco. If deregulated businesses are harming the people of Texas in some way you likely won't know until many years from now.
There are no winners when fighting over technologies.
I think that's AROS[1].

When trying to remember its name I also found Apollo OS[2].

[1] https://amigang.com/software-aros/

[2] http://www.apollo-computer.com/apollOS.html

Edit: Looks, like Apollo OS is a fork of AROS that is optimized to run on the original Amiga hardware.
Do you have any documentation? I might want to see, maybe.
ehh, not really. JVMs are all developed under the same roof but JS engines are a little more distributed and the spec has a little more room for interpretation. i agree it's unlikely, but still not ideal
I would definitely welcome Space race, take 2
The backup power supplies for these types of facilities are actually generators powered off gasoline or diesel, not just batteries, and can theoretically run forever (or at least as much fuel you can get).
> Also, can we all agree "DD/MM/YYYY" is the worst possible date format?

No, we can't. That format is properly ordered, unlike MM/DD/YYYY which makes absolutely no sense.
The ads/monetization threshold isn't the major difference, but the remembrance of YouTube in the pre-celbrity/late night era is completely astute.

We're in a Golden Age of Tik Tok, and it won't last. We get to enjoy the chaos and caucophony of lots of people getting 15 mins of fame.

It's not gonna last :(
NASA has been soliciting lander designs[1], as well as coming up with their own[2].

[1] https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/nasas-venus-rover-challenge...

[2] https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20190034042
My problem with exercise is just that I hate it. In my youth I went to the gym to build muscle and was fairly successful, but I hated it.

Now I am older, married, and don't see much point in wasting time building muscle anymore. So I bought a treadmill for my own home. I use it ever 2-3 days for only 20-30 minute and I hate it. It's painful, it's unbelievably boring, after using it I'm exhausted and have to take a shower. I cannot listen to podcasts or watch TV shows to fight the boredom because the experience is too intense to fully focus on something else. I cannot even really think about things.

When I got the usual vaccine side effects the other day, I thought "at least I have an excuse not to exercise".

I know exercise is important, but I wish it wouldn't be so terrible.
For storing bytes at a path on disk? Sure, but it's low level abstraction. Something which only developers and sys-admins should be concerned with.

Users would much rather work with logical items. A "photo" which includes metadata, photo files, photo edits, ratings, face/object detections, and etc. as a single "thing". A tweet thread. A blog post on Medium or in WordPress. A Google Doc or Sheet.

The question is how do you provide that seamless "anywhere, anytime" experience while keeping that data as local to the device as possible? Files by themselves just can't solve that. There needs to be a protocol, a data format, and mobile OS support.
My guess is that Tesla is running an object classifier on the two front-facing cameras in parallel, and then measuring the parallax of the objects, not of the features of the image. As such, if it can’t recognize something in front of the car as a known object, then the car just plows into it. This is why a lot of the accidents involve things like side-on semis, overturned vehicles, and fire trucks - things that don’t look car-like.

On top of that, they have to discard all of the radar data from objects moving at zero speed, because otherwise they’d be swamped out by the return from the road itself. So, the car has a literal blind spot for stationary objects in its path on the highway, unless it can recognize the object as a car with its cameras.
That sounds like a pretty low information hot take. While it's probably true that car manufacturers are calling for more manufacturing of the chips they use right now to deal with the shortages, that's a 2021 and 2022 issue. I don't see any plausible reason why Europe would not see the value in having advanced chip fabs over the next 15 years. It's mostly likely that behind the scenes TSMC demanded more in subsidies than Europe was willing to give and that the Americans' pocket books are wide open at the moment.

I think Europe is more likely to remain third due to bureaucracy, multilateralism and a regulatory and investment philosophy that favors European businesses and citizens over international businesses. The cost of being first is high anyway.
I love Tiktok but I do also enjoy watching well produced long form TV.

I've noticed that having a diversity in my information diet is somewhat nice. Lots of [podcasts, twitter], less of [TikTok, news] and more rarely (unfortunately) books.
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Discord is also eventually consistent. It is centralised and offers weaker consistency guarantees than Matrix.
See the Venera missions:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venera
The configurations can supposedly make a huge difference. However, I've yet to see a company where these weren't serious issues and I can only speak to my experience. If you're lucky enough to have a decent installation I'd recommend buying IT a nice lunch or something. A bad Jira setup is truly awful.
Irish health service shuts down after ‘sophisticated’ ransomware attack
The LEDs cost nothing. I'm pretty sure they didn't design the PCB from scratch, it's just a thing included in essentially every OEMable design. Redragon, who sell keyboards from 20 dollars up ships RGB everywhere.
It's definately easier nowadays to do it, but you still have the issue of services becoming unavailable because certs expired - something that routinely happens, so it adds some operational overhead that - in the examples I described -- provides no benefit. This operational complexity is there even if the certs themselves are free.

More importantly, security theater is something that should be avoided as it creates bad habits and promotes irreality in a field already rife with the same. I'm not sure why cryptography struggles so much with this, but there are a lot of people who don't understand what benefits, if any, cryptography provides to their application but decide to add it in anyways.

This should be considered a bad practice. Imagine if someone told you to add a function to a codebase just because other codebases had it, and what harm can it do, even if this function served no purpose and doesn't require too many CPU cycles. Most software developers would oppose the idea, they would want to add code only when it is needed, and would favor the removal of unneeded code as beneficial, given that this simplifies the codebase. The same is true for encryption, which requires a lot of CPU cycles, and adds non-trivial complexity. So the idea that it should be added everywhere even where it's not needed is something we should resist.
Ripcord (third party client) and Litecord (third party server) exist.
The data don’t bear that out. If you compare accident rates for highway miles, Tesla’s are not any safer than other cars, even though nearly all of them have autopilot.
With the EAS Build system, it's no longer a concern. Available to paying customers at the moment.
You get it. :D

> the Vim of HCI

Now that is an evocative metaphor... cheers.

> I'd be willing to practice for years to adapt to it

Ah, but learn a little self-hypnosis and it won't take years.

I have a new tiny business selling custom computer peripherals: things like levers, crank-wheels, knobs, sliders, etc... for input, and odds and bods for output like sand-tables with a stylus on an arm, or lasers and mirrors to draw on a fading, photo-sensitive panel, etc. Mostly for fun, but also to support real innovation in HCI. :)
Eh, yes and no. New computer, new screen, new grill, new batteries, new engine, probably a bunch of other stuff I can't think of off the top.
I think you mean, German Jews brought their innovations to the US because Germany tried to kill them.