skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of players entered this space and some are actually profitable companies, but are none are as popular as Electron. aside from Javascript and WebAPIs, Electron is also free as in free beer.

Qt: is truly cross-platform, supporting Mac, Windows, Android, iOS, and even LG TV webOS. VLC uses Qt and is rock solid on all platforms it runs. It is very expensive for commercial development.

Xamarin: run on all major operating systems, and mobile, they were profitable. C# is much better language that C++ or Javascript. They became free to use once Microsoft acquired them
A new book looks behind Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption campaign
Yup, Pixi is the most popular javascript 2D game engine/renderer, with over 34k stars on github. It’s used all over the place.
If they fill up—I mean, when they fill up, that's on my mom, who has to wait for a follow-up surgery because the hospital doesn't have the capacity to take care of her.

I agree that there are better ways to run our healthcare system, but we also have to contend with the facts right now as they are. Perhaps the people being punished most right now are the ones who are in pain, at home, and who can't get medical care because the hospitals don't have capacity to deal with it because they're filled up with COVID-19 cases.
Why are gravitational waves limited by the same speed limit? There is no mass traveling in that case, I suppose.
Didn't CFCs save a lot of people's lives back in the days of badly designed fridges? He couldn't have known about the atmosphere
Reading their last year's post about new servers one could tell they have no idea about enterprise HA or storage. It was like a kid buying a gaming PC.
A major reason for that "unpreparedness" is that an improbably large number of exercises and drills just happened to be scheduled on that day: https://twitter.com/marina0swald/status/1435727546834989058
I don't read it as calling for unionization, but half-way through the section titled "Inequalities occasioned by the Policy of Europe," I think he argues that trade unions are inevitable.

> People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. It is impossible, indeed, to prevent such meetings, by any law which either could be executed, or would be consistent with liberty and justice. But though the law cannot hinder people of the same trade from sometimes assembling together, it ought to do nothing to facilitate such assemblies, much less to render them necessary.

Search the text[1] for this and you'll see it goes on a bit more and is preceded by some historical context.

1. https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3300/3300-0.txt
Corrupt and thoroughly outdated?
On Ubuntu 10.04 (iirc), I measured it at closer to 50% of one core, and I only had one core. It was unusable for me, until I got a faster computer.
I am chipping away on a project called Evidence that might be of interest to you. Here’s the HN discussion from a couple weeks ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28304781
I completely disagree with them. They seem to think hospitals operate like spinning up extra VMs when extra load is generated.

And, in particular areas where there is an outbreak it can work like that. Much like you can spin up another VM when you still have underlying resources to do, you can setup an emergency hospital when you can borrow resources from elsewhere.

When everywhere is busy, let's say a major pandemic outbreak, there is no extra capacity, and you tend to lose capacity by attrition of a worn out workforce.
Kids and Covid: why young immune systems are still on top
Alarmingly apt alliteration! Astute and affable!
Even if you’re not a H1B, here in Australia in my experience, there’s still a lot of racism and sexism in the industry. I’ve been shocked at the virulently racist and/or sexist things people are comfortable saying at work, especially in company wide meetings. It’s not just behind closed doors, not that that’s any better. I’ve also worked in several places where dream candidates with 10+ years relevant experience were hired (and paid) as juniors despite demonstrably being the most skilled and experienced in the company. There was no technical reason for it. It might have had something to do with the fact that they were not white and/or were women.

It probably doesn’t help that a lot of the dev work in Australia seems to be in the financial services industry which is still an Old Boys Club in my experience. The dumb, anti-human shit I was asked to implement (and did push back on and refuse to implement) when I worked in the industry was mind boggling. It doesn’t really matter if you push back or refuse, someone somewhere made a decision and paid a lot of money for some shitty Market Research that says that users want ridiculous feature X and it must work on Internet Explorer Mobile, and the decision is made. Someone will be desperate enough to do it. Shit workplace! Also morally reprehensible which is one reason I left, but yeah, there’s no shortage of people desperate for work imo.

Even now that we’ve all been WFH on the east half of the country for a year and a half, companies still don’t want to hire people to WFH once we’re allowed to go into the office, also despite their inability to fill these roles because seemingly few people want to agree to commute when it’s safe to do so. Makes it even harder if you don’t want to live in Sydney or Melbourne.

Mobility and security aren’t a given just because you’re a dev, even a very skilled and experienced one. The job market doesn’t necessarily yield to the demands, either. It’s easy to say “just don’t do it” when you don’t feel as many pressures of being working class as others or when your ability to find work is not a concern to you.

That being said, I do fantasise about the ability and desire for all devs to refuse to implement these anti-human things. The world would be a better place. I don’t use the internet or tech in general as much as I used to because of what it’s all become.

These are just my experiences. I’d be keen to hear from other Australians their experiences of the industry here.
I couldn't quickly find data back to 1965, but I did find that the S&P500 market cap as a percentage of GDP has grown by 2.75x since the late 80s, whereas CEOs are paid ~5x more relative to the average worker in that time.

Additionally, the trends don't really change if you take the S&P500 out of it - economy-wide CEOs are paid much more relative to ordinary workers than they used to be. Even if the biggest companies are bigger and more complicated than they used to be (I find this hard to believe - is Facebook really bigger and more complicated than Standard Oil, AT&T, IBM, or GE?), the typical company probably isn't.

Most economists would also point out the tight correlation between CEO pay and stock market caps, which means that CEOs aren't being paid more because they're doing a particularly good job.

> I think the framing of justifiable or not is the wrong framing. If these CEOs are adding value above and beyond their huge pay packet, then their existence is making your and my lives better off, so their incredible wealth should not concern anyone. Everyone wins. If there are losers due to externalities, that's where the government needs to step in.

Everyone else who takes home less money as a result, loses. But if you don't believe me, consider a scenario in which CEOs earn thousands or tens of thousands of times the wage of the average worker - does that seem justifiable? What about a scenario in which the CEO earns everything?
Ask HN: Have you found it difficult to get quality technical content on YouTube?
These days I only see videos about cracking the coding interview on YouTube; after a point it seems to get boring. Have you felt the same way? That is good content on software development isn't present?
> You can’t extract someone’s fingerprint from a gym’s fingerprint scanning system and run it through a background check database, for example.

Reversing the algorithm in order to generate a plausible fingerprint from the features stored by the scanner seems much simpler than cracking a secure hash function, since the scanner algorithm has to deal with imprecise inputs.

Whether the generated fingerprint would match the relevant record in the background check database depends on whether the features extracted by the scanner are sufficiently different from those used by the background check system, and I suspect that companies just reuse the same algorithms for both.
The person that takes the vaccine bears all of the risk of taking the vaccine. They get to decide if it's in their personal interest to do so.

If grandma is uncomfortable with the risks of being around others, she may isolate herself and bear the costs of isolation. She shouldn't be so entitled to demand that others take on a risk for her benefit.
Rust managed to get text shaping (https://github.com/RazrFalcon/rustybuzz), you can certainly do it yourself but it's just a lot of work...
This approach works, and the user experience may be great. But it is very costly to build, and very costly to maintain. Compared to Electron, you need a few Javascript devs to spin up an app that runs on every major operating system AND in browser.

I think economics is the real reason they won. And Google pumped a lot of money in this space, too.
Hmm… BLAS started life as Fortran codes (said intentionally to sound like a native Fortean-er).

Saying BLAS is a C library skips over much of the depth and history of its FORTRAN roots. The work that went into achieving numeric stability of this stuff is astounding. Ditto with LAPACK.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_Linear_Algebra_Subprog...
> In fact, logic can do things probability theory can’t. However, despite much hard work, no known formalism completely unifies the two! Even at the mathematical level, the marriage of rationality and empiricism has never been fully consummated.

>Furthermore, probability theory plus logic cannot exhaust rationality—much less add up to a complete epistemology. I’ll end with a very handwavey sketch of how we might make progress toward one.

Nevermind the handwavey plan of attack that follows, the preceding premise seems a bit too handwavey to begin with for my needs before I invest in further reading. Statements like "logic can do things that probability can't" beg for a citation or at least a proof by counterexample. I'm interested, but the initial argument needs more supporting evidence - maybe it's just me.
Is that in regards to this thread[1]?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28500508
>The firm has turned to evangelism.

I mean, materials coming out of Ruby and Rails are so rare and few I could hardly call them evangelism. And for the first time ever in history RoR has some decent resources backing it. Compared to Python, JS, Go.

And if people dont like the word dying, then RoR is definitely in decline. So doing a little bit of push and PR or evangelism isn't so bad.
You’d be better served paying the $13 for the relevant Udemy course.
How can you claim the KJV normally includes the apocrypha (and therefore it is "missing" from this API) and then in the next paragraph admit that, well actually no, most modern KJVs do not include it?

In [current year], neither translation available in this API typically includes the Deuterocanon, so it would not make any sense for those books to be accessible here.
Nix/NixOps has some similar issues with Kubernetes overlap IMO. The easy answer is "lol, our tooling is better, just embrace it entirely and forget Kubernetes."

But it's not that simple— Kubernetes is everywhere, especially once you're into things like short-lived CI environments. Kubernetes is by far the best way to do autoscaling Jenkins or GitLab CI runners; at this point it's kind of the obligation of the non-k8s systems to integrate and interoperate as best they can.
Okay, if it’s completely manufactured, with no constraints that are outside of our control, please describe a completely utopic economy where every human is satisfied with every aspect of it. What, it’s really difficult? Those are the constraints.
I think the biggest takeaway from all the research I did is that not all fats are equal. Monounsaturated fats seem to be generally just good. Omega-3, also, seems good, and Omega-6 less so, but part of that could actually be more about the ratios of omega-6 to -3, which can be 15:1 in the Western diet but people have better health outcomes when they bring omega-6 consumption down and increase omega-3 to get the ratio closer to 4:1 to 1:1.

Saturated fats are still debated - some studies did show replacing saturated fats with vegetable fats did reduce cardiovascular disease etc., but then that might be more that there are some protective effects to the vegetable fats and adding them in rather than replacing might have had a similar effect…

Then there are about a million confounding variables. Doing a decent amount of exercise is a big one, because it’s harder to control for than the other common health detriment - smoking, but things like whether your dairy is grass-fed (as it is here in Australia and much of Europe) vs. grain fed apparently makes a big difference (grass fed apparently has a lot more things like CLA, omega-3 fatty acids and Vitamin K2, the benefits of which seem to potentially more than cancel out any problem from the saturated fat).

One other big problem is that a lot of “low fat” products tend to have more sugar added to make up for it.

Too much sugar is bad, yes, and it’s pretty alarming how seemingly little you need to be over that threshold. Literally a single can of coke is almost the entirety of the sugar one should be consuming in a whole day! Fruit juice is also pretty bad unfortunately - basically just as bad as soft drink (I love soft drinks, apple juice, sweet ice tea, it’s been a challenge to cut most of it out!).
All this sarcasm is getting confusing. Can you just clearly state what you're insinuating?
> As it also point out, CAP theorem doesn't really account for eventual consistency well.

Consistency is the first letter. Systems can be eventually available or eventually non-partitioned too.

You can promote two of the 'eventually's to 'now'.
It ejects the other tautologically.
The messaging app of Windows Phone that blended seemlessly SMS, facebook messenger and a third provider was awesome to use.

Regulators should in my opinion impose that the message app with XX millions users provide an API for interoperability with other services.
I think you're limited to 1,000 concurrent Lambda invocation by default anyway.
That said, it's not easy to get an overview of what's going on in an AWS account (except through Billing, but I don't know how up to the moment that is).
I think veritasium discusses that as well. Essentially at relativistic speeds there are no chemical bonds that can hold and the device shreds itself.
What are you talking about? Drivers in Paris are scary. I prefer US drivers.
If my risk of shit of delta is essentially zero, being vaccinated myself, then someone eleven times more likely to die is also at essentially zero risk. Zero times eleven is zero.
In my opinion, technical content is best presented in document form. Easier for the user to search, easier for the producer to create, easier for aggregators to index, faster to consume/skim over irrelevant parts, and it loads much quicker than a video does.
Yes. You're a bit vague in what you mean here, but I will assume that you mean a private monopoly like Google or the Coke-Pepsi duopoly.

I don't necessarily disagree with your take, but I take the same concept and run it one step further up the chain as an indictment of government as it is practiced today.

For example, we gave the responsibility of arbitrating disputes in a just way to a single monopolistic entity and then become surprised when this entity provides less justice (harsher sentences for drug crimes, racial/gender bias, etc.) for a higher cost (effectively impossible to represent yourself, lengthy trial periods, arbitration process that take so long and cost so much that 'lawfare' is a common parlance).

Monopolies are bad full stop. It is simply harder to replace the governmental kind.
I actually did skim the report. I'm not a structural engineer, so I'm not entirely clear on all of the terminology and how reasonable some of the decisions are, but here's the highlights of what I recall.

* The NIST report made some assumptions that are not justified by actual evidence. The critical complaints are about the modelling of the exterior wall as a unit (?) that made it unreasonably stiff, and insufficient modelling of the actual joints between structural members. [I can't speak as to this accuracy, this is well beyond my understanding.]

* They did their own model of how the structure would behave due to heat and cannot confirm the NIST results.

* They also modelled the collapse on their own. I'm not 100% certain how the model works, but it looks like they basically deleted key structural members and observed how the structure would collapse when they did so.

* In order to match the recorded evidence, they had to delete key structural members very high up (higher than any floors known to have been on fire) to mirror the observed "penthouse kink", and they had to delete all the columns on an entire floor to mirror the fall. (And of course, no plausible mechanisms for either to occur other than controlled demolition).

If I'm following the report correctly--which is a big if--then they have two separate models which aren't used in conjunction with one another, and the first one "overturns" the analysis on how the fire could have caused a key structural member to fail, and the other one "concludes" that the key structural member failing couldn't have caused the collapse. In the latter model, as I understand it, there's no attempt to account for the deteriorated state of the building prior to the final collapse, for example the large gash in the building known to have occurred as a result of falling debris, or any putative (but not confirmed) damage that might have been caused by the long-running fire.

Overall, I didn't come away feeling impressed by their analysis.
What are solid-state batteries and how will they make electric cars better?
I've thought about this too.

The life someone will have if they are born tall, handsome, and socially skilled will be much different than that of one who is the opposite, even if their families make the exact same amount of money.

I think it is because first, money is easy to measure. Everything else is not measurable, or not socially regarded as important to measure and compile information about and act on it.

Second, money is the fairest thing in the world. One man's dollar is equal to an other's. You can't change your mannerisms, face, etc... but you can always get more money to even the scales. When things do not go our way, it lays bare the truth about reality, which is often intolerable and in congruent to the things we tell ourselves and want to believe. We may tell ourselves that we are smart, deserving, etc, but the money does not come - maybe because we are not inherently deserving, nor smart enough to warrant the amounts we desire.

This leads me to look at the past sometimes, and understand why social conservatism still exists. Those sorts of structures may be arbitrarily constricting, unfair, immoral, etc - but the one thing they do that modernity does not is give assurances and a path to a certain future; not a perfect one, but one that is achievable and one you can feel secure in. The beautiful may be told that they cannot date 20 people due to social pressure. The fat will be called lazy and be monitored and pushed to fix it. Friendships will be forced by having people show up over and over and do some sort of charity or whatever together. Yes, income will also be addressed by expecting the more well off to fund many of these things, and shaming them into submission if they don't.

Is it right? Being a modern man I would say no! Its horrendous and outdated. But at least it... tries to attempt to address these "problems".
How to stream a webcam to a web browser
How is Wells Fargo still in business after all the nasty things they continually do? WF has the ethics of street robbers. They should get slapped with something harder than growth caps.
C libraries can't be simultaneously as generic and as fast as equivalent C++ libraries without (or sometimes even with) the aforementioned "clunky macro hacks".
There is endless jurisprudence on this topic. Basically the government draws the line at where your beliefs affect others and there are different levels of urgency the government must show to trample on religious rights depending on the risk to the counterparty.
I believe so, if it's a T series. For 100% CPU usage, it's cheaper to just get a non T series instance like a M.
Fantastic. I predict this thread will be filled with reasonable, capable, intelligent technologists explaining that Linux doesn't have wide-ranging hardware support, with replies by Linux experts who tell them they're wrong.
I'm not OP, but depending on where in the world you are, classrooms with 50+ students aren't that rare even today: https://www.economist.com/china/2018/09/13/anger-grows-in-ch...

I'm most familiar with China (I taught middle-school classrooms of 55-60 in Yunnan around 2010, and had some friends in Guangzhou teaching 75-80), but I assume there have been & are plenty of countries with similar situations.
I think he is pointing out that you could never ban circumcisions, but that it's scaring children for life, which is otherwise banned (tattoos). (and morally objectionable)
A hospital won’t deliver babies after staffers resigned over coronavirus vaccine
I think it's the easiest and most reliable way to prevent runaway bills.
No matter of fast you are moving, you will agree with a “stationary” observer about the speed of light. What you won’t agree on is the color of the light. Apparent frequency shifts to maintain the speed of light. The color shift is how we know how fast stars are moving relative to us.
I was able to get AWS to forgive the majority of the bill. I think that was my one time pass though.
Indeed I wasn't trying to correct the parent - I actually found the explanation pretty cool. Rather to provide some color to the folks here without financial background. I figured an explanation of what the common greeks were would help folks without a financial background understand how it's possible to work backwards from them to an updated price.

Sorry if it didn't come across that way @alex_smart!
That's not what this article says. Apparently the aryl hydrocarbon receptor downregulates ACE2.
It seems there are plenty of government interactions that need fingerprinting now. FINRA and OPM/DOD come to mind, plus anything involving children typically needs a federal and state print check.
The app just got updated and the groceries link has been removed and the news has returned. Thank you :)
And if a civic action depended on your belief in gravity, which was a belief the government did not share, then this would be relevant.