skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That seems a bit misleading of a comparison IMO and only one case (JSON serialisation) when I look at their data. You are also linking to a round from two years ago which is out of date. It's also showing a lot of frameworks that are not that mature and not well used in the Java camp vs ASP.NET that is widely used, full featured, has a lot of bells and whistles and a lot of plugins available for most technologies and standards. All of which could have negatively influenced performance, even the hooks to allow them to be injected in can do so even if not enabled. The fact that a full featured web framework makes it close to the top (sometimes the top) over several rounds over many of their categories of use cases I can't discount as pretty good.

i.e. Its hard to read benchmarks without context of each framework shown, the compromises they have taken, how usable it actually is for building software vs just a benchmark, what shortcuts are done in the benchmark, how idiomatic is the code, etc.

https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r20&hw=...

My personal experience having worked on both platforms for several years is that Java is easier to get to an acceptable performance, but the .NET runtime when you have to put the effort in has a higher upper bound of performance. It just has more tools in the CLR to work with than the JVM (e.g. value types, proper generics, spans, and more) so you can express something with a little more mechanical sympathy. Java is left with some decisions from legacy IMO that by default hurt its performance (i.e. lots of default boxing has hurt me before especially with generics). With .NET Core and future versions I think .NET is also taking up Java's default perf area as well. YMMV but if I'm worried about performance being a risk in my project .NET gives me more tools to optimize it IMO should that risk eventuate.
It's super useful for a few sites I visit frequently who require 2FA but I don't need that security. But yeah, otherwise it's a pretty remarkably bad idea.
Actually, the US allows Israel quite a bit of leeway in its underhanded weapons and security services trade. There was that time when Israel almost sold AWACS systems to China:

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/israel-wont-sell-awac...

so, the sale didn't go through due to US pressure, but the point is that Israel not only contemplated it, but was going to carry it through.
Since when is 635 KB “large”? I suppose it depends on your use case, since they consider 400 B a small, they probably use lots of JSON APIs for many small things.
Have you ever noticed how much time you waste on AWS-Logins?
At that time, printers already printed yellow dots with the serial ID. I’m most surprised VHS wasn’t watermarked. It could have helped a lot in terrorist investigations (ransom videos).

I’m always afraid when I hear someone copypasting Apple memos. Obviously they must have watermark, if not text glyphs (rn = m, and further UTF-8 incantations), at least subtly different phrasing depending on which department, or person, views it.
Running a bankrupt ltd means a lot of serious consequences in a lot of countries... like not being allowed to run another one for a long time.
> Occupying a hospital bed won't doom the rest of us.

https://www.intensivregister.de/#/aktuelle-lage/zeitreihen

Germany is getting quite close to exhausting ICU beds and ventilators. Non-"essential" procedures have already been postponed.
"Hypergraphs can be viewed as incidence structures. In particular, there is a bipartite 'incidence graph' or 'Levi graph' corresponding to every hypergraph, and conversely, most, but not all, bipartite graphs can be regarded as incidence graphs of hypergraphs."
I'm mixed: Hard to have it both ways

Tech grows big & fast, and a lot of today's problems can be traced to VC-backed boards noping out of ethical responsibilities.

Startup board members are generally (rightfully) worried about growth or survival, until that's on rails and by then it's too late to fix the monster they've grown.

Today's trends of founder friendliness, wide participation, and big checks makes these trade-offs even more extreme. Startups are so messy that the industry hasn't figured out how to juggle it all yet, or even if the relevant stakeholders even want it to.
Consumer Reports reviews mattresses, and they're independent and (imo) very trustworthy. A subscription costs money but some local libraries offer access.
Plans for a ‘Bitcoin City’ Powered by a Volcano Have Arrived in El Salvador
Baseless speculation is not useful here. Especially when it's toned as some kind of truth.
I don't get it. You think people shouldn't read The Republic because they'll inevitably misunderstand it? Studying Plato isn't going to turn everyone into a Peter Thiel, if that's the concern.

FWIW, The Republic has a lot of things to say about other subjects besides politics. Things like art, and education, ancient Greek society. I read a really interesting book a few years ago, Preface to Plato, that argued Plato was mostly criticizing the traditional, oral culture of Greece, with its emphasis on rote, formulaic learning. (That's a crude summary of the argument, but anyway...)
This is a bit harsh and assumes mal-intent. The author said in another comment they are not a native speaker.

From the HN guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.
The point of the article was too prove that it's hard to do Open Adressing in Java and beat HashMap performance, that uses Separate Chaining.

The article contains also a Robin Hood implementation that overall works worse than HashMap. If you can give something recommendation on how to improve it I would forever in debt.
Yes, all of the headsets do some form of reprojection if frames are not generated fast enough, or to account for the latency between generation and display.

If you turn your head fast you'll see black at the edges where it's not caught up
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I’m basically just shifting the responsibility from the consumer to the people with the power to influence said consumption. This is basically just extending the logic of “If everyone is making the same mistake, blaming every individual is futile. Perhaps the system should be altered in such a way which makes it harder for people to make this mistake in the first place”.

So to answer your question: “How rich”: Rich enough to own significant stock in polluting corporations.
There are some practical problems with this.

Suppose that Small Co sells the assets of a business unit to Big Co. Do you now have a contract with Small Co. or Big Co.? Small Co. no longer has the rights to the software. Big Co. may not agree to the terms of the old license.

Suppose someone dies and their assets go to their heirs. Do you now have a contract with the heirs?

What if there are no heirs, so the assets go to the government? Do you now have a contract with the government? I can think of some fun terms to add to a software license from someone on their deathbed if that's the case.
Honest question I constantly think about and have never been able to answer about the future of cryptocurrency development: Why/when would a government ever want less control over the primary means used to transact within its borders?

This is one of the, if not the most, important levers it has to wield power. Governments have fought wars and enslaved entire continents to protect and increase the value of their means of account. Even recently, think of how hard the US works to maintain the dollar as the only currency that can be used international oil transactions aka the petrodollar.

Ultimately, cryptocurrency is a technological attempt to solve the problem of a fundamental lack of trust in our traditional institutions. After all, its powered by a set of de-centralized, trustless protocols. If you use crypto as an inflation hedge, that means you don't trust your government to not de-value your labor via printing tons of new currency. If you use it to carry out transactions, it means at least a small part of you has doubts that our that our current, centralized payment processing institutions won't unilaterally roll those transactions back or eliminate them outright in the future. Ditto for property rights and NFTs (and all the other use cases that guarantee a transaction is recorded by distributing it on chain).

Allowing crypto-currencies to supersede local currencies would not only put governments at the mercy of the mob (or perhaps a small number of whales and exchanges) for determining the value of their citizen's output, it would be an existential admission of their failure. Other than governments that have already failed at administering a currency like El Salvador, why would any self-respecting government with a functioning currency admit defeat like this?
"encryption"
Nowhere does it say what an "IC" is. Is it so hard to provided the Full Name(FN) and the abbrevation the first time you use it?
The person who will be deeply hurt by this theft doesn't have insurance that will take care of it.
How is that in any way different than today's bank accounts, besides removing a largely useless intermediary ( a retail bank)?
Well I'm definitely remembering many occasions of finding sites that had in-depth technical analysis. And being unable to find such discussion today. There likely is a higher quality of information today (just due to sheer participation), but the stuff that's easy to find by searching is generally quite shallow. If you're lucky you'll get two or three forum threads that mostly address your question.
Agreed. I'd assume that's what the large number of words related to "Apple demonstrates an outstanding security record, etc etc" is aimed at. And it's a fair argument: nothing is bugless.
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You said HPKP and I misread it

Re: HKP, WKD, GPG Linked Data signatures, Keybase+Zoom and ACME
https://westurner.github.io/hnlog/#comment-28814802

https://westurner.github.io/hnlog/#comment-26127879

Ctrl-F "trillian" re: CT cert grant and revocation events on a blockchain

> Does there need to be a UI for viewing the key details, and for approving/rejecting upgrades to the web app?

blockcerts/cert-verifier-js ?
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They formerly renamed the company to Basecamp a few years ago and shut down / spun off other products (campfire and highrise).
I stand corrected on that point.
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> media to complain about the local actions of security forces, .gov policy decisions, and the occasional high ranking official who serves as a focal point for malcontent does not make for a free and open society, using an example that we can both agree is neither free nor open

Yes. I assert that this describes China, but not the US.

Are you claiming it also describes the US?

Which powerful individual or institutions do you think are protected from criticism?
Harry Turtledove wrote a great SF short story in 1988 that relates to this:

https://archive.org/stream/New_Destinies_06_1988-Winter_Gorg...
Assuming they're lawyers who know every law and don't get skewered by something like DMCA 1201.
What kind of competent investor does a debt deal that doesn't place them higher in the cap structure?
Did you look at the USA data for 12 year olds?
Paying private health insurance and pension is, inalmost all cases, better for an internationally mobile founder anyway!
Generally speaking: I do agree that the degree of blur in the examples is a bit too obnoxious. It was exaggerated for effect, and dialling it back a bit would be a prudent move.

As far as the tilt-shift look goes - being precise I think you're thinking of tilt-shift miniaturisation. In cases where you're shooting with really shallow depth of field - like wide open on a portrait lens, or with a large format camera or yes, a tilt-shift lens in the anti-Scheimpflug mode - you absolutely can have foreground elements blurred out. I wrote a bit about that here: https://bhautik.org/tilt-shift-a-diy-guide/

I'd love to look at the source image for your example; some of this is explainable, some not so much and I'd like to understand why. The sharp aliasing around the edges is weird, and that looks like a legit bug, as well as the blur leakage (we're trying to prevent that!). Also, it looks like the depth was incorrectly estimated for the feet so it's lumped them into the foreground and blurred those too.

An easy fix is to suggest trying it with less blur, but there's other stuff going on. We'll look into it :)
The last battle on the bridge in Arcane has maybe 15-to-20 seconds of action, and it's more engaging, exciting and mesmerizing that... most anything in the past many years
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Not a fan of serifs? It's perfectly readable to me in some modern Time New Roman variant.
A lot of people save clips nowadays. Especially since the ideology wars are visible in every phrasing, people keep it “as proof” and upload compilations to Youtube. It would be interesting to see if this behavior stopped if Youtube didn’t allow to “broadcast yourself” anymore. I’m sure Tiktok would take over but it is much more ephemeral.
This is an oft-repeated nonsense line to dismiss some really interesting philosophy.

Marx was not writing a plan of action, and all that has been proved is that authoritarian assholes are assholes. (I take if you also think Adam Smith should be discarded because parts of "Inquiry into the Wealth of Nations" doesn't map well to modern capitalism?)

Here's a real test of a free thinker. Are you willing to read "dangerous ideas" for yourself? Or do you just allow yourself to be steered by what you hear people repeat?
After giving flatpacks and the like a good, solid try, I have come to truly detest them. This article hits on most of the reasons why. If I can only get software in flatpack form, that software does not exist for me.
Hi! Author here. The git model lets you track multiple tables in the same repo. You can query (and join) both tables starting with the same commit_id and is actually a nice solution to the problem you suggest :)
> FWIW, The Republic has a lot of things to say about other subjects besides politics. Things like art, and education, ancient Greek society.

Agreed, and beyond that the sun/line/cave allegories are the most famous thing ever written about epistemology.
That's a valid argument, I wasn't aware absolute hospitalization numbers <30 were this low.

… which just leaves the other arguments to get vaccinated. Namely, lesser chance of long-term symptoms and lesser chance of getting infected (last I checked, outbound transmission doesn't seem to be reduced much, but inbound is, so it still serves to slow overall spread.)
I’m a pretty casual user who does some basic photo touch ups and and occasional vector art design. For my use cases I use Pixelmator Pro (https://www.pixelmator.com/pro/) and it works perfectly. It’s also dirt cheap (40 USD without any discounts) for what it does and they have a decent trial period.

The biggest downside is it’s macOS only.
Interesting. Does it have all of telegram history or parts of it?
There was a comment asking what an "IC" was, but the comment was flagged and now dead.

Guessing by the context, I'm pretty sure it means "individual contributor", or "person that is not a manager".
> You shouldn’t, because no code of sufficient complexity is flawless.

So why build an upgrade procedure at all, when you don't have to?

> On the Ethereum blockchain (for instance) storage and smart contracts are tightly coupled.

Sounds like an unforced error on these smart contracts' authors parts, and should not be used as an excuse to compromise the principle of code immutability.

If the possibility existed that they need to replace the business logic at a later date, then they should factor the storage logic so as to avoid this coupling. It can be done -- for example, a smart contract dapp can leverage a shared contract that only implements a public key/value store, where the keys are prefixed by the calling contract's address. Then, when the business logic contract changes, it can access any old versions' state with the old versions' contract address, apply any migrations on-the-fly, and store new state that will not overwrite old state due to this key prefixing.

In the Stacks blockchain (which I work on), we go one step further by making it so you can run an arbitrary read-only code snippet on the state of the blockchain at any point in the past (as given by a block hash). Then, you don't even need to do any migrations -- you can just query the historic state of your old contract and only store new data once it's necessary.
These things already exist in forms. Take a look at DAOs
The other problem is the damage they have done to the institutions and the publics trust. Even if it's a natural event they all have to go. Who can trust them to tell the truth the next time. They have burned those bridges.
I really appreciate tools like these, which right at the beginning of docs, gives a quick note on when to not use that tool and what are the alternatives for certain cases of workload.
You'd be surprised. If I'm not mistaken in some central European countries you could be sentenced to jail time after bankruptcy up to the 2000s. My point is precisely that ltds exist but are not the same world-wide. People (like myself) raised on American business folklore can be in for very rude awakenings when things start going badly.
Similarly confused. This seems to be running on a remote box, but:

(1) How is the information is getting to the frontend?

(2) How is it being rendered when it gets there?

(3) What is being run on the box?
> business model

Even if one has no intention of making a profit, the accounting still has to be done, the books still have to balance, and there has to be enough revenue to cover the expenses.
Hopefully by then Windows 12 will be out ;o)
I like how suddenly the intense legal minuate are the most important details of a system as if we're in a contract law class, as opposed to the obvious point that in general these agreements are fairly obvious
Maybe you aren't everyone. There are already a number of colleges and universities that don't use grades, and many have been around for a half century or more and are among the most prestigious liberal arts institutions in the country.

But maybe you're right and it's all a sham.
“Every problem at Toyota can be blamed on Matthew Perry if you keep asking ‘Why?’ enough times.”
The Meaning of Branding
Although the author says his advice is for people "building new infra at large companies", there's certainly a number of points that apply to a larger audience.

For example:

> Measurement is a means, not an end.

Reminds me of a lesson I learned early in my career. Bad things happen when you lose sight of your purpose and focus just on measurement.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law
Yes, that's what I meant: Thinkpads, typically, have a little red knob in the keyboard center, which is a tactile device, that lets the user control the mouse cursor very precisely. The patent has expired and this is why some third party vendors started producing them.
Has anyone ever stopped to consider the ethical question of applying the latest unproven fads of educational theory to unwitting students? Ideally before large scale rollouts?

As someone who grew up during a tumultuous time for the public education system in Ontario, Canada, it felt like ever year or two whole curriculums were thrown out and the latest and greatest "cutting edge" approaches and fads were foisted upon us. I can see a lot of parallels in software development, but I wonder about the specific potential for lasting damaging effects for children and young people. I know I experienced some gaps that took a long time to be addressed.
simdjson is listed thought.
Can a Biologist Fix a Radio?
If closely mimicking physical Battleship (or similar games that hide state by physical occlusion) is important, you could add a 2-retroreflective-sided board vertically in the middle to block each player’s view of the other’s hands.

But a software game has many other possible mechanics that don’t work with a physical plastic board and pegs, so more likely people will just modify the game so that seeing someone’s hand motions doesn’t reveal hidden state.
Ask HN: What database do you use for personal web projects?
I think the most important part of this announcement (I cried genuine tears of joy when I read it) is that Apple is committing to give Citizen Lab whatever they need. That kind of internal access to Apple's people and infrastructure is tremendous.

I've never heard anyone but a despot (or vendor to despots) claim anything untoward about Citizen Lab, it sure seems like they're genuine "good" folks. They do great work, and they'll do better with support and access. The announcement makes it sound like Apple is willing to offer similar support to other good actors. I imagine Apple putting the word out will yield a few more.

It raises - again - the question of what we expect from big companies vs governments, and questions of sovereignty. Where's the line between supporting good work and cyber vigilantes (if it's not a thing today, it will be, and what will society's place be with respect to them)?
What you're describing, though, is normal. The vast majority of deals happen this way. (We only hear about the tiny fraction where rank and file do make a dime or two, like we hear about the 10 heart conditions / COVID complication and suddenly the sky is falling.)

Whereas, while the situation described by the GP is not unheard of, it's uncommon.

Anyway, your situation is why the common mantra, value your stock options at $0.

I think that's a wrong statement though. Stock options should have a binary value. $0 or IPO/exit value. If the company doesn't go all the way to IPO, you won't get a partial payout. So then guesstimate the IPO valuation of your options and factor the risk.