skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Although I have not done this myself, I feel like I would be able to get RenderDoc working in a web environment. RenderDoc has good support for OGL. Maybe there's a big barrier in the way but it would be surmountable - just not sure how long it would take.
Saw the following warning on that page and it sounded so silly I thought it had also been vandalized (before realizing its a real thing):

Suspected socks should be tagged and reported to sockpuppet investigations
Never heard of ubports. Looks interesting. A 40 year old just learned something from a 13 year old. If this is how you're spending your free time, then you have a bright future ahead of you. Keep it up!
I would be in favor
> when leaders start to ignore any feedback from below in their central planning. This has caused the downfall of innumerable companies in various markets

this is called genba-ron (現場論) in japanese, and is part of the 3 g's (Gemba, Genbutsu, Genjitsu) that you learn in manufacturing (but can be applied genrally as well)

basically you cant dictate things from afar but must empower those on the ground (genba) because only they see the actual things (genbutsu) going on and the actual results (genjitsu) of policies...
They get 70% of their electricity from nuclear. Only about a third of France's power is nuclear: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/energy-consumption-by-sou...
Paper link?
Was it this?
https://web.archive.org/web/20130425232048/http://www.cse.ps...
> This is why outliers like AirBnB are so difficult for investors. Sure, many investors didn't think it would be successful, but more importantly, they also didn't realize if AirBnB was successful, just how large it could be.

What a great example, and great way to think about this phenomenon.

I completely agree with your post and have known about these dynamics of VC investing for 15 years, so am rarely surprised when it comes to this topic - but this way of putting it actually makes me think differently about things.

Thank you!
Pretty sure that one isn’t a real animal
https://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/24-19.htm
> having built upon stolen EU and US tech and trained their people in the West. But they learn fast and incrementally improved those designs.

its the way for many successful countries... the u.s stole tech and ignored patents from england/europe to a great result, same with korea and japan and taiwan (with regard to "the west") etc... its not unusual
I expect such things to be confidential....
They are, and the Soviets stopped using them because

- The paper peeled away is a fire hazard

- The oil and wax writing smudges and is a terrible way of writing

- The floating bits of paper from sharpening the pencils was a mess and since they float, got in people's faces.

Generally those are terrible ideas too, especially compared to a $100 for a pen. It's really not that much compared to every other cost.
In Germany we have „c‘t“ („Magazin für Computertechnik“) that started out as a kind of German language Byte (featuring projects such as building your own CPM driven PC) and became more a consumer oriented magazine. However, unlike Byte, they survived that transition quite well and gained so much traction that it is today still the leading journal on everything computer oriented and gets quoted in mainstream newspapers sometimes.

They still have the occasional hobbyist oriented article but mostly they are famous for testing new hard- and software rigorously without assigning any kind of award. So you will never get a single recommendation from them but rather check the test result table which product got more A grades in the category that’s most important to you.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%27t
And that’s asymptomatic! I caught 3 trains today, and in all of them someone was visibility sick and didn’t care. Someone was having a coughing fit on the platform, no mask of course. I went shopping, and several of the staff and shoppers were also visibility sick. One shopper started coughing in front of everyone and they completely ignored it and carried on. At a fast food restaurant (outdoors) there were at least 2 tables with people visibly sick eating their food.

Really, going out in public is quite a risk these days. The sheer number of infected all around you is quite troubling.
Nor do most PC vendors. Which is why Linux on many laptops is still some kind of a challenge. The only reason it most of the times works nevertheless is, that the PC vendors often use known components and the user base is so large, that a lot of reengineering already had happened. But if Linux on Apple Silicon gains any traction, the situation could be quite good.
It's not just more expensive one off homes that are prebuilt in Finland - Over 50% of Finnish homes are now built offsite (or more accurately constructed from 'parts' built off site). This includes both single family wooden homes and concrete apartment buildings.

Precast concrete has been used since the 1950s:
https://www.elematic.com/learn/what-is-precast-concrete/

This is probably a result of: 1) Construction companies are larger and are building on multiple plots with the same concrete apartment building or 10-20 identical or similar wooden buildings 2) The Finnish love affair with family lakeside summer cottages has got people used to ordering a building 'off the shelf'
assertion failures terminate the program immediately.

exceptions usually trigger cleanup code.

If your cleanup code is mostly closing files and clearing memory, then it's useless because the OS will do that for your crashed program anyway.
(2019) Gumroad bought shares back from their VCs for $1!

Meta: I suspect this article would have had comments from HN founder-types in the past, back when HN had more focus on startups. Perhaps HN is no longer so focused on startups any more?

Amazing section from article:

I got this email from KPCB, our lead investor: “KP would like to sell our ownership back to Gumroad for $1.”

Mike had left KPCB to start a new company, and KPCB didn’t want the operational headache of appointing a new board member. Plus, it helped their taxes. In one fell swoop, our liquidation preferences (how much we would have to sell for before dollars started going to employees) went from about $16.5M to $2.5M. All of a sudden, there was a light at the end of the tunnel.
Focus on the data structures when looking at a new (to you) code base. Study the database entities, the most important artifacts of the system.

Learn the business domain, not just the code. The code will implement business domain rules in terms of the data structures.

I can’t say I struggle anymore. I specialize in taking over and maintaining legacy code. Learning to read code takes practice. Learning to write good code also takes practice.

No one “is” 10X. In every team, project, organization some people get more done and deliver more effective solutions faster than others. That comes from talent, experience, asking questions, and paying attention to the important things.

The rut you’re describing sounds like what Eric Dietrich describes as an “expert beginner.”

https://daedtech.com/how-developers-stop-learning-rise-of-th...
Very cool indeed. What things CSS can do in the hands of an expert these days is seriously impressive.

EDIT: Cohost seems interesting... if anyone has an invite that would be lovely. Email is in my profile here.
> We can't vaccinate our way out of this virus...

because it transmits between humans and cats and deer.
Looks like Medium just fucked me over
Tor – Onion Browser for iPhone and iPad
Tech company earnings reports expected to bring a flush of bad news
Agreed. To sound full of myself, I live in a historic house that’s simply much nicer than that. (Middle of nowhere Midwest) not expensive at all. I’m with you on the characterization. How bizarre.
MacOs doesn't forbid to run your own code. Not sure what you are talking about.
I think the unused error is great, and a lot of people once they got used to it, it becomes quite the useful message, some bugs and some mistakes not easy to catch are quite there now.

Giving it a bit of time is a good way to get used to it and ends generally (at least in my opinion) in better code.

Outside that :shrug:
There was a big shift over the last decade towards late stage startups and public companies issuing RSUs instead of options. Blonk stopped issuing options in like 2014. Coinbase is all RSU. Shopify is all RSU. The others I don't have personal knowledge of. It's possible someone is still vesting options from years ago but if so they're most certainly not underwater.
In rust, you can use the excellent anyhow crate https://docs.rs/anyhow/latest/anyhow/ . It has various ways to add context to an error, and will automatically attach a stack trace with the backtrace feature.

Explicit or implicit panic of course also attaches a backtrace. It can also be caught, although that is a can of worms. So panicing is the closest thing rust has to exceptions - somewhat similar to java.lang.Error on the jvm. https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/lang/Error.ht...

With anyhow, error handling in rust really is quite pleasant.
Reading the question I was in disbelief: what a miserable way to experience literature (even non-fiction). Just read the book! Enjoy it! What possible goal could be fulfilled by this kind of incessant note-taking?

Really brilliant people, the kind of people that can take different ideas from different sources and synthesize them into new things, they don’t read books in this way. They just read them. If they do take notes, it’s to check something with some other source or if it’s something they want to remember. They don’t make “120 notes about the most interesting ideas” or whatever. That just sounds like some kind of obsessive dedication to a note-taking system, not a way to actually learn anything, let alone as a good way to experience culture.
If the title of an article or paper has a question in it, the answer is always “no”.
I greatly benefit from services that find the good non-promoted creators and allow me to discover their creations.

Read Something Interesting [0] is a great example of this, along with all the curated newsletters that are popping up these days.

[0] http://readsomethinginteresting.com/
Musk has a "I am very smart and thus can never be wrong"-problem, has gravitational bending amounts of arrogance, and seems to have some personality issues. But he's not stupid or ignorant, and has a better understanding of tech than most CEOs. I don't think that's putting him "on a high pedestal".
Could you give an example which inconsistencies are the most offending to you?

I agree that some platform specific behavior is important. But only behavior that relates to OS, like window management, system dialogs, accessibility etc.

IMHO we are focusing too much on what does and doesn't look like platform UI. Big part of native widgets is also about branded UI. Arguing weather Apple or Adobe is more important brand for the UI is kind of pointless.

Consistent UI across multiple platforms affects more than just people who are using multiple OSes. For example, user watching a tutorial, expects to be able to replicate instructors actions. Imagine the joy of discovering in-app menus on his machine are different, because instructor was using the app on a different OS. Also, greater cost of designing and developing widgets for different platforms means there is less budget left to design custom task-specific UIs with better UX.

For UI "inside" the app, we should be focusing on what is a best possible UX of human-computer interaction for a task at hand. Just blindly using native widgets for everything can actually lead to bad user experience. For example, I hate it when an app uses Win32 Color Dialog for color selection. It's a widget with a bad UX for 99% of use cases.

To me, as a user, UI with good human-computer interaction experience is much more important that use of branded platform-native widgets.
That is a real life story of "drink too much kool-aid"
The trend towards a negative leapsecond apocalypse appears to be accelerating
Leapseconds are inserted to keep UTC within ±0.9s of UT1, a measure of earth's rotation.

Due to historical reasons the length of a second was defined somewhat shorter than 1/86400 of a mean solar day at the time our current definition was established. Because of this the trend between UT1 and UTC is largely in one direction and all leap seconds, so far, have been positive. But leap seconds can be negative if earth's rotation speeds up enough.

As things are leapseconds are a barely mitigated disaster: They, like their distant cousin daylight savings time, cause widespread disruption in time sensitive electronic systems for very little benefit: Without leapseconds it would take thousands of years for UT1 and UTC to diverge by an hour-- and at that point, if we really cared, we could update timezones to move noon closer to astronomical noon.

Leapseconds even cause outages and system failures when they're not even happening due to false leapsecond events and the difficulty of validating leap-seconds (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28046997). Though the offsets caused by leapseconds are small they're worse than DST because DST is a timezone effect while leapseconds make the UTC timebase our systems count on unreliable.

Recently earth's rotation has been speeding up, causing the UT1-UTC offset tend to stall and begin moving in the opposite direction. At some point this may result in the issuance of a negative leapsecond. Since ordinary positive leapseconds cause widespread issues and there has never been a negative leapsecond it's reasonable to assume a negative leapsecond would be much more disruptive.

There have been formal proposals to abolish the leapsecond in the past. It's due for discussion at ITU-R World Radio Conference in 2023 after being postponed back in 2015. There is more background on the regulatory process here: https://www.ucolick.org/~sla/leapsecs/onlinebib.html

An alternative to eliminating UTC would be to move systems over to TAI (or, TAI plus the current 37 second offset) but this change would be costly and disruptive while the same effect for most systems could be achieved by simply not issuing any more leapseconds.

Past HN discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29924020
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25658733
"The Cyberspace Administration of China didn’t immediately respond to a *faxed* request for comment."
Random link https://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-missiles-subma...
You're gonna love a job at Netflix :)
Then check out the Asahi Linux project. From my understanding, it consists of two parts. First, kind of a boot loader, which makes it easy to boot any code on your Mac. This they use to run a Linux kernel, customized for the hardware of the Apple Silicon machines. Most of the kernel customizations are already part of the main Linux kernel or in process of being added.
There are unofficial ones, but it is a horrible idea as misalignment can cause voltage to be applied to pins which can't handle it, blowing out the circuitry for the port.
> Consider a new driver who just got his license, versus [..] one fender bender.

More like a new driver versus a quintuple-DUI alcoholic who just got shitfaced again and mowed over a dozen members of a wedding party.
These discussions happen when people don’t give consideration to the fact that reliability is an architectural concern and error handling is part of that.

There’s certainly a minimum of error handling that has to be done in order for code to be considered generally correct, but a lot also depends on the reliability requirements.

Sometimes it’s just inappropriate to abort and this may deeply change the architecture of a program, including by making hard demands on the toolchain, hardware and OS.
after gpt-3, i always just assume these sorts of comments are autogenerated. :)
In previous generations it was because

- there was a postwar housing shortage, so the housing quality that came up to meet that demand quickly was not good. even if the house is still maintained well (a later point), japan has seen meteoric rises with living standards over the past 100 years, so it probably isn't compatible with modern wants and needs

- Japanese earthquake codes were regularly revised until 1981 after lessons learned from disasters. buildings from before that time have a significantly higher rate of collapse during earthquakes, so buying one and keeping it is a bit of a gamble on your life

- because of the depreciation, there isn't a lot of incentive to maintain your house well to the point where it can last more than 30 years

of course, all these things might be less true now that Japan has stagnated since the '90s, so there are reports of more people accepting renovating a house they buy rather than tearing down.
Am I the only one who feels like these complicated systems are ridiculous?
https://twitter.com/mixcocam/status/1412161067967516675?t=cL...
At least in Poland, for whatever reason, the communist apparatchicks mostly didn't get rich off of their power. They had a higher standard of living - but that meant a house and a car, and not a small flat and a bus pass, like most of the population. I think the ideology was still strong enough to make such behaviours completely non-palatable and would mean exclusion from the party. Only in the eighties, when it was clear that the system is broken beyond repair, the communist values crumbled and the elites started to accumulate wealth. Even with that, there are very few if any former high party official on contemporary Poland's top 100 wealthiest people list. Of course, if the system continued to reign, as is in China's case, the people at the top of the party would probably amass giant wealth.
An observation known as Betteridge’s Law of Headlines.
I just wanna go out in public and not get sick. It’s happened too many times now.
Who is paying the royalty for gun powder?
built a framework(kinda) for setting up automated meme bots on instagram that scrape memes from reddit... here's the blog post

that's where all memes originate anyways ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Looks like both the Democrats and Republicans are fighting each other and in turn ruining the economy and the country. Already 30 trillion USD in debt and high inflation and high gas prices. Electric cars have no infrastructure yet and are expensive and not everyone can afford one, not the poor who own a $500 Toyota car from the 1980s.

China and Russia will take over the position that the USA used to have as a super power. We got a civil war 2.0 ruining our nation.
No, the fact is that USA deterred USSR from using tactical nukes against China, in order to preserve nuclear balance.

China nuking Russia is like Mexico trying to invade USA today. In sane national leaders' mind, that's a very unlike choice.
Commercial music media, a tier list
In the 90’s when “selling out” was one of the really big insults you could make in the music scene[1] artist had this tendency of publicly hating on the record company.

“These suits don’t know anything about art, they just want to sell records and we have to fight them every day to make art and stay real”

As I kid I ate this up raw, but I feel like today we have a more mature relationship to this.

In the above made up quote the artist is basically saying “we have a record company that can do the selling out so we don’t have to”

[1] I believe it was the guitarist from Manic Street Preachers who carved “4 real” in his arm with a razor blade as a reaction to an interviewer accusing his band of selling out.
What part of the immune system are you referring to? My understanding is that the initial set of antibodies wane over time but will be produced again if memory B cells encounter the same antigen. Similarly, T cells specific for an antigen will amplify in number if re-exposed to that antigen.
postmarket OS is also fun, and a bit more Linuxy...
This needs a big 1997 warning.

Reading through this is a fascinating reminder of how unrecognizable the modern academic environment is from that of 25 years ago.
I elided a whole lot of detail, but the claim is that exposure to sunlight is implicated not just in vitamin D production, but also in a whole raft of beneficial biochemical processes, including nitric oxide release from stores in the skin [1]. This promotes vasodilation, thereby lowering blood pressure (and indeed, all-cause mortality [2]).

The interventionist’s prescription, though, is to always wear sunscreen, to take vitamin D supplements, and to take statins to control blood pressure.

I suppose my original point was that this represents a perverse exercise in ditch digging and filling. Using one expensive product to block the sunlight we evolved under, then using yet more products to compensate for the disrupted natural functioning of our skin (which we likely don’t fully understand anyway, so the counter-interventions are a partial remedy at best).

[1]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6830553/
[2]: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26992108/
Well, there is evidence in China that the current system is super over-leveraged.

Evergrande and a few other developers have gone bust and left these pre-sold apartments unfinished. So now the people who bought real estate of any kind are getting spooked, and this is basically a bank run, but on real estate.

The Great Recession was bad, but all those houses existed. Which seems a bit better than this present failure scenario.

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As far as affordability, price to income ratio in Shenzhen is 36:1, as opposed to the highest house price to income ratio in the US being LA at 13:1. China is in an unaffordability class of its own.
One of the extreme few series that does it at all with a dub, yeah. It helps so much, and it's so trivial to achieve nowadays, I really don't understand why dubs are overwhelmingly so flat. It's awful.
The benchmark I use for any promotion is value. Immediately create some value.

If there is a high probability that the people you want to reach gain some value out of your (self) promotion, do it. And I mean not the value of the product / you behind it, the value of the promotion itself.

If not, don't do it.

Also applies to multi-million $ campaigns.
Seems to be that the conclusion to this article is 'maybe yes' though
TLDR : NO
Glad to read in most of the comments that this whole fad of obsessing with some weird productivity hack will make a difference in output is fading.
Obviously, no matter how much journalists dream about it, that won't happen.
I find it insane that people aren't promoting mandatory testing for all large events. The vaccines are proven not to be effective in stopping the spreading. So testing should be the obvious alternative. But it is never demanded or enacted. Just imagine how much safer it would be if failing to show negative test result from past 24h when entering an event would result in armed gas-masked guard escorting the spreader to safe distance.
> What you call “variable rate” is called “floating rate” in New Zealand

And it's typically called an "adjustable rate" in the states.
OK.

I still don’t get how “Give everybody free money” and “Give a subset of ‘worthy’ people as determined by a government agency free money” are that different.

They’re both kind of bog standard socialist/communist ideas, just one has the self-dealing and nepotistic downsides to these ideologies explicitly baked into it by design.

Edit: It’s kind of like arguing “feeding everybody is communism! Feeding everybody that is approved as officially My Buddies is Good Capitalism!”

We’re discussing two different scenarios in which the government collects taxes and distributes that money to people without them being employed in any way.
Now read the book again, you'd be surprised how much more information is actually there.
Always funny to read sweeping generalizations about "really brilliant people"
I thought we were talking about building new capacity?
Tens of thousands of people in the USA are currently incarcerated for possession.