jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I assume not recent either. If there is a recent one, I'm interested.

I posted that as evidence masks have not always been worn by everyone.

I'm confused on your 80% compliance number. Are you saying Japanese get 80% compliance on things, and by extension don't have flu outbreaks?
The IEEE VR conference, Sunday March 22 - 26, instead of being cancelled, became online-only. While registration has a wait list, until they see how their infrastructure holds up, the plan is to live stream all presentation sessions (papers, panels, workshops, and keynotes) on Twitch.

streams: http://ieeevr.org/2020/online/ schedule: http://ieeevr.org/2020/program/overview.html hashtag: https://twitter.com/hashtag/IEEEVR2020
It gets worse. There is a phenomenon among Chinese expats known as Daigou[0]. It is a common problem in Australia[1], for example. Groups of expats will swarm a store, circumventing per person limits, buy out an entire shelf of a "luxury" good (videos of baby formula for example are on YouTube), load up their trucks, then drive over to the next town.

They've likely been doing the same in the US. Masks have been totally sold out since January (when I started looking for them) while the vast majority of Americans were still totally unaware of the virus.

0. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daigou

1. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tSjeDH22njk
I'm working on a small tool to reconcile resource associations that may be lost when exporting data out of one service and importing into another.

For example, if you want to transfer your stuff from Evernote into StandardNotes, you can export your note content as ENEX and use a conversion tool for it. https://dashboard.standardnotes.org/tools

Unfortunately neither export file nor the provided import tool handle Notebook info (StandardNotes doesn't have notebooks but it can approximated with tags).

So this tool creates some of that missing metadata that is extracted from the export service and is converted into a format that can understood by the import service.
Relevant Wikipedia pages:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliminalia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reputation_management

Relevant HN discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5926408

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21784533

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26924109
What makes you think there are less interesting things to write about then in the past?
It’s not at all or nothing proposition. Your employer probably pays you a salary and offers you disability insurance too.
This thread is full of people who challenged themselves to solve it and then failed to come up with the 'obvious' 1-cycle solution. It's clearly non-obvious, as this thread shows.

The actual patent system failure here is the patent is not useful -- it's not valuable. If you needed this solution, you could sit down and derive it in less than an hour. That's not because it's obvious, but because the scope is so small.

The only difference between this patent and say a media codec is how long it would take to reinvent it. It might take you 200 years to come up with something as good as h.265, but there's no magic to it. There's a problem, somebody came up with a solution, somebody else could do it again given enough time to work on it. This is true for everything that's ever been patented.

The point of patents is to compensate for value of the work needed to reinvent, and so the real problem here is that value is less than any sane minimum. The value is less than the patent examiner's time to evaluate it! But court rulings have said it doesn't matter how insignificant a patent is, as long as it does anything at all it's "useful", which leads to these kinds of worthless patents.
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And then there's Delta-8 THC which was accidentally legalized by the 2018 law that was intended to legalize industrial hemp.
If that was true then nobody would be fretting about unsafe memory access, and the primary source of bugs used in exploits wouldn’t exist.

Unfortunately it isn’t true, C let’s you write plenty of broken programs that don't fail at run time, despite making a complete dogs breakfast of your systems memory space, instead we get crap like Heartbleed instead.
Good luck making a case that you have the copyright to some picture of you taken by someone else. If anyone, the picture taker may have the copyright.

Some jurisdictions have the concept of a "right to your own image" if you are relatively unknown or if the image does not have sufficient content to suggest public interest, but afair, the US does not.
My first OS was CP/M. It didn't have directories either.
History repeats it seems.

Intel's first big success was the 8-bit 8080. That chip was dethroned by Zilog's Z80 which had a superset of the 8080's instruction set after Intel rested on its laurels.

Then Intel burst forth with its next series, the x86 16-bit and 32-bit chips. Likewise it again rested on its laurels and was overtaken as an innovator by AMD's 64-bit instruction set.

Recently, Intel has had problems with its newer chip manufacturing. It will very likely fall by the wayside as Asian RISC chips gain the ascendency.

The chip world will look a lot different within the next 5-10 years.
It's only a good parable if you don't follow the author to the conclusion. The heuristics almost always work. Full stop. You should listen to them, because they almost always work. You should not in any case work off the assumption that you're in the 0.01% of the time that the heuristic is wrong.

You will get surprised 0.01% of the time, and that's fine. If you don't follow the heuristic you'll be surprised far more often by way of being wrong.

This gets further weighted by costs. If the cost of a false negative is high and the cost of a false positive is nothing, always assume the positive and do whatever is required: check the window, palpitate the whatever, etc. You are certain it is nothing, but the cost of being wrong is so high that you do it anyway.

The author's whimsical point about needing people who buy into fairy-tales isn't useful or valid. You make these decisions based mostly on the costs of being right and wrong, and within that you assume things based on the stats of occurring.
add some to sites.google.com, see how they like them apples.
Just like McConnell and anti corruption legislation. Nobody in the senate was corrupt, so why in the world would they need rules against corruption?

The flawless logic of our leaders is astonishing.
We aren't any closer, we are already there. Generic Ubuntu image already boots on all ARM SBSA devices, just like x86 PC. In fact, booting generic image on any device is explicitly a goal of SBSA standard.
These folks are also very experienced chemists who can model the structures of the chemicals they are synthesizing and make reasonable guesses about their effects.
That begs the question: what else are you pedantic about?
That's only really true when the entire string is using CJK characters, but as far as I know, that's going to be fairly rare.

For example, this Chinese Wikipedia page is almost twice as big in UTF-16 as in UTF-8, because the vast majority of the content seems to be HTML tags:

$ curl -s 'https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/中华人民共和国' | wc -c
1877366
$ curl -s 'https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/中华人民共和国' | iconv -f utf-8 -t utf-16 | wc -c
3345724

If I strip out all the printable ASCII characters, it does indeed become about 33% more compact in UTF-16:

$ curl -s 'https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/中华人民共和国' | tr -d '[:print:]' | wc -c
311226
$ curl -s 'https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/中华人民共和国' | tr -d '[:print:]' | iconv -f utf-8 -t utf-16 | wc -c
213444

With gzip compression it is only about 10% more compact:

$ curl -s 'https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/中华人民共和国' | tr -d '[:print:]' | gzip -9c | wc -c
98373
$ curl -s 'https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/中华人民共和国' | tr -d '[:print:]' | iconv -f utf-8 -t utf-16 | gzip -9c | wc -c
89031

So I guess if you're archiving pure CJK text, maybe you could get a 10% benefit, though I suspect non-Unicode encodings of that text would be more compact anyway.
So, since you mentioned Java, Kotlin and Groovy are very pleasant to write and quite easy to learn, lots of syntactic sugar. I'd say Kotlin is a better language than Groovy. Scala is a very deep language to learn, lots of fascinating features, just reading Programming Scala is amazing and totally recommended. The learning curve is steeper to get to more advanced concepts but it is worth it. Rust is not as difficult to learn as Scala, not so many features and concepts but it's a bit difficult to wrap your head around borrowing and lifetimes mostly, and some of the smart pointer stuff. I wouldn't recommend lisp or derivatives like Closure etc mostly because of the parentheses. It is said the last 3 pages of the code that controlled the Soviet nuclear launch codes written in Lisp are just ending parentheses.

To scratch your itch of broadening your horizons and learn lots of amazing features that don't exist in the languages you know (Python, JavaScript, Typescript), I recommend Scala
There was a woman who was not a licensed nurse but practiced as one for about 20 years without troubles until she got caught trying to subscribe to a mandatory course and they couldn't find her professional order ID.

I'd go as far as saying 90% the resources spent on learning and teaching are entirely wasted and could be done away with.
From Google: "Fog ruining your lunar eclipse party? Open up Google Sky (in Google Earth) --> 'Current Sky Events' tab --> Slooh Telescope. Take that fog!"
There are other platforms and other means. In hindsight I’m not sure that social media is such a godsend for popular uprising. They had popular uprising before social media, and we will have them post social media. The popular uprisings we have seen that are fueled by social media to me seem they either deteriorated into devastation (a la the Arab spring), or never went anywhere (a la Occupy Wall Street).

I think we undervalue the amount of mobilization during the BLM protests that happened out side of social media, e.g. simple pamphlets, word of mouth, words on the radio, printed words, static ads and propaganda, etc.
I thought Spotify didn’t contract directly with any artists?
Java has this since 8:

Arrays.asList("hello", "world").parallelStream()
.forEach(s -> System.out.println(s));

If you want to calculate stuff, you can

List<String> suffixed = Arrays.asList("hello", "world").parallelStream()
.map(s -> s + "_suffix")
.collect(Collectors.toList())
As do us old senior contracting devs who have to come in at short notice and pick up a strange codebase.
The lure is getting fit and achieving something graspable with that fitness. Riding an artificially incapable bike would ruin the latter, like cooking something nice with one hand tied behind your back, riding an e-bike would ruin the former, like advising a weight lifter that he could raise that bar much more frequently if he removed those annoying metal discs from the ends.
Based on the unobfuscated source, this is a lookup table of some kind for operators, encoded in a string.

++ -> tokl=11 tokc=0x1
-- -> tokl=11 tokc=0xff
* -> tokl=1 tokc=0xc1af
/ -> tokl=1 tokc=0xf9f7
% -> tokl=1 tokc=0xf9f7
+ -> tokl=2 tokc=0xc801
- -> tokl=2 tokc=0xd8f7
<< -> tokl=3 tokc=0xe0d3
>> -> tokl=3 tokc=0xf8d3
...
! -> tokl=2 tokc=0x4
* -> tokl=0 tokc=0x0

For example

*@R<^1c
^^ operator (padded with @ when one character)
^^^^ tokc (variable length)
^ tokl
It's part of the tokenizer. t contains data in the format of [char 0][char 1][base 64 encoded token id …], whereas the id is as long as the entry is smaller than 'b'. So it's ('++', `#m`), ('--', `%am`), ('*@', 'R<^1c'), and so on. '@' is used as a wildcard. As you can see this part parses operators.
Ah, yeah, fixed width layout: that's pretty annoying and one thing I don't miss from the "old" web. I do quite appreciate the overall aesthetic - as well as the page load speed - of this particular site.

As you say, variable width and proper viewport support are easily fixed with a line or two of CSS, and if he did that it would work as well on mobile as it does on desktop.
I'm not exactly sure on this analysis. Mr. Forbes is making several presumptions I'm not comfortable in confirming either way. Mostly, this is from not hearing this myths about the iPhone. Ever. I think the strength behind Android market will be its variety and competitiveness versus Apple's production model (though some might say this is also Apple's strength). When someone says Apple products are a luxury device I usually hear that as a detriment to their PCs.
Yes apple used to be a luxury brand. That is until they developed the worlds first consumer iOS and started selling consumer hardware (entire iFamily).

The real question is whether Apple will continue to develop osX for the workstation market. Personally I think that apple has been slacking on any interesting development for those of us who work professionally with computers.

Where is the improvement & innovations in workflow automation, file browsing etc.?
In the 90s with QBASIC ... then Turbo Pascal ... etc
Early 80's: C64 BASIC & 6502 ASM =)
> the way the virus was designed it wasn't going to damage all of the rotors anyway

Why not? Why shouldn't it make as much damage as possible, as it attracted too much attention anyway?

> had been in place a relatively long time

I think the version that became analyzed all over the world (with the last certificate) was discovered very soon after it was introduced.

It still sounds to me more like something for what somebody got some promotion than something that did the damage appropriate to the money/time invested.
You want a piece of me, boy?
It's normally used when reblogging a photo that makes you laugh so hard that you can't breathe. I'm not sure of its origin, but it's pretty widely used on Tumblr.
I'm beginning to think free speech advocates here don't believe in property rights. Big Tech can do what they want with their products. They own them.
There have been x86 emulators forever. I had SoftPC in 1992
Haven't heard about it. I breathe with the "proper method" instinctively and never knew this was even a thing.

Perhaps it's something specific to American culture.
Excellent sleuthing, so even earlier.
Are you suggesting that mission critical sites rewrite in a tech stack that you haven’t used? That seems misguided
Fair points, but in this case a more crisp look would be a better fit for the topic.
Not sure social distancing is materially effective
Elixir is not Ruby, it just has a somewhat Ruby-like syntax. The similarities end there. Elixir does not have the performance issues that Ruby has (although it may have different ones!)
Right, see Linus Pauling
For all the bad that has happened, this has been an interesting time to reflect and gather a new perspective about some of the newfound good.

It’s like being thrown into a worldwide experiment that would otherwise never realistically happen. There’s so many understandings to gain from the results of our actions, habits, and lifestyles.

The world is changing before our eyes as a result of the changes in our behaviors. We can see how even when we slow down, the world keeps going. It’s an incredibly unique, enlightening circumstance.

Hopefully, as we move forward, we actually learn from the history unfolding today, and don’t just discredit it all to go back to the way things were for our own ego at the expense of the rest of the world.
Great; I was looking at alternatives to bitbucket as we self-host and the self-hosted option is going away for Atlassian stuff (or so I've been informed by the procurement droid at our place).

Can anyone recommend a self-hosted alternative to Jira?
Ask people for unfettered access to their unlocked phone, even with them sitting there and watching you to prevent you from doing anything but poke around, and you will find a whole lot of people suddenly care more about privacy.

What is probably closer to the truth is that people care little about privacy from someone they think they will never come face to face with, and who they believe won't leak that information to anyone they will come face to face with.

The problem comes when people don't have the knowledge necessary to assess the risk of that happening in any given scenario.
Let's not forget the notable case of Twitter "accidentally" using your provided phone number for advertising purposes [0], and to this day still banning you after registration if you refuse to give it.

[0]. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/10/twitter-uninentionally...
I’m not interested in the categorical definition of spirituality in the Western philosophical tradition. I don’t think Western definitions have anything to do with the spirituality humans have participated in for tens of thousands of years. That spirituality is about an unfolding and reintegration of personal, social, and natural meaning and mystery, not metaphysical assertions.
Please don’t go into details. You’ll end up with people just doing c because they don’t dare anything else.
Did you come up with data for your time hypothesis? Do what you want others do to you.

Programming is a million details codified, each code-line/detail is easy but the whole is complex.

If you really want to know become a team lead instead of a team manager and just code alongside them (and preferably take the easy parts to give the glory to those under you). I’ve tried it and the colleagues where over the moon.
Lets not forget the column casing issue, you either get columns to match your apps casing and have to quote them everywhere or live with them being lower cased automatically.
https://dev.to/lefebvre/dont-get-bit-by-postgresql-case-sens...
But naturally! He is worried about his internal IT team getting access to his own messages, like the Register's BOFH[0] /s
[0] https://www.theregister.com/offbeat/bofh/
Amazon Fargate or Lambda (lambda supports Docker containers now)
It "powers the Samsung print service." The one that always says my printer is offline.

"Your document may pass through multiple servers. Is that ok?"

Sigh.

And it printed simplex.
AI Dungeon is a text-based game where the player is chatting with GPT, I have play it several mounthes ago.
Great question - the carbon cycle definitely needs to be thought about in this scenario.

The missing link here is in total embodied emissions that go into production of corn. There's data available to help piece together a comparison [1, 2], and I'd love to work through this and get back to you with what I find. At a high-level, CO2 production from corn isn't net-neutral because the production of a corn, and then ethanol from that corn, is a fairly carbon-intensive process in terms of the energy it requires. Our process doesn't require most of the transportation corn does, and since the cooling tower is already operating, we don't have to incur any additional costs to capture the CO2. Our main costs are in the energy required for regeneration, and depending on the facility we're at, we may even get that for free in the form of waste heat/steam.

If you want to send me an email at josh [at] noyalabs.com, we can talk more about this there!

[1]: https://www.attisbiofuels.com/by-products/carbon-dioxide

[2]: https://watermark.silverchair.com/55-7-593.pdf?token=AQECAHi...
> Texas is unusual in that almost the entire state is part of a single grid that lacks extensive integration with those of the surrounding states.

PNM in NM already has problems keeping the power running in that state. So I don't think peering with them will be of any help. I can't speak to OK, LA and AR.

It's a shame that nuclear has become a political football. As a Texan I would like to see more investment in Nuclear.
Has anyone tried to enforce it against them?
> Think of how that would have affected Linux (Android uses dm-crypt for FDE), open source, Github, etc

A concern of mine is that unlike the others you mention, Apples software isn't open - we have no ability to check
there aren't already backdoors resulting from secret court orders.

Perhaps going forward 2015 going "open" will be the only way to build trust with a client is offer an open or reproducible means to replicate any claims made about suitability of encryption and lack of a backdoor both on client and server.
Of course, no mention that this is based on the ground-station temperature record which is continually being "revised" so that the past is cooler and cooler. I believe the raw station records have now been "revised" three times so that the original data is becoming meaningless. The satellite record does not show that 2014 was the warmest.
"People, and especially a very large fraction of people in the software industry, are loathe to think that anything other than ability and pure reason factor into, well, anything."

I would phrase it slightly differently.

We understand full well the world in general doesn't work this way. But we want to carve out a small part of the world where things do work this way, as much as possible.

I think Fog Creek (now Stack Exchange) is trying to embody this ideal in how they have structured their offices. Joel was a developer, and designed his office space in a way that he believes will lead to the greatest possible productivity for his developers.

So the biggest criticism is aimed towards places like Facebook, Google, and other software firms who pay lip service to geek ideals, but prove in how they lay out their office spaces what they really care about.
Marketing person here. I hate open offices too.

My boss insists it makes everyone more "open."
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Actually, your statement is not too far off.

Google's self driving is far less dynamic as they would have you believe. Areas are extremely heavily analysed with a massive array of sensors, analysis and even human input/sanity checking before cars are allowed to drive in a specific area.

No doubt this preparation is expensive and the resources to do it are finite. I could easily see some very accessible normal place be unavailable to a self driving car.

Source: 2 of my coworkers worked at the start-up that originally developed the core self-driving platform that was acquired by Google(No, Google did not develop the origin technology). The both worked for some time at Google working on the project.
Ah! So sorry for misunderstanding. Yes that sounds like a straightforward, good idea!
I had no idea WhatsApp and Telegram have cryptocurrency support, I only use WhatsApp because I need it for soem school parents group though... but even if Chrome would add Gopogle Coin support I still will not like if Firefox forces it and not make it an optional plugin (people still complain that Firefox added DRM support for media so this is not theoretical)
But those tragedies happened after series of radicalisations, pretty often after groups intentionally spread lies and hate, when people closed themselvea into bubbles and so on.

Pretty often the new technology was the vector by which those came, simply because bad actors seem to be quicker to take advantage of new technology.

Also historically, censorship and gatekewping were overall succesfull strategies. I am not saying that it is good thing to do all that much, there is danger in overdoing it, but historically it was effective in suppressing viewpoints.
https://archive.is/3AFf6