jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Wow, this is not a good look.

There was absolutely a shortage of PPP among healthcare institutions in the areas that were hit by COVID.

If 350 million Americans in a giant panic, decided to make a run on PPE, then there would be serious supply chain problems and it could have adversely affected the medical system.

The strategy of prioritising Hospitals, in face of a pandemic (and they use all kinds of masks, not just N95) - was actually quite rational.

In the initial phase of the pandemic, masks should be allocated where they have a very obvious effect.

Then, once they can be produced in much greater quantities, then it makes sense for individuals to start wearing them whereby we can help a little bit with transmissibility in the general population.

'The Lie' was to downplay the effectiveness of masks early, and then embellish the effectiveness later on - but that is the communications strategy behind a rational plan.

In a war, it's probably more important that the soldiers have access to weapons, they are the most effective at leveraging them. Having weapons at the home front might be helpful, but much more marginally so.

There was a 'policy reversal' due to material facts on the ground with respect to PPE availability, but that's consistent with the overall strategy.

As far as 'mask wearing in public' - it's not just 'your decision' because of the fact that you're putting others at risk and that due to the high nature of transmissibility, it becomes a systematic problem.

It's not like wearing seatbelts where it affects mostly you.

It's like if you were in an accident and not wearing a seatbelt, and as a result, you hurt 10 other people.
Very cool! I’ve used Ada in my spare time, and it has a lot of good features that I wish C-family languages had (like strong typedefs, no implicit conversions, better ways to do things than passing pointers around, arrays that don't decay into pointers, and types constrained to ranges). It is a lot more complex than C, but it feels a lot easier to read, and while it takes longer to write (for me) than C, it has a lot fewer weird edge cases/quirks to it than C does.

It also seems to have more powerful ways to set the exact machine representation of types than C.
Kinda depends on who you are right? We would have to know that ...
It was OpenViBE, but looking at GNURadio it looks fairly similar so I expect limitations would be also quite comparable.
Why do I have to "accept" a currency that nobody around me is willing to receive in exchange for the goods and services that I want? Heck, why do I need to "accept" anything about a currency at all? I didn't "accept" credit cards into my life or world view, I just got one when it was convenient for me.

It's supposed to be money, not a religion. I don't need to accept bitcoin into my heart, or something strange like that.
We have 3 infra eng + manager for over a dozen devs and a bunch of services deployed on k8s (including all DBs). K8s itself is self managed (nothing is hosted) and has been the least of our concerns operations-wise.
That's exactly where I'm at. I really, really didn't want to do this, but if I don't then my kid can't be on a team with his friends. That's a crummy deal.
My MUD of choice was DiscworldMUD (http://discworld.starturtle.net/lpc/), based on the works of Terry Pratchett and which has been actively developed for nigh on 30 years. The setting is wonderfully flavorful and the world is huge and lovingly detailed. It's such great fun to get lost in one of the giant towns and see what you stumble across.

Check out this map of what its biggest city, Ankh-Morpork, looks like: http://dw.daftjunk.com/Ankh-Morpork.png (external maps are a great aid for new players, the in-game map only shows your immediate local surroundings, so keep this site bookmarked: http://dw.daftjunk.com/ ).
Well managed ale fermentation shouldn’t produce much fusel alcohol which is a byproduct of yeast stress. Some of the DDH 8% IPAs place make now and try to turn around too fast will have some detectable fusels.

There are also clean (which means low water production) ale yeasts.

As a minor nit all yeasts ferment in the whole column of liquid. Ale yeasts do often form a thick Krause though.
You can't build GCC on MSVC or vis versa.

And people do see the pain here as a problem, that's why the project in this very thread exists. I think most in the Rust community see mrustc and the pressure that an independent implementation brings process wise as a very good thing for the language.
In late 2019, two years after I retired, I attended a presentation by a neuroscientist who brought his grand piano. The piano had a sign on it, something like "This machine stops dementia." Since then, music has been my daily avocation.
We are discussing mrustc here. The reason it hasn't been done yet is that nearly everyone interested in this agrees mrustc is a better bootstrapping path than starting from the last OCaml version.
Re: Dokku, reports of our demise are greatly exaggerated.

We're still chugging along, and have recently added Cloud Native Buildpacks support[1], as well as integrations with Kubernetes[2] and Nomad[3]. Happy to hear where you found out that development on the project was halted, given that I made a release yesterday[4]...

[1]: https://dokku.com/docs/deployment/methods/cloud-native-buildpacks/
[2]: https://github.com/dokku/dokku-scheduler-kubernetes
[3]: https://github.com/dokku/dokku-scheduler-nomad
[4]: https://github.com/dokku/dokku/releases/tag/v0.23.9
A few things:

1. You mentioned loans, and I mentioned debts. Debts matter at least as much as taxes as a source of demand for fiat currency, since the government can "reassign" the ownership of property if debts are not repaid and the government will always determine debt payments in terms of its fiat currency.

2. Suppose the money is only distributed to citizens in the form of salaries. What do they do with it? Why does anyone they do business with -- merchants, landlords, whoever -- want it? One of the reasons why taxes and debt laws work well is that they are immediately relevant to almost everyone in a country (anyone who owns property owes property tax; anyone with a business loan must make their loan payments; etc.).

3. Suppose a country relies on resource wealth to stimulate demand for its currency. That country will compete in the global market for those resources and the demand for its currency, and thus the value of the currency, will fluctuate according to market forces. The price volatility would be a huge problem for the citizens of the country as they tried to use the currency in their daily lives.

So while in theory, under very particular circumstances, such a thing would be possible, in practice it would probably not last long. Volatility, weird distortions in demand, and other issues would render the currency hard to use and reduce its value in the local market.
Except that you need to test your software and if you see performance problems, profile them to identify the cause. It's not like you have one single chance to get everything right.
Each user needs their own deposit address, for bookkeeping. If the cold storage is really offline, you'd have to manually create a new address for each new user.
"You don't need jQuery" is completely true, but only in the same way that you don't need Rails, or Express, or Laravel, or stdio.h.. It just makes life a lot easier if you use it, and there's nothing wrong with that.
My belief is that a 10x programmer is one that codes for fun and because of that, has tackled a lot of different problems.

Problems solved for "fun" are very different from day job problems, but they often provide knowledge that can be applied.

It the extra knowledge what makes them great.
Note that SPJ's book (1987) pre-dates Wadler's popularization of monads (1992) by a good 5 years, and Moggi's idea to use monads to describe different notions of computation by 4 years^1.

So they're missing for a reason.

1. http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/user/crary/www/819-f09/Moggi91....
As far as I know, Facebook Messenger's XMPP support was only exposed to clients (c2s), not to other XMPP servers (s2s). Microsoft's Lync (now known as Skype for Business) supported XMPP federation until 2019. WhatsApp's client protocol was originally based on XMPP. I'm reasonably sure that both AIM and Yahoo had XMPP server-to-server support ready around 2008, but can offer no proof.
Tracking EBS performance problems can be a hassle, but the new AWS console tools should make it easier to notice performance problems. Nice!
The timing of the iPhone (its OS and its app store ecosystem) played a significant role in the check-in model, I think, as it encouraged developers to [finally] sidestep the carriers, and also prevented background processing. Though this is kinda irrelevant to Chris' bigger point of pivoting towards a perceived advantage.

(It will be interesting to see how things change with OS4's background processing. I'd guess users will continue to prefer for check-in based over continuous gps logging, though there may be some interesting/appealing applications of continuous logging. Haven't really looked into the specifics yet.)
I found the quoted verse at the top so wrong, I had to create a throwaway to comment.

You're so smart, you're studying, you're 52, and when you die, you'll have nothing to clutch in your grave but your degrees.

Being 52 and in school is fucking awesome. You're old, you're not doing it because it's making you money. You're doing it for the pursuit of knowledge. You're doing it to learn from the fruits of labor of all that have come before you. You might make another discovery. You might not. But at this point, uncovering new things for its own sake is just fucking awesome.

But, says Kanye, but, says the rich and famous role model of yours: I'm smooth, I hustle, and when I die, I'm hugging my platinums in my grave. Maybe I'll even have a statue of me on my tombstone.

Maybe there's a subtext that I'm not getting. Maybe this is an alcoholic 52 year old who decided on a whim that he's gonna get smarter and somehow that's going to make him rich, and that's what West is talking about. But that's not what you're quoting. What you're quoting is a reflecting of your acknowledgement of that belief.

You're smart. Soft skills are important. Know what, I'm smart too, and I have soft skills, and I find the mentality conveyed in those verses pure, culture-destroying toxic. Maybe you're after hustle... But hustle is not "soft skills".
Excellent presentation! Though I would definitely consider underlining 'web browsers', instead of italics. It took me a minute or two of clicking back and forth between the app store and the website to find where I could use the application via my browser..
Horseshit linkbait article title.

The entire article is basically the author going "Hey, things could still go pretty bad here." There's not a single sentence in it to ACTAULLY support the title.
Here's hoping that they, like many others before them, flinch away from the mental pain of noticing that their business model is about to crumble until it's too late.
> If I get this right, it doesn't sound like sensible research to me at all. If you are able to get code to the victims computer, then you can just steal the private keys right away.

The private keys are not on the computer, but on a piece of hardware (like the Trezor). The researchers claim that they can get the private key from the Trezor, by feeding it malicious, unsigned transactions. At least that's how I understand it.
see my other reply in this thread for deep vs shallow math. Yes, in some cases deep math is applicable to CS, e.g. dependent type theory, or the theory or Restricted Boltzman Machines applied to Deep Belief Networks.

In many cases, my original point applies: in practice the math needed is shallow, and people only use deep math because they want to, or because they want to publish papers.
Nowhere in the NYT article it explains the real problem Scott had with them publishing his name. It’s not the forward search (SSC -> real name) that’s the issue, it’s the reverse search (real name -> SSC). Before the NYT article his patients would mostly not be able to find his blog; after the article it’s one of the first results that comes up.

The fact that the article does not go into this is very dishonest as I’m sure Scott made this argument to the reporter.
Not so future ... some 6 years ago I have been advised by a recruiter that to apply to a certain SV company, I must have a Facebook profile with a minimum of 100 friends. Two days of playing some stupid Flash game got me 400 friends and a position at a company.
The Sealand people weren't rich; they were middle-class pirate radio people who were just trying to do commercial radio in the 60s. (I lived there for 2 years 2000-2002, and the general condition of the place was fairly poor at the start and at the end)
In postgresql 12 a patch [0] is merged to remove the optimization fence certain conditions. From the changelog [1]

"
Allow common table expressions (CTEs) to be inlined into the outer query (Andreas Karlsson, Andrew Gierth, David Fetter, Tom Lane)

Specifically, CTEs are automatically inlined if they have no side-effects, are not recursive, and are referenced only once in the query. Inlining can be prevented by specifying MATERIALIZED, or forced for multiply-referenced CTEs by specifying NOT MATERIALIZED. Previously, CTEs were never inlined and were always evaluated before the rest of the query.
"

[0] https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=commit...
[1] https://www.postgresql.org/docs/12/release-12.html
Depends on the method. We’re already hard at work stopping population growth by getting people out of poverty. Very probable that it’ll turn into population decline in a few decades.
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Caesar 3 was amazing!
I look at it as the coolest game I ever get to play
I think the term 'shared source' was coined to describe that particular business model (under certain conditions, the code is shared, and perhaps modifications may be allowed in some scenarios, but no redistribution).
As Alexa and Siri have improved over the last couple years and gotten a more human voice, it has been interesting observing my young children (1-4) interact with such devices.

There is definitely a sense of ‘who is that’ coming from their little minds that they are sometimes quite perplexed about. ‘It’s a computer’ is starting to feel like a cop-out answer as these things improve...
Had a similar experience with another (also Quanta?) article last year about some optical physics breakthrough made at my not-very-well-known alma mater, but the article was written as if the work was all done at MIT, which one of the collaborators was affiliated with. You had to scroll to the second page to see the name of the institution that the PI was actually at.
It's patriotism, as opposed to nationalism. Not everyone subscribes to this distinction, but I think it's important.

Patriotism is liking your country and wanting other people to become part of it if they want to. After all, if your country and culture is the best then people should be allowed to become part of your culture and thereby become better!

Nationalism is liking your country and wanting other people to be kept separate. After all, if your country and culture is the best then anyone else is inferior and shouldn't be allowed to dilute your perfection!
Nope, not morally. Once you send me a message, it's mine. I can tell anybody I want you sent me a message. I can post it publicly if I want.
Yeah it does seem technically within reach and potentially solvable. I was thinking of including song identification when I mentioned an NN as a potential solution. I’m also assuming that there a bunch of other serious complications like resampling and clock skew between the two streams, a changing frequency response over time, etc. You can imagine that if there are audio dropouts or song pauses in the video you’re trying to fix, then naively subtracting the source song will result in accidentally playing the copyrighted song instead of removing it. And it might be trickier if people sing along to the song, etc. I think this situation is quite a bit tougher than the standard trick people use to remove ambient audio by recording with a 2nd mic further away and subtracting it.
You're right about the stats, the news article I was referring to was wrong. It's not including police/military service permits though, the 300k is purely private permits (which can have overlap with police/military - they can't use guns for private purposes without a private permit); and there are 900k private guns.
Is this really any different than the USA banning Huawei to prevent 5G carrier equipment competition under the guise of “national security”?

(Edited to clarify 5G carrier equipment competition)
Don't worry, in a few years Apple will rewrite all their SDKs again in a different language.

The churn may not be a deliberate strategy but it is certainly very effective in locking developers in.
Meh, I don't feel like I misinterpreted your message. You can think words don't have meanings, but I can only interpret the words you type

> I no longer subscribe to the "words matter" philosophy,

This is your point

> considering how fast and loose people on the left

this is your argument to support your point

Either keep the political side out or use example of both sides. Otherwise people will think you're trying to charge one side for the issue
Working face-to-face is wonderful, however, the rigid need to have "bodies in chairs" 8+ hours a day seems quite antiquated. It's simply a gross inefficiency when you consider that realistically an office worker is able to provide, at maximum, 4 to 6 hours worth of output a day.
What was your product? With this collection of working samples you could build a reference menu bar app with an interface similar to codebox, dash-snippets,etc...

iOS beginners will at least consider buying something like this, imho.
Sometimes ideas don't need to be hard, they just need to be structured. Or repeated until grokked so that they become second nature; such as walking, so to speak. There is value on reiterating this in business book form, it seems.
Huh? But the board appointed the CEO. So why isn't it the board?

Or wait, the board was appointed by shareholders. So why isn't it shareholders?

And so on...
Apple isn’t required by law to contest the requests from law enforcement. They could provide assistance without even telling the target. For example, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-party_doctrine

You are correct that they can’t refuse in China, but they’ve chosen to fight in the US.
> the game perspective was the only model that really matched the marketplace

I don't buy that. If a company consistently grows and makes money, its stock is going up. The stock value is always going to revert to what the company is doing.
Can you tell me how to exit nano without writing changes? Every time some silly default server kicks me into nano I'm absolutely lost and ctrl+c doesn't give you help text like in vim iirc. (Not kidding)
Surge pricing probably wouldn't be an issue if there were speculators that could sell during the highs to smooth it out.
Very interesting article, thanks! Where can I find out more about this topic? Are there online communities?
+1 and a filter you can use on related permissions when searching for apps
Unlike all those other people who are using it with the real science backing!
I had the same thought. Perhaps it's also because of the closeness of many terms here to their English equivalents ("collaboration", "code source", "commits", "assemblées", etc).
The lesson is, people are less prone to want to wear a helmet in Australia because its very hot and you get quite sweaty.

Whereas in Amsterdam, people want to leave their heads free because its mostly pretty cold, and you want to wear a proper head covering - like a beany or scarf - and this isn't always compatible with bike helments.

However, I've observed many times over people wearing helmets in Amsterdam. Its not a generalized circumstance that Amsterdam bike riders don't wear helmets - its just in this selection of pictures. Also, the average distances and speeds of the bike riders in Amsterdam are likely to be a lot smaller than those of Australia, where you have all the space in the world. A lot of people in Amsterdam don't ride much more than a kilometer or so, and at much reduced speeds than you would find on your average Australian road.
To add: those are New Youk timezone
Apparently this comment is wrong according to votes. Logically, I'm wrong by either:

* assuming that Twitter is mostly toxic

* or that avoiding toxicity isn't mental work

What is it where I'm wrong, and if so, why?
Maybe someone more versed in UniFi will step in but from what I've experienced throttling in UniFi exists across the entire network, not just WAN egress traffic. It severely limits it's usefulness.
Are they? The amounts of arguments and toxicity on that despicable website (enough to prompt highly-upvoted posts about quitting the website every so often) suggests they aren't?

This is a very interesting point, to which I will say that people who complain or praise any product are always the vocal minority.

As I alluded to in another reply, we regularly get impassioned posts and comments about what's wrong with iOS on HN, and yet we know for a fact that many, many, MANY people are happy with their iPhones, iPads, and Apple Watches.
Want to help? This would matter:

SDCC still doesn't really support the EZ80 chip found in things like the TI-84 Plus CE calculator. You can generate code for the Z80 emulation mode, which only has a 16-bit address space. The EZ80, in native mode, has a 24-bit address space.

There is an old proprietary compiler that people were using, and more recently there is a clang/llvm compiler. While it's great to have clang/llvm, it just feels wrong that SDCC can't fully support this little chip.

Both existing compilers use 24-bit integers and pointers. As measured with sizeof, int is 3. There is no padding ever. There is an int24_t of course.

Perhaps SDCC should get an int24_t that works for all platforms. It could be something like __sdcc_int24_t for platforms where it isn't the proper size for an int. Being able to change the size of an int, with a command line switch or pragma, would be useful.
{Thing} is {negative adjective}.

Excellent. Good to know.
I like Network Attacks and Exploitation: A Framework by Matthew Monte. It makes a clear and comprehensible case about the various asymmetries in cybersecurity and gives a detailed overview of failed past strategies, and strategies currently being tried.
Folks - the Central Bank is an essential pillar of governance.

If it 'goes down' it means, almost everything else is 'going down again'. Your BTCs are useless in that scenario.

BTC is a terrible currency and a bad store of value - and there is no 'mathematical arrangement' that can replace good governance.

It would be like using digital contracts for legal contracts etc. - that won't solve corruption and inanity.

What we need a are good, well managed currencies. If you don't like how they are managed, don't hold on to currency. Buy real estate, stocks, any other classical form of value and use the local currency merely as a medium of exchange and you'll be fine.