skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A company I worked for sent me along with two senior colleagues to a shop which was showing both the NeXT cube and the NeXTStep system ported on x86 hardware, and the experience was totally worth the early morning (late night) wake up plus following 5 hours train trip; it was about 1993 or 1994. The cube was absolutely gorgeous looking, and being then myself an Amiga fan its Motorola CPU to me was something to be proud of.
The demonstration wasn't the usual smoke and mirrors wrapped in corporate speech: the guy wrote some code on the cube and built a small GUI program to show the development system and libraries, then he took the same code, copied it to a x86 machine nearby running the ported OS and built it to obtain the same program. Just wow! Back then running different hardware and CPU architectures meant sort of living on a different planet, and we just saw someone building a space bridge between two distant planets, making software development much easier.

We eventually got back with some promo material and the idea that we were did indeed experience a milestone in the IT development, but the price tag was something a very small company could not invest for research alone, so they abandoned the idea.

About WindowMaker: I loved it and used it extensively both at home and work in the early 2k. In one project I had to build the simplest possible user interface for roughly 50 remote stations hundreds of kilometers away where the users were mostly completely new to computers, therefore the risk of clogging the support seat with panic calls was really high.
Luckily WindowMaker and its kiosk mode came to rescue: I built a really basic desktop screen in which the user could not alter the system in any way, providing buttons for simple tasks like running a browser, fetch or send mail using a client, ask for remote support, print documents we sent through scp or mail attachments, shutdown/reboot etc.
An interesting challenge was easing the support login since all those terminals had dynamic IP, and we simply couldn't ask to the operators to start a reverse ssh from their side, but thanks to some Ruby scripts in the background, each remote machine would obtain and send its public IP and some more information to the local server in which a Ruby+Glade GTK app would add them to a list, so that the support operator would click on a station name and the ssh to that machine would open in seconds.
In the end it worked so well that the support colleague spent most of her time twiddling thumbs.
My main use for notebooks is a simple way to constantly hold a whole large dataset in memory. That way if I want to try some feature reduction or remove some bad result, I can just do that and not wait 10 minutes for my slow PC to rerun my import code. I feel like an easy way to do that in base python would draw me away from notebooks.
And that's why the Prius is economical even on highways. Its mileage on highways is somewhat better than a SUV, hybrid or not, because of the shape.
I guess it really depends on what share of the cases got reported.

Early disease death rates are always overestimated because people tend to report only the worst cases of it (even more if the usual symptoms look like a cold). But there is no way to know by how much we are overestimating it.
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'Thinking about the data' most often requires looking at the data from hundreds of different angles, quickly investigating its properties and statistics, maybe plotting or fitting a few things, checking some hypotheses etc (all of the above code you will most likely throw out after the initial stage).

Same with the results - once you've coded something (perhaps outside of a notebook environment) and obtained results, verifying that they are what you expect is much more efficient to do in a notebook.
I lived in London in the 90s and early 2000s. I used to love walking whenever I could and walked the commute from Fulham to Westminster.

Some of my favourite places are unrecognisable now. I remember Shoreditch being slightly edgy and going to art shows there in pop-up galleries.

I spent quite a bit of time in a pub called the Bushranger in Shepherd's Bush. I knew the staff and regulars and could relax there. It was quite dark and had sawdust on the floor. I had heard that it had been turned into a wine bar called the Stinging Nettle and looking at Google Maps now it's a Costa Coffee.
What you have to lose is your time spend. At least you'll lose time due to the gamification and the ads.

Anki is useful for spaced repetition, but setting up a deck is going to take effort and requires knowledge (building a deck is useful by itself though).
I'm expecting not to be tracked by 50 axis cameras with analytic software the moment I step out my front door and go for a walk or run in my city. To not have my path tracked or reviewed should someone unaccountable decide to do so.
I get:

Fatal Errors

Unable to load https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/sharing/rest/content/item... status: 502

d@https://js.arcgis.com/3.31/init.js:112:340 d@https://js.arcgis.com/3.31/init.js:140:425 f@https://js.arcgis.com/3.31/init.js:145:35

Maybe the load is a bit too heavy for the app at the moment

EDIT: after a few attempts I was able to load the map, it is nicely done!
> A resource scheduler is more complex than not having one, but it solves the single-point-of-failure problem and the bin-packing CPU+memory problem.

And yet various FAANGs choose not to use a smart scheduler, because it does not improve efficiency and reliability enough to justify its complexity and scales poorly.
if you hit the back of someone's car, you're almost certainly paying regardless. you would have to prove they were intentionally brake checking you or something like that.
In 2011 I bought a 2TB WD for around £50[0], and barring some pricing oddities on that particular drive as it went out of production you can still buy 2TB drives for around £50-60[1] with £60 being where the price should be with the rate of inflation. Higher capacity drives are nice for convenience but it is a bit of a shame that the price per gigabyte hasn't really come down much[2], especially as now a single disk failure can cause 3-4 times as much data loss as it would have done around a decade ago.

[0] https://skinflint.co.uk/?phist=486924&age=9999

[1] https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/products/internal-hard-drive/#so...

[2] https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/products/internal-hard-drive/#t=...
>>Counter question. Do you expect/are ok with that the moment you leave your house you are constantly followed by a person with a camera recording everything you do. Which shops you visite etc.?

>>Because this is basically what this will sooner or later boil down to

This exists now in Miami Beach, Florida, USA.
I still struggle to see the point these days -- swapping CPUs and RAM makes little sense even on Windows; RAM sizes have remained stagnant for years and the small generational speed increases on CPUs mean you'll likely need a new motherboard anyway by the time the cost/benefit is there. Disk is a non-issue as there are external enclosures that aren't expensive, and performance over Thunderbolt is as good as PCIe (because it is PCIe).

Performance-wise a MacBook Pro is and has been a great machine and not incredibly expensive, plus you get the portability aspect. For the "semi-professional" market that a Hackintosh is appealing to, most folks would be better off with a MacBook Pro and a Thunderbolt dock. You also miss out on a number of core features of the OS because the hardware that supports them doesn't exist.

Combined with the headache of keeping the machine current, it's not really a good tradeoff for a couple hundred bucks. You'd be better off buying a used MacBook Pro.
I don't know what the Vultr instance uses but i had cable connection on both of my devices (home server and local machine).

I suspected ssh over tinc might bring latency since there is an extra layer of encryption, i will try ssh tunneling. Thanks!
I like the new developments, personally. London's skyline has become a lot more interesting.
> Both have risks in different scopes and scales, but I would wager it's riskier to have zillions of animals crammed in cages plus all the unfortunate humans right in there cleaning up after all of their poop and pee.

That may make an outbreak of a new disease have more of an impact, but on the other hand it makes the appearance of a new disease nearly impossible. Bushmeat presents a recurring risk of unleashing previously unknown strains.

Industrial meat also makes it much easier to detect and control diseases earlier.
Despite all of the whining about the 30%, most money from the App Store is made from pay to win games with in app consumables.

You’ll have to hold my beer while I wipe away my tears about all of the money that they have to pay Apple.

Surprisingly enough, the whining only happens from geeks who probably don’t even have skin in the game.

If developers are so interested in getting from under the 30% tax, where are all of the indy developers who are making money on Android outside of the Google Play store outside of China?
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I just watched HBO's Chernobyl last week, and the similarities are ringing in my ears.

....Under-report to avoid embarrassment.

...."We only gave them the propaganda number, so the aid they sent never could have helped."

....Then wait 'til the international community calls your bluff.

....which requires that the effects spread internationally before anyone uncensored starts getting solid data.

....by which time it's too late to contain.
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Liverpool Street, Kings Cross, Holloway - all places once warm and familiar to me are now cold, oppressive masses of dense, synthetic development. London's never really stood still - certainly not in the 20 years I've lived here or the near 40 years I've had experience of it - but the rates of development over the past decade and a bit are astonishing and somewhat saddening to me.

All seems a bit 'too much, too quick'.
Given the distribution in China, it looks like it is not going to be contained in Wuhan, even with a quarantine.
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You can override the postfix increment operator as well.

The argument I've heard for why in C++ prefix is preferred is that compilers have a harder time optimizing out the temporary object cruft (especially older compilers).
I use https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/ as a guide when building out a new system. A browse across some parts there seldom shows Amazon as cheapest. It's usually competitive, but in some cases it's quite a ways behind.

https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/product/Hy97YJ/msi-b450-tomahawk...

https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/product/Y6Crxr/fractal-design-me...

etc.

It sometimes makes sense to spread the parts buy across a couple of vendors to save costs - of course too many vendors and delivery costs eat into the savings. But it's quite rare that I've ended up buying anything other than monitors and the occasional component from Amazon.
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Your customers might be interested in what your "lower level employees" think.
I am nostalgic for the days of KDE (1999-2000 ish) when we believed Linux on the desktop would happen for real, and also believed KDE would take the flag. Gnome was so obviously clunky and bad, KDE felt like a breeze and reasonably feature complete.

Since then, KDE has evolved into maybe the best API interface ever for desktop programming, but the most confusing experience possible for actual users. (This may not be true anymore, but KDE lost its mindshare among users in relative terms a long time ago. I know of no-one who runs KDE on their Linux desktops. Also, desktops are specialist tools now - we have mobile phones instead and web apps for the rest.)

Yeah, I'm cranky. :)
Patients outside of China do not seem to have serious illness so far. https://www.reddit.com/r/China_Flu/comments/euvexx/current_s...

But there are two few confirmed cases to understand the mortality rate. Might be there are additional factors unique to China that is causing a higher death rate.
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That's what I figure as well, thank you.
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Since when is Mark Zuckerberg a doctor?
Except you have to consult a compatibility list on a forum post that may be 2 years old, and if that part isn't available you roll the dice and buy something you think might work. If it doesn't, you're on your own with no support.

Speaking from experience here -- if the price of a Mac is your barrier, forego the Hackintosh and buy a used Mac.
Consider also the value of SciHub that you have received already: It has made the authoring of Review papers much easier, and probably improved their quality since you can parse hundreds of papers faster. No longer do I have to worry if the publisher's site is accessible from home, if their website is not down, if i'm gonna have to click 10 links to get the pdf etc etc. A click of a bookmark and PDF is downloaded. Literature reviews are already hard as it is (with articles being pdf and unhyperlinkable), paywalls just made it double as hard.
“In more complex cases, we might need to send it to an Apple Repair Center.”

There are no “complex cases” of battery repair. They are referring to cases where there is other damage they have to fix first (which they stated).
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not just pilots, I see them in use by nearly every service person who comes to the house and even at work. they are just the right size for easy reading, the lack of keyboard removes a major breaking point if not cleanliness issues. throw in they just give a modern and sleek vibe to any organization employing them versus pen and paper.

plus they make it easy for customers to sign for services which in turn makes it easier for businesses to know that the work was done. toss in CC readers that attach easily and you have a simple POS device

if anything the amount of waste that would come back into our lives without them would be staggering
I think that is arguable. The form "array[idx++] = foo;" has undeniable elegance, and I still use it sometimes, even though I've developped a pretty verbose coding style in general.
If Facebook is still around in 30 years, I'll buy you a pint!
Apple, Tesla, Alphabet, Dell, and Microsoft are being sued for child mining
The annoying thing about the emphasis is that there is an obvious use for it that won't suffer from an overload problem - personal usage for those of us who have terrible face memory/recognition and ability to manually enter/assign a string to a face.

That would combine with AR. But that AR has already flopped due to several issues even without the added camera needed. Plus the issues of existing eyeglass combining.

Really that Glass backlash was bizzare along with the post 9-11 "anyone pointing a camera near anything man made must be a terrorist" yet nobody bats an eye or does more than snark at surveillance cameras everywhere. There is probably some psychological principle behind it but the simplest explanation is that "normal people" are fundamentally fucking insane and only care about it conforming to norms instead of actual harm.
I excluded those items from the Metro budget. I included signaling and stations, because those are a necessary part of subway maintenance that don’t have much of an analog with roads. (Traffic lights must be maintained, but train signaling systems are very complex and very expensive to maintain in comparison. There are millions of feet of wiring throughout the Metro system and each track segment is wired up for the traffic control system to work.)

In any event, the point isn’t to say that road paving is cheaper, but to address GP’s question, which is how cities can afford it. It’s an order of magnitude comparison to put the number into context. (For one thing, the road maintenance budget for Cedar Rapids is overstated by a factor of two, because I used the projection of what the city thinks it ideally needs to spend rather than what it does spend.)
The code might be obvious, but if you don't include the reason why it exists it's a target for removal. And having too many of those makes either for garbage or hard decisions when refactoring.

Writing the rationale is the most important comment you must not skip.

And there would be links to design documentation so that it can be kept up to date. (For non-programmers.)
You probably have refer disabled or spoofed. "Fix" that and it may work
Wow, that's amazing, go London! Most other western European cities are quite stagnant in comparison.
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Whatever. If I enter the name of an app verbatim at the search field, Google should put that app at least around the first page of results.

Currently, it often doesn't. I don't care much about fairness for the app distributors, but I suspect the current schema is much less fair than a good search. (The phone ecosystems are all so broken, why doesn't anybody create one that works as the user says?)
>if I start a download in Safari, I can’t use a different app until Safari finishes the download.

If true, that's surprising. I thought Safari initiates a background download.
It's actually not too bad to run macOS in a VM -- this is an option Apple doesn't explicitly support, but they also realize how useful it can be for automated testing of apps and browser compatibility. The company line is that they only support macOS on a VM on a "legitimate" Mac, but realistically it's not hard to find guides on how to virtualize it on a Windows host.
almost 4% mortality rate in Hubei is pretty scary, I imagine a lot has to do with China not reporting real infection numbers which are rumoured to be much higher
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I've been using Windows 10 Pro for about a year now. I've got it running VSCode and docker with Ubuntu on WSL2 running VSCode server and the docker client. There are some minor annoyances with file permissions, but overall it is a great environment. I just couldn't justify paying 3x for half the hardware again.
What if you do it (I realize I should probably just try coding this myself), step-by-step, alternating? Like 200x200 -> 199x200 -> 199x199 -> etc

(I forget the specifics of how seam carving works again, so maybe this approach makes no sense)
Of course that is more Mazlowe Hiearchy of needs. The truth is giving away privacy wouldn't help in bad neighborhoods because the reason it is a bad neighborhood is nobody with power cares. You will still get some combination of murder, robbed, and raped before a camera and they might get around to it eventually.
>Kings Cross

Come on, Kings Cross was a dump 15 years ago. It's much nicer now. There are lots of generic-looking glass buildings, sure. But they've also removed the horrible 60s/70s concrete structures covering Kings Cross station and restored St Pancras Station and the associated hotel. If you don't think that the area has improved overall, I'd have to say that there's no pleasing you!
The first generation pencil wasn’t bad and it works with all iPads now.
It’s definitely better than it’s reputation, and I find it manageable at work.

Also while powershell is great, I find it just too wordy. Many commands that are 4 characters in unix systems are multiple words, with hyphens etc.
Rejecting the entire main argument because of a single aside - a matter of style more than substance - is effectively argumentum ad hominem. Yes, the author comes across as a grumpy old "get off my lawn" type (like me in fact). No, that doesn't make any of their arguments or anecdotes about throw invalid. Try addressing the issue, not the person.
> Receipt management was one of those entrepreneur ideas that would always pop up.

Not surprising as it's one of the first things one runs into after starting a company.
I use IntelliJ for all my work, data or normal dev stuff, and it works great (all is python). Maybe there is just a workflow issue here where people are used to saving their data as they go in cells. I just write my algorithms all the way through, get a subset of data to debug against, then use the debugger to help me see what mistakes I made. I always run my code all the way through and only stop at the step I'm debugging. I like this better than saving the data from previous computations because I tend to refactor a lot and would need to rerun most of the notebook anyway. Also, rerunning it all the way through a lot makes me notice slow spots more than if I only ran that area a few times and saved the results. For me, this has the effect that those areas get more attention and my code is closer to production grade than if I had used a notebook workflow. My two cents, but give IntelliJ a try if you want a good python IDE.
I have found PyCharm to offer a good trade-off between data exploration and productionizing your code. It has the best Python debugger that I've used. You can also run Jupyter notebooks in PyCharm when that makes sense for you.
A relevant question is also, if most deaths really are among immunocompromised, elderly or very young, then how many of those 2% would have been killed by the flu or similar if coronavirus hadn't shown up? 14 million dead is terrible by any measure, but I'm wondering how much of a change over the norm it actually represents.
Building a new Linux box is easy, too. If you can pick and choose amongst compatible hardware, there's no messing around at all to get a performant and updateable system.

I can see how someone in a particular field, such as video editing, might prefer certain macOS apps. For general software development, though, a Linux machine feels like a much safer bet.
Does it display potentially infected planes and boats like in Plague Inc yet ?
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It might mean, out of those patients being treated (i.e. already very ill with it), rather than total infected?

I was reading somewhere that the doubling in cases in China was mainly due to increasing capacity for hospitals to diagnose the infection rather than an actual measurement of the spread of the disease.
There just was the first confirmed human to human infection outside of Asia in Germany. A guy got sick over the weekend, went to work on Monday as he felt better and was sent to the doctor by his boss. He got infected during a seminar in Germany where he got into contact with a women from Shanghai whos parents are from Wuhan.

https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/coronavirus-deutschland-107...

edit: englisch source

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/01/germany-european-coun...

>The Chinese employee, a woman from Shanghai, "started to feel sick on the flight home on January 23", Andreas Zapf, head of the Bavarian State Office for Health and Food Safety, said at a news conference.

Unfortunately not a date for the meeting yet.

edit2: corrections added, thank you
The point is that Hackintosh is not the Apple experience, rather being cheapskates to buy Apple's hardware and Care plans.

That being the case, better contribute to BSD and Linux OEMs.
If they don't want to be tracked performing their job responsibilities I think we don't want them as public servants so good. Power comes with responsibility is a good system.
They recently acquired AppSheet, a no-code platform.
I'd pay $10 a month if addition to pasting a doi -> pdf, that I could also search backward and forward along citations. I'd love to be able to download a paper and everything it references.
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This is super important. Asymptomatic infection is wild card.

https://twitter.com/akihheikkinen/status/1222108700262981633