skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good point. To those unaware, the time.After is equivalent to time.NewTimer(d).C, but "the underlying Timer is not recovered by the garbage collector until the timer fires" (quote from the doc).

That slowAPICall function should look like:

func slowAPICall(ctx context.Context) string {
d := rand.Intn(5)
t := time.NewTimer(time.Duration(d) * time.Second)
defer t.Stop()
...
}
Is hemester a play on words with hemma and semester, i.e. a vacation at home?

Edit: Yes.
There are plenty of "serious" applications written with cross platform tools. Flutter, React Native even ionic/cordova - it depends entirely on what your application does.
Hey all, I'm part of the team at Gravitational - a company behind this effort. Will be happy to answer any questions about this project.
Apple has open source projects it actively maintains, like FoundationDB, so this is just patently untrue.
it means: easy to install, easy to use, medium performance. no further know-how needed.
compared to the total effort for selecting, training, deploying speech recogniction and speech synthesis it provides an extremly quick boilerplate to add voice to your pipeline.
i wish there was something like that when we started the project.
In the same way that oil wells don't produce oil.

The headline is fine. Many definitions of "produce" fit what they are doing[1]. For example, "to compose, create, or bring out by intellectual or physical effort" or "to cause to accrue".

[1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/produce
Hitler thought the same thing about the Jews.
Checkout CockroachDB if you want to have the 'add a node' for additional storage option like MongoDB has. It's Postgres compliant, for the most part, and has a license that most of us can live with for the projects we build.
Valid points that are hand wavey, non specific and non quantitative. Basically, you can't estimate parameters because of fat tails so what people are doing is inadequate. Seems trite to me
That zoom-able image is amazing. Sometimes we forget how big the universe is. And that's just an image of the Milky Way.
They did innovate with the butterfly keyboard, LOL!
At work I have one of the dell curved ultra wide monitors. (https://amzn.to/36tH96T). Love it.

I used to have multiple monitors, but many years ago I made the decision that it works better for me to completely control windowing concerns in software. (I use the i3 tiling manager for this.)

I have seen no reason to change.
I had the option at work to do either two monitors or one ultrawide. I took the ultrawide, and have never regretted it. You have to use window organization software to use it effectively. I use Spectacle for Mac, it does the job.
I agree about the headline, but the article doesn't show it, or even plausibly point to it: it's just an assertion.

The underlying question about p/e would have been more interesting. And, she didn't seem to understand the economics of the battery relationship with panasonic
I thought they were being sarcastic, so I'm not sure it's clear what point they raised. Also, people seem to think the US government does not act in a similar way.
As someone that loves to travel by train, I would appreciate to have this opportunity, but as prices usually go on European wide trains, I doubt that the prices would be competitive to flying. :\
If you built it, they wont come. Without marketing, the odds of your customers discovering the app (amongst a sea of garbage) are insanely low. I tried a Tennis app in 2009 and even back then it was competing with hundreds of other apps, now its mist likely 10’s of thousands. Heart breaking.
I've used one a handful of times and if my company ever gives me an option to switch, I would in a heartbeat for one reason alone... merge-conflicts!

At least for intellij, merge conflicts get resolved in a three screen mode, and ultrawide monitors handles them in a way that dual monitor, or normal aspect ratios can't compare.
SALT deductions are not the same as deducting interest as an expense for a rental property. If you removed SALT entirely then landlords would still get the benefit.
I started with iOS in 2009. I wish I hadn't used Core Data, and made the decision to store lots of large binary blobs in it. Changing the schema became impossible, because the migration process often crashed or ran out of disk space in production. That, coupled with lots of Core Data crashes that persist (pun intended) to this day. It may have been easier to just use SQLite directly.

My decision to use NSThread for worker threads wasn't optimal either, but there weren't many async options in 2009 (Remember ASIHTTPRequest?)
Which of these would work best for connecting two external drives to move files around.

I have a 2013 macbook pro with 2 lightning ports, and 2 usb 2 ports.

Very often I need to connect two external drives at the same time, leaving me without a port to connect my wireless logitech mouse and keyboard.

I tried to find a lightning to usb adapter, but these don't seem to exist.
If it was just stock buybacks, the market cap would more or less remain the same due to increased price but less stock outstanding. The market cap has nearly doubled as well since 2019 low.
> To me, “living near a highway” sounds a lot like a euphemism for “living in the middle of nowhere”

I would have thought the opposite. Essentially no-one lives directly adjacent to a rural highway in the sense of overlooking it in the UK, even say the M25 doesn't have flats lining it, generally arterial roads have setbacks so you might be able to hear the cars etc but you've probably got a buffer zone measured in the tens of meters.

The actual roads I'd be thinking of are things like the A406 (North Circular Road), A40, A4, etc, which do have houses and flats immediately next to it. The sort of 'inner-city' 40-50mph urban clearways. There are also a ton of 30mph roads which serve a similar purpose. Basically what one would call a 'main road' as opposed to a side street.

Example of a sort of middling neighbourhood: https://goo.gl/maps/o6oSRW84dx147TK48 (this bit of the A40 is either 40mph or 30mph but has an absolute ton of traffic almost all of the time).

Example of a higher end neighbourhood in Central London: https://goo.gl/maps/am8ppgvNDGPcuxoB6 (5-star hotel)
Hmm... that might be true — it’s a bit subjective to judge it.

But what I can tell you is that I made similar low effort comments that got high upvotes. The key difference is that those comments have a positive sentiment.

I sometimes make comments like the above to test the hypothesis: negative sounding comments get downvoted.

I find it interesting because I’ve learned that if I want to be relatable then I should be positive. Even when a negative comment is thematically appropriate (like the one above), the chance of it being downvoted is still quite high.

I think it’s easier to be critical when negative affect is in play.

I find it fascinating to see both sides of the story.
https://github.com/w3c/web-advertising

The draft of the proposed new standard for ads on the web
Some things aren't a matter of opinion. Look at Buran, for instance [1]. (This is why it's so frustrating as an American to acknowledge that we can't even put humans in space anymore.)

Another good example is Ken Shirriff's recent blog entry, which includes some notes comparing the degree of IC technology in US versus Soviet space hardware of similar vintage: http://www.righto.com/2020/01/inside-digital-clock-from-soyu...

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/space/comments/38kfhn/new_photos_of...
Since this is interesting and nobody has commented yet, let me say as a side note that I like how Mr. Baez emphasized the difference in orders of magnitudes here:

The neutrinos from the Big Bang also carry about 10^90 bits — a bit less than the photons. The gravitons carry much less, about 10^88 bits.

A difference in exponents of 2 might not look like a lot but one can almost ignore any of the earlier numbers once a larger exponent appears.
If the language's sqlite bindings don't offer a way to load a database from a string, if you're on a modern linux kernel (3.17+) you can make use of the memfd_create syscall: it creates an anonymous memory-backed file descriptor equivalent to a tmpfs file, but no tmpfs filesystem needs to be mounted and there's no need to think about file paths.
i think this nightline trend is largely pointless. there isnt much traffic between these aside of a bunch of tourists. but that doesn't mean i wouldn't use it, once or twice. scandinavia is the kind of place i like to hate for trying to be better than everywhere, but would like to see anyway, just in case i am wrong and it actually is. what we do need is high speed infrastructure to more cities and metro lines in more cities if we want to improve accessibility.
Edit: having actually read the thing, i see this is an extension of an hsl line to groningen. i'd love to see that line happen. and if the night train becomes an hsl as well, maybe the project isn't quite so doomed from the start. after all, a one hour trip on the hsl would make commuting between amsterdam and up to Bremen possible.
> The Thunderbolt capable docks on Amazon are still listed as USB-C because consumers seem to think it’s all about cable shape.

Thunderbolt docks with Titan Ridge controllers fall back to USB capabilities/bandwidth if connected to a USB-C non-Thunderbolt host.
I bet that Chrome and Android team would have more political muscle than the Flutter team.

PWAs will keep being pushed by Chrome team, alongside Microsoft, and I wouldn't be surprised to see a Kotlin/Native variant of Jetpack Composer by Google IO 2020.
I think there is some truth to the argument that the sum total addressable market and revenue from Tesla will not justify their current valuation. It would not surprise me see a drop in their market cap in the near term.

That said, the market can remain irrational long than you can remain solvent. (In almost all cases)
I am considering upgrading to a 4k moniter or a less-than-4k resolution ultra wide screen. Can anyone with experience in both tell me which you found to be better?
It seems to be my understanding that Linux will allow supporting any hardware or software API as long as at least a few people care about it. It doesn't matter how old or impractical it is.

This is not a criticism, but I would like to deeply understand, what does Linux leadership want it to be? An OS that just runs on anything for the sake of it?

It already seems true that Linux aspires to be much more than what UNIX is. It can be a dumping ground of sorts for your ideas and research projects. As long as the code does something useful enough without corrupting the entire system, it seems to be fair game. That is kind of freeing and it would stand to benefit the project to be communicated more directly. These are my observations.
And yet, we're still here, and they're gone.

I guess that's our fault, huh. It always is.
> Don’t get me wrong, iOS is great, and I love it to death. However, the baggage signals to me that a massive opportunity to start anew has been missed.

Starting anew is over rated. It’s sometimes the right answer, sure, but it’s just one possible answer. iOS benefited enormously from being immediately familiar and approachable to existing OSX devs, and would have taken another 5+ years to develop from scratch without leveraging its OSX heritage.

Meanwhile Android was in a crash emergency race to relevance for the first 5 years of its existence. If they’d taken the time to do everything right the first time, they could have ceded Microsoft enough time to get their Windows Mobile act in gear.

So legacy is a thing for a reason, taking one opportunity very often means giving up another.
My interpretation of your comment is that you are claiming that it is not black and white that Poland was not the instigator of WW2. If I have misunderstood, can you please clarify what you are claiming is not black and white? Otherwise, can you please clarify what part of that article supports your claim?
Extending the Smalltalk Syntax 3
Since there literally nothing of substance here, just awesome sounding words, normal Taleb, lets go meta.

The new cool of 2020 seems to be is to make things look like journal articles and blog them. I almost wish for the days of peer review.

I have no idea what a "general" or "non native" "precautionary principle" is. I assume a Markov chain suggested it to them.

But if you believe the precautionary principle then you are pretty much anti-science. Anti-Vaxxers are precautionary principle enthusiasts for instance.

You could go all philosophical and say the precautionary principle is a new science, but that just sounds off alarm bells to me.
They stole some of it but that is what jacquesm is advocating: copying ideas. And in the space race they were also first with the unmanned Sputnik with no such safety concerns.
I needed to constantly move and tilt my head so much it hurt.

My specimen also had some problems with blurriness, I couldn't quite put a finger on what it was exactly, just it was definitely harder reading things on it compared to my previous setup, but this could be just an isolated manufacturing defect.

Got rid of it and went back to two 27" monitors: one primary straight in front of me where all the work happens, I don't have to move head while working on it. One secondary for less important side things. Both are 4K and so in total I have way more resolution this way than with a single ultrawide. Very happy with this setup.
Dumb question - how well would an attempt to suck in the particles work putting aside the obvious impracticality? There are currently tons of reasons not to do it today but could it theoretically be solved via clean and cheap energy to make the efficiency loss not a foregone self defeating act.
In general, staging environments are the solution to cross service testing for Microservices. The expectation that a Microservice must be testable end to end locally is not one I would like to encourage. The whole point of splitting out a service this way is that individual services have very narrowly scoped, independent function and can be tested on their own, perhaps with mocked data.

One wouldn’t expect to run all of a companys entire pipeline locally on a single laptop. Expecting that for Microservices is similar.
Source: https://nces.ed.gov/NAAL/PDF/2006470.PDF

> Also, what level of coding are your referring to?

Just being a working developer. For which the main skill is just being able to read and understand the documentation for new languages, frameworks, libraries, etc.
I've found CalDigit and Plugable to both be very good in general.
This is why one should only use SDK based tooling.

All software has bugs, and the less amount of layers to debug the better.
I find each new development in the field of deploying Kubernetes to be grimly humorous. We had lots of techniques to package and deploy things before Kubernetes, but they were complex and inadequate in some ways, and Kubernetes fixes some of those issues. But it turns out Kubernetes itself is substantially more complicated to package and deploy than the old solutions, if you're deploying it yourself rather than using some proprietary cloud. Oops!

What I just can't decide is whether we'll successfully put another layer of container-container-containers on top of Kubernetes, or whether the whole effort will eventually collapse and we'll extract the good parts out into something simpler.
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I meant the actual physical connection?

Man this whole Type C thing is confusing. Wasn't it supposed to simplify USB?
I use the Dell 43". It's not perfect but it's pretty great for the price:

https://www.dell.com/en-us/work/shop/dell-43-ultra-hd-4k-mul...
If it's an undergrad project, it absolutely should cite properly; so that is at least worth pointing out.

To be fair though, posters are often a bit sloppy this way, and in context supposed to be supported other ways.
BUNCH
Monarc Objects Sharing Platform: token based authentication and poetry support
"It feels really weird to me to be angry at a random lookup table"

Most of the time it seems like the things people are angry about, politically, involve who gets to be the gatekeeper for things. That seems to me more or less equivalent to who gets to own and maintain certain lookup tables.

Having control of something like that isn't about the physical book or something you have, it's about the relationships you have with all the people "who matter" that use your lookup table.
A tip: on accented characters such as Spanish names:

setxkbmap us -option compose:rwin &

Then just press [Right windows key] + [' ] , [a] in order to type in an 'á'.
I got to the "mnemonic medium" part of that and promptly lost interest. No, I don't want you to track me.
This seems to assume that each app will run on a separate Kubernetes cluster. Have you given any thought to packaging apps which will run on a single Kubernetes cluster?
Yea that also amazed me, aside from the science a great way to put things into perspective when you are struggling with something.
I switched to an ultrawide and i3 window manager at the same time, and it's been a game changer. I can't imagine going back to two side-by-side monitors. Being able to resize windows and not be restricted by the screen boundary is the real game changer for me.
https://www.toointeresting.com/nba-legend-kobe-bryant-dies-a...
You’re right that learning to read critically is a challenge, but the idea that just not having access to the written word is somehow better...

I guess I’ll put it in your terms: I have a hard time buying that.

If your suggestion is that it’d be better to go back to a centrally controlled publishing industry... I also don’t buy that.
Nuclear is viable in non-competitive markets where saps can be forced to pay for it. In competitive markets anywhere in the world, it is a failure.

The blaming of regulators is mere excuse making.
Everyone know that “serverless” anything doesn’t run on a server, be it AWS or Azure instances or what have you. That would be both ironic and silly, like someone used the wrong word or something.

Serverless databases and what have you have been around longer than the current batch of folks trying to redefine things (or more charitably, ran out names to call things). Like or not, there is a distinction even if the old definition was before your time.
Elon Musk is indisputably a snake oil salesman. See: hyperloop.
Ask HN: Small survey for a time management application
Hello there!
We are two entrepreneurs looking to build an app that helps one manage time from a personal and professional perspective. We have been using a combination of methods and tools for the last couple of years and have a workflow that might help the community. We have put up a small survey to understand more about features people are looking for in a time management app
If you have ~2 minutes to spare, it would really help us :)

https://www.surveymonkey.de/r/DDTLH6N
I tried an ultra wide monitor, but I somehow found the limited height annoying. I am much happier with the screen space distribution since I have switched to a 43 inch 4k monitor. Mostly using it for coding. Nice to have a full IDE on the left and an emulator or web window on the right. When viewing code, height is quite important to get a better overview of a function or class.
The "neo-serverless" thing is strange. But then, so is "serverless". "Serverless" systems are just time-shared servers. But only if they use new, cool technology. Shared hosting with vendor managed MySQL doesn't count, apparently.
I have two monitors, one of them ultrawide.

The UW is great. I am getting a second one. It is just more screen real estate and makes it easier to work off of, especially if you type and have research open at the same time.
Taleb's prominence is baffling to me. I've read all his books, and tried hard to figure out why people I respect believe he's an important thinker. I just can't see it. Almost everything he says sets off my bullshit alarm.

Here we have him in typical form. The point of the paper seems to be to argue that we can reduce transmission by reducing contact (obvious), and concludes that we should do this pre-emptively at large scale worldwide (never going to happen, only good for alarmist headlines). This is exactly his formula when treating risk: start with a total platitude (rare events happen), and spin it out through huge over-reach into a headline-grabbing book (black swan! boo!).

The other thing about Taleb is that he's frequently way out over his skis on on the facts. Here, he states that the "selective dominance of increasingly worse pathogens" makes "extinction certain" as if he's stating an undisputed fact. But instead of citing a virology paper, he cites an interesting but not very relevant evolutionary dynamics paper that draws on a particular mathematical model. In fact, the real world is complicated, and if anything virology tells us the opposite: zoonotic viruses tend to become less virulent over time, as the tradeoff between transmission and lethality is optimised. Almost nobody working in the area of virology would agree with the alarmist nonsense that this paper takes as axiomatic.

If anyone is interested in hearing how actual virologists talk about this outbreak, the superb This Week In Virology podcast has just released an episode that dives into this in depth:

http://www.microbe.tv/twiv/
to answer 1. most of these SAAS are micro-companies or leisure based as some would say. they operate in non-VC territory. You're basically looking at markets that are 10K - maybe 100M at the high end. VC's are playing the high stakes game. ie gunning for markets in the 100B+ range. with regards, to diversity, it being mentioned, doesn't make sense. I say this as a minority individual, because I'm fairly certain the organizers, wouldn't be say in some circles where they can meet those individuals operating the companies e.g there's probably tons of individuals in africa | south america etc operating these small micro-saas. but they don't even know the term or are bothered to do so.
NBA Legend Kobe Bryant Killed in Helicopter Crash
It? I just mean in general, have their paid enough attention and money to the software as to the hardware?
https://transferslot.com/

https://www.sideprojectors.com/

https://1kprojects.com/

https://feinternational.com/

https://empireflippers.com/

https://transferhub.io/

There is also Flippa, but I'd stay away from it. Too many scams.
I really enjoyed this article. However the following passage seemed a bit hand-wavy to me:

>"How will our userland program know which kernel modules to load? Linux kernel modules declare patterns for their supported hardware as an alias, e.g.:"

initrd# grep virtio_pci lib/modules/5.4.6/modules.alias
alias pci:v00001AF4d*sv*sd*bc*sc*i* virtio_pci

Devices in sysfs have a modalias file whose content can be matched against these declarations to identify the module to load:

initrd# cat /sys/devices/pci0000:00/*/modalias
pci:v00001AF4d00001005sv00001AF4sd00000004bc00scFFi00
pci:v00001AF4d00001004sv00001AF4sd00000008bc01sc00i00

>"Hence, for the initial round of module loading, it is sufficient to locate all modalias files within sysfs and load the responsible modules."

Could someone elaborate on this a bit? I'm familiar with udevd. Is /sysfs enumerated first and then a match is searched for in lib/modules/5.4.6/modules.alias? Or the other way around? Are these files parsed before normal kernel PCI bus enumeration then? Any other specifics or detail would be greatly appreciated.
> can you give an example?

How about a sawtooth; no pi needed, and the period is 1.

f(x) = x-floor(x)

The Gibbs phenomenon is my proof that Fourier series is not more natural.