skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its relatively unchanging both by location and as a percentage of the population WRT "pick up any more"

For more than half a century, the demographics have always been its a life long hobby most pick up in their middle age, and a steady fifth of a percent of the population are hams.

Because of the baby boomers the number of hams in the USA is larger now than ever.

Note that if contemporary "broadcasting" has taught anything, its even a very small fraction of the population can have a distinct healthy culture AND quite a bit of variety within that culture. So most hams are 60 yr old retiring EE-type men, but there are certainly all kinds of folks and its a very social hobby.

What is "old" is the concept of local clubs for any hobby or activity. Young folks don't do "clubs" of any sort, so naturally all the hams in the local clubs are old. There are also correlated effects where VHF FM repeaters were affordable and high tech for a small (dozen size) club in maybe 1980, and with the decline in that form of operation the average age is quite high. In the 80s it was fairly normal for FM repeater club members to be pretty young as that was the high tech rebellious thing to do.
Is Itanium still around??
Have you thought about storing your secrets in SSM or Secrets Manager, giving you lambda role(s) permissions to decrypt and using the appropriate APIs to call them? I use SecretString in SSM for a lot of things and it works quite well. There's a QPS limit but you can pay for a higher level of service now and move the bar up.
I recently visited SF and was appalled to see people synchronously communicating everywhere. It wasn’t just my colleagues in the office; lovers were synchronously communicating in nightclubs, friends were doing it in broad daylight in Starbucks, and even homeless people were synchronously communicating in the middle of the sidewalk. Just anecdotes but I thought I’d share
Ask HN: Does CBD infused products help in reducing anxiety?
I've been with Anxiety for long now, I recently came across someone who said taking CBD products will help with anxiety.
Is it true? Does anybody have experience with the same?
Programming Languages You Won’t Use by 2030
The story about nasa and Russian Mir with The 80 years old ham radio operator Is good.
Compare https://eev.ee/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-design/ which is not really about the strawmen you mention.
How to succeed as an independent app developer
What if you are an above average driver? Maybe for most people it would be an improvement in security, but for you it'd be more dangerous to be in an autonomous car.
Been doing PHP for 12 years with some fairly high traffic sites under my belt. Switched to Kotlin 2 years ago for new projects and haven't looked back. While it's good to see php innovate, some of us already moved on to greener pastures.
Which compiler are you going to use for "standard pascal"? The Pascal compilers you're going to use in practice are either Free Pascal or Delphi. They are what Pascal is today:

https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Variadic_function#Free_Pascal
>Now, if you take that team and then assign them to build the right thing you have something really powerful.

Except if not aligned then the team won't actually build the right things but their own personal conflicting views of the right things.

Alignment and having a team that values the right things are not opposites. However, if a team doesn't value the right thing then trying to force them to won't achieve anything.
Language either dies a hip cool thing or lives long enough to become Java
None uses that "standard" when writing stuff in Pascal. Real world uses either Delphi or Lazarus+FreePascal. Both of them have Writeln and variadic functions
(Intuit also has a significant presence in Mountain View)
> You should deal with the problem of the single person, in the same way you'd deal with someone who consistently delivers bad code, or someone who turns up to the office and smokes crack in the bathrooms.

You think if someone is a good employee 99% of the time I should fire them on the spot?
Have you found that CodeGrip helps you not repeat these kind of errors again?
Is it valuable as a learning resource?
https://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?id=4130
By the way, Purism shared the schematics of their Librem 5 phone. The only current phone with schematics I am aware of:

https://developer.puri.sm/Librem5/Hardware_Reference/Chestnu...
No, the indentation is a feature.

Your editor can help you with the editing. (And the problem you mention are exactly the same, if you write production code in other language. Your teammates will hopefully insist on consistent indentation in C or Java as well.)
Interesting that the author had fan nose / heat issues with the Lenovo Ryzen mini PC.

I really hope AMD and OEMs get it together and make sure thermal design for their PCs allows for stability and noise reduction. Older HP workstations are a good choice for noise, price and power.

I have my noisy 2U machines under a bed in my downstairs room - but that requires a hard wired home and a spare room.
Teenagers may learn some of these words without realizing it's verlan. For example a strange/weird object can be "chelou", it means bizarre or surprising now, it has lost the semantics of the original "louche", meaning suspicious.
Because dropbox is not version control (i think?)
Thanks for the question.

The project started with privacy. The only way how to provide privacy for data is to do computing on-premise. But on-premise creates the problem that when you run the binary file, it's a black box and the best way to prove security is to publish source code. Since everyone can see source code, it's on-premise and it's simple to compile, it creates the problem with piracy, so I made it free/full-featured/unlimited for non-commercial(consumers) use. Commercial companies don't steal software(probably, they are afraid of penalties), at least in developed countries, so that's the place where I make money. It also my sales funnel. Users start using SkyAlt at home for free and at some point, they realize It can solve some problems at work. Luckily, they are many use-cases in both markets(consumers and B2B).

I thought about Perpetual Pricing(use it forever, but updates are for the first year only), but at least for first few years, there will be significant progress, so everyone should update. License converts code to GPL 5years after it has been published. Running 5years old version is a really bad idea(security, etc.). We will see how well this will work, I may change it in the future.
Monomorphization tends to happen "on the fly", and even if it wasn't, it would still be cheaper than duplicating all of the work of parsing and type-checking (which is needed if the user manually monomorphized).
Never said it doesn't. But no further explanation was offered.

Bottom line for me is that if you're going to be snotty about something, then at least be correct. Or better yet, don't be snotty in the first place.
Cloud word processors like Zoho Writer & Google Docs already have version comparison features. But this idea of a sliding time traveler for documents is very intuitive!

Also Zoho Writer has a combine feature, that lets you upload a docx and combine it with another docx - with the changes highlighted as tracked-changes. Pretty handy for comparing docx files.

https://writer.zoho.com
In my experience chrome isn’t even faster on Linux.
But my impression was that the only reason to have a hummer was the whole "I'm whatever enough to be above social responsibility" appeal. So if they make it socially responsible then that takes away their entire market. I've never been in the market for a hummer so maybe I'm missing something.

That said, an electric hummer could be a perfect fit for the hummer stretch limo market. Though idk if that market is big enough to warrant its own whole thing.
Null Values in SQL Queries
Turbo Pascal 6.0 was a fantastic programming environment for DOS. The inline assembler feature (the "asm" statement) was awesome! It allowed you to build demo scene-quality effects for the VGA while doing most of the grunt-work in high-level Pascal. This is why e.g Fast Tracker, Crystal Dreams II (Triton) and Second Reality (Future Crew) were all built in a combination of Turbo Pascal and inline asm.

IIRC Turbo Pascal 7.0 (aka Borland Pascal 7.0; I never unstood the difference) added syntax highlighting but mostly focused on adding Windows support (meh).

I wrote my first web apps as BP7 win-cgi apps back in 1995.
So both companies build planes that crash, with mostly similar rates as well
The outliers in this list are the 747, the A310 and the 737MAX in ascending order
Clearly it's rather different to negotiate when you're in a symmetric relationship vs an asymmetric relationship.

What Proziam mentioned "[if] they don't take a fair deal when offered, be prepared to walk away" doesn't work if walking away means not eating for the next week, for example.
It's almost like people just want to use sharepoint and onedrive.

I avoided both for as long as possible, but we switched to office365 at work and the integration between the two, and teams, is pretty great tbh.
C# 8.0 Using Declarations
A very cool mashup of the Escobar hippos and the Louisiana plan is Sarah Gailey's American Hippo duo of short novels. In extremely brief: cowboys in the wild west, but on hippos on the Mississippi. Lots of fun, both books.
I think your underlying point is correct - the duration of this outbreak is unknown.

Regarding the Chinese figure of 14k - it is only for "laboratory confirmed" cases. Given that Chinese hospitals are refusing any patients that aren't in serious distress, the "real" number of cases is likely already much much more than 14k.

There are also reports of death certificates being issued for "unknown viral pneumonia", because they don't have the time to test the dead.

This would explain why there are sooo many cases abroad - despite "only" a few thousand cases in China.

One virologist tweeted (can't find it now), that he believes 95% of cases are unreported in China.

We also have to bare in mind that most non-western countries do not have DNA test kits for this virus. When we look at the updated map of infections, there are glaring gaps in countries like Laos and Myanmar with ALL of their neighbors reporting infections. Those countries are, of course, not immune to the virus - they simply don't have the facilities to confirm cases, and have gov'ts that would rather hide the evidence so as not to disrupt travel/create panic.

I don't think we should OVER-react, but also we shouldn't UNDER react.
I grew to expect that it will always be there. I will follow your lead though going forward.
Everything in the Symfony/Doctrine ecosystem that uses annotations does so as an option for those who prefer them. If you don't like them, you can usually just as easily use YAML or XML or PHP configuration.

Most developers seem to like them (brevity, locational grouping of concerns), so they tend to get treated as a default, but they're not the only option or the only one treated as a first-class choice. Like much of new-PHP, this also seems to be something largely borrowed from the Java world, it's hardly something new or invented by PHP.
I'm calling the current version of RoR able to provide what the "is" state needs, while staying within the Ruby world (like antirez' example did). My point was that basically any other stack would be at least as complex when it comes to the infrastructure than this, most likely even PHP.
It really depends on the area. The "US" is quite diverse in many ways. As another commenter mentioned, cities are more likely to have problems with that than the suburbs.
You didn't print the documentation on a thermal printer? I have lost documentation because it was printed on thermo paper which degrades in months.
Love it, I think most classical vocalists would prefer to mark their range on a stave though. I know instantly if the note I'm about to sing is going to be a struggle by seeing where it lies on the page. It took me a couple minutes to translate this by working from middle C. (I'm a bass/bari btw)
The opportunity cost of the capital is really important.

However, many jurisdiction give tax advantage to owner occupied property.

Eg you have to pay all kinds of taxes on the return from a million dollars in the stock market, compared to the housing services you consume from your own million dollar house.

(That's in most countries. In eg Singapore we don't have capital gains tax. So it's a bit more even.)
A Small Rocket Maker Is Running a Different Kind of Space Race
Is "right of way" perhaps a naval term, primarily?
It's like the tragedy of the commons:

I honk -> I arrive faster

We all honk -> We all arrive slower

How to change these problem behaviors en masse is still an open problem, as far as I know. The approach taken in the link by the Mumbai police, of introducing a negative feedback mechanism for the behavior, is a psychologically sound approach.
I don't really understand that benchmark. How can swoole (#11), written in PHP, be faster than PHP itself (#125)?
The parent comment is referring to vanilla JS. Just write and serve .js files.

The tools you mentioned are common for frontend frameworks and such.
Hey, if you want netbsd to develop faster you can always donate to it. Edit- and if you have already: Awesome! I’m sure every bit helps.
Falling (In Love with Principled Modeling)
- The Xcode source editor has a 'Code Review' mode.

- FileMerge is a standalone diff tool inside the Xcode bundle.
Depends on what you mean by bluff.

Eg you can pretend that you have another offer. But if someone calls your bluff, you shouldn't come back begging. If you need to, don't bluff.
What fun proposal! No one wants it but it is exactly what we need.

It should do a bunch of really creative things then further new fancy web tech shouldn't exist. Something like: Distribute documents signed by their author in a truly robust way. It should have A review and certification system and It should help monetize publishing in a truly transparent way.

Write it in hardware design language and run it in an emulator. :-)
Maybe in that case the 1% spent at home shouldn’t bother you? I’m personally not really in the business of wringing 1% more performance out of my team.
The New Horizons Parallax Program
> Everybody just hauled buckets of trash to the big container to come back home with an empty bucket.

I have born in 90s, but I lived in a block from that era and remember how chute for trash was a nice idea - in winter time I haven't had to leave building to empty the trash bin.
Presumably that's why you are still using SNA to network your machines.
Writing Python with (almost) no statements using the walrus operator
I consider myself a libertarian, but I have realized that open borders is a bag of dicks idea. Fucking beyond stupid.

Private property exists for a reason. Political boundaries exist for a reason.

If we got rid of the welfare state and did better at enforcing private property rights (I'm not sure what that would look like or if it is even possible) maybe we could relax on border security. That's not the world we live in, however.
Thanks, OSX is the next operating system on the roadmap. Porting from Linux to Windows took me around a week(including testing). The problem is that I've tried to run MacOS Mojave in VirtualBox and It doesn't boot up and I don't have much money left, so I don't wanna spend it on HW. Right now, I don't know when I will port and release it.
> There are many fundamental discoveries in computer science that are yet to be found.

Purely in the realm of computer science and has little the no bearing on a software engineering context.
WhatsApp themselves may have deleted it, who knows. I guess the point is, they claim to have the file, but haven't attempted to analyse it.

I don't think anyone was claiming it wasn't video - it plays in the app, so clearly the majority of the data is indeed regular MPEG. And it's difficult to prove that an exploit _isn't_ present, especially if the payload could be hidden in the video stream (since you could control the video frames, you can likely hide a significant amount of data before you need to resort to actual steganography).

But, given the claim (that a remote exploit was used to gain C&C over the phone), there must be _something_ odd in there: metadata that doesn't make sense, frames of video not used, etc. - because there's an overflow (which probably means some byte index or something in the metadata is bad) and an exploit (there's a payload in there making use of the overflow). At the very least, some regular software like ffmpeg will complain during decoding that stuff doesn't make sense.
They have that option in the US, just not with public schools. I’ve been told that even public schools work that way in Australia under normal conditions.

Most people can’t work from home because of local tradition not because it doesn’t work.
This is a clear example of software being too clever for its own good. The car is being started, so clearly there's someone inside, despite your fancy theories. The fix should have been applied to all cars.
1-way roads are usually timed like this. Start off on a new green, go a bit below the speed limit and you’ll hit greens the entire way.

Speed and you’ll hit reds.
James Lovelock: 'I Would Not Waste My Fortune on Colonizing Mars'
Well, some American kids I know would do it for the lulz.
Yeah; PHP and Javascript are in the same general category of completely insane languages. As was (pre-.NET) Visual Basic, though for slightly different reasons.
MIT's 'smart surface' could improve your WiFi signal tenfold
You're cutting your books' bindings at between "signatures." Those are the 16-page little booklets bound together to make the big book. Each signature is made by folding and cutting a single large sheet of paper coming off the press, if it's a page press and not a warp (paper roll) press. Those 16-page signatures used to be called "octavo" or "8vo" in the early days of printing.

This is a time-honored practice in bookmaking. Why shouldn't a very long book be published in multiple volumes? Before modern very- thin and very- cheap paper this was common practice. J. R. R. Tolkien wrote and published the Lord of the Rings as a trilogy because his publisher didn't want to make his work too expensive or heavy for the mass market of post WWII Britain.

Go for it. You're not disrespecting the author, the editor, or the printer. And, modern bindings don't really command much respect anyway.

(Not books you've borrowed from libraries or other people, duh. That could rile up a librarian or your friends big time.)
Compare https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-05-21/banks-...
Learning different paradigms has helped me write cleaner code.

Functional programming, with its functions without side effects, has taught me how to better isolate the functionality in OOP code.

Lisp with its "code is data, data is code" has taught me how to create data that can be used to generate the correct code that had lots of duplication.

Years of working on legacy code has taught me the difference between useful and confusing abstraction, and what kind of code is more maintenable.

As @UglyToad has exposed "write code, lots of it".
> extremely bad french, so it is pretty much only used by ignorant journalists

I wouldn't say that, it's still debated whether it's correct or not.
That is a bit misleading: Let me explain...

#11 in Single Query is: Swoole, PHP, mySQL

Swoole => Not default PHP but a highly specialized framework
Single Query => This is not about fast language/runtime but fast DB driver

While still definitely impressive, Techempower Plaintext is more specific (runtime + http server). Here Swoole/PHP is #60. The Swoole/PHP mysql driver (that is not default PHP mysql driver) is very optimized compared to e.g. the .NET Core postgreSQL driver. The result => Swoole/PHP is wicked fast (~ 15% delta) but .NET Core beats Swoole/PHP Plaintext (~ 75% delta).

Plain traditional PHP is not one of the fastest language/runtime. But Swoole is a wicked fast framework.

Good thing however: Indeed, the JIT will improve the PHP language/runtime. And Swoole shows what is possible if you make some radical design decisions (same what happened with .NET). And this is good for PHP.
It seems (not an expert) that prides of lions will have a go if they're hungry enough. The result is a disturbing combination of violence and low-energy slapstick: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ukv0DT08XHg https://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/news/00000160-27a... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=003lqobeivY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wS1rU5SAskU
>The real number of coronavirus cases is more than 75,000, according to a scientific model that says the outbreak will double in size every 6.4 days (businessweek)

Doubling every 6.4 days gets big fast. If it kept up that rate, which it won't, the world's population would all have it within 4 months. While it won't be that bad it has the potential to quickly run amok and kill many millions.
I've had to write regex for deeply proprietary SQL-like (the word "like" is a big BIG stretch) language. This really is nothing. The regex itself was 4 pages long. AFAIK they still use it in production, almost 10 years later with 0 modifications.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
There's a column called "Lng" that shows an abbreviation of the language.
I assume you mean infused, but that's not important. To address your question: no. I mean "maybe", but also "it's complicated". Different people react in different ways. As of now there's no official study backing any health benefits CBD may have.
NetBSD 8.0 has support for armhf.
I'd distinguish between scenarios in which there is a win-win solution and those in which there isn't. If there is a win-win scenario, then there should be one or more bargaining equilibria as a rational solution to the problem, and negotiating merely consists in providing the information and insight that allows both parties to reach or get close to an equilibirum. This activity is cooperative.

"Real" negotiation takes place when there is no such equilibrium. For example, hostage negotiations, car sales, or a negotiation between a landlord and the tenant are of this sort. Maximizing your utility minimizes the other's utility, and vice versa. These types of negotiations proceed only by using psychology to trick the other side into making concessions. Being a tough guy is mostly counter-productive in such cases, too, it's more about exploiting cognitive biases like the anchoring effect. This activity is adversarial.

Good mediators are people who are able to turn such win-lose scenarios into real bargaining with win-win solutions, not by mere "reframing", but by really changing the decision/distribution problem. That's often possible, if you make the goals of the participants and broader setting/presumptions part of the negotiations.
Note, I think the point wasn't that Pascal didn't have writeln, rather that you couldn't write (implement) writeln in Pascal (presumably due to missing variadic functions).

So having writeln isn't really the issue, the issue is that writeln is magic/a built-in.

Is free pascal self hosted?
Fig – Crowdfunding for video games
Did the company mandate you to use separate laptop or you put your restriction yourself ?
Because Swoole is a framework with an independent HTTP server and mysql driver. If you get rid of this two, it is just the algorithmic power of the runtime of PHP which factors in here.

swoole is co-routine based, having a much better lifecycle and resource sharing as a consequence. Which leads to much more throughput.
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In general I expect serious off roaders will carry a generator - they often do anyway for their campsite. Of course we are talking altitude which changes things.
That awful yellow background ruined the reading experience, and then hurt my eyes after I switched pages to a white background :(
Apple's hardware test reports no issues for me.

What kind of shock? It's not like they have spinning disks anymore.
Yep, or RSA and most modern cryptography.