skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Instead if writing a drop-in replacement, which would be a lot of work, the authors wrote a replacement for the workflows they cared about, without nearly as much flexibility or complexity.

A 3rd party rewrite is a great time to assess what features are core features and which are extraneous. I haven't evaluated doas, but I'm definitely in favor of priviledged utilities having less code in general and having less complexity.
Health Officials Confirm 2nd, 3rd, 4th Cases of Coronavirus in Bay Area
Life as a reporter trapped in Hubei, ground zero of the coronavirus outbreak
Police roadblocks to test for drugs and alcohol (aka booze bus) also show up as red on google maps.
I’ve found reading to deliver the longest-term benefits. When I read, I can sit in a quiet room for hours just soaking up information. Video and audio tends to be more click-baity.
>Hypothetically speaking, would you rather read about the recent US impeachment proceedings in Korean or in English? You know, the language most widely spoken in the US?

So, I mean, I agree with your point. but as an aside, I think it would be really interesting to see the perspective of a Spanish historian on the recent events in my country
This is extremely naive. One reason executives get more compensation is because they frequently sit on each-other's boards and are more than happy to scratch each-other's backs. At large companies, most shareholders are "institutional investors" (rich dudes managing other people's money) and are not going to be showing up to shareholder's meetings complaining about executive compensation.

Meanwhile those same shareholders are very happy to complain about worker's compensation[1], for reasons of petty greed.

[1] https://www.salon.com/2017/04/28/labor-is-being-paid-first-a...
Do you find it surprising that some humans enjoy eating very spicy peppers?
I think the `#coding:` approach is promising. You have to fit your parsing/transpilation into a pretty small time budget (which is a fun challenge on its own) to keep the startup time hit negligible. The source code gets reparsed serval times in certain cases, e.g. when printing a stack trace, so its a good idea to have some sort of caching mechanism.

As far as parsing goes, if you want to stick with python I've had good success with pyparsing [1], otherwise I have a strong preference to do language-related things in OCaml with menhir [2]. I've toyed with wrapping the Python parser in an OCaml library with decent success [3]. But, of course, unless you're optimizing for fun, it's probably a good idea to stick with Python.

Another, weirder, approach is creating a language that happens to be able to be parsed by the same grammar as python, then using a decorator (or similar) to get the source code or the ast to reparse and transpile. As an example you could have something like `a <- b` be the syntax for an actor model message receive dsl (which is valid python).

[1] https://github.com/pyparsing/pyparsing
[2] http://gallium.inria.fr/~fpottier/menhir/
[3] https://github.com/georgek42/pyparser
I'm really glad they aren't optimizing for people to drive to a major gathering point with 4+ good non-driving alternatives.
"A few meters within decades" seems really unlikely to give rise to "the entire human race drowned except for a very few people in a boat".

Also, in at least some of the flood stories, the water recedes.
This is the one depicted in the new "Watchmen" series on HBO btw. A great watch for fans of the original comic or film.

Probably not interesting to history or civil rights buffs though.
I’d pay for HN
Misread that as "new in PDP 8". I was expecting an old-school DEC story for a moment...
Yes, they make the K40, which has two ASICs. They do not make a current generation card with two ASICs.
In the US (and most open democracies, probably) - propagandists are warring with other propagandists, in a perpetual contest for influence and power. Nearly everyone is aware that there are tremendous amounts of misinformation and propaganda being thrown at them every day. And its not just Democrats vs Republicans. Its also corporations, activists, advertisers, or even other nation states, etc.

People are quite good at recognizing the propaganda from other bubbles that aren't their own (hence everyone on the left seeing Fox News for what is... and everyone on the right seeing CNN/MSNBC for what they are). Many of the resources within each bubble are dedicated to exposing the propaganda of other bubbles. A bubble's inhabitants do less well at recognizing and acknowledging the propaganda of their own bubble, however.

Democracies are basically (thought) bubble blowing contests.

Its not quite the market place of ideas we wanted or hoped for... but its what we have today, and its still preferable to the alternative, where there's only one despot-controlled bubble - and so we don't even realize that bubbles exist at all - or if we do, we don't mention it out loud, if we know whats "good" for us.
He ordered coffee while wearing an AirPod. The barista refused to serve him
Should be open now:

https://www.smiffy.de/dbkda-2018/
why does php garbage collect anything when there is a reference ? (weakmaps)
... especially if they can bring you by some companies who have paid for ads on Maps. Where I used to live, in a grid city, Maps would take drivers down one single street whose only discerning feature from those 2 streets north or south (alternating one-ways) was that it could say "Turn left at the Pizza Hut".
Use vector granphs.
Once you put deep learning in the same sentence as quantum computing, I can’t take the argument seriously any more. One has delivered state-of-the-art results in self-driving cars, machine translation, recommendation systems, and even robotics. The other has factored 21 into 3x7.

I would argue that Go and Rust are most likely to take hold on the low-level side, while data science takes hold of a new post-Python paradigm with static typing: maybe Julia, Jax/Flax. That much isn’t clear yet. I think raw JavaScript will continue to decline in use, possibly being overrun by WASM or an easily-packaged Electron-like environment in the cloud. Think about being able to run Python in a Docker container, that’s all run in a JavaScript environment.
> or whether you're connected to headphones

I’m pretty sure this is rarely enforced in most states in the US. My father frequently drives across the US and always takes his calls with earbuds because the speakers aren’t very good.

I do it with one earbud in because I find the quality of speaker audio terrible, forcing me to concentrate harder on it to discern what’s being said.
I had this discussion recently. Here’s the hat trick of digital over paper: an ebook can be unpacked and printed on paper! All of the contents are human readable - it’s mostly HTML and CSS - and can be re-encoded into an ebook with no loss of fidelity. It can also be easily read (see aforementioned HTML and CSS) without any difficulties, even in its encoded format on paper.
When you create words that don't exist you can put any meaning behind them I guess.
The US doesn't have a shortage of land or housing. Rather, the concentration of jobs in big cities induces localized shortages. UBI would actually make it feasible to move to areas with lower living costs, decentralizing demand for housing and pushing rent down in big cities while stimulating the economies of less densely-populated regions.
I agree with other comments that this looks like growth hacking, not a sincere request for help.

Many dating apps charge only men because it's so much harder to get female users. The same is true of clubs and some bars during "ladies nights".
Think I've seen this in a few subs as default? Randomised comments for each unique client, even with some weighting perhaps might bring some balance back.
aujourd'hui = today

jusqu'a maintenant = to this day

au jour d'aujourd'hui is just too awkward to use, it even sounds bad.
That's not what's happening in Germany though and their deposit is in that range.
tmux works for me.
https://youtu.be/5iXzqN8-34E
> All I started out saying, and am continuing to say is that the major difference with propaganda in the USA is that the vast majority of Americans have no idea they are subjected to it, and would get angry if it was pointed out to them.

This just doesn’t jive with my experience growing up in what was (at the time) a fairly conventional somewhat conservative state (Virginia). We were exposed to Zinn and Manufacturing Consent in our public school. We learned about slavery, Indian extermination, Jim Crow, McCarthyism, etc. We learned about our interventions in Latin America and Iran. Socialism and the labor movement was taught very sympathetically. For example, we were taught that Upton Sinclair’s “the Jungle” was muckraking journalism. It wasn’t until I was an adult that I learned that the novel was intended to be socialist propaganda. We certainly were never we exposed to the contemporaneous criticism of Sinclair: https://fee.org/articles/29-upton-sinclairs-the-jungle-prove...

If anything, I’d argue the propaganda was in the other direction. America was almost always painted in a bad light, except for two things: the founding, and WWII. (Although, teachers are already trying to delegitimize our founding by incorporating material from the 1619 project.) We never learned all the bad things about the Soviet Union, or socialism as tried in Latin America.
I don’t see the problem here. Businesses are choosing a more convenient way to manage cash flow, completely electronic. It eliminates many problems with cashiers stealing from the register and susceptibility to robbery. It’s a rare person in today’s world who doesn’t have a credit card.
Those interested should also read up on the Wilmington Insurrection: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilmington_insurrection_of_189...

It's the only successful coup to take place on American soil. Wilmington, then a majority-black city, was starting to see black elected officials and prosperous black merchants. The white people wouldn't stand for that, and so planned a coup. A coup that was successful: ~60 deaths; prominent black people and integration-minded whites were ridden out of town on a rail. State and national politicians just let it happened, and over time white people covered it up. It was only leading up to the 100th anniversary that it was even properly acknowledged.

Fresh Air did an excellent interview with the author of a new book on it: https://www.npr.org/2020/01/13/795892582/wilmington-s-lie-au...

I have it on order and am looking forward to reading it.
I doubt any time soon you will be able to fit a GPU (and power it!) thru a express card slot...
I had heard about tin whiskers, but always in relation to NASA. I had assumed it was only a problem in space, somehow related to lack of gravity and/or atmosphere.

Apparently it's just that NASA cares about reliability more than most, and hence takes the time to do more detailed failure analyses.

Thanks for linking those slides.
Since the dawn of programming there’s been a schism as to whether undefined means empty versus being a logical error. But deep down we all know what it should mean.
Better for Microsoft to skin the linux kernel with a Windows like UI. Run classic windows programs in a VM similar to the old DOS box.

Problems with Windows stem from legacy code and its antiquated file system.
The problems are not fundamentally of local scope. Consider for example the coal mining towns that have been left in a state of ruin by the shift away from coal. There is no local prosperity to fund local aid there.
The problem with using a classical computer to solve an NP-hard problem is that as the problem size increases, in the worst case, as far as we know, the running time increases exponentially.

The problem with using a photonic computer to solve an NP-hard problem is that as the problem size increases, the amount of light at the output node drops exponentially. Even under the assumption that you can get rid of all background noise, that means you need to run your detector for longer so as to be able to detect the output photons, and…the running time increases exponentially.

Perhaps there are interesting quantum effects that could be exploited, but the authors specifically note that they aren’t doing that.

So this is a neat engineering project but an almost certainly irrelevant computational project.
In other words, small town people are generally pragmatic while college educated individuals are opinionated.
Doom is usually called 2.5d because it's basically simulated 3d.
It's pretty silly to think any government can deal effectively with a major disaster. At the end of the day, the best way to address a major disaster is with both a government response and a prepared citizenry. Centralized support to a decentralized response is way more effective.

There isn't much centralized support can do when it is overwhelmed and the citizens at a local level are helpless/useless.

Learn first aid skills. Learn amateur radio for communication. Have backup water, food and fuel.
You played Doom, while coding?
It doesn't, unless you specifically tell it that it should ignore a reference by using a weakref or weakmap.
I can't think of a brand that would be a harder sell for the sort of people that want an EV right now.

In my mind it screams "big for the sake of big", not efficient or environmentally friendly...
When I was in the ham club at Michigan State knew a student who built a code reader for his Masters. He wrote the code for the university's IBM 360, inputting it with punch cards. My memory is that it worked quite well.

Now you can get one that runs on your cell phone, that's progress!
Because sudo's full behavior is infamously complex. You might be able to make it better with a rewrite, but you're talking about a massive effort with significant risk, and all to reproduce a system that really should be redesigned to be easier to secure in the first place (hence doas).
One part of the DOOM portverse I have enjoyed recently is DOOM in VR with GZDoom - hhttps://github.com/Fishbiter/gz3doom
The article is incorrect - the vote for that was defeated: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/engine_warnings#vote

Undefined variables will now be warnings (and one might expect PHP 9 to reclassify them as exceptions).
Monitoring with cameras seems like an advance in technology that lowers the need for managers in the room.
But it’s still a check as advocated earlier in the thread.
And I should add that both these incidents were part of The Nadir: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadir_of_American_race_relatio...

For decades in the late 1800s and early 1900s, this sort of ethnic cleansing was common across the US, and it was part of the Nadir's broader pattern of rising white supremacy. Having never heard a peep about this in school, I was skeptical. But Loewen's "Sundown Towns" convinced me with its mix of document-driven, narrative, and data-driven history: https://www.amazon.com/Sundown-Towns-Hidden-Dimension-Americ...

It's been a valuable reminder to me lately that progress in civil rights is less robust than it seems, and can go into retreat for decades if we let it.
> it only works if there is an archivist who maintains the archive by repeatedly copying the content to new storage systems and distributing the results.

Funny, that’s exactly the role monks used to play in keeping many of these afforementioned documents readable.

And “less flammable” matters little when we’re talking about house or library fires, during which sufficient heat to make iron pliable can be easily achieved. The advantage of digital backups there is that the (well planned) backups don’t live in the same place as the original.

And since we’re talking about Mass Market paperbacks, can we talk about how fragile those things are these days? Sure, one from 30+ years ago is in decent condition - probably better condition than a new one hot off the press. The glue they use anymore is terrible - having pages fall out during the first read is pretty commonplace anymore.

I’d give better odds to a 30 year old paperback that’s lasted this long than a new book to make it another 30 years.
It’s the potential for exponential growth. The flu and world hunger are mostly known, contained quantities. While there’s a low probability that the coronavirus will become a pandemic, there is an extremely high downside if that happens. The danger comes not from the probability of the event but from the payoff.
I have not gone through this one. Thanks for sharing.
If they go out of business they reach no audience. Ad-based clickbait for the masses, paywalled real news for the elites?
> and every line of Linux is C.

Nitpick: there's assembly in there. Not that that undermines your point at all:)
Chinese phone shipments to fall by 30% in Q1 due to new coronavirus outbreak
Set some minimum price, like 10¢, and allow to pay more if you feel like it.

Maybe have tiers: free tier for some content, "normal tier" for most content, "premium tier" for hot and impactful content.

If at least 3 large national news outlets (say, WaPo, NYT, FT) would offer per-article paid access through the same system, I'd start paying.
To the author, your blog platform outputs an invalid canonical url for your content. It omits the `blog` subdomain which makes your canonical url point to a 404.
FYI: Here is the WSJ‘s "Fake and Distorted News"
https://www.wsj.com/articles/ray-dalio-is-still-driving-his-...
Maybe some people don't think society should revolve around the wants and desires of consumers.
Not surprisingly, not everyone is an expert on Rust, but everyone is an expert on shit happening on the other side of the planet. /s

At least the technical discussions (aside from Google evil, Apple walled garden, new Microsoft/same old Microsoft, etc. etc.) are on average higher quality than elsewhere.
Guess I'm adding Python to my resume. Nice work
Right now, it doesn't. If there's a reference, then the item is not garbage collected. The WeakMaps change will allow a developer to take a reference to something but say, "Hey, I'm caching this for now, but if you need the space, I'm not married to it."
I’m pretty sure the Ragnar Relay uses ham radio volunteers to call in finishers. I don’t know if there’s any technical reason for it.
Even the bombing from planes was not made up. I suggest one of the last episodes of Stuff You Should Know podcast on it - they did a lot of legwork researching the event.
Are two spaces better than one? (2018)
If you think clickbait is bad NOW...
Delayed spawn is a kind of 'hidden information' the article mentions. You could also think of it as a kind of leashing. Doom and a lot of older shooters with discrete levels also tend to offer one way paths - doors get shut behind you, etc. It's a bit odd to say shooters are 'plagued' by this problem given that one of the very first FPS'es puts a great deal of careful design effort into avoiding it.
> The @ operator no longer silences fatal errors

Interesting. There are still some legitimate (well, “legitimate”) use cases for that behavior e.g. with PHP’s native XML extensions.
Can you please specify which (wrong) 'rumours' you believe I am spreading, exactly, and why you know they are (wrong)?

By my count, in my comments I posted one link to a scientific preprint (noting that it was very questionable), 3 links to discussion of the scientific merits of that preprint, and 1 link to a scientific discussion relating to the structure of the 2019-nCoV virus. As well, my own little piece of entirely idle speculation, clearly and repeatedly indicated as being such and not as a fact.

By my understanding of the word 'rumour', as a native speaker of English, nothing here qualifies as a 'rumour' or 'rumour-spreading'.

A rumour would have the form something like 'I have heard that … (completely unevidenced claim)'.

FWIW, a tip back to you - telling someone else to shut up without explanation of what exactly it is you're referring to, or why you think they should shut up, is considered rude on any discussion forum, and also in real life conversations too.

Further, it encourages others to behave the same way.

For those reasons, please stop posting curt and rude shut-up messages anywhere on the internet. It is far more harmful to internet communities than anyone's idle speculation or references to discussions on other forums.

If you want someone to do something, anywhere in life, explain clearly what you want and clearly why. It doesn't need to be detailed but at least it should be clear. Being a polite netizen takes more than using the word 'please' at the start of a sentence.

Also, please do not expect other people to be able to telepathically intuit your mental state in a discussion, as nobody can do this, and please do not simply issue vague commands to other people, because it is rude.
Deezer actually has a decent interface and has music, podcasts and radio streams
> This situation (lack of schematics) is powering the open source test instrument surge.

Actually, I would argue that the expense of tech support is what is powering the open source test instrument surge.

Unless I can sell you a $20,000 instrument and cut you off after 3 years, my support costs are probably unsustainable.

This means that anything worth less than $20,000 is unprofitable (case in point: the Tektronix USB Real Time Spectrum Analyzers). So, the only way around that is to make it worth even LESS and make it open source.

Now, your tech support is the internet at large. Good luck with that.
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I don’t get it :S
Why are you assuming that we don't know how to build more battery factories? And does the wind not blow at night?
China trying to create a perpetual motion machine for its own economy.
Looks like we go for a pandemic ...

I wonder how more potential cases are under investigation for California and the Bay Area...