skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if there isn’t a certain element of hindsight bias here. Now it’s clear that more action should’ve been taken earlier. But knowing the panic this has caused, not to mention the economic, global logistics and travel impacts I don’t know if it was such an obvious situation at the time. Especially when the vitality, severity and mechanism of transmission etc weren’t clear. CCP policy and behavioral patterns aside, I can see the local official in charge wanting to avoid being the guy that caused a bunch of public panic over nothing.

Imagine if things went the other way. Big announcements of a new virus, people panic and hoard food and supplies. Travel gets restricted and Wuhan gets quarantined. And not much happens. A few people get sick and quickly recover. I’m not sure if the guy will get praises for acting swiftly.
Why people get headaches from looking at buildings Style
"I wish western world central banks were as competent."
Well...

"Western world central banks tend to pressure prices down during economic shocks by withholding liquidity."

Well, we have seen gigantic quantitative easing in the US and the EU and also in China. Inflation - I assume that is what you mean by "pressure prices down" - keeps elusive. Japan has tried for decades to create inflation.

The only thing that the central banks in the world have managed is to create a gigantic asset bubble, via the so called "asset price inflation". They basically build a cash pipeline to all the asset holders. Make the rich richer and the poor poorer.
I make games as a hobby and I've thought about a "lighweight Wren framework with C++ modules for rendering" has been in my mind for a while. I'm so glad someone's thinking the same!
Do you have software that needs Catalina to run? Why not downgrade back to Mojave?

I have the late 2013 MacBook Pro as well, and I've only just upgraded to Mojave a few months ago (and did an SSD upgrade to a NVMe+adapter [1] while at it).

[1] https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/upgrading-2013-2014-mac...
There's lots of research based evidence that the Mediterranean diet can result in a healthy, long life.
https://neurosciencenews.com/aging-blood-cognition-nutrients...
https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/allinthemind/t...
Microsofts Linux Myths (1999)
If the single line one delegates to the batch one it should solve most of them.
Everything is change, nothing is forever -- Heraclitus
Very often 《…》/ <…> / 「…」are used to delimit transliterated proper names.
Because new epub versions have the Python 3 problem. Every reading system out there supports epub 2, and epub 3, the latest revision, still has poor support years later because it's not a big enough improvement to bother with and too much software is written for epub 2. Plus epub has had a rocky past few years as the standard has been bumped around various committees.
As a fan of epsresso I a absolutely agree with that fact that you should consider your own grinder and machine, but mostly for the massive increase in quality, certainly not saved costs. Even with second hand gear you are easily looking at an investment of 600 euro upwards. And as often, the sky is the limit. With the 0.3€ per coffee you mention, that's the equivalent of 2000 drinks, or 5 years of usage.

Also fresh high quality beans often result in costs per coffee a lot higher than your number. While I would encourage people to get into espresso as an hobby, I wouldn't recommend it to save on Starbucks cost.
Isn’t that the same problem endemic at Google? How many failed messaging platforms for instance has Google had because everyone wanted to work on a new problem instead of iterating on the existing one?

After over two decades, despite all of its attempts, Google has yet to do anything successful that wasn’t advertising based.

No Android doesn’t count. It came out in the Oracle trial that Google had only made $24 billion in profit on Android from its inception until the beginning of the trial. I’m the meantime they pay Apple $8 billion a year to be the default search engine on iOS devices. Apple has madd more in mobile from Google than Google has made from Android.
Automated testing, good source management and relatively short update cycles make all of this much easier...

Import the new version in a branch, and see right away which (if any) tests break. Then fix and commit.

If a dependency breaks with every minor version change, it's probably worth reevaluating whether it's worth the work, or if the time is better spent replacing the dep with a substitute or some local code.
There is more to a national power system than EROEI. If hydrogen is more versatile and useful it will have advantages even if it's EROEI is lower - lets say powering remote places or powering equipment for which battery powered is not an option, but fuel cells are.
Just to be clear, a lot of what passes for "DMT" on the street is actually N,N-dimethyltryptamine, which (while also a very powerful psychedelic) is NOT the same as 5-methoxy-N,N-dimethyltryptamine (aka 5-MeO-DMT), which is the subject of the Forbes article.

It would be prudent to find out which "DMT" you're getting, and educate yourself on the difference. You really don't want to confuse the two.
That would not evoke the behavior he wanted to call attention to.
Machine learning identifies schizophrenics just by reading social media comments
It's much more understandable if you add "donc" after "Qu'est ce". I don't really know why, it just adds extra weirdness :)
I got that wrong, thanks for correcting me.

I do agree that Annex K doesn't provide a proper solution, as data and length keep being separated.

However what I disagree is the way it was left to rotten without adoption, instead of actually fixing it.

Static analysis is not a solution, given that all surveys point out that only a minority cares to actually make use of them, or works in environments where they are welcomed, with supportive toolchains.

Also they don't work across third party binary dependencies, heavily used in the corporate environments.

So unwillingness to improve C language security in the standard shows how little those driving WG 14 care about security.

At least C11 made VLAs optional, which never were a good idea to start with.
You're not wrong, but considering other indicators, yield curve in particular, this could be a viable trigger. Depending on how this virus plays out, the only question is not if or when but how long the Chinese industrial complex will be suppressed. Those are the raw and finished manufacturing goods that power a substantial proportion of the world economy, and there will be cascading effects.
To Author: good for your weekend musing. But please don't torture interviewer with it (with time limit of 45 minutes).
Handy tool for selecting which cloud provider to use for your next project
> 50mg of 5-Meo-DMT is an absolutely terrible idea.

That's what I say.

> I'd need a citation, or even an anecdote, to believe that it could be lethal.

Somewhere on Reddit or on actualized.org (the place I've learnt about the substance from in the first place). 20 mg also is the highest dose Psychonautwiki mentions as heavy (which suggests nobody should ever try more). Doses directly above that are not straight lethal but, as far as I know, increase chances of getting a heart attack or stopping breathing to dangerous levels (theoretically, my personal experience doesn't actually include even a minor discomfort or disturbance in the heart rate or respiration despite my heart is very prone to rhythm issues). I would love to try a really heroic dose for sake of having an ultimate transcendence experience but wouldn't do that without supervision of a doctor.

Psychonautwiki also mentions the toad venom contains about 10% (15% max) of 5-MeO-DMT so 50 mg of the toad venom corresponds to just 5 mg of pure freebase (which is a toy dose). And it also contains 5-HO-DMT (bufotenin) and 5-MeO-NMT which certainly add their flavour to the experience making it different from pure 5-Meo-DMT.
Sure, but humans would have a hard time memorizing 10,000 symbols.
The OG mapquest had three options for route optimization: quickest (time), shortest (distance), and scenic. Would be nice to have that again.
If someone wants to figure out where the OP's clip begins, we can add a "#t=" and switch to the YouTube URL above.

(Normally I'd do that but am a bit rushed at the minute.)
I did see that, but it's pretty opaque (some percentage). And when I click through the badge, it takes me to GitHub's help page [0]. What would be helpful is to link to other public PRs so you might be able to find out how other people solved the issues. Is there any way to see historic compatibility scores to evaluate if it's worth to drop a certain dependency?

Edit: For normal dependency updates, compatibility probably more useful. For security fixes, what choice to you have other than to apply it, or spend more time investigating and trying to come up with your own mitigation?

[0] https://help.github.com/articles/configuring-automated-secur...
I think you’re confusing two different drugs. And the relevant plant is not sassafras.
Turning left can also be an extremely time-consuming task. Somebody I know drives a 3km longer route on his daily commute but is home about 10 minutes earlier because the shorter (and Google recommended) route contains two left turns that take incredibly long. Optimizing this should really be a goal.
There's a huge difference between "manufacture of consent" type propaganda, in which the citizenry is complicit in its own indoctrination, and Soviet-style propaganda where there was no free press and people were killed and jailed for criticizing the government.

Wondering aloud if the Soviet system might not be better "because at least people were aware of it" is shocking and cruel.
Agreed. I did the same last week. Left HK. Who knows for how long.
No, that's wrong, the Americans forced us to host your gulags in our countries, besides torture they were also doing human experimentation.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/inside-roman...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/15/cia-torture-...
I’m an Asshole, and I’m Comfortable with It
Coffee is cheap. Anytime you go to a coffee shop and purchase coffee, you’re paying for everything that isn’t coffee: lease, labor, worker’s comp, milk, sugar, taxes, syrup, whipped cream, cups, lids, sleeves, straws, equipment maintenance, etc.
You're completely right but the challenge is sending the electricity from the north of Germany to the south. The construction of new transmission lines is being delayed. Generating hydrogen for use in the steel industry could be one way to take advantage of the excess energy. Long term energy storage and load following could be implemented by storing the hydrogen and burning it in natural gas plants. This is strictly necessary to increase the renewable share past 80%.
"All chapters are available to download as of September 2019."
I did, yes I know that Smalltalk needed a VM, Pharo == smalltalk, and the like.

Wikipedia for Pharo says they have a VM with JIT, etc. I have never heard a peep about the Smalltalk VM in any circumstance as a performant target for any language. Ever.

If it's battle tested and great, why isn't it used for anything else than Smalltalk ports? Is there a python, ruby, javascript, java, etc port to the smalltalk VM?

If it sounds like I'm being dismissive, that's not the point. The point is the Smalltalk ecosystem, like Lisp derivatives, likes to have its own top-to-bottom stack completely isolated from "real" execution platforms.

For Lisp it's so bad that Clojure is rejected by some Lisp purists because it can JVM / JS compile.

IMO, for example, Ruby made a strategic error writing their own VM rather than just embracing the JVM as the main VM, although when Ruby was writing their VM invokedynamic hadn't been added to the JVM. Well, and they should have added some optional typing.
I wouldn’t fancy random ad networks throwing arbitrary payloads at my editor. Which I’m sure they would at least try.
Interview with TC39 Co-Chair
Microsoft Removed VMs for MS Edge Testing After Switching to Chromium
A government held to the standards of over a hundred years ago is still garbage by today's standard.

"x is not a new problem" - is not an argument - it's a whataboutism. Every single problem has existed before.
> There's no way to optimize for minimizing left turns

Any decent road routing engine does take into consideration a "turn penalty" and makes left turns more costly then right, among other things. E.g. see the Valhalla docs (Mapbox's routing engine):

> Turn type - whether the turn is a left turn, right turn, or is crossing another road. The cost applied to the turn type also needs to know if driving is done on the left side or right side of the road. While left turns are generally more costly in the US than right turns, the opposite holds in UK.

https://github.com/valhalla/valhalla/blob/716fd6e99ab6f271b6...

OSRM also does this, but slightly differently:
https://github.com/Project-OSRM/osrm-backend/wiki/Traffic#tu...

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With routing applications there are many configurable parameters, rather than providing too many options and risking overwhelming the user some of these things are simply baked into the ETA calculation.
>Chinese people in China are not afraid of the cops. If you see how Chinese people interact with cops, I bet you would be surprised.

Perhaps they're not afraid of the cops on a daily basis, but they are afraid of the CCP.

>That’s like saying Americans are in fear of being water boarded by the authorities.

Guess where you can shit talk about the head of state and not end up in a re-education camp?
Tracking DOM Element Visibility
> iTunes has to be the most complained about piece of software from Apple

Apple seems to have moved most of the iOS maintenance functionality from iTunes over to iOS itself.

Personally, I have an iCloud storage plan, and I don't use iTunes regularly anymore except when upgrading phones.
I don't think it's any more reasonable.

I like coffee, but I've not bought even a 4€ cup of coffee in a few months. Actually I don't visit coffee shops a lot, I much prefer drink my coffee at home (or at work, where it's free)...

Also if they argued that 7€ would be just 2 beers per month... maybe I'd still take 2 beers over some ridiculous SaaS. TLDR: I don't like subscriptions.
pretty sure you’re describing regular DMT (the stuff in ayahuasca) not 5-MeO-DMT (the frog venom). They’re both short and otherworldly, but DMT is more about the amazing experiences while 5-MeO-DMT is more about the amazing non-experiences. Or something like that
Something about tech I learned when I worked on container ship autopilots: always have a manual failover! The highest layer of abstraction invariably fails due to its complexity and you’ll need to be able to use the next layer down the stack... all the way to rudder control by hand.
I'm finding exactly the same problem with Rust -- I am do exploratory programming in GAP (a Python-like language), then rewriting to Rust once I'm confident I have all the basic data structures and code down. The compile speed of Rust alone is painful.

Also, when converting C++ code to Rust, I find many places where I'm having to de-optimise code to get it past the borrow checker. Large cyclic data structures which are freed as one piece are annoyingly difficult in Rust.
My opinion, probably not. But based on my legal knowledge (none), it may be arguable. TOS are just another brick in the wall.
Better than OpenSSL putting out critical security fixes in a 400kloc diff...
How do we know that CCP and Xi will NOT survive this? Maybe the system they adopt there, just maybe, is the best system handle situation like this? With all the digital surveillance, AI, and all those new technologies, an authoritarian regime may now have the tools to outperformed the western counterpart?

History doesn’t simply repeat itself, it rhymes.
The poor are much much more hurt by overly tight money. I tried to explain why here: https://medium.com/@b.essiambre/the-world-deserves-a-pay-rai...
Could you elaborate on any of these stories? Just interested
A cost of doing business is one of the most essential expenses there is.
Ask HN: Do you have trouble staying productive with all the online distractions?
Do you guys have any problems staying productive with all the distractions available online (social media, googling stuff, etc.)? What are your distractions? How do you deal with them or how did you try? Did you use any productivity tools, time trackers etc.?

Some of my distractions:
- Watching non work related videos on Youtube
- Googling stuff that I randomly think of
- Listening to podcasts or consuming blogs and educational material too much and too often instead of actually working on my projects
- Reading news and newsletters I am subscribed to over email
- Checking Hacker News and Indie Hackers
The standard for non-Windows/DOS terminals has always been to show nothing during password entry. Does elementary show password feedback in all terminal contexts, or just for sudo?
Hm yea. Bagels aren't very popular in China. Or really outside the US.
it is also prohibits true aircraft carriers, i.e. basically the ships having catapults, at the insistence of USSR.

https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/naval-arms-con...

>The Turkish Straits and the Montreux Convention, which once served primarily to protect the Soviet Union from superior hostile fleets, now also seem to have limited what would otherwise be a major Soviet advantage: proximity of a large fleet and its bases to a major theater of crisis and potential war. In this respect the Montreux Convention was a potential problem for the Soviets since 1964, when they began maintaining a permanent naval presence in the Mediterranean.
You could, but does that really solve any real problem? Now you're wasting more time on CI, commit messages, and trying to keep them atomic instead of delivering the feature. It's not even clear what makes up an atomic commit. If the feature does not work, it's arguably not very atomic. Stubs, mocks of parts that need to be mocked to push forward now and redone later properly, unimplemented branches that end up in abort(), these are arguably not very useful history either.

Also, I disagree that number of commits is a useful measure of work done. Not any more useful than butt in seat time. Nobody can say whether that feature is 200 or 2000 commits, it really depends on how you split it up. It could be 2 commits, plus the fixes that follow once it actually runs and gets tested and fleshed out.

If tracking progress is a priority, you break the job down to some reasonably small number (no more than a couple dozen) of items in a TODO list and update it with what's done and rough estimates of what's left to do. That's a hundred times more useful than "N commits, 123 hours of butt in seat."

Or maybe you can just demonstrate what works. Or tell, when it comes up in a meeting.

(I'd argue that butt in seat time is actually more useful than number of commits, because the latter can change by an order of magnitude depending on how you split it up but I've never estimated to take a month to deliver something that ends up taking 10 months.)
Does anyone else get a bit of unexpected joy when they drive through a section of ‘red’ road without any actual traffic? It makes me feel like I saved a bit of time in my life.
The gulag hosted ~20 million people. How many people went through rendition?

Your attempt to equate these things is frankly shocking.
> Intel Microcode updates are not installed via Windows Update and must be installed manually.

What does this mean? That only those who know that they need them should apply them? What should I do (as a software developer) with my machine?
I didn't agree with your first comment above, as I mostly focus on violent extremism, but you do raise a good point about the general intensity of polarization and how there is certainly support on the left for social sanctions against those we disagree with.

I don't exactly subscribe to the proposals in your example article, but I do think that climate denial is a sort of fraud which has real externalities, and have suggested that people should listening to or engaging with known climate deniers. It seems to me that there's something fundamentally wrong with the idea that it's OK to lie about products or policy for the sake of profit and then assign blame to the victims of predictable externalities for their credulity or lack of preparedness.

One thing we've learned in the age of social media is that false information is considerably more likely to go viral than true information- good news for the entertainment industry, less good in areas like public health or policymaking. It's likely that the ease of transmission is that false information tends to leverage easy prior assumptions over difficult unintuitive ones such that cognitive bias could be said to yield a 'liar surplus' which has an economic value to the deliberate proponent of untruth. It's possible that this will lead to the development of weighting tools for assessing the reliability of information through analysis of the rate and direction of its transmission, but as long as it's profitable to sell false information we will continue to get more of that.
Second CIA Contractor Testifies in 9/11 Case at Guantanamo
...which is why you don't short - you just buy low with limit orders. Betting shorts will eventually burn you.
Thanks for the tip. My experience was decades ago. No idea what it actually was. I'm much more careful about what I put in my body now.
I have all that. But it takes time out of my day. I'd like to quantify that vs putting it off and spending 2 days or maybe 2 weeks doing it all at once.

Also, right now we have to manually and individually keep track of breakage. It might change mentality and increase empathy in software development when you see how much breakage a change could cause. I don't believe nothing should ever break, but would like to see more awareness of the impact of backwards-incompatible changes.
Most people have already started to return from their hometowns.
Yesterday was probably the last important day of CNY.
I've been arguing lately that C++ should do something like this: Add a full-on theorem-prover to the language so that I can write my own safety rules specific to how my program works.

In the Cloudflare Workers runtime we have a sort of analogous problem to what Blow has in his game engine. We have certain objects that live on the JavaScript heap (which is garbage collected), or are directly owned by objects on the JS heap, and then we have system objects involved in basic I/O that aren't necessarily tied to a particular JS isolate and are not garbage collected, but are often tied to specific OS threads. JS objects and system objects are allowed to own instances of each other, but the ownership must be handled in a special way. E.g., when a system object holds a reference to a JS object, the destructor must ensure the JS isolate lock is held before releasing that reference. Conversely when a JS object holds ownership of a system object, and the JS object is garbage collected, we need to queue the system object's destructor to run in the thread where it was created.

Conceptually, it ought to be easy to write rules where each type is declared as being a system type or a JS type, and then the compiler could trivially enforce that the correct sort of references are used between them. But, the problem is very specific to our codebase, so it would make no sense to bake into the language.

I think the next big thing for C++ should be adding ways to define custom code-checking rules like this. It would allow C++ to become a safe language and would fit perfectly with C++'s culture of being ridiculously overcomplicated. ;)
They are shutting down their nuclear power.
s/will call him/will have called him/

Only way to be sure is to name all 360,000 of them palindromically...
Just use the pdf versions of the newspapers/magazines of your choice.