skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am writing this from a cruise ship in the south china sea. We have been at sea for ten days because one port after another has been closed off to us. Some have closed to all cruise ships, some have closed to use because we have passengers who transited through Hong Kong. Every passenger now has to have their temperature taken twice a day. We have been told that we will be able to disembark in Singapore two days from now, but God only knows.

Corona virus has infected fewer than 100,000 people and killed less than 1000. To put these numbers in perspective, seasonal flu results in 3 to 5 million cases of severe illness every year, and kills 290,000 to 650,000. [1]

Personally, I am much more worried about public officials freaking out about the corona virus than I am about the virus itself.

[1] https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/influenza-(...
Haaretz restrained from investigating the matter too deeply in order to avoid breaking the law

Of all of the crazy in this story, this is possibly the most worrying bit - journalists can’t do journalism without facing prosecution.
>>For example, the Atlas of Languages states, "It was probably used as a memory aid or for decorative purposes, not for recording the Rapanui language of the islanders." If this is the case, then there is little hope of ever deciphering it.
The article says it's "slower than 801 mph", but sadly doesn't specify how much slower. The ground speed was 825 mph, so if Ciara is so impressive, I'd expect it to give a bigger boost than a measly 24 mph. The article doesn't specify the unassisted airspeed, unfortunately. Considering the jet stream was moving at 260 mph, naive math would suggest the air speed was 565 mph.
I think it's less about "Apple would own the mobile space", but "some other company than us would own the mobile space and would be a threat to our advertising business".

Just like Microsoft owned the browser market in the late 90's and 2000's, and it was a problem for Google. That's why they poured resources first into Firefox, then into Google Chrome.
It's hard to overstate how much of a difference this makes for managing people's access to servers without having to manage access keys. Especially if someone leaves the team/company you don't need to roll out new AMIs or run your puppet/ansible, it's just a `terraform apply` to update the IAM policy and you're done. Absolutely love it.

One thing that I found annoying through the web interface was the lousy support of special characters. Every now and then either some character combination or a big wall of text would make the browser-based terminal almost useless. I have yet to make time to configure the cli access which I don't think will have these issues.
Native VS cross-platform app development
Sounds about right.

This will get worse before it gets better.

This is an interesting chart to new map the new daily infection rate.

https://twitter.com/Tom_Fowdy/status/1226659915160117248

The daily count of new cases is going down. China’s containment effort might be successful.

However, this may not account for everything.

* They have limited daily testing kits. Especially in the early days of this crisis.

* There may be people who had died, but they didn’t get tested, so they won’t be counted in this statistic. The moral dilemma is: Do you burn a precious test kit on a dead corpse to verify that they had the virus, or do you save it for someone still living?

* The city and the province’s medical system is under severe strain, and there are not enough supplies to go around. They may not even be able to account for everything or everyone, because their medical system is suffering from a massive denial of service attack right now.

* They may have ramped up test kit production this weekend to 10k/day, so this may skew the numbers higher, as they are able to test more people.

* There are reports that the testing is not fully accurate, if you’re in the early stage, where the virus hasn’t generated enough markers to be detected yet. So, this is a false negative, where you are actually infected, but the test says that you are not. This might be why they will only clear you, if you get two negative tests in a row.
We used CS:APP for a relatively broad first-year Intro to Systems class; I'm not sure it replaces a dedicated computer architecture textbook.

The Binary Bomb lab from CS:APP was the most fun and memorable homework assignment from all of undergrad.
It's interesting that the ones without photos in the top seem to be all Germans. So there seems to be some cultural aspect to it.
The second source you link to states 60% of that energy is in manufacturing, and 40% in use. Wouldn't that imply using a hosted solution only when you need it would be more environmentally friendly than buying your own gaming PC?
Do robos dream of higher returns?
I've been using this script for a while and it works great https://gist.githubusercontent.com/qoomon/fcf2c85194c55aee34...
Pretty sure there was a story from a few years ago of a person dying from a then unknown virus after contact with a fruit bat in Queensland.

Edit. Here’s a link but not sure if this was the one https://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-02-22/queensland-boy-dies-o...
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That's definitely valid criticism. Though not necessarily competitiveness is connected to size.

I certainly wouldn't complain if the EU would have comparable companies to FAANG ones in size.
I think your system is great, especially for this kind of daily logs and personal record of what you have accomplished.

If you start to widen your scope and try to do more complete personal knowledge management, I think this system will have some limitations. Some obvious ones, such as no image support and no integrations with other software (project management, GitLab/Hub,...), and some less obvious ones that only become apparent once you use more complex tools.

If you want a more capable setup at the cost of more complexity and friction, have a look at how I use Notion, GitLab, and other tools to manage my personal knowledge base: https://tkainrad.dev/posts/managing-my-personal-knowledge-ba...
yeah, Nokia was a dead man walking when Elop was hired. They had no way of caching up to iPhone.

Big product companies don't die from one day to another, they take a slow long time to fizzle out.
Just goes to show how many motorists drive around with a „the road is mine“-attitude.

If that doesn‘t change and people have no actual interest in the well-being of their fellow humans (which exceeds their interest to be home 10 seconds earlier) you can tout 0-fatality plans all you want, they will never pan out.
And that is a project Vic ACTUALLY ran.
I am wondering if the surveillance capitalism we have now would have been impeded if NOKIA was still around in full force. I miss time when my phone didn't track everything I did. The only alternative I own now is running on SailfishOS, from MeeGo team members.
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The correct number is 1, a car driver who drove into a fence. Speed is not reported, but the speed limit there is low.

Where do you get that 23? I looked it up and see 21.6. The average before the vision zero stuff started was much higher, BTW.
My 6 year old does the grip first described in the post. Her school teacher has shown much apathy in correcting it and even suggested it was "too late" (UK state school). I'm going to try and help her myself. Tips include shorter pencils and "pinch and flip": http://mamaot.com/3-tricks-to-help-kids-learn-to-hold-their-...
Similar to pigeonhole sort too:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigeonhole_sort
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In 2007 they focus of Android changed drastically.

This was before iPhone: "2007’s pre-M3 version of Android; the Google Sooner" [1]

After they saw the iPhone keynote though:

--- start quote ---

Chris DeSalvo’s reaction to the iPhone was immediate and visceral. “As a consumer I was blown away. I wanted one immediately. But as a Google engineer, I thought ‘We’re going to have to start over.’”

“What we had suddenly looked just so . . . nineties,” DeSalvo said. “It’s just one of those things that are obvious when you see it.”

...

On the day Jobs announced the iPhone, the director of the Android team, Andy Rubin, was six hundred miles away in Las Vegas...

Rubin was so astonished by what Jobs was unveiling that, on his way to a meeting, he had his driver pull over so that he could finish watching the webcast.

“Holy crap,” he said to one of his colleagues in the car. “I guess we’re not going to ship that phone.”

...

Within weeks the Android team had completely reconfigured its objectives.

--- end quote ---

[1] https://9to5google.com/2012/05/05/2007s-pre-m3-version-of-an...

[2] https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/12/the-d...
Having driven throughout Europe and as a non-Scandinavian I have to say that this impressive result has a lot to do with the ways scandinavians behave in traffic. As car-drivers as well as cyclists.

If urban politicians in cities "just short of the border" to Scandinavia like Berlin or Hamburg propose such measures, residents with traffic experience in both places will often chuckle, because car drivers but even more so cyclists are much more aggressive in Germany than in Scandinavia.

It is not uncommon for urban pedestrians in Germany to be more concerned with danger posed to them by cyclists than by cars.
No, they auction off returns in mixed boxes. Here's a video of someone who bought one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTaYet07Ioo
No, as I understand it they sell job lots of returns on a pallet or whatever, by weight or volume I'm not sure. More valuable/branded stuff is sold for what it is though, and direct to consumer, in the 'Amazon Warehouse' section - at least, iirc it advertises itself as products returned or damaged in the warehouse.
The nice thing about this approach is admitting that it's _okay_ if you skip an exercise you're struggling with. It can be a little frustrating at times, and feed a little bit into that insecurity, but a key realization is that one programmer can't possibly know everything. Not in this field, it's way too big. So, skip it! If it bugs you, come back to it in a month or so and you'll be surprised at how much easier it is on a second pass. Or, you'll have such a strong grasp of the language that you'll see, "Ah, there's the fundamental element I don't understand, here's what I can search for, or who I can ask to point me in the right direction."
As far as I can tell this page first appeared in 2008. Many of these points are outdated (some woefully so).

This shouldn't be on the frontpage of HN. If anything, Clang should take this down or revise it.
Plus your experience would degrade substantially, since before, you could have a music play queue for times you want to listen to music, and a podcast play queue for times you want to listen to podcasts. Now you'd have to manually push things in and out of a single play queue.

Why do people actually do that?
The bat video you've seen is a Chinese tourism TV show eating it in the Pacific..

It's equivalent to an American TV person eating fried cricket on a stick in Thailand, or fermented fish in Iceland..
I'm not sure which discussion you're referring to; I've seen the topic come up many times. But I haven't seen a reasonably non-evil explanation for why the compiler should preemptively assume that AMD's CPU feature flags cannot be trusted, while Intel's can. Detecting known-buggy CPU models is fine, but assuming that future AMD CPUs are more likely to introduce bugs to AVX-whatever than future Intel CPUs is not something that I have seen justified.
That’s 1 in norway as a whole, but Oslo 0?

It’s probably easier to keep numbers down in less populated areas as well.

I’ve driven in London, as a rightie, and if those numbers checks out I’m equally impressed!

Narrow, people, cars and scoters everywhere. It felt crazy at times, but I’m sure using the “wrong” side of the street compounded the issue. :)
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Lathe Biosas. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epicurus#Politics
I'm seeing a lot of posts on why the seasonal flu is worse.

This to me seems ridiculous by any reading of even the reported numbers.
I know students in the US sometimes have roommates. I didn’t think many adults did it in the west. Let alone well-paid professionals.
Distance to office is 2 miles

I literally have never driven as short a distance as 2 miles. It would never occur to me - I'd automatically walk or cycle. I think this comes from having come to car use relatively late in life. I relied on public transport or hitch hiking until my late '20s, and using my body to get around still feels much more natural to me than driving.
Is the room open?
I am pretty disgusted by this. First of all they basically leaked every single citizens who is of voting age PII. It sounds like the admin username and password was visible for all to see inside the HTML source.

Although I should be, I am not actually surprised by the lack of security in a political parties application.

What I don't understand is why the interior ministry is providing political parties with the entire voter registry, which includes PII.
I never gave my consent for this. It probably explains why I am getting spam SMS's from different parties on a daily basis(which is extremely annoying), but worse than that, soon we will all be forced to join the biometric database and I have zero confidence in the ability of the interior ministry to protect that.

Personally I am no fan of GDPR, but I am starting to see why it's necessary.
Hopefully this will help spell the end of cruise ships and the destruction they wreak around the world.
Scheme Fatigue
Would you mind saying which podcast it is? Trying to track the ones moving in a Google Sheet which I will share.
Be mindful about windows phone too, it is very revisionist to call it failed; it had all the hallmarks of a successful product except it didn't have developer attention so it died.
I live in Germany, and while I need a smartphone to get the code for my online banking access, it doesn’t require a SIM card or a phone number.
So what do you think would happen if no quarantine was in place (because “the flu exists”), the virus spreads and suddenly that 1% mortality rate starts to stack up.

Is your country ready to handle 1% of its population dying, and many more falling ill?
Flu is seasonal - predictable, known and accounted for. When flu season hits the system copes. This virus? Not so much.

Sorry you’re stuck on a boat, but it’s for the best.
I'll be the first to admit that I moved from Pocket Casts to Spotify at the start of the year, when I saw that my Year in Review featured podcasts.

That's all it took, plus the convenience of having one singular app for music + podcasts.

The only two podcasts I can't get on Spotify are Joe Rogan (I listen to like 1 out of every 500 episodes so will just download an MP3 or whatever) and a private RSS feed for Popular Front which I back on Patreon.

It gives me the shits though that the Podcast section feels like an MVP still. There are no public API endpoints (not sure any podcast apps have them publically to be fair) and the desktop experience is subpar at best. Not even sure the play interval syncs up

Perhaps I should take this opportunity to reassess my choice and move back to Pocket Casts. I was one of the original purchasers so I have a free lifetime subscription it seems.

It looks like they have some desktop apps too (UWP + Mac) which seems new
Haha I posted this years ago. Glad it’s still helpful! Funny it’s made it’s way back to the front page so many years later.
Linux development is hardly waterfall development.

Take io_uring.
It started with a very small subset of syscalls and they are now adding new ones at every release at every stage.

Take bpf. It was meant for networking, and it is slowly transforming into a brain new kind of OS.

Even before a feature lands in mainlinel, we're far from waterfall. Usually a developer will issue a RFC thread implementing a feature as quick and dirty, but as a basis to discuss, and to have people start to test and tinker with it to see what can be done with it.
Can someone explain to me why it's more philanthropic to amass billions instead of sharing profits with employees?

Like why doesn't Gates or Bezos give everyone a $100k bonus and keep a billion?
> It is not uncommon for urban pedestrians in Germany to be more concerned with danger posed to them by cyclists than by cars.

As they should! Cyclists are often closer by and silent.

Add to the fact that many cyclists are using the bike for exercise and seem to want to keep pace at any cost.

But mostly - a car is made for running in to humans at relatively low speed, causing as little damage as possible.

Bikes not so much.

I’d much rather be hit by a car at 30km/h than a bike.

Come to think of it - drivers license for cars probably makes a difference as well.

Edit - anecdote:

A co-worker of mine got hit by a bike at a buss stop.
Not really super fast, but oh my he got tangled.
Punctured lung, ruptured spleen, broken ribs etc.
He was off work for almost a year in total.
A modern car would most likely not have caused him, or the rider the kind of damage they incurred.
Why not link to the sheet already?
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It's an iterative process. There's a few methodologies for it (e.g. lean startup). You build something, ask users what they think, fix it according to feedback. At some point, they'll ask you when they can buy it, which is when it becomes a business. Then business is just finding similar people who would buy the same thing or a variation of it.

Doing it in the wrong order (selling something, getting customers, then building a product around it) usually results in a bad thing, where you end up giving out $1 of value for $0.80.

There's a lot more details here: https://startupclass.samaltman.com/
Related is samplesort https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samplesort - it is a comparison sort, and yes the complexity is also O(n log n), same as quicksort and merge sort. But it may have less branches, and possibly better cache locality. It is stable btw. Disadvantage: it uses a O(n) memory.

I made some experiments with samplesort, and found with Java it can be about 40% faster than Arrays.sort, and for C++ maybe 5-10% faster: https://github.com/thomasmueller/fastSort_java and https://github.com/thomasmueller/fastSort_cpp
I wonder, why the clean up and banning ?
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The weird thing to me is that IP bans supersede being logged-in to an account.

So even if you're logged in, you can't edit from a large corporate/etc. network or commercial VPN.
Which prevents you from using Netflix or YouTube etc.

Don’t connect your tv, but you need a device of some sort to use modern tv
As it stands Spotify apps are trash for listening to (or finding) anything other than popular music.

Podcasts, Classical music, or anything that doesn't fit the mould of Artist -> Album -> Track just doesn't fit their domain models.
The big problem with that thread isn't profanity or insults or tone. It's that the developers are repeatedly refusing to provide any detail or justification for their less-than-polite assertions that failed to answer the question. Some degree of insults and profanity can be tolerated if there's also useful content, but Henning Brauer and Theo de Raadt didn't make any useful contributions to that thread.
You need it explained why helping vulnerable and poor groups instead of giving a bonus to your already well payed employees is considered philanthropic? I really don't see what you're driving at here.
I didn't hurl abuse at her.

I hope if you have kids you tell them not to play in the road, even if it would be the car's fault if they were hit.

I recall a public service commercial from the 1960s where they suggested that all parties on the road pay attention, even when they have the right-of-way. The catchphrase was "don't be DEAD right".
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That’s a handy list of domains to put into pi-hole for them to be blocked.
These are anonymous technical critiques of situations that are typical in the life of a sysadmin/RSE/security engineer.

Even if your colleagues are super-smart they will still fuck up some of the time. In a large enough project someone's fucking up all the time and these people have to fix it.

Of course they're grumpy and tend to complain. That's how they stay sane and don't go postal at work :)

So next time you see an SRE or the like grab them for a coffee and tell them how much you appreciate them. It could save your life in the future.
You can also use ec2-instance-connect[0] to enable users to generate ephemeral keys that are valid for a few minutes, authenticated with IAM. The benefit is that it's all native after you've pushed your keys using either aws-cli or mssh.

It has more or less the same benefits that SSM has, and you can use the same method with ProxyCommand to establish authentication before connecting. You can also chain it using ProxyJump to use a bastion host. Wrapped in a tool like aws-vault you can quite easily work with 2FA and such.

[0] https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/06/introduci...
The anecdote wouldn't make sense if it wasn't reasonable that she move to the right.
I don’t understand when I visit SF and as a pedestrian when my light is go there still seem to be cars allowed to cross my path. Why don’t they stop cars entirely for pedestrians to cross? And why don’t the lights in SF allow you to cross diagonally?
> Like why doesn't Gates or Bezos give everyone a $100k bonus and keep a billion?

If you're looking to do philanthropic actions, giving all employees $100k doesn't do anything. It merely increases the wealth of those employees by a bit. What about fighting malaria? What about fighting climate change? Do you seriously expect all those recipients of $100k would all contribute as much proportionally?

And those employees have already been paid their agreed wages/salaries. So why does giving them extra money makes it more philanthropic?
In a true free market economy, those striking workers would either be offered more salary to work, or their other demands would be met.

Likewise, in a truly free market, supermarket shelves wouldn't be empty - prices would just be very high for the scarse goods.
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As much as I'm generally for wealth redistribution, that's not how it works. Gates and probably Bezos especially want to control their companies. They founded them, after all. So for that they own shares and those shares are the bulk of their money.

Also, I don't know about Amazon, but Microsoft was actually famous for distributing wealth quite well:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft

> The company's 1986 initial public offering (IPO), and subsequent rise in its share price, created three billionaires and an estimated 12,000 millionaires among Microsoft employees.
And without using fancy javascript frameworks or nodejs.
Maybe it has something to do with my not understanding its case sensitivity rules .. which I've learned about in this thread as being different.

As soon as it happens again I'll bring it here as an example, but like I said I stopped using silversearcher because of it getting in my way like that.
Yes, but likely at a predictable and slowing rate. Some graphs I've seen look something like a bell curve.
This is very good stuff. I'd also recommend CS50x, [1] the Intro to Computer Science from Harvard for those who need an intro before diving deeper, as it gives a solid grounding in most of these topics.

[1] https://www.edx.org/course/cs50s-introduction-to-computer-sc...
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