skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> China Sacrifices a Province to Save the World From Coronavirus

Bullshit.

The world would have been like exactly like Hubei, and Hubei no different if they didn't lock it down.

There was no "Sacrifices"

Putting in curfew reduced deaths if anything, they also added doctors and built hospitals.

If the 'sacrifice' is economic because of curfews, then fair enough, but they do not have deaths or illness worse because of the lock down.
All about from Design, Development and Business Solution
> on my ancient MBP 2012

I still do all my work on one, fast as the day I bought it.
That is the difference between an internal and external DSL.
See https://martinfowler.com/dsl.html
Thanks for the tip, interesting list, wonder why Samsung is on the list for T5 SSD drive ?

System Version: macOS 10.14.6 (18G2022)

kextstat -l | grep -v com.apple | tr -s ' ' | cut -f 7,8 -d ' '

com.logitech.manager.kernel.driver (6.62.1)
com.samsung.portablessd.driver (1.5.02)
com.intel.driver.EnergyDriver (3.7.0)
com.bitgapp.eqMac2Driver (2.0)
com.objective-see.lulu (1.2.3)
com.Cycling74.driver.Soundflower (2)
org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxDrv (6.1.2)
com.intel.kext.intelhaxm (7.5.1)
org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxUSB (6.1.2)
org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxNetFlt (6.1.2)
org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxNetAdp (6.1.2)
I'm so glad I never picked up this habit.. my phone tends to last at least 5 days on a charge, with a few minutes of screen on time.

Still procrastinating too much on HN & IRC with a PC.

HN is a blessing and a curse. I've learnt a lot here, but there's also a ton of (attractive) noise.
Yeah I agree. And I don't mind the grain in the second one. The third one looks unnatural - just looks like the smart sharpen tool in photoshop, rounding off the highlights and flattening texture. Don't get what all the fuss is about.
> Why are you trying to use obscure proprietary software instead?

I'm not trying. In fact, I rejected that Wacom tablet exactly for that.

Some time ago when you unbox a product it was not uncommon to hear something like: "Sorry but as you are a Linux user we, the makers, will try to make your journey miserable not providing any support. Ha haa!. Maybe some volunteer working for free will fix this new model in six months. Maybe not".

Sorry maker but as you don't provide drivers for users like me, I will not use it. Bye. Have a good day.

They do not laught so much today
The precautionary principle and Coronavirus impact
Placebo and Nocebo Effects
China bad commie ️️️

Amurca good 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲

All countries regularly turn fear of X into X is evil.
The problem is that installing SAP into a going concern does force you to reinvent the wheel: as an auditor you might not notice it or might even rejoice, but the truth is that the whole operative side of the business needs to reinvent itself in order to conform to the mould the new ERP software requires. Auditing, accountancy, control... those are offline, non-value-adding activities and services that quite frankly the enterprise-minded couldn’t care less about.
Cancer and Startups
As someone that uses Python and Django most of the time (a "slow" language), I haven't seen much in the way of performance problems at the application level. Usually some database optimization will do the trick.

Actually thinking about it- I have inherited plenty of performance problems at the application layer, but that's because the joins were effectively being done at the application level (and making huge numbers of database calls) when they should have been done at the database layer.
Didn't read the book yet, but from your description absolutely agree on the trickiness of the problem - it almost requires solving the "proper artificial intelligence" problem first, like you say.

However, I imagine it could be applied to refine an existing question? There certainly exist "obviously poor" questions on SO, and it's a good first step to make otherwise poor question "look" like a good question - trivial things like formatting and misuse of the language. It won't get other, high-level attributes of a genuinely good question however, but some poor questions are poor in just that - formatting and language, the "requires editing" queue.

Regarding "intrinsically poor" questions, on the other hand, if everyone used the described model, readers would now have an increased cognitive load to distinguish between good and poor questions. Over time, the described model would drop in performance, as the "typical good question attributes" are used in poor questions which wouldn't have those otherwise.

(Forgive me for trivialising the concept of the quality of a question)

It's still a very interesting problem for a book. It's just as suitable for demonstrating the model development process, and it's likely very relevant to the vast majority of the readers (I imagine).
> no need to be an ass about it

I disagree. Sometimes people used to everyone walking eggshells around them need a jolt of assholishness.
Office 365 and Azure with other cloud based services is still counted under the 'Commercial Cloud' division. I'm sure that's what op is referring to and with G Suite and GCP under the Google Cloud division.
A fruit vendor's struggle to build a school for the village children (2012)
In my country it is voluntary to be listed in such a phonebook whereas with already a small number of friends the chances approach 100% that at least one of them has my contact info stolen by Twitter, FB, WA, etc. If i dont like this i would have to stop giving out numbers and not be reachable by sms/call.
Also, they immediately set a cookie "GCUS" with some hash-id as value, before redirecting to the consent domain. So even if you don't accept they already set a cookie!
The town did not see any action but, as all towns in France, all fit men were sent to the front lines, and many never came back, as illustrated by the monuments listing the deads of WWI and WWII in all French towns and villages.
I think you're copy-pasting China's literal response into some hypothetical other culture that isn't being clearly explained, which isn't useful for those of us that can't read your mind.

Concretely, the US CDC for example prefers setting up physically separate internment camps and moving infected populations there for quarantine. And they can easily get the backing of federal military resources or, in the case of a state governor declaring a state of emergency, the state's National Guard to enforce this. It could get ugly, but only for a few zealots. Modern history (20th century til now) shows that a majority of Americans are generally willing to give up civil liberties in emergencies that relate to "national security" or "think of the children" causes.

Edit: And of course curfew laws can be directed by a state government during a state of emergency, or federally during a state of emergency from the Public Health Service Act, and enforced by military forces.
23.976 FPS in most cases actually. For anyone wondering, this is a rate that fits at an even ratio in the old 60 Hz analog TV broadcasts, minus the frames reserved to piggy back color information along the old black and white signal. It's a meaningless technical artifact nowadays.
Acunetix v13 Release Introduces Groundbreaking Innovations
Not least if you consider than it's very sunny and 30+ degrees (C) during summer in that area.
Interesting trivia on the name (from Wikipedia):

> Some English speakers use the word "babushka" [бaбушка] (the word for 'grandma' in Russian) to indicate a headscarf tied below the chin, as still commonly worn in rural parts of Europe.

However the author should be aware that most people would interpret "bab(a|u)shka" as "grandma" and not as a scarf. Which works too, I guess. Personally, I always think of a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matryoshka_doll (which is also sometimes called babushka) when I see this word...
Remember than PNG compress data like it would for text, using DEFLATE:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Network_Graphics#Comp...

What doesn't change is raw data. In general maps are not like photography, maps are simplified diagrams so that things can be easily distinguished, and that makes them much easier to compress using lossless methods, so using a reduced amount of colors will not be really noticeable, especially if colors are properly chosen.

Look at the palette of an OSM tile: https://i.imgur.com/ecaP17l.png

Using a 8 color palette instead of 256 on xnview results in a 50% reduction. A 16 color palette results in about 40%, but the result is much better. So it does save memory but not that much.
Licensing illegal immigrants significantly reduces the number of unlicensed and uninsured rivers

You have actual data showing this?

In CA, cases of driving without valid licenses and without insurance have increased since CA started issuing licenses to those here illegally.
you ignore the bugs and let them be, and if anyone questions that, you give them some vaguely related Confucius quote
Dropship at its finest—Borderline unethical
I think the potential of micro-payments was never reached because transactions are currently too large, and uni-directional. If we could process payments of $0.01, it would create a culture were you are actually willing to pay for content. Also, if you make a insightful comment, a product review, or even a upvote, you should receive some credits to spend back on consuming content. Doesn't have to be blockchain, it would be effective even if limited to one site or content provider.
Probably the same reason why I had to buy every house in GTA and get every armour in Skyrim... we all have our delightful obsessions!
I think there is also wuwei in "improving" programming. Depends on the source of wanting to optimize and improve...
Recently switched from a - what used to be high-end 10 years ago - 1080p plasma TV to a 4k OLED with HDR, and I must say, the HDR is much more impressive than the 4k tbh... 1080p with HDR would be fine for me...
Using a battery powered drone for vertical takeoff and landing of aircraft
Can someone tell me why it matters ? They are just drawing apps.
Now if we can get thousands of software devs to get together across orgs, and develop a detailed picture of all possible software bugs then imagine...oh wait we already do that...and we still have a zillion bugs on bug trackers the world over.

How come?

As Gandhi said we "attach an exaggerated importance to prolonging mans earthly existence"

The software industry has realized keeping old code alive (specifically by fixing ancient bugs in outdated systems) creates more problems than it solves. Sooner or later we will realize the same thing about Cancer.
> wonder why Samsung is on the list for T5 SSD drive ?

Maybe it's a driver to mount a Samsung phone as a virtual SSD?
> Unhooking a toilet is apparently an advanced skill in Florida.

I am a former licensed master plumber, and I still hold a license to work as a plumber so I just want to weigh in here. I would never, Not Ever drink the water in Any industrial or commercial complex. Period. The reason is because although it is not technically difficult to "unhook a toliet" as you say it is even easier (especially now with the advent of Home Depot and Amazon selling all manner of "plumbing contraptions") to inadverntly create a potential cross conection. Here is the reason I do not drink the water (or or soda or soup or anything that uses their water supply): when I was a plumbing contractor one of my accounts was a wire and plating facility that made a lot of different automotive fasteners and what not (pretty cool mavhines btw), one day I walked into the plating room And I was Horrifired to see washing machine hoses attached to spigots literally laying in the plating solutions that contained Cyanide... no vacuum breakers no RPZ's (reduced pressure zone devices) nothing to protect the water supply from siphoning Cyanide back into it. Fuck that noise--never since have I drank the water, nor never will I again. And
I have seen coutless cross connections since then in all manner of facilities.

Not to mention not having a clue about proper material and methods while working on on natural gas or LPG sytems and so on, and so on. You can do a lot of damage really really fast if you're clueless.
Right now I am working to reduce costs in one of my employer projects currently using GCP.

If I am successful I hope to save 60% in storage costs and another 70% in CPU costs.

Then I hope I will be free to NOT DO the CiC (check-in-chats).
(hate to have to copy over the tickets from ZD to another system because because)

The savings will pay for my salary and 2 coworkers.

And If I get a good teammate we can slash all servers things to 1/8 and still do auto-scale. I need someone on the Java team to help.
ADHD Brain User Manual
Shared Services was setup to handle the (relatively speaking) easier part of the "digital issue": infrastructure. And, by public accounts, it's been a disaster.
I'm new here, so are you that snarky Twitter guy with an open jaw pic as a profile pic? I'm not sure if you still consider an at least 8 billion dollar annual revenue run rate business (GCP) as a 'hobby'.
I had a habit of doing `sudo shutdown now` on my desktop as I'm leaving my office. I don't know why, it takes longer than simply hitting the power button.

Didn't notice I was still SSH'ed into "the" server which was at the time a single point of failure for my entire project, and as a lowly not-an-IT-person-just-a-developer in our corporate environment, I didn't have access to the machine to go power it back on. And the IT people I knew who could help had gone home for the day.

Felt super dumb writing that up in the downtime log the next day.

Having read this article, it makes me super glad I'm working on very niche slow-paced stuff which, when goes down for ~12 hours, is a minor annoyance to our users rather than "you're costing us millions of $currency per minute" :-)
Backstory: https://www.reddit.com/r/relationship_advice/comments/ezivwn...
Every single one of your projection is still way off compare to lowest cost embedded system. $0.3 is expensive when people are really, literally counting pennies.
It's even more annoying that they reuse the same color scheme for Android Auto - the Maps map is significantly less contrasty than my Mazda's built-in car nav and it's also significantly less glanceable.
Yes, in the sense that they avoided RealID compliance via getting exemptions from the Obama administration every year.
Energy usage and compute amount are company secrets that they simply won't discuss in the open.
All kinds of things. Mis-configured project defaults, typo's, additional formatting/UI tweaking, really a lot of productive things can be done in less than 6 minutes.

Different strokes for different folks - just because you don't work that way, shouldn't preclude thinking about folks who do. The world is a big use case.
In FreeBSD and NetBSD there's a USB_IFACE_DRIVER_DETACH ioctl(). But things are very different on XNU. (-:
Handle JavaScript Exception(Like a Pro)
Swatch owns a bunch, too. Also, some other brands actually buy their mechanics from Swatch (not sure if Richemont is among them too).
I think the email was badly worded and poorly orchestrated, but I'm not convinced that the intent was to spread fear, or even necessarily to upsell.

If you were Cloudflare and detected a sudden increase in traffic classified as malicious/non-human to a site you look after, would you notify your customer? If so, how, and would you try and offer a way of remediating?

@levelsio shares another screenshot here: https://twitter.com/levelsio/status/1225155622607323139/phot.... "From my experience, if your business is not in following category: ecommerce, website with booking engine, online news, fintech, this bot traffic will not likely to affect your business" does not come across to me as an attempt to upsell.

Again, as for CDT not responding and support not having access the the report... this is clearly sloppy and should be addressed by Cloudflare, as it's not a good customer experience. But if it was a proper attempt by Cloudflare to spread fear to upsell services, wouldn't you expect it to be a little more... organised?
Agreed. A Recfiles is to CSV what YAML is to JSON (and what MarkDown is to HTML).
No more Obama administration to grant exemptions to blue states.
Canadian here, but left 20 years ago, but I read CBC news daily.

That Phoenix pay system was a total cluster that lasted for years. I remember reading headlines and thinking “they haven’t fix it yet?”.

Made the ACA website in the US look like a resounding success. People were literally not getting paid for months (years?) and the gov’ts was like “working on it!”.
> If we had treated him as severe ADHD, he would have gone on medication. The medication would have exacerbated his anxiety and caused worse behavior and we would have increased the dose. The entire thing would have ruined his childhood from the misdiagnosis.

You've imagined a situation. You're catastrophising. Increasing the dose when symptoms get worse would be profoundly stupid on your part and that of the psychiatrist: that's the part where they'd reassess the diagnosis. You have the gall to call me "deadly wrong" about my lived experience of ADHD based on an imagined situation?
These people I have been seeing them at his house on numerous occasions, we are on a first name basis and open jokes.

It's not like I had glimpsed someone's shoulders and wanted to cold call them to pitch them my startup idea of the week or creepily ask for a date (I remember it was to follow through with a conversation about DIY hydroponic with one and coffee brewing with another). Friend got tired of relaying messages at some point :). We rarely got to the point of giving out contact information on the moment though (that was the flow of those meetings and I think it's not a cultural thing to exchange business card in such settings in my country). Also, we are not the kind of people to hang on facebook, so discovery is weak.

Totally agree it is correct behaviour with strangers though.

And it was only a minor annoyance at some point so well... no biggie. (Except that time he divorced and he wouldn't give me his ex-wife's number so I could get back some DVD she had borrowed)

edit: also, I wouldn't ask for contact info if I wasn't confident that it was okay for the person to get a call from me and I am confident that my friend knows I won't mess up things by being inappropriate.
What blobs did you find in mainline Linux?
> buggy, default telnet passwords, silly vulnerabilities, crashing ActiveX plugins

This pretty much happens with any equipment. If it's very cheap there's no reasonable expectation that they put too much effort into building and maintaining it. If it's expensive there may be other interests involved.

The difference is what your nationalism dictates: When you hear of a Huawei vulnerability you think "spying", and when you hear of a Cisco one (or five [0]) you think "bug". In the end the choice is to buy cheap and have all the careless bugs, or to buy expensive and only have the by design ones. And whether you think they are malicious or not depends on where you come from relative to the product.

[0] https://www.tomshardware.com/news/cisco-backdoor-hardcoded-a...
I can only imagine the level of hardship on the test the professor would go to achieve his objective of failing you...
If you sold this, I'd buy it! Patent it and profit.
As usual, politicians start to claim privacy rights when it comes to them, and yet this technology is already being tested throughout major European cities.

The hypocrisy is real.
I generally agree with this, but also disagree with this.

I think being forceful ("you are addicted") about how someone spends their time is the exact opposite of the approach you want to take. Yes, I regret many hours I spent on optimization, trying to do the best thing, trying to improve my productivity. I know that those things prevented me from focusing on what was really important - the so-called yak-shaving can dig you a hole of trying to do things really well.

But at the same time, I genuinely enjoy yak-shaving now. It's pretty fun. I'd say people are more obsessive over stuff than not, but it doesn't seem helpful to call them addicted.

For some people, programming is really fun and good. For others, balance is important. Nobody really can tell you what's important and what's not, except for that very question of importance.

I see people into spirituality and the like trying to force not-forcing on themselves. Being obsessed with work is not the best way forward (and a bit rigid), but also you sometimes have to do it. Sometimes being obsessed is fun and useful and actually gets things done.

I feel like I have toned down my disagreements as I write this comment, because life should really not be about productivity. But sometimes it should be. I in part do regret times that I spent optimizing stuff, but because I went through that, I now appreciate having less intent.

Who knows, maybe someone telling you you're addicted is what gets people to change afterall.
Not knowing much about your friend's service, it sounds like the value of his product is "heavy processing". Therefore, I also would have included scalability as part of a v1 deliverable and wouldn't consider it as an optimization task. Great that your friend identified that.
I try to contribute to OSM whenever I get the chance from my smartphone. I like that others do too; often times it'll give me walking directions through a mall or whatever sometimes shaving 10 minutes off. It's only as good as it's users though, so I encourage more to contribute.
> The cause can be said to be that I am trying to read it.

No it can't, because most other people can get the information from reading it just fine. The cause is that you're reading it with ADHD.

But we're talking at odds here - I'm not talking about finding coping strategies, but looking for the root cause of ADHD. For the current state of medical science, the latter doesn't really help with the former.
Bluespec Compiler is now open-source
Q4 cloud revenue for the big 3
This is naive, but many - especially young people fall for it, their enthusiasm is exploited. All progress is priced in immediately, this is the lection everyone learns - or should learn - after a few years at least.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamster_wheel
Sure but that's going to mainly depend on where their energy comes from, not how much they use.
I guess the obvious reference is Bozo, the clown...
Computers use electricity. Find a way to generate electricity without CO2. If people can't watch videos of foreign places then they will have to travel to foreign countries which will cause more CO2.
Thursday: The Fall of Babylon
Why Are Conser­Vat­IVE Values Winning over GEN ZERS on Tiktok?
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This ends poorly I feel.

Having the intent to improve often destroys the process itself. It's very subtle and case-by-case, but a bit of leisure and leeway with work is good. I do like monitoring myself, but only if I am kind of just enjoying it? Not really trying to "improve" per se.
Current side project is an API for holding event/venue data.

My own use case is a ticketmaster-style service for small venues and free gigs, but I'm trying to keep it flexible enough for the same API to be used across multiple services.
Sorry, but unless it was clear I was not attacking any country. I was trying to stand up for fellow Finland, not attacking it .

But I should not have suggested there are stupid people. One should stick to arguing the case.
SPN: Safing Privacy Network – New VPN Killer?
> I get about 3 seconds to read it.

This trick apparently still works: after the page loads and before it disappears, hit ESC. Instant-freeze and you can read the article! :)
AI is helping common people life
Where in my response am I hailing anybody as a hero?

My main point is that HN (including the original poster) seems to assume that the CCP is some all-seeing, perfectly coordinated entity, when it's actually 100 million people (!) and even party apparatchiks have wildly differing agendas and levels of competence.