skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True with enough redundancy it's fine, and if they have special terms with SG such as free replacements and heavy discounts then it's little wonder they use so many.

Myself though, for SoHo use, I'm willing to pay more for less stress because I don't have the sheer volume of devices, and the time to replace is time spent doing something useful instead of shuffling HDDs and rebuilding RAID arrays. A 5% saving on a handful of drives is not worth it, but a 40% saving on thousands makes them competitive.
Do you provide discounts for third world country developers?
This is the data for mainland China, and it looks to be of an order with the data you cite. I think the main risk is whether the China data is accurate. I read the article subsequent to my comment and I realized that this interview accounts for the downward second derivative. The answer is: perhaps controls are working, or perhaps China is unable to test so many new cases. I'm inclined to believe the first hypothesis because apparently they were able to test 4.5k new cases in a day a few weeks ago. It doesn't really make sense to me that they would subsequently be able to test only 2.5k.
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Also, not to fear monger too much, but if this ends up happening there will inevitably be a period where people still assume that self driving cars are foolproof, and as a result, a lot of pedestrians/other drivers will get blamed for incidents that weren't in fact their fault.
It's definitely strange. And I do at times have 50+ tabs open on Firefox, so I'm not saying it's a constant issue, but I do see it overload my system from time to time. When it does, I close a few tabs, restart firefox, and go on my merry way.
I think under reasonable circumstances, it's probably a dick move to bail on a company with no notice that actually treated you well. It seems to me however a perfectly ethical action to not place your mental health or well-being at the behest of what the parent here so accurately described as a soulless corporate machine that treated you like garbage. If you want or need to get out, then get out.
I’m not even sure the Mac Pro boxes are for devs. They seem pretty laser focused on Hollywood and similar for whatever reason, to my estimation anyway.
Kinda sad to not see Joanna Rutkowska in the article or in the comments anywhere. She's contributed a lot to computer science generally, but the biggest thing is probably her work on qubes os, which is an awesome project.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joanna_Rutkowska
As someone who travels a lot and often has very bad internet no thank you
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One of Apple's core strength is in marketing. I heard some folks refer to an Android phone as an iPhone. When I pointed out that it was in fact an Android (LG), they didn't knew what Android was. For them, the category of devices that we call "smartphones", are named iPhones.

Again, Apple did a hell of a marketing job here.
I have a small oneliner wrapped in shell I use to get uniq, but emitting stuff as seen and never repeating. (hash table counting refs)

I routinely use awk when cut is obsessing about IFS awk does LWSP compression so you can get ' one two. three' to match properly when cut thinks field 1 (oh god, code which counts from 1 not zero..) is a ' ' space awk '{print $1}' just works.

I used awk to compile a list of unique IP addresses seen over GB inputs, 350m+ unique IPs. it was within scale both for memory footprint and speed of python and perl, for hash constructs. Basically, Brian coded it efficiently, all the perl claims of maximal hash efficiency did not add much in terms of speed OR size outcome.

I choose to code in python3, but I use awk for one liners. Its great. I avoid gawk-isms. I don't see the need.
I'm very confused. The definition of LSP is:

> Subtype Requirement: Let ϕ(x) be a property provable about objects x of type T. Then ϕ(y) should be true for objects y of type S where S is a subtype of T.

Why is the exact value of the string returned not a provable property? And, to your example, if a provable property is that the returned string represents the object, how did you know it was a provable property? And how do you prove it?

The rule seems very formal, but your notions seem very informal, and I don't know how to reconcile them.
They might also mean CarPlay, which is closer in idea to “plug cord in get desktop UI”
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Glad to see Fran Allen on the list.

I remember reading (in the early 90's) several papers authored or co-authored by "F.E. Allen" and having no clue "F.E." was a woman until a few years later.

I was in a compiler workshop several years ago and when I looked up I realized she was sitting directly in front of me at the workshop. I believe she was retired at the time but still attending conferences out of personal interest.
Not OP, but I've found BuJo incredibly useful.

It's less any one element of the concept than the fact that it's immensely negligence-tolerant. Sort of like quitting smoking: you can do it a thousand times, but it's so easy to pick up again.

That and the notion of an index, which is IMO key to the whole concept, moreso than the bullet notations and other organisation.

Longer discussions here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22134879

Also here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22086217

After resumability and index: spreads. Basically, an idea hits you, take a two or four-page section, title it, add it to the index, and collect thoughts on That Thing there.

One early spread I did (and still maintain) is "How to organize BuJo" (or words to that effect). Pages wanted, management ideas, etc. List things you might want to manage, figure out how to do that, and then ... Just Do It.

I make a practice of starting from the front and back of the journal, with more-fixed references (frequently-called numbers / email, reference information, hours of operation, Significant Other details (dates, measures, etc.) in the back, whilst various projects tend to hit where they occur to me in the course of a year.

(And yes, I've been starting a new journal each year, a bit of housecleaning / stop-lossing.)

The manual overhead (numbering pages, adding month overviews, etc.) is slightly tedious, but also a practice-of-presence and/or awareness that helps focus the mind and encourage review.

The Bullet Journal site itself is pretty good (https://bulletjournal.com). There are numerous very artsy BuJo videos on YouTube. I tend to discourage those -- BuJo is a functional tool, but also a personal tool, and the notion of competitive BuJo strikes me a bit like competitive yoga: spectacularly missing the point. If your muse says "glitter-gun and washi-paper All The Things", then great. But if not, a well-used but non-artistic BuJo beats the pants off one that would feature well on Instagram or Pinterest.
I would never buy a car that's just better than an average driver: many crashes come from driving while drunk, in a fog, on ice, etc.

I would only buy a car that's as good as a fully attentive, sober, skilled and well rested driver.

Besides, there will be unforceen issues that increase your likelihood of death: hacking, sensor failures, etc.
Set the place on fire and never look back. In retrospect, I totally agree.
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Oh yeah, it depends on the hardware and also how they're configured
No. This is just a macOS port of an app that has been on iOS for years now.
My local ARCO gas station and Winco only accept debit.
The headline refers to the global outlook. Even if cases in China peak in the near future, there may well be new outbreaks in other countries soon.

Quoting the relevant section:

> GAZETTE: Is it significant that there are so few cases internationally compared with the number in China? Is that an indication that control measures are working or is it just gathering steam internationally?

> LIPSITCH: Unfortunately, I think it’s more likely to be that it’s gathering steam. We’ve released a preprint that we’ve been discussing publicly — and trying to get peer reviewed in the meantime — that looks at the numbers internationally, based on how many cases you would expect from normal travel volumes. And a couple of things are striking. One is that there are countries that really should be finding cases and haven’t yet, like Indonesia and maybe Cambodia. They are outside the range of uncertainty you would expect even given variability between countries. So our best guess is that there are undetected cases in those countries. Indonesia said a couple of days ago that it had done 50 tests, but it has a lot of air travel with Wuhan, let alone the rest of China. So 50 tests is not enough to be confident you’re catching all the cases. That’s one bit of evidence that to me was really striking. Second, I was reading The Wall Street Journal that Singapore had three cases so far that were not traced to any other case. Singapore is the opposite of Indonesia, in that they have more cases than you would expect based on their travel volume, probably because they’re better at detection. And even they are finding cases that they don’t have a source for. That makes me think that many other places do as well. Of course, we’re making guesses from limited information, but I think they’re pretty likely to be correct guesses, given the totality of information.
Another nice feature thing about Apple Pay (and maybe some others?) is automatic updating.

Some place I could not use Apple Pay with was involved in a breach, and so my bank notified me that I was getting a new card, and to start using it as soon as it came in the mail.

At about the same time as I got the email notice that this was happening, I got a notification on my iPhone that the card had been updating in Apple Pay to the new one. No action was required on my part.

I have no idea how they did that. I know there is a credit card updater service provided by at least Visa, MC, Discover, and AmEx that allows merchants with those cards on-file to ask for updates. We use that where I work, but the interface to it involves posting a file that contains one record per card we want updated in a fixed field format straight out of the punched char days (but wider than punched card). Then, typically in two or three days, a similar file comes back with update records for some of those cards. More updates trickle in that way over the next few days. And some never get a response.

Anyone know what it takes to get access to the kind of updates Apple is getting, where apparently the banks push the updates and they are very timely? Is this something only very high volume entities can get?
Yes, and you don't have to spend one hour learning how to push a button.

A version control system is tackling a non-trivial problem. Go learn it properly, otherwise you'll be one of the 'users' that, at best, will be stumped on trivial issues, losing productivity and running to others for help. At worst, you'll be making bad decisions and dragging down your team.

Would you also say that you don't need to learn anything and can just "guess" while working with a programming language?
It's slightly more complicated than that. The `git` command line itself was done in shell. Initially, `git foo` just ran `git-foo-script`, and then those were also written in shell. But the actual sha1 and packfile stuff was always in C from the beginning.

Source: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git/commit/git?h=v0.9...
I think what laypeople and experts mean by "asymptomatic" is different and contributes to talking past each other.

One of the first symptoms of this coronavirus is a dry cough. These people would not be considered asymptomatic in the technical sense because clearly they have a symptom.

However a cough is such a common thing that healthy people do all the time, in a practical sense a person who only has a cough is functionally asymptomatic and able to go about their daily lives. It is only when they develop a fever that they become sick enough to notice.
It's the difference between a typed language and a program written in that language.
iPhone XS and it’s perfectly smooth in an embedded web controller in MiniHack’s app!
Sally Floyd? did heaps of work on TCP/IP
Alison Mankin? head of the IRTF, also big in networking. RFCs
Elise Gerich? ran NSFnet, Was IANA for many years. RFCs
Susan Hares? does BGP stuff. RFCs
> you'd have to convert the number of fatalities to an accuracy percentage

Telsa's early results for their very limited "self-driving" technology has shown a huge reduction in accidents for any given period of time the vehicles are on the road.
They haven't shut down, they are selling their prototype and I think they have recently put out a new model.
Thanks for your kind comment and the feedback. That’s a great idea. When we created the categories, the idea was to bucket these questions based on certain type of information only like collecting feedback or understanding work relationships but I agree these can be more crisp and specific.
If TransferWise were to fail, you would not be entitled to compensation (up to £85,000) from the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) — this is a scheme that banks and building societies authorised by the Prudential Regulation Authority sign up to and fund.

TransferWise is only registered with the Prudential Regulation Authority as an e-money service authorised to provide payment services. You can search the register at https://register.fca.org.uk.

In reality, they appear to hold the funds with Barclays so if TransferWise failed, you'd get the funds back. It's only if Barclays themselves became insolvent that you'd be out of pocket since you wouldn't be covered by the FSCS.
That's fascinating. Was that a design or utility patent?

Oh dear me, it was a utility patent.

They spent years trying to get it approved and ultimately abandoned the application (presumably realizing they were never going to get it)

Application #US20080020106A1
Ask HN: Should someone write something “complex” without reading about it first?
I'd like to write an interpreter, and thought it would be nice to write one without learning/reading about them and then once it's done, read a book about it to see what I should have done differently. One of the appeal for me is that many things I read these days solve problems I haven't encountered which makes me sometimes wonder If I'm not just doing certain things because I read about them rather than because they actually are useful/solve an issue.

However, a downside, is that it may be an enormous waste of time and be almost impossible with little to no benefit. What do you think?

And do you believe there is a threshold (in difficulty, complexity...) at which point it isn't advisable? (An interpreter could be before or after that threshold)
Glad to see this here. Really took away a lot of the "magic" that intimidated be about the lower level operations of computers.
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> ... or in the comments anywhere

You fixed that particular problem ;)

From the article:

> I left a lot of qualified people out because there were a lot of people and I got lazy. Consider this a sampler rather than an exhaustive list.
Note that this is the case because Go lacks generics, so it's not a quick or easy fix
When the friction/anxiety cost of explaining your exit is higher than the cost of ghosting, you get ghosts.

It seems the pressures that used to deter this behavior have fallen away, and ghosting is effectively free at the individual level (I'd guess that it's expensive at the societal level).

Labor and dating markets have bottomed out the cost to try new engagements, and since everyone recognizes this, they invest less in each one.

Feels like a chicken an egg problem. It doesn't make sense to train employees that will ghost you after they're certified, but it doesn't make sense to dedicatee yourself to an employer that treats you like a flight risk. Nobody tries hard because nobody else is trying hard.
Heh. My 1988 copy is sitting on the shelf next to me...
Short answer: Adobe (and their Photoshop) is pretty much the reason Fireworks never got better traction.

Longer answer:

Fireworks was originally a Macromedia product. Back when it was released, from what I recall, it was in fact getting some pretty reasonable traction: in many folks eyes, it was a good upcoming web graphics tool, by the folk who made Flash (which actually had many fans back then). It was cheaper than Adobe's Photoshop, and addressed a different use case, and in those cases it certainly had better workflow.

Then Adobe acquired Macromedia. Fireworks pretty much got back-seated, most probably because Adobe already had a flagship 2d/photo graphics editor. A tiny handful of Fireworks' features made it into Photoshop. And Fireworks got a small amount of integration with the rest of the Adobe suite. But Adobe never really promoted Fireworks. And AFAIK they simply never put any resources (developers) into Fireworks.
exactly that actually, we posted a flyer in a computer store, I think it was called "Cybertech" and had a couple ppl show up the first night, then a few more, then a few more. We started having a table at computer shows helping people install linux on their desktops, and finally we ended up taking over a cybercafe and converted all of the desktops to linux. You could run a web browser, play doom, it was fun.
Devices capable of Google Pay may be more prevalent, but banks are less likely to support Google Pay. (Some of which is due to the fact that on Android, unlike iOS, it's possible to roll your own NFC payment app, so some banks insist on building their own trashy payment apps rather than supporting Google Pay.)
That's cool, but it must not be universal, because I've always had to re-setup my debit card.
It has never worked for me. Even at the Apple store!

Clearly it works for someone because "10% of global transactions" but, I'm guessing it has something to do with how bad Apple is at dealing with international issues like the fact the App Store is completely fucked if you need apps from multiple countries I can only guess Apple Pay is just as fucked.
> The problem directed the choice of Go, not the other way around. I
seriously considered OCaml or a compiled Lisp as alternatives. I
concluded that in either case the semantic gap between Python and
the target language was so large that translation would be
impractical. Only Go offered me any practical hope.

I wish they expanded more on this point. Do they mean that rewriting in, say, Lisp would be longer because it wouldn't be a 'port' and more like writing a new program from scratch?

EDIT: Spoke too soon. Reading more carefully, I answered my own question.

> Python reposurgeon was 14 KLOC of dense code. At that scale, any
prudent person in a situation like this will perform as linear and
literal a translation as possible;
Sure thing.

First, note that Eric Feigl-Ding is a nutritional epidemiologist, not an infectious disease epidemiologist. Infectious diseases are weird for a lot of reasons, and require something of a different skillset.

For example, in a Tweet of his he has now deleted: "never seen an actual virality coefficient outside of Twitter in my entire career." about the estimate for R0 for this novel coronavirus.

Similar R0 estimates existed for SARS, and MERS. Measles, Rubella and a number of other diseases have vastly higher R0s.

He also messed up some things like conflating R0 with secondary attack rates, and was generally very sensationalistic. Basically, the things that boosted him to prominence in this epidemic built on fairly sloppy reasoning from someone outside the field.

He's calmed down now, but one might as well go to sources for people who are both good at science communication and actual outbreak scientists.
I returned a fruitcake to Costco.

I was so disappointed that Costco had sold me something so subpar I returned it. I don’t know what they were thinking.
Came here to say this. Engaging, thoughtful, truly well written... This excellent piece is a real contribution to the body of knowledge of language design, and I'm grateful I got to read it.
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Why not get with the times and give the face masks away for free and just collect the data and sell the data? Targeted nyquil and chicken soup ads could be a valuable commodity.
It's hard for me to be "super happy" with a DE. But GNOME 3 does mean that I don't notice it all that often, and that's pretty good. It's predictable, it doesn't look ugly, and applications act about as predictably as they ever have in the Linux universe.

I grew out of theming and tweaking the look of a desktop before I got to high school. These days the only tweaking I do on any OS is keyboard shortcuts. The baseline has gotten good enough to just not care, and my guess is that that's most users' position regardless of OS.
Down days are almost always a sign you need to take time off.

(Advice I should follow far more often myself.)
> No idea who the OP is, in any case.

The person that originally posted this thread that works for the company that's selling this FUD. At the bottom of the blog post:

"Roboflow accelerates your computer vision workflow through automated annotation quality assurance"

This is a non-issue exasperated by a for-profit corporation that's creating an "issue" they conveniently have a service to help you fix.
Unfortunately "rt" TLD is not a thing. Otherwise it'd be worthwhile to register sh.rt as an alternate domain for sr.ht.
And it will happen again. There were cases of people forgetting Nuclear Weapons on a runway for a whole day by accident. People, eventually, will fuck up. Mislabelled datasets will be used.
For a more serious (and large scale approach) to epidemic modeling, and 2019 nCov applications, check out: https://www.mobs-lab.org/2019ncov.html
You can have whatever kinks you want, but you can't escape the germ theory of disease.
Not particularly, anyone here who deals with sales for any amount of Americans will quickly see that they're the odd one out with contactless.

It's not that there's heaps of different scenarios, it's that there's America and the rest of the world.
Wasn't it released in 2016 ? Why is it top of hacker news today?
Adele Goldberg of Xerox PARC / Smalltalk fame.
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Most Americans only experience small parts justice systems eg: traffic tickets, civil courts, the usual things in our daily life. But the US justice system is huge and has really varied uses and applications.

To extrapolate all the abuses of the wider justice system to a highly specialized court whose only purpose is national security would be a mistake, in my opinion. It's such a specific purpose and such a specialized role, it's hard to say for certain.

The only thing we have to go off is the testimony and opinions of those who have experienced it. We have no other barometer or metric, everything else is hearsay.

You're not wrong, it's just not a strong argument.
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Performance overhead, I'm not that worried about - if you're throwing exceptions routinely in the critical path, there's likely a lot else wrong with your code. The crappy part about C++ exceptions is that they also introduce a substantial binary size overhead.
The rougher the better I’ve found!
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That's simply not how security clearances work.

They don't just get access to things unilaterally, nor do they share.
> Apple Pay is great, but I wish it was more universally accepted at point of sale. But in the US we're not even at consistency in any form of POS payment method.

That's something Samsung got right with their execution. It also emulates a mag stripe so it works in way more places in the US (its always fun when casher tells you you don't accept contactless payments and they see it work)
And I don't mind a bit of story telling. Or background on why something is done a certain way etc. But we don't need a memoir