skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll avoid repeating my comments from the previous thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22406070) and say just the ones that I think didn't get enough attention:

1. I can't speak for Hillel Wayne who used the word "framed", but I didn't understand his newsletter post as Bentley having "framed" Knuth -- I understood his post as pointing out that in the popular imagination/folklore, the story had mutated over the course of years from the original setting (a program that Knuth was asked to write in WEB specifically as that was the point, and a review of that program by McIlroy evangelizing the then little-known Unix philosophy) to a "framing" where two people were competing to solve the same problem with the same available resources, and one of them did it in a "worse" way. (Also left this comment on the blog post above.)

2. Here's a comment on the previous thread from someone who says they read the column when it was posted, and their reaction they say was one of cringing -- so at least at that time it probably wasn't perceived that way: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22418721

3. Much of the space taken by the literate program is for explaining a very interesting data structure that we could call a hash-packed trie (AFAICT, devised on that occasion for that problem -- a small twist on the packed tries used in TeX for hyphenation, and described in the thesis of Knuth's student Frank Liang). One cannot obtain this data structure by combining other programs, only by combining other ideas. (I mentioned this in the previous thread as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22413391)

4. So as far as evaluating literate programming goes, the real question (and the answer is not obvious to me!) is: if you're going to write a program that uses a custom data structure (like this), how should you organize that program? Should you write it as Knuth does, or as a conventional program (like I tried to do with my translation: https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/197870)? And as for estimating the value of a new data structure in the first place: as of now (at that question), solutions based on a trie are about 200 times faster than the shell pipeline, on a large testcase. (The hash-packed trie, which Knuth calls "slow" in his program, is not so bad either, and it does economize on memory a bit.)
Even worse, it's not even internally consistent: while the month of the year starts at 0, the day of the month starts at 1. This is one of the worst API design mistakes of Java, and Javascript blindly copied it. At least the newer Java APIs (the java.time ones) fixed that: the month starts at 1 with the newer APIs (when not using the enum). But I don't have much hope of Javascript copying the new and better API.
"citing SARS research is useless here"

Huh? SARS is the closest studied virus there is to COVID-19. It is certainly not useless. Of course there are no/few results for COVID-19, it didn't exist until a few months ago and even then was relatively unknown until about a end of January.
They certainly can, but I’ve seen no evidence of this happening with great frequency.
My dad works for the local CDC so I was following the development pretty closely. It really depends on the person themselves, most people do recover without obvious squelae. It can take up to 21 days, tho most people show symptoms within 14 days.
It's not designed for the US market where SUVs and Truck are the most popular vehicle. It's classified as a quadrocycle which is a lightweight vehicle distinction in France and other EU countries.
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Colocation would shift a good portion of the annual expense to an up-front investment in hardware (as well as setup, shipping, install fees). It would also increase the required admin time.

It's quite possible that they could save some money by going this way, but it's by no means going to just fix their problem. In a way it would exacerbate it due to the capex for hardware.
it’s not inexpensive. you guys are just getting overcharged.
Yeah, it is clear evidence that reddit and this subreddit are in open conflict for quite a while. I find it quite impressive admins didn't just end this spat, but instead go more creative routes like this one or creating quarantine mode for subs, beside the infamous & less impressive events. I totally had expected this sub to get banned already. Well see about the future...
The sad thing about this is that it's still contraband and really bad for the prisoner if they're caught with it.
Do you give up copyright when you upload photos to Facebook or LinkedIn?
Not op but I’ve been wondering, if symptoms appear what can be done apart from go home with the flu and hope it’ll pass and not kill me??
> presuming A is constant

It's that the case anywhere? Even city centre / suburbs will have different values, much less a whole province where A may contain an empty field or a group of residential buildings with 50 floors and shared lifts.

I could see how it would be useful for a map of a city, or maybe even at a scale of some regions... but not for comparing totals between regions.
That's especially baffling because "Cmd-Shift-." is "Cmd->"

Why wouldn't this just be be "Cmd-."? It doesn't seem to be doing anything, at least on the generation of Finder I just tried it on.
If traders/quants and financial analysts in banks say that they don't need VBA anymore, sure it will die. Otherwise, not a chance. Trust me.
That is the purpose, but you need to look at the outcome of what happens to them.

Bioplastic straws are a superior solution.
A thread from 2013: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6543846
For the record, Azure DevOps did the same thing to me when we switched over to Azure AD. My account and repositories ended up in an entirely corrupt state. Support was eventually able to resolve most of it, but I’m still discovering problems.
For me the primary value of code signing doesn't come from knowing that the signer Donald McRonald would never build malware, it comes from knowing that if this was malware I would have a clear path to finding out who created it and having that person persecuted. And since no malware writer wants to go to jail I can be reasonably certain that the signed software is innocent.

Domains don't have the same property, owning a domain under a false name is trivial.
Why are you surprised by him? He's highly intelligent, and absolutely without scruples. The perfect businessman.

He's a good model for the future of AI, where superintelligence's goals conflicts with basic human values.
It would be the same markup. It just wouldn't do anything on desktop. Which is fine because desktops generally have physical keyboards.

I apologize if you already know this, but to make sure we're on the same page: what "inputmode" does is tell phones to display the onscreen keyboard as a numpad, instead of a full set of QWERTY letters and numbers. Outside of a few edge-cases, you don't generally need that on desktop.
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Then what do you propose happens when one writes 1/3 in Javascript?
Rats like this is toxic to the tech ecosystem and should be removed and banished, period.
cat /proc/cpuinfo

> If the revision reads “c03112” that means you are the lucky owner of a Raspberry Pi 4 Rev 1.2 board.

From https://www.cnx-software.com/2020/02/24/raspberry-pi-4-rev-1...
very interesting! the replies make me wonder if doing more remote schooling would help improve the existing software and tools.
Galileo was right, but so were his critics (2015)
cyclictest, from rt-tests. That's the go-to.
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Oh god this brings back traumatic memories: When I was getting my degree in culinary arts at Bristol (Boston, MA) in the mid-80's I had "Professor Wong", not a professor but a chef who taught a segment on Chinese cuisine. I had to make ~5lbs of fried rice every day for two weeks and he would say in a thick over-emphasized (phony) chinese accent, "You burn rice, you fail!" every day -- with a big smile, of course, but meaning it. And holy HELL was I sore every day during that period. The industrial woks are very heavy and you do need to keep it in constant motion.
You can get a $3.5/Month Amazon lightsail VPS or a $3.5/Month VPS with vultr.com. I personally prefer DigitalOcean VPS which starts at $5/Month even though vultr.com has been good as well when I used them.
Hopefully not. It's withstood the test of time, why replace it with something trendy?

Edit: Yes, Python has also withstood the test of time... as a scientific and web language. There's no reason to assume that it could replace VBA as a spreadsheet automation language used by relatively non-technical business folks.
No safe for bicycles!! These aren’t safe on either road type.
I am interested in discussion about favipiravir.
"In 1929 Hans Berger discovered the alpha oscillations: prominent, ongoing oscillations around 10 Hz in the electroencephalogram of the human brain. These alpha oscillations are among the most widely studied brain signals, related to cognitive phenomena such as attention, memory and consciousness. However, the mechanisms by which alpha oscillations affect human cognition await demonstration. Here, we suggest the honey bee brain as an experimentally more accessible model system for investigating the functional role of alpha oscillations. We found a prominent spontaneous oscillation around 18 Hz that is reduced in amplitude upon olfactory stimulation. Similar to alpha oscillations in primates, the phase of this oscillation biased both timing of neuronal spikes and amplitude of high-frequency gamma activity (40–450 Hz). These results suggest a common role of alpha oscillations across phyla and provide an unprecedented new venue for causal studies on the relationship between neuronal spikes, brain oscillations and cognition."
It’s not easy for me to say. It’s predicated on decades of going through the gauntlet myself.

You’re correct. We have no idea where the employer stands, because he hasn’t taken any action to find out.
You can drive this in most EU countries with the simplest permit available (the same as motorcycles of 49cc) in Spain you can get that permit at 15 years of age, but years ago you could get it at 14.
I guess this comment has garnered some negative reactions from people. I have yet to read/hear/come across a plausible explanation regarding how the warmer temperature will actually curtail transmission or improve health outcomes. Is there an actual theory here or are people just paraphrasing our genius President's semi-coherent remarks regarding same.
>> Drivers Ed is required to pass high school,

Really? Now I realise why some Americans looked so confused and dismayed when I was living there without having ever learned to drive.

So there's nobody from USA who chooses to have an education, and not to drive a car?
Or as they used to say...

Turn on

Tune in

Drop out
Practically speaking, Notification Center already existed, it was just called Growl. Everyone I knew with a Mac had it loaded, and Apple adopted the API whole-cloth for Notification Center, for compatibility reasons.
If there's one thing I've learned in 15 years of IT work, it's that once business users have discovered a thing it will never die.

No matter how outdated, shitty, useless, etc. it may be, some jackass has built their entire workflow around it and has more power than you to prevent that from ever changing.
Wildcard: Spreadsheet-Driven Customization of Web Applications
Probably by returning an endpoint and a token to a service that will handle the perpetual session.

The scope is smaller than GraphQL, but some of the interesting benefits - like smarter and more optimized requests - are available with PostgREST.
Microsoft is slowly transitioning Excel macros to Javascript / Typescript. It will happen eventually.
One of things that at least the old Microsoft was really good at was backward comparability.
IIRC "Cmd-." used to be the MacOS equivalent of "Ctrl-C" in a Unix process.
> I would love to know the mental gymnastics

Nothing special. Cognitive dissonance is alive and well in the filthy-rich through to the dirt-poor. As we can see - your level of personal agency will be the determining factor in how much the world suffers from it.

Unfortunately we silo our processes in virtual-mental-machines at the expense of good ideas cross-pollinating terrible ones.
That works after you've purchased it, but I think the person you're responding to is looking for hints before purchase.
There are reports that you can get it a second time, and it is worse on the second time:

https://www.theburningplatform.com/2020/02/15/hubei-doctors-...
We've taken 2019 out of the title above since if there's anything interesting about the article, it's not that.
Microsoft should rather provide a better path toward office automation rather than just frustrate users. As I have seen it, javascript isn’t even remotely close to the sort of integration that made the success of VBA. Like how can I save a javascript macro as a user? Javascript user defined function?

VSTA was a good attempt in its time, a mini visual studio integrated in office with VB.net and C# instead of VB6. That would have been cool.
> I've heard stories about people improvising "hooch" by letting apple or orange juice sit around and ferment and using that as a trade item for the other usual stuff.

In one federal medium I was at, the guys from maintenance had broken through the wall behind a urinal and installed a still in the wall. They used a hot plate from a coffee maker. They covered it up by replacing the tiles and "caulking" between them with the institution issued tooth paste. I used those urinals for months without ever knowing about it.

It was dismantled after the unit orderly snitched about it. That guy was murdered the next week. It turned out he had also snitched on some co-defendants for a reduced sentence.

I heard the hooch from that still was stronger than whiskey and pretty nasty tasting.

Most guys just tried to make alcohol with some bread and oranges in a trash bag stuffed in a locker or under a bunk.
Everyone knows Donald Knuth would have finished TAOCP faster if he only understood how to use UNIX pipes.
You drink 3 cold brew coffees a day? Your environmental impact would be so much better just skipping one coffee a week than all of your plastic straw usage.

This is what bothers me is that it prohibits me from using straws for a nonissue.
why not have an option for a blood test?
Well, I'm not some prefix-fanatic, but much of the problem would not exist in the first place if we had just used some sexp style syntax for HTML, it would be more pleasant to edit, and faster and much easier to parse for both humans and machines to boot. Another billion dollar mistake.

So I feel a bit ambivalent about attempts to lower the costs of pushing out more over complex grammars into the world. When have you last used in earnest a non-sexp/internal DSL for something like build systems that didn't engender in you an occasional urge to visit physical violence on its creators? But what I'd unambiguously like to see is easier parsing of "sane" languages and the death of perl-style regexps.

Still my guess would be: 95% of trouble comes from two: html (including js, css, svg etc. unfortunately) and sql. And most of the remaining 5% from bash :) So just dealing with those three would make a big dent.

Also things are not quite so bleak as you make them out to be: jsx is much saner and any established mainstream language has a conforming html5 parser these days (sadly, to do it properly you also want something that deals with the various other languages that get munged into html: css, javascript, gimped xml and here the situation is less good). SQL is thornier (and has many wildly different dialects), but unless you need dynamic queries, parameterized queries are available everywhere.

In fact a 1% effort/80% of the benefits approach is to not bother with parsing at all and to just use different types for e.g. html and text (interpolate html into html as string-interpolation as text (i.e. plain strings) into html as escaped string).
What is the expected rate of growth of murders in NYC?
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In that very narrow sense that computers are more intelligent than humans (like Chess-playing), abacuses were also more intelligent than humans thousands of years ago (mental math).
What’s the point of rational thought if emotions always take over?
Yes, but Growl had a very different UI from notification center.
Would switching from GitLab to something like Gitea/Gogs cut down on those costs? The GitLab system requirements start at multiple gigabytes of RAM and CPU cores for almost idle installations whereas a small Gitea I'm running takes <100MB RAM and next to zero CPU. Most people I know that self-host (i.e. privately, not commercially) a git server with issue tracker don't run GitLab due to the resource hogging. But I don't know how it scales when you put more load on Gitea vs the same load on GitLab -- does anyone have experience with that?
Keep your declarations on a single line:

int fun(void*);

And

grep -r fun *.h

Will tell you everything you need
Two situations come to mind:

1) Several appliance machines were in a cabinet with water-cooling doors attached. The doors restrict the airflow from the front of the cabinet to the back to the point where there isn't sufficient airflow to cart away the heat from the CPUs. The engineer responsible for those particular systems played show-and-tell with the melted plastic pins that formerly held the motherboard in-place for a month after the machines crashed.

2) An 8-year old rackmount machine had a power supply fail spectacularly and light the entire server on fire. Fire suppression was triggered in response. Several other adjacent machines were damaged but the fire stayed relatively contained to the one cabinet.
durr downboats go back to Reddit morons
Reading the replies to this post, the title is most certainly click-bait and not encouraging deep discussions.
Could I trademark someone else's face and claim royalties? It seems like a legal stretch, or at least indicates a legal reality I can't support. Unless he has secretly had so much plastic surgery he designed it.
Did they break that recently ?
min, max, and step don't make sense for things like account numbers or credit cards!
You mean IBM which could give this project a huge cloud services credit with the click of a mouse.
OP: Related stuff

How Golang[1] implements monotonic clocks — basically it retrieves always both wall and monotonic clocks on "time.Now()" and when doing operations of subtraction it uses the monotonic. When printing, it uses the wall time. Pretty neat. Details on the proposal by Russ Cox [2].

[1] https://golang.org/pkg/time/#hdr-Monotonic_Clocks
[2] https://go.googlesource.com/proposal/+/master/design/12914-m...
I can relate to every single point he makes about how great VBA is compared to other languages and how annoying it is that MS has basically abandoned it in favor of JS.
And also:

> d.getDay()
4 // that's the weekday, use getDate()
> d.getYear()
120 // that's the year minus 1900, use getFullYear()
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I definitely don't think Brendan "blindly" copied it. At the time, Sun was pushing Java hard. Netscape wanted in on that. So they delivered an edict to "make it look like Java". We can all say, "well I would have pushed back". But it's hard to say what would have happened. He'd have probably been taken off the project.

Hindsight really is 20/20.
Menus are still superior to help search for feature discovery because they are an explicit navigable enumeration of the feature set surface; if help doesn't have the right synonyms, you'll be stuck, whereas menu item listing might hint at different ways to accomplish the same end goal.
Agreed. JavaScript has no real upside here besides being fashionable. whereas built-in C# with access to the .Net framework would be really powerful.
Because we’re changing our climate at an accelerating pace due to the energy used to move mass further and further distances (caused by less dense living).
This is interesting to me. It appears "Abenomics" coincided with the creation of the Nikkei 400, which is a selective index with preference for high-dividend-per-share equities. And your claim is correct, in 2015 average dividend-per-share for Nikkei 255 was 15%, and it has since risen to 30%

But was this a short-term gimmick to encourage investment? Did it work? My understanding is that high dividend payout represent weak reinvestment and overall lower growth.
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No. SAN = Storage Area Network. Essentially networked block devices. a RAMsan array would terminate multiple 1-4Gbit links and provide a very fast block device (possibly subdivided into logical devices) that would be used by other computers.

The contents were persistent, through battery storage + UPSes etc.
I’ve lived in America and Japan and have traveled the world. There’s absolutely no question that Japanese people have a much, much higher awareness of personal hygiene than most people elsewhere. Whatever axe you’re grinding here, the premise that Japanese people in particular are just robotically going through the motions is utterly inconsistent with my personal experience. During this Covid-19 episode, every single person who visits my home goes directly to the sink to wash their hands, unprompted. Masks are a precaution, not a cure. If nothing else, they’re a reminder that we’re in a heightened state of vigilance. If anyone were to sneeze or cough in public in Kyoto right now, you better believe that everyone is going to notice. It’s tourists that are visibly breaking the rules of hygiene as far as I’ve seen. (Your example of a conbini worker is funny since they’re generally foreigners.) The first signal that this outbreak was serious was when I noticed all the Apple Store employees were masked up. They’re the front line of dealing with foreign visitors.

People also rarely touch each other. No hugging, no kissing, no handshaking. All of this is important at times like this. Riding the subways here and in Tokyo recently, I notice that no one is holding a strap or pole any more.
I wouldn't say that's a psychological phenomenon though, just ignorance, arrogance or over-confidence.
In Python:

import time
time.get_clock_info(name)

where name can be one of those:

'monotonic': time.monotonic()
'perf_counter': time.perf_counter()
'process_time': time.process_time()
'thread_time': time.thread_time()
'time': time.time()
It's also somewhat misguided in my opinion. For some reason a large portion of the population have decided that it is categorically impossible to do anything about global warming from a technical or policy perspective. They have thrown up their hands and have decreed that we must all live awful lifestyles and shouldn't even try to innovate our way out of the problem. We are spending a tiny fraction of available resources fighting this problem, and it is not inconceivable that we could develop solutions which would change the state of the world dramatically if we actually threw money and talent at the problems.
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Thiel and Rudy Giuliani's pal ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Here is a quote from a NYTimes story that was published last month, and got updated this month https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/18/technology/clearview-priv...

>>In addition to Mr. Ton-That, Clearview was founded by Richard Schwartz — who was an aide to Rudolph W. Giuliani when he was mayor of New York — and backed financially by Peter Thiel, a venture capitalist behind Facebook and Palantir.
Imagine Excel with Python.

Edit: I believe Libre has python.