skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought this comment was making the opposite point, that it was impressive that Messenger was now only 360K LoC.

I honestly think it is. Compliers, DBMS, a library such as NumPy— they're all complex, but Messenger, even considering the features removed, is a very full-featured application. We're not talking IRC here. It has activity status, payments, stories, photo filters, audio messages, location sharing, video-calling, etc. It's actually pretty impressive that that fits in 360K LoC IMO.
> These came through China and are very old names -- tying the seven objects you can see move against the background stars (ignoring Uranus if you know where to look) is an idea going back the the classical era.

Well, the Japanese weekday names come to Japanese through China. They don't originate there; the fact that they occur in the same order as the Western days of the week strongly suggests that they didn't develop independently.

The native (old) Chinese system divides months into three roughly equal 旬 periods; seven-day weeks aren't part of it.
My favorite example is that Caesar salad was invented in Mexico by an Italian named Caesar Cardini.
What Makes Consciousness Confusing?
> Same here CALL ROBINHOOD ASAP. I spoke with them myself and they are aware. IF YOU NEED TO MAKE TRADES THEY CAN DO IT FOR YOU!

I didn't even know they had a phone number you could call. This should have been emailed out after the first hour of the outage. Or, how about you have a better system down page then just a blank website? If API health checks fail, serve a static site from S3 (route53 can do this). The ops failure of a company that can afford to pay quality DevOps engineers $200-300k a year is beyond belief.

Simple as:

"We are experiencing a technical outage... <corporate blah blah blah here>. If you need to make trades, please do so via phone at 1-800-SHORT-RH"
Because that's how this society unfolded. Overreactions are seen as poor leadership and leaders are held by the public instead of the public wellbeing.
yes, that's how I've currently packaged up PhotoStructure for Desktops.

There's also PhotoStructure for Servers which can run under Docker, or as a standard node app (ala `git clone $url; photostructure/photostructure`).
Another 'coincidence' is that the order that plants, water animals, land animals, flying animals, and humans are created seems to match what you might derive from evolution theory. And, that man is created from dust of the earth. Kind of weird to even think that different animals came about within an orderly process. Kind of weird to think that the universe had a beginning; seems to make more sense to assume it just always was and will be, but current science agrees: universe had a beginning and will have an end.
A Wearable Vest Can Protect Astronauts from Radiation in Deep Space
Yes, your shipping department records the barcode and signs, receiver gets the list of them by separate record. Receiver checks these of course.

You'll often also put a variety of them inside.

It's not just rough handling, but temperature and humidity too. You can audit this sort of thing by sending occasional fake packages with precise recording instruments in them, but for usual shipments just use a variety of indicators.
A great free alternative to iStat Menus for computer system monitor on macOS
If that is true and they're not on the ball they have another hard deadline fast approaching: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/amazon-rds-customers-u...

(yes: the URI says February 5th whilst the article says March 5th!)
That's why you do both. They are cheap (relatively).
Sending Empathy to Armory's (YC W17) Friends at F5 Networks
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You should call Facebook and tell them to fire the Messenger org because you have a great 5 person team that can do it for them.
Gotta respect the hustle, but this thread is about "Who wants to be hired", not its more popular brother "Who is hiring".

I don't think anyone doubts the effectiveness of the latter.
Bonus points for the GIF animation featuring Dr Manhattan
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More like: make app hideous and bloated; make app slightly smaller; crow about your harvest of low-hanging fruit
Yes, we can lower the R0 infection rate and smooth it out over a longer period of time by adopting better hygiene practices and making behavior changes. You're seeing that right now as different countries mobilize and react differently.

If your re-infected comment is regarding the reports of people getting it a second time, I believe that's been debunked and is an artifact of imperfect tests rather than the virus itself.

What I've read from multiple sources is that SARS family coronaviruses are pretty stable evolutionarily, so once you have immunity you should be able to fight it off in the future. This is in contrast to influenza which evolves quickly, which is why 'the big one' in pandemics is much more likely to be influenza (or a bacteria) rather than coronaviruses. See also: Spanish Flu, Black Death
> I've never understood why two threads on the same 'topic' is in any way harmful.

Speaking for myself (but probably many others as well)... it's a problem when they both reach the front page of HN.

There's a finite # of slots (30) and I'd rather see 30 different topics rather than 29 because 2 of them are about Procore S-1. And suggesting folks to just click "More" to see page 2 of topics 31-60 doesn't really solve anything because now I only see 59 topics because 2 are dupes rather 60.

When Facebook's Libra got introduced, the front page had ~4 simultaneous threads about it. A few of them thankfully got merged.
The rule of thumb is if you must vpn then you have a controlled system where root is limited. Think bank or government systems
I bought a /24 3 years ago (from the same broker as OP) for about $3500. The price is still increasing.
The public health people know what they are talking about. For most people, frequently washing your hands is the only action required.
I'm not sure the inputs and outputs are that much more complicated now than they were in the 90's. Cam/crank position sensors, knock sensors, O2, MAF, TPS, etc, on the input side. Outputs, I suspect, haven't changed that much either. Variable valve timing, running on fewer than all cylinders, etc, isn't all that new, and the other outputs (injectors, spark, and so on) haven't changed. They got by with MCUs and EEPROM maps for a long time.
I wonder how the ice age of the 1970's got cancelled? Scared the shit out of me when I was young. Now I know, that was part of the control.
> The problem of consciousness is about understanding systems which feed back into themselves, build a model of themselves, and reason about themselves. The structure underneath is well known, if not perfectly understood.

The problem is you could build a system that satisfies each of those states and we still couldn't prove if it had qualia or not. That is literally 'the hard problem'.
If I had to guess, not as many as there should be. For WFH to work, you have to have an environment conducive to it. You can't just tell people to stay home and magically solve the problem without a huge productivity hit.

Unfortunately(in this context), I don't think it'll last long enough for those changes to happen.
You thought the market would go up? Specifically a bank? Sure the bankruptcy was a surprise but I really don't know of anyone back then who was expecting a recovery or even a minor bounce at all that year. Hopefully your options were LEAPs.
Google Cloud Next turns into a virtual conference amid coronavirus outbreak
I urge everyone to listen to what this frontline ER doctor in NYC said this morning:

https://www.cnbc.com/video/2020/03/02/coronavirus-testing-em...

Testing is being stonewalled, false assurances are being made, and he anticipates serious disruption once the full extent of community transmission becomes clear and rears its head.
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Trump administration fired the U.S. pandemic response team in 2018 to cut costs
How remote work is done at my company – synchronous, verbal-communication-based
Yoshoku has now been exported outside Japan and is quite popular in eg Singapore. So you can dig into a curry at Ma Maison, a popular yoshoku chain which has a French name for no obvious reason, and contemplate that you're eating a Singaporean version of a Japanese mutation of a British navy stew inspired by Indian curry. Looking forward to somebody opening a yoshoku restaurant in India and completing the circle!

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As soon as this question shows up on a human driving test with an agreed-upon correct answer, it'll be fair game as a prerequisite for an L5 autonomous vehicle. For now, though, I can't imagine how it's a significant problem for self-driving cars to be able to solve.
Interesting that the official page doesn't mention coronavirus when we all know that's why it's been cancelled.
I have, with an OpenVPN-over-UDP tunnel as a workaround. If they included Wireguard (or better yet, just used encrypted UDP) it would still be smaller (and probably more reliable).
Wow, interesting discussion! Those guys are definitely looking for a standard of proof way beyond anything I can provide. I think the person who wrote

>>alas, his name was never directly mentioned by J.R.R.Tolkien, then it must be considered a feasible, even probable, speculation

went too far. Personally I think that given the similarities in themes and characters etc., it should be enough to prove that he read it. Which I admit I can't do (though I'm totally convinced of it myself).
This isn't a serious reply to bash anyone here but it makes me sad that after a crisis like this hits and many people die because they weren't prepared or they used all of their money as a result of the crisis, to think that a relative handful of people who have the capital to freely invest money into stocks of wealthy companies so that they can profit off them at a later point after the economy has recovered. It's always the same people isn't it? These opportunities don't come unless you've already got the money and education to make use of them. So what's the future look like? More of the same. Don't get me wrong though. It's the best thing to do if the opportunity is there for you.

I want to be wrong about this though. Maybe I'm seeing it from the wrong light. So if someone wants to tell me otherwise, feel free.
It can be a very good thing.

Xerox PARC existed with relatively little pressure to ship. They gave us many of the components of the modern tech industry. Their contributions were greater than perhaps any other epicenter for the computer revolution.

Xerox didn't benefit massively from the creations at PARC (a tiny fraction of what others did), and I'm entirely ok with that. I do not particularly care about the existence of the Xerox Corporation. Just as I'm ok with Google vaporizing $10 billion on Waymo and failing, if it helps push this technology forward in the process. Worst case scenario, over time Waymo will spin out hundreds of experienced employees that will go on to plant other technology seeds all over the place.

Google has $120 billion in cash, $35b in operating income, $160 billion in sales, a monopoly or two, and I do not care if they get punched in the face to the tune of $10 billion in losses on autonomous driving. The only thing that matters is that their expenditures move the ball forward. Maybe some start-up that doesn't exist yet, formed by ex Waymo employees two years from now, will be the company that builds a better Waymo. That'll be great.

I'd also rather that $10 billion go into engineer pockets and get deployed into the economy rather than sit in Google's monopoly money vault yielding jack squat interest, de facto being hoarded. Google has little idea what to do with their money, they're a trillion dollar corporation with not much imagination. I'm glad they're burning cash on something interesting.
Krippendorff's Alpha
Seems like there’s opportunity for an extension to grab all text as it appears, store in client side DB, search that. I am going to build that as a feature in an extension I am working on to track all of my upvotes as automated bookmarks.
while ((s = strstr(s, "host:"))) {
if (s == t || *(s-1) == '\r' || *(s-1) == '\n' ||
*(s-1) == '\t' || *(s-1) == ' ') {
have_header |= HTTP_HEADER_HOST;
}
s++;
}

This s++ could be s + sizeof "host:" - 1.

Reason being: if you have just found "host:" at address s, you will not find another one at s+1, s+2, s+3, s+4 or s+4; "host:" supports no overlapped matches.

Actually since, we are really looking for "host:" preceded by whitespace, we can skip by just sizeof "host", (five bytes). Because if s points at "host:host:", the second "host:" is not of interest; it is not preceded by a whitespace character; we won't be setting the HTTP_HEADER_HOST bit for that one.

Also, once we set the HTTP_HEADER_HOST bit, we can break out of the loop; there is no value in continuing it. The point of the loop is not to have a false negative: not to stop on a false match on "host:" which doesn't meet the HTTP_HEADER_HOST conditions, and thereby fail to find the real one later in the string. If we find the real one, we are done.

By the way, this test shows how verbose of a language C is:

*(s-1) == '\r' || *(s-1) == '\n' ||
*(s-1) == '\t' || *(s-1) == ' '

If we could use Javascript, look how nice it would be:

strchr("\r\n\t ", s[-1])
Corporations don't pay taxes... their customers do.

Other than that, I do think some level of optimizations should happen in the space of recycling... either similar to what I understand German regulations are on recycling what you produce... and/or going back to glass bottles.

Then again, I'm not sure how bad plastics are in general, other than what gets dumped into the oceans, for the most part, my understanding is plastics in modern waste facilities aren't so bad and mfg is mostly a petroleum byproduct of what would otherwise be waste anyway.
Puppet is written in Ruby.
Get Numb Before You Get Good
2020: Let's just all work from home
So will you now be a terrible company if you host a summit/expo/large-gathering? If that is the trend it could really bite into some of the economies tied into cities used to hosting events.
The entire COVID-19 genome has been sequenced and compared to known viruses.

"Phylogenetic analysis of the complete viral genome (29,903 nucleotides) revealed that the virus was most closely related (89.1% nucleotide similarity) to a group of SARS-like coronaviruses (genus Betacoronavirus, subgenus Sarbecovirus) that had previously been found in bats in China" [0]

"This phylogeny shows evolutionary relationships of HCoV-19 viruses from the ongoing novel coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic. All [148] samples are still closely related with few mutations relative to a common ancestor, suggesting a shared common ancestor some time in Nov-Dec 2019. This indicates an initial human infection in Nov-Dec 2019 followed by sustained human-to-human transmission leading to sampled infections."[1]

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32015508
[1] https://nextstrain.org/ncov
It's on https://www.adobe.com/summit.html
I'm going to events in London and Budapest end of March. Not yet cancelled but I've been wondering if it's inevitable.
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Pardon my language but...

It's in the fucking article!

> Apple attributed the problems mainly to temperature changes, high usage and other issues, and said its engineers worked quickly and successfully to address them. Analysts sometimes refer to the slowing of iPhones as "throttling."
But somehow dogs don't seem to care too much about armpits, in spite of being smelly and warm.
JS requires a runtime, so by definition there would have to be something (even if it’s just a bastardized gc-free version of JS itself).
It is in the first page, but the link points to the FAQ instead.
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Drop bears are a perfectly serious topic, which is why even the Australian Museum has a page about Thylarctos plummetus.

https://australianmuseum.net.au/learn/animals/mammals/drop-b...
Not original, and I haven't been able to find out the author.

My background was originally in electrical engineering, where this is probably more widely known than in computer science.
Michigan’s fledgling drone industry takes flight (Episode 32)
StrongTowns: Market Correction Time
NAT and single IP adresses for multiple users are going away with IPv6 ?
1. Open repos. I have a lot of them.
2. Search code.
3. Open PRs that I need to review.
4. Create issues / Open issues that are assigned to me.
5. Search repos / starred repos
I wish I knew why I saw this stuff when I wasn't even high though :)
A long needle with a dab of super glue would probably work. It's brittle when it dries, so breaking the bond is pretty easy. Would leave 1 or 2 telltale holes, but you could be careful about where they are.
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> the completion of which is rewarded with a polite "no thank you" from the company.

My reading is that the interested company, being the large amorphous blob that it is, decided in some separate cortex to change their business model while the due-diligence nitty gritty was underway, and Troy decided to cut out.
Sophos acquired for $3.9B
Not sure about your analysis. I think you are just caught in the gap between personal preference and the goals of the healthcare system. You of course see your preferences as paramount, just as does another person who wants hyperthermic therapy, or another who wants hyperbaric therapy, or another who wants medical support for a 21 day water fast, or their psychiatrist to supervise a psychedelic session etc etc. It isn’t possible for a healthcare system to accommodate all these requests, or to engage with other non-mainstream practitioners who administer these therapies.

I make no judgement on the validity of your request. From my point of view, people have been banging on about IV vitamin C therapy in cancer for years but never actually done a properly powered double blind randomised placebo controlled trial to show that it works. We can complain about lack of funding, obstructive medical systems etc, but if some people really think IV vitamin C is the best thing since sliced bread then they would find a way to get the trial done.
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