skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure what your first sentence means, but you're absolutely right that some GCs go with expensive outside counsel precisely because they're expensive. If it's a legal matter that's critical for the company, the GC can get blamed for going with a cut-rate firm, but not for going with a firm that's 'too expensive'.
I was at realestate.com.au when they started writing microservices in 2013 and we were all facing this exact issue. Out of that experience, the (now open source) contract testing tool called "Pact" was written (I am now one of the maintainers). I wrote a blog about the combinatorial explosion problem here many years ago now! https://www.rea-group.com/blog/enter-the-pact-matrix-or-how-...

From the Pact docs: 'Contract testing is a technique for testing an integration point by checking each application in isolation to ensure the messages it sends or receives conform to a shared understanding that is documented in a "contract".' By focussing just on the messages we get tests which are fast, give us quick feedback, and scale linearly instead of combinatorially.

Some good resources are:

https://pact.io (for information about contract testing and the Pact tool itself)

https://pactflow.io/how-pact-works/ (explains how Pact works)

https://docs.pact.io/faq/convinceme (answers the question of why you would want to do contract testing)

https://slack.pact.io (a friendly 1000+ member community which is very experienced dealing with these kinds of issues)

https://docs.pact.io/pact_broker/can_i_deploy (addresses how we handle and channel this combinatorial explosion for good instead of evil!)
Interesting. It calls to mind garbage collection, actually, where the "collection" of memory happens at some indeterminate time in the future based on heuristics about how much there is. Of course it doesn't have the same performance impact, probably because the collection process consists of just freeing known chunks instead of iteratively searching for chunks that can be freed.
It's higher bandwidth to work face to face. There are many studies citing the same.
> That said, jcs@ from the OpenBSD project has been working on a port of the entire Serenity desktop environment to OpenBSD: https://twitter.com/jcs/status/1224205573656322048

Wow. That looks pretty awesome. Your gui aesthetic is pretty 90s in the best way possible, and combined with OpenBSD underneath this looks like it has potential to be a seriously no nonsense system.
I don’t work for them, but I am pretty sure we can blame the litigious nature of this industry for the lack of detail in the postmortem. Not everyone can afford to be cloudflare :)

Even for Cloudflare, I thought the company will get sued out of existence after the proxy data leak, but finance industry/SEC etc is a completely different ballgame.
Anecdotally: in places like Michigan where it's dark by 6pm in the winters, darkness really has no correlation with sleeping hours.
"2-DST" would actually make it easier for working people to align their sleep schedule with the daylight.
Should they be played in alphabetical order or are they in alphabetical order?
I think TIFF has a number of advantages there. It was from the beginning an interchange format, so it had the opportunity to look at a bunch of existing formats and extract the commonality. It's also not an application format, so the pace of change is slower and more controlled; it can trail rather than lead. And it is of course a standard, which means a different set of dynamics around how things get added and how clear the specs have to be.

That's not to say it isn't great; I could well believe it. But I'm just not shocked that PSD and PostScript have ended up being a bit of a mess over the decades. I doubt I could have done any better.
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That seems like a rare edge case. Simple solution: Only use an intermediate struct if actually needed.
IRC has far more problems than just ugly clients. The largest one is that it requires holding open a connection constantly to work. This is fine in the age of desktop computers but totally unacceptable in the age of laptops and mobile.

People also demand the features that modern protocols provide such as image uploading, encryption, profile pictures, etc. While a lot of this stuff can often technically be done on IRC, it never works as well and requires knowledge of how to set it all up.

On matrix with the default client, it all just works. We can repeat the discussion about how dropbox is useless when you could just set up a ftp server on a vps or we could recognize that people like software that does what they want by default.
Dunno about HSBC, but in Canada, often you have to call your broker when you want to sell a stock on a different market than you bought it.

E.g. Buying TD in Canada, and wanting to sell on NYSE for US$.
I think the dependent has to be a qualified relative and there is a very low income threshold. And with the tax reforms I think there is not much benefits.

So at that point, maybe its 2 parents and 2 single adults so you cannot combine their income for tax purposes. Maybe each makes $15k which is a very low amount for paying any taxes.
This is why the American rule is really dumb.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_rule_(attorney%27s_fe...
Not including dependencies.
And this (https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2011/01/27/how-debuggers-work-...) is Part - 2/2
US firm helps J&K build firewall to keep social media off-limits
What exactly degrades about HTML in twenty years? I can read pages from the 90s just fine: the main thing off is the font size due to the change in screen resolutions, but—surprise!—plain HTML scales and reflows beautifully on big and small screens. (Which is the complete opposite of ‘HTML has the same problems’.) I hope you're not lamenting the loss of the ‘blink’ tag.

If you're talking about images and whatnot falling off, that's a problem of delivery and not the format.

Markdown translates to HTML one-to-one, it's in the basic features of Markdown. For some reason I have to repeat time and again: use a subset of HTML for papers, not ‘glamor magazine’ formatting. The use of HTML doesn't oblige you to go wild with its features.
I'm not sure how this is better than a raspberry pi. $5 more would get you a lot more power.
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Additionally, the OP seems to indicate the increased accidents are due to issues we have adjusting to the time change. You can certainly argue we should get rid of the time change altogether, but 2-DST would have the same time changes as our current system. Maybe there's an increased risk of traffic accidents as a result of increased evening activity. But I'd argue that's a problem with our society's unhealthy dependence on cars, rather than with 2-DST.
The only way IRC could be considered simple is if you are talking about the entire stack without any abstractions. You can technically open a connection to an irc server with NC and just type the IRC protocol by hand. You can't do that with Matrix because it sits on top of HTTP.

But this is an absolutely insane way to think about software.
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At this point IRC is so mature its senile
Genuine question to the experts: What are the chances that this effect is caused by how we attribute the accidents to time intervals? I haven't read the whole paper, but when they say accident rate is increased by 6%, is that counted by 24-hour intervals? Or by calendar days?
> Quite simply, the continued human expertise and organization necessary to manage and sustain such a system is far, far beyond anything we have today.

I get your concern but the differences are significant.

1. Habitats are mobile. If you don't like the neighbours you can up and move, something not possible with geography on Earth;

2. Land area is essentially infinite, not so on Earth.

> We can't even manage to globally reduce CO2

On the contrary, excessive CO2 is, at least in some context, a remarkably simple problem. We can extract CO2 from the atmosphere and make fuel. It just doesn't make any sense to do it because we need to burn fossil fuels to power the process.

So all we really need is a power source that's cheaper than fossil fuels. There are two obvious contenders for this:

1. Solar power. Estimates I've seen are that an orbital collector can be about 7 times as efficient as current Earth-based solar collectors.

2. Fusion power. Personally I'm not yet convinced if hydrogen fusion is viable. There are of course other proposals. We shall see.

You'll note that I don't include fission. It's an unpopular opinion on HN but until we have a good story for fuel and waste processing then this is a nonstarter.
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Consumer driven tests can help with this too. Rather than just service providers writing tests, service consumers write them too, which are then given to the service provider as part of their test suite.
Lucky you. I had to drive six hours to watch the Perseids. The nearest dark site to Chicago is Mark Twain National Forest in Missouri.
I live in Singapore, and so far they have indeed handled it quite well.

What is really needed in a situation like this is transparency, and they are providing this: https://www.moh.gov.sg/

They are also doing very good work when it comes to tracing cases and determining who has been in contact with them and ensuring that they are also tested.

There are special clinics set up where people with symptoms can go. This is to avoid having patients infect every single clinic all over the country.

In places where people gather, such as office buildings, there are temperature screenings, typically using IR cameras. I read somewhere that these catch about 50% of cases.

If you're a visitor to an office building, you have to sign a health declaration form, including contact information and declare where in the building you will be going. This information is used if a case is discovered and they need to trace who has been in contact with the patient.

When you take a taxi you are adviced to go to a web site where you can fill in your contact information as well as the license plate number of the taxi. This is again used for tracing if needed.

Some companies have implemented work-from-home policies where the teams are split with half the team working from home. This is done because if a case is discovered in a company, everybody will evacuate, tracing will be done on all people and the entire office sanitised. If only half the team was in the office at the time, this reduces the impact on the business.

For the most part, except the things mentioned above, things are pretty normal. There are of course less tourists, and a lot of businesses are hurting because of that. Singapore usually has a lot of Chinese tourists.

People are of course hoping that things will be better soon. I didn't live in Singapore during SARS, but I have been told that it lasted several months.
Yeah seriously if you have > a few hundred in options on robinhood. And you’re waiting until the day they expire to unload them. You’re dumb or don’t care about your money.
"Cool what are you doing Tuesday night?"

"Uh do you mean... calendar Tuesday, or uh Tuesday Tuesday?"

Repeated over half of the globe, forever.

I do a lot of remote meetings with people all over the globe, I work for a remote company, and I do. not. want. this.
We think it's different for us because the reversal in population growth is correlated with education and development levels. These are factors which aren't present in animal populations.

If we lived in a world where every culture had achieved a certain level of education and development (and most all of them do want to get there), it's likely they would all have flat or declining populations. They might have to heavily subsidize reproduction just to sustain themselves and all this talk about building space habitats would be even more abstract than it is today.
This movie was a plot exaggerated to be interesting. Most cutthroat behaviour exhibited by the poor in real life is not literally killing, but more like selfishness and conniving.
Curiously this lines up with the locations decimated by the Dust Bowl [1]. There was a mass migration of millions of people westward towards California during the 1930s once the agricultural industry there collapsed.

The proximate cause for that line might be farming techniques poorly adapted to the prairie ecosystem which caused a massive ecological collapse.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dust_Bowl
Right, but my original question remains. How would the FSF allow the original copyright holder to claw back the copyright after assignment?

That seems like it would be potentially incredibly disruptive (e.g. if a contributor decides several years after a lot of work has been built on top of the contributed code to claw back the rights), especially because as far as I'm aware there isn't a separate license you give the FSF on a contribution, just the assignment. AFAICT it wouldn't even make sense to give the FSF a license because you don't own the code anymore, the FSF does.

I can't find anything on the FSF website that allows this.
Holy hell.

I used to be mildly pro-5G and vocally contra people contra to it, on the grounds that all the objections I've seen were a variation of "I don't understand what non-ionizing radiation is". But I see I didn't think far enough about what's possible with that tech - therefore I failed to apply my usual heuristic ("anything that's technologically possible and economically feasible will be attempted, no matter how immoral it is").

I'll be reevaluating my position on this (for what little it's worth now). Thanks for bringing it up!
He is saying that we are currently transformong the earth's atmosphere into a less hospitable one through a process of pollution / emitting greenhouse gases.

In my view, given that we can do this, it is not unreasonble to assume that one day we will know enough to be able to tweak a planet's habitability in the opposite direction, or in other words, make an inhabitable planet habitable.
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The key point here is that those terms apply to both private and public repositories. So if you use this service, they can distribute your private designs if they so choose.

Copyright isn't an issue for hardware designs because copyright does not cover functional devices. When the PC boards of clones of your product start coming out of China, InventHub is in the clear with those terms. To be taken seriously, InventHub has to take on the obligation of protecting your trade secrets.
If the code and product come from the third party, most probably the ecommerce site wil have to send that code to the third party and not loose money.

Imagine an iPhone. Apple releases a coupon. If you buy it at BestBuy with the coupon, either BestBuy doesn’t tell Apple and eat the cost or they tell Apple, we actually sold it for X due to your coupon.

There are also extensions now that finds and adds the bes coupons for you automatically. They can see everything on your page and relay it back to the company.
It's not about right-clicking. It's about not having to use the mouse in the first place. Learn to use your keyboard more instead of your mouse. Tabbing around, for example, is a hell of a lot faster than moving your mouse across all the fields to type in. But many hamburger menus can't be tabbed into nor are they brought down with the alt key (like on Windows) nor are they available by the context key (since... if they were, they could be tabbed into).
Yeah but your business decision was to be a high stakes gambling platform to begin with
This area is how I realized I must have an Intel modem in my iPhone: after being on airplane mode as I traversed it, I couldn’t pick up any reception for some time after.

I assumed at first it was because I was still in a mountainous area, but finally realized the modem was never going to reconnect, and had to power cycle my phone.
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Correct. The signature of a large Dyson Swarm would be hard to mistake, particularly for anything natural, at least anything we've seen thus far.
r/covid19, r/coronavirus, and r/china_flu are run by the same group and have varying levels of moderation.

r/wuhan_flu is uncensored but has been quarantined.
Periodically I've read articles / research that helps remind me that our physical bodies are the product of evolution that only recently began enjoying the fruits of a technological society.

This article helped me recognize that our emotional states are also the product of that same evolutionary process. Only a few decades ago it was unheard of that people would be regularly conversing with others all over the globe from the comfort of their homes (or even more recently on their phones). Yet humans have been living on this planet and evolving to deal with the (mostly harsh) realities of life on earth for hundreds of thousands of years.
That's a tradeoff between complex formatting and accessibility of the result. Authors are making readers sit in front of desktops/laptops for some wins in formatting. Considering that papers, at least ones that I see, are all just columns of text, images and formulas, the win seems to be marginal, while the loss in accessibility is maddening with the current tech-ecosphere.
There is an option to add password to the meeting on the bottom right hand corner.
Ironically, while Google buys credit card data (and likely other data), and advertisers give them data, I'm pretty sure they don't leak personal data like that.
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> Pattern Matching for instanceof

Why is the cast even necessary? Isn't the cast only part of the type checker and thus unnecessary with a smarter type checker? For example TypeScript can do it, if you have code following an if condition that checks the type of the variable, you can use that said variable as if it were of that type without any further assertions necessary, eg.

let x: unknown;

if (typeof x === "string") {
console.log(x.charCodeAt(0));
}
Man, the last photograph of Mr. Kim in the article is striking. It looks like a freeze frame from Korean indie movie.
“Quantum volume” is all about how large of a random circuit can be implemented.

https://qiskit.org/textbook/ch-quantum-hardware/measuring-qu...

Random circuits are really only good for proving that you are in fact operating a quantum computer, since you can test the results, and random quantum circuits can not be efficiently simulated by classical computers. So quantum volume is not a totally meaningless metric, but it doesn’t necessarily indicate any capability for real problems that people would like to use quantum computers on: factoring, solving discrete logs, general search problems, or simulating quantum physics systems.
Yes, but it will take time because the acceleration is proportional to the amount present until it reaches a carrying capacity and burns itself out, or it slows in deceleration because of large quarantines / isolation orders. The problems are many:

1. The fed/state/county/local officials are placing prevention of panic ahead of telling the truth. NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo said yesterday, with De Blasio next to him, that it's "only 2x more dangerous than the flu," when it's 20x-50x deadlier than influenza (because each flu strain differs).

2. Like a third-world country, the CDC is hiding information about tests performed and negative results.

3. The CDC is actively thwarting doctors from ordering SARS-cov-2 tests because of overly-restrictive PUI criteria that don't allow discretion of the doctor, so it's a virtual certainty people with COVID-19 are being told that they don't have it because some pinhead bureaucrat said so and they're going around in public infecting people before they come down with what they may assume is a bad flu.

4. COVID-19 takes a number of days to manifest itself, and it appears that people are contagious before they have symptoms, so they spread it unwittingly to potentially many others because it's so infectious.

5. Mild and moderate cases of COVID-19 won't be tested and reported, giving a false sense of the situation.

6. People who died before the SARS-cov-2 test was available haven't all been tested. There were several bodies that tested positive today in Washington state adding to the death count, but not every morgue is going to do this. Plus, it's possible many such bodies were released for burial and will never be tested.

7. It takes weeks to a month for recognition phase (the current situation in the US as of writing) to give way to initiation and acceleration phase of pandemic. I figure, based on the current trends, the US is about 2 weeks ± 4 days away from acceleration.[a, b] But, by that time, it's too late for many people because they were already infected by numerous infected people who weren't showing symptoms.

8. The poor and working class rarely have sick days and they can't afford to miss work, so they'll work anyhow. The prevalence of "F everyone, I have to take care of myself first" is what happens when people aren't paid living wages and guaranteed sick days off. And so, more people will be infected and more people will die because of greed.

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Then, once a country begins pandemic acceleration, it may last about a month ± 2 weeks before the number of infected drops enough that it's no longer pervasive. [a]

a. Based on China's Wuhan epidemic curve as a rough, approximate model.

b. Five phases of pan/epidemics: investigation, recognition, initiation, acceleration, deceleration
The main reason I've found for programs being 'correct' is that the range of actual inputs for programs is severely limited.

Most programs see inputs that are similar enough to previous inputs that the latent bugs are never triggered, or at worst triggered one at a time.

Running programs far outside their expected parameters on the other hand has nearly always lead to disaster.
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As someone working in the greenhouse lighting industry, I might have some insight on this:

1. there is an existing technology called energy screen/curtain, with the primary function of retaining heat, but can also reduce light pollution by an order of magnitude.

2. light that escapes is essentially money lost, however it alone does not justify the use of energy screens.

3. as long as farmers have access to (relatively) cheap heat and electricity, they won't invest into this technology.

4. for the time being, it's a regulatory issue, just like water use (a single plant use 2-2.5 l/day), supplemental co2 use and nitrate recirculation from runoff water.
Make the CDC report the number of coronavirus cases per state
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If you actually work at Square, it's poor form to advertise in this manner.
Costs of ubiquitous surveillance will be passed too, as it already is, in a more insidious and harder to track way.
Yes and the point is that today it looked the same as yesterday in the morning but it didn't turn out to be a bounce. It wasn't "obvious" that everything would rise on Monday. Only in retrospect.
Grsec is Linux. Serenity OS isn't.
I mean, you say its "absolutely not true" and yet that's literally verbatim from their Brokerage Account Agreement.

https://www.schwab.com/public/schwab/nn/agreements/schwab_br...

Maybe in some cases they go above and beyond their account agreement if they like you as a customer, but according to the agreement you sign with them its not their problem if things go bad in this way.