skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We now know with certainty Chinese numbers are more trustworthy than US (and half of EU) ones on the sole basis Chinese are actually TESTING people, while CDC refuses any due diligence.
The one that actually lived there.
The actor model is at least 50 years old if not more, and it is found in all sorts of places in some form, which is unsurprising since it is a fundamental model for computation. So, for example, it is not hard to argue that SOA/Microservices are implementations of an Actor approach to services.
Does it have goals beyond a simple turn by turn? Can it make complex choices depending on a large number of different things it senses? (presumably weighting different criteria) For instance, is it aware that it is "bad" (i.e. something it should try to avoid) to crash into other cars or pedestrians? Is it aware of other cars on the road? Is it aware that it is also a car, but is different from the other cars in that it is in control of itself?

I'm not saying it is conscious, btw, I'm more likely to simply say that consciousness is a poorly defined term, unless you are simply using it to describe a "non-sleeping" state where input from the environment is actively being taken in and processed in a meaningful way. And for that, yeah, a self driving car can be conscious.
Are you hiring software engineers, or desktop support IT people, or what?

I don't think an MCSE tells you much about hiring someone to do work that is mostly about learning and creating - software engineering, network architects, infrastructure admins, etc. But i can imagine it being useful if you're hiring someone for a position that is more about routine problems and customer service - IT support, cabling, audio-visual, etc.

I should add that i don't mean this as a slight on our comrades in first-line support. They are a vital and valued part of the IT community!
The Arduino IDE has a verbose mode which prints out all the commands it uses to upload your program.
Many people with money but without insurance do go and get b*tch slapped later by their ~$10k-$200k medical bill. It’s a reason why medical debt is the LEADING cause of bankruptcy in the US.

Many people without money or insurance also go but since they don’t have assets, they just don’t pay and the hospitals can’t collect on them. So the hospitals have to raise costs on people with money to pay for people without money.

The second scenario actually caused a hospital I knew of in Dallas Texas to close down because it had (according to the locals) “too many illegal immigrants taking advantage of free healthcare”. Dallas Texas is somewhat close to the Mexico border.

I personally knew of a vagrant woman with a prior medical issue that bragged about happily racking up the hospital over a million dollars in expenses after staying in a hospital bed for a few months. She didn’t express concern about having to pay for any of it since she doesn’t work. I wasn’t sure how to feel about that.

I once paid $8k while my health insurance paid $43k when I spent just half a day in a hospital bed in Colorado after I fell and broke a bone.
In the US, if I say I'm a lawyer, I'm at least implying that I passed the bar in some state (although possibly not in your state). If I just went to law school or if I just read a few books on constitutional law, it wouldn't be normal to describe yourself as a lawyer and you wouldn't be legally allowed to represent yourself as one.

People who have even grad degrees in some branch of engineering and have been working in the field for decades. But simply have never had a reason to get a PE? Perfectly reasonable for them to describe themselves as engineers (but not, of course, as PEs).
As with every area where google didn't have a dominant offering in place before strong competitors existed. Android being a possible exception because device vendors rallied around it so as not to be extinguished by apple.
More like saying you're a teacher in this case. While using that title to get around regulations teaching others in certain settings could be a crime, use of the word colloquially while generally giving knowledge to others (especially if you were a teacher where you came from) should never be a crime.
Lossless transcoding of JPEG bitstreams is done by Brunsli, there is also lossless storage of pixels, based on tech from FUIF plus an adaptive predictor by Alex Rhatushnyak.
Basically, as a lay person, to me this means it’s not licensed for use in anything you care about.

Fine for playing around with on your computer but not integrating with anything productive.

This is not legal advice though. Always consult a lawyer if you have legal questions.
C++20 has apparently a fix for it with std::jthread, though.

With all possible the learnings from Java, .NET, Erlang, TBB, Concurrency Runtime, and yet ISO C++ did not manage to get a proper concurrency story, and it full of traps like the one you mention.

Another one is std::async, which might actually be synchronous, depending on a set of factors.
NPR's Planet Money podcast did an episode last Oct related to this [0]. It was pretty cool to hear how the rise in food delivery services (drive-throughs before that) created an entire industry for engineered cooking oil that helped keep fries crispier, longer.

They also have an expert project how we'll likely have delivery vehicles in the future with deep fryers built in.

[0] https://www.npr.org/2019/10/23/772775254/episode-946-fries-o...
I am ok with your definition, but I am one to say that a self driving car can indeed be conscious.
It's his carry-on. Stash it in the overhead when you're boarding. Presumably, if a company needs a server moved in a hurry, it's worth buying a first-class ticket for the "lucky" human who has to go along with it. I've never seen first-class pax not get overhead space, and almost never even see them need to use space outside the first-class section.
UC president Janet Napolitano was caught on a hot mic a few years back saying, “We don’t have to listen to this crap”, when grad students protested for living wages.

Sounds like not much has changed. Of course, she lives for free in the UC presidential mansion, and had the school spend $620,000 to renovate it before she moved in, so she’s all set.
Using blockchain as a Real-Time database for EU country's citizens data
This plus VS Code and CMake is what I'd use to start any new project, saves time having to figure out all the options yourself.
15 months of intermittent fasting has not transformed my life
How do you use AirPlay to cast to your TV? You need to buy an Apple TV?
Actually something like that may indeed happen, but spontaneously, see about vacuum decay here [1]. Roughly speaking, the vacuum we know is meta-stable and eventually it can reach its zero state, but such change in any point in space will trigger a neighboring point to do the same and so on, so there will be a bubble expanding with a speed of light. The biggest problem is that the laws of physics of such vacuum are different and what is stable now will be unstable then, so atoms/molecules/anything made of them can no more exist. The worst is if this theory is correct, then such a bubble may already started to expand somewhere in the Universe and we will not know about it until it actually reaches us.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_vacuum
I've found this to be the case too. Been on mostly keto for roughly 2-3 years, done several short and long fasts, and I test my blood daily. There were days after fasting and then eating something that really should've knocked me out of ketosis where it barely made a dent. The whole thing is really very interesting.
I believe the patient also gets bankrupted in the process.
Interactive model showing effectiveness of airport screenings to catch Covid-19
> But you don’t have to work for the university while you do your PhD if you don’t want to.

Your comment is unrealistic and even absurd to the majority of those going through the PhD threadmill.

It's like saying you can dunk a basketball if you'd want to. Sure, show me LeBron James and how easy it is for him, but for those of us who aren't benefitting from abnormal competitive advantages then it's not that realistic.

How many people are lucky enough to be able to not only work a full-time job that pays the bills and is close enough to grad school and also be able to be in a field where literally part-time amateurs can do all the required academic work to write papers, a whole dissertation and defend a decent thesis? And in the end do well enough to aspire to have a career in your field of research?

You have a better chance of dunking on LeBron James.

"Let them eat cake."
Source, with a list of the more than 40 exams that will be retired: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/learning/community-blog-post...
It was largely written in about a week, a few years ago. It's quite stale now unfortunately. It was updated to the current RFCs for mail, but it's still on a very old Calendars version.

The downside of the JMAP model for a proxy to IMAP is that you do need to have a bit of state in your proxy server. jmap-perl uses a sqlite3 database per user for storing that state.

Structurally, it's a non-blocking server in front of a forking server - the non-blocking handles connections and event streaming, and opens multiple backend forking servers per user, one for reads, one for writes, and one for background syncing/import.
In the UK it means I can do contactless payments in excess of £30. I now no longer carry a wallet or have to remember a PIN, and at the same time I have zero anxiety about security. I could live without it, but it's something I use every day and think is more or less perfectly formed.
Java does not specify the actual threading model, so you can get green threads (user space) or red threads (kernel threads).

The upcoming Project Loom, intends to make it so that green threads become the default (aka virtual threads on Loom), but you can still ask for kernel threads, given that is what most JVM implementations have converged into.
> 2. Appeal to the customers by giving away free games every week

This is actually bigger than just appeal. I now have almost as many games on Epic as on Steam. This means that I start the Epic Games Launcher almost every day to see if there's something I want to play. In fact I now run the Epic Games Launcher more frequently than Steam. This exposes me to their store and I have started buying games from them. Before Epic started their free give away, the launcher was in the same category as the other non-Steam launchers I have, like Uplay or Origin. Something I virtually never start except when to play a game that requires them (and even then I'm reluctant). This means I'm never exposed to their stores and never entertain the idea of buying a game from them through those stores - out of sight, out of mind.
Jetson Nano
I didn't realize that one's knowledge and skill is a function of location.
> As the article points out, ChromeCast is an extremely locked down protocol. It's designed to bind your device and all its clients permanently into the Google ecosystem.

This does not pass the smell test. I can cast onto any of my Chromecasts using VLC and Catt[0] and while the former is limited to media, Catt lets me render websites just fine.

I believe Catt's author is on HN.

[0] https://github.com/skorokithakis/catt
It's a good thing I didn't buy one of these, and instead opted for a Coway.
Does does security like that?
As a counterpoint, I always disable wrapping in my editor, as I find it much less readable wrapped.
A valid choice if you have the time to make yourself enough of an expert on any argument that gets presented to correctly understand and judge its contents. Most people do not have that time or even the patience to waste it when we have various ways to identify people that should know what they are talking about.
We split it out: non-ticketed changes are recorded by forcing commits with specific commit formatting that puts out a changelog at intervals. That gets you a log of changes that can be either tracked back to a ticket or are self-describing.

(public examples are the Angular Commit Message Conventions or the way saltstack uses that stuff https://github.com/saltstack-formulas/.github/blob/master/CO... - you basically enforce some rules using commitlint and record logs using semver, even if you end up not using the versioning for your software)
https://spiegel.de/

The big German news magazine now offers an ad-free version for 5 Euro/month (5.50 USD). Same content, same URLs, and there's still some premium articles you can pay extra for (5 Euro I think, long-form articles of their print magazine). The ad-free version really has all tracking pixels and ads removed. It's the first month and unproven business model but I wanted to support the approach.
The problem with C++23, is that it will be mostly usable around 2025, and C++20 co-routines still don't have a co-routine aware standard library, right?
> made myself unhireable

you mean because your answers weren't cookie-cutter enough?
Ask HN: Business owners/managers, what are you doing to prepare for coronavirus?
Eh, parenting is a somewhat competitive sport, I guess. You go through phases of boasting how your little ones aren't interested in cartoons and just want to do maths puzzles, followed by periods where you just want to dump them in front of the TV for ten minutes while you try and remember who your wife is.
The demise of american manufacturing happened in lock step with environmental regulations. Turns out the only way to have a profitable manufacturing operation is to hire cheap and dump your waste into the water supply, as was done in every single industrialized american city.

Maybe we should figure out how we focus less on making the most profit every quarter and more on how to establish sustainable industries that aren't going to look very profitable at all, and know that this lack of exponential profit isn't a bad thing. Advocating for a return of manufacturing is fruitless without this understanding coming to the business world first, and the only way to learn a lesson like this is to hold abusers of labor and the environment personally responsible.

Calculate the environmental damage, calculate the damage to quality of life, and put the bill right on the executive who oversaw this behavior. Putting it on the company lets executives like this walk off scott-free to their next executive position while the company bankrupts and the working class involved with the company loose their livelihood; lessons aren't learned by going after companies. We have to hold executives directly accountable for their direct decision making.
Are there many examples in the real world of this actually happening?
The article is dated Feb 25, and mentions that the disbursement has yet to occur, so we don't have any data on the success of the measure, or do I have this wrong?
A journey to searching Have I Been Pwned database in 49μs
It's not about abstract belief in a bunch of bureaucrats, it's about waiting on the very, very large flows of money that these bureaucrats might open or redirect. The investors' pockets don't care if the dollars in them were created by the real economy or the fed.
Oh what?? Wow, I'm quite surprised. Were they making the same sort of product back then?

Maybe it just took them a long time to spread to Canada.
My impression is that the totally-unsweetened carbonated water market has exploded in the last 5 years...
Similar to this is the USB Ninja, which delivers a remote payload like the Rubber Ducky.

https://hackerwarehouse.com/product/usb-ninja-cable/
Not OP but in a similar position. I find that since I don't use the desktop switching features on MacOS I dont have a problem with the alt tab situation. I only use one desktop and just alt tab for everything. Its just a minor annoyance on Windows when alt+` doesn't respond.

The worst part for me about switching back and forth between MacOS and Windows/Nix is the muscle memory around applekey+c/v vs ctrl+c/v. There isn't a way to remap keys to recreate that muscle memory on Windows/nix and keep the muscle memory for alt tab.
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> We now know with certainty Chinese numbers are more trustworthy than US (and half of EU) ones on the sole basis Chinese are actually TESTING people, while CDC refuses any due diligence.

That just means the upper bound of the potential quality of the Chinese numbers is better, not that the actual quality of the numbers is better. Just because they are gathering more information doesn't mean they are publicly reporting it accurately.

That is, the Chinese potentially internally have more complete data, because they are doing more surveillance. That doesn't mean that the numbers they are reporting are more trustworthy.
Plugging a friend's super cool product: a pop-up 24" monitor with full HDMI support and a long lasting battery that uses short throw projection.

https://www.arovia.com/
Where are you from, for comparison? The stereotypical cuisine from most nations I can think of is "mushy", from Indian curry dishes to noodle dishes to breads/pastas to beans/legumes to basically anything that's carb heavy.

Off the top of my head, the only "non-mushy" cuisine I can think of might be a meat heavy one and maybe an uncooked vegetable one. The former definitely describing my upbringing in Texas. Felt like I grew up on beef and mustard greens.
> biking is uncomfortable and dangerous

I live in a college town in Michigan and work for a company in San Francisco.

I don't find biking to be uncomfortable here whatsoever. In fact there are maybe a half dozen to a dozen coffee shops I can work from that are around two miles away from my house and I bike to them all the time- even in the winter if the roads aren't icy.
Panic means there's no more supermarket open because first the hordes come and panic-buy, then the supermarket has to close as even the workers don't show up. Panic means people not showing up to work, doctor's offices overcrowded, streets blocked with people going to the countryside. Panic means the system breaks down - electricians don't show up to fix issues, firefighters can't get through as the streets are blocked, local businesses getting looted and going bankrupt as they have to close, etc etc

Mild panic/mild fear/excessive carefulness will inconvenience you. Real panic means people die and things break.
The current US government plan seems to be "let everyone catch the virus and pray it isn't too bad".
From the headline I thought this could have been about spotting misinformation on forums and social media. Far more tame.
This is a really weird take I keep hearing from people.

Let's say Covid-19 is equal to influenza in every way. That is a disaster. Influenza is one of the worst illnesses we deal with. If we now have another illness continuously spreading in the community equal in impact to influenza, which infects 35 million people annually, resulting in hundreds of thousands and sometimes millions of hospitalizations, and 30,000 - 100,000 deaths each year, that is an absolute calamity.

I don't think anyone thinks we're all going to die from this. But preventing this disease from becoming a permanent addition to the routine illnesses we deal with is a big deal, and people are worried about the necessary social distancing required to contain it.

> (b) that shouldn't really matter to us. Longer term, we'll have a vaccine and it'll be added to the usual seasonal flu vaccine package.

That's a very optimistic take. We have indeed become much better at developing vaccines, but it's not clear that we'll necessarily be able to develop an effective one for coronaviruses. You say that we'll just add it to the seasonal flu vaccine package, but we don't have effective vaccines for influenza. They mitigate risk, but the mutation rate of influenza is such that seasonal vaccines generally only provide a 60% protection, and some seasons much less. And we've been developing these vaccines for decades, with tens of billions spent on flu vaccines and research.

We don't have any vaccine against the common cold, despite massive amounts of research towards that. Most colds are caused by rhinoviruses, but about 15% are caused by species of coronaviruses. And we haven't developed any vaccines against them.
I used to rely on this Makefile template https://github.com/sudar/Arduino-Makefile.
Is Bitbucket down for anyone else?
I get "403 Forbidden" on all their URLs, for the last half an hour, on Firefox.
My hypothesis has been a supply crunch simultaneous with a demand crunch. We are seeing substantially altered consumer behavior in China. If they are drastic, these events can make lasting changes in people’s willingness to spend money.

If you spend months inside, avoiding gatherings, worrying about your health and that of loved ones, not going to restaurants, postponing discretionary purchases do you immediately snap back to pre crisis levels once it’s over?

What’s the economic activity in locked down areas of Italy right now?

What is the possibility that US escapes unscathed given clown car response at the federal level?
And let’s not forget Gipfeli and Knusperli ;)

https://github.com/google/gipfeli

https://github.com/google/knusperli
another day another front page article about some random person dying
> Environmentally speaking though, I'm not sure it would be great to have huge numbers of people moving to all of the most beautiful spots on earth

I think you'd find the opposite to be true. People would live closer to their families while also tapping job markets that are only available far away.

Now that I live closer to family nobody needs to fly to visit each other. It has probably cut down on demand for over 6 cross country flights per year which I would think is very good for the planet.
Can anyone explain why the Japanese Yen is seen as a "safe haven currency"?
You can also overstate how much engineering generally is about rigorous processes and theoretical correctness as opposed to heuristics and empiricism.

I don't actually disagree with your general point. But there are plenty of examples of civil engineering project failures because of defective materials and the like and there are established practices in many areas of software.

I've worked in engineering outside of software--and was even on track to get a PE--and a lot of that was pretty ad hoc.
If you produce 2 entangled photons, if you "split" it into 3, do the the 3 new photons still entangled to the first one?
Alright, but you know, that quite some people would add the US to that list, too?

You know, private operated prisons, starting wars, torturing, kidnapping, dronestriking around the world called "extrajucidal killing" etc. etc. etc.

This world is not a simple one, so I doubt simple laws can change basic flaws.
The few reviews of the actual product (vs gushes about the Kickstarter 4 years ago) I can find seem pretty "meh" on it though. 1280x720, bad contrast, ...
Sure, sorry, I meant the actor model in C++ specifically, according to the papers published by the authors of the library that is in this post.
Yeah, it’s strange he hasn’t considered micro projectors.
But occasionally you find yourself years later giving your own thoughts a read read read, and it's helpful that you've taken the time to write write write. Future you will thank you. I'm pretty happy with past me for obsessively documenting some things.
No, seriously, how does that differ from red?

If you're in stopping distance and the light changes to STOP, then you STOP, no matter whether stop is encoded as red or yellow or both. So you don't need yellow for that, you can just give them red. They will stop.

If you're not in stopping distance and you get a sudden STOP sign, whether that's red or yellow, well you're kinda fucked because you're going to end up in the intersection anyway.

I don't see any rationale for having yellow with these rules (except to indicate that the light is about to turn from red to green).