skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My understanding (i am also not an expert!) is that common NTP implementations will do the slowing down ("slewing") to correct small errors, but will just change the time ("stepping") to correct large errors. It will even do this if that means time going backwards.

Subject to configuration, of course. man ntpd [1] says:

> Sometimes, in particular when ntpd is first started, the error might exceed 128 ms. This may on occasion cause the clock to be set backwards if the local clock time is more than 128 s in the future relative to the server. In some applications, this behavior may be unacceptable. If the -x option is included on the command line, the clock will never be stepped and only slew corrections will be used.

[1] https://linux.die.net/man/8/ntpd
k is faster than hand-written C in many cases, and significantly faster than compiled Haskell.
In all honesty, isn't json schema and open api more or less reinventing wsdl/soap/rpc? It feels like we've come full circle now and replaced <> with {} (and on the way lost a lot of mature xml tooling).
No, I don’t think they are super overpriced, I just think the quality isn’t there yet. Hopefully we can see higher quality all-electric options at similar or lower price points.

Tesla’s service reputation is the main reason I still currently drive an ICE. (Before that, it was their laggy touchscreen - my gas guzzler has an iPad on a bracket on the dash, which does not lag.). Also I’m never going to drive something that spies on me; I had the GSM radio transceiver removed from my current vehicle.

AIUI if you do that to a Tesla you never receive future updates, even to features you paid for in advance.

More competition in the EV market is going to be awesome. Right now it’s just a bloodbath where Tesla can basically do whatever they want, because until very recently every other EV was simply hot garbage.
No. The risk of dying from this disease is negligible for most American adults.

Can you tell us please:

(1) What your numeric definition of "negligible" is

(2) And on what math this is estimate based?
Clickbait, bogus title.

A handful of people there "show some symptoms", which could be influenza, or anything.

"officials have not yet found a link between (the deceased's) case and the outbreak in the nursing facility. “ um, okay... so how does this qualify as a "COVID-19 "outbreak" in the facility?!
You used to be able to buy high quality CPAP machines on Amazon. I don't see them any more.

There are also streamlined processes to get the prescription. You take the machine home over night and they monitor your breathing remotely.

Years ago I successfully argued with a CPAP company about their jacked up rates and was able to find the exact same CPAP machine for about 1/3 the cost.

Good to know that I can also use it for a pandemic. ;-)
Kinda. You can integrate it into your existing CMS to make the editing (for your end users) easier, especially for “enriched” content (think interactive content, complex layout)
> A replacement at an apple store in Germany is €55

Yes, for the older models (pre iPhone X). Every upcoming iPhone is likely to fall into the 75€ category.
The main drawback however is the availability of the Apple stores. In Germany in total, there are only 15 Apple stores. For me, the closest store is 300km away. So, driving is not really an option just to get my battery replaced, if I'd send it in for repair, this can take up to 5 working days, so at worst, thats 7 working days without my phone (assuming shipping takes one day).
I whole-heartedly welcome AMD's new offerings and have completely switched to buying servers with AMD CPUs, but I have to disagree with the characterization of "ruthless milking" by intel. There was no instituted monopoly here. Others were free to compete, but they failed. Intel's high prices motivated AMD to create something better and now they have. If anything, the high pricing was a screwup on intel's part and good for the consumer. Intel could have better protected their lead by charging less (but not as less as now) to discourage competition. I'm glad they didn't, even though it cost me for the last few years. Now that there is a valid competitor again, maybe we will see better conformance to Moore's Law.

Edit: To clarify, I will not argue that intel has a clean record of competitiveness. My point is that they didn't "ruthlessly milk" the consumer with high prices. Instead, they stuck a knife in their own back by charging excessively high prices without sufficiently innovating. This created an opportunity for AMD and motivated them to create something better.
Best I could find would be: https://github.com/chanzuckerberg/czi-prosemirror but they kinda stopped working on it.
Ars Technica has an article about Mr. Dyson and in the comments, the author attempts to explain why Dyson might have had the view on climate science that he had. I found the suggested reasons plausible.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/02/freeman-dyson-physic...
They make the phones thinner presumably because people want thinner phones.
They want to be as thin as the competition. And as fast. And have as long battery time. And they are all related obviously.
Can you do that on Android? Other than shutting the phone down and `dd`ing the correct partition?
I'm sort of amazed they haven't dropped prices more; I guess they can still charge a premium to anyone who wants their AVX512 (? I think that's it) performance to be as high as it can be. Otherwise, most of these processors have already had an epyc shit taken on them.

I was just again pricing processors and if that 7302 isn't the real killer in the Epyc lineup I dunno what is. It craps on pretty much anything and everything Intel has, and is only about $1100 right now (pricing is inflated, but meh).

It's pretty crazy how cheap hardware is compared to the cloud these days; sure, it's not in a data center or if it is that's a headache of its own... but it is really fucking cheap. I personally think a lot of mid-sized orgs could benefit from moving a lot of their non-production environments to an on-prem server. The VPN is probably already locking people out, causing connection headaches anyway, so it's not like you're gonna have less connectivity than you did ;-)
Boeing didn't conduct end-to-end tests on Starliner before its failed flight
User expectations, economics and the market all change in that time.

In the blog, the author mentions a need for using a "premium plan" for publishing his WP blog to protect it from being taken down by large spikes in traffic. That premium plan changed the economics of his blog, and the plan gets more expensive with time making his content less profitable.
I have an SEO based tool that's been limping along because I'm neither good at marketing nor interested in learning in order to scale it up. Its a customizable audit tool.

If that sounds interesting to you, get in touch with me and I can show you more.
> So far, two people from the nursing facility outbreak have tested positive for Covid-19. One is a health worker in her 40s, who is currently in “satisfactory condition,” Duchin said, while the other is a resident in her 70s with significant underlying chronic health issues and is in “serious condition.”
Programmers' Theoretical Minimum
How is better than methanol?
We don't all live in large cities.
Wow to think someone wrote this 12 years ago. I feel there is a lesson here but I don't know what.
thanks! I used to use 1password - are you sure there haven't been similar problems? [1] I'm happy to switch but it's hard to know what to trust without being a subject matter expert here...

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/02/28/flaws_in_password_m...
Is it me or the player does not have volume control nor playback speed?
Is this the new definition of social network these days? Back in the 80s or 90s these would have been affinity groups, forums, or even just a BBS if it was dialup centric.
If I gave you an honest answer you probably wouldnt believe it, nor would others, and I'd be called many names (as has happened before).

Truth is treason in an empire of lies.
If you're so sick you need a ventilator, you're also going to need a ton of supportive care as well.

The chances of a ventilator being the one missing link between life and death (outside of a hospital) is pretty small.
> Well that's the reason the War on Terror is such a stupid concept. There was no win condition.

What if the win condition is actually having a constant percieved threat, and thus a war to act on said threat.

From someone not from the US, american politics is dominated with who is right and who is wrong. The entire political spectrum seems to be divided between "winners and losers" and the politics seem very black and white compared to my experience with politics from other countries.

What if the wars the US have started are merely a political tool to rally the population for party support?
I usually do it via my carrier which has stores in every shopping mall. They'll lend me a phone while they send mine away for repair. It's a hassle but it's better than nothing.

For my old phones (which are still in the pre-X category) I just get a repair at an unofficial store at €30 or €35.
1911 – A trip through NYC speed corrected with added sound
A moat implies barriers against new entrants, but none of the parties in the current market are new. They are all well within the moat.
Thank you for mentioning Rachel! :) She is working as the Founding Director of the Center for Applied Data Ethics nowadays, which is a very full-time job. So she hasn't been involved much in fastai v2 or the book (other than chapter 3, of which she's a co-author).

She created and taught the NLP and Computational Linear Algebra courses, and has written most of the material on the fast.ai blog, and of course (as noted) co-founded fast.ai. Overall, I'd agree that she doesn't get as much credit as she deserves. That's perhaps partly due to her increasing focus on ethics issues, which aren't generally discussed much on HN (sadly).

I also would say that Sylvain Gugger doesn't get as much credit as he should -- he has been an equal partner with me in creating the book and fastai library.

(I discussed this response with Rachel prior to posting it.)
I love the image, BTW! :)
> ten years

Your words not mine.

Problem is you guys thinks real technology moves as fast as you guys reinvent web frameworks.

It doesn't. Developing real technology and rolling it out takes decades.
When I read 'Text Renaissance' I assumed that the article is going to be about org-mode or nvalt ;)
What's PBO here?
one interesting note from the article:

——————————

Claim: ‘Face masks don’t work’

Wearing a face mask is not an iron clad guarantee that you won’t get sick – viruses can also transmit through the eyes and tiny viral particles, known as aerosols, can still penetrate masks. However, masks are effective at capturing droplets, which is the main transmission route of coronavirus, and some studies have estimated a roughly five-fold protection versus no barrier. If you are likely to be in close contact with someone infected, a mask cuts the chance of the disease being passed on. If you’re just walking around town and not in close contact with others, wearing a mask is unlikely to make any difference.
Unicode is structured into planes and furthermore into blocks: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plane_(Unicode)#Basic_Multilin...

So you can actually separate them if you want pretty easily
Maybe I just haven't been exposed to it, but in my opinion I have pretty good speeds (100 down / 50 up) and still experience stuttering on both ends. I've tried enterprise solutions (like WebEx) at a Fortune 50 with a >1Tbps fiber connection and still encountered problems. I think the problem is just that...video conferencing is a hard problem, and there is more innovation that needs to be done until we can feel comfortable replacing physical interactions with it.

One exciting prospect is the advent of AR/VR, where instead of streaming 30 1080x720 frames a second, we can stream 60 virtual character positions a second (a la multiplayer FPSs like CS:GO) that operate as stand ins for real bodies / faces. I think games such as VRChat will have a real impact on the enterprise teleconferencing space once the proper market is targeted: replace the childish characters with more "indifferent" avatars, add in some "business casual" background environments, etc.
A functioning Twitter account and instructions on how to use it. Technologists (you, me, others here) GREATLY overestimate the technical capability of the other adults around us. If a small business does NOT have a Twitter account then it's a safe bet that they either don't have company email or don't know how to set it up. A well written profile, header and profile picture, and an explanation of hashtags and how to post is worth $50 to $100 in a lot of cases.
The King County press conference today included a Q&A where this very question was asked ("why this virus requires specific measures compared to other types of flu-like viruses"). According to Dr. Francis Riedo, Medical Director of Infection Control and Prevention at EvergreenHealth, to paraphrase, "The difference between this Novel Coronavirus and Influenza is (1) there is no innate immunity, it is a completely vulnerable population, (2) there is no vaccine to prevent it, and (3) there is no currently effective anti-viral therapy. It is a perfect storm for a novel virus to come out without a vaccine, population base protection, or an effective therapeutic agent."
My comment was that taking advantage of SIMD wasn't cheating, but "cheating" was a joke in both cases.

Though I disagree with your comment on the cache: it's very blatantly better for interpreters; Whitney isn't the only one who's a believer in that, Moore does too, and Moore is more competent than just about anybody. If you look at the performance of k and Moore-written Forths compared to Dyalog APL, it does seem like they have a point.
Gosh... no one in their right mind should ever select Concur for reimbursement. I could understand a big company talking heads getting lured in because their secretaries would be suffering through Concur crapware, not them. For startups, I would have expected the decision-makers to give a through hands-on treatment before enforcing it on everyone.

Seriously, you shouldn't be making technical choices for professional developers as CIO unless you are writing code as one of them. If you think they are like toddlers, your hiring is already busted. More seriously, CIO is a pointless title no one really knows why it exists. Even more seriously, startup shouldn't be having "IT department". If you do, you are already Walmart at that point, not Amazon.
Nobody wants climate change, it's true. But do you really believe that the scientists who have become public advocates for climate change mitigation, that have contributed building the international climate research organism that was awarded a Nobel prize, and whose research ends up regularly on the front page of international newspapers and shapes the decisions of world politicians in economic matters- do you really think these people are putting all their daily effort in proving themselves wrong? They're human beings like everyone else, they become invested in their own ideas. And the stronger the message, the harder it is to be completely dispassionate about it.

This is not to say they're wrong. But I strongly doubt that many of them would be looking for signs that climate change is not that bad after all.
previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22453183
> Be extremely critical of any advise that attempts to make the technologies or languages easier. Simple is not easy.

This is great advice. I would have avoided a huge snafu on a recent project if I had listened to my gut instead of adopting an unproven "easier" approach promoted by a FAANG-sponsored open source framework.
what would be ideal for raspi 3 and up are aarch64 binaries with a 32 bit memory model (aarch64-ilp32).
Dies debian support/use this?
It reminds me of the baby incubator made from car parts.

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/news-blog/babys-hot-whe...
I know, I'm just providing a counterexample to phoobahr.
The effect of backing the mujahadeen on the actual Afghans was, I'm sure, never in the picture.

(Anyone remember the Living Daylights where James Bond teams up with the Oxford-educated Afghan head of the local islamists to beat the Russians together?)
Ask HN: How do I get started with developing an app from scratch?
I'm looking to try my hand at building a basic shopping list app on the side, to familiarize myself with the platforms used, so that I can better understand the experience firsthand. I've currently decided to get started with Android Studio and App Inventor, and I've got a reasonable level of beginner experience from both in the past evening. Are there any good tutorials out there that can help me learn further? Also, are there any better tools than these two out there? Cheers
NATO has no issues with military dictatorships as long as they support NATO, it is the form of government arming and training rebels would likely create.
Shetland beach cleaner finds message in a bottle from 2600 magazine
Those are very different situations. Intel has held a technological advantage and, up until recently, no one could compete with them so they could command their price. With ISPs there is a huge capital investment cost, and with EVs there are supply chain issues limiting capacity and commanding higher costs.

With last-mile internet, the incumbents have made significant capital investments and competitors have so far been unwilling to engage in the sort of long term slow return investment necessary to build out infrastructure. Google Fiber has tried all means to lower the cost of entry and has thus far failed to deliver significant gains and they're unwilling to make the huge capital investments necessary to truly compete because ensuing price wars would make realizing a return near impossible.

With BEVs the problem is manufacturing cost, primarily the cost of batteries needs to drop but the demand for EVs has not warranted dramatic ramp ups in battery manufacturing necessary for that to occur. The supply of suitable batteries is so limited that Jaguar and others have actually had to stop production.
...not sure I know of a single website with playback speed
Maybe if you literally call in to the conference? Not sure why you’d ever want to do that, but...
If you really believe Twitter is that useless, you're definitely doing it wrong. And your "critique" seems to ignore the presence of links.
My favourite part of this is the guy spending his reward from 2600 on restoring a phone box. No doubt a worthy back pager
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That sounds like a lot of people, but it's not likely to cause real, noticeable problems in society. I think there's a good chance that our reaction to the virus is more damaging than the virus itself.

If 40-70% of people will be infected this year and 35-62 million will die, that's 1-1.5% death rate. The average person will probably know a few people that die from it, but the average person probably knows hundreds of people. This is going to be similar to the number that die from car accidents or HIV, and neither of those have wrecked society. It's going to be sad, but probably won't change life as we know it, unless we let it.

Personally, I think we're all overreacting a bit, and the overreaction is what's going to cause the problems, not the disease. The Spanish flu caused problems, but that was ~10x deadlier than COVID-19. We all just need to worry less and be a little more proactive about visiting the doctor.
Transcript here: https://slate.com/transcripts/cE5Ia2t1d3k2d3hhNlV3dG1xWlMzNX...
I wish people who want to design iPhones would apply for jobs with Apple, supplying a design portfolio showing relevant competence, like normal sane & polite people – instead of attempting to use state power to impose their product preferences on others.
Two wrongs don't make a right, but three lefts do.

Throwing shade without evidence doesn't demonstrate professionalism, it demonstrates laziness.

Correlation on high-volume production systems requires precise timestamps all the time.
It's honestly very disappointing that there is still no non-JS
replacement for in-browser XSLT. And in-browser XSLT wasn't that good
to begin with.
> Numbers don't mean much.

Really?

> You don't have confirmed cases if you don't test.

There's appropriate testing. You and some media outlets are just fear mongering.

There's less testing overall because there's less risk because the US government quarantined it so well.

Other countries did and have not. Yes there have been some blunders, but that's human.

I don't think blanket statements politicizing the situation helps.
That’s called an outlier.
>There was no instituted monopoly here

You're talking about the Intel that was used for monopoly practices, right?
Time, a New Swift Package
I'm talking about the installation cost only (because the battery would need to be purchased anyway).
UUDIX: A fast, and cryptographically secure UUID (v4) generator for Crystal.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Micro_Devices,_Inc._v....
The monotonic integer approach doesn't work for most healthcare applications. Due to safety and compliance requirements we typically need to record both the local time and the zone offset which applied at that instant.
> Also I’m never going to drive something that spies on me; I had the GSM radio transceiver removed from my current vehicle.

i'd like to do the same to my VW Golf. i bought a VCDS tool to go in and fiddle with the settings to essentially put the gsm module into airplane mode (i think it's verizon telematics). dunno if this will be sufficient though.

i read that just ripping it out causes a bunch of the infotainment system misbehave, etc.
AMD's Precision Boost Overdrive: https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/amd/pbo

It's automatic overclocking, implemented by extending the normal power management and turbo mechanisms to work with power draw limits the user can set beyond the normal specs.
Fight dis.cool, stop the theft, selling and recklessness with our personal data
Gastheracantha cancriformis is not a rare species

Or G. sauteri, that looks more probable.
Astra Readies Secretive Silicon Valley Rocket
You said those are smart people. If they don't understand certain aspects that are relevant, why not try to teach them the importance of it (e.g.: here's what matters when we log, and why; if necessary, teach them how to monitor the system using logs so they see the importance firsthand). If they are truly smart and professional, they should be able and especially willing to learn about it.

But yeah, I think that as an industry we overemphasise (both in hiring and in our weird pseudo-meritocratic community) raw coding skills and underemphasise big picture thinking, communication, collaboration, etc.
What if all companies were to do this? What if all landlords within a ten mile radius were to tell you to piss off if you asked to rent, and all banks denied you a mortgage?

Do you think this would be a good outcome?
Sorry if I was unclear. ASTM3s do not provide self protection. They are estimated to reduce ambient virion uptake by about 2/3 - which just isn’t enough to make a meaningful difference most of the time, as 1/3 of the usual droplet output is already more than is needed to cause infection.
I doubt you could convince me that there is $40k more value in a Model X than a Model 3.

In terms of $ per "car" I'd also say yes, but that comes down to my own personal preferences being categorically outside of the luxury car market.
At least here in Australia, corner shops doing repairs are a dying breed - there's no money in it once you factor in rent and electricity and wages. An online search replacing a popular Samsung was $AU99.

My current 3 year old phone is also a dying breed where when the time comes, I can buy a genuine Moto battery for $AU16 delivered and replace it myself in under 30 seconds.
Update: oh yeah, that broke a lot of stuff
You might as well.
does here: https://imgur.com/aPnOQjY