skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Paris, France

People are definitely stocking up on supplies - I wouldn't say panic, just prevention.

Went to local big hypermarket and several non-perishable food (pasta, rice, canned corn) were out of stock (which for made a pretty impressive picture - here is one I found on the net from this shop: https://twitter.com/jeanmgodard/status/1234044230034763776 ). From what I hear, it was definitely not like this everywhere, but still - it's one of the bigger ones in this part of Paris suburbs.
"Ha, now I’m imagining a 4U server getting the window seat."

No seat - I put it in the overhead bin ...
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Companies have got into trouble for violating sanctions. There are plenty of examples for that.
I recently got a Miracast dongle and it was a pretty bad experience.

My PC would show corrupted video streams, my iPhone worked via an included app but lacked any sort of context awareness (just blindly mirrors the screen) and doesn’t work well with DRM

I finally caved in after all these years and got an Apple TV and it’s so much nicer of an experience, even looking strictly at mirroring.

Apps are context aware to the fact they’re mirroring, much lower latency from my PC (despite using a 3rd party app), no weird dependency on WiFi for initial pairing (Window's native mirroring won’t work with my Miracast device because my PC doesn’t have a WiFi card installed)

I don’t know if it’s an ecosystem problem for Miracast (I’m pretty sure the only “high quality” implementation of it is the Microsoft adapter, but there’s an ocean of dongles that “support it”) or a technological limitation, but it wasn’t good
GeForce Now didn't exist 2 or 3 years ago, so perhaps you mixed it up with the home streaming solution?

GeForce Now works fine with Xbox controllers with no configuration needed. IIRC it also requires no configuration to work with Shield TV's controller.
Would Facebook exist if Zuckerberg wasn't asked by the Winklevoss to develop for him?

The bottom line is that luck is a big part of your success whether direct or indirect. Also there is a world of difference between building a successful coffee shop and a software company let alone a consumer software company.

It's not the same. Some is more relying on luck, timing and chance than others. Ignorning that especially in our field is simply not in tune with reality (not saying you are saying that)
this is it. most likely.
I'm not quite sure what the innovation was for Apple pay - just that they put it on a phone?
I moved to Scotland 2 years ago. After one year I switched providers away from Scottish Power. They sent me a final bill (snail mail) for £0.05, but their internet and phone payment systems kept breaking on me. When I finally got through to a human they told me “our system can’t accept such low payments”.

They forgave the amount. Weeks later I got another snail mail letter saying I was £0.04 in credit.

Every interaction I had with them was farcical - I wouldn’t touch them with a 10ft pole.
I think it's mostly marketing at this point, but for awhile it used to differential products that were previously only available through mail-order. I remember in the 90's there was an "As Seen on TV" store in the Mall of America that only offered such products. See the Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As_seen_on_TV
Comparing a company that sells 10 million+ cars a year to a company that sells 500k cars.
> We have a regular pager rotation for emergencies, so if you get an overnight call to work on something and can't find the information about it, you start to realize how important the docs are. That has been a big motivator in getting people to update docs about the things they know. If you don't want a call overnight, make sure there's nothing that isn't in the wiki!

I had a co-worker write about the importance of documentation to folks who are on call, and why it is hard to get it right:
https://www.transposit.com/blog/2020.02.26-rewarding-documen...
I don't think it every was a promising approach to let the compiler alone do that work. For one, it means that you basically have to recompile for every microarch, and the compiler needs all those details. But even then, the compiler can't fully predict cache behaviour etc. Which means ooo execution still is important.
Maybe. Or this will be another V event like Christmas 2018 and you'll have lost money buying an unnecessary hedge.

If you need the money in 2020, hedging makes sense. If you don't, don't.
I'll check out the Pinebook and Linux Mint, thank you for the concrete suggestions!

> at this point the Linux ecosystem and its various distros can do just about everything Windows and Mac could, this isn't the 90s anymore.

That's good to hear! I used Ubuntu in University for a short while and it seemed quite well developed, the problem was that I was bound to some tools that were only available on Windows/Mac, such that I couldn't adopt it as my main OS. Anyways I appreciate your constructive input, thanks.
I found out in 2006, just as the EU allergen labelling directive started to really kick in properly.

Bread has come a long way.
Pasta is brilliant.
You can now have pizza!
Gluten free soy sauce/tamari is available!
Fish fingers
Sausages!
Pies!

Some things are sadly no longer stocked which were quite tasty. But given the british pallet im not surprised!
So many repo sites are like this. GitHub/GitLab are honestly some of the only ones that really put the code front and center, making it easy to explore. SourceForce, Launchpad, etc, they all have such horrible UX.
> However, the total number of COVID-19 cases is likely higher due to inherent difficulties in identifying and counting mild and asymptomatic cases.

> Nevertheless, all CFRs still need to be interpreted with caution and more research is required.

Like the cruise ships:

> The ministry has tested 4,061 people so far, of which 705 were positive, including 392 people who were asymptomatic.

So seems your estimate of "huge numbers of asymptomatic" is not far from the mark. Apologies. See also:

> Asymptomatic infection has been reported, but the majority of the relatively rare cases who are asymptomatic on the date of identification/report [due to contact testing] went on to develop disease. The proportion of truly asymptomatic infections is unclear but appears to be relatively rare and does not appear to be a major driver of transmission.

https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/who-chi...
So they can empower their teams to make the best possible technical proposals that they then champion as the path forward.

And that's assuming there at only technical considerations and not broader ones involving discussions with many other stake holders.
We need sample code for stuff like this so they can be referred back to as canonical examples. Frequently asserted C++ misconceptions?
There doesn't seem to be much information as to the legal basis for Järlström’s efforts -- is there some Oregon or US requirement that red light cameras need to be "fair" in order to be legal?

(Also -- would this extend to California? I received a red light ticket at an odd double intersection here I'm convinced involved a no-win situation, trying to figure out options, traffic lawyers of the ticket clinic variety do not seem to be of particular help.)
It does strip the DRM on DVDs out of the box, and there are ways to add support for AACS decryption (Blu-Ray).
Splitting Up Swift Types
I see the statement as making the case for an idealist philosophical perspective. I.e. the subject that we're really exploring is the human mind, not the universe.

Of course you don't have to agree with that. To me it seems clear that we can explore the universe, or at least get real close. But it's easy to see the value of an anthropocentric perspective. At the end of the day we're stuck being human.
intel-specific? I thought AMD was just a drop in replacement for Intel since both same architecture and AMD was a clone of X86 originally, but I guess Intel licensed them the tech so they wouldn't be a monopoloy... but I know that's a bit of a history lesson.

Or did you confuse ARM and AMD? ARM I know you need to recompile your code but possibly other changes depending on what... and I believe there's even compatibility difference between ARM chip versions like 6 and 7, etc. but I guess that's why Apple created bitcode to try to help with that.
The great thing about GeForce Now is that it's a great proof of value. I don't know whether it will succeed because the politics of it have to make sense. But the tech is there. On wifi it is 95% of the time good, with 5% stutter, which sucks. On ethernet the reviews are that it's perfect, I haven't tried it yet, but the reviews are great.

Unfortunately the library is not great yet. Not bad either, but I'm missing some favs. Plus while most people play a few popular titles, most people also have an obscure title only they play. And you can't run those, which keeps me going back to wanting to run my own hardware.
No. I care about both convenience and openness. At some point perhaps the proxy fight makes the producs inconvenient? Perhaps even less convenient than the open alternative? At that point consumers might reconsider. Not until then.
I have found Architecture Decision Records to be great for this.

They capture why a decision was made and the context/options at the time. They also provide an immutable linear log of decisions which is nice for on boarding.

https://github.com/joelparkerhenderson/architecture_decision...
There seem to be quite a few air purifier startups. I was reading about one called Mila recently — does anyone know if they are legit? I currently have a cheap air purifier in my apartment, but with concerns about both wildfire season and viruses, I would like to get a nicer one.
This is a ridiculous comment. They make products people enjoy and use every day: Gmail, Docs, Sheets, Chrome, Google Photos. Billions of people who aren't technically savvy use the products.

Google makes some bad products too. Stadia happens to be one of them imo.
I took profits already so left with a smaller hedge.

Definitely will not lose more than I would’ve if I had done nothing, even if it goes to 0, which is unlikely given the high volatility.
The slightly flavoured water is a very new development -- the la croix I mentioned. When I had it, I thought for once, they've finally found something I like. But why did it take so long?
The 35$ small and minimal dongle was really the game changer I think. I remember when it first came out it even came with 3 months (30$) worth of netflix subscription too, making it basically free. Back then I played with a bunch of different HTPC solutions and I don't think anything below 100$ existed.
...and lo, thereby the world ended.
Ask HN: How to Visualize the Gist of C(ode)?
hello häckers,

i have a passion for graphs, and while writing docs (for my naive/noob c code) i was looking at the generated doxygen/graphviz function call-graphs and started to wonder, could we graph variable "calls"?

some inkscaping and couple prototypes later...

https://github.com/oskude/cvag

- does this (or better) already exist?
- how does one visualize the gist of c(ode)?

cheers.oskude
Alright, I see. I hope you understand that this book, published in New Age circles, is a not a reputable work on history or even a reasonable pop-sci distillation thereof. Consequently, I feel it is irresponsible to make the claim in the post above.
"Big" and "small" are not properties, they are relations. 1000 is big relative to 0.001, but it is small relative to 100000000.

In common parlance, "big" and "small" are often used in context where the thing being related is implied, and usually taken to be a human being. Mountains are big (relative to humans) and ants are small (relative to humans). But ants are big relative to atoms and mountains are small relative to planets.

But "conscious" isn't a relation, it's a property. Normal humans are conscious. Rocks are not. This is not to say that consciousness might not be a continuous property rather than a dichotomy; it almost certainly is. Nonetheless, there is a point at which the degree of consciousness in a system is indistinguishable from zero, at which point it is no longer useful to say that the thing is conscious.
How does socialized healthcare change food manuf incentives?

I do also wonder about where it makes sense to draw the line when it comes to nutrition policy. We all share finite healthcare resources, especially as it becomes more socialized.

I think at the very least it becomes even more obviously predatory for you to make money off peddling addictive junk food to the masses. I would start there when thinking of helpful policy. Though things get ethically questionable very quickly.

Might be more helpful to look into why 7/11 in Japan is full of so much healthy food compared to 7/11 in USA where you're lucky to find a shrink-wrapped apple, and what kind of cultural shift is needed to bring about that change. I feel like that difference summarizes why we are so screwed. We've lost the plot somewhere along the line.
Gaming is hard. It’s hard to disrupt when we have PlayStation, XBox, and Nintendo. Xbox was able to break in because they had Halo. Nintendo has tons of games people love.

PlayStation has a great ecosystem. You need more than just a Google name to break in.
Is it really just speculation? The China PMI number for February is being billed as the lowest on record.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/29/china-pmi-factory-activity-s...
And one of Tesla's core marketing claims - that their vehicles are equipped with 'the hardware needed for full self driving capability' certainly isn't any more honest than Molekule's claims about the efficacy of their filters.
GHC Haskell's runtime has a "default" light-weight thread system (forkIO) that schedules logical threads on the available operating system threads and parallelises them across available CPUs:

- https://wiki.haskell.org/Parallelism#Multicore_GHC

- https://stackoverflow.com/a/41485705

- https://www.aosabook.org/en/posa/warp.html
Honest question, can it not be both? Can it not have an open side and a closed side for DRM content? Similar to browsers for example.
We will either melt up tomorrow (which is basically inevitable at some point given historical performance) or we will start recovering.

Just based on the data I am seeing, last week was a turning point. If things get worse this week, then we will move lower again, but...right now, it doesn't look like likely.
I wonder what the most ridiculous thing a coffee shop employee has had to tell someone to put away? Projector? Popcorn maker?

Hmm. I have a terrible idea.
AWS also calls their 2nd level certification „Associate“ [1].

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/de/certification/
Fun project! My solution was to just buy a hardshell suitcase and throw a 27" monitor in it. That, a 15" laptop screen, and a hotel TV if I'm so inclined does the trick for me. I'm willing to give up my third monitor in exchange for convenience. Also, I'd NEVER make it through security with something that looks like that.
I have found only certain 3M valved models comfortable to use. It is crucial to adjust the nose clamp and it is highly beneficial to limit the facial hair.

Having a valve is essential for comfortable use and for having a proper seal (there is too much air pressure when breathing out and the air will press out from the sides). In medical setting this will mean that the respirator will only efficiently protect the wearer (spread of droplets should be still limited).

The face under the mask will get easily sweaty and the mask will get smelly from the inside while doing physical work. My experience is that 1 mask will at best last a day for construction work. There are other criteria when using in the medical setting. I am not expert in this field.

If used in medical setting then you should keep in mind that if you take your mask off then you may contaminate yourself with the the pathogen on the outside of the mask. The same applies for trying to put the mask back on. It is therefore sensible to avoid reuse whenever possible.

If you do not use protective glasses then you are first risking with direct exposure to the pathogen through the eyes. In addition you are risking the exposure by first touching the mask (to adjust it for example) and then touching your eyes.

I think it does not follow that it is not sensible to use respirators but users should acknowledge that setting up a proper usage procedure is complicated and following the proper use is very difficult and will require a lot of attention and I should not be practiced casually by the untrained people.
What about the “associate” in the entry-level CCNA (Cisco Certified Network Associate)?
>Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.

Whoever said that didn't have many enemies.

- Stannis Baratheon
Only in the sense that it's possible solution for Einstein's field equations if you assume the existence of negative mass.

It's not theoretically possible without completely new physics. You must first discover multiple Nobel prices worth of fundamental physics before even thinking about engineering.
If someone's got a nice actor library written in and for C, I'm all hears.
Coïncidence ? I came across this today:

https://www.mediaworkstations.net/systems/portable-intel-wor...
> Realistically being in the middle of an intersection when a light is red endangers no-one. You’re already there, so people can see you and aren’t going to T-bone you. Even if stationary.

At low speeds, maybe. At anything above 30 mph, or at night, or with otherwise reduced visibility, it's still very dangerous to be in the middle of an intersection when traffic is flowing the other way.

There's also no right-turn-on-red setup in Australia, which means that this situation is unlikely to happen in the first place.
I wasn't talking about a converted PDF to ePub. More like content originally designed as ePub (like Sphinx documentation you can download as PDF or ePub).

I was about to check out https://readerview.app as per your bio, but it doesn't seem to load. Can you reply to this when it's up again? Thanks.
There is some work libc size to make the lock optional and enabling it only at the first dlopen.

Edit: last time I investigated the issue ended up here: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=71744
They closely examined the cucumber in my bag
There is also change that wearer is using it properly and gets better protection that is not possible with a surgical mask.
The thing is that "energy in-energy out" works if you make some changes while keeping everything else constant.... and we're really, really bad at keeping everything else constant.

Add extra activity, and the natural effect will be an increased appetite that'll nudge you to eat more calories - and it's not a given the effect of that extra activity will be a calorie deficit, the increase in appetite can easily be more than what you spent in those exercises.

If you try to reduce caloric intake, that's a very different beast than actually reducing caloric intake - if you try to reduce caloric intake by skipping carbs at lunch, it can result in reduced activity (so less calories out) and a strong nudge to "cheat" at other meals or snacks; and again it's plausible to get to a situation where the unintended compensation is larger (and opposite) than the behavior modification that you made.

That is the problem with the "energy in-energy out" model - one does not simply change the 'energy in' or 'energy out' part and expect that other things will stay constant either magically or through sheer willpower.
> If your response is "in that case just keep going to clear the intersection"... That's exactly what the existing yellow light law is here that is being debated in the OP.

That is my response indeed.

The problem arises when you treat yellows as "clear the intersection" and you get people stepping on the gas who are 100m from the intersection. This often leads to high speed collisions and pedestrian fatalities because you now have a car that instead of just rolling through a red, is absolutely blasting through.

Or at least blasting through a yellow.

I see this scenario in SF all the time. Car driving 25mph, sees light turn yellow, speeds up to 50mph to make the light. Could've stopped in time if they treated yellow as "stop".

This is obviously dangerous, but totally legal under "you can ride through yellow" laws as the car did in fact clear the intersection before the light turned red.
The US economy is a house of cards in terms of its ability to withstand the impacts of a real pandemic. Aside from all the supply chain disruption, it’s already fragile healthcare infrastructure and lack of things like sick leave protections are going to make mounting a response that would stabilize markets very difficult. China is continuing to take drastic short term action (and a corresponding hit) to provide a floor to the damage to their economy. The US seems unlikely (maybe even incapable) of mounting a similar response.
Isn't this one utility of free markets, to be a source of predictive consensus about what is likely to happen in the future?
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Implied volatility on one week puts is around 60% right now. Downside protection is very, very expensive, even if it does work sometimes.
California, Urban supermarket. Food, water, and sanitary supply high.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liaN1lu5b_A
I agree the government trying to optimize to increasing GDP is not great for society, but it does also optimize for maximum tax revenue increase, so I understand why its done.

I don't see any reason why one needs to socialize healthcare in order to regulate foodstuffs. Food manufacturers are going to make their foods stuffs addictive if people buy them more because of that, not whether a country has socialized medicine. One might even argue that people have less incentive to work on being healthy when their healthcare is paid by someone else.
To give cars within stopping distance time to stop, but discourage them from accelerating to beat the red.
> But people like their locked ecosystems and are not willing to invest in interop.

I think that's a mischaracterization. Given two identical experiences, one that locked you in and one that didn't, I'd imagine most people (though sadly not all) would choose the more open one.

The locked in experience here is simply substantially more seamless and out-of-the-box ready than the open alternative. Given that the point of a handover system is to make using multiple devices seamless, it's obvious that being "more seamless" is an advantage.

I setup a Chromecast for my mother who doesn't have cable or anything at home, and it took several explanations spread out over a year before she finally started using it on her own, but now she's using it daily. Any harder to use and it wouldn't have been helpful at all.

She's not exactly a luddite either, this is actually the first thing I've tried to teach her that she's struggled so hard with. Hopefully it's not a sign of aging...
I bet more than one coffee shop in the Bay Area has had to deal with projectors more than once.
>as simple as remounting it on the remote server

Don't think the common enduser would agree with that.
Higher prices to bail out the people who turned a job interview into the Olympics.
I’m playing with house money at this point, and bought on Friday and Monday/Tuesday before IV got massively inflated.

No good news came out this weekend, if anything it’s only gotten worse. A V shaped recovery is unlikely, but if it does go up this is a hedge, not a bet, and my portfolio is net long.
So dot product machines or otherwise?
> fining this person was absurd. But licensing the title "engineer" isn't absurd

You can't logically have one without the other. If he claimed to be an engineer (which he acknowledges) and the state claims the title for licensing (which it did) then you can't enforce that licensing without some sort of penalty.
I mean, it's pretty easy to do pair programming with separate keyboards or even computers..