skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
a plague on getopt, and especially gnu getopt.

that said, I live in it.
"simple systems have less downtime"

That is not much of an insight. It is as insightful as saying "water is kinda wet.". Well... sure it is.

What we need to deal with, is not "make a simplest system".

Rather, we need to deal with: "build a system that does A, B, C, ... and so on". Now, if you can do all of the above and make it simple... awesome. But if you cannot do all of the above, but the system is simple.... that is useless.
The patent system is supposed to be to encourage knowledge sharing in society by granting monopoly in exchange for full disclosure of invention details. Imposing an irregular concept like "practicality" on top this is counterproductive.

Practicality is not straightforward. Was Edison's light bulb practical on its own terms or did it become practical only after the invention of electric power generation and distribution? What about economies of scale? .. and so on.
Yeah because if they're culpable then they can be sued via class-action
The neutrino itself was postulated in just this way, to balance mass-energy equations of beta decay. It looked like energy was being lost, but if some was being carried away by neutrinos, problem solved. The alternative was to reformulate the conservation laws.

Turns out it was neutrinos.
Still, looks like a nasty injury. That's enough to make anyone ponder life
There is research on whether solar arrays would be a net benefit. Those cells would catch most of the sun’s light, turn it into electricity to power the LEDs that have wave lengths that are better matched to what the plants need.

A variation of that only catches the sun’s green light and uses it to power pink/red LEDs (https://www.treehugger.com/solar-technology/solar-smart-gree...)
But the chat app is only the client side, not the whole app entirely in itself. If we consider the lines of code in server side, there will be a lot more lines code.
Not a trump fan, but I would say it is roughly equivalent to GW Bush's "Mission Accomplished" speech, which is still shamelessly taken out of context.
That’s true. But for a big enough deal, you want partners to be reviewing — at least at a conceptual level — the way the deal is structured.

I’ve seen agreements that were 99% good, but a problem in the other 1% made the whole thing worthless.
"Across outcome variables, fluid reasoning and working-memory capacity explained 34% of the variance, followed by language aptitude (17%), resting-state EEG power in beta and low-gamma bands (10%), and numeracy (2%). "

Seems fluid intelligence is twice as important.
Mods??? Does HN have people moderating ?? I thought this was all driven by algorithms whose inputs came from people upvoting or down voting and people with lot of karma can in effect boost or bury posts. Genuinely curious here if there are moderators? And if so who is paying them ? How are the organized such that there is 24x7 moderation?
It's interesting to see other views of PDF. As someone who lives in Illustrator ripping every little piece of data out of a pdf to import into an Illustrator or InDesign file and then making a production pdf for large format printing and fixing plenty of issues along the way I find the text almost inconsequential to the whole thing. It's just another element among many elements: images, vector illustrations, et. PDF might not the best way to pass along pure text but as a container for graphical representation it works pretty well. I build pdf files to describe 20 ft walls with 1+ gigabyte images, complex vector illustrations, finely formatted text and it all prints out dam close to how I planned for it down to exact colors that match specific Pantone swatches. It's amazing what can be packed in to a pdf...
It's also FUD, it's trivial to add a heater to the LEDs and still come in at a lower wattage than a tradition lamp.
> it was more reliable. By far

[talking about non-software engineering] There's a huge difference between reading books about proper engineering and how it is actually practiced. Much of the sloppiness is covered by simply over-engineering it. Designs are constantly improved over time based on service experience. Heck, lots of times the first machine off the line cannot even be assembled because the design dimensions on the drawings are wrong.

The idea that non-software engineering is done by careful professionals following best practice and not making lots of mistakes is painfully wrong.
Grow Your InfoSec Career
I think Abel was talking about his and his colleagues work in this paper when he said the 10 years comment: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Bissera_Pentcheva/publi...

He's not just talking about being able to do convolution.
That's not a bad "tip", but keep in mind the person who worked on this (Martin Stránský) is employed by Red Hat to "work on mozilla packages (Firefox, Seamonkey, Thunderbird) in Fedora and Red Hat."¹

1: https://people.redhat.com/stransky/
They lied and cheated constantly because they were forced to due their poverty. It is absolutely a movie about class inequality and resentment.
The conflict is exactly what I'm pointing out.

It's pretty easy to imagine a minority of administrators on a space habitat decide they'll take some critical system hostage unless they get a bigger share of whatever they want because they think (perhaps legitimately) they've been the victim of some injustice... overplay their hand, critical system fails despite nobody actually intending it, millions of people in the habitat die. Or a million other ways for disaster to happen because of human reasons, not engineering ones.

Here on earth, even when societies devolve into civil war and massacre (e.g. Syria the past few years), at least they don't destroy the earth along with it. But with a space habitat, even a partial breakdown of order easily means everybody can just die.

So let me be clearer: I wouldn't just "like" to see us manage Earth better first. My point is that this may very likely actually prevent space habitats from being viable at all. "Accepting that this trend will continue" doesn't mean we'll make space habitats regardless -- it means accepting space habitats might not ever be thing (no matter how possible the engineering is), unless it ever happens that we first make enough massive progress in our forms of political organization and cooperation as well.
For the most part, I think we should trust people's instinct to secure resources for themselves in expectation of upcoming hard times. I live in Seattle. Due to the minimal testing that has occurred, we are just now learning of multiple cases which are being retroactively classified as Covid-19. These are from the very few that have actually been tested, which is a small proportion of those who showed severe enough symptoms to warrant testing.

Genomic analysis suggests that the virus has been spreading undetected in the community since January 15th
https://bedford.io/blog/ncov-cryptic-transmission/ This is from a virologist at Fred Hutch Cancer Institute who is part of a viral epidemiology study. If the virus doubles every 6 or 7 days as estimated, then... well, you're all good with your powers of 2, there are likely hundreds of cases already.

Every day there are new announcements of deaths from this disease just miles away, of new people showing symptoms, of people whose "flu" has been diagnosed after the fact as coronavirus. In a dense urban center like this with people crowded together on streets, in buses, in workplaces, I am working under the assumption that it is already in my neighborhood. I don't think that's unreasonable. The pharmacies in the area have been filling people's prescriptions for three months' worth without any prompting. They are planning for a long slog in which they want to keep people AWAY from the pharmacy as much as possible. The county has purchased a hotel to repurpose as a quarantine center, and is prepping portable isolation units. We've seen what a lackadaisical response brought Wuhan---it is not "hysteria" to work to avoid that same fate.

For the rest of the nation, I think it's eminently sensible to get a supply of nonperishible food, of prescriptions, of some fever reducer, etc. to last two weeks to a month. Get in the habit of washing your hands regularly, thoroughly according to CDC recommendations. Get in the habit of NOT TOUCHING YOUR FACE (it's very hard!) and all the usual stuff but actually applied. Be mindful of who in your family and community might be vulnerable, have respiratory conditions, be elderly, be in treatment for cancer, have an impaired immune system, etc., and make plans for how to protect them in the event of an outbreak in your community.

Those decrying "mass hysteria" do have a point---prudence can become paranoia, preparation can become panic. But mostly I think people should be encouraged rather than discouraged to prepare, because this will very likely be in your area soon.
The barrier of entry to software has been zero ever since the 8080 was introduced.
Quality content! You should write this up into a blog post or something.
Can you pretend to be normal for up to two hours?
One step further: hospitals are not prepared - at all - for this. Healthcare workers have been exposed within the last week at Harborview in Seattle, with a patient who later tested positive. Within the last week. This has been the global healthcare story for 2 months now, and major trauma centres are not treating all incoming respiratory patients as presumptive COVID-19.

Just insane.
I was born and raised in Sri Lanka, where the annual GDP per capital just hovers $4,000 now.

We have free and universal health care, free schools, and free universities. There are many things to improve, but it is there for the rush and poor alike. Some schools and pregnant mothers receive rations, and there is always some sort of social benefits in place.

Sure, the poverty exists, but one of the reasons why it is still working is because majority of the population does not live in urban areas. There is a trend of good schools, hospitals, and government offices being located to the capital, where land prices skyrocketed and poor neighborhoods exist. But I think our governments strategy in spreading the resources throughout the island is a great one.

Countries like South Korea, India, Japan, Phillipines, and China has a relatively higher amount of homeless or near-homeless population because of the high urbanization. They systematically bring the costs high for everyone.
80,000 Americans died of the flu last year. Are you worried about that? Most people aren't.
Legal industry is already tech-enabled. Templates, digital docs and signatures, OCR, AI/NLP/semantic processing, collaborative editing, and more are already used by modern law firms. There's no easy software-based efficiency left to find.

The major work is still done by humans because of the liability, complexity and customization of every case. The next step requires a revolution in legal process, not just more software.
> People who designed bridges had a wide, but constrained parameter space, and well-accepted design patterns.

And yet they still fall down due to stupid mistakes that nobody noticed.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/10/22/design...
Also announced a USPS package sorting worker in Seattle has been infected. Feels like there is a massive shoe about to drop in US akin to South Korea / Italy spread.

https://nypost.com/2020/03/01/usps-worker-tests-positive-for...
not sure how pervasive biometric monitoring is supposed to address elder abuse, but "elderly are a severely under served community" is perhaps the most historically rootless and wrong-yet-unfalsifiable thing i've read this week. 'bad things happen to some old people' is not contrary evidence and has nothing to do with the medical attention and resources available for the elderly in our society in both absolute and relative terms.
As if there’s massive sock puppetting going on in every covid19 thread
Darvaza Gas Crater:

https://www.lightpollutionmap.info/#zoom=8.363333333333332&l...
I agree in principle, but if the goal really is to give working people more daylight to enjoy, it's not really practical for something like this to happen bottom up.

Businesses' open hours more often than not depend on the open hours of their suppliers and their customers. Not really possible to make a local change and expect everyone to follow. Much easier if everyone changes simultaneously.
this is what i call white mid life crisis. I dont know what it is. Self importance? sell all your stuff and head into one of the most dangerous continents on earth. i come from a third world country like this and I would never dream of doing this kinda crazy shit. No thanks, I'll stay in my beautiful first world country. Thanks.
I'm not sure these qualify as closures. But if they do, then they've been around in that exact form (named local functions with language semantics preventing them from outliving their environment) since Algol-60.
Recent and related:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22477567

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22475019

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22468361

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22465178
I think it's pragmatic. Most "arguments" outside of maths and computer programming aren't made through chains of bullet-proof logic. They're more often made by analogy, by authority, by appeals to shared but not universal values, and so on.

As I see it, they're interested in coming up with satisfactory answers when perfect ones aren't available. If we wait until we have a universal and unimpeachable answer for what to have for dinner we'll all starve. But "proving" that perfect answers to certain questions can't be obtained, or that some imperfect answers can be satisfactory, is somewhat beside the point -- they're not in the business of proof. "Proving" things is a modernist fetish, and trite paradoxes around nothing being universal are mostly just cute jokes for entertaining undergrads :-p.
Who? Why? I said I didn't really expect anyone to agree with me. I'm interested in discussing the pros and cons.
Unfashionable pursuits (1983) [pdf]
Again, none of your responses are rich in substance, nor do they directly refute any of the arguments that have been carefully laid out. They’re just histrionic screeds.
Deep learning SLIDE technique from Rice is faster than GPU with back-propagation
I don't even like Trump, but it's clearly apparent he was talking about the Democrats saying he's handling Coronavirus poorly. That's the hoax.
China is opaque so you have to look at oblique indicators, in this case school has resumed. Kids going back to school indicates the leadership has some confidence that the party thinks the crisis is near the end. Even though kids are at low risk, after SiChuan earthquake school scandal, the political cost of risking children's health for political points is too high even for China.

E: Also Xi visited Wuhan recently, and the annual two sessions meeting is happening in a few days while events are being cancelled around the world. It's the biggest annual political event. Xi is basically over if we get a bunch of infected kids or politicians like in Iran. I guess we'll see if it's confidence or calculus.
After a few pull requests I can definitely say that LibGUI is the most fun c++ GUI framework I have ever seen (not that it's my usual wheelhouse.) After a few minutes of looking around and reading the source, LibGUI quickly became something I look forward to working with every time I do. Thank you for all of your work on Serenity!
Mathematical activity doesn't proceed from axioms. Axioms proceed from mathematical activity. The philosophy that grew out of the axiomatization of mathematics in the early 20th century never really took root in its culture or practice.

If you want to read a philosophical account of mathematics as it is actively practiced today, Synthetic Philosophy of Contemporary Mathematics by Zalamea (a practicing mathematician) is good. It is far more sympathetic to postmodernism than you would think.

And for an account of modern logic by a logician in a postmodern vein, La Fantome de la Transparence by Girard is gr8. Only in French atm.
Former FDA director: (would have linked this originally but I wrote the above reply on the go)

https://mobile.twitter.com/ScottGottliebMD/status/1224042220...
> I went to an engineering school.

My father attended MIT in the 1940s. He said that the engineers at MIT designed the new chemistry building, with all the latest features to support laboratories. Only when the building was completed and scientists were moving in did anyone realize that there were no toilets.
I, for one, would like to wake up when the sun is up, and go to sleep when the sun is down. Isn't this this the same website where everyone is familiar with Why We Sleep? Standard Time forever
Please don't cross into personal swipes in HN comments. It's unnecessary, evokes worse from other commenters, and makes for tedious reading.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> Sci-fi wants us to believe that we can teraform planets.

Given or current sample size of 1, clearly we can.

It's the part where the teraforming produces a more habitable planet that we haven't gotten down yet.

But hey, this is only or first attempt!
Please don't post in the flamewar style. It's unnecessary, evokes worse from other commenters, and makes for tedious reading.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> Broke both elbows, lost a tooth & left a smear of my face on the road

That's an injury that will keep you in bed, giving you a moment to really look if you're collectively as a company making the best effort on solving the right product/market fit. Which he clearly couldn't find, nor roll off some of the law-firm tools they built I guess? But the actual law firm of lawyers they got together is still running which is good, so it's not a total loss, plus some money back to investors.

It's difficult to get proper perspective sometimes being a founder, you get mired in details and fantasy growth possibilities, and startup runners constantly need re-committing themselves for the tough fight going forward. It takes balls to finally admit defeat, especially with a solid track record.

So ultimately I wouldn't be surprised if this gave an opportunity to step back and take some perspective, while he's stuck in bed in recovery mode.
USPS Package Sorting worker in Seattle tests positive for Coronavirus
It definitely worked in 2K - there were many apps that implemented it as a bling feature as soon as it became known. The question is whether it was documented at the time.

If you were able to build it for Win2K, and it compiled successfully, then it was supported - it wouldn't be in the headers otherwise. Even if you build it with XP as a target, and then run on 2K, you'd get a regular Win32 error about not being able to resolve a symbol from a DLL. Getting a BSOD indicates a driver issue.

MSDN also says that it is supported for Win2K+:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/winuser/n...

Aero in Vista was something else - it was the first version of Windows that did whole desktop composition, and so it could do all kinds of fancy stuff, similar to Compiz that preceded it on Linux. Transparent windows in 2K/XP used per-window composition.
It's not impossible that 95% of the universe is boring.

2% of the human body is the brain, and while poetry is written about other body parts, the brain is the one doing all the writing.

Atoms are something like 0.05% electrons, but the interactions and behavior of the electrons account for almost all of the interesting parts, and with notably rare exceptions, the nuclei might as well be point charge/masses.

Just because there is a lot of dark matter and dark energy doesn't mean it will be particularly interesting in the long run.
I can't seem to reliably source the hardware mentioned on the site. Mainly, the TP-Link MR3040. I want to set a few of these up to distribute ebooks for free. Anyone have experience with the other HW listed in the "Downloads" section?
Proper Environment Variables in ReactJS
We've been getting LED street lights in Minneapolis, so can't be a problem now.
He’s obviously talking about excessively drumming up panic in the media... how would anyone think the virus itself is a hoax?
Clickhouse is extremely optimized for performing analytics on time series style data. Things like clickstream data (hence the name). Performing queries to do funnel level analysis for example, are extremely fast compared to other analytics databases I have tried. As others have mentioned it is often compared to Apache Druid in its intent and feature set.
Serve Dynamic Content to Millions of Users at No Cost
every time I see a company that has "co-CEOs" I always wonder what kind of weird stuff is going on in that company
You could subdivide what gcc does into other utilities each with a smaller api.
In addition to excellent raw scan rates for reasons given above ClickHouse has materialized views, which can re-order and/or preaggregate data. This can speed up query response by 3 orders of magnitude over queries on the source data. See https://www.altinity.com/blog/clickhouse-materialized-views-... + ClickHouse docs for an intro.

As the parent says, try it yourself on your own data. That's all that counts.

Disclaimer: I wrote the blog article and we sell support for ClickHouse.
For those who watched the movie, I found the ending interesting. I won't spoil it for everyone else, but Bong Joon-ho made his perspective unambiguous: he's not a believer in social mobility in Korea.

6 of the top 10 Forbes list in Korea are self-made; the other 4 inherited their wealth. In contrast, 10 out of top 10 are self-made in the US. There are better metrics to compare social mobility (this one was convenient!), but scanning down the Korea list, it's clear the tech boom provided opportunities for entrepreneurs to build wealth in Korea, but most of the wealth is still held by descendants of the big conglomerates (Samsung, LG, Hyundai, Lotte, etc.).

While Parasite is hit in the US, the perspective that it's impossible for basement dwellers to make it to nice mansions may be true in Korea, but it doesn't seem to be the case in the US.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/korea-billionaires/list/#tab:overall

[2] https://www.forbes.com/forbes-400/#b6d49ad7e2ff
Standard time isn't perfect though. The more west someone is in a time zone, the less sleep they often get because the sun goes down later in the evening. Some have estimated it to be as much as 20 minutes of sleep less, which is very significant over time.

What we really need is for schools and work to start later in the day for a larger number of people so that the morning can be a time to sleep in, or if you are a morning person do your morning things.

I almost think that getting rid of time zones in the US might make it so that people are more cognizant of where the sun is and so that society runs on a more local time.
Fascinating read thus far ( I have only gotten through device-free localization ). Thank you for sharing these.

I am somewhat concerned that even that overview paper lists law enforcement as potential future customers. The target audience is clearly well-defined.
That's what their pivot was 2 months ago, linked in the article: https://techcrunch.com/2020/01/13/atrium-layoffs/

Legal industry already has plenty of good tooling though. There's not much more to do here outside of automating the lawyers, and that won't happen.
http://www.cs.utah.edu/~bnnewton/humor/mergers.htm