skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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To be fair, China was already at "dystopian-nightmare-fuel" levels.
I wouldn't say that directly applies to what Google is trying to do.

I think what Google is doing is just re-investing back into x amount of companies/ideas where even if 1-2 of those companies bounces back and becomes profitable they make up their investments + they make profit.

I think they do realise how much money there is to be made in the gaming world and such. Its just time and money against profit for them.

Throw eggs in the wall and see what sticks or not.

Personally I don't like that model and thats why I use google services less and less. Even gmail is a huge no-go for me due to their nonexistent support.
The original vive is pretty outdated now. You would struggle to even read text, let alone want to replace your monitor with it. Currently the best you can get is 4k per eye which is going to allow you to read text ok but the quality will be something closer to a 720p screen since those pixels are spread out over a huge area.

Give it a couple years and there will probably be an 8k vr setup that might allow for decent desktop use. But even then I'm not sure most people would want to use such a setup since you would need a very powerful pc for it and no one else would be able to see your screen.
I usually have my PS1 show how long the previous command took
Well, if you are building your own thing for your own amusement you can find that perfect, more expressive language and use it.

For those of us who work for someone else - Clojure is a godsend. What's the alternative? No Lisp at all, and truly weirdly irregular syntax. Show me a single pragmatic and more or less popular language that's being used in the industry for building business apps that has nicer syntax than Clojure.
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I would define "conspiracy-thinking" as belief-forming that's driven by fear, even if its proposition can't be totally disproved (truthfully, nothing can). Or, if you like, belief-forming that neglects to apply Occam's Razor.

But that's an inherently subjective thing. So the only thing that's important in this case is the intentional propagation of false information.
I've managed to setup Code::Blocks[0] to use WinAVR to program Arduinos. Here's a guide[1] I found for that. It works, but I probably forgot to add some optimization flags, because the code ran slower than when compiled with the Arduino IDE.

And then I realized, you can just take any .c or .cpp written for the AVR, rename it to .ino, put it in a folder with the same name, and use the Arduino IDE to compile and flash.

So I never really use C::B for the Arduino anymore, I just write the code in Notepad++[2] and use the Arduino IDE to upload.

[0]: http://www.codeblocks.org/

[1]: https://uetianblogger.blogspot.com/2015/05/winavr-and-codebl...

[2]: https://notepad-plus-plus.org/

EDIT: > you can just take any .c or .cpp file

Eh... actually only .cpp, as the Arduino IDE is C++. Or a .c file that will also compile in C++.
>With a setup like that is there any fatigue after a few hours of usage ?

In games, no. With desktop usage, yes.
> 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.

what on earth did they do to you to cost that much?

to put that in perspective, your co-pay is the cost of a hip replacement in the UK: https://www.statista.com/statistics/687462/cost-of-bone-trea...
> But if you extrapolating a sub-population percentage and multiplying by world population

Where did that happen? In this thread or elsewhere?
Thanks for the long list!

You should upgrade what (micro-) breweries you are drinking from. Or move to Belgium. IPAs have their place, but I'd rather drink a Lambic or a Gose etc. London also has a good selection of craft beers.
You write that the system punishes the businesses. Does it also punish those who were lying in their work towards the IPO?
Compulsory union membership has been illegal since the 1947 Taft-Hartey Act. Compulsory legal representation fees for public sector unions have been illegal since Janus v. AFSCME (2018).

Just like in a democracy, not everybody's interests can be fully satisfied in a union. So what? That doesn't necessarily mean we'd all be better off with autocracy or without any government whatsoever, not even the people getting the short end of the stick.

The fundamental problem in Santa Cruz, like many other universities in the state, is the cost of housing. UC Santa Cruz didn't build enough housing. Part of the problem is that most of UCSC's land is wildlife refuge, and part of the problem (like everywhere else in California) is the political and regulatory difficulty of building new housing. The cost of housing has been increasing far faster than UCSC's budget.
Typically the VR lenses project the image to about 2m away.
Journal app with AI-powered scripture guidance (Church of Jesus Christ)
CFR can only be determined from those cases that have run their course, and for the Diamond Princess cases I would argue that the numbers are still too low to draw any conclusions from. So far we know 7 people have have died and 10 have recovered. That is much too little data to extrapolate from (and if you did then you'd end up with horrific numbers). And then there's the fact that cruise ship populations tend to skew very much towards the elderly, they are are essentially floating retirement homes for wealthy retirees.
Here was the discussion of 5-7% from a few days ago...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22432358

> I would start with my own comments if I were you. You fairly consistently mis-represent the numbers and have been called out on that before.

Please, this is false and uncalled for. Mostly, I just quote the studies.
If you really want to doubt the numbers you can doubt them also very well the other way: there are incentives at various levels of Chinese government to understate the issue.
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Go to Preferences->Profiles->Default and find the option over on the right for "Working Directory". Then set it to "Reuse previous session's directory".

Then for me Cmd+D and Cmd+Shift+D (split with current profile) gives the same current directory.
Again, they were treated. Mortality rate with treatment will always be lower than mortality rate without. Right now the numbers outside china are still manageable so all severe cases have access to treatment. But once large parts of the population are affected, this won't be the case. Thus it's important to prepare production of enough medication now.
This is one of my most important articles, on the issue of why I think the web industry is going in the wrong direction, hope you will like it
By writing smaller functions and avoiding positional arguments. Refactoring/restructuring in Clojure - most of the time is about breaking bigger functions into smaller ones. But if you try to write smaller functions to begin with - that significantly simplifies the task of maintaining that code.
This is the thing that baffles me the most. You pay the full price for games you don't even own? At least with Steam there's the possibility of downloading your library in case Steam ever goes away for whatever reason.

The other thing is - they must, must be playing the multi-year long game here. Infrastructure around the world just isn't ready for game streaming.

Having said that, from what I hear GeForce Now is giving people a FAR better experience than Stadia.

Now that I think about it, why did they even rush Stadia out? I never got the impression anyone was dying to get their hands on it. They could have given it another year of polish at least and nobody would have complained, surely?

I'd love to hear Google's internal rationale for why they thought this pricing model was a good idea.
> like Go's

or Python's. It even has generics.
I don't have names. This was at CVPR 2017 in Honolulu.

The convention center had some recommended A/V rental company that quoted $350 for a simple 28" display or something of the sort. They clearly didn't understand basic economics because it cost me 4*$10=$40 Uber rides to get a display from Walmart and return it for a full refund, so the rental company would have needed to be cheaper than $40 to make sense to a customer. Also they violated the most basic axiom of rentals which is that a single day rental needs to be significantly cheaper than buying.
> I've seen a lot of people suggest not buying the masks when they're in stock at hardware stores so 'hospitals can have some' which I find absolutely hilarious - Just the image of a hospital sending staff down to a Home Depot for some N95 paint masks...

But that's not the mechanism at issue. The mechanism at issue is they don't get bought at the hardware store in large quantities, the hardware store doesn't order as many to restock, so their direct supplier isn't willing to pay as high a price to the manufacturer so more of the production capacity is available for other uses.
It varies by country and even in the US it varies by industry. A lot of European countries have a less adversarial relationship between organized labor and management and workers benefit greatly. Public sector unions in the US, and the teamsters, and Culinary in Las Vegas, etc. don't seem to leave their workers worse off either.
There's absolutely no rent control in Sydney, Australia. A city with one of the lowest population/km^2. I can find you a bunch of articles showing the same thing with hundred queuing around the corner. Are you sure rental controls are the problem here?

Given that London has no rental controls already and magically suffers from no one being able to build what would you propose as a solution here other than strawmen?

I had no problem getting an apartment in Berlin, very much had trouble in Sydney. Have you tried any of the cities mentioned in this thread? Because I'm speaking from experience.
Short answer: "sometimes it does." More accurate short answer: "it depends."
For me, this article is spot on. I had been looking for a long time for my one language I can use for everything, and Clojure finally (just recently) got there. I can use it for scripting, writing command line apps, making backend services, writing web front-ends, making desktop applications with GUI, toying with generative art, doing data-science, making games, and more.

It really has great reach, and its only getting better. Similarly, in terms of programming language, you can use it to explore many paradigms and innovative ideas, like CSP, logic, probabilistic, functional, meta, concurrent, dynamic, typed, contracts, data-flow, OOP, condition systems, monads, etc. All this keeps me interested and constantly learning. Never having to wait for features you miss or wish you had.

I can see myself sticking with Clojure for a long time.
They take their gloves off too.

Surely you don't suggest the gloves are for protecting the doctor's hands?
Apparently, I've been doing it all wrong.
Here’s a relevant recent lecture from Alex Townsend, as part of Gil Strang’s 18.065 course, “Rapidly Decreasing Singular Values” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BYsNpTCZGg
It doesn't have to be that way either. Nvidia is offering a service which streams games you've already purchased off Steam et el. If their service shuts down you still get to keep your games.
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Photons have a spin of 1.
This is an important point and often overlooked. In Italy and Iran this is leading to issues, local healthcare is overwhelmed and transporting patients to other regions is for obvious reasons not a very good idea.
Not sure whether or not this is a little-known feature. iTerm2 has _fantastic_ integration with tmux (software used for persisting a terminal session across multiple logins).

Tmux can be a pretty complex piece of software, but iTerm can basically wrap it all up into a nice package. You don't need to know anything at all about tmux to use iTerm's tmux integration.

If you're SSHed into a server that has tmux installed, try running `tmux -CC` on the server. It'll pop up a new window that looks and feels just like it's running natively (complete with tab support), except it's all tunneled over SSH.

And if you disconnect, you can just reconnect later and your windows will all come back in the same state as when you left them.

I use this one-liner to SSH into a server and reconnect (or start) a tmux session:

ssh -XY -F user@hostname -Ct \
'sh -l -c "exec tmux -CC -u new-session -AD -s remote"'

iTerm2's tmux integration makes SSH access to remote machines feel almost as native as using your machine locally. It's really a killer feature, and it made iTerm2 worth a donation for me.
Stadia works surprisingly well but has literally 0 games I'm interested in. Considering cancelling my Pro subscription soon.
I suspect its also that patient 31 decided that it was ok to run a fever and go to dinner, despite being told that they were at high risk of having the flu.
> why don't you get a bit of pencil lead and put between two bits of cellotape, rinse repeat until you got a thin layer.

I am a bit skeptical of your Account, but it is also not quite as trivial as that. The key insight wasn’t just the mechanical exfoliation (scotch tape Methode). This had been used before and wasn’t new by itself. The key insight was transferring it onto a SiO2 substrate. So, no worries you most likely did not miss out on your Nobel Prize ;)
iTerm2 has so many features [1] I don’t think I have enough space here to promote them all.

Please consider setting up recurrent donations to George Nachman [2] to support his work.

[1] https://www.iterm2.com/documentation-one-page.html

[2] https://www.iterm2.com/donate.html
As if China cares about global condamnation. they wouldn't do any of this if it wasn't serious.
> if devs and 'executives' believe Google is not serious about Stadia, why no-one agreed to speak on record? Is it possible that that these contacts actually think there is a path forward for Stadia and they don't want to burn bridges?

They simply don't want to burn bridges with Google. There is nothing to win by doing so.
Everyone knows Google has enough money to throw it against their problems if they decide to do so.
4k on a 27" screen at desk-sitting distance is worth whatever trouble you've been avoiding.

Text is indistinguishable from print type. You're able to see an enormous amount of information without panning. With a good mouse you can pick and rubber-band much larger groups.
Minor nit: Clojure at no point gets converted to Java, Clojure gets converted to JVM bytecode. IIRC Clojure occasionally emits bytecode you couldn't produce with Java.

(Clojurescript does [transpile/compile, pick your favorite] to Javascript)
> * there could be a scheme where a message is lost if it isn't handled in the current actor's state (or if it isn't deferred explicitly);

that's weird :) how can a message be 'lost' from a mailbox without any explicit 'read-message-from-mailbox' call from the actor itself. now, an actor can choose to ignore messages in some states, but then again a suitable protocol needs to exist between the interacting parties on how to proceed.

> * there could be a scheme where a message that is not handled in the current state is deferred automatically (for example, Erlang's selective receive).

sure, but that was conscious decision on part of the actor. message was not 'lost' per-se

> The main problem is: a developer should understand that problem and should implement that in code. But people make mistakes...

oh most definitely yes. which is why having callflow diagrams is so ever useful. moreso when dealing with actor like environments...
A similar approach to demonstrate a GPU would be great. Any recommendations?

Well, let me rephrase. A GPU these days has two distinct features, graphics-processing, and GPGPU. I'm less interested in the graphics part (since that pipeline could be studied in software, and in hardware, it's very specialized/ASICy).

So I'm really interested in the massively-parallel GPGPU aspect of a GPU.
Totally agree, functional programming, and certainly the kind of programming you do with clojure, can get just as messy and far away from your goals as object oriented code.

Clear, organized, well-architected code, in any language, is the skill that takes a long time to develop. I do not personally find clojure makes this any easier than in any language.
Yes. I connect mine with PS/2 to USB adapter.
A few possible reasons:

1. You can't foresee competition, why give up early.

2. It's a big market, worth a shot even if it fails.

3. Someone thought the project would be good for their promotion. This happens more frequently than you might think :)
The first part of the comment is immediately followed by a qualifier.

> Please, this is false and uncalled for. Mostly, I just quote the studies.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22452274

You quote the studies, but fail to understand the context of the studies. For the most part these assume access to healthcare is available for those infected. The big point that you are - apparently, correct me if I am wrong - missing is that once the healthcare system is overwhelmed the numbers will change substantially for the worse.

We now have four countries where this has happened.
C++20 feature list has been fixed a few mobths ago and there's no actor framework involved afaik.

At best there will be in c++23 which means 2024 the time it trickles down to all relevant compilers and 2030 until you can use it in Debian stable.

That's also the time required by 32 successive 3-months javascript "zero to hero" bootcamps.
I did not say that anyone did try to extrapolate numbers using these percentages in this thread. I said, and am saying, that it’s important not to try to do that.

Because it leads to fear-mongering. For example, downthread, here;

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22461804
The other passengers on public transit (presumably) don’t have their abdominal cavities opened up 12 inches in front of the doctor’s face.
Like Ms did, when they created tablets. You can't diversify away from The product. It's logic is baked into everything your company does and how it does it.

You need a external unit to do that..
I don’t know what percentage of errors are caught by static typing, but I do know what percentage of my time has been saved by switching to a statically typed language. I love clojure, but I spent at least an order of magnitude more time tracking down various bugs than I do now, simply because the compiler didn’t catch them for me.
> Prefer functions which take their input as separate parameters.

In practice, it's better to avoid positional arguments and extensively use maps and destructuring. Of course, there's a risk of not properly passing a key in the map, but in practice that doesn't happen too often. Besides - Spec, Orchestra, tests and linters help to mitigate that risk.
Google should come forward with a 'Guaranteed to not shutdown for X years' or like LTS plan to save its reputation. Perhaps being open-source e.g. Flutter, gives them a excuse.
C++? How about no.
Discovery is half the battle. Theory plays a role.

Currently there is some research into "high-entropy alloys" which are just mixtures of metals we've known about for a while with certain special crystal properties. It's a foregone conclusion that many of the known HEAs could have been prepared in the 1930s, but would it make sense to do so? What epiphany could possibly tell you to prepare Cr19.75Mn20.10Fe20.25Co20.48Ni19.42 (Science 345 (6201) 1153-8) without having a theory of crystal deformation in metals?
And poor tooling support on MS Windows. Leiningen does not even have a proper installer on Windows, last time I checked.

Having leiningen not bundled into the clojure distribution, is in strong contrast to the "batteries included" approach of python.

There were also complexities in including local jars into projects, as it required setting up a local maven repository, which is tedious job.

Also when exeptions occur clojure does not give an interactive repl like other lisps.
I think the 3D effect is just a conversation starter. The purpose of this is to add couple new slider options to Lightroom.
"“If I was writing this today, I would phrase that differently,” he added.

from Michael Hoelscher, one of the doctors who submitted the errant document. Sweden's Public Health Authority was not too pleased, either.

Most alarming, "Scientists spreading erroneous information about coronavirus have been taken to task around the world, including a researcher with ties to Harvard University in the US who tweeted that the spread of the disease was "thermonuclear pandemic level bad."

I don't have/use Twitter/FB for a good reason, I think it's more virulent than coronavirus.

https://www.dw.com/en/germany-flawed-coronavirus-study-sprea...
For me the play/pause buttons on my TV remote work even if the app is disconnected.
I’m surprised to see that the iTerm2 dedicated hotkey window hasn’t been mentioned. It’s essentially a system-wide terminal window that you can open with a hotkey, similar to the old Visor app, and you can configure it as a floating window that appears over other apps' full screen windows. https://www.iterm2.com/documentation-hotkey.html
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> The situation with windows is weird.

Isn't it always? Basically anything that's not related to .NET has its warts in Windows. Erlang for example.
Why should people need to work multiple jobs just to survive? Why should an employer be allowed to pay pay some workers six figures and others so little they must choose between a roof and a meal?

You can choose what to believe. I choose to believe that the world is a better place when people are paid a living wage for their jobs.
Yeah, equalp is a really useful abstraction. Deep equality mashed together with case-folding. Something I've always wanted.
This feels like a dumb question, but is the text rendering really dark for others in iTerm2? It seems like on a black background I cannot get pure white text. It’s always a middle shade of gray for me - before and after getting a Retina display.

I have messed with the colors and text rendering for literal hours over the last ten years and I genuinely cannot get it as clear and readable as Terminal.app which is a big part of the reason I always end up falling back to Terminal
I've also used this for building outage timelines after the fact by noting the timestamps for my first time to touch and the timestamp of the repair.
FWIW, there are different types of seconds. Eg, Universal time seconds based on the Earth's rotation, and atomic clock seconds based on consensus. And leap smear seconds are variable length seconds to help merge one into the other. https://developers.google.com/time/smear
This a thousand times.

I wear a p3 mask to cycle to work, because I work in central london and don't want to fill my lungs up with crap(as fast).

a P3 mask filters 99% of >0.3 micron particles. It stops diesel fumes, but not smell. I've not tried it with wood smoke, but I suspect that'll fill up the filters much quicker.

you can 100% smell sewers still.

I have recently got some filters that claim to get rid of "troublesome" smells as well, by bundling a carbon filter on the inside. I was forced to by these as everyone had panic bought normal filters. When I replace my filters next week, I'll see if it makes a difference.