skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean america is a Federation not a centralized country. There are rarely federal plans that are not somewhat affected by the state or territory that plan is for. PRs failure is completely on them and doesnt really reflect on the federal government, which, if you recall, explicitly pointed out the corruption but was unable to do anything about it due to political grandstanding
Thanks for the clarifications! I wasn't aware of the Annex K amendment and the custom token facility. Would you say the token facility is actually useful for Markdown including advanced features such as lists or tables? Wrt. [2]: Are you saying that an ordinary SGML parser will produce the expected tree for any valid HTML 5 document as specified in the HTML5 spec [a] using your DTD?

[a]: https://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-html5-20110113/parsing.html
I believe this usage is in reference to “controlled substances”, a legal term.
This is very cool, as is your git-like tool for PG! Thanks for sharing.
What do you call the paradigm in old-world militaries, where a lord would conscript their knights as officers during wartime; grant them "personal" budgets; and then each knight could take that budget and use it however they wished—by investing in technology, fortifications, or salaried subordinate hires, in any mix they liked, as long as it got the job done?

Yes, it's "feudalism", but it's a specific part of feudalism, that deserves to be called out separately—the idea that "everything must flow" through the org chart in a literal sense, with each node on the org-chart entirely encapsulating everything below it on the chart from the view of those above, such that the knight's liege-lord really doesn't know how they're getting the job done, just that they are or aren't; and has no actual capacity to micro-manage the HR decisions of the knight, with the lord's only controls on their knight being to change their budget, or to fire them.

In a way, it's less like what we're doing today in bigcorps, and more like what you get on the other end, when everyone is an individual, atomized contractor selling their services to everyone else. You can't see "through" a contractor-client relationship to the contractor's employees and/or subcontractors; you can only fire the contractor, or renegotiate their rate.

IMHO, while this paradigm might seem inefficient in ways, it still seems like a better "organizational architecture" than managerialism. Perhaps because, given the encapsulation, a punishment coming from your boss's boss can never "run downhill" to end up falling on you (though, nor can a reward); instead, each node on the org-chart can only rewrd/punish their direct report. At some point someone on the org-chart claims ultimate responsibility for getting the job done; and even if it came down to you, three nodes lower, failing to do it, it would still be their head, because it's their promise to their liege-lord.

Such a paradigm is inconvenient, in the sense that if your boss is fired, that means that you're out of a job—you were being paid, effectively, out of your boss's salary. But it's also convenient, in the sense that you can just apply for a job with another part of the company (really, apply to another superior to work for them), and there won't be any institutional bias (e.g. records of a "Performance Improvement Plan" against you because of a bad previous boss's poisonous office-politicking, only the personal biases of the boss's direct friends, who you can just avoid.)
No its realistic. There are many well executing companies with great product market fit that wont be successful. Its very obvious once you actually build a company.
Moving a city over a number of decades is more of an inconvenience than a disaster. You would tear down most buildings every 50 years anyway.

Some of the disaster scenarios seem to assume people would just stay as the water rose, until they all drowned, shortest people first.
It looks a bit too complicated, doesn't it? Does it cost that to dive into it?
Pretty much all the margins of a flight come from business class. If you fly economy class, your value to <Airline> comes from walking past business class and maybe being upsold.
> Explicit interfaces. In Go, you cannot have multiple functions with the same name. Because of how this interacts with implicit interfaces, if two interfaces you need to implement require a method with the same name, it gets very hard to manage. Normally this is not an issue, but I also like being explicit about things.

This was recently fixed in Go 1.14: https://golang.org/doc/go1.14#language
I also watch without hesitation films coming from say A24 or Annapurna. I agree, CC focuses on the older greats, but there is so much to capture..
I'm not the owner, and it's a small server, so I don't feel comfortable. Sorry. I think I found the owner through /r/math, so you might be able to find his old post there though.
Hmm, in that case, it should works
Interesting, but airlines aren't going to invest in upgrading their planes unless they can raise prices (and get more money). Thus, the best case scenario is that this becomes the new business class or something. The success of low-cost carriers like Spirit have shown that people prefer cheap tickets over better service or more comfort.

Maybe they'll take it to an extreme and start stacking the current seats without increasing the amount of personal space.
Protein is vital for your immue system and to fight viral and bacterial infections. Chicken soup with lots of potein and vitamins is a not just an old wives tale.

But unless your kid has an underlying health issue or vitamin deficiency, then not really. Eat well, get some sunlight if you can, wash your hands often, don't touch your face, follow the guidlines doctors are mentioning at your state/local or federal level.
Charging only for Atlassian integrations, that’s where the revenue/effort ratio is best.
The Cost of Indirection
20+ years ago, same for Seibel
Artificial intelligence has glaring weaknesses, it still lacks common sense
There are clear disability concerns here.
experience in Singapore with a similar level of active surveillance argues that they would have been able to contain it except for getting unlucky with "patient 31."
"This code is not copyrighted" sure sounds like it is clearly stating otherwise
Dang, if I may use this opportunity to ask a question about titles, is it okay to change a title because the original isn't descriptive enough within the context of Hacker News?

Just to choose an example: There's a program called Retroactive which patches Aperture, iPhoto, and iTunes to work again on macOS Catalina. The project's github links to a medium article the author wrote, which is titled:

> Technical Deep Dive: How does Retroactive work?

If you arrive at this article from RetroActive's github, it's a fine title. But if you just see it on Hacker News and don't know what Retroactive does, the title is 100% useless noise. So when I submitted the article to HN[0], I tried to make the title more descriptive while also changing as little as possible. All I did was replace "work" with what Retroactive actually does:

> Technical Deep Dive: How Does Retroactive Patch Aperture for macOS Catalina?

Even though I did my best to change as little as possible, I felt quite guilty about the title change. But in hindsight, by trying to "compromise", I ended up with a title that's still really bad! The first 6 words of my 11-word title give the reader absolutely zero information.

This article didn't get much attention, and I can't help wondering if the title is why (not to imply that this or any article somehow deserves attention). The title really should have been:

> How Retroactive makes Aperture, iPhoto, and iTunes work again on macOS Catalina

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22229101
> They also don't recline, which will make sleeping impossible or very difficult on long haul flights

None of the static images show it, but at the end of the video it shows that there is space on the window side so that you can actually lie down across you seat with your legs going into that space.
$125k is considered the baseline to get by in SF. Meaning you can live comfortably with rent and food. Anything below that is considered poverty.
Well that clearly assumes that the user code is not utilizing most of the issue bandwidth or rather that the unutilized issue bandwidth is sufficient to run the RNG and that there are enough EUs left over to actually run it. In that case you do indeed get operations "for free" (in terms of wall-clock time), because your extra operations are exactly contained within the increased IPC.

It doesn't mean that it is infinitely fast. It does however mean that in this particular case it adds no latency for adding random number generation; an infinitely fast algorithm would also add no latency for random number generation. Doesn't mean one implies the other.
Yeah, to add to that, I've hit bugs in blending where certain blend modes just don't work and silently render transparent black. Also, the Metal debugger crashes most of the time and tells me "file a Radar". I'm likewise dealing with reported segfaults on hardware I don't own. And there are missing features: timer queries, for instance, aren't really supported and you have to hack them up in an unreliable way, useful extensions supported by the hardware like conservative rasterization are unavailable (Vulkan has this problem too), etc.

I suspect things are better on iOS, but Metal has not been a great experience on macOS for me. There's an argument to be made for proprietary APIs if they're better than the alternatives, but not if they're worse...
Hey HN, author here. I got curious about the performance cost of trait objects vs generics in Rust (and more broadly about the cost of dynamic vs static dispatch), so I created this series of benchmarks comparing the performance implications of various types of indirection in Rust.
Heard specifically the .1% flu and 2% for COVID19 was from Dr. Adam Bernheim from Mount Sinai hospital in NYC who was interviewed as part of a Bloomberg investing podcast called “Bloomberg Surveillance”. He’s citing roughly what I’ve seen in journals regarding the study of COVID (note I’m not in the medical field but semi-competent and enough to find articles in medical journals, read them and understand what they’re saying) but I haven’t been able to find a number for typical season flu strains being “about .1%” is what he specifically says and “about 2%” for COVID19. He compared various aspects of it to the typical seasonal flus at 11 minutes into the show, specifically 11minutes 40seconds for mortality comparison.

Bloomberg Surveillance podcast is free and also availability through other platforms but here it is through Apple podcasts:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bloomberg-surveillance...
The US death rate is about 0.83%. The current raw death rate of COVID-19 is 2.6%. A quadrupling of the US death rate in a year is likely to cause concern. Consider all the concern over the far smaller number of firearm deaths.
I believe the current legal interpretation of freedom of assembly in the US is that it only applies if your assembly is ‘to petition the Government for a redress of grievances’.
Good thing it is correlated to the characteristics in question.
Elliott Management buys stake in Twitter and seeks to oust Jack Dorsey
I didn't say or imply the cost wasn't worth paying, just noting it because it is an example of the economic impacts that can be anticipated.
We also have to do that to decode speech. You can simulate the way people do it with a hidden Markov model.
A lot of the dev interview process relies on luck. Sometimes you just get a crappy interviewer (inexperienced, naive, or just malicious), and things won’t go well regardless of your own abilities.

In fact, beyond a certain level of competence, interview results are mostly about luck. Sometimes you get a nice set of interviews, sometimes you don’t. Some companies will at least not reject you out of hand for one bad interview slot, but most companies are just so overwhelmed with unreliable signal that they’ll tank you for any kind of hint at incompetence.
> it weren't for the selfish and shortsighted actions of one person

Very unlikely. This thing’s R0 is high enough that it was never getting stopped.
> This thing passes Big Crush and PractRand

... for the seeds that were tested.

In theory, you can get unlucky and end up in a short cycle, and it will not pass these tests.

That's why I'm not comfortable with it, when there are generators with a known, guaranteed period. They simply do not have this failure mode.
I agree with you. We should use a reliable library, as you said. The primary purpose of this article is to help people understand what a coroutine and an event loop are. Therefore, programmers can use asyncio API fluently without misuse.

However, I don't think use threads/processes is a bad idea. A pool gives you a constrain to utilize threads/processes, but sometime we may want to adjust the number of threads/processes based on system load. Under this circumstance, using a pool is not the best choice.
I noticed this too. One of two things is going on:

a. The author cannot decrypt it either, unless he's cheating somehow, or

b. It's not really losing information and the author is lying.
But then the author makes demands, which they could only make if it -was- copyrighted. So it does seem like it’d be up to a court to decide.
I am an ex physicist and how statistics are handled by people who do not have the right expertise is exhausting.

He (or she, I do not know) wanted to show you that numbers you base your conclusion on must be carefully vetted.

I was once a reviewer of a PhD thesis in biology. The statistics part was dreadful, from someone who was otherwise a very serious student. She just would not know how to properly handle her data. After a review of the methodology the conclusions were different.

So do not get upset, being challenged by someone knowledgeable is fantastic and does not happen often.

Good luck with your degree.
wow, these symbols are awesome! Is it regular arabic or fancy calligraphy stuff? Are there two lines of characters?
VSCode is not "true open source product". It's event not open source. It's "open core", i.e. proprietary version of "code" project with additional proprietary components: telemetry, special configuration and so on.
I have a hunch that the actually fastest version is to change all those "||" to "|" in the original version. Short-circuiting and adding branches probably just slows the whole thing down compared to just running the comparisons, which will probably pipeline really well.

Interestingly the compiler doesn't do this optimization, even though it could. So maybe I'm wrong. No real way to know without benchmarking, though.
Right, I reckon I'm one of them. Moreover, it took me overly long to figure that out.
Underwater photographer of the year 2020 winners – in pictures
I’d be more productive without slack.

It’s useful for distributed teams, and for incident response, but basic messaging + jira/github + zoom cover those use cases better.

Slack was OK before the bot stuff and integration with ldap/email groups landed. Now, it’s at least as spammy as email, except not searchable, the (non customizable) UI is worse, and the social norm is that you spend 100% of the day checking a firehose of broadcast messages and machine generated spam (in some teams, even after working hours).
I am really happy I found this blog post. If you like this one you should check out some of his other posts. He has some amazingly insightful other posts on Rust including some very in depth topics. Also, a great comparison of Rust and Go. This is also why I love Hacker News. I would have never found these posts if this one had not made it to page one.
Bayes’ Rule, Decision Making, and Containing Covid-19 with Unreliable Diag Tests
Why would there be if you're on the bottom level?
These are fun brain candy and a reminder of the value of lateral thinking, but I hope no one actually uses these as employment screening.
What videos are you referring to?
That's never been required as far as I know?
Surely "decoding" means returning the text that was encoded. You can't trivially decode it, you can provide a candidate solution, that's entirely different; the point of sharing this was it's not possible to decode because there's no unique solution.

...---...

you can guess it's EEETTTEEE, but the decoding is SOS, that was the plaintext I started with.
This one's easy. Insert spaces between every blip and you've got a sequence of E and T. This should demonstrate to the proctor that the problem is ill-posed. Now the proctor is under examination: if they admit that the problem is garbage, they pass and you should stick out the interview. Otherwise, just walk away.
I can't imagine the simulation is simple enough to do in Excel. The R0 is good measure in the beginning when almost no one is infected, and there are no quarantines. Quarantines are happening and once a cluster is infected and can be isolated, R0 doesn't matter. Simulating all this is extremely hard.

Yes, the disease has potential to be devastation. Whether devastation actually happens is still very much an open question.
How are they defining "workstation class"? You can get SMT-4 18-core and 22-core POWER9 workstations with 72 and 88 hardware threads respectively in a single socket.
> Employees have the most view into what would make their job more efficient or engaging.

Employees in aggregate know the true answers to those things. Employees individually sometimes do, but often do not. For example, if you have a stone-aged development process on an ancient revision of an unsupported language, and you poll your employees, they'll all want change. They'll all want ... different changes/processes/pet programming languages, too.
>If you're in a bottom seat, you've got someone's, well, bottom, right in your face - not a very appealing prospect.

Is this really an issue when there's a solid steel floor + seat that separates someone's ass from your face?
An array is a data structure that can be accessed using the Array operator `[]`. C# will allow overloading the operator, Java will not.
You’re giving advice on how to be persuasive, and it’s rare I find comments as off-putting as yours.
Aren’t these really just the same thing as the brain teasers that have already been disavowed by most companies? Anyways, even many Leetcode questions involve “tricks” that we just have to deal with.
Median incubation time 4 days and interquartile range 2-7 in this study in the New England Journal of Medicine,
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2002032
My dad is 60 years old and just barely survived a bought of pancreatitis a few years ago. He’s got every single complicating health issue. According to the statistics that means he has like a 1 in 4 or 1 in 3 chance of dying if he catches this. That’s way worse than his odds with the flu or a cold. Maybe my dad doesn’t matter to you, but he’s kind of important to me.
Singapore is excellent at this game. Most western (or asian) countries aren't even in the same league.
It's just about blogging and knowledge sharing tools. It's difficult to read for some because of its "postmodern" style, which is infamous for unorganized filler and amusing word salad. I cracked up about "extended universes escaped reality construction" and tools that "collapses high and low-level thinking into a single behavior."
It’s crazy that the doctors could not force her to get tested and/or quarantine her. If this is the way we’re going to approach it in the west we’re screwed.
There is at least one website that hosts a "real" library of babel (generatively).

https://libraryofbabel.info
Masks are considered useless unless you are infected.

That's not what the guidelines said. They guidelines were referring only to "hygienic masks" a.k.a. generic surgical masks:

The Federal Office of Public Health (FOPH) does not recommend that people who are well wear hygienic masks (surgical masks). If you are in good health, they do not protect you effectively against an infection with respiratory viruses (i.e. self protection). Wearing a mask therefore can give you a false sense of security.

This is a known point. But they did not mention -- nor did they advise against the use of -- properly rated and certified masks (such as N95 masks). Which do provide some protection (albeit with caveats).

Also, just think for minute around the basic logic of what you're saying. If (properly rated and certified) masks provide "no protection" (for unprotected individuals) - then why are the health care workers using them?
Tot – An elegant, simple way to collect and edit text
Investor Proposes to Replace Jack Dorsey as Twitter’s CEO
I found a figure of 0.4 cpb for xoshiro256++. AES-128-CTR using AES-NI runs at over 10 GB/s per core on a 3900X. That's approximately the same throughput. Of course, performance embedded in a real simulation may differ wildly, I expect xoshiro is much, much friendlier to frequent invocations generating a block each than AES, so to reach that throughput with AES you'd likely need a not-so-small buffer, which eats into L1 and L2 cache budgets.
Gitlab is a good example, we had to leave the free tier in order to get features that Gitlab specifically chose to be in the paid tier because their absence is a big blocker when you grow... So we pay $100/mo/seat on Gitlab.

We also use at least 10 paid general-purpose tools that each fill a real need (we don't keep tools we don't use):

- Notion for knowledge management

- Airtable to manage operations data (not customer data)

- Hubspot for Sales and Marketing

- Lattice for HR

- Spendesk for expenses management

- Quickbooks for accounting

- Typeform for various customer feedback

- Zoom for remote work and link between our offices

- GSuite for everything in it

- Figma for UI design

- Recruitee for recruitment management

And finally, add also at least 10 paid Engineering-specific tools:

- Gitlab of course

- AWS for hosting of course

- Cloudflare for DNS stuff

- Sentry for error reporting

- Crowdin for internationalization

- FullStory for UX studies

- Apollo engine to get decent analytics about our backend

- Webflow for our Website (Not for the webapp of course)

- Pagerduty for operations

- We used Cloudcraft at some point to have an idea how our AWS stack look like

I could go on... But in the end, you end up with ~10 Saas tools peer seat, with costs from $2 to $100 per tool. And it is valuable, we pay them because they are worth it. But yes this is an interesting trend...
This is no longer true, as many companies have downgraded employee travel to premium or basic economy.

Many airlines don't even have a business section anymore, and the business fare just confers an earlier boarding priority.
I solved this two weeks ago as a joke:

https://twitter.com/nomsolence/status/1228577284929421312

I think it's O(n!)?
Serious projects like major Cloud infrastructure? And what are these damning flaws? If they are damning performance flaws, then presumably no project can succeed in a language slower than Go. If they are static type safety flaws, then surely no project in a dynamic language can be successful. If they are lack of fine grained control over memory layout, then surely no major VM or interpreted language holds a candle.
That sucks. Both my parents have cancer (breast & prostate). I hope your dad lives many more good years.
It seems like you might have a valid complaint. But the second half of your comment undercuts your credibility. Likening the editors to a cult and then calling them “not left wing” seem like dogwhistles. Like you’re trying to color the space around them without actually making specific claims.
Key Missteps at the CDC Have Set Back Its Ability to Detect the Potential Spread
Those paper masks do little if anything to help the wearer from taking in anything. They do not filter the air—they are far too porous and loose-fitting to filter. They do help prevent the wearer from spreading their germs and touching nose/mouth as you said, but they are not an effective air filtration device.