skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I want something like literate programming, documentation is enforced somehow. Or diagram can be translated into code and vice versa.
Probably based on manufacturer marketing and IBM only markets POWER9 as server class CPUs. You can always find a manufacturer that just pulls a part from a higher target class and sells it as the top end lower class.

In general I prefer cost range based comparisons (or first for any cost) for this reason.
> "a binding is a type name followed by an expression and a semicolon".

I find this hard to grock. Do you have a link to the actual grammar and production rules that apply to all cases ?

When I see:

int a = 3;

I don't see a "type name followed by an expression and a semicolon", but rather the grammar "TYPE_NAME NAME = EXPR;". However, that's not correct, since TYPE_NAME cannot be any type (e.g. a function pointer won't work). When looking at

void (*foo)(int) = expr;
int (*foo)[N] = expr;

or at how the keywords "struct" and "union" are part of the type name in some contexts, but not others, I see quite different grammar rules.

I've tried to find literature about this, since I hack on a toy C parser every now and then, and those could simplify it, without much luck.

I've never thought of these as "CDECL = EXPR;" or similar, since that does not work either (e.g. a function declaration would be "void foo(int);" but that's not exactly the same as "void (*foo)(int) = expr;").
He had kids before he was president, you don’t think it was routine for him to go to his kids’ parent teacher conferences before being president? I think both of his kids were around late elementary or middle school age at the time of being president which is also an important developmental time for kids. Being a CEO or any job shouldn’t mean that it clones at the sacrifice of being a good parent. To me it sounds like it’s someone keeping up the routine they had before they got a new job. Being president is just another job, albeit far more high profile.
Maybe as in "You can actually get off the shelf software for the thing". Power9 may be great for a very few things in particular, but for actual workstation use in an everyday environment x64 wins hands down.
I guess I always viewed that as dropping a reference which is a noop, but still dropping.
Yeah it's tinfoil hat to think that leftists like to ban dissenting opinions, this thread isn't full of lots of people who agree with that approach or anything.
I find it ironic that now that a right leaning investor might influence [which we don't know if it would have an effect but may] Twitter people are having a fit, but not many have a problem with Twitter when it favors the leanings of its left-leaning management.

When Twitter suspends people it's always been "but they are private company!" We'll see how they pull that same line if this goes through.
Wow, I normally am all about how google handles security issues (they get dragged through the mud for some Project Zero stuff), but this def did not get handled well.

Super unclear communication, starting with "you're just using it wrong", more than six month turn around, and even then at the end no clear explanation of what went wrong with someone who was collaborating with you? That's amateur hour security.
As a frontend dev, this really pains me. I’ve worked at many places with the same problems - first of all, pushing back on the designer is incredibly important if something is hard to develop. Most designers are doing their best to make things easy to code, but aren’t developers, so they just don’t know. It’s the engineers job to tell them no when things are exceptionally difficult. If they understand that the style change they want is a 3 month project, maybe they would be happy to design something different.

Secondly, frontend is hard. Having a senior react dev who can accurately weigh the trade offs of using external components like that would have been invaluable here. People underestimate how much different in skill level a junior react/frontend dev is from a senior engineer with experience in multiple frameworks. 6 months is long time in terms of dev hours - writing a table from scratch for your use case that works with design is usually a 1-2 sprint task, and that’s absolutely the hardest one there. But more reasonably, work should have been done to make a reusable style library to make this even easier.
Here's a list from a far left subreddit that itself constantly break reddit's rules about brigading and yet gets away with it!

Laughable.
The Sextortion Scams: The Numbers Show We Have A Failure of Education
I'm curious why, if you have any insights.
Currently, it's better to overestimate the gravity of the situation, than to underestimate. Better to err on the right side. Panic is bad, but at least you get prepared.
I was shocked by the headline, then I noticed that only over a third of the tools are used for development.

I was again shocked by their monthly spending, considering the stage they're at[1], but then I noticed that over two thirds are spent on marketing.

So all in all, it makes sense; they're paying for what they deem required to use. I couldn't justify to myself using half of these tools, at least, at that stage.

[1]: Which highlights how good we, in general, have it for at least prototyping stuff freely, or very cheaply.

On that note, I got so confused by a couple of their bills that I had to stop and see if the tools had some sort of restriction for businesses. Nope, so I don't understand why they're paying for some of them. I mean, they certainly should if they want to, after all, such tools are damn good services worth paying for, but they don't strictly need to.
At the very least I would fix the grammar (or pay someone for a copy edit) if you want to be taken seriously.
I'd never heard of Gripeless before this thread, but I can agree with your reasoning.

We use HotJar's free plan on an interal (engineer-facing) tool and we get very very few reports through it because engineers don't realize there's a text field AFTER the happiness slider.

We get an order of magnitude more feedback via Jira even though creating a ticket that way takes 10x more clicks.
Are you comparing being a Republican to being a flat-earther here? There can be two or more competing opinions about how to run the government.
Superior strategies like this are like hidden lore. Why is that? I'm certain there are dozens or hundreds of these hard won lessons.

I had to rediscover the "INSERT only, no UPDATEs" trick on my own. Changed from separate truth and historical tables to a single table which is groomed over time. Major simplification. A few extra benefits: like scaling, testing and auditing.

And my peers absolutely lost their minds. A senior VP rolled back my architecture the moment he could. (We were acquihired, so this meant major upheaval of systems which had be in use for over 3 years.) My solution was just too weird looking, too unorthodox.

So while there's lots of things we can do to mitigate databasization and buy ourselves some head room, we don't.

Square peg, round hole?

My radical (unoriginal) thought is the problem is the people, not the tools.
Hmmm, all I did was state facts germane to the conversation. It's a pity that we can't discuss uncomfortable truths without getting tribal about it.

Political discourse has reached an apex of toxicity and that will only worsen if we can't find some way to seek shared goals in a respectful manner.

I'm worried that it may be too late to achieve this but one must always remember the words of Commander Peter Quincy Taggart: "Never give up, never surrender!"
yes, the first one was not hard.
Sounds like your CFO (also CTO?) is performing two huge roles. If he keeps focusing on managing the tech your finances are probably not in good hands (since he/she is probably doing neither job optimally).

It sounds like a toxic mess.

> It’s because no matter how smart you folks are as individuals, in the aggregate you are like toddlers. You dump all your toys on the floor and then chase after some other kid’s shinier toy. Your poor CIO is left cleaning up your mess in the middle of the night after stepping on a Lego brick.

Viewing your underlings as toddlers probably isn't helping matters much. Everyone has very specific needs. They are interested in meeting their needs and need to make local decisions that look dumb from high level. Aka greedy choices.

Its a bit academic, but "Cognitive Structure of Emotions", Ortony might help you break down some of the people issues in your org.

There is a balance. How do you give lower parts of your organization autonomy to make local decisions and at the same time make choices that are sane from a higher level. 40-50 people is typically a tipping point for human social structure. This is where tribal systems break down and require a strong leader and more well defined roles.
bitrot is paint flaking off, not someone purposefully scratching it off
I noticed this:

LinkedIn Sales Navigator ($80 / month) - Finding leads to contact
SalesQL ($29 / month) - Finding email addresses for leads

I don't know who these people are, but it looks like their business involves spamming people.
They do. But they aren’t stockpiled for you: they are stockpiled for medical professionals.

And the 30 million the US has stockpiled is short by a factor of ten: https://time.com/5785223/medical-masks-coronavirus-covid-19/
The girl who asked questions
Implementing Raft: Part 2: Commands and Log Replication
How early signs of the coronavirus were spotted, spread and throttled in China
My favorite trick is to not ask trick questions.
HNQ: Feynman on Mathematics
"[I]t is impossible to explain honestly the beauties of the laws of nature in a way that people can feel, without their having some deep understanding of mathematics." -- R. Feynman (1965) The Character of Physical Laws. MIT Press. (pg. 39 of the 5th printing, 1990)
I don’t remember anyone saying that twitter favoured the left. If yo hear it from the left it’s that Twitter favours the right. Facebook on the other hand very much favoured the right through intentional algorithms.
Why is Turkey so special?

In many European countries, the media gets directly paid by the government so they don't go tits-up. This ostensibly secures a free press. At the same time, wer zahlt, schafft an. In fact, if Turkey were doing this, they would probably be criticized for blatant corruption.
Most international flight businesses class experiences are just economy class with very slightly more legroom, earlier boarding, guaranteed use of overhead bins to avoid gate checking bags, and sometimes a really low-quality free alcoholic drink.

5 or 6 years ago it was different and business class had a separate section with much roomier seats with more storage, upgraded entertainment, meals and alcohol options, and for large enough flights sometimes even a separate entrance.

You are right that ticket prices can be 5x economy (probably more like 2x or 3x usually, 5x on crowded flights). But these higher prices are only for the “slightly more legroom and early bin access” tier. The quality has gone down while the prices keep shooting up.

I’ve also noticed that when I paid for business class flights before, if any delays or issues came up for the flight, I would get comprehensive and immediate customer assistance to rectify it, usually even free transfers to more expensive flights or very generous hotel and meal vouchers, no questions asked.

In the last two years I’ve had several issues with flight cancellations or delays and business class fares confer no advantage. No customer support, no free upgrades or transfers, and you have to set your dignity aside and act like a crazy angry person if you want even the smallest concession from the airline on hotel or meal vouchers - and this has been consistent across every major international airline.
Thought Worker
Close to the beginning there is a phrase you'll want to review:

> If we we really we wanted to annotate the type of pair, we would write

Ok understood, we're us and we're all together in reading this! :-)
I would argue "most devs other than you".

I work in the finance industry. Most devs don't seem to know or care about IAM, proper network security, or keeping VMs and container images up to date.

IAM in AWS is by no means "easy" but when you get it right, it's pretty damned good.
>get at best sidelined by the media

Bernie's platform, like Trump's in 2016, has faced an incredible lack of scrutiny.

I have yet to see him pressed on the very high possibility that most of his platform will never get through congress.
Seattle-Area Patient With Coronavirus Dies
Cpp-Taskflow v2.3 released: Fully C++14/17 Support and Conditional Tasking
Lol, r/conservative is the place for controlled opposition "conservatives" of the kind that the left allows to exist because they ultimate challenge none of the left's fundamental values.

The sort of people like Mitt Romney who virtue signal about how much they hate Trump so that leftists will give them a pat on the head.
I think Twitter and other social networks should be neutral. I don't see why they should make decisions that benefit democracy or any other political system.
CSS.gg: 500 Retina-Ready CSS Icons
tarsnap desperately needs something like this included with it.
Its flash memory, physically pushing electrons into a jar and hoping to count them later before all leak out.
Endurance tests of SSD drives showed unplugging a worn drive for a couple of days was enough to lose all data.
Not to mention SD cards usually get the lowest grade of flash memory.
No libraries but Building your own JavaScript component
What are some examples of their blazenly liberal bias? From what I've seen they only tend to kick people off the platform who have been saying exceedingly unsavoury things ... Katie Hopkins opining about needing a "Final Solution" is just one example.
Not true. Cloud providers can and do get depeered for political views. So the competitor have to be their own BGP peer as well.

EDIT: Since you're downvoting me, here's one example - not strictly a cloud provider, but a DoS protection provider, but I'd still argue it counts: https://twitter.com/alexstamos/status/1158406276570734592
The false equivalence between left and right here is the issue IMO. I truly believe the left-lead media largely acts in good faith, and the right-lead media largely does not.

I understand that people on the right feel the opposite, that's fine. But I don't feel like I should be obligated to complain when the media behaves in a fashion that I feel is appropriate, just to appease this both-sidesism.
There is actually a BA flight from London City to NY, which is business class only.
There's some evidence that the Iranian government knows the number of coronavirus deaths there is much higher than they're admitting to: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-51673053 Of course, even just the official number of deaths implies that coronavirus is a lot more widespread there than their numbers say.
Would a macro work ok for you, like the inbuilt vec! one? There's a crate for that named maplit: https://docs.rs/maplit

let map = hashmap!{
"a" => 1,
"b" => 2,
};
The CDC doesn't run the tests. The hospitals and independent labs do. There has been some issues with the test kits distributed by the CDC, but since the virus genome has been sequenced you don't actually need a test kit (it's just a faster process if you have one).

However the CDC has enacted emergency powers to make it illegal for hospitals to use their own testing equipment, which they have in-house, to test their own patients unless they first get CDC approval. And the CDC has ridiculously stringent requirements for approving these tests.

As a result, the only confirmed case of community-spread COVID-19 in the US is in Northern California, because the UC Davis hospital basically said "go fuck yourself" to the CDC and tested anyway.

This is not because COVID-19 is not spreading throughout the community--it is!--but rather because the CDC's stringent testing requirements prevent testing of any case that cannot be rationalized away as having been caught elsewhere. If you don't test for the virus, then you don't confirm the presence of the virus, so there is no virus, amirite?
Well yes, because bonuses and options aren't guaranteed salary.
Makes me wonder if we should not have tried to make a single "unicode" and instead had distinct types for each language like EnglishString ArabicString etc. and programmers can handle each case as needed.
The complaint from the left has always been that Twitter protects extreme right wing view points even when they violate their terms of service
The problem is that the devs are smart and stupid at the same time.

They're smart when discussing code complexity, callbacks, functions, APIs and the like. I've seen this time and again where many devs would get together to flesh out a chunk of a project and work together rapidly for the best way forward, along with nearly all edge cases. This is not simple or stupid in any sense of the words.

However they are also stupid when it comes to a larger view of what they work on. Perhaps myopic is a better term. I've seen devs write code expecting a database server has commodity access to the internet. I've seen devs include untested, unpatchable by WSUS software in generated system images. I've seen devs not give a second thought about logging, monitoring, error handling and more sysad level things, as it was outside of scope.

I trust devs in their domain, which is a narrow view of code. They've demonstrated they cannot be trusted with systems.
Meta question: Why are we talking about people's eyeballs being literally stabbed out?

I had assumed that this was an expression of some (unknown) level of difficulty, and that if we could shift the discussion to describing that realities of that difficulty and its impacts on business operations and morale, we could get some insight.

But am I wrong?

This is the first time I've heard about "literally shooting knives and...gouging out eyes" in an IT discussion. Is this actually a thing that results from IT procurement in a literal sense? By "literal" I mean the sense that would refer to a piece of material entering the eye-goo of another human being and causing actual pain and hospitalization.

Does anyone else find it very difficult to understand situations when you are not sure at all how seriously to interpret someone? I'm aware I'm probably on the autistic spectrum...but since we're having a discussion about engineering or technology procurement, could I ask for a bit of specificity?

Is it odd to find the idea of literal eye-gouging to be out-of-place here? That it seems really extreme and like a very black-and-white way to talk about problems? Or am I just losing my mind?

Genuine question: Does my difficulty with understanding the role of literal eye-gouging in IT procurement and UX design signal that I'm becoming unhinged from reality?
we definitely do not have enough hospital beds.

as for the CDC, the Trump administration gutted the CDC in 2018. they fired its leadership and dramatically reduced its budget.

they went to Congress last week or so for an emergency $2.5B, which is better than nothing, but $25B would have been a more realistic number. House leaders were basically complaining like "you should have asked us for more money."

Trump et al also put Mike Pence in charge of the situation last week. Trump said, when announcing that Pence would be in charge, that "he's got a talent for this." however, as governor of Indiana, Pence prioritized ideology over public health, and the state experienced an HIV outbreak due to his leadership (a subsequent Yale study found the outbreak was entirely preventable).

long story short: yes, the Federal government's response is extremely inadequate. it will probably continue to be inadequate throughout the crisis.
Have in mind that I’m not talking about first class. Most airlines nowadays have a medium class with a little bit more leg room and maybe like a complimentary alcoholic drink.

Every time I fly, that class is full.

If this layout gives you an efficient way to increase the capacity of that class without sacrificing the economy capacity that would totally make sense for the airlines, even if they don’t sell that class fully in each flight.

I don’t know if it’s technically feasible since I know airplanes have some weight limitations, but in theory this would be a way to have more seats for a class that is expensive but not prohibitive to the economy passenger.
yes, it is dropped
How do we stop this? Can we sue Clearview through EFF with the grounds of violating copyright or some weird law?

California/GDPR laws are great but they don't stop the data collection, merely allow the user to access it.

We need to make companies like Clearview completely and unquestionably illegal. I am infuriated and don't know what we can do.
NTSB Blames Smartphone Use, Tesla's 'Completely Inadequate' Tech in Crash
All spending bills originate in the House.
It is completely plausible given his political track record that he is attempting to take control of Twitter to inhibit a progressive movement addressing wealth inequality issues. I don't think you can cover this story honestly without addressing the possible motives of a very active actor. This is a major public social network, not an oil refinery. It feels really inappropriate to treat this as an apolitical business move and I think the speculation on motives is more than warranted, that the story would be incomplete without it.
people are bad & should be avoided
One thing I'm wondering about is "useless in what sense?"

Will they prevent you from getting sick? Unlikely unless it is N95 or even N100 PPE

But I'm been wondering if they are not useless in terms of the speed at which the human body experiences a high viral load.

If only one virus particle gets through that should be enough to infect if it takes root and multiplies, but going from one virus to tons in your body takes times since they have to multiply.

Compare that with an infected person coughing right in your face. In this situation, potentially thousands of virus particles will infect you. In this situation, the viral load your body experiences will climb high quickly.

The faster the viral load climbs the less time your immune system has to be able to develop antibodies and learn to fight off the infection.

I imagine this is not too dissimilar from how vaccines work.

If this is the case, that might explain why Li Wenliang died at 34 years of age. Being at the center of it all, it's likely he was exposed to many more virus particles than the typical person. I imagine this would be enough to trigger a cytokine storm if the viral load got high fast enough.

Disclaimer, IANAE (i am not an epidemiologist), I'm just reasoning from first principles here.
I assume it must be a common finding. I have too wanted to initialize a map value with a literal, only to find that one needs to juggle around their absence. Very weird thing to miss in such a great language, really.

I guess that the syntax proposal would get too complicated with all the different possibilities (like what happens if you want to store one ref, now you need to add lifetimes and such), but overall for the novice it just looks like a strange thing to not have.
Not true. Sources: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=twitter+political+bias+left+right
It’s vendor lock-in pure and simple. In my org, I make sure there is data portability. Even if we have to write the plumbing between services, we understand and own the data and an interface to access it is available.

This argument applies to open and close sourced software alike (ever try to migrate from MantisBT to Jira?)
Did you continue to work out while cutting? Because that reduces the muscle lost. If you're an average joe and you're starving yourself, your muscle will reduce comparably to fat.
Details from sciencemag.org (A magazine from the American academy for the advancement of science):

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/02/united-states-badly-...
GIL is a problem only if you're CPU bound.
For I/O bound problems Python can get you a long way.