skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Koch brothers are complicated. I found the Freakonomics interview with them very interesting: https://freakonomics.com/podcast/why-hate-koch-brothers-part...

The most interesting quote (from part 2 of the interview):

> Charles Koch argues that the biggest threats to America these days are special interests, cronyism, and corporate welfare. Which may seem strange if you think of a corporate CEO, like Koch, as a beneficiary of those things. He also argues that our political system has turned into a dumpster fire, with both parties guilty of rent-seeking and putting their thumbs on whatever scales they can find. Which may also strike you as strange, if you consider that what a political network like the Koch Brothers’ network does is — well, puts its thumb on the scale. Because he primarily funds Republicans, and because so much of that funding is “dark,” anonymous money, he is seen by most Democrats as something close to the devil — even though some of his positions, as you’ll hear today, align quite snugly with traditional liberal positions.

> My overall impression from speaking with him? Charles Koch believes he’s fighting the good fight based on proven principles — and that the rest of America has been going mad, bit by bit.
WHO-China Covid-19 Joint Mission Report Highlights
Pardon my cynicism, but it seems like many of the actions the administration is pushing are simply things they were pushing already and are using this health crisis as cudgel to help get what they want.

What we need are lower interest rates! What we need is to limit immigration from Mexico (even though the US has a higher infection rate and there isn't any talk of limiting flights from, say, England). What we need to do is silence domain experts and have communications controlled by politicians at the White House.

Maybe this rate cut is actually the right thing to do, what do I know? But I have little reason to believe it was made for the right reasons.
In bulk. For cheap.
Is there any sane information on this Covid-19 except alarmism?
To be clear, CAA is relevant even if you're using http-01. CAs need to check whether the CAA records of a given domain allow/forbid issuance in addition to any of the methods used to demonstrate domain ownership to the CA.
Ah, I see the misunderstanding.

I'm not (meaning to be) saying old people are conservative. I'm saying people, as a whole, don't change their views. The only way for new views to gain purchase in society is for the people with different views to die off of old age.

Most often those new views ARE more progressive, but not always.

But my core point is that if those in power don't die, they aren't going to change their views, and their power will only concentrate. "in power" doesn't just mean rulers, it also means numbers. Those racist uncles, those people deeply offended by same-sex marriages, etc. Unless the young are automatically more progressive (as you've just argued is not the case), then they won't go away, and won't be marginalized, and they'll keep holding their views.

Exceptions will exist, but numerically, it's an issue.
The actual distribution simply isn't known at this point.
I often times saw my foreign coworkers when they flew in for SXSW. Many people fly in from foreign countries for it.
xpdf seems to have started to respect the not-copyable-flags, while in days yonder, it didn't. So now, even something like a manual of some command-line tools or a text book on C++ or Rust, you still have to re-type the text (wtf). Time to remove and search for something better, something that does not need a 0.5GB update every 3 days (on Windows). (yes, exaggerating slightly)
Sure, but... what if I want food from Sprouts? Or just from some generic place, without paying Whole Foods prices? Amazon would like some of that action, too. They know we're not all going to buy from Whole Foods just because Amazon will deliver it.
It's worth bearing in mind that there are a lot of parties who are, in some fashion, a stakeholder. Stockholders, debt holders, employees, vendors, contractors, towns where offices are, environments, governments of various levels, etc. Many of the things that produce value for them will be in opposition to the things that produce value for other stakeholders (expanding in one town vs another vs environment, etc.).

In theory, it's clearly the job of leadership to balance the needs of all stakeholders to maximize value for everyone. In practice, there's a lot of room to use stakeholder value as a cover for doing what leadership wants to do anyway. Almost everything leadership would want to do provides value to some stakeholder, after all...

One of the few upsides to shareholder value capitalism is that it provides a clear metric. This can help reduce difficulties from the principal-agent problem in a way that a stakeholder approach may have more trouble with.

Perhaps it's excessively cynical of me, but when CEOs talk about stakeholder value I hear powerful people looking to be less accountable.
Meanwhile, in Wyoming: "This Winter Has Been One Of The Snowiest On Record For Wyoming, And It’s Not Over Yet"

https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/wyoming/snow-storms-in-wyomi...
Also in Milton's Paradise Lost, I believe.
The Book of Swindles (1617)
IMO, still very much a licensing issue. Modern GPL3 GCC versions produce superior debuginfo as compared with Clang, in 2020, and the error messages and optimizations are currently competitive between the two. The ancient GPL2 GCC4.2.1 (C) compiled much faster than the modern Clang (C++), but I don't know if that still holds true for newer versions of GCC.

I have heard that the LLD (LLVM linker) is much faster than either ld.bfd or ld.gold.
I've done this a bit. I define ranges per numeric field and if it exceeds or is below that range, I send it to another queue for manual review. Sometimes I'll write rules where if it's a dollar amount that usually ends ".00" and I don't read a decimal but I do have "00", then I'll just fix that automatically if it's outside my range.
1. When the culture celebrates rapacious capitalism, rugged individualism, and financialization of the economy as right and just, people are drawn along by the current. No one lives in a vacuum despite what the prevailing voices would have you believe. It is no wonder that many talented scientists went (and still go) to investment banks, when this behavior is congratulated and voices of admonishment are minimized.

2. Vietnam, Nixon, Reagan, Bush...the list continues. When Jimmy Carter warned the country people lost faith in him because his statements didn't make them "feel good". This was also the era in which corporate money began to flow almost unrestrictedly into government in the form of lobbying and campaign contributions. As Upton Sinclair rightly put it: "It is hard to get a man to understand something when his paycheck depends on him not understanding it."
> Does knowing C require knowing Linux\Unix?

More specificially, if you're going to use C on Unix/Linux, I think you have to know both.

> You can learn C syntax and how to compile it with pretty minimal Linux\Unix exposure.

Just because the "hello world" of the language is easy, does not mean the rest of the language should be just as fool-proof.

I read the HN comments from the first time this was posted, and the top comment told a story about some students experimenting with fork bombs. When the sysadmin found what they were doing, the text he gave them to learn better was, "A Commentary on the Sixth Edition Unix Operating System," colloquially called Lions Notes. [1][2] To me that makes the case clearly that that language and that set of OS tools are very closely entwined, and if present together should not be expected to exist in isolation.

It does sound like you had a deficient education regarding C. I think that means you needed a better education, however, and I think a lower level language built by and for programmers who know what they are doing should not be dumbed down to the level of badly taught undergrads.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8205960

[2] https://cs3210.cc.gatech.edu/r/unix6.pdf
At some point one may look at all these single year observations in aggregate, and realize a certain trend...
Another single year after year after year of record breaking weather. You might call it a "trend".
> What puts it in more relatable terms for me is if the death rate for elderly is 1 in 10

I have 4 living grandparents - which means that odds of my attending a funeral in the next year or so is at least 35%.

That's horrifying.
I would be curious to know whether their insurance covers pandemics. That's even excluded from most travel insurance.
2006, using data primarily from Wikipedia articles written before then, was a very long time ago. Things have changed a lot: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1407.0323.pdf
Fair point and I absolutely agree, VSCode has some great integrations with other services and in fact solves similar problem of context switching. However there are quite a lot of people that don't use VSCode, not to mention you're not always in your IDE when you need to perform these tasks.
Having said that we want to explore some ideas where we integrate deeper with IDEs like VSCode and provide commands based on the context (e.g. provide documentation search based on the coding language, suggest filing a task for TODO comments, etc).
If your goal is to show strictly that technical things can be produced by cooperatives, yes. If your goal is to show successful businesses that pay the bills of everyone involved through their technical labor, perhaps not.
Lucet and Wasmtime make a stronger compiler, together
How to Disinfect Your Space on an Airplane
No such thing as free in the world of for-profit companies. They're worth billions of dollars for a reason.
I thought I was in the minority there! We have 45 certificates (of many more) that were affected, and our account id was listed, and it has an email contact associated. I got no email whatsoever, but I'm glad I had the foresight to check anyway.
I was thinking the same thing. They're somehow sayin they're doing something on top of vector drive: http://ackinetics.com/?page_id=5115 . They claim a lot of lot efficiency with their algorithms: http://ackinetics.com/?page_id=5120
One Championship (an Asian fight promotion) did their last event in an empty arena in Singapore and only streamed it.

https://www.espn.com/mma/story/_/id/28725093/one-championshi...
I think I misunderstand, you seem to be very pro-Castro in that thread.

> 10k over 50 years? Wow, that's a lot less than I imagined from how he is described as a mindless killer, and the dictatorship as drenched in blood.

Wow, the responses there.
Congrats on the launch guys!

Full disclosure, I worked with Nick and Omar at Gusto. I saw firsthand how much software can help an ops team. Since we didn't have Flowdash at Gusto, we often scrambled for resources to empower our operations team. We also probably could've done a better job responding to user feedback since we were so resource constrained.

Having a tool that the Ops team can truly own is a game-changer for that iterative feedback loop and frees up the eng team. Really looking forward to seeing this product grow.
Only a small number of very narrow segments of business benefit from SXSW - but they benefit a lot. The rest of Austin businesses, and Austinites, suffer degradation and losses. Ask any downtown business that's not in the lodging/entertainment industry.
From another comment, in Italy the numbers are worse than previously reported rather than better.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22476675

I did not check their source. Just saying that "we may be close to saying `false alarm`" seems almost certainly ill-informed.
Unclear. Can't find a link, but I recall reading that if you were within 50m (?) of a norovirus patient when they vomited, you had a noticeable chance of catching the bug yourself.
From what I've read (including [1]), it is unknown whether Steve Jobs's decision affected the ultimate outcome or even its timing. (I.e., I object to the claim that we know that he would still be alive if he'd agreed to the surgery sooner. It seems that it's possible, but that we can't know definitively.)

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4924574/
I am suggesting taxation. I'm just pointing out that the idea that taxation "takes away" wealth that people have "earned" pre-supposes an economic system (and ultimately a moral system - think about what it really means to earn something: it means to deserve it) where money accrues to those who perform certain actions (such as selling goods). It perfectly consistent to have an economic system where the rule is that beyond a certain point, you only accrue a portion of the value given by the person obtaining the good.

What is money, other than the power to get others to perform economic activity for you, backed by the state? It is given by it's very nature.
Yeah, as long as it doesn't happen often. I'm technically always on call but we haven't had an on call incident in close to a year.

Basically I keep a phone and laptop on me at all times.

This is in comparison to a friend that works somewhere that always has daily on call incidents that are not actually problems 95% of the time. That would piss me off even if I weren't always on call.
As someone who works in aviation... what made you choose an avionics company as your demo business?

I've bookmarked your site for future research... but the aviation part has me curious!
Excuse me, but this is an utter bs for anybody minimally familiar with physics, let alone engineering.

I have a feeling that Neil Singer gives off air of a scam artist
On the people on the Diamond Princess there are 36 critical cases + 6 dead. So 42/705 infected, so 6% likely needed to be hospitalized.

But, the demographics skewed older than the general population, and there were 3200 people on board in basically a worst case scenario for spread.

So 42/3200 is ~1% of a much older population.
more snow doesn't mean it is colder
Excel 2007 introduced multithreading, which is very useful on large spreadsheets.
In Boston, people call this type of of problem a "wicked bad problem".
2 minutes is probably long enough. I did notice that google drive doesn't seem to like it if you upload a lot of files. I have had files sit and never get OCR, but I forgot about them so they may have OCR on them now.

Also, I am not aware of a signal when it is done.
>wouldn't have been practical for general purpose computing without hardware graphics

Or just VESA and Windows' optimized 2D libraries. GDI is a good example. Most 2D FXs don't require a hard computation. Seriously, Enlightenment did those in software.

You underestimate what could've done in software in the 90's, especially when memory protection under w9x was nil and everything was much more low level.

Insecure? A lot. Would it work? Yes.

Windows 98 could do these with 3rd party software.

>Slackware in late 90's

Debian Woody was almost like late 90's for obvious reasons.
It shipped a 2.2 kernel with 2.4 being the optional and bleeding edge one.
You can't compare absolute fatality numbers (yet). The flu infects tens of millions of people each year and kills less about 0.2%. (Estimates are between 5%-20% of the US population get the flu each year.)

This coronavirus has only infected a few ten thousand people and has killed between 2% and 20% of the infected population (with the larger %s comprising weakened patients, like the elderly with preexisting conditions or people living in a country without a functional healthcare system, like Iran.

If the coronavirus scaled up to the number of infections as the flu, millions would die.
FYI, redaction from pdf can be similarly difficult. I once was tangentially involved with a pdf redaction piece of software, and due to many different issues with pdf, the solution ended up being to create images of the input pdf draw over the redacted info, then create/overwrite a new pdf that was just a container for the jpgs. It was the only way to be sure the info wasn’t in the pdf at all, since it could be all kinds of places and duplicated in interesting ways. But since you’d be working on the final rendering you could be sure everything you covered would be covered in the final output. The biggest challenges after that were related to text extraction, since we wanted a nice UI where you could select text and the redaction would auto cover text and use a uniform width based on the heights of all characters in the redaction. I think more often than we were happy with a user would need to simply use a bounding box since extracting all the pertinent data related to the text was so hard.

I walked away from the product over a decade ago since it always seemed like it’d be trivial for adobe to implement the feature in reader. Though every couple of years there’s a redaction scandal and I keep wondering how lucrative the product could have been with some marketing.
I would not be opposed for a little creative destruction in this case.
There is a simple answer to this question (excellent question, BTW !)

The FEC can only do this if "political advertisement" is first defined.

And that's where you will most likely hit a wall. Let's run through a scenario to see if we can get people on HN to agree what is or is not a political "ad":

- Person tweeting on April 15th, "God, I hate paying taxes."

- Person tweeting on April 15th, "God, I hate paying high taxes."

- Person tweeting on April 15th, "Why are we paying such high taxes?"

- Person tweeting on April 15th, "Why does anyone vote for these high taxes?"

- Person tweeting on April 15th, "Who votes for these high taxes?"

- Person tweeting on April 15th, "We shouldn't have to pay such high taxes!"

- Person tweeting on April 15th, "Why wont anyone reduce our taxes?"

- Person tweeting on April 15th, "Why wont (insert politician) reduce our taxes?"

- Person tweeting on April 15th, "They should vote to reduce these high taxes!"

- Person tweeting on April 15th, "(insert politician) should vote to reduce these high taxes!"

- Person tweeting on April 15th, "Anyone who thinks these taxes are reasonable shouldn't be in office"

- Person tweeting on April 15th, "Anyone who thinks these taxes are reasonable shouldn't be voted out of office"

- Person tweeting on April 15th, "That's it - I'm voting these tax-mongers out of office"

- Person tweeting on April 15th, "That's it - I'm voting (insert politician) out of office"

- Person tweeting on April 15th, "That's it - I'm voting these tax-mongers out of office, and you should too"

- Person tweeting on April 15th, "That's it - I'm voting (insert politician) out of office, and you should too"

- Person tweeting on April 15th, "Vote these tax-mongers out of office"

- Person tweeting on April 15th, "Vote (insert politician) out of office"

- Person tweeting on April 15th, "Stop our excessive taxes!"

- Person tweeting on April 15th, "Stop our excessive taxes, (insert politician) !"

- Person tweeting on April 15th, "Stop our excessive taxes NOW!"

- Person tweeting on April 15th, "I'd vote for anyone who will reduce our taxes!"

- Person tweeting on April 15th, "Vote for anyone who will reduce our taxes!"

- Person tweeting on April 15th, "Vote to reduce our taxes!"

- Person tweeting on April 15th, "I'll vote for anyone who can beat (insert politician) and lower our taxes!"
>Smart operators tend to not do those things, no matter how common or popular they are.

What evidence do you have that political campaigns are "smart operators"? Every experience I've had working with political campaigns has indicated otherwise. The performance of political campaigns is exactly what one would expect if you mixed together a bunch of inexperienced volunteers with snake-oil salesmen and showered them with money.
. . . "Safety is a top priority for SXSW".

Bullshit. Loss of revenue is the top priority for SXSW.

The only way to teach them a lesson is for large organizations to publicly announce BOYCOTT's of SXSW.
"Why should I pay overtime for the system you broke?" - The manager who ignored their engineers requests prioritizing higher quality testing and more redundancy
> Though saturated in corporate narratives and televisual plots, we evidently still make up songs about heroes.

Love this.
> If you are coming from i3 the move to sway is a no-brainer

I was thinking of waiting another year to jump as I'm having no issues with i3, what are the advantages?
PhET Interactive Simulations in Science and Math
Because people loosing their livelihood is a 'first world problem' and not one of a series of important problems? Or because it's in Germany and not somewhere more 'relevant'?

I try to find a charitable reading of your post, but so far I've failed.
That is super interesting. You should probably submit it as a separate submission!
I like your optimism and I hope you're right. I don't think Italy, South Korea, Iran are outliers in the sense that there is something fundamentally different going on there though - I think they are just ahead in terms of time. Overall the spread in different countries seems to follow very similar patterns but with different starting dates.

Yes, China did some weird stuff with information in the beginning, but it seems there is not really much reason to suspect they're hiding information anymore [1,2]. The responses by free-er nations have been much milder with more reliance on self-quarantine. Let's hope that that works. And let's hope there will be sufficient testing to stay on top of things.

[1] https://www.vox.com/2020/1/27/21082354/coronavirus-outbreak-...

[2] https://www.vox.com/2020/3/2/21161067/coronavirus-covid19-ch...
Congrats on the launch!

This reminds me of Orchestra by B12 in many ways:

https://orchestra.b12.io/

Do you have any thoughts on how you compare to that solution (besides it being OSS and yourselves a company)?
Looks like a company by a bunch of ex-Intel people. How are they doing on Spectre/Meltdown and other bugs caused by the culture of cutting corners?
Thomas Bollyky, the editor of Think Global Health and director of the global health program at the Council on Foreign Relations, is hosting an AMA on it right now! https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/fcwnw5/im_thomas...

full disclosure: the company i work for (the MIT Press) published a book of his ("Plagues and the Paradox of Progress: Why the World Is Getting Healthier in Worrisome Ways") last year.

edit: also, i don't this article is alarmist; it's a useful and measured piece by the former director of the CDC.
Does anyone have details on the XFL? The league just restarted, so financially it could be on the edge. I really like the games so far, so I hope they can continue.
What assumption are you talking about?

Anyway, if your problem requires a distributed system, congratulations, you'll have to go to the top of that complexity hierarchy, and will have to solve all the problems that come with it.

That doesn't change anything about there being more problems. You just don't have any other option.
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No one in the Deep South ever saw me as sounding or behaving "Southern." My father was career military and originally from Indiana. My mother is a German immigrant. I never really fit in anywhere while growing up.

When I hit Utah, people began identifying me as Southern. My Southern accent is more apparent to the ear of people west of the Rockies than anywhere else and they are happy to talk about me as having "Southern charm and manners."

It's easier to say nice things about a person if you chalk it up to their culture. There's less danger of it going weird and problematic places than if you attribute it to them as an individual.

It doesn't put pressure on them to be perfect and always live up to your high expectations of them. They get to still be a person with good days and bad who can't always get it right while being given credit for generally being more of something than is typical for most people around these parts.