skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are absolutely right.

https://slashdot.org/story/99/04/20/1453234/egcs-to-become-g...

The funny thing was, gcc 2.95.3 (being mostly egcs as you point out) was more stable than both previous versions of egcs and gcc. I distinctly remember gcc 2.8 having problems with the kernel, and egcs having problems with various userland stuff (mostly GNOME). Having to deal with two compiler forks each with their showstopper bugs seemed to go away rather markedly with 2.95.3.

EDIT: found a discussion which covers the idea that it was code in both the kernel/userspace which relied on UB or bugs of gcc 2.7.x

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.os.linux.develo...
No. Just no.

I've removed all of the microdata from the web sites I manage. I'm not giving Google any information for free.

Google uses microdata to show information from web sites without people actually visiting the site. Google gets free labor. Publishers get squat. Adding microdata to content pages consolidates information with Google, hurting everyone else.

Google has billions of dollars to spend on scraping and searching and whatever it wants to do. It could mechanical turk the entire internet if it wanted.

I am not Google's free labor.
I had not considered moving the question to either end of the bookshelf, is it concentrations first and then economic action, or economic action and then large concentrations. Instead of waiting for the boolean T or F on which it is, we could answer both and see:

"One needs money to make a business."
(not possible without large concentrations of wealth, business as a result of wealth)

"Businesses occasionally make people super wealthy."
(happens as a result of economic action, wealth as a result of business).

Does not the reaction halt if there is not enough wealth to make a business?
I'm sure it varies place to place and depends on staffing and budget of each lab. The two biggest ones were up and running Friday.
Amen. I feel like no one remembers the days of Mapquest where you'd click "next tile" and then watch the page reload just to scroll a few miles north, then repeat.
What's Dropbox stance on the epidemic?
Just watched the 3brown1blue video today, which talks about exponential growth and fixes it to the latest actual COVID-19 numbers. Really helped it all click.

https://youtu.be/Kas0tIxDvrg

Edit: separate HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22520152
Hey, you're me!'I would do this:

1. Add an "invert2x2Matrix(theMatrix)" function.

2. Implement the function myself (no library).

3. Add a comment at the top of the function to the effect of "if this ever ends up doing much more than what the name says, consider replacing it with a library."
Oil just dropped 30% and the virus is just getting started. It's looking likely.
It would have helped to have three article state what wfh stands for
> “This analysis does not mean that dog and cat ownership should be curtailed for environmental reasons, but neither should we view it as an unalloyed good”

Money well spent.
I was in a similar situation. My wife didn't work, and I was doing the team lead thing. The moment my wife became pregnant, the employer immediately became abusive. I'm talking about working nights, weekends, mornings, late at night, and working on Christmas, on Thanksgiving. No amount of effort seemed to satisfy them.

One day, I was working on this feature that exercised the system in a way that had never been done before, and it was going predictably terrible. I had been working since 4:30 am, it was something like 8:00 pm, I couldn't even see straight I was so tired. I get up to go home and get some rest, and my manager says, "Oceanghost! I need to know when this feature is going to ready and tested!"

I just said, "Have a nice night."

I never wrote another line of code for that company. They fired me for "Sending a rude email" a few days later.

This is really what those opposed to universal health care want—a society where you have no dignity or power or ability to stand up for yourself.
I went to a taqueria today. It was open. No one there was working from home. The guys cooking work there 5 days a week.

WFH is such a small percentage of the economy.

We went to see our pediatrician yesterday - the full-time staff was there.

Freelance has gone from 2% in the mid 90s to 3% today.

Big perhaps in absolute numbers of people, small in terms of percentages of the economy.

SF is mostly a bubble in terms of this.
I've never found a way around it. Hardware acceleration on/off, windows, linux, phone, workstation, ff, chrome/ium, it always loads like crap. And my daily drivers are a dual xeon workstation or an overclocked zen3 machine, pretty far from laptop constraints. Gmail just has no interest in being performant, I guess.

I don't have this issue with other sites, it's just Gmail being Gmail.
Ah, I see. You put up a stop sign, and I ran right through it. I apologize.
The financial impact is that your fucking tax money goes to bail out business owners / stock holders who then hire you and pay you a shit salary. So they profit from you in good times and profit from you in bad times. Hows that for a "free market" system? This is not capitalism/free markets, this is socialism and government intervention and its why we have a huge gap between rich and poor. Normally they would go out of business and other people would have a shot to take over that industry.

The exception is the energy sector for national security reasons. But Im hearing of bailouts for cruise lines... gtfo.
HN (and the tech industry in general) has a bias for being introverted, computer-focused workers that, if they had their way, would spend 10 hours a day heads down with a technical task and no interaction with other human beings. They live in a bubble where they assume that everyone else is the same way. As evidenced by the comments in this thread, many of them have trouble understanding that other people genuinely do enjoy socializing with their coworkers and going to after-work happy hours, and actually dread the thought of spending their entire workday alone without anyone to gossip with in the break room.
I think the idea is that your locks and threads are so close latency wise that you only need a few to get the job done. Versus trying to figure out how to parallelize things, some of which are inherently non-parallelizable. But sometimes you don't know until you try! Ain't life grand?
Hmm... during an internship I lived on substantially less than that in the bay area, just because I wanted to save the rest of my income for the school year.

Supporting a family on that if you're the single household income might be a bit tight. Paying rent on a nice house could easily swallow it (though a nice house isn't a basic necessity) - but 67.6k really is a fair amount of money. It's more than the median income in Oakland. 2x that (i.e. both parents working) is more than the median income in SF.
> Get involved with your local DSA chapter.

I've been in the DSA for years now and would recommend it to anyone who is interested. But just to be clear: most of the organizing does not revolve around electoral politics. There are those like myself who don't want DSA to become "the left wing of the DNC" (RIP Refoundation).

I know HN trends techno-utopian libertarian but I'm sure there's some here who have socialist sympathies.
> Industry isn't a culture, it's a combination of skill sets and infrastructure. China is the world's second largest economy...

It's interesting to see those two statements adjacent to each other. China is a tremendous world power, but if I understand the history correctly, it arrived at this point after a series of (sometimes extreme) cultural and economic upheavals that prioritized modernization over traditional culture.
It’s not that the president wants citizens to die per se. It’s just that he is incapable of understanding/comprehending the threat we are dealing with, and is also acutely sensitive to perceived threats to his own personal fortune or reputation, which are his #1 priority in every situation.

This is a good reason to have people with basic quantitative competence (or at least folks willing to listen to experts with quantitative competence) and a certain amount of imagination in leadership roles.
Cats also kill billions of birds every year, way more than any number of windmills or skyscrapers ever did. And they don’t do it for food, either. It’s just because cats are jerks.
White Stork
Related: "Slack is the opposite of organizational memory"

https://abe-winter.github.io/plea's/help/2018/02/11/slack.ht...
No, it does not, because we don’t want to punish people from becoming unable to work, either.
"Owners can also feed their pets lower-quality proteins"

Huh? Why should I risk my pet's health?
I find the guidance for buying a face mask somewhat contradictory. Don't buy one if you are not sick, but if you think your sick the CDC recommends wearing a mask in to see the doctor... When do you buy one then?
> But when you've been around the block a few times, sometimes there's needs to be a better reason than the new and shiny.

I went through periods where I had to use CVS, then SVN, and then git. The transition period between each one was a little problematic since I had to constantly refer to the documentation in order to learn the new source control commands, but, in my opinion, one should be capable of learning new technologies.
Project Hospital: a realistic take on hospital simulation
> because who wants to reload the page multiple times

happily, please, yes.

The browser caches pretty much everything but the HTML, so the payload is minimal. A fast SSR site is a dream compared to the myriad poorly implemented SPAs out there.

It's ridiculous going to, for example, an airline site; trying to book a flight and discovering that the damn reservation process is borked due to an uncaught exception in the latest update to the SPA (in which case the house of cards collapses, fun).

With an SSR the JS footprint is much smaller, which can lead to more stable/reliable apps.

I find the modern web to be a complete mess, but the loading spinners are nice, provided that the loading actually finishes (if it doesn't, look in the console and you'll likely find your answer in red).
Bachrach was also, basically, correct. The collision contention issue with Ethernet did limit the effective throughput of networks, which is why we now exclusively use Ethernet in configurations in which there is no collision contention (star topology, full duplex links).

While his delivery is a bit harsh I think Bachrach's criticism was completely valid. As a matter which is perhaps more product than technical, Ethernet's downside resulting from collisions turned out to be an acceptable tradeoff for its other advantages (including simplicity and low cost compared to the non-collision systems of the time). However, it was indeed a significant limitation, and so continued development of Ethernet has had to find ways to eliminate the problem.
Time zones are going to remain a significant barrier. I think it'll actually deliver a significant benefit for jobs to leave the Bay Area because it will free engineers from having to live in the Bay Area.
Don't care what they call it.
My experience with the Outlook web app (not the "basic HTML" mode, which is perfectly usable in contrast) is the exact opposite --- it's extremely slow and consumes a ridiculous amount of memory for what it does (I've seen it take over 2GB of RAM, and this is with an account where all the emails with their attachments total less than 100MB.) When composing a message it lags so much that it will delay each keystroke by several seconds and drop keys intermittently, and I have resorted to writing in a real (native) text editor and copy-pasting. In contrast, the native client has memory usage in the dozens of MB and is far more responsive --- I've never experienced it being sluggish to that extent.
You could make it a bit more robust by requiring clients to upload a minimum number of unique hashes with their query then respond only with an "exposed" or "not exposed" response. Then you can check for clients that are repeatedly uploading the same hashes to weed out brute forcers.

I think it would be pretty impractical to brute force all possible space-time blocks. Even if you just wanted to look at the state of California over 24 hours you're looking at 1.0952599e+12 hashes [0]. Say your rig can try 500k hashes a second, that's still almost a month. So now you know the rough locations of every infected person in California over the course of one day, you still have to disentangle the movements of overlapping users. You can make this even harder by requiring people to loiter in a space box for a minimum amount of time before creating an entry, so travel by bike/train/plane/automobile wont be tracked at all.

Clearly the scheme is resistant against mass de-anonymization, but if you knew some specific locations where you thought a specific person might go you could target those space-boxes and, assuming there are not many other infected users in the area, get a sense of when that person was at those places.

[0] 163,696 sq miles = 4.563583e+12 sqft = 45,635,830,000 100sqft space boxes * 24 = 1.0952599e+12
Running an independent storage stack for each volume brings maximum flexibility to the data management of volumes and high degree of independence to the DevOPs
How Is Founder of Martechbase Optimizing Their Investment in Marketing Tech?
It wasn't just that he suggested an improvement, it was a hardware feature he knew about from previous work (assuming his account is accurate).

The tone is dismissive, which is the main problem with the memo.
Exploiting Verified Neural Networks via Floating Point Numerical Error
That speaks to the lack of airlines in Canada if the third largest has 74 max people and 29 planes.
> None are over 140.

Their limit is at the top of the page:

> 2. How long is a line? Here, we limited users to 132 chars. It's the old line printer standard.
The Coronavirus vaccine will negate the need for WFH. [1]

1. https://www.livescience.com/us-coronavirus-vaccine-trial-rec...
Happily, it seems their efforts have failed in Venezuela, in vaguely humorous fashion. Juan Guaidó no longer holds any elected office, although he has enjoyed the hundreds of millions of dollars he has received from CIA. (USA taxpayers will put up with literally anything.) There was just a hung jury on the embassy protectors persecution. Hausmann can't figure out whether he is a professor or an IDB rep. Good times!

I still hold out some hope for Bolivia. Of course it's tragic that the new "Christian" coup government has harmed so many indigenous people. In doing so, however, they may have overplayed their hands. Indigenous and unionists aren't knuckling under. There are some inland areas the police and military no longer dare to tread. The coup government that CIA picked out in Bolivia are nearly as hapless as Guaidó and his gang. It will be interesting to see whether Bolivia appears on the popular news in USA once in 2020...
It's an open source Node.js app, so you can deploy yourself it to any host with a persistent file system. No 3rd party database required -- it uses a file-based architecture to make it easier to get started with and modify the data. Its goal is to be simpler and easier to work with than anything else out there.

There's also a built-in CLI that can deploy to our free hosting service, which is built on top of Digital Ocean.
I guess it provide immunization because it's very similar to what happens with a cold, but IANAMD. And this guy "Dr. Anthony Fauci" agree with me https://www.uchealth.org/today/what-you-should-know-about-co... (I'd like to have a direct citation.)

The main problem is that a small amount of the 40%-60% (I'd prefer more, like 70%) of the population will have complications (because they have an undiscover heart problem? they lie in the interview? bad luck?). And some of them will die (perhaps even for unrelated problem). And it doesn't matter how much paperwork they signed, the family will sue you and the press will fall over you.

(And probably the 40%-60% (70%) will not include children and it will propagate in schools, and also not include old people and it will propagate in geriatrics.)
Most people work in factories, teach in schools, treat people in hospitals, clean houses, drive cars/buses/trains/planes, cook/serve in restaurants, work in shops or warehouses. Most people can't WFH.
Both the "Prev" and "Next" buttons seem to show the next page
Stock Futures Were Halted Sunday Night After 5% Drop
$67600 is not even enough to qualify for a $1900/month 1 BR apartment in the East Bay. You have to keep in mind, we’re primarily talking about working adults here. Tech interns are not the ones who are going to be affected by this.

Edit: also, keep in mind that if there’s a second working adult in the household, both are likely to be impacted.
Most cats I know stay indoors but I had no idea they killed so many birds.
What food or equipment benefits exist for the average american remote worker? How much do you think is spent on the average worker’s ‘travel perks’ and gym memberships?

The sum of the money spent on all non-healthcare benefits (aside from maybe 401k matching) is a drop in the bucket compared to healthcare premiums. I don’t think its unfair to assume that the only real benefit the average full time worker receives is their employers contribution to their health coverage.

I don’t have any data to back this up, but I’m guessing the amount of people who even receive these extra benefits in the first place are a tiny minority of relatively highly paid workers.
Should cat owners be held legally liable for the animal cruelty committed by their pets?
Google Scholar, with it's ~1000 results for the F-Droid, has ~890,000 results for "Google Play Store"...

There's probably more false positives for Google Play though. Like probably more false positives than results for F-Droid.
The time to diversify was the 70s, when the wealth first started coming in and before conventional oil dried up. The boom and bust thing happened all through the 80s. My dad was a machinist and spent much of the 80s and 90s unemployed, every time the price of oil dropped again.

Albertans seem to have a short memory, though. What is happening now is nothing new, but there's so much ridiculous finger pointing, as if somehow it's the rest of Canada's fault.

I'm glad I left the province 20 years ago. I miss aspects of Edmonton, and family, but the political atmosphere in the province is extremely frustrating.
I feel these kind of articles are, if not "dumb", then just pointless. You know what else is a big driver of carbon emissions: humans. We would certainly have a lot lower carbon emissions if half of us voluntarily committed suicide, but that doesn't seem like a realistic proposal.

Also, the lack of analysis in this article doesn't help. There is nothing in this article, for example, that says how much of the meat protein that goes into pet food would essentially be waste from meat production intended for humans.
The Agile Manifesto
TIL SIFT was patented. I wonder if SURF was as well. Not that it matters nowadays
It can be; it can also be a sardine can with no room for that.
That was weird, I'm not sure why that comment got flagged.

I'm not sure what you're asking.

I really was confused about what "OSS" meant w/o the "F" in front.
But it’s fairly easy to see how you might tax pets more to cover the externalities better right?
Honestly, they'll probably do some sort of term extension, or even suspension of payments in order to avoid any sort of default. Plus, there was a fair amount of fracking consolidation around 2014 due to the price crash.
In regards to the commute, you're probably right. But you live in a bubble if you think those most workers see nights out with their coworkers as "forced". After-work happy hours are the absolute highlight of the week/month for most people I know that work in banking, consulting, sales, education, etc. Many of them will even voluntarily meet up outside of work to spend more time together.

Many people, especially those in non-tech industries, aren't so introverted as most SWEs, and are actually friends with their coworkers and love the opportunity to socialize throughout the day while at work. Most everyone I know that works outside of tech would dread the thought of having to spend every day alone at home without people to chat with in the break room. Just because you apparently have such a negative attitude towards your coworkers does not mean that most others do.
Agreed. It's funny that they're failing to see the irony that WFH is a way for them to reclaim that time, by instead of being forced to commute, bugging off to your nearest coffee shop and getting some of that time for yourself without the hassle.

Also, some people don't get to commute on comfy trains, ubers, or cars, and instead have to take crowded subway trains where this time is for themselves and shared with the other 6 people touching their body and breathing down their neck.
Red Leader Tech | Various SW & HW Roles | Palo Alto, CA | Onsite Full-Time

Red Leader Tech is building a lidar sensor that offer 10x resolution and
2x the range over current products in development or on the market.

We’re an early stage venture-backed startup (team of 4) with significant
technical traction (first prototype fully functional and gathering point clouds)
and customer traction.

I’m personally hiring for two software roles and am highly interested if
you have had experience with the following:

- Autonomy & perception stacks

- Working with 3D point cloud data

- Eigen

- ROS

- Real time operating systems

More information about us and our available roles here:
https://bit.ly/32ZpKmk

As an early employee we offer significant equity
and competitive salaries.

Our interview process involves two phone screens and an onsite round.

Reach out to me with a brief intro and resume:
eldrick (at) redleadertech.com
Building an AI to predict human age from a blood sample
Hello Doreen, did you ever reassemble your post?
There's the Open Mainframe project, and Zowe I guess:

https://github.com/zowe

If you're interested, there's also the Master the Mainframe initiative. Mainly a competition for those in school, but the 'learning system' offers year-long free access to those of us to whom education is a distant memory...

https://www.ibm.com/it-infrastructure/z/education/master-the...
It's pretty shabby to argue in support of monarchy. It's much worse when the monarch in question is a wholly-owned asset of foreign spies and oil tycoons.
I think it comes up because so many posts about WFH / Remote work have this angry / preachy angle arguing as if remote is the obvious and only desirable future, and that anyone who thinks otherwise is a Luddite.

Discussions on this topic are more interesting when they’re focused on the trade offs and how best to optimize, rather than what other people “ought” to do.
That's a pretty long stretch from the claim: "we found that the car emitted 5.8 grams per kilometer of particles".
Coronavirus: The fake health advice you should ignore
You bring up good points against solely using email for communication, especially when subjects are multi-faceted. But I don't think anyone is proposing work-from-home means work-from-email.

Protip if this happens:

"You make a lot of good points, and there are some things we should definitely unpack here. Can we dig into this a little over [discourse|slack|phone|video]? We can reply back here later with [action items|a summary of our conversation|specific work items|some actual work] to make sure everyone else on the thread is still included."

Besides:

> Person B uses body language and makes subtle modifications to their response...

This approach is very hit or miss in real life, at least in my experience. Not everyone is wired to respect nonverbal cues as much as we would wish. Instead, I often request a sidebar when in person conversations become derailed.

All that being said, I agree that written communication is challenging for many people, if not most. That is not to say it can't get better if written communication became more important or popular.