skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Meanwhile I can spin up Laravel, Rails, Spring or Django up and get a solid application running in a fraction of the time while in JS land, client server arch is a seemingly unsolved problem.

This might be a slightly controversial opinion, but I don't think the time it takes to get an application running with a framework is a relevant metric. Being able to get an application up and running fast is only a useful benefit when you're first starting out and trying things. If you're choosing a tech stack and you're going to be working on something for months or years, the fact that you can see something on a screen after an hour or after 3 days is completely insignificant compared to how good it is to work with in the long term.

Choosing a technology because you can start working on a new application quickly is the wrong way of thinking about your tech stack.
Impressions of Rust as a Swift Developer: Memory Management
"I could have run the process with cgroup and namespace isolation"... using systemd.
Personal attacks are not ok here. We all get activated by someone or other on the internet, but please don't post like this to HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I'll throw in my 2c. It was my first adventure into a Node.js CMS and used MongoDB for it's database. I'm a Javascript and Frontend Developer.

I've found it chaotically buggy - that is, sometimes it's great, amazing, works as expected and other times it simple fails quietly and in such a way I can't reverse easily - chaotic.

Saving changes to fields is hit-and-miss. Anything 'metadata'-related towards fields is a scary thing now. We use it for a particularly lightweight project but I wish we didn't after experiencing it enough now.

Note: I'm aware of its status, I still think they consider themselves 'alpha' and the developer that chose this was aware of the risks.
StyleGAN2 Distillation for Feed-Forward Image Manipulation
Then the obvious plan is to move the farms or switch crops. Farm machinery is somewhat mobile and obviously crops can be grown in a year or so. We grow crops in a wide range of climates.

It'd be a massive hassle but it isn't obvious that it should conjure a sense of terrific urgency.
Logistic Functions
AIUI, 'Nice to have' in this case is in relation to 'technical feasibility' rather than actual useability. Cameras and modems are two notoriously closed down parts of modern smartphones, and thus it follows they are the most difficult if not downright impossible to support properly.
Well - you are lying since none of the university accommodation in the UK is covered by tuition fees and it’s costs are sufficiently higher than what you would pay if you didn’t live in dorms.

Also I had a friend who lived in a shared bunk room in the UK.
What's New in Codeigniter4 Installation
I should mention that we're currently located in the Asia (Philippines.)
On the other hand there is something very important with new things : Someone takes the risks, stands up and takes the responsibility.

This is necessary for human progress. Gutenberg with this idea that will make the investors rich. Colombus stands up and says: I am going to the Indies across the Atlantic, it is going to be easy! Or Magallanes crossing the world, or going to the moon, Knuth creating Latex or the AoCP as a "semester" project, Artificial intelligence would be solved in 10 years...

In the end Gutenberg almost bankrupted his inventors and died penniless, Colombus faced riots and almost starved, most of the Magallanes' crew perished, going to the moon took so much more money, Knuth project took his entire life...

But the courage paid off for society as a whole because they got involved and took responsibility and risk on their lives.

It has always been easier to criticize and risk zero, while cynically putting all progress down.

Tesla or Elon is not perfect, but no human being is, if you wait for something new to be perfect before is ready, then you will never get it.

Progress is not automatic, needs people that believe on it, probably even delusional people.
hm so one of the things least supported seems to be calls.. What can be done to make this happen? Should it happen?
Ackshully Mars' atmosphere is famous for being rubbish for aerobraking but enough to burn you up.
Magnetic Tape Backup: Choose the Best Backup Practice
Oh yeah, that too.
> But with each outbreak more people will acquire immunity, and eventually the peaks will be lower than capacity.

Last time I checked there are at least 3 or 4 different strains circulating now. That's why some folks who got cured got it again. So don't have such naive hopes that all will be rosy on its own soon.

If the story will be similar to flu, we're pretty much fucked - every year the strain is so different that prior vaccinations/immunity doesn't work on them. I certainly hope that's not the case, too early to tell.
Does that really convince yourself?
It stays the same to me. Intentionally misleading.
Containers don't have a 5% performance hit.
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The Finnish state is implementing a design project for a miniature nuclear reactor type usable for district heating in the municipalities [0][1]. The radiation safety center (STUK) just released safety guidance for these type of small reactor (SMR - small modular reactor) [2].

I think small reactors will be a thing soon.

[0] https://www.vttresearch.com/media/news/small-modular-reactor...

[1] https://www.vtt.fi/inf/julkaisut/muut/2017/OA-District-heat-...

[2] https://www.neimagazine.com/news/newsfinlands-stuk-prepares-...
Doesnt landing itself rely on the airport having support for that?
The issue seems to be that if something fun happens in a place that's not a safe space, other will come, demand to participate and then demand that it turns into a safe space so they can participate on their terms.
Italy's patient 1 is 38 and was in excellent health before catching the virus (he ran two half marathons in a week just before getting sick). Then he spent 20 days in an ICU attached to a ventilator.
But you'll need to hope that you don't need a hospital for anything at all for a while - so avoid accidents, keep living with that little surgical problem, etc. You may be relatively safe from COVID-19 but it's in addition to all of the other medical conditions that trouble our species, and you may need to just cope with them.
Ok, but could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments to HN? You've done it repeatedly already, and we're trying for a bit better than that here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> The "new" AMD attack depends on lack of already existing spectre mitigations.

No, it's a misunderstanding to say that the flaw in the "Take A Way" whitepaper depends on a mechanism already patched.
Attack scenarios which are used in the paper to show the feasibility of the 2 new side channels are patched (except the KASLR entropy reduction), but the side-channels themselves are not patched.
There seems to be a bit of confusion regarding what “second order thinking” is (awareness or consideration of the consequences of consequences) and an instance of it (removing a fence without understanding why it had been erected in the first place). The latter is an instance of the former (or rather, absence thereof) but the former has far greater ramifications and applications than those that are (currently) being discussed in these comments, which seem to be concentrating either on software engineering aspects (abstractions, to name one) or on the idea of banishing hierarchy from firms. That’s all fine and well, but it hardly begins to scratch the surface of what the author presumably thought this principle encompasses (and with whom I agree).

Anybody interested in second-order-thinking and decision-making could do far worse than obtain a copy of Dietrich Dorner’s excellent The Logic of Failure: Recognizing and Avoiding Error in Complex Situations (1997) wherein the author explores “patterns of thought that, while appropriate in an older, simpler world, prove disastrous for the complex world we live in now”. One important aspect of those errant heuristics is the failure to consider consequences of consequences. I highly recommend it.
regarding 2): latest betas of ChromeOS disable hyperthreading if one enables builtin Linux VM. Seems overzealous to me, as the OS is not multi-tenant usually
With all due respect to Minsky, I find this zen style story a little silly. If Minsky want to say something informative why don't he use formal concepts like Jeffreys priors, mixing time, high dimensional varieties, minimun description length, entropy, etc. Is that style of telling stories a projection from a high dimensional mind to a zero dimensional dumb style space?, is that a PCA reduction from ideas to cliches? I apologize in advance from being harsh, but I am entitle to speak from my heart and I reiterate my appreciation for Minsky's work.

It should be nice using a more informative language for giving advice. If this story is tagged as "popular story for dummies" I would feel we are making real progress.

Just one of Minsky great ideas related to reinforcement learning: The credit assignment problem:How do you distribute credit for success among the many decisions that may have been involved in producing it?, in "Steps Toward Artificial Intelligence" (Minsky, 1961): All of the methods we discuss in this book are, in a sense, directed toward solving this problem.

That book is linked from HN and it has just one comment, so I think that NDNS, no dumb nerd stories, will never become popular.

(1) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10972522

More from (2) Minsky in 1951 built the world's first “randomly wired neural network learning machine,” called the stochastic neural-analog reinforcement computer (snarc)

https://www.geek.com/blurb/marvin-minsky-ai-has-been-brain-d...

A fair paper: Exploring Randomly Wired Neural Network for Image Recognition.

Was Sussan at the edge of envisioning deep learning?, then in fact the room has dissapeared!
Please don't take HN threads into nationalistic flamewar, regardless of which country it's about.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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The source is supposedly a "respected virologist" from the Charite hospital in Berlin. He started a daily podcast related to COVID-19 [1], but I did not have a chance to find this quote yet.

EDIT: That same virologist also warned about a "second wave" of cases starting this fall, after a reduction during summer, due to seasonal strength of the immune system.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkKON9te6p3OpxqDskVsx...
Stat and open are supported by io_uring in 5.6
Tone is notoriously hard to communicate in written form. Body language is never conveyed. Intonation is non-existent. At best you get some word choice signaling, but while I think low latency may be over-rated in the "catalogue" above, high-bandwidth is exactly the point vs reading an email/slack/etc.

If you seriously think written text is as communicative as face to face communication, I would consider being evaluated by a professional for a social interaction disorder of some sort.
This would be acceptableway to go. But I did not manage to get it working. Saw your comment how to fix, but don't have code to validate that everything would work as expected.

Thanks.
Boeing has far safer software, I don't see why Tesla should get a pass.

I am a customer not stunt double.
You might not be familiar with how neural networks work. When training they do use a lot of computing power. But when running they don't. Yes, they still require some external boilerplate code to multiply the matrices, but you already have it and it's not heavy. So yes there is some convenience in program synthesis in a human programming language, but it is a small convenience, not a game changer.
I would say that's mostly old by now and the new new is this bit: "he is partnering with Ikea – which feeds 660 million people a year, making it one of the 10 largest food-service operations in the world – to “veganise” its menu." The linked article from last summer is a good summary: https://www.news.com.au/finance/business/retail/we-tried-ike...
I read yesterday that the US infection rate is tracking that of Italy. If so, we should all take note of his comments regarding isolation and culture.
> Keep the hacking ability.

Unofficially, CEO of one of the biggest vendors of dvb-t receivers in my country said that he isn't that technical, but he knows very well that he is still biggest vendor because his devices can be hacked.
Coronavirus Covid-19 spread map
More good news: Medical equipment is still prone to hacker attacks
Not a lot. Installing Linux is trivial. Server hardware rarely breaks outside of disks which are trivial to replace as well.
Singapore is an outlier in the region. Though may also be a victim of being proactive about testing.

Another outlier about SNG: you can't go anywhere without catching public transport. Car ownership is essentially unviable for even the above-average person.

People have no choice but to get into highly crowded canisters each day simply to go to work or visit family.

To me that's the big difference regardless of latitude. Another factor is how incredibly popular it is as a Chinese New Year destination along with regular trade.
> With Tesla, a lot of the parts are still standard, but you can't replace it with same or better part that isn't sourced from Tesla supply. Even if it's the same part.

What stops you from replacing standard parts?

There are quite a few off-brand repair shops here in Norway for things like wipers, brake calipers, regular service etc.
Note that this is effectively now two septuagenarian candidates. Sanders is at the point where he will not automatically be nominated at a brokered convention if Biden is unable to run.
There is a demand for devs that list blockchain as a skill or (if you are willing to travel) have highly specialized skills with certain blockchains. There is no demand for someone who lists “blockchain” solely or unsupported on their resume
Linguists and professional grammarians agree.

http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/%7Emyl/languagelog/archives/001182...

http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/001201.h...
I'm not sure if he's edited his post, but it is extremely rare for students to share rooms at any point of their university life. The closest thing we have is a shared study where two people have their own small sleeping room, but share a space with two desks/chairs. And even that is very uncommon.
> It’s costs are sufficiently higher than what you would pay if you didn’t live in dorms.

This actually varies significantly by university. Prices for accommodation have been going up since the recent government funding cuts (that accompanies the fee increase to £9k), but were traditionally subsidized by the universities such that they were cheaper than market rents.
Bavarian Ministry of Interior holding video conferences on insecure system
You can come up with an equivalent list of problems about going to offices.
I've never heard anyone complain ever about the quality of certification of workers when something went badly wrong except as part of a larger pattern of serious abuses.

So I'll go with nobody caring. If one rogue welder can cause a project to fail then the safety systems are beyond deficient and the undercertified welder would be the least of their problems.

If this set a project back by 12 months then the inspectors were overzealous. There were probably other problems that set the project back and the bureaucrat didn't understand the situation.
Records and Discriminated Unions in C# 9
Also, why doesn't cmd+click open link (e.g. jamstack) in new tab, but right-click (double-tap, menu, open in new tab) does?

Macos obviously, but same has applied to this and other sites on Windows with equivalent key shortcuts.
Also Alpine.js, which has got quite a community behind it (somehow promoted by Laravel, IIRC).
It is less than intercooler, but provides timesavers for simple sites like described. A compromise between a framework and none.
The rate at which this has spread in Italy is a two sided coin in my opinion.

It means the "found" cases are grossly under representative, and probably deaths is a more meaningful statistic. But on the upside it also means the virus is probably not as lethal as the 3% figure, as it has passed through many people uncounted.
Does anyone know where he is getting the number from? It is quite a striking statistic, I would love to read more.
https://www.amazon.com/Happybuy-Coffee-Printer-Design-Selfie...
Sorry to say this, but the US is going to be even worse than Italy. You have not been testing nearly enough people.
I find it strange that even on HN we seem to fall into the trap of holding up people's opinions who ostensibly know nothing special about the subject. This guy is an engineer not a public health expert, why are we holding his thoughts and advice in particular esteem?
What's a scenario where you have a huge flow of floating point data as text? Assuming it's usually json, but in which case does that happen and you need to work around it (parse faster) rather than fix the underlying problem of having a huge stream of numbers as text?
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Who is this actually useful to though? These sorts of arguments get floated around all the time but the reality has been that digital privacy only draws attention when there's political capital like shaming a company that worked with the opposing party. The mainstream opinion, informed or not, has rapidly shifted towards the belief that after all these data breaches it's a lost cause because the information is already out there in triplicate. Hell, if someone genuinely wants to stalk Joe Random they can just pay give bucks to one of the many websites that compile and sell person searches.

On the other hand, people are scared of 'hackers', who are rarely presented accurately in media, taking control of their devices and spying on them or stealing whatever personal garbage is on their machine.

From that perspective there's almost zero reason to iterate in the direction you've suggested. Especially since, even if you got people to listen, they'll most likely just argue that if Microsoft, Google, Apple (who will probably keep doing their own thing) can't secure their data then no one can.

And from a company perspective this is similarly great, designing for a future where the OS is just a middle-man between the user and the browser means that you have more ability to wall out third parties and users who have problematic update needs/demands suddenly become much less problematic. Sure, the small fry will fight to prevent themselves from getting boxed out and succeed for a time. but you're a Megacorp who has bottomless resources to throw at development, you're looking at the long game. Eventually the cost to compete will simply be too high to be practical and when that happens you have a thoroughly cemented position in the future of the market and all it cost was forming a small alliance with other Megacorps.

Who else is there to object? China rolls their own way, Europe is trying a little but have yet to demonstrate the ability to overcome the obstacles that prevent them from being competitive, and when the American Fed does decide to take an interest it's for wildly exotic problem spaces (looking at you Ghidra and Tor).
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>This title is highly misleading. Tesla isn't incredibly successful 'in Europe'. It's very successful in VERY few European countries (Netherlands, Norway). And it's due to local incentives mostly.

That's just because Tesla remains production constrained. All the car delivered to Netherlands or Norway couldn't be delivered to any other European country.

Just watch the UK deliveries for the 1rst quarter of 2020.

It makes sense for Tesla to prioritize by markets with big EV incentive, but this shouldn't be interpreted as a lack of demand.
I would think it meant either that when you think about suicide - it is the lowest you can go and things would improve from there. The other way to interpret is that thinking about suicide makes you come face to face with the enormity of death and which consequently helps you get through.
I joined this Remote book club at the start of the month. We read a new design book every month and jump on a zoom call with the author. It's pretty fun and free to join.
Don't be the "meh" guy.
Because he’s on the ground in one of the hardest hit areas, and has no (that I can see) incentive to lie. The media, where he is getting his info from, also has no (that I can see) incentive to overstate the situation. Sometimes you have to consider anecdotal evidence - sometimes there is no other option in a crisis like this.
I am not lying, but you can choose not to believe me if you want. I used to work for MMU, one of my duties was to inspect the first-year halls of residence. It felt strange, as I was younger than them at the time!

UK tuition fees are increasing, agreed, but that is a separate argument. Not making an argument against better tuition either, MIT is obviously a leader in some areas.

Please assume my intention is positive. I am not willfully spreading misinformation, if I'm wrong, point me to the facts.

Cost https://sfs.mit.edu/undergraduate-students/the-cost-of-atten... here says $10k/yr for housing, my mortgage isn't even that high. As a comparison: https://www.manchester.ac.uk/study/experience/student-life/l... (which I think is still quite high)
There is a huge difference between a conversation over text and a conversation over the phone. And even bigger difference to a conversation in person.

Non-verbal communication is a huge part of social (and this includes work) interactions.
Odd. I got different information, that it was too wet, which lowered corn yields.
https://www.agriculture.com/news/crops/us-corn-yields-are-ro...
The simplest one is a B tree. It's like a self-balancing binary tree, except that you put more than two children in each node.

Same big-O, but faster by a big linear multiplier.
Firefox Nightly: Picture-in-Picture now supports keyboard controls
> making everything miserable about cars for decades

well at least we used to have some diversity in design - these days it's mostly variations on the shapeless blob theme. Yes I know, safety regulations etc etc...
Not social — geographic and historical. With the exception of the Acela corridor, where rail actually thrives, it’s just not viable in America. The distances involved are too vast, and the development took place in a way that is incompatible with rail. Nowhere is this more evident than the farce that is the LA-SF HSR. The situation in Europe is quite different. Cities are much closer together, and they have been building railroads for close to two centuries. European style rail travel will never be viable in the US.
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I used to work in a company that was making equipment for nuclear reactor and worked closely with Areva.

There is a lot of issue in those contract that will make sure that any nuclear project will be several years late.
The first thing is the unrealistic estimation in the first place.

I saw an engineer slash his estimation for a basic piece several time because management wasn't happy with it. His initial estimation was correct, but they want to show the client an impossible deadline to outbid any other competitors (which are doing the same ...).

I saw people with niche and highly critical skill go to retirement without any replacement because the company never let them teach someone their job.

I saw contractor being put at very important position in a project then having their contract not being renewed, blocking the entire project ...

This and the fact that nuclear has become something "problematic" politically meaning that contract can come and go in a whim, and investment has become unreliable, also impacting formation, which mean there is a shortage of people who can actually work in this field.
I suppose that as long as he is following government/official organizations recommendations then he should be fine