skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good SEO tools are things like SEM Rush, Moz, ahrefs. That kind of thing. These tools are good for monitoring but they're not going to help you go up in the rankings, or get more traffic.

There are really only two ways to get better rankings and more traffic:

1. Produce good content that keeps people on your page/site for a long time.

2. Get quality backlinks.

If you do (1) correctly, (2) should follow without too much difficulty (aka some manual outreach).
It's probably a bit of both. Intel started implementing speculative execution decades ago but the first exploits like Specter/Meltdown weren't published until a few years ago so that alone is strong evidence that there might be ancient attack vectors that we haven't even considered yet.

On the other hand, interest in this topic among the public has definitely grown since branding departments started getting their hands on the exploits and Bloomberg published that sensationalist Micro story so it's a self reinforcing cycle.
> Reason: A lot of the places PHP is deployed, you can't compile C code or install binary dependencies (.so, .dll files). You can't access the OS package manager, either.

If you’re in the target audience for msgpack you probably aren’t relying on shared hosting and can build a pecl extension.
Per Request: JavaScript. FP. Types
> LZMA(2) (xv) is a rather troubled format and should not be used any more.

You mean xz. Not sure where you got the idea that it’s a troubled format, but if you’re talking about the infamous “Xz format inadequate for long-term archiving”, IMO that’s just bzip2 authors taking a dump on xz for no good reason, and fortunately for us it’s bzip2 that’s basically irrelevant today, not xz.
Take a look at Bitwarden (https://bitwarden.com/).

It's open source and can be self-hosted if needed.
I remember landlines sounding quite different from the author. To me they sound much better than cell phones. It sounds as if the other person is actually on the other end of the line. Cell phones sound very artificial with compression artifacts and such.
I would never buy supplements off Amazon - if they're trying to get you to accidentally buy melatonin for 10x the regular price, then they're probably also trying to get you to buy counterfeit melatonin for 1x the regular price.
I agree. If true, it's very bad news. The rest of lucian1900's posts on this topic have been colored enough, however, to make me less than certain of the truth of this statement.
There are much more significant instances of Soviet retrenchment and retreat during this period. Probably the most notable is the withdrawal from Austria. The USSR held a significant amount of territory in Austria at the end of the war, with the US holding the rest, and quickly agreed splitting the country into 4 allied sectors of control, and doing the same in Vienna. Shortly afterwards, the USSR withdrew from Austria completely. Why? Well, Stalin was not one to share his strategic thinking with the public, so we can only guess. Probably he did not want to deal with a "West Vienna" along the lines of "West Berlin". But who knows.

As for Bornholm, I really don't see why people think it would have some great significance. The Soviets already had many bases in the Baltic which were contiguous with their territory. What would an island add? The Soviets did not have a good record of supplying their forces by sea. During WW2, i.e. immediately before the time in question, they suffered a number of disasters when their forces were cut off from supplies by land and had to be supplied, and then evacuated, by ships. There was the disastrous evacuation of Tallinn at the beginning of the war, the battle (and evacuation) of Odessa, the loss of Crimea, and the Leningrad front with immense civilian and military losses. Bornholm would have looked like a death trap to the Soviet commanders of the time, rather than some great asset. No wonder they agreed to return Porkkala to Finland 40 years early, and never placed naval assets of any significance there.
Would living underground on Mars mitigate this?
They're on record that their motive is disputes with Khronos, it's in some past meeting notes.
Scandinavians usually include Finland in the term.

Though some do insist on that distinction. They're kinda right, but don't get invited to parties.
It’s really not very good

Compared to what?

But my advice is, skip this one.

And read what instead?

Not trying to start an argument here, I'm genuinely curious, as I consider How To Measure Anything to be one of the best books I've ever read (and I read a lot of books), and I recommend it highly to, well, pretty much everybody. If you feel that there's a better resource out there that relates to these topics, I'd be curious to know about it.
I remember Linux having floating-point emulation for 486 processors without a floating point unit. But at least according to this early message from Torvalds, Linux didn't implement this for FDIV:

> It wouldn't be impossible, but it's not something I will do: this isn't a problem to be solved by the OS, but by Intel or the user. The fdiv bug isn't a problem for most people, and for those that it is, it's more efficient to make the compiler do the bug work-around instead.

> Note that doing it in the kernel would mean trapping for every fp operation, and that's not good for a fp-intensive program: and the main programs which /would/ care about the fdiv bug are the fp-intensive ones.

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.os.linux.development/4o...

Googling around it seems the typical solution, other than just doing nothing, was to recompile, as GCC had a patch to detect the FDIV bug and emulate division much more efficiently.

I only had a 486SX (no FPU) at the time so it was never really on my radar. Non-scientific software didn't really do floating-point arithmetic precisely because FPUs weren't very common on consumer hardware. Most of the people burnt by the FDIV bug were already well positioned to either recompile their software or receive patches from their vendors.
You should write case studies, how X used your product to get result Y.
Shameless plug. I've choosen svelte for webextension that will be allow you to record, replay and modify requests on the fly. I've choosen Svelte, because 1. courisity and 2. it can compile to webcomponents and also reference webcomponents in normal svelte components. I discarded the webcompoments for everything idea, mostly because clunky passing and registering events with svelte (svelte issue). There few thing that needs to be polished, like typescript support and this events handling with webcomponents, but overall, very satisfied with svelte so far (as former React guy).
So they literally stole equipment?

That's not cause for war?
My understanding is that newer Windows version contain microcode updates for the processors, and once they are applied, they are in there for good.
I think the goal here is for the semantics to basically be SPIR-V, and for people using SPIR-V toolchains to be able to expect WebGPU platforms with a Vulkan backend to execute basically the same SPIR-V after the conversions to/from text.
You can share between two accounts with the free version.

https://i.imgur.com/0UanFJK.png
He has been tweeting his results as they come in. The latest is here: https://twitter.com/trvrb/status/1237394739143438338
Same on my Chromebook Pixel LS too.
They were optional but now they added all kinds of additional mitigations and are also adding linux throttling and in the last 6 months or so I probably have gained ~60% compile time.
Carbon Credits Are Coming to Crypto
"I would never trust my passwords to a closed source project that could be ridden with insecure code "

The thing is, everywhere you use your password is probably 'closed source' and probably has 'lots of bugs'.

Ima guess that people re-use a lot of passwords and therefore are going to be at risk due to said 'closed source'.

I think that open v. closed may be only one of many considerations.
Beltalowdah physiological difficulty in adapting to gravity is a recurring plot point on the show. The culture difference exists in part because no Belter can survive long periods on Earth.
Technically, much of the spaces needed for food production or other industries on mars don't need to be underground to protect Humans from radiation. Plants and machines can tolerate it much better, and a Mars colony can't sustain itself without levels of automation that look ridiculous to our present day.
I've struggled with this quite a bit in my own life. I find the "No Zero" mentality to work well for me. Treat every weekday as a "No Zero" day. What does that mean? It means if my goal is to go to the gym, even if I literally walk into the gym, do a pushup, and leave, that counts. It's more than Zero. Consistent non-zero days eventually help break me out of my depression. And when I miss a day... well forgive myself and keep going.

All easier said than done of course, and sometimes a no-zero goal is just to get out of bed... but it has helped me.

For anyone interested I got the idea from here: https://www.reddit.com/r/getdisciplined/comments/1q96b5/i_ju...
The style and language of the post are not really my cup of tea, but the ideas behind it have really helped me.
DFC = "Defect-Fixing Commits"
Hey, could you please stop posting in the flamewar style to HN? I'm sure you have a point here, but it gets lost in the inverse-shit-sandwich thing (flames on the outside, point on the inside).

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the spirit of this site more to heart, we'd be grateful. The idea is curious conversation, and you'll be better able to persuade others about mutability that way anyhow.
Python 101: Learning About Lists
Covid-19 update and guidance to limit spread
There's nothing fundamental about protobuf itself that prevents streaming output. You just have to make a pass over the proto structure first to compute the sizes, then stream it out using the precomputed sizes. At no time do you necessarily need the entire representation of the output in memory. The C++ library, for example, offers this.
I am not sure this is or was the policy nation wide but I have mixed feelings on how useful it may have been. I understand that more panic would make things worse in the hospitals in areas that were not prepared for massive outbreak but on the other side I wonder if somebody may have taken it a little light.

For example in the family of the person I know the youngest kid just cough a little for few days and never had a fever.

If a young child is the first person in a family being infected, you may think it is nothing serious and they may still send the kid to school.

It also did not help people making an informed decision about travelling in the area where supposedly only a handful of people had the virus.
> "For that matter, is there a link between depression and feeling overwhelmed with tasks all the time?"

If you're talking about work tasks, that seems more likely to be from occupational burnout. Here's a comparison chart that might be helpful: https://mdedge-files-live.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/files/s...
>It has been said that we are as far advanced in the understanding of depression at this moment as was the European conquest of the Americas when Columbus first set foot in the Bahamas in 1492.

Comparing the fight against mental illness to the genocide of native Americans is unfortunate.
Reference implementation for a new NoSQL query language paradigm
If you want live-tweakable or generated webgpu shaders, which will be useful in many applications text based is much better as no complex tooling is required.
They do until they hit their inflection point.
For similar tropes, see the meteor miners in E.E. Smith's Grey Lensman.
Check out zstd
Was it Steve Wozniak?

https://twitter.com/stevewoz/status/1234887637845983233
Bson is just terrible. Just as a taste, arrays are encoded as key-value, where key is the array index converted to a decimal string and then stored as zero terminated string with 4 byte length prefixed to it. It boggles the mind why somebody would design a format like this.
تحميل واتس اب للكمبيوتر اخر تحديث 2020 برابط مباشر WhatsApp PC 64-bit 32-bit
I would argue an independent Scotland could become the 6th Nordic nation.

Of course, I enjoy being contrarian more than I probably should.

I'm Swedish, if that matters.
Don't researchers like this just go to WHO for support and assistance? This is a list of candidate vaccines. https://www.who.int/blueprint/priority-diseases/key-action/l...
This isn't particularly sound logic - that a substance is automatically less harmful because you may consume less of it for a similar effect?
Aldi and Walmart eggs will sometimes be under a dollar. They seem to compete on staple goods like eggs and milk to get customers in and buying higher margin products.

https://www.businessinsider.com/r-exclusive-wal-mart-launche...
Especially excited to consider a solution without huge runtime libraries (think jQuery, React, Vue). Minimizing web page sizes and enabling dynamic content (which is a mainstay in modern websites) is a huge plus.
Mortality rate is now >6% in Italy

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
Do a speed test comparison as well. Serialization to msgpack is likely much quicker than json + gzip. This is for latency sensitive applications.
Actually, the crazy thing about placebos is that they work (albeit not as well), even if you know they're placebos.

https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/placebo-can-work-even-kn...
> This has been done in various hard science fiction novels. One series, the name escapes me at the moment, actually has one group of engineered human warriors that are quite different mentally from normal humans but they can survive in vacuum and have some insect-like traits physically. They can just drift through vacuum and quietly attach to the hull of an enemy ship.

Pretty sure this was in some book in the Old Man's War series
As a javascript developer, I was getting nervous almost a day had gone by without another framework.
Pricing is everything when you don't have product differentiation. You will win if you lower your price and the other guy sells himself as the nice guy.

It's the most common revealed preference. People do exist who care about these things but it's rare. The ideal situation is you give people the ability to pretend caring but actually continue exploitation.
Basically a mario ripoff with different sprites
Coronavirus charts showing growth in each country separately
Although we have plenty of whiteboards around my workplace, we almost never use them. We've found that (for us), they are more of a hindrance than help.

Instead, we use desktop sharing combined with a text editor and/or a graphics program to do what we used to do on whiteboards. It's just easier for us, and makes it easy to send everyone copies of what was written.

If my employer starts enforcing a work-at-home rule (right now, such a thing isn't in the cards), our workflow on this wouldn't change at all.
Yeah, I specifically find ebay search to be very powerful and useful as well. It accepts (keywordA, keywordB) as an "or" syntax, -badkeyword as "not" syntax, and filtering for most of their internal functionality (eg auction/buy-it-now format, item location, item price, etc).

The one that they're missing that I really wish they would include is "multi item BIN" formats. People will list a $1 item so that they're the first result that comes up, and then the item you're looking for is high priced. The prices are in fact so high that I go out of my way to try and exclude these items using "not" keywords, setting a minimum price, and filtering to US only, which collectively get most of them.

I have a lot of saved searches for "rare" items that only get listed infrequently, or for items that I'm waiting to come down in price.

The contrast between the way those two sites handle their search is stark.
Imagine a SaaS platform that came with tooling to let you locally emulate the characteristics of different options on their infrastructure.

We don't necessarily care about matching absolute production performance, but could throttle things to get the right ratio between performance of CPU, memory bandwidth, disk IO, etc, in order to explore which code tweaks will have the biggest relative impact on your workload. It would let you do a bunch of your testing and optimization locally, for free.

Could be an edge to distinguish you from the competition, although I'm not sure it's a big enough one to warrant a business case. Maybe it would be attractive to shops whose development costs are high compared to production (i.e. startups and enterprises with lots of ongoing customization), but probably not so much for the established, internet-based businesses where I'm guessing the big money is (like Netflix).
What is the appropriate individual-level preparatory response to coronavirus?
I live in the Midwest and am young, healthy and generally ambivalent about the coronavirus (though I am concerned for my aging parents). I'm simply washing my hands more. I have no plans to go stop going to work or rush to the grocery store to stockpile toilet paper. This seems to be in line with most of the media messaging I receive.

However, I've also seen reports that the virus can cause permanent testicular damage:

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.12.20022418v1

National Geographic reports that the virus can cause honeycomb-like holes in lungs similar to SARS:
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2020/02/here-is-what-coronavirus-does-to-the-body/#close

The messages there seems to be in line with emerging social media reports that although fatality levels are low and correlated mostly with the elderly, surviving the virus doesn't mean coming out unscathed.

Additionally, I have seen some pretty grim videos from china floating around (bodybags lining streets, police chaining doors closed that are opening from the inside). Surely that level of intensity isn't warranted from "just the flu".

What's the move here? Maybe someone like me ought to be doing more to get ready.
Interesting, but that sounds like a thing I wouldn't want to treat! Less fatness eh?

Yeah, they are the ones that give me trouble.
What a well thought out and articulate argument!
Please don't take HN threads further into generic ideological flamewar. It just leads to even more and even worse, as it did below. This is why the site guidelines ask people not to post like this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22534609.
Yes, assuming you can get to Mars fast enough to mitigate the risk during transit.

The article author argues that underground living spaces are difficult to build and that Titan is therefore a better option, though personally I find that a rather unconvincing argument. Compared to the difficulty of getting to Mars, building underground habitats seems pretty straightforward in my uninformed opinion.
Honestly, I think this is BS that a broker/platform can just cut off investors from making buy/sell decisions when it’s inconvenient (unprofitable) to handle.

Brokerages aren’t doing investors any favors that are purposefully trying to buy a dip or sell for cash, they are only doing themselves favors as the middle man.

Lame arguments from brokerages don’t change that. Has there been a recent case of “unexpected” downtime during a huge market rally?
Capnproto is schema based rather than self-describing. So it's related, and it does compete with formats like json and msgpack, but there isn't total overlap in the applications.
Stap this nonsense. It is clear that there is overpopulation on this planet, where most of the population want to consume all available resources to them, but there must be easier ways to deal with that problem...
CO2 is food for plants. If you take away CO2 out of atmosphere of Earth, it is end of life for oxygen breathing life - Earth is inhabited not only by intelligent morons.
Rise of temperature on Earth is not caused by CO2(which is generated also by volcanoes), that is generated by humans, but by behavior of Sun. Winter around poles is caused by inclination of Earth - not because there is abundance of CO2... oh, I must have mixed something up, because when I started to read sci-fi, it was all about next Ice Age on Earth. And that we are doomed and that everyone will die. And we need to get to different planet. Despite that there are no habitable planets in reasonable distance. With no breathable air or water. And if there were, then we would be kicked out, if we tried to land. Because that is not how things works - if you have habitable planet, you should care about it.

There is no H on Venus surface, so it is impossible to change Venus with local resources. So, they have to be imported - and there is H in comets. So, the only way to teraform Venus is with bombarding it with thousands of comets and space junk, that contains ice. Maybe getting H out of gas planets might be another source, too.
This article projects too linearly to the future: terraforming Mars, for instance, would probably be easier right now than getting people to Titan quickly. Seems like an article written for the purpose of getting clicks by being contrarian, not seriously investigating the science
Don't use LastPass. It's a nightmare. Terrible sync and thinks like "Do not make password visible to shared contacts" are a huge PITA with no real benefit
If the regex rules do not require backreferences, it should be possible to implement them in such a way that they run in constant time with respect to the number of rules.
They are so chemically different that that doesn't really hold. 500mg of KCN is certainly worse for you than 5g of sugar, despite being 10x less.
It overstates its claims. An admittedly unfair "take" would be that it encourages people to pin made-up numbers and take solace in having quantified the qualitative.

For example: it tells you to do Monte Carlo simulations with made-up probability distributions, but silently lets the issue of the joint distribution -- how the made-up random variables correlate. But so much risk is driven not by marginals (say, I know the physical parameters for my chair and have a certain confidence that it won't crumble like carboard) but by correlations, even apparently distant ones (there's fracking or whatever going on and destabilizing the upper layers of the Earth, increasing the chances of earthquakes).

An even broader critique is the McNamara fallacy:

> "The first step is to measure whatever can be easily measured. This is OK as far as it goes. The second step is to disregard that which can't be easily measured or to give it an arbitrary quantitative value. This is artificial and misleading. The third step is to presume that what can't be measured easily really isn't important. This is blindness. The fourth step is to say that what can't be easily measured really doesn't exist. This is suicide."

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There's this book I like called "Guesstimations in the back of a napkin" or something -- it's a book of exercises in Fermi-type estimation. It encourages you to consider the whole, to think bottom-up, top-down and core-out. It preserves a keen sense of the qualitative complexity of problems even as it encourages you to, well, make wild guesses.
Both Mars and Titan currently lack an economical reason to try and live there.

As long as it's just about the science or bragging rights, it will be completely paid for from earth's resources, instead of building on its own.

Any idea what tangible "export products" could make a Mars colony sustainable? I don't think space tourism is enough.