skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have questions about populism.

Hearing about Roman populism makes me think it's better than Nobel rule. At least occasionally the masses get a policy that benefits them. For instance the Trump tax cuts and Obamacare took money from the 10% and gave it to the masses. (I'm a bitter 10%er that thinks it's time for the 10% to unite)

So what's wrong with populism? The class warfare?

Is the actual issue demagogry like Trump and Bernie that have fake policy that wins the emotional and uneducated Masses?
Apart from the bureaucracy there were apparently also some rather embarrassingly elementary technical reasons that the tests didn't work:

https://tomeraltman.net/2020/03/03/technical-problems-COVID-...
*then

Quite often people don't vote for their own self-interest because they believe in a greater good or a larger principle. This is a good thing.
you get a lot of freelancing opportunities using flask ?
FYI, this is common enough that Google Fonts has subsetting built in.

You can use the Google Fonts API's 'text' parameter to specify specific glyphs, or you can use the more-general 'subset' property (e.g. subset=greek,cyrillic) to choose one or more scripts.

https://developers.google.com/fonts/docs/getting_started
With all of the speculation security bugs in chip cache management, I can’t help but wonder if we won’t eventually go full NUMA and turn the cache memory (or at least L2+) into a directly addressable space, either by the kernel or directly by application code. At which point your working set is explicitly on the processor, instead of implicitly.

I also wonder if chiplets will be the vehicle by which this comes to pass.
What are some good articles/resources on event-based SOA? I've been hearing about event-driven architectures a lot in the past few years.
This is a good list of resources.

https://gist.github.com/Gro-Tsen/866cb55d6004356c142ebab462b...
What particular bits?
That's been the benefit to me, still having a drivable rig when a tire shreds.

But, there is also something called a "super single" that's a double wide single wheel/tire, with one on the end of an axle rather than two. I'm told they're cheaper and lighter total, as opposed to the more common two per end. I've pulled a few trailers that had them. I don't really know why one or the other, I just drive them.
Now that, I can wholeheartedly agree with :)
Even if the FAA isn't fixed, foreign agencies such as the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) are going to be much less trusting of the FAA from now on. They will want to check things themselves rather than just trusting the FAA on it.

Of course, anything EASA does to Boeing, the FAA could do to Airbus. But, is it possible that Airbus as a company might handle stricter regulations better than Boeing could? (EU companies tend to have more experience operating in a higher-regulation environment than American companies do.) In which case, EASA could tighten the screws on both, but that might end up in practice favouring one more than the other.
No-break spaces aka &nbsp; can be quite useful for preventing line breaks for example between a value and its unit, or between label and value. Or when writing for example 'e.g.', although you could argue that in this case a NARROW non-breaking space U+202F would be preferable.
You can also formulate the problem as a dynamic programming problem.

Here's a Java repo I made back in college solving the simpler problem: given a tab, what's the easiest fingering to play it? https://github.com/twschiller/optimal-guitar.

It works by modeling the (1) the difficulty of hand positions, and (2) transitions
Too bad ndp got voted out. Too bad Klein didnt maintain the heritage fund...

Realistically time to diversify was at least 10 years ago
It seems like a lot of web devs are either stuck chasing novelty or constantly trying to bet on the next big thing.

For example, what happened to CoffeeScript? https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=%2Fm%2F0hjc5m0&ge...

What happened to Ember? https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?geo=US&q=%2Fm%2F0s8...
Sure. But foundations and philantropy also happen to be great for tax purposes.
Nextstrain: Analysis and visualization of pathogen sequence data
I am scheduled to give a talk at large science conference in Seattle this May. I have a feeling its going to get canceled though. :/
A friend mentioned to me that smokers seem to be more likely to succumb, probably because of the effect on lungs.
This is very admirable of Bill, but it seems odd that the world's biggest economy is reliant on hand-outs to keep its citizens healthy.
I don't know. Quite a bit - maybe written 300K lines and deleted > 200K lines. Most of it was compiled by gcc -O2 and/or MSVC. I've never relied on vectorization or used a lot of intrinsics, though.
So how many levels of cache do we have now between the ALU and the memory cell of record??
Must-Know Differences: Eloquent JavaScript 2nd Edition vs. 3rd Edition
I don't want to sound mean, but the simple fact that you forgot to divide by the matrix determinant for me is a great illustration of why using a library might be a good option.

I think for most of us can make this mistake, and reasoning in higher order (i.e. using a function from a tested library) helps avoiding this kind of error.
In my opinion your number is $900,000 which is:

1500 / month * 12 months / year * 2 for taxes (this feels genetically safe as a high bar but maybe not) * 25 in order to safely pull 4% yearly forever

Trying to come up with a plan to get a business running that can safely yield 1500 / month (more for taxes) can be dicey and prone to all sorts of risk, and the time horizon is unknown. Just saying, don’t discount leveling up with learning and trying to move upwards, keeping your current lifestyle, and saving your way up.
The Computer-Free Automation of a Jukebox
Show HN: Hand Touching Face Detector
Agreed. If the Klein government had put a serious amount of effort into not being reliant upon one resource around... 2004 or so, this could have been alleviated. Now they're run by Jason Kenney, who is almost as far-right of a politician as it's possible to find anywhere in the confederation.
On it's face it's actually great for consumers and business, but no market likes sudden price dislocation as big as this.

The high-yield bond ETFs have been crashing as global supply economic concerns mounted around the coronavirus. I can only wonder what the debt holders for oil and gas companies are thinking right now.
Such a brilliantly insane plan:

Pretend to have a "Dog Day Afternoon" type of scenario when you really have a "Red Haired League" underneath.

So so many things that could go wrong and some actually did.

Also reminds a bit of misdirection in first "Die Hard" and yes also a bit of "Man Inside".

Add in a bit of Rammstein's "Ich Will" type of use of publicity.
Feudalism is an pre-industrial, primarily agrarian system of socioeconomic relations in which peasants farm land controlled by nobility in exchange for military protections.

In Feudalism, the single incentive for the nobility to protect the peasant is the exchange value of the product of the peasant’s labor. Feudalism is best known for it’s lack of democratic relations.
This was the predominant architectural design about 20 years ago.

There are many strong points for this the general challenges are...

Databases don't/didn't have too much in the way of integration primitives...

Databases can become a performance bottleneck that can only be scaled vertically...

SQL language is not that great as an application programming language

EDIT: forgot the biggest one which is, it is completely up to discipline to produce any kind of separation between implementation details and public api since everything lives in the database. That's really the biggest challenge.
You don’t have to live in Toronto or Vancouver and you’d still get health coverage

If you chose to live in either of those cities that would be on you
> Health insurance is good enough until surprise they don't want to cover you or you get surprise bills in the mail from the hospital.

Constantly amazed this can be a thing in a first world country. Can this actually happen?
> The fourth power rule is specifically about axle load, not about wheel load.

Misunderstood that, sorry.
because it never works like that, never that simple, there are always bigger costs

in the end this will be used against you and others

next thing you know you are not allowed on a bus if you haven't tested yourself today
Old Metal Hook Could Determine Whether PG&E Committed a Crime
Our government is led by idiots, this is the result
In general feces from people infected with various varieties of Coronavirus aren't infectious. You can find segments of RNA in it but, though I'm not an expert on it, the good folks at This Week in Virology think that's just from mucus that's been swallowed. We had one instance of fecal transmission with the first SARS but it wasn't typical the way it is with other viruses and we haven't seen that with the new virus.
I take your point about the age of some of these projects (though it's not like there weren't any "more appropriate" languages around when most of them started). And I'll also admit to agreeing with the idea that choice of language is nearly always a sociological matter before it's a technical one.

But I'm not really arguing that C is the best choice for large projects. I'm just pointing out the fact that many, many people just completely ignore that advice. They are ignoring that advice today -- right now. With new projects. And they've "seen that thread before" too. It's not just legacy, or lack of awareness, or whatever.

Maybe it comes down to what the "very good" reason actually is. Because given the amount of C hacking going on, I wonder if the "good reasons" we hear about nearly every day on HN aren't the most important ones for the quite vast number of people merrily hacking away in a language that is now decades old.
Maybe there’s an inflection point where imperative management of the cache is more effective than heuristic management.
I still have the C90s somewhere
> I'm failing to understand the implied outrage here?

Because it's entirely manufactured. The writer doesn't seem willing to differentiate file permissions from a sandboxed application's permissions to access the file.

Once a sandboxed application is granted permission to access the file system, those file permissions still apply.

For non-sandboxed applications, those permissions still apply.

For non-GUI applications that run in the command line or as daemons, those permissions still apply.

Nothing is inaccurate. There is no lie. File permissions and applications' permissions to escape the sandbox are separate concerns with their own user interfaces (Finder and the Security & Privacy preference pane in System Preferences, respectively).

Therefore, the outrage is manufactured.
Given the fact you already know some higher level languages I think the best way to learn C is to go low level.

C is fantastic language because it is within your reach to go and understand all small details of how various features are actually implemented. I find it very helpful to be able to understand how a piece of code actually functions on a low level.

Another tip: you are used to having high level features on your disposal. Don't try to duplicate those features. Figure out how actual C projects deal with program structure and flow issues that you are used to solving with high level constructs.
> https://cmmid.github.io/topics/covid19/current-patterns-tran...

I found this link very interesting. It seems to show the reproduction number is decreasing quite fast in Italy (before the latest quarantine measures, making me wonder if they were really needed). In Korea, it's also just below 1, which would mark the end of the virus propagation if this is confirmed. If these numbers are accurate, it seems that the epidemics can be controlled without resorting to extreme measures. I'd be curious to get other people's opinions. I'm not quite sure I'm interpreting this data correctly.
I've been thinking about these kinds of things for some time and starting to talk about it.

I think we need an open source set of 'bouncers / blockers' - that people can use, perhaps best as a chrome / ffx extension? That blocks content from various portals or individual posts or posters that you may not want to see.

Different people want to censor different things, and some want to censor the same things less and some more.. so by have an open source set of blocker bots people can discussion the blocking lists.. people can pick and choose what they see / not see..

That's on a basic beginning - I could see them also getting into 'unsubsbrcibe to stuff from server A and mastadon B' can take it further..

Since cloudflare came out as censor friendly - I've given up hope the big players will be all 'open info utopia' ever again. I think the best we can hope for is to get individual blocking bots and open up the web more. Otherwise we will have more censoring across the board and will succumb to whichever lowest common denominator of whoever gets to be in charge and make new rules.

This way some people can choose to filter sex workers and not furries and some can choose to censor furries but not sex.. Of course I am sure many people will choose some broad auto-block and stick with that, making their internet more like fbook's daycare.. but having transparent options will certainly have many people turning off the 'safesearch' and explore the whole world, or larger parts of it.

You are right in that we may need more tools for individual users to take control in this expanded universe.. but things like 'peter's ad block list' kind of things can be more beneficial than depending on MostPopular Mastadon Server being pushed to choose what to block for the masses and what to let through and the whack-o-mole that tends to create.

If they are open and clone-able / editable - some might want peter-and-pauls-block-more lists.. and some may like furfriendlyButnotPron lists.. and I hope many more options for choose your own censor.. rather than having them chosen for us as most have succumbed to.

My current random thoughts on the subject - hope others chime in to make it better and more of a possibility instead of just napkin notes.
Why does soap work so well on most viruses
I've had this happen a few times!

It'll happen usually while falling asleep - a sudden very loud ("overwhelming" is probably a better word since its obviously not auditory) static rising rapidly, sometimes with the image per the page. I never found it frightening, possibly because its so brief. I can imagine it would be terrifying if it continued for longer than a second or too.

Having just read "Fall, or Dodge in Hell" (Neal Stephensons latest novel), this is what I expect he describes when Dodge first gains consciousness. Just... overwhelming random static.
SPAs being the darks ages is over-the-top, but being an SPA when other web architectures could better serve the user is a dark pattern. That tax app doesn't need to be an SPA. JavaScript powered interactions make the experience nicer for the user, but that doesn't mean it needs or is improved by being a single page.
After reading this I think I’m going to skip restaurants & fast food for a while
two things I noticed:
1) the great majority of features were authored or contributed by Taylor Otwell - in any cases he was the only name next to each feature. How this is sustainable in the long term?
2) it is still using a lot of singletone/static methods and so on, how they can promote some solid testing culture?
You don't have to be equally good at everything, but if your business or field deals with a number of different specialties regularly, it makes your life easier if you know the basics in these other areas at least. You will make better contributions and better see how your piece fits into the bigger picture.
The main thing that C provides over other languages is direct hardware access. So study the hardware, find out what you want to do with it, then use C to implement it.
Sure, just sending my DNA off to the Gates foundation. Why not
I wonder how long before trump start claiming credits for this.
Whether or not this is true, when Gmail came out, it was WAY better (including faster) than everything that it competed with.
I usually start with being aggressive about people not squashing commits. I think it's bad form. I also find shame works, as well as blocking merges when reviewing when commit messages provide no value. Could also start a swear jar of sorts, the offender puts a dollar in whenever they push a commit with a useless message... and use the proceeds for charity rather than something that benefits the team.
USDCAD is not looking too healthy.
Could this have an impact (positive or negative) on the renewables industry?
Islamists hurl stones and shoes at Women's Day marchers in Pakistan
I mean, or you can ride a bike in these new bike lanes in one of the flattest and temperate climates in the US?

Oakland is littered with cars along roads in every neighborhood you go on, and the police barely enforce anything resembling traffic code (due partially to complicated historical reasons). In some neighborhoods, I've seen duplexes with more land area in cars than living space (so is it a wonder that poorer people here live in their cars when it's so easy to own and park a car?)

A bike lane or two makes it cheaper for most folks (yes including the folks living in the pop-up Oakland housing shelters, they own a lot of bikes) to safely move around, and reduces traffic from our generally saturated roads. Given the limited paving budget here (and how tectonically active the hills are), it's a wonder that bike infra has taken so long.

Moreover, the heavy private vehicular traffic in the area makes it very difficult for buses to navigate their routes in a timely manner, and taking parking off the road for bike lanes and BRT is a much cheaper way of enabling transit in the area that laying down rail.
I'd guess negative, cheaper oil makes renewables less competitive.
Sure, but it's still _honey_.
I wish more people, ultimately everyone, was privileged enough to think like this and act on it. If I didn’t need to provide for a family I’d probably study pure mathematics and work on developer tools for writing, checking, and proving mathematical models of software systems. I would probably also read a lot more and spend a year or two now and again writing. Or I might spend it becoming a cabinet maker and getting better at fiddle so I can join the jam down at the pub.

However modern capitalism isn’t structured in a way that enables most people to think this way. Many people don’t have time outside of work to think of anything but their dependents and getting enough sleep. Many more have it much worse: working in Bataou or in a Foxconn factory; any hope of a life writing the next great novel or chasing proofs is not even a possibility.

If you do have the privilege though: use it as much as you can. We never know where the next breakthrough comes from. And maybe think about the layers of people, processes, and externalities that have come together to put you where you are.
Does this really apply to people earning as much as a quarter of a million? Surely at that point most of your money is disposable income?
Is severance contingent on unemployment? I thought it was usually a flat amount.
All the damn time. It’s so infuriating.
Yeah, they calculate the transfer function of the pattern and then pattern the mask to achieve the end result printed on the silicon substrate. With EUV lithography, it substantially reduced this pattern complexity.

Jim talks about it at this mark in this presentation: https://youtu.be/Qnl7--MvNAM?t=784
Yeah it's pretty common. There's a reason health insurance is such a big political discussion in the US
Italy's quarantine will probably kill many more people than the virus ever could
A close friend of mine's wife paid their health insurance for decades, without fail. Their employer changed the insurance provider without notification, but somehow they continued paying the wrong provider. She recently got breast cancer, and now the new provider is denying all claims on the basis that she was paying the wrong provider.

They are basically screwed now after maintaining a non-deliquent relationship with their healthcare provider for longer than I've been alive. If this is not emblematic of what's wrong with our healthcare... IDK what is.
BI posts a hitpiece on their competitor and that's the message you took. Social media and YouTube at least provide a way to find and post first hand information that is needed when traditional news sources have their own agendas that don't always align with the truth.
Not only does it happen, it's more likely than not.
You realize that if someone gives away X dollars, it reduces their tax liability by <X?
Perhaps, but that would have to be a pretty steep curve, and one would expect that kind of falloff to have shown up in the data here (unless they literally drove the car once for only 1km, which...would be its own problem for credibility).
The vast contradictions in the world of countries with a lot of natural resources is both enlightening and depressing.

At one end of the spectrum is Norway, who decided not to sell resource rights for peanuts so some shareholders somewhere can get rich, ironically it seems somewhat thanks to an Iraqi [1]. Essentially most of the profits from oil revenues are retained by the government.

At the other end is the Middle Eastern countries. Monarchs and despots have largely enriched themselves and their families at the expense of their country and their people.

The sad part here is that those people who have essentially been swindled have succumbed willingly essentially in the name of religion. Their leaders are keeping the faith.

So it's sad to me that not only are people so easily manipulated through religion but also what a huge lost opportunity this was. What, really, do any Middle Eastern countries have to show for this massive windfall?

It gets sadder when you realize that a certain amount has to be diverted to the populace essentially to keep them placated. The cost of extraction is going up. This money staving off revolution is going up.

So what you have is where these countries now can't afford to turn off the supply like they did in the 1970s. Now, Russia, Venezuela, Norway and the USA are huge producers (and net exporters). Solar in particular will continue to bite into oil demand so long term the situation doesn't look great for oil yet those countries that didn't spend their windfalls wisely are facing a harsh future.

[1]: https://www.ft.com/content/99680a04-92a0-11de-b63b-00144feab...
My friend paid his health insurance for years. Got diagnosed with cancer (leukemia). Hospital said treatment would cost $750k. Insurance told him to go fuck himself and isn't covering anything.
Ask HN: Startup employees, what was your exit event like?
I love this story! The thing is that these statements are easier to come by than the story assumes. You do not need deep learning for natural language processing. It is actually very easy: You just think about something which is clearly obvious, start saying it around, and find that many people think you are completely nuts or you are trolling them. When the percentage of people who think you are nuts approaches 50%, it means that you found a good scissor statement.
> Note, I'd like my C code to work on Windows, which possibly restricts the "right way" to features provided by C89

That might be the case if you plan to use the Microsoft C compiler as they have publicly said the don't have plans to update their C compiler.

However that is not your only option, since clang and several GCC ports will also work on Windows.