skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know why they would make it always return false. In Rust you can just not implement Eq for the type, and it becomes a compile error to try and compare it.
I’m a holdout - I have a bunch of tools and games that won’t survive the transition. I just cannot be arsed to do the prep work to find alternatives (boot from external drive, see what can be done with Wine/Crossover, or just buy another laptop...).
The reference point is C++.

What makes Java nearer to Lisp than C++?

Mostly the Java runtime, the JVM. C++ basically comes with some kind of manual memory management and raw data layout.

Lisp comes with Garbage Collection and managed memory. In Lisp one passes references to arrays and other objects around. The runtime tracks which objects are of what dynamic type and of what size. The garbage collection may be a simple mark&sweep or a more complex, say, generational GC. The first garbage collection was developed for Lisp around 1960 and has then slowly spread to other languages. C++ was object-oriented, but with a more traditional non-GC approach. Java changed that.
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How *deeply* broken can software get?
I really wanted the company to be called ",,," when i read: "This medium post is about a project by three comma employees"
SK have tested 5 times more people than anywhere else so are picking up more mild cases that other countries are not detecting. So I'm hoping the SK numbers are closer to 'real'
Number of commits as a metric is a poor idea, because it will immediately be gamed. I constantly advocate with D that people break up larger PRs into smaller self-contained ones, for several reasons. Undermining this with a metric that draws unfounded conclusions isn't helpful.
I am living in Italy (not in the zones where the virus starts spreading) and I want to say that our healthcare system is still working even if it's struggling.
The big problem is that the number of places for critical care is going to saturate; they are starting moving sick persons from Lombardia to other regions in order to reduce pressure on the critical care hospitals departments.
The number of death is so high because they count person who had other illness (cancer, heart disease, etc) and because we have lot of elder persons (the probability of dying is higher for over 75).

I just hope that other government in Europe will take it seriously, because it seems spreading fast over France, Germany, Spain and Netherlands.
I read so many of my choices in that, lyft over uber, my iPhone over an Android, and on and on
In Germany a friend of mine refused to go to a meeting at a client's office where someone tested positive and HR threatened him because he was violating his employment contract.
Ask HN: Is it worth migrating from SendGrid if IP is bad
We were on a cheaper SendGrid plan with a Shared IP pool and 100% of our templates were reaching the inbox on Outlook/Gmail.

Later on, we upgraded to Pro Plan and received a fresh IP (no warmup). Our deliverability struggled because of low sending volume and IP was present on some public blacklists. Same templates went to spam on Outlook (tried changing the wording etc)

Decided to downgrade the plan, as we're getting more customers and onboarding email is a crucial part of the experience.

Now we got assigned to another IP pool, but ALL our emails bounce from Outlook (with the message that part of the providers network is blacklisted) and do not even reach spam...

I've submitted a support ticket, but it's gonna take a few days to get reply + most likely they're going to advertise selecting a more expensive plan with dedicated IP (spam better than bounce but it's still horrible before we have IP warmed up).

Is there a better provider with high volume shared IP or a quick way to solve this problem?
Oh, the irony of this article slamming me in the face with a sleazy "We need your consent" dialog with intentionally confusing options and sub-dialogs...

My "consent" is being forced out of me so that roughly ~100 (at a first glance) "partners" can invade my privacy and learn about my browsing habits.

By the way, if you are a programmer and you implement those sleazy dialogs, think about your life choices.
Assuming they do so, the comment I replied to is still extremely misleading.

But do you have any actual evidence they do so? Having some IPs that show up as residential isn't good enough.

That article doesn't call out any specific VPNs.
Fast Float Parsing in Practice
Discohash – new fast secure simple hash function
SimilarWeb is another company with millions of funding that is sitting on a shady foundation as well.
It is way worse than your average HTML. Again, I'm not sure if those defects are the framework faults or the UI implementation, but deleting input from field when pressing tab isn't something I encountered in any HTML interface. Loading time is also similar to a desktop 1st person shooter, not to HTML.
It's a good idea because it will greatly cut the amount of fuel to be carried and thus speed up deployment of large scale expeditionary forces.

Think of days when electricity-to-fuel will be able to also produce liquid fuel for tanks, jets etc. to operate, then moving large masses of armor deeply into the enemy territory will become a no-brainer to such a point that territorial depth will cease to be a viable protection!
Agreed.

For the country as a whole, I have it at 20 days until we run out of beds. Like Italy, seems reasonable to expect some areas will hit it sooner.

Here's my growth equation:

BedsNeeded = CurrentCases * DailyGrowthRate ^ DaysOfGrowth * SevereAndCriticalRate

708 = CurrentCases, the number of COVID-19 cases in the US as of March 9, 2020. [1]

1.6 = DailyGrowthRate, Number of today's cases / Number of yesterday's cases. [2]

20 = DaysOfGrowth, how many days to run the simulation.

0.1 = SevereAndCriticalRate, the percentage of cases requiring a hospital bed. [3]

855,919 = BedsNeeded

This is based on the above-quoted 2.77 beds per 1000 people, and a US population of 327.2M people, for 906,344 beds available.

[1] https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/
[2] Ibid, rough average of last week's growth rate
[3] Rough guess from above comments and other reading.

Working sheet:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15CRanm0MHyappT_3J1qc...
So you think Clinton would have called the coronavirus a hoax and actively worked to delay and reduce testing while it spread uncontrolled? Fascinating. I think things can always get worse, but at this point, the federal government's response to this led by vice president dumb and president dumber is pretty close to rock bottom. Hard to get worse than actively encouraging the spreading of the virus while holding back almost all testing and preparedness. Even a week can make a huge difference and the federal government has done little in almost two months. I have a hard time believing a different president wouldn't be more effective in the face of this pandemic. Hell, a fucking dog as a president would be better than a president that actively works to worsen outcomes like the current one. That is criminal, but of course, nothing new for him.
Tech Tyranny: Stamping Out the Coronavirus “Infodemic”
From what i understand, one of the ways COVID-19 kills is by triggering an extreme autoimmune reaction which attacks the lungs (see: Cytokine storm).
There's actually a really good test of your claim: the botched CDC rollout of testing kits. The CDC went about developing and producing the kits just like they would for any other disease under any other administration, free from meddling and micro-management, and they botched the rollout. The issue was immediately politicized. Mainstream publications made it a point of saying that it was the "Trump administration" that butched the rollout, blamed the lack of micro-management, and there's an endless wave of conspiracy theories everywhere about this being a deliberate cover-up by Trump.
On the other hand, imagine a car crash.

30 J/kg absorbed radiation won’t just kill you in <48 hours, it’ll give you seizures and diarrhoea first.
LitiGate – The ‘Operating System for the Litigation Process’
> And yet your quote doesn't even mention scheduling or the concept of time.

If you drill down[1] on that page to "Behavioral Control," you'll find :

"An employee is generally subject to the business’s instructions about when, where, and how to work. All of the following are examples of types of instructions about how to do work.

- When and where to do the work."

> This is not true. Please don't spread falsehoods in public like this.

I'm not sure it's fair to classify a widely-accepted interpretation of the law as a "falsehood" but anyway, according to this[2] it seems that at least one court agrees that security guards are not independent contractors if they meet the above-linked criteria:

"A Louisiana federal district court has granted a motion approving a confidential settlement in a collective action by New Orleans security guards under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act...They claimed that the company had complete control over how, when and where the guards performed their work; set the guards’ work schedules; and required the guards to wear uniforms with the company’s logo."

1. https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employe...

2. https://independentcontractorcompliance.com/2017/11/06/octob...
Sure, but my broad question was essentially: are there any negatives to using "dirty" forms of energy like nuclear, coal, or oil in space?
Diamond Princess cleaning crew needed, $100/day
The author is making a point, by analogy, that consumers make purchase decisions based on a relative ranking of company behaviors and reputation. This is why PR firms exist.

Consider what might happen if 'someone' produced a popular documentary on the psychological trauma that YT or FB moderators endure. (If such a documentary already exists I'm sure it will be posted here)
In one sense this feels like pushing the efficiency problem under the rug. There's a requirement for power supplies to meet a certain efficiency standard, and generating 3.3v and 5v rails are pushing that number down. Solution? Move that task to the motherboard where they won't count against the power supply efficiency requirement.

Of course, from a purely engineering perspective, it really does make sense and it's overdue.
It can be up to 21-24, even if mostly it is under 14
I don't have this impression. Many nations are trying to find a cure or a vaccine.

Nobody knows the long term development of this virus. You could lock up everything, the economy collapses and it would hurt people even more than the virus might have. It is a gamble at this point.

Political games come into play if people demand answers that nobody can give. If some presume to be able to do that, they are lying to your face.

If this is over in June and 100,000 people died, what would we call this? It would just be another disease probably.

For people who lost loved ones it was a catastrophe, for other part of the normal life risk. Any publicly uttered judgement has to keep that in mind, so it will always be relative. Some are more forthcoming, but probably not public officials.

Of course the virus is not under control, how could it be? I would prefer measures to reduce its spread, but that is basically intuition and listening to some doctors with the knowledge that it just buys time.

Anyone using this crisis for political points doesn't really win any cookies with me personally, on the contrary.

The incentive to cover something up is just a reflex to save face. I don't like covering something up. There is a risk of disproportionate overreaction, but I think a bad information policy reinforces this. If they covered something up, it must be really bad, right?
What exactly is the problem that colonizing another planet or moon is trying to solve? This seems like a solution without a problem. And if that problem is that the earth becomes uninhabitable, what kind of moron thinks we can colonize a planet or moon when we can't even keep ourselves alive on earth?
It’s ridesharing - and the independent contractors are the worker bees. Nothing condescending about that.
Fold-and-Cut Theorem
> The colonization of Venus is also a fascinating idea that isn't talked about much in comparison to the Moon or Mars. Essentially, the surface is too hot for colonization...

Nah, you're just not thinking big enough:

https://www.orionsarm.com/fm_store/TerraformingVenusQuickly....
All Mark has to do is reduce his price a little.
People will then rationalise their decision to buy Mark's honey by telling themselves that if the price was the same they'd buy Barry's because they care about the bees.
KeyValues stock is rising.
I think publishers make authors do that.

I wouldn’t read this book for years because of the silly title:

“You Can Be a Stock Market Genius"
https://www.amazon.com/You-Can-Stock-Market-Genius/dp/068484...
Doesn't rclone mount offer a bigger selection of cloud storage providers? https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_mount/
> Sounds like a job for a burner phone.

I mean it's right there...
But then the counterpoint is that once panic steps in it becomes hard to manage. People should be called to take this seriously and to proper civic duties.

Panic is was caused the toilet paper craze.
XT, XR, XL, XS. I wish the names were more meaningful. I can never remember which one is which or what they're good for, or even which order they came in (and the jpeg.org pages don't even list years).

JPEG XL is the one currently in development, and it has what sound like some really neat features, like floating point pixel data, and lossless conversion from JPEG (and according to Wikipedia [1] back to JPEG, but I'm guessing that only applies to images that went JPEG -> JPEG XL -> JPEG).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Photographic_Experts_Gro...
Sorry, but I'm not the one trolling. Reading up on "Canon Cat", I find

> It had a text-based interface without a mouse, icons, or menus

sigh

The Forth in space thing is just some drivers/firmware for spaceships. I.e. once again nothing that an ordinary user would care about. The APL part is devoid of links to real contemporary software. Not even something of Notepad++ quality...

Please don't waste your time as you don't seem to want to understand my question. Thank you.
Jupiter is not even a brown dwarf which starts at about 13 times the mass of Jupiter.

For upgrading Jupiter to a star, it would need 80 times its current mass.

There is nowhere else in the solar system enough mass to grow Jupiter but the Sun. Taking that mass from the Sun is in theory feasible but of course out of the range of our capabilities for quite some time.

That's for natural nuclear fission though which would waste a lot of energy going into space and not where we would want to have it (the moons).

It's probably more realistic to build small fission suns that orbit the moons that produce heat and light in a less wasteful, more directed manner. Still not possible today :-)
I think the optimism stems from not having a definite deadline for the colonization of distant bodies. Whilst climate change is a bit more pressing.

I mean, I don't worry about implementing a new feature at work by 2120. But I'd sure worry about having it ready tomorrow!

Also all those issues in dealing with colonizing space are, for most people, distant from their daily life. Climate Change is close to home.

But yeah, research on one might influence the other as you say!
I'm not really worried about being on Facebook but only about wasting too much time checking the stream (or worse: integrating with it in even more stupid ways which could result from excessive browsing). I good surprisingly good results from adding the tiny bit of friction of removing the app from the Android launcher screens, relegating it to App drawer. (and careful push configuration of course)
How Nebula Graph designs its storage and query engines
One way to estimate it is to ask how much that bug would've sold for on the black market.
how do you explore the running code in a repl, if it was modified while running ?
Æternity's Starfleet 4 – The 7 teams we selected for Phase 2
Why are you denying the spread and severe impact of this virus? Do you think they quarantined the whole fucking country for fun?
> You get radiation protection from earth's magnetosphere.

Only in very specific orbits (NOT the ones we are currently using, btw.) The Earth's magnetosphere actually captures dangerous radiation and various anomalies in the belt distribution cause portions of low-Earth orbits to be irradiated.

> You get zero G for funsies.

And the medical issues.

> interesting new kinds of manufacturing.

There are a handful of (very interesting) crystal manufacturing that requires zero-g. These could be done in automated or human tended LEO or LLO manufacturing labs. You don't need a large human presence.

To the downsides, LEO lacks any resources whatsoever, and still has a nontrivial delta-v to the rest of the system. All your arguments in favor could be applied to the Moon, which does have LOTS of resources and better radiation shielding.
And here I am, with my (Mexican) wife mentioning almost daily how horribly cold it is here in Europe.

I'm also not sure what kind of warm clothing they'd mean lol.
Ask HN: Can someone with a ML background do anything to help with Covid-19?
I am a mathematician who has been working on machine learning in the last few years. Is there anything that people with my background can do to help? I don't know much about biology, but maybe there is some more or less self-contained subproblem where throwing more man power and machine time can help (checking some models, finding some configurations, discarding some hypotheses...)
Lloyds Banking Group Collaborates with Google Cloud
It is, first the cap needs to ve huve enough, second ESR will need to be very, very low unless you want to cool the cap as well
I think that the 20% comes from the percentage of serious cases (It was 20% in past, now it's 12% https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ ). Problem with serious cases are that they need medical attention, so if all of us get infected medical system will not be able to handle 20% of population, so they will have to be without it...

That being said, not all of 20% needs ICU, and not all people will be infected at the same time (specially now since people are panicking). OTOH, if medical system will be DDOS'd, then also other people will die that need medical attention (so mortality for other illnesses will go up). So in theory it could be as bad as 20% if we would ignore the virus, let it spread to everyone as fast as possible and don't do anything. But that is not what is happening.
Exactly! Then they start a race to the bottom, take up debt, and spend on marketing until one goes bust! By then everyone is buying imported synthetic honey which is way cheaper anyway. Heil capitalism.
I'm not trying to defend Google's behaviour, but patents are useful for defending a technology you want to remain open (eg proof that someone else didn't invent it) as much as they can be used to generate license fees. Defensive patents are effectively a way of ensuring the prior art shows up in a patent search. It's possible that these patents are not going to be used to restrict AV1's use.
Those annoying pop ups are only annoying because on day one everything has to ask permission. After that, you only see them if you install a new application. I certainly prefer having to give my permission before an application uses my microphone or records my screen.
There is software like concorde that solves traveling salesman problems really fast and optimal: http://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/tsp/methods/opt/opt.htm

Still these type of problems are much trickier in practise, e.g. with time windows or even with multiple salesmen (then it is a vehicle routing problem).

For these problems still specialized software exists like jsprit (shameless plug!) and others:

https://github.com/graphhopper/jsprit/blob/master/docs/Other...
An alternative could be transmission oil (low viscosity) + acetone, also 50/50.

Here's a guy on youtube showing how to make it and a comparison to other brands (the diy turned out the best):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WuVBFTzoKc
There were designs for this but AFAIU the amount of mass needed for shielding the reactor would make it impractical. Not sure if technology has changed much but presumably the only way to get around this is to reduce radiation as the mass of shielding has more to do with fundamental physics I think.
> are there any negatives to using "dirty" forms of energy like nuclear, coal, or oil

One of those is not like the others.

Nuclear is the cleanest form of energy we have, cleaner than even wind or solar power.
As someone who reads a lot of PC specifications in detail, I can assure you, Intel is in an excellent position to dictate PC specifications as it routinely does so both independently and as a very active member of boards that do so.
Jpeg XS Max
Milestones in Artificial Intelligence
There is a fundamental misconception in your post: radioactive material can spill no matter whether it is in solid, liquid or gaseous aggregate state. What matters is the mechanical integrity of the surrounding shielding. If that is intentionally damaged or destroyed, you have a pretty bad nuclear accident on your hands.
So you're saying that getting less votes in an election makes one better at getting the most votes? Fascinating the logic, or rather lack thereof, of Trump supporters. Then instead of admitting you are wrong, you double down on your illogical premise and accuse those who point it out of being illogical. I can see why you like the man so much. Illogical, nonsensical ideas must attract each other especially when coupled with fear of criticism and anger towards those that disagree with said ideas.
You can think of them all as JPEG NB.. 'no browser support' ;)
> But you can understand why, by default, anyone who doesn't live in Kazakhstan has little to gain from trusting those CAs.

No more or less than any other root CA? They're run by the legitimate, internationally recognised, democratically elected government of Kazakhstan. I'd expect many Kazakh businesses to have a certification path with that CA at the root; that seems like no more or less legitimate a root certificate than, I don't know, Deutsche Telekom or VeriSign or whoever. Currently I use more websites that are based in the US or Germany than are based in Kazakhstan, sure, but it's not like there aren't legitimate web businesses in every country.
It turns out that Bitcoin is not a safe-haven asset.
If unfollowing everyone is too much effort (or too much potential drama from people assuming unfollow = no longer friends), then there is another way. Someone mentioned the Newsfeed Eradicator plugin the other day -- it replaces the FB News Feed with a thought-provoking quote...!

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/news-feed-era...
I think this is more the general behaviour of heuristics. They are not guaranteed to give you the optimal solution as they are forced to 'converge'.
I do not deny the existence of harmful gatekeeping — one of my lecturers at university in 2005-06 insisted that “several megabytes” was too much data to record while I was recording the lecture as non-compressed 44k@16-bit.

That said, my experience is that most people don’t put in the effort required to understand problems like this. I include myself in this, despite being a poly-nerd with an interest in nuclear power.
Lots of people here are saying that WD-40 will clean dirt out but is not a lubricant (or is a terrible lubricant). As a not-very-practical person, here's my question:

If you have something very dirty that you want to lubricate, say a bicycle chain, is it reasonable to apply WD-40 first to get rid of the dirt and then apply a better lubricant on the now-clean chain? Or will the WD-40 stick around long enough to prevent the better lubricant sticking? If the second, what the hell am I meant to do about my dirty chain that needs lubricating?