skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
yes, but no.

usually I would agree with you, but in today's world where we curl install stuff from the internet you'll always have someone pull a container to 'just get it to work'. Once the prototype works it's production. People that have the discipline to actually research the quality of deps or... god forbid... actually build the containers that rely on from scratch will not get into this kind of issue, but again: kids these days...
Amusing how the CIA is "audacious", while foreign agencies are pure evil.
What are you building the starships out of that they can withstand those forces continuously over multiple years?
Does this mean I can sue Facebook because, despite my (unreasonable) demands they stop showing me fake news and ads for crypto-mining mobile games that pretend to be affiliated with legitimate news sources or the games they're knocking off, they haven't stopped?

I think that's a pretty comparable analogy because in both cases, a party is being unreasonably expected to police third-party content provided through their platform/business, or else be sued for failing to do something completely infeasible.
I hope COVID-19 isn't reading this.
Deep Learning could in theory run on this using Intel PlaidML's Keras implementation in OpenCL https://github.com/plaidml/plaidml
Despite the many examples in this article and elsewhere about him already deploying it irresponsibly? Or maybe I missed the implied “/s”
https://raft.github.io/
The exact same way that people repeatedly catch the common coronavirus year after year. 2019's novel coronavirus is destined to end up being known as the "common cold" or coronavirus with time. All common colds are a coronavirus and newly discovered ones are novel.
IOW there is no vaccine in the pipeline because there's never been a vaccine for the common cold.

https://www.who.int/health-topics/coronavirus
Subaru could only afford to do a single body style since that generation WRX was a pretty serious departure from the Impreza chassis. Everyone else in the market was offering a hot hatch, so Subaru, being Subaru, decided to do things a differently.

I prefer the sedan. It's much less boomy and noisy than the old WRX hatch. I never got much use out of the hatch anyway.
This just reminded me of Emacs. There's not a whole lot of menus. All the available commands (also variables and values) can be searched and autocompleted. The initial hump is hard to get over, but after that things are so discoverable and extensible it's a pleasure.

I recently switched to VS Code for creature comforts that come from a much large ecosystem and using more modern OS affordances. VS Code gets close but not quite as pleasant as Emacs.
I use fastmail, and there is no additional setup needed. Just point the catchall at an account and use the filters to sort as appropriate. Mail from my legacy gmail, yahoo, and hotmail accounts get forwarded to respective aliases at mydomain.com and sorted into appropriate folders as well.

Best online hygiene decision I have ever made. Ranks up there with installing ubock origin on desktop/mobile.
> It is also unclear whether the L type is more virulent than the S type

You're right. I finally got a chance to read the study fully, but was basing my comments from the r/COVID-19 thread.
I know that comparing "hacker" "news" to reddit is "boring" (as dang would put it), but these types of "when this post is X <time units> old <some mundane thing> will happen" are low quality, but highly upvoted garbage that is super common on reddit. And now it's here.
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Maybe Elizabeth Holmes can help them out!
You definitely make a very compelling and interesting argument. The ultimate market value is certainly a factor of many things, notably "first-mover" / OG value (chief of which Bitcoin versus all subsequent forks e.g. BCH), the sentiment (polarizing people, places, etc), etc.

I would tell you that this kind of choice [being root in your 'own' system, having a 'root mechanism' in a collective network: pick any, both or none] fundamentally comes down to ethical values, a personal hierarchy thereof. The case of cryptocurrencies, if we ignore the speculative aspect, is interesting insofar as it demonstrates quite fundamentally opposed political views — here a certain idea of "benevolent interventionism" (however dictatorial / democratic in legitimity, the very existence of the mechanism), versus a certain ideal of "the hand of God" (re Adam Smith), a 100% non-distorted entity (I reckon, from that to Conway's game of life is but a matter of vocabulary: it's a fascinating object for nerds indeed).

Again, if we ignore the speculative aspect — which distorts everything, makes all of the above possible on paper but absolutely not observed in real life so far.

On topic, I think there's a certain tension forking towards the "free" domain — think Linux and open source and free software but actuated: now it's RISC-V (big mover in the integrated sector, GPUs..), OpenPower, think also companies like Tesla or Amazon making their own 'forks' of everything in-house, not because of NIH (these are too efficient to fall prey to such emotional traps) but rather because they do squeeze some degree of efficiency (like Google with their TPUs and what-have-you). How all programming languages in 20 years have gone open-source and mostly collegial in governance, and most major projects by way of consequence; etc.

This [x86 RoT] is just one in a list of reasons that justify this much deeper trend, as I reckon; and there is indeed a certain idealism of "the hand of God" as in being root on your own system (God = me = root). I very much subscribe to this ideology myself, if only for the practical reason that a backdoor is a backdoor is a backdoor.
For the CMS I make for myself, the general rule is, it's fine to require it for admin, and if I had users it would be fine to require it for them to edit content, but it must always be optional to just browse content as visitor. I don't see that becoming "nonviable" as a principle anytime soon, at least for private non-commercial stuff where I really don't care if other sites are fancier, as long as mine works as it should.
I pick up contracts from a law enforcement software vendor and can confirm that most of the software in the industry is abominable. When I picked up the contract their system was a win32 C/C++ GUI, communicating to a custom built geo server. I felt like I was back in the late 80's early 90's doing development again. Anyways I modernized their stack to web and mobile tech and people in the industry think their are wizards of dark magic. It's amazing how behind the times that industry is.
Are you asking if there is a body of research about child development/sleep/behavior management/learning in children? Yes, there is. Yes, it is public (and diffuse). And it is often misinterpreted and over/under-stated in parenting blogs and books (screen time is a great example of this). There are contradictory studies, but you have to look carefully and weigh the merits of the study (is it correlational? is it a valid study? what are the confounding variables? what is the size of the sample? what are the researchers conclusions?).

Have you ever read Emily Oster? She talks a lot about deciphering the data on pregnancy and caring for children (she wrote expecting better and crib sheet). It's messy science, but there is absolutely data. All the more reason a professional can support a parent to understand how (if) it applies to them and could inform decisions they make when working through a challenge.
this is also why the us wants to avoid Huawei. letting Huawei in and doing that engineering makes the American spies' job harder than keeping the ruse going
Lease model for farming equipment, I guess that's what you mean by platform approach?
I think there have been a few unverified reports of people catching the virus again. However these might be caused by false negative tests (viral load being lower during the time of testing), then they re-take the test when they have a higher viral load(?) and it comes back positive.

This is purely based on other comments I've read, I personally know nothing about viruses.
Wrong again.

Parent framed their argument as

> All studies so far show a pretty consistent ~10% work disincentive. This is what all the detractors say when they say it disincentivizes work.

When the parent invokes the detractors, it brings up the arguments that all the detractors use, saying that UBI will turn people into lazy freeloaders that do not want to work. That it will lead to people just living off the government and contributing nothing. Going back to get an education for the purpose of work does not fall under that category.

The thesis of the parent is not that they're simply leaving the workforce. They're quoting the same old claims that UBI will make people lazy and not want to work. That frame is why quoting the study as a means to further that claim is so misleading.
Now I'm even more glad I went with Namecheap. Thanks, Facebook!
"....so you can haul dozens of cubic feet of air with your 3.5 liter V6 engine..."

Hooboy. This author is not a car enthusiast. That's on the very small end of the big-truck power spectrum.
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>> NULL doesn't really mean unknown; it means that instead of having a pointer to a result-set, you have no such pointer.

NULL in SQL has nothing to do with pointers.

It means that the value is missing or otherwise unknown.

Consider the column that is tracing the reading of a meter of some kind.
And let's say that we could not get a reading -- due to some fault.
So we did a reading, and we want to record that. What "value" should we record? 0 is no good - may make you think that we recorded a reading of 0 - which is not true.

NULL is the solution - it specifically tells you that the reading is missing or inapplicable.

Obviously, this complicates things, but incidentally translates well to other languages that have a (completely unrelated) concept of a null pointer.
I'm with SonicScrub. In my last job, my yearly licenses for me and my group of about 6 were $1 million annually not including hardware. We likely heavily skewed the average workers costs since we used extremely expensive, specialized software
> The Iranian government then arrested Crypto AG's top salesman, Hans Buehler, in March 1992 in Tehran. It accused Buehler of leaking their encryption codes to Western intelligence. Buehler was interrogated for nine months but, being completely unaware of any flaw in the machines, was released in January 1993 after Crypto AG posted bail of $1m to Iran. Soon after Buehler's release Crypto AG dismissed him and sought to recover the $1m bail money from him personally.

Sounds like a great employer. Knowingly sells backdoored equipment to foreign governments, allows their employees to be arrested and held for nine months even though they know nothing about it, pays the bail, then immediately fires them and tries to recoup the bail.
Yea, I've had it in the back of my mind to try and find or build a cisco/juniper/etc style cli lib for awhile. It's about the most efficient design I've seen for new users, where I could get a new engineer productive quickly, and for users who don't login or use the cli often, it's quick and easy to be productive quickly.
When I click on the link in safari I get a download prompt. Why not YouTube?
My new favourite way: ttyfire

https://i.imgur.com/c0VIJYg.mp4

Video is of it running in gnome-terminal, where the terminal window is scaled right down with ctrl-minus.

Source is here: https://github.com/dmo9000/ttyfire

So far its been able to run on Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris and OpenBSD with minor patches. NetBSD xterm doesn't seem to support Unicode for some reason.

This was inspired by the Javascript DOOM fire effect that was posted here a bit over a year ago.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18833765
Intel, AMD, and NVIDIA also have actual, publicly-accessible, realtime production systems you can use, which also compute using quantum effects. But they don't have stable qubits and so they can't run Shor's algorithm. So D-Wave's machines are similar to AMD's and NVIDIA's, and different from quantum computers, in every relevant metric that distinguishes classical computers from quantum computers.

(You don't think transistors use quantum effects? Then what's Boltzmann's constant doing in the Ebers–Moll equation?)
They should name the shell CLASH.... for

Command
Line
Again
SHell

I think the idea they have is awesome. Managing servers with this would be a dream!
Agreed. And I may be showing my age, but I learned C and C++ on singles MIPS boxes (R3000 processors) shared between 20 users, all on X terminals. The thought of sharing 1 32-bit processor running at 25Mhz between 20 people running any kind of graphical environment it pretty wild by today's standards.
I learned a LOT when I read the UHH in the 90s.
> And until the quantum computers are built, there's no need for it.

Disagree. One of the coolest things about quantum encryption is that any attempt to eavesdrop a communication is instantly detectable. This is extremely useful for communication between conventional computers.
Some diseases have 2 phases (biphasic), so you get sick, recover somewhat, get sick again, often with different symptoms.

I've read in the press that corona virus might be biphasic, which is a big problem for an air-borne transmissable disease. In the jet age, quarantining potentially thousands or millions of passengers becomes expensive and disruptive when there's a week between phases.

Lyme disease is like that. First you get a bullseye rash and flu-like symtoms, it goes away, then later your organs are attacked.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biphasic_disease

That's different than a chronic disease, where you never recover.
Simulated annealing is not a linear programming problem!
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you would be better off just making an American Indian, female, midget your CEO so you can short circuit the process. If you think that is a joke, it's not, each one of those items scores high points in the RFP process and sets you ahead of the pack. That is the problem with a software solution for it and that is that it is innately a human process. A combination of who you know and who you are. The rest is just fluff on paper.
> I'm doing this in part for the people who can't do this

A serious heartfelt THANK YOU for doing this.

> Also, some people want to hire you because you're a straight shooter

Absolutely!

Life's too short to work with people who are not looking out for you.
Life's too short to work with people who think they are pragmatic by being deliberately ambigious or outright misleading.

Just move on, if you can. There is more than one team out there thats exactly what you're looking for.

It might take time and effort on your part to find them, but with enough effort you will.

There absolutely are people who want to build a solid business.

Part of building a solid business is building solid relationships.

Evidence? Every company, that failed to build solid relationships, no matter how big to fail they were in the past, are nothing today.
There's benefits to a system where you have full control and visibility into everything that executes, and there's benefits to systems where that isn't true. I hope 100% open CPUs exist and that there continues to be a strong software ecosystem that works with open CPUs. But it's a fact of the matter that CPUs with stuff to support DRM exist, and we might as well see if we can get some strong pro-user / pro-privacy functionality out of it.
Hi! What do you think the postquantum security story for Bitcoin looks like? That is, if someone starts being able to build big quantum computers, what vulnerabilities does that create in Bitcoin, and is there a way we can solve them in time to keep the whole system from collapsing?
A lot of business and accounting is excel hell
,,The president is expected to sign an $8.3bn (£6.4bn) funding bill passed 96-1 by the US Senate on Thursday. It is intended to help state and local governments combat the coronavirus.''

Expected? This sounds like a joke. What can be more important for him? Trump is doing everything to not get reelected.
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same. this is exactly the kind of process I want in our courts whether the requestor is private or governmental.

sadly at least in Australia we keep passing stupid new laws that erode the judicial oversight giving various authorities (and many more than just the "police") ability to do all sorts of things with no warrant or judge oversight and I don't like it.
Maybe you are like me and simply require other people around/participating to stay motivated.
We - at Okta - publish a report on this every year. Here's the January 2020 study: https://www.okta.com/businesses-at-work/2020

A key finding:

"Over the years, we’ve seen app adoption steadily rise, across all industries and company sizes. This year, the average number of apps per customer reached 88: that’s a 6% increase from 83 apps a year ago, and a 21% increase from 72 apps three years ago. And now 10% of our customers deploy a substantial 200 apps or more. When we look at customers that have been with Okta for more than four years, they deploy an average of 190 apps."

Odds are, a good chunk of those are free but if the average subscription cost is $10/month => $10/month * 12 months * 88 apps => $10560/year aka well within the estimate cited.
Finally, Facebook has found a legitimate way to get rich, classic American style. By suing people.

This is actually an ethical step forward.
But you’re talking about mutations or other strains. My question is can the exact same virus reinfect a person?

I’d think you’d never clear it to begin with if that was the case.
In my experience it does not come to that.

Your (ex)coworkers will just apply where you happen to currently work. It happens organically without any suggesting or prodding.
I owned an El Camino, a nice white one with a black top. Classic body style and a strong v-8.

I had a friend who mocked it relentlessly. "It's not much of a car, but then again it's not much of a truck either."
Well, I think my point stands. It's in-demand within the HN bubble but is unheard of outside it
It's a little more complicated than that and it's also $100k for married couples and goes up if you are elderly.

In order for a creditor to take a lien on your home after a bankruptcy proceeding in CA, I believe they need to prove that after a Sheriff's sale (which generally does not get market value), there will be more than the exemption limit left over after all the mortgage and taxes and fees are paid.

If they can't then they won't be able to levy your home and force a sale. So in a worst case scenario, you would need to take out an additional mortgage or heloc on the available equity in your home to bring the total available equity under the exemption limit ($75k+) and then pay that money towards the bankruptcy debt.

So basically what is happening, is you get to keep your home, but you are forfeiting all you home owner's equity that exceeds the exemption limit.
If you're going to treat investigative reporting and news gathering as a profit making venture then you can only charge what the market is willing to pay, and for the vast majority of people, that's nothing.
An extreme example of the tooling gap: MKL. Intel made MKL and used CPUID and instruction set optimizations in a non-conformant way that penalizes AMD; it's a fair bit faster than OpenBLAS on (to-date) dominant Intel hardware.

If you make CPUID lie to it that it's an Intel part, it'll use AVX2, and Threadripper parts will beat Xeon by a 20% margin. Otherwise it's 200%+ slower.

Meanwhile, MKL has been a fair bit faster than OpenBLAS, etc on Xeon ("pretend to be Intel" MKL and OpenBLAS are about the same speed on AMD), so all kinds of software is linked against Intel MKL.

When you have core libraries tuned for Intel, either because Intel makes them themselves or because the tooling for performance tuning on AMD hasn't been present, Intel has a software tuning advantage that helps hide AMD's current silicon performance advantage.
Or 3) you built your own system from scratch.

By from scratch, I mean building a CPU from transistors and writing (or at least carefully auditing) all the code on it.

People have done comparable projects (like a clone of the Apollo 11 guidance computer) as a labor of love.
Chinese team reveals appearance of inactivated Covid-19
Who are they advertising to though? They might look like bullies to people in the industry but that's probably not who they're trying to market themselves as privacy/security concerned towards. Combined with how dire the state of mainstream tech 'news' is, I'd be surprised if this actually backfired regardless of which way the lawsuit goes.
Extreme example: MKL on AMD is 3x slower than on Intel. Meanwhile, if you lie to it and say you're an Intel part, MKL is 20% faster than Intel...
Why can’t the memory cells help for the second phase?

Shouldn’t the first phase act as a sort of vaccine?
The "declarative" part doesn't really make sense IMO, but there are a bunch of links here about having a shell-agnostic system:

https://github.com/oilshell/oil/wiki/Shell-Autocompletion

https://github.com/oilshell/oil/wiki/Projects-Already-Doing-...

https://github.com/mbrubeck/compleat (one of the only grammar-based ones, looks nice but doesn't appear to have been used very much)

There are some discussions about cross-shell autocompletion on the #shell-autocompletion channel of https://oilshell.zulipchat.com/, but it didn't go that far.

The Ion work described in the sibling blog post went the furthest in terms of implementation I think, but I haven't heard anything about it in awhile.
I just got back into it in February thanks to the Reeder iPad app. It helps you grab the RSS feeds even if the site doesn’t post a link.
> This is good advice for those who can't afford to be honest

Indeed. It's very sad that a lot of expenses are borne by the employer (in reality actually paid by the employee) who get to treat that expense in a special manner that the employee cant'.

For example: the employer provided health insurance you and I pay. Yes, you and I pay for it but the employer gets a tax writeoff on it as a OPEX.

This makes health insurance premiums in the US a real deal breaker for entrepreneurship.

Very sad.
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To nitpick your nitpick, we define "computable function" to mean any function that a classical computer can compute in finite time. There are a number of formal models of "hypercomputation" that could compute things that a classical computer can't compute, if they turned out to be physically realizable, but so far we don't have any evidence suggesting that they are, Tao's theorem about exploding coffee notwithstanding, since actually existing fluids are composed of atoms. So it is correct that quantum computation only allows us to, hypothetically, compute more quickly, rather than allowing us to compute things in finite time that classical computers can't compute in finite time. But it's circular logic, and therefore sloppy thinking, to say "CC's are universal. They can compute any computable function."

It is of course true that quantum computers are still far from being practical tools for more rapid computation.
Personally, I found this post interesting. I had never seen the site they linked before, and I found it to be a generally fascinating observation.

Why do you feel it's low quality?
IIRCC most of the consensus algorithms used at Google are based on Paxos, which makes sense as Raft paper only came out in 2014 and maybe an extra few years to really eck out a solid implementation (etcd).
Isn’t China using rtpcr for the test from the beginning?
The difference is that (I assume) you don't have billions of dollars.
You can (almost) do whatever you want, when you have enough money for it.
> The Israeli's were using stingrays in Washington, DC just last year to spy on officials.

Did this make the news? I've never heard of it.