skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IMHO it didn't fail. The internet "failed", becoming something much more centralized and oligopoly-like.

In my area, IRC servers were maintained by local ISP administrators plus some help of local volunteers. As local, dial-up ISPs consolidated and ended up absorbed or put out of business by telecoms, IRC networks become orphans.
What about the group that would do one or the other based on their mood? If I felt curious that day I'd definitely do it the first way as it has been forever since I've needed to do any sort of matrix math and it would be interesting to re-visit it. On the other hand if I was tired or in a more down mood I'd probably just use the library as I wouldn't care.
I've stopped using since Laravel 5.4, switched to Symfony 2.8 up to now (5.0) and recently also Flask or Django (at least for back end).

My biggest pains were the facades and also I wasn't a big fan of the Active Records (with the empty classes and only doing autocomplete by regularly generating loads of annotations).

Being a freelancer and the increasing popularity, I suppose it's worth taking a look again.

Though I'm still a bit hesitant to use it for my own long-term projects, especially since there are so many breaking changes and there are some side projects I won't be able to update for 3 to 12 months while I work freelance or build up new projects.

Can anyone share their experience using + updating a Laravel-based website which is at least 2 years old, especially regarding maintainability?
So, I really was not understanding what the delay was, either, but if you watch the CDC press conference with Trump from Friday, they make a distinction between ‘clinical’ lab testing and ‘public health’ lab testing.

So, it seems the ‘public health’ labs are mired in some byzantine system of rules, where the local department defers to the state, and the state defers to the federal agencies.

The ‘clinical’ labs are mostly for-profit and follow a different procurement process for obtaining the tests, and I believe they are different tests, as well.

It is a mess.
I buy my honey locally in south Louisiana, they're usually in generic Mason jars and can be found in places like hardware stores and barber shops, from local bee keepers.

What the heck is "fancy" honey? Did not read the article.
If you go to a nice restaurant that makes more than enough money to support itself and you enjoy the service and the food and then someone builds 100 McDonald's all over the state this doesn't instantly transform the restaurant into a failure.
I'm not so much meaning safety technology as raw size. To give an extreme, in a collision between a full size SUV and a Smart Car I would expect the driver of the SUV to be more likely to survive.
>their health insurance has favourable terms, and they need to care for a family member

At 200k per year, you can buy Obamacare which is 6k per year and for an individual 6k max out of pocket.

So many people are fooled into thinking their companies health insurance is worth something beyond 12k/yr. And that 12k is firefighters union tier.
Imagine giving up 50 racks to complain about getting $220k per year. If you don't want the job, I'll take it.
An an adage specialist, I can tell you it is an adage, and you have no idea how deep the adage world goes.
KubeMQ Is a Kubernetes Message Queue Broker
So. Once again: what is the way for a MacOS user to see a file's permissions and access?

Finder shows Unix permissions which obviously not enough.

Catalina itself may or may not show a dialog when accessing a random file from a random location by a random app (you never know which file or directory will suddenly be protected from access entirely or inaccessible to an app, and whether Catalina will show a warning when accessing it).

Somehow, your answer is: the user is the problem.

Nope. It's not the user who is for the computer. The computer is for the user. If the central place to display info on a file cannot show correct info on a file, that place has to be fixed.
Avoiding massive SwiftUI views
It is surprising how many handicrafts in Tanzania have Made in China stickers on them even though they are being sold as locally made. English is a common language there so it's unlikely the locals don't know what the sticker says, it probably just doesn't matter to the tourists buying the stuff. Wouldn't be surprised if this was the case in many indigenous craft markets around the world.
See also https://github.com/Munter/subfont#readme (or https://www.gatsbyjs.org/packages/gatsby-plugin-subfont/ for Gatsby sites).
LWN and HN are the peanut butter and chocolate of technical content on the 'net.
Yep. I was stuck in that rut for years. But the design app has been my sole focus for almost 3 years now. It feels really good. The temptation is always there though.
If he had another job lined up, the $50k was $0. He wrote about the other conditions which you are ignoring.
Troll me moar....

You think I was talking about doing all that manually?
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There are only 4 motors, so it's probably named after the octagon-shaped opening in the frame.
In my experience, those kinds of support contracts are mostly valuable (and mostly intended to be valuable) as a way to shove your foot in the door at large companies. Often they're not valued at all, and exist just as a legacy from when the company was younger and any sale was a good sale. It's not surprising to me that an incoming lead whose first question is "what are your prices" would be considered a waste of time.
I've mailed you.
IBM started to market what is essentially z with only IFL CPs as kind of k8s in a box so they obviously try to expand into lower tier markets.
> Sticking to HEDT, rather than server components, the 3990X is available

It's true that I left that out. It's not entirely clear to me whether the budget is unlimited or not in the God Box. Back in 2004 you could go higher budget than they did with the Opteron 850, but the market wasn't as clearly segmented as it is today.

> Threadrippers (as is the case for all mainstream and HEDT processors from AMD) can only use unbuffered DIMMs

I hadn't realized that. There are 32GB ECC UDIMM's on the market (e.g. https://memory.net/product/m391a4g43mb1-ctd-samsung-1x-32gb-...), but that raises the price to around $2k.

> If it's a capacity play, you can easily get more than 3x8TB if you install into the tower directly

Yes, but we're talking smart money, At the time, the NAS didn't exist, and with 10Gbe, the bandwidth is high enough to make it not worth keeping in-case.

I personally think the sweet spot is somewhere in the $2k-$3k range. That gets you 16 cores, 128GB ECC, 2TB NVME, 10Gbe, RTX 2070/2080
> I doubt I'll ever voluntarily use one of those frameworks for web dev.

> I do, however, like this thing called, Svelte.

Svelte is just another one of “those frameworks”, except with a vastly smaller community: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?geo=US&q=svelte%20i...
The trend in my work is to add more and more JS to get the render time below 11ms per frame (11ms for my code, plus 5ms for the browser to paint and update, for a solid 60fps). To do that takes a lot of data structure design, memoization, cache management, plus a decent understanding of how browsers put things in the DOM and on the screen. Admittedly I work on something that's a bit unusual (a diagram tool for lawyers.. kind of like Visio-in-a-browser), but I can assure you that if you want robust, fast rendering it takes a lot of code to do it well. It is not bloat.
You give two examples of specialized communities.

But only on IRC you can instantly talk about any technology that you are interested in and meet someone with knowledge.
Think about the 'why' of your question. What is the goal that written communication will solve for your team, in your view?

This has two benefits: one, it challenges your own thinking (perhaps the underlying issue could be solved in a different way, which might be more successful); two, it gives you justification which you can use to persuade your team members.

See: Simon Sinek's "Start With Why". Additionally, I've found the "Hands-on Agile" Slack group to be a great community resource for this type of team-focused Q&A.
It is a much slower communication medium. And much less personal. I never made a friend on SE/SO. But several on IRC.
This is a paper about how coronaviruses can survive in water and wastewater systems.

https://west.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/data/Gundy2008_...

Has anyone looked at the water supply as a method of transmission?
Thank you for saying this. It’s much-needed food for thought in my current situation.
but there is Wuhan before January 23rd and after, so what is it exactly that you have in mind?
Apps have turned restaurant work into a gig-economy hustle
Thank you, glad to hear you say that - you certainly have a wonderfully colorful way of describing the problem we are trying to fix!
Curious if they will be using Javascript garbage collection or rolling their own
Agreed. It's so weird to look at a project/protocol and think that anything less than eternal market dominance is failure.

IRC heavily shaped the modern web, and had market dominance for decades, and built so much user loyalty that die-hard fans are still refusing to migrate off today[0]. IRC isn't the future of chat. But it is completely normal, and often even desirable that successful things should someday die when new paradigms become more useful.

The only way to call IRC a failure is to have such a narrow definition of success that almost nothing in the world could ever be considered successful. Discord is 5 years old. I guarantee you Discord is not going to last 30 years before everyone migrates to a new platform. It probably won't even last 10 years.

Matrix is (in my mind) the future of open chat. If Matrix ends up lasting 30 years before we come up with something better -- and if it gets even half of the market penetration that IRC got -- then I'll be ecstatic. That would be success beyond my wildest dreams.

[0]: https://xkcd.com/1782/
I'm still connected to ircnet via my ISP's server.

Not that it makes much of a difference from user perspective. Freenode works just fine and I don't need ISP's server for it.
This article takes “tech bro” to a whole new level of entitlement.
I wouldn't want to encourage anyone else to write such a rambling "speaking out" blog post that you can't really take anything away from. There are good ways to write such blog posts, e.g these accounts from an ex-Apple employee[0], that nicely lay out what was going wrong. I tried to extract similar information from this blog post, but failed, as it was filled with so many detours, vagueness, and subjective name calling about the company in general rather than an actual retelling on how he personally was supposedly mistreated.

[0]: https://techreflect.net/2019/12/10/aperture-senior-qa-2004-2...
I believe they said the additional testing will be ready Monday, some places were ready Friday. LabCorp and Quest are two of those that are ready.

The labs at the universities and private companies had to verify the results of the tests they created.

It's important to note that no other country has widespread testing either. They simply take spit swabs and test a sample of them from a location. It's a much less precise method, but appropriate in the places where there is a widespread outbreak.

The CDC is working with these countries, it's not one country having it together or not. Stop politicizing this.
This is a discussion of an article about the price of real honey potentially falling below sustainable levels. Below those levels, sugar may still cost less but the farmers may not find the operation worthwhile due to other costs.
"All of this has happened before. All of this will happen again."

I was recently considering that we went through this cultural shift with computing: we started out by having a system to run code onvdistributed to terminals, then to actual desktop computers, then back to remote with the cloud, and now pushing out to "edge" computing. I'm sure it's more nuanced than that, but we seem to do these cycles, refining our processes.
I figure there's some kind of "true" fatality rate that just answers the question of "If you catch the virus, you have this (age-adjusted) chance of dying". It seems like we'll asymptotically reach that "true" rate once testing is extremely common and liberal (to have confidence you are identifying all cases). Some countries are reaching that testing rate. Then your upper and lower bounds for that death rate are "deaths / deaths + recoveries" and "deaths / confirmed cases", respectively, and they should converge as "active cases" decrease over time (as they either recover or die). You can use that "band" (between the upper and lower bounds) to judge other countries and determine whether they are testing enough - if they are above that "band", they are clearly not testing enough.
That's a fair point, and I fully agree that there are many political issues around the UCHR. I am certain a lot of the business world would want to stay away from code that is licensed in this way, and I suspect that the authors of code licensed accordingly would be just fine with that.

My overall point though, that there are legitimate issues on balancing freedom and other values, stands. I think there is a good argument to be made that licenses are not the place to do this balancing act, but the naive "freedom maximalists" deny that there even is an issue to discuss here, quoting Paine, and what have you to take the grandest of stands.

Creative Commons for example allows for at least some of this type of fine tuning in the license. After all CC NC is a thing, and I haven't heard doom-sayers predicting the end of liberty because CC blessed the possibility that authors would want to restrict the use of their work in that direction, even while sharing it freely otherwise.

Seriously, look at the quoted message by ESR here:

http://lists.opensource.org/pipermail/license-discuss_lists....

I wouldn't choose ESD style licenses for many of the reasons noted. But I also support contributors ability to choose how to give away their contributions, and to actively shape the communities they participate in. I think it's legitimate that the OSI says that this does not meet their definition of an Open License.

But ESR is not arguing for that, he is seeing the very existence of people who don't share his "freedom maximalist" position (or like code of conducts, or...) as a grave threat that "his" culture needs to be protected from.
I think sometimes developers have drink so hard the kool aid

I think a lot of people just have no perspective. I'm fond of this movie scene:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlHlKi2dATw
We engineers need to organize ourselves. We make piles of money for companies, yet we are too often voiceless.
I actually have very few $200 PDFs lying around.

Do you really go purchase the standard documents from ISO? Or does your employer? I'd love to have the actual standard "around for reference," but 700-page technical documents from ISO are not cheap.
As long as old and compact reddit are still there, I'm fine with it. Twitter on other hand has no lightweight version, unfortunately.
Some asset classes trade at values above their intrinsic worth.

Gold has value for jewellery and for its properties as a metal in, for example, electronics. However, it also has a status as a store of value (a "safe" one at that) and therefore its current market price is, at least in part, a result of the Tinkerbell effect.

It's arguable that cryptocurrencies are similar to gold with respect to the Tinkerbell effect. They undoubtedly have economic value as a de-centralised and trusted ledger of transactions. Whether any individual cryptocurrencies have intrinsic value is a different question. Many people believe that the use of cryptocurrencies will increase over time and so it is rational to buy and hold it because it will increase in value. Actually I think I've just convinced myself that the value of cryptocurrencies is not due to the Tinkerbell effect; it's just plain old speculation.
Not disagreeing, just pointing out that Redis development was sponsored by Pivotal at the time, and antirez was presumably on their payroll: http://antirez.com/news/91

The response by antirez is professional and reasonable.
But what's the point to keep them in the same table then?

Won't having several independent (and maybe physically remote) tables, one per service, solve the problem better? You can still `union all` them for analytical purposes.
The next best thing is the latest draft standards, which are available online for free (and I always have them on my laptop, PC, and personal server). Differences between them and final official standard are not important. Search for N1256, N1570. Or grab them here. http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/standards

(There are more readable html versions floating about)
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Show HN: I made a political comparison site with gatsby
I was really impressed with how I could get a perfect lighthouse score app build so quickly using gatsby and tailwind css. I only had a weekend to do this and I'm thrilled with the results. Hopefully this can get some reach before the Tuesday primaries.
Back in the day, we had to write floating point routines before there was 80387. We had the appropriate chapter of TAOCP open during the whole project.

Also, if you read Programmers at work, it was the knowledge of the one rarely taken step in the long division algorithm that enabled one of the subjects to debug a process that had no tools.
Are we talking with or without ventilator/hospital support?
Integer type representation is part of C.

See §6.2.6.2 in http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1256.pdf

Unsigned integers are binary, while signed integers are allowed one of three well-defined representations.
The government IS the central known figure.
> The Dark Age - Somewhere on this path to render pages on the fly (SSR) and render pages on the client (SPA) we forgot about the performance of our webpages. We were trying to build apps. But the web is about presenting content first and foremost!

Pfff - That's completely wrong. SPAs are all about performance. If you want to built a highly-interactive site, it makes sense to do the computing where it's consumed -- in the browser. And hey, if you use a lot of the same logic and data models in the browser as you do on the back-end server, it's only natural to want to try to centralize the code. DRY. The problem is basically what @s_y_n_t_a_x said: developers got carried away with it and starting using SPAs for everything, including sites with low interactivity like blogs, which turned out to be less performant.

> But the web is about presenting content first and foremost!

Says who? I understand that the underlying structures of the web are all about transferring documents and other resources. But Gmail showed us that web 'apps' are useful. Why shouldn't we pursue that? Just because the original web architecture didn't account for it?

In the end, the article makes the right point: Use the right technology for what you're trying to build.
The point of private investing is that the investors get to do that kind of oversight on their own. There's a whole world of public companies to work for, if you're looking for government oversight to double check the investors' work. (Although Pivotal seems to have been a public subsidiary for at least part of the author's story.)
It's actually a really important quote for me, I have it saved in my notes and I had it printed on a A3 paper and stuck it to a wall.

If more people lived by it, the world could be a more productive and fluid experience, instead of all team members waiting for the last day before the deadline to actually start working or a project, I'm sure you all know how that feels...
Here's[1] a twitter thread from the former FDA commissioner from a month ago talking about some of the legal reasons that screening hasn't been so straightforward in the US as it has been in other countries, despite a screening being something a good sized hospital is capable of developing.

Then there was a problem with one of the reagents in the official CDC test.[2]

[1]https://twitter.com/ScottGottliebMD/status/12240422206653071...

[2]https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/02/united-states-badly-...
"doesn't behave in a fashion maxerickson approves of"
Personally, I view the vote controls as a three-way toggle. Low-quality comments get down-voted, unless they're already greyed-out (no point in piling on, unless it's truly toxic). Comments that I disagree with but are otherwise well-written and contribute to the discussion I leave alone. And comments that I agree with and that are well-written I up-vote.

But sometimes I up-vote comments that I mostly disagree with, but that I think make such an excellent point that others still might find them interesting. Or if a comment is greyed-out but I think it still contributes, I'll upvote it to counteract someone else's downvote, even if I don't necessarily agree with the comment.

Ultimately, users can do whatever they want with the up and down arrows.
P.S.: Regarding "people want to ban Amazon from using their source because they’re doing business with ICE", from what I can see they merely want to use the license as a place to express their misgivings. Amazon would still be free to use the code as long as they also distribute the license file that says that the authors don't like Amazon for doing business with ICE.

Amazons freedom would be limited in the same way as for any copy-left license that requires reproducing the license.

Now this is still a questionable idea for any number of reasons, but it's not a ban, and no novel lawsuit threats would emerge from this.
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Seriously, what is it? What's a "travel project"?
In modern times there is plenty of transportation and shuffling in crowded countries with poor sanitation. Remember it only takes a tiny bit of travel to spread a virus far and wide. I would predict things will get very bad in many parts of Latin America, Africa, and South and Southeast Asia.
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The social democracies can't afford to pay for their own defence, for one thing. Peace makes prosperity possible.

Before you brush that off, I'll add that my forebears migrated to the US after having survived WWII and it's aftermath. The current generation takes global peace for granted but anyone who has studied history knows that is not the natural order of things.
I'm not sure why the amount that sales is earning is relevant. The sales team could all be earning $20B/yr each but it may very well be the case that they are worth that. He was making $220k/yr as a remote employee. That, again, disregards any possible equity comp as well. The median _household_ income in the US is ~$60K, indicating he was earning over 3X the median. Speaking from experience, that $220k/yr is very much so inline with the cash comp at top end firms for a Sr. SWE. He was clearly NOT being treated as an "unneeded, low skilled, interchangeable burden".

The world isn't zero-sum everywhere.
It didn't fail. Not a perfect analogy, but saying "why IRC failed" is like saying "why horse and buggy failed". IRC was quite successful. Still is really, just is used a LOT less now.
No, for the roads it would be better to have the weight distributed on more "area", hence: more wheels and bigger wheels for the same weight. And this does _not_ require more trucks, just more wheels below each truck.

However, an even more material-efficient solution would be to use railways instead.
>This doesn't do any input checking including if the determinant is 0

Which seems to me like it assumes away a big part of the difficulty -- you'd need to follow up with: for this problem domain, what am I doing with the answer? How do I need to handle a singular matrix? Should do I throw an exception, and how should the caller handle it?