skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That all makes sense, but if that's the way the universe is, then where are all the alien computer virus radio signals? I think I read an SF story about that years ago, where a transmission was received that gradually convinced people to build stuff, but it hasn't actually happened, right?
Looks like it is free software. Dual MIT/Apache license.

https://github.com/bottlerocket-os/bottlerocket
Is this really so different now? Every VC seems to want a warm introduction.
> and you do it with less colorful language

Focusing on ideas is better, but breaking down why you think something is wrong without being an ass is really the goal.
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tl;dr buildroot rewritten in Rust
Thanks!

I miss the part where it explains how it works. Is it all just containers?
Regular rentals can "fine" you by retaining the deposit. It used to be the case that universities in the UK would withhold your degree until you paid all fines and charges. I think this was only stopped in the last couple of years.
In this case though we've examples of how bad it can get. Iran comes to mind. As this progresses we'll see what happens to countries who didn't attempt any quarantine or drastic measures at all.
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Ah yes I looked at CBOR too, but I dismissed it for reasons I can't recall right now. Will have to take another look.
In Massachusetts they are state police (at UMass at least)
I don’t really care either way TBH. Anarchocapitalism is not my cup of tea but there are definitely libertarians that I enjoy listening to. My point was that ESR’s biggest problem area isn’t his ideology of choice but rather his long list of other undesirable character traits.
I've been too busy with my work related duties. I need to update and improve the documentation. Sorry about that.

Basically, both Hammerspoon and Emacs have to know about your activity of editing. Spacehammer handles Hammerspoon side, in order for that thing to work with Emacs, you have to import spacehammer.el package in Emacs.

Let me know if any additional questions arise.
I have always associated second order thinking as part of the role of a systems analyst. Systems analysis is a discipline that deals in systems and their response to changes in input or environment. The notion of second order effects are essentially the recursion of the system outputs perturbing its own inputs leading to "second order" outputs.

I have always read Chesterton's Fence is an allegory for making one self aware of these effects prior to changing a system.
I don't want you to give up. You sound a lot like me, except you were actually able to prove yourself and get employed doing what you do. If you succeed, you would be living proof that even living garbage like myself could be successful somewhere. If you like what you do, despite not being a 1x, 10x, or whatever programmer, I think you should keep doing your best.

But definitely consider whatever other more qualified people here have to say.
When You Call Bernie Sanders a White Man, You Erase His Jewishness
Um, sucks to be them? The fact that doing business in China has no useful legal backstop is quite well known.

It's very hard to be sympathetic to people doing business with or outsourcing to China when that is KNOWN to be basically cashing out now and foisting the consequences/risk off onto your successors.

Western firms are running with no inventory and no contingency. The Taiwan quake several years ago showed that Western business managers suffered no consequences for that so why should they care?
Thanks very much, and I hope within the next 2-3 months we'll be in a place where you can hold the CLI to those standards as well :)
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> if that's being done to someone who hasn't been convicted of a crime, that seems worrying

If that's being done to someone who has been convicted of a crime, it would still be horrible. The U.S. has a constitutional prohibition against "cruel and unusual punishment" (8th Amendment), and we claim to be a country that upholds basic human rights. This is the kind of abuse our government would complain about if some other country subjected our citizens to it.
I think we all know a mob when we see one.
Go here and click on your country: https://studylib.net/coronavirus

Then click on Italy. 2 weeks ago they had 320 cases. Compare that to your country now. Look at the trend line for your country.

I’ve yet to hear someone explain to me how most countries won’t end up like Italy. The ones that stand out are Korea and China, but nobody seems to be taking the same action as them.
Agreed to both parts.

I think my post is still in some sense a refutation of the selected quote in the parent.
This was specifically about having a fileformat encoding binary data, and in that vein there is a place for PPM, it's probably better for many small bitmaps than PNG. My old PPMs from my email archive look horrible as jpegs https://xkcd.com/1683/ .

JSON vs. Bencode, JSON can get you the data good enough a lot faster, while a bencode parser is easier to write. My feeling is that most formats with schemas usually fail somewhere in the details anyways. Honestly I think I want too much from them; e.g. the YANG Data model language is a kitchen sink
but lacks a lot.
This is the same in Canada. More expensive and evicted once your semester is over. It's insane.
lactose tolerance occurs outside of europe, sporadically, but nearly always in populations that subsisted on animal milk, or obtained the gene through european parents.

one thing you'll learn in genetics is that it's all statistics; not all europeans are lactose tolerant, and not all africans are lactose intolerant. But the trends are consistent with natural selection via multiple experimental methods.
A link? To what? That person told me that more or less personally and I know her for a while now (and I am not going to disclose her on here, so treat the whole thing as unbased hearsay if you like). Happened two days ago. She was given a corona virus hotline number by some university official, and after a day they called her back.

When she explained her background (having been back from Rome, Student, etc) thr lady on the other end asked whether she is registered in the Netherlands, she denied and the woman said: then we will not test you and hung up without further words.

Of course that is how she told the story, and she was quite angry and cynical about the whole thing, but in my judgement she didn't invent it or anything.
> You don't see the irony in sending students home to their parents when some of them might be asymptomatic, right? Or if they catch it during travel?

Most students are going to be traveling home in May anyways - moving this to now, while the risk of students being infected and asymptomatic seems like the lesser of the 2 evils.
And if you wanted to read a thoughtful critique of the license in question then try https://twitter.com/wwahammy/status/1229668961131864064
I believe the Kent State shooting caused a similar cancellation of classes.
I doubt that it is possible to properly quantify how much capital there is, let alone to classify it.

http://www.fintools.com/docs/Warren%20Buffet%20on%20Derivati... is nearly 20 years old, but Warren Buffet's criticism of how we account for the value of derivatives is as true today as it was then.
Last wednesday, having spoken in a debate, she was packed into a division lobby with 318 other Conservative MPs:

https://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=2020-03-04b.903.0

With grim irony, voting against a motion on increasing equal access to healthcare.
> If eugenics doesn't work then how come every single Border Collie is smarter than every single English Bulldog?

This statement is worse than wrong; it's nonsense.

Even if you come up for some very specific metric of intelligence that you think is valid (which will always involve the use of some limited test constrained by subjective considerations) you're still wrong! Not every single Border Collie will perform better than every single English Bulldog, at best you will find some consistent comparison between averages, which is absurdly far from the same thing.
What is TFA?

> the use of "nested arrays" (not the same as multidimensional arrays) induces pointer structures that are difficult to do anything with

J doesn't allow nested arrays by default; if you want to create such a structure, you have to use boxes (and then unbox the values inside of them to get at them), which makes it explicit and reduces its usage. AFAIK, k doesn't have nested arrays at all.
> Would be funny but most of those things are already on AutoML Tables, including the carbon offset

GCP datacenters are 100% offset with PPAs. Are you referring to different functionality for costing AutoML instructions in terms of carbon?

...

I'd add:

- Setup a Jupyter Notebook environment

> Jupyter Notebooks are one of the most popular development tools for data scientists. They enable you to create interactive, shareable notebooks with code snippets and markdown for explanations. Without leaving Google Cloud's hosted notebook environment, AI Platform Notebooks, you can leverage the power of AutoML technology.

> There are several benefits of using AutoML technology from a notebook. Each step and setting can be codified so that it runs the same every time by everyone. Also, it's common, even with AutoML, to need to manipulate the source data before training the model with it. By using a notebook, you can use common tools like pandas and numpy to preprocess the data in the same workflow. Finally, you have the option of creating a model with another framework, and ensemble that together with the AutoML model, for potentially better results.

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/u...
Yeah it’s pretty obvious that he has issues.
Yes they intend to transit all of their Services, as well as SaaS on top of their ARM instances. Although they said this is going to take up to 5 years or more ( usual downplay from Amazon as with everything they do ), I bet they have a much more aggressive schedule.
- Auto-negotiate proper metrics to use with stakeholders.
I thought the point of the LinkedIn lawsuit was that they were trying to stop them from scraping?
Covid-19 population divided by cases 11-03-20
I'm reminded of the saying "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it"
Unclear what you’re showing. Did you register a .gov domain and forward it to the CDC’s website?
You don't have to care, and I am not saying you should.

I'm saying it doesn't count as part of the F/OSS movement. Whether you want to contribute, not contribute, etc. is your own choice and doesn't need to be correlated in any way.
Here's a good start:

https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus
I was going to suggest this as well.

I'm surprised more universities aren't cancelling before their Spring Breaks so that students don't bring it back.
Err, WGSL is essentially renamed from Tint, which was developed and proposed by Google. Where do you see Apple the driver?
Hopefully students make recordings of their classes, for future reference.
the op seemed to be asking if we should remove speculative execution optimizations entirely to avoid these security problems. if we did that, the execution time, if averaged over all the workloads use, would be more than just 30% slower. the slowdown would be so large that i felt comfortable speaking in vague generalities, rather than providing specific benchmarks which pedants on the internet would also reply to in anger stating that it was not a real world workload or whatever. can’t win, so i don’t try.
>Ms Dorries, 62, met hundreds of people last week, including a large number of MPs, and attended a conference outside Westminster. On Thursday she attended a Downing Street event hosted by Mr Johnson to mark International Women’s Day.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/coronavirus-infected-mins...

Might end up closing parliament over this.
Not a lawyer, but that sure sounds shady as hell. Where I live student housing, even in a dorm, is subject to normal tenancy laws - meaning eviction requires long notice etc. Even saying to someone they need to vacate their home in less than a week could turn out very expensive for the landlord in court.
They may be "legally habitable" under the normal building codes, but those codes don't take into account the circumstances of a pandemic disease.

MIT has contracted with these students to provide them with housing. Part of their normal obligation under those contracts would be to provide them with housing that offers a reasonably healthy environment. MIT will have by now heard from a lot of Highly Credentialed Experts that, in the circumstances of a widely circulating coronavirus, normal dorm conditions don't provide that reasonably healthy environment anymore -- they instead put students at elevated levels of risk.

So if you're MIT, what do you do? You could say "hey, those dorms up to code!" and keep on housing people in them, sure. But if you do, you open yourself up to lawsuits from outraged parents if those students end up getting sick at greater rates than the overall population. And, when it inevitably comes out in the discovery process of those lawsuits that you were directly warned against doing that by the aforementioned Highly Credentialed Experts -- well, at that point you are boned, my friend, contract or no contract.

Or, alternately, you can point to the declaration of a state of emergency, declare that the dorms aren't fit for habitation under the current circumstances (which, you will take pains to remind everyone, were beyond your ability to predict), and kick the kids out. Yes, it'll suck for the kids, but not as much as drowning in their own fluids would. And if anyone comes after you with a lawsuit when the dust clears, you'll be on a much sturdier position from which to defend your actions.
>But you don't get to tell every single person who does f/oss what kinds of people they should be willing to work with.

There is a difference between "should" (which is clearly an opinion) and "must" (which implies some level of force to back it up).
Let's say that our measure of intelligence is "good at herding sheep". Are you certain that all we will find is "some consistent comparison between averages"?
> What if "software as performative BSDM" is the state of nature, that people are in unless they decide otherwise?

This is a stupid claim and you know it.
All UCSD courses will be delivered remotely for the Spring Quarter
> reasonably strong legal argument for exercising them.

I know terribly little about law. But from what I've seen, tenants have a great deal of rights as to their status quo living conditions. The property is not hazardous to inhabit, clearly their non-student neighbors couldn't be evicted for the same reason. Seems like a court would favor the tenant here unless the university provided evidence from the government that favored their eviction.
Binn also does binary length prefixing of all values, allowing you to skip through it. It's also a lot simpler than Amazon Ion and doesn't have the awful mistakes of BSON so it might do the trick for you. It's not at all popular though.

https://github.com/liteserver/binn

The reason most formats don't length-prefix everything is because it makes it costly to encode in both time and space. You have to basically encode a message inside-out to calculate the nested sizes of everything. This is going to be hugely slow and memory-intensive if you're encoding a 10 GB file, and it's useless for messages on the scale of kilobytes so there isn't any point. MessagePack on the other hand can be encoded in one pass from start to finish as long as you know the element counts of your maps and arrays beforehand.

> storing numbers in big endian format (why?)

Embedded processors tended to be big-endian, like older PowerPC and older ARM. These formats are designed for embedded so it (probably?) improved performance on those processors. This is less true now since virtually all modern ARM processors and probably most other embedded processors now run in little-endian mode.

Ultimately what it comes down to is that these formats are designed for the opposite of your use case. I don't know what you're using a 10 GB JSON file for but there must be a better storage solution for you than a schemaless serialization format.
The focus has all been on colleges and universities announcing that they're closing face-face-instruction for the month/quarter/semester but we're scrambling trying to find something that works for K-12 schools.

* Students at the college level can be counted on to self-study /to an
extent/ if you make accommodations and provide the resources they need
* Internet access can be taken for granted when dealing with college
students
* Colleges are largely beholden only unto themselves, a college typically
doesn't *actually* need to have students complete the curriculum
before x date because they can shuffle things around and make
provisions internally, whereas high school students taking
standardized exams, applying to colleges, etc. don't /necessarily/
have that luxury.
* Kids are slovenly and have poor hygiene,
* Schools need to factor in National School Breakfast/Lunch programs
and other welfare programs that absolutely rely on having all the kids
corralled in a single place for x hours a day
* Imagine the mess if suddenly every family without a stay-at-home parent
suddenly had to arrange for someone to watch their elementary school
student
* Pretty much all colleges/universities have *some* online component to
their education, even if it's just a portal where assignments can be
posted. A lot of schools have no such system in place whatsoever, and
now have to not only find such a solution but also train their faculty
on its use and migrate/import/create the virtual classrooms, etc.

The biggest issue is that we simply don't know how localized any school closures
would be or how long any closure would last. If we're the only ones to close our
HS, colleges won't be very accommodating to our juniors when they're applying in
the fall without having completed some class or the other. If we're the only HS
closing down, the CollegeBoard isn't going to reschedule any AP exams. For all
other grades, if a self-imposed closure is only a couple of weeks long, we can
just take an early and extended spring break, but if it's longer than that then
setting up some sort of distance learning is a must. But if it's shorter, then
there's no point in scrambling about trying to reach an at-best 60% coverage of
the curriculum with younger students that need considerable face-time to grasp
concepts and require more interactive lessons.

It's a very tough call all around.
I don't disagree with the flattening the curve bit, but I do wonder - my understanding is that a vaccine is at minimum a year out. Would we need to keep doing this for that entire time period, or are there other factors at play here?
Although a lot can be said about the approach of the Dutch government regarding the Corona outbreak, this sounds hard to believe.

Those responsible for deciding wether to test or not have a set of requirements, we can not test everybody.
Perfect shoe-in for the gap left behind by CoreOS.
Huh. I got a mattress last year, went to a regular furniture store, got a regular spring mattress, paid under $300. No going out of business sale, no haggling, and I delivered it myself with a rental truck for less than I would have paid to get it in a week.
What's your argument that none of the items listed in that section would slow the spread of COVID-19? Some of them are being considered on a short-term basis by political officials right now on the very basis that it could slow that spread.
> Paid sick leave (including caring for family members) is one item that can absolutely be dealt with in the moment during this ongoing pandemic, and MUST be dealt with to have an effective response. Same for how we deal with a lack of hospital beds. Same for the problem of financial support for those trying to self-quarantine. Same for issues related to how uninsured folks can get care. All of these things are politics.

> There's legislation being discussed as we speak that may deal with many of these things, even if only on a temporary basis. It's simply false that the only things we can do, we must do as individuals and cannot do through government and with political leadership.

I'm arguing that any such attempt is doomed to failure if it so much as even stirs the beast of partisanship because of how far gone our civic discourse is. I believe most or all of the things you listed can be done quickly by the executive branches of local, state, and federal governments within the bounds of existing legislation. At this point, anything but the most bipartisan bills are impossible to do on a short time frame. The place to be is lobbying governors, political appointees that lead state and federal agencies, and civil servants on the ground. They have unilateral power to actually do something about the situation because emergency powers are very broad (Lincoln used his to suspend habeas corpus!) and justices will be even more hesitant to reign in executive power during a pandemic than whatever immigration state of emergency enabled the travel bans. That way, even judicial branch challenges will slow down partisan interference instead of obstructing the intended goal.

I hope I'm wrong and our legislature does pull it together under threat of an emergency. After all, if JFK getting shut down was enough to end the government shutdown, maybe a pandemic cratering the global economy is more than enough to bring us together, at least for a little bit. However if the goal is to get something done instead of arguing over what to do, I'd look to the executive branch, not legislative. The former is meant to do, the latter is meant to argue.

Edit: I wasn't trying to make a point with medicare for all, just trying to pick out some examples from different sides of the isle (single payer on the left, free market reforms on the right). I'll admit I don't know enough about either group of ideologies to predict which relevant bills would be bipartisan enough to pass quickly but based on how antagonistic partisans have become, I don't think it'd be much since we don't have much time for the normal pork barreling process to work.
I was just curious what the column on the left means.

https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.h...
As coronavirus spreads, UC Berkeley suspends in-person instruction
By making that point though, you deliberately making an argument to support the 'it's just like flu' theory of not worrying. Which is a flawed viewpoint.
> "The law" is ultimately just a particular form of social pressure, there's nothing magic about it.

This is wrong. The "magic" (i.e. the thing that distinguishes it from social pressure) is threat of violence or imprisonment from the state if you don't comply with the law.

> If someone is forced into bankruptcy because a twitter campaign got them fired, that's practically the same consequence

No it isn't. You are employed at-will by your employer, they are free to fire you if they decide they want to do that, but they don't have to. If the business makes the decision to fire you based on public pressure that's their right unless you're making an argument for stricter labor laws (I suspect you aren't).
I hope this student friend of yours hasn’t lived longer than four months in the Netherlands otherwise he or she is breaking the law